Polar Express, Lowes, and Giveaways

One of the local malls, Willow Bend, is presenting "Polar Express Snowglobes" for this holiday season. As soon as I saw it in the city magazine I knew it was definitely a MUST for Brayden...he ABSOLUTELY LOVES this movie! For the last two Christmas seasons he has watched it at least once a day for the whole month of December..sometimes more. :) So on Friday right afterschool, my mom and I decided it was the perfect time to take him. (She was in town after having a lunch date with Brayden at his preschool's Thanksgiving Feast.) Let me just say, it was the perfect time, we basicaly had the whole thing to ourselves. Here is a slideshow of all his fun:

At the end of the Polar Express trail came Santa Claus....Brayden is PETRIFIED of Santa Claus...(Last year, we stood in line for 2 hours to have his picture taken for him to only start BAWLING his eyes out as soon as it was our turn.) So this was as close as he would get to seeing Santa Claus:

He would not cross this line...

well that is until he saw this giveaway hosted by the local Lexus dealer:

it's a Child Size Golf Cart. He wanted this so BADLY! I told him that he would need to go tell Santa Claus so that maybe he could get it for him. Well, with A LOT of hesitation, he slowly walked back up to him. He quickly in passing told him he wanted a golf cart for Christmas (no sitting on the lap). He said it in such a rush the poor guy couldn't even understand him, so I of course had to interpret for him.

He had such a great time! He has already asked numerous times if we can go back to see Polar Express. :)

Then on Saturday we did our semi-monthly Lowe's Build and Grow, this time he built a cute Snowman Giftcard holder. He is starting to get more independent on these projects. He knows our routine of opening and sorting our supplies and then reading the instrucions to figure out what to do. (Of course he can't read yet, but he is usually able to figure out from the picture directions.)

All finished!! He LOVES getting these lil patches for his apron. :) Next on the list for Lowe's Build and Grow is a Gingerbread House and Christmas Ornaments. If you haven't signed up yet, be sure and check out their website to preregister.

Both of these SUPER FUN activities were absolutely FREE....if you like FREE things as much as I do, you might want to head over to my good blogging friend Mellissa's blog: Getting all my Ducks in a Row. She is partnering up with Chrissy from Life as a CEO and they are cohosting a Stuff your Stocking weekly givewaway. They both are offering some AMAZING gifts over the next few weeks until Dec. 19th. Be sure and check both their blogs out weekly so you can have a chance on winning their giveaways.

You might also like this SUPER easy way that I have found to make some extra money, through Swagbucks...all you have to do is sign up through this link, then do all your searches through swagbucks.com...it's so EASY!! Already in just a lil over 2 weeks I have earned enough for $10 in Amazon giftcards which can easily be applied towards a Christmas gift for Brayden...all for just naturally searching the internet, nothing special. If you have any questions about it feel free to email me and I'll do my best to answer them for you. :)

Extra Spending Money??

I might just be one of the last ones on the "Swagbucks" bandwagon, but if not I thought I would go ahead and try to persuade a few people to JOIN under me.

What is Swagbucks you ask....well Swagbucks is a search engine powered by google and ask.com, It has something extra special that the other search engines don't. Swagbucks pays you points to search!! What do you with the points? Well you can then turn your points in for prizes such as amazon.com giftcards, paypal credit, and MANY other things.

How does it work? You basically just use swagbucks.com everytime you would normally "google' something, then sporadically it gives you a swagbuck for your search. Unfortunately you do not get swagbucks everytime you search...which I guess just makes it all that more exciting when you do earn one. :) Just to give you an idea, my goal is to earn on the average at least 3 a day (without doing anything out of the ordinary).

One of the easiest ways to earn more swagbucks is through the referral system...hence the reason I'm writing this post. :) For each person that signs up under me, they will match your swagbuck earnings into my account up to 100 swagbucks per person. Of course once you set yours up, you can also have people sign up under you and then you can earn more that way too. =)

They do have a few MORE ways you can earn even more swagbucks. Download the swagbucks toolbar or make swagbucks.com your homepage so you are guaranteed to use it as your search engine. You can also sign up for their newsletter and blog, connect with them on facebook and twitter feeds, or do some online shopping. Another fun thing they do is "hide" swagcodes throughout their sites. Once you find a swagcode it can instantly be redeemed for swagbucks.

I thought this could be a great way to earn a lil extra money for Christmas, or maybe more of the recovery period after Christmas, or a more realistic and obtainable goal might be for Brayden's birthday (in May). :)

So if I have somewhat talked you into it and you think you are interested PLEASE click HERE to sign up. :) And in case you are wondering....SwagBucks is completely FREE, there is no registration fee, no monthly fee, and no fee when you redeem your points. I have not received any unwanted emails for signing up either. Also, just for signing up you automatically earn 3 swagbucks. =)

If you currently already use swagbucks, I'd LOVE to hear about your experience or if you have any great tips on earning more swagbucks. =)