Firebird Raceway FINAL EVENT SPECTACULAR Giveaway!!

WINNER UPDATE

Here is the random winner of the giveaway for a family 4 pack, as chosen by random.org:

Congrats Sports Mama!!  Check your email for details on your tickets!  

I have some good news and bad news to share today.  Don't worry, it's not tragic, crying kind of news.  But let's do the bad news first so we can get to the good stuff (trust me, it's really good stuff!). 

I am sad to report that after 30 years of hosting all kinds of car racing events and monster truck shows, Firebird Raceway is going out of business! Raceway officials have chosen not to renew their lease.  There was no word on whether it's an issue with the economy or whether the parties involved could not agree during negotiations. Either way, another source of entertainment in the Valley of the Sun is disappearing.  

So what's the good news?  Firebird Raceway wants to go out with a bang, so they are focusing on making their last events really amazing and affordable!  They have generously offered a $10 discount per ticket to the FINAL (Final, final, final) EVENT (Event, event, event) SPECTACULAR (Spectacular, spectacular, spectacular)!  Did you get that awesome, booming announcer voice echo thing I just did right there?  I know...I'm pretty creative. 

The Final Event Spectacular is an auto enthusiast extravaganza filled with legendary monster trucks like Bigfoot and a 30-ton fire-breathing, transforming T-Rex that eats cars and airplanes - ROBOSAURUS!  The event will also showcase Funny Cars and Jet Dragsters speeding down the raceway at 300 miles per hour.  Kids will love the Kids Zone, which will be full of interactive games and inflatables to keep them busy. This event has something for the entire family!  My husband took the boys a few years ago to one of these show and they had the BEST.TIME. EVER!  Robosaurus was a huge hit, the funny cars and dragsters made a big impression as well.  They talked about the show for days!  

Just follow these instructions to get the discount: 

• Step 1: Select your tickets through this link, you may choose either pit side or spectator side, general admission or reserved. 
•  Step 2: Click "Apply Discount" to your tickets in your shopping cart and enter "MOMMYSAURUS" in the discount box Step 3: Select "$10 off Ticket" from the drop down menu and click "change discount". 

Remember to apply the discount for EACH of your Adult tickets!

Want more good news? Win a Family 4 Pack to the Final Event Spectacular at Firebird Raceway!!  Since the show is just a few weeks away, this will be a fast contest, so I have time to get the winner's info to the event coordinator so you can get your tickets!

Here are the contest details:

Leave a comment below telling me what you think your favorite part of the show will be: Monster Trucks, Robosaurus or Race Cars.  Winner will be chosen at random.  Contest is open to Phoenix Metro Valley residents only (and surrounding cities) and will end on Saturday March 23rd at 12 midnight MST. 

For extra entries you can:

• Follow I Am Boymom on this Blog, Twitter and Facebook
• Tweet about the giveaway
• Share this post on Facebook

Be sure to leave a separate comment for each item you do so I can give you an entry credit for each effort you make!  Good luck and thanks for stopping by!

  

MixBook Photobook Winner!

What the heck was going on with my eyes while I was making this video?!?!!!  This is why I don't do stuff like this more often.  Major Vlog FAIL!!! 

But oh yeah...Congrats to Melanie for winning the MixBook Giveaway!!  Have fun putting your photobook together, Melanie!! 

Staples Gift Card Winner

Here's the winner of the Stapels Gift Card, as chosen by Random.org!!

 Congratulations Stacy!  Keep your eyes on the mailbox for your giftcard delivery!! 

Silk Pure Almond Milk Winner!!!

Oops!  I forgot to choose a winner for the Silk Pure Almond Milk giveaway!  My Bad!  You people need to let me know when I'm forgetting stuff like this!  I've told you I have no short term memory, right? 

So anyway...Let's get a winner, shall we?

Congrats to Cheryl F (The Lucky Ladybug)!  The milk coupons will be in the mail shortly!

Winner of the FUNundrum Circus Tickets!

Here is the result of the circus ticket giveaway....

Looks like Art Couture is the winner!  Congrats, we'll see you at the circus!  Hope the motorcycle cage guys are all you hoped for!

FUNundrum Circus Ticket Giveaway!!

