Return To Virtue Giveaway Winner...

We Have A Winner!!!

Congratulations Rozy!

Make sure to email me your information and I will get this in the mail to you. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did.

For those of you who didn't win you can purchase the book for yourself at {Deseret Book}.

Thanks for entering our giveaway. Stay tuned for the next one.

Book Giveaway! A Return To Virtue by Elaine S. Dalton

Today's giveaway is a book that I am so pleased to share with you.

I have been somewhat distracted from my goal this month to finish The Book Of Mormon

because I kept finding myself reading this beautiful book.

This book recounts Elaine S. Dalton, 

Young Women General President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,

experience training for a Marathon as her son was leaving for a mission. She decided to 

that she wanted to develop her self discipline the same way her missionary son would

be developing his. This book had me from the introduction.

Here is an Excerpt:

Strict Training

A Foundation for Virtue

When you are preparing to run a race, particularly a marathon, one of the first things to do is to work out a plan for training. You don’t just decide one day that you’ll go out and run twenty-six miles. You need a foundation of many smaller workouts, strength training, aerobic exercise, and practice runs.

When I think of foundations, I think of a photograph I once saw of three sheds, two of which were leaning on the third and smallest shed. The accompanying caption read: “You need to be strong when you are the last one to take a stand.” We too need to be strong. As we are faithful and righteous, others will look to us for support and strength.

“Taking a stand”

I strongly recommend  this book. Whether you are a runner or not, we are all in training. This book beautifully pulls two of my loves together. Running and The Gospel.


One of the cutest parts about the book is the little runner at the bottom of each page. As you turn each page the runner gets closer and closer to the finish line. Such a great touch.


You can purchase this book for yourself {Here}. It would also make a great Christmas Gift for a friend.

To Enter The Giveaway

1. Just Become a Follower of this blog. 

2. For an extra vote Follow on Facebook too.  

3. Make sure to leave a comment for each entry.

Good Luck!!!!

A Winner Will be Chosen Next Friday!!!

17 Miracles Giveaway Winner

I am so excited to tell you that...

We Have A Winner!!!

Emily from This is me challenge!

(a shot of Emily's blog)

Congratulations Emily. I'll be in touch!

For those of you who didn't win, you can order a copy from Deseret Book.  {Here is the LINK}

And we have another great giveaway coming soon. It is a book, and I'm loving it so much. I know you will love it too!!!

We Have A Winner: $15.00 iTunes Gift Card

The Lucky Winner is...

Melanie Whiting

Mel said " Erin I love your blog! I love "Everything" by Brad Paisley "

So email me your address, or leave it in a comment and the gift card will be on it's way.

Thank you to everyone who participated. It was really fun to see what your all time favorite songs are!!! And the odds of you winning were totally in your favor 1 in 11 isn't bad.  

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And now I am off to take some Ibuprofen and drink 20 gallons of water. This mornings Training session was lower body and my legs are SCREAMING!!!! Peace Out!

Friday Give-Away: $15.00 iTunes Gift Card

Today we are having a GIVE-AWAY!!!

In my attempt to gain more than 10 followers

we are having a 

Give-O-Give-Away!

"I'm small I know, but where ever I go, the grass is greener still...

and would be even greener if I had more than 10 followers!"

{ yes I look at that number everyday and yes I know that it is stupid but I still check it...regularly. And maybe if the stupid Crock Pot Girls can get more than a million Facebook followers in 2 weeks, I should at least have 11 followers, Right?}

So if I add up my family and my friends in my head...it adds up to 14...so that number better go up today.  Like UP.

So this little Gift Card could be all yours.

All {YOU} have to do is be a FOLLOWER of THIS blog.

And leave me a comment with your all time favorite Song.

That is EASY right?

For an extra entry, repost on Facebook or on your blog and let me know in your comment.

So go click that little button to the right of here and make me happy.

DO IT.

A Winner will be Announced Tuesday! 

And if you are at all interested in knowing HOW I got this gift card I shall tell you. I fell for one of those stupid Bidding websites where I thought that I might be able to WIN a new Canon 7D camera for $20.00 worth of bids...and maybe-O-maybe it is NOT possible REALLY to win a Canon 7D camera with $20.00 worth of bids...but maybe-O-maybe I did win $30.00 worth of Fandango Gift Cards which I already used, and a $15.00 iTunes Gift Card which I am giving away to one of you. How Embarrassing. I totally got scammed, but then at least got my value back...but still no amazing camera. Bummer.)

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In other news, I ate 10 tomatoes yesterday which is a lot. Especially for someone who never even tried a tomato until she was on a Mission at the age of 21. So if you have a million tomatoes in your garden right now and you need to know what to do with them, this is what I would do.

I would make Ottavio's Bruschetta. (not an accurate recipe but pretty close!)

1. Dice up  4 or 5 Roma Tomatoes (those are my favorite)
2. Drizzle with olive oil
3. Add salt
4. Add fresh chopped up Basil
5. Add some garlic

Mix this deliciousness in a bowl and serve over oven toasted bread. (I just put plain old toast in the oven with spray butter on each side. Then I broiled one side at a time. After I flipped the first side I then placed a very thin layer of Mozzarella on the top and when that was all bubbly I removed it and spread the tomatoes over the top.

Seriously YUM!!!!