School is Cool MEGA Giveaway!!

It's that time of the year!!! Everyone is gearing up to head back to school, gathering up school supplies and great ideas to start the new year off right!

I've gathered together some of my favorite bloggers to bring you my first ever
School is Cool MEGA Giveaway! 

You will just LOVE all the amazing items we are GIVING AWAY 

to help YOU 

get off to a great start this school year!

Fasten your seat belts and get your fingers ready to do some clicking!

Just click on each of the items below {where it says "click here"}
to follow each of my wonderful friends, then come back here once you are all finished
following everyone 

and

leave me a comment below 

(include your email address) in order to enter! 

(ALL LINKS MUST BE FOLLOWED in order to win!!)

YEAH!! You did it!!! 

One random winner will be announced first thing Monday morning, August 4th. 

GOOD LUCK to everyone!!

Hugs and love!

Five For Friday!

                                                 

This week I went to the local teacher supply store, Utah Idaho Maps and Supply, and purchased some new borders for my bulletin boards! Here's the before and after shots! Gotta love chevron! I actually ended up cutting the border pieces in half so they were a bit thinner than they originally were.

I met a brand new TpT friend this week! Rainah Pray won my giveaway on Facebook and it turns out she lives in the midwest, just a few hours from where I grew up!! Rainah is just starting out on TpT and isn't a blogger {yet!}. I hope everyone will jump over to her store and show her some love by following her! 

My Mom sent me the coolest website this week called 

Once you create your free account, you can click under the tab "Relatives" and do a search on all sorts of categories. It is run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, so there are searches related to the church on there, BUT for those of you who are not LDS, there are tons of other interesting searches!!

Such as, you can search to see which U.S. Presidents you are related to. Or, if you are related to anyone on the Mayflower! There's a search to see if you are related to any famous Americans! 

So, what did I find out?? 

I was sooo excited to find out I am related to my all-time hero!!!

{I seriously think I have just about every book ever written on this man!!}

I'm also related to Thomas Jefferson, Amelia Earhart, and Mark Twain!! 

If you go to Relative Finder, leave me a comment below and tell me who you are related to!

(This photo doesn't do it justice!)

I'm sooo excited that my new teacher planner came this week! I went with a smaller planner by Plum Paper Designs on Etsy and I just LOVE it!!  It is a bit smaller than my Erin Condren planner that I bought last year, so I am thinking of using this one either for my guided reading groups or as my personal planner. I did love my Erin Condren planner and actually ordered one again for this year! I'll post when it comes in the mail!

           
And saving the BEST for last, this week was my husband's and my 2nd anniversary! I really call it our Family Anniversary as it is my 2nd year being a part of their family and they, a part of mine! My dog Bella and I just adore my step-children and we've had the entire summer together! The summer has gone way too fast! This is our most recent family photo!

I hope you have had a wonderful week!! When do you all start back to school? Leave me a comment below and let me know!

Happy weekend!!

There is Only Love!

Facebook Follower Giveaway & Happy Pioneer Day Give Away

 (Beautiful Provo, Utah! This was taken last night!!)

Happy Pioneer Day! Here in Utah, it's a state holiday celebrating the arrival of the Mormon Pioneers crossing the plains. There's a big parade, fireworks and lots of picnics, pioneer games and family get-togethers!
                                                   
I am having a HUGE give away for my Facebook followers today! I am giving away a Winners Choice of ANY product in my TpT store to THREE people!! It's the biggest give away I've done in years!!! Click my button above to enter! (Make sure to scroll down to the July 22 post!) Winners will be announced tonight!

My dear friend, Nikki, from MelonHeadz Illustrating is having a HUGE give away in celebration of Utah's Pioneer Day. You have to check out the amazing prizes she has!! You can enter by clicking Nikki's logo below:

I also want to give a shout out to another Utah blogger!! My sweet friends at Second Story Window started an amazing website called Teacher Approved materials! You can subscribe to your grade level or to multiple grade levels!

You can get an amazing selection of Teacher Approved material from bloggers and creators all over the world each month for a very small subscription price! 

My popular More Multiplication Timed Tests packet is in the July subscription for upper grades! You can click below to find out some interesting facts about me on their blog! (Like, what is my favorite saying, and what is my "hidden" talent!)

Happy Pioneer Day or Happy Thursday!!!

Remember to be kind to yourself today! You are doing the best that you can!

There is only LOVE!