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Archives for June 2012

Friday Favorite: Vera Bradley Zip Around Wallet

June 29, 2012 By Beth 1 Comment

Friday Favorite: Vera Bradley Zip Around Wallet

Friday Favorites is another almost weekly feature here at Simply Budgeted. The whole point of this feature is to share some of our favorite finds. Anything is game. Food. Cleaning supplies. Kid stuff. Garden favorites. Recipes. Anything that I really like and want to randomly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Friday Favorites, Lifestyle, Memes, Simply Life Tagged With: fashion, friday favorite, review, Vera Bradley wallet, Vera Bradley Zip Around Wallet

Beat the heat with new ways to cool your home.

June 29, 2012 By Beth 3 Comments

Beat the heat with new ways to cool your home.

We are excited to bring you a series of guest posts by Lou Manfredini, host of House Smarts TV! “HouseSmarts” host Lou Manfredini, offers some suggestions for keeping the hot and sticky out of your home during this summer heat wave. As summer heats up this week many of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home & Garden, Simply Life Tagged With: beat the heat, Beat the heat with new ways to cool your home, DIY, home improvement, Lou Manfredini

Gunnar Challenge Week 6 Check-in

June 29, 2012 By Beth 1 Comment

Gunnar Challenge Week 6 Check-in

Who is Gunnar? He's the man behind the hottest bodies in Hollywood Gunnar is one of America’s most sought-after personal trainers. With more than 25 years of unparalleled experience in the fitness game, professional athletes and celebrities alike turn to him when they can’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health & Beauty, Promotional, Reviews, Simply Life Tagged With: eating healthy, exercise, Gunnar Challenge, review, work out

Thursday Thoughts: Going to Bed

June 28, 2012 By Beth Leave a Comment

Thursday Thoughts: Going to Bed

I have found this be true for me recently ... how about you? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Memes, Simply Life, Thursday Thought Tagged With: quote, Thursday Thoughts

Dole’s Fruit Smoothie Shakers and Frozen Fruit Single-serve Cups

June 28, 2012 By Beth 134 Comments

Dole’s Fruit Smoothie Shakers and Frozen Fruit Single-serve Cups

DOLE Fruit Smoothie Shakers contain ... All Natural Fruit and Yogurt Pre and Probiotics Less than 200 Calories Fiber, Calcium, and Vitamin C Since strawberries are Little Man's favorite here are the details on the DOLE Strawberry Frozen Fruit Single-serve Cups … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Giveaways, Promotional, Reviews, Simply Food Tagged With: Dole Frozen Fruit Single-serve Cups, Dole Fruit Smoothie Shakers, easy smoothie, frozen fruit, giveaway, review

Summer Pastabilities – All Tied Up Pasta Salad

June 28, 2012 By Brian 89 Comments

Summer Pastabilities – All Tied Up Pasta Salad

We recently had the opportunity to review Hodgson Mill whole wheat past. That review came with a challenge to create a summer recipe with the pasta. I created ...   Looking for the recipe? It is posted over in the Hodgson Mill Recipe Section! We need you head … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Giveaways, Promotional, Recipes, Reviews, Simply Food Tagged With: giveaway, Hodgson Mill, pasta salad recipe, recipe, review, Summer Pastabilities contest

Wordless Wednesday: Blue Shirt Day

June 27, 2012 By Beth 20 Comments

Wordless Wednesday: Blue Shirt Day

Today's color at Vacation Bible School is blue. Brian and the kids all wore their blue tie dyed shirts that I made. I made the blue shirts for Girl Scouts and Brian and Matthew ended up with ones since the bucket of blue dye was in the kitchen! Brian is leading one of the Mission … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kids, Memes, Simply Family, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: kids, picture, Vacation Bible School, Wordless Wednesday: Blue Shirt Day