This is the last giveaway celebrating my 2 year blogoversary!  Woot woot!  How much fun have I had over the last 2 years with my blog?  More fun than a person should be allowed to have.  It has really been a life changing experience.  I have met so many cool people and I have come to know myself and my family on a much deeper level.  AND...I have had the privelege of working with some great companies to offer some really great stuff to my readers!  I feel very blessed to work with such great sponsors.  

On that note, let's give away the last prize of the month - Ringling Brothers Barnum Bailey FUNundrum Tickets!!!!  This is gonna be a quick giveaway because the tickets ore for the evening of June 23rd, so we need to give everyone time to coordinate.  Also, this giveaway is LOCAL, for Phoenix residents only.  Sorry to all my non-local readers!  

WANNA WIN IT?!  Win 4 tickets to FUNundrum on June 23rd!  Check out the Ringling Brothers Barnum Bailey website, click on Meet the Stars and leave a comment telling me which performer (s) you think will be most interesting.  Contest will end at 12 midnight PST on June 1st!!.  LOCAL PHOENIX residents only.  

If you want extra entries, help me advertise the contest!  You can:

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  Email your friends and family!  

And don't forget,  if you don't win you can still get a family 4-pack of 4 tickets for only $44 through ticketmaster.com- good to all performances (excludes Circus Celebrity, Front Row and VIP seats). I KNOW! Sweet deal, right? You can purchase additional tickets for $11 each.  Just use code MOM online or over the phone to get your discount.

LikeWear Review and Giveaway

Look what we received in the mail last week from LikeWear!!

Lisa Gold, the founder of LikeWear, has designed a line of high quality, casual boutique children's clothing that sport designs which incorporate super well-known brands like Tootsie Roll and Honda and other kid friendly pop culture images.

I chose these 2 shirts for my boys and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the material used to make the t-shirts. It is not cheap and flimsy and the clothing is already pre-shrunk! No more action figure size t-shirts after a spin in the dryer! My boys really like the cool designs.

Another thing I like about LikeWear is that Lisa and her husband Ken have set up the business so that entreprenurial minded moms can get involved in the business and earn some extra money.  Here's a tag from their marketing material that explains more about their programs:

LikeWear®, the first and only company to focus on selling licensed apparel and accessories via the Direct Selling channel, is a modern day fusion of a fun, boutique children’s clothing line and more traditional party plan direct sales companies (like Mary Kay or The Pampered Chef). We provide a flexible and financially rewarding way to earn money or have a career selling a unique line of children’s clothing and accessories that feature products, brands and other stuff moms and their kids really like. Hence the name LikeWear!

From modern day and vintage package art, to exclusive designs and unique twists on popular culture, we’ve created more than 100 images featuring family friendly brands like Wheaties, Trix, Tootsie Roll, Dots, Honda PowerSports and many others. To make things really interesting, we use a just-in-time manufacturing process and encourage our representatives to help their customers mix and match our images with different body types and color ways. By doing so, we hope to truly fulfill the promise of our tagline, “wear what you like”.

I am impressed with LikeWear as a company for a few different reasons:

• As a mom with a limited clothing budget for my family, I like the fact that LikeWear puts so much time and attention into their products to create things that kids like to wear.  I hate buying something for one of them and hearing "I hate that!"
• As a former SAHM who has just had to re-enter the workforce, I look for these kinds of opportunities that will allow me to earn a living without taking so much time from my family.  

You can find out more about LikeWear and their income earning opportunities here.

You can also try out the clothing by entering to WIN A $50 gift certificate for LikeWear merchandise! To enter, check out the LikeWear website and leave a comment telling me what you would get with the gift certificate.  Contest is open to US residents only and ends on April 30th, 2010 at 12 Midnight PST.

Don't want to wait that long to try out their stuff?  Likewear is offering a special discount to I Am Boymom readers!!  I know!  They are so generous!!  Just enter the code IAMBOYMOM (in all caps) at checkout and you will receive 25% off everything in the store, EXCEPT for sale items. (FYI – they’ve got a big Earth Day Sale going on now too!  Make sure that you hit “Apply” after entering your code. It will stay live until the middle of May.

**Disclosure:  I received a $50 gift cert from LikeWear in order to purchase some clothing so that I could write this review.  The fact that I received products from the vendor does not sway my opinion regarding the quality and value of the product.  My opinions are my own. 

