Are you still buying College Textbooks?

Are you in college? Have you ever heard of renting a text book? Yes it is true you no longer have to buy the text book that is required for a course anymore.  CampusBookRentals.com is a website where you can rent your college textbooks and save 40 -90% off bookstore prices. They even offer free shipping both ways. You can even highlight in the books you rent.
This site also offers a way that students can rent the text books they already own to other students too. What a great way you can make some cash rather than selling those textbooks back to the campus bookstore.  The website rentback.com tells you just how much your textbooks are worth.
With each textbook that is rented a donation will be given to Operation Smile. Wow.. saving money and helping out a child's smile, all at the same time, you can't beat that. I wish this was around when I was going thru college.  I have included a video that will sum up on how the renting process works.

Frozen Yogurt Grapes

I have seen this recipe float around Pinterest several times and I always wanted to try grapes covered in greek yogurt and frozen. Have you pinned something similar? I was thinking about making these and bringing them as a healthy snack to my daughters classroom on our day for snacks. This snack is very easy to make, but messy. I tried making it several ways. The first way, was to place the greek yogurt in a zip lock bag and add the grapes then place the zip lock bag in the freezer. The result, one big frozen yogurt grape mess. So I tried using a toothpick thru the grape, dipping the grape in the yogurt. Then placing them on a plate, that was placed in the freezer. This way worked great. The grapes did not come out looking like all the gorgeous pictures I see on Pinterest. I guess the pictures I looked at must have been photo shopped... lol. Anyways besides the prettiness of the yogurt covered grapes, they are fantastic and so addicting.
I have only two complaints about this snack. One complaint is that when they start to thaw the yogurt turns back into yogurt, which gets sticky and messy. The last complaint, they are very cold when you take them out of the freezer, not good to try on a zero below day. This would be a very good snack on a hot summer day, if you eat them fast.
In conclusion,  I don't think I will be able to serve this as a snack to my daughters class. I have got to get back to the drawing board for the snack idea.

Have you tried these yummy grapes yet? What was your thoughts on the grapes?

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Meaningful Christmas Ornaments

I have decided to finally take down the Christmas decor today, do to it being bitterly cold outside today. As all the ornaments were starting to be placed in boxes, it dawned on me that I have not wrote about my new Christmas ornaments this year, well for last year. Have you ever heard of a Memory Christmas Tree? I don't know how I started making my Christmas tree a Memory Tree, I just started buying ornaments that were meaningful to me and my family. It all started when my husband and I got married and I got my first Lenox ornament for a our first Christmas. Then when our daughter was born I bought her a Lenox ornament, along with my first mommy to be ornament. Since then, I have added way more meaningful ornaments. I try to get ornaments for events that happen in our lives. for instance like playing a sport for the first time, taking a trip where we have never been, or a life changing event.

This year was our first year ever getting to go camping in the wilderness with a camper. It was my daughters first ever  wilderness camping experience. 

This year we welcomed a new edition to our family.

Here is my mommy to be ornament for our newest edition for 2013. I wrote  on the bottom with a sharpie the year  and the words mommy to be. I love this ornament. The blanket the baby is wrapped in is blue and the stork is pink. 

Since we added to our family we needed a new snow people ornament with all of our names on it. 

As a family we took our first trip snow skiing. We went to Snowshoe WV. We really enjoyed this trip.  Just wished I would have gotten the chance to learn how to snow board, but I was still recovering from having our newest edition, so I just watched everyone have fun.

This ornament was for my daughter. While we were at Snowshoe, WV she took her first lessons on how to snow board. This ornament looks just like the outfit she wore. If only the pants were black and the gloves were pink. 

This year we went to the Great Wolf Lodge in Mason, OH twice. Our first time ever going was also my daughters first trip getting to bring a friend along. The second trip was the last trip as a family of three. 

My daughter got to go to her first skating parties.

This ornament was made in 2012 and was given to me from my daughter as a Christmas present that was made in school. I will cherish this ornament the most.

Do you have a memory Christmas tree? If you do I would love to hear of the type of ornaments you place on your tree. I still have three more ornaments to find to represent my daughter starting kindergarten, a coaching ornament and a ornament representing our season passes to a amusement park.