Kia Optima Hybrid

June 25, 2012 By Beth 5 Comments

Kia Optima Hybrid

We were provided with a Kia Optima Hybrid to review a few weeks ago. We were excited to do this review as we had the Hybrid version of the Kia Optima to review. Neither Brian or I had driven a hybrid before so we were excited to see what all of the talk was about. Here is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews, Simply Life Tagged With: car review, hybrid review, Kia Optima Hybrid, Kia Optima hybrid review, review

Meatless Monday: Pizza di Spaghetti

June 25, 2012 By Brian 1 Comment

Meatless Monday:  Pizza di Spaghetti

I'm not a big fan of leftovers.  Eating the same thing two times inside of a week is just not something that excites me.  That having been said, I can't in good conscience just throw out perfectly good food.  It wastes money and teaches my kids a terrible lesson.  So I like to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meatless Monday, Memes, Recipes, Simply Food Tagged With: cooking, easy, eggs, food, kid friendly, leftover, leftover spaghetti, meal, meatless, meatless monday, Meatless Monday: Pizza di Spaghetti, monday, recipe, spaghetti, vegetarian

My Do Over Moment

June 24, 2012 By Brian 5 Comments

My Do Over Moment

What is the moment I wish I could do over again? Not catching the girls left markers out in little dude's reach. The girls do really good with the markers with these days but they know to put them away when they are done coloring in their coloring books. Well this day, they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parenting, Simply Family Tagged With: kids, markers, My Do Over Moment, parenting, pictures

With a Little Help from Our Blogger Friends

June 23, 2012 By Brian 1 Comment

We said thank you to two of the PR contacts we have recently enjoyed working with here at Simply Budgeted! A HUGE thank you to Trisha at MomDot for putting the video together.   We love to work with PR companies, PR brand contacts, and media groups so Thank You for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Simply Life Tagged With: blogger PR, blogger PR work, Giveaways, MomDot, PR thank you, Reviews, Thank You, thank you to PR, With a Little Help from Our Blogger Friends

Abbey’s Hope: Safer Pools. Safer Kids.

June 23, 2012 By Beth Leave a Comment

Abbey’s Hope: Safer Pools. Safer Kids.

We are honored to feature a reminder of pool safety thanks to details provided to us by Abbey's Hope Foundation. Summer time is here and kids all over are jumping into pools on the super hot summer days. But as you read this, we are reminded that not all children jump back out of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kids, Simply Family Tagged With: kids, non-profit, pool safety, safe summer activities, Safer Kids, Safer Pools, Summer, water safety

Friday Favorite: Fisher-Price Cheer for Me! Potty

June 22, 2012 By Beth 5 Comments

Friday Favorite: Fisher-Price Cheer for Me! Potty

Friday Favorites is another almost weekly feature here at Simply Budgeted. The whole point of this feature is to share some of our favorite finds. Anything is game. Food. Cleaning supplies. Kid stuff. Garden favorites. Recipes. Anything that I really like and want to randomly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Friday Favorites, Kids, Memes, Simply Family Tagged With: children, Fisher-Price, Fisher-Price Cheer for Me! Potty, friday favorite, kids, potty training, potty training success, potty training tips, review

Gunnar Challenge Week 5 Check-in

June 22, 2012 By Beth 1 Comment

Gunnar Challenge Week 5 Check-in

Who is Gunnar? He's the man behind the hottest bodies in Hollywood Gunnar is one of America’s most sought-after personal trainers. With more than 25 years of unparalleled experience in the fitness game, professional athletes and celebrities alike turn to him when they can’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health & Beauty, Promotional, Reviews, Simply Life Tagged With: eating healthy, exercise, Gunnar Challenge, review, work out

Colortime Crafts

June 21, 2012 By Beth 4 Comments

Colortime Crafts

  About ... If you're looking for easy craft ideas for children, then check out these fun, do-it-yourself, craft ideas for kids! The possibilities are endless with the products we offer here at Colortime Crafts and Markers. You can wear, carry your stuff in (tote bags and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Giveaways, Kids, Promotional, Reviews, Simply Family Tagged With: coloring, Colortime Crafts and Markers, fabric markers, Girl Scouts, giveaway, kids, review

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