A Few Rants and an EcoSMART Winner!!

I have so much to catch up on here on the blog and in my life and tomorrow is Easter and I am running around like a wild woman trying to get everything done this weekend and I'm kind of freaking out trying to figure out what should take precendence...my house?  My blog?  The bills?  My car?  AAUUGGGHHH!!!  Whew!  Thanks for letting me get that out.  And thanks for letting me get this out...

My new hair cut sucks.  Not even close to what I asked for.  Okay, actually it is kind of close to what I asked for, just way shorter than what I had asked for and kind of choppy.  So maybe in like 3 weeks it will look okay.  In the meantime, I have to figure out how to work with what I have.  Which could be tricky, as I am styling challenged when it comes to messing with my hair.  If it ain't easy, I can't make it work.  No amount of product in the world can compensate for my lack of hair styling skills.  Okay, actually that is not true.  Because there is this wicked hair spray out there somewhere that I had a few months ago that actually DID compensate for my lack of skills, but I don't remember the name of it and I can't seem to find it anywhere, but I will recongnize it when I see it and buy THAT STUFF again!  'Cause it rocked my hair!

Okay...on to the business at hand.  I have pest control stuff to give away, from EcoSMART.  So let's hit Random.org and find out who's winnin' some bug killer today!

Woot!  Miss Hope is the official winner of the EcoSmart Natural Bug Killer Value Bundle Giveaway! Congrats, Hope!  You will be contacted about how to claim your prize.  

And for the rest of you, there will be more giveaways coming up this week, so stop back by for another chance to win some awesome products!   

EcoSMART Natural Bug Killer Giveaway

Warm weather is just around the corner, folks and for us here in Arizona that means lots of little buggy creatures running around, inside and outside our home.  This is worrisome for me, because I am NOT a bug person.  Bugs give me the heebie-jeebies.  When I find one, I sic Little Man on them, if he is around.  He is brave and jumps right in there to smash them or shoo them away. 

What do I do if Little Man or Big Man are both missing in action?  I get a container of some sort and set it over the bug where it waits until one of my men gets home to deal with it.  The little pest wanders it's small, confined space, wishing it had chosen a different space to invade while I relax, knowing I am safe from harm.  Until it finds a millimeter of space and escapes, then charges me like a tiny, angered, fire-breathing monster...because bugs are cunning like that. 

We used to pay for pest control, but stopped over the winter because A) it was too expensive and B) I would get headaches after the Bug Man sprayed.  So we have decided to see what other options we have.  Lucky for us there are some natural solutions to pest control, from companies like EcoSMART.   

EcoSMART is the world leader in safe pesticide solutions.   EcoSMART offers the only complete line of EPA exempt pesticides sold in the US and with 15 years of scientific research to back their products, they can proudly offer 100% safe pesticides that are proven to work. Their products are based on the natural defenses that plants and trees have used for their self protection against insects and pathogens for millenia - essential oils.  I don't know about ya'll, but those seem like some might fine street creds to me.

I look forward to trying the natural home pest control value bundle, which contains several all natural products:

• Ant and Roach Killer (14 oz can)
• Home Pest Control (24 oz spray bottle)
• Flying Insect Killer (14 oz can)
• Insect Repellent (6 oz bottle)

I'm also interested in the home and garden pest control value bundle, especially after all of the rain we have had here in the Valley these last few months.  Any of you desert dwellers know that just a spittle of rain springs forth an entire yard full of weeds in about 2 nano seconds after the moisture soaks into the earth.  Some of the products in the home and garden line will be extremely usefull in keeping my gravel weed free!

Wanna win an EcoSMART Value Bundle for yourself!?!  It's easy to do!  Just leave a comment telling me which value bundle you need and why you want or need it.  Easy peasy, right?  Winner will be selected at random and the giveaway will end on March 30th, 2010 at 12 midnight PST.  Open to US residents only. 

Don't forget, you can earn extra entries by:

• Tweeting this giveaway
• Posting about it on Facebook
• Posting a link to this giveaway on a Mr. Linky somewhere
• Becoming a Follower of my blog

Good luck and as always, thanks for stopping by.  I appreciate it!