Sponsor Spotlight {Part 1}

New Month. New Swaps.

Today I'd like you to meet some lovely ladies. 

Jennifer 

I'm Jennifer. I'm a working mom from 9-5 before my real work begins; being mom! I am happily married to a man who has never truly grown up, and mom to a son who is growing up too fast. Our family resides near Washington, D.C. and our silly adventures can happen anywhere.I write at work, blog at home, and write novels on the side just because I have that much to say about everything. With a husband, a son, and a parrot, topics are never in short supply.

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Sarah

Hi there! I started this blog in January of 2012, since then I had the help of a fellow blogger to give me tips on how to get more followers and how to make buttons.

My blog was originally a blog to share giveaways, but I realized that I liked to make crafts a lot, and that's how my blog became a craft blog!  

I don't just blog about blogs though!, I blog about my life, crafts, and blogging tips!  

I probably post around two-four times a week, about anything, crafts, exciting news.

I am currently doing a 7 Things Super Cute Saturday about twice a month, be sure to keep checking back for more 7 Things Super Cute Saturday! I'd love to hear from you. 

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Jess

Hey y’all I’m Jess! I blog over at Living On Sweet Tea. I’m a good little southern girl (wink, wink) making her way through life in a big city with a country heart. I blog about making our first house a home and what happens when a tornado of a dog and a little Southern Comfort and sarcasm get thrown into the mix.

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Robin

Hello everyone! My name is Robin. I am a wife and a Mom to two beautiful little girls. I am the blogger behind Garage Sales R Us where we take you garage saleing with us each week and show you all of our finds and the amazing things we do with them. We find everything from fashion, kids fashion, home decor, furniture, tools, photography props and much more! Garage saleing is a great way to help your family save money! Head on over and let us teach you how. There is a little something for everyone. You can find home decor, upcycles, and interior design under the A Thrifty Decorator, DIY Tutorials, Fashion under the Fashion on a Dime, and Kid's fashion under Kid's Corner. There is even a spot for the hubby under This is a Man's World. Feel free to follow along! We love friends! 

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Kids Week

Next week 

June 4th - 10th

will be for the kids!! 

A week full of kids crafts and activities 

that I have done with the boys

and also 

some guest posts 

from other bloggers!

We've had a ton of fun with our activities

I can't wait to share what we've been up too.

If you would like to Guest Post  

 a kids friendly activity/craft (any age)

I'd love to have you! 

email me at Littlemudpies{at}gmail{dot}com

Month 6

Yikes. 

6 Months is here. 

Happy half year baby boy!

What a difference a month makes. You can crawl, Landon. That makes you the earliest crawler in the Kozyra house. Either you're super advanced or you want to keep up with your brother -- or get out of his way.

Two teeth. Two little baby teeth grace that precious little mouth of yours. From the looks of all the drool the others aren't far behind. 

You're tough. Like bang something on your head and you don't even cry tough. And you don't take any crap from Oliver. The minute he gets rough with you - you give it right back. But the minute Momma walks away, you lose it. It melts Mommas heart and annoys her all at the same time.

You're such a happy baby! Unless of course you are hungry, then whoever is in your way better watch out. You love to eat, don't you?

Favorites:

Your swing still - not much longer or it might break

Blankets 

Oliver 

Sophie the Giraffe

Getting into things you shouldn't 

Food - everything but pears 

Crawling

Rolling

Your 'Charlie' (pacifier) 

BBQs, Birthdays & Ball pits

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Ours was jam packed. 

That's what usually happens once the warm weather starts. It's exhausting, but fun. 

We celebrated my uncles birthday on Saturday. Oliver loves my uncle. I'm so happy, the boys have him. He's like a father to me so it means a lot that they love him. Oliver asks daily for "Uncey."  

We spent the day playing outside - it was nice and relaxing. Oliver played in the ball pit and helped my grandparents water their flowers. 

Sunday we went to a barbecue and Oliver made some new friends. Watching him play and run and laugh with the kids reminded me of being little, it was so easy to make friends then. No insecurities. You didn't worry about if the other kids like you or not, you just did your own thing. It was easy.

I wish it was that easy to make friends as an adult. Maybe it's just me, but it seems hard.

You can't just run up and ask someone to play, they'd look at you like you were nuts. Then there is the worry about if they will like you or think you were weird. If they have kids, will your kids like each other? What do you do, if your kids don't get along. What happens if your kids love each other, but you really can't stand each other? Do you still get together and have play dates for the kids sake?

What if they don't have kids? Will they understand your lifestyle. Will they understand when you can't just meet up at the mall on a random Tuesday. Will they understand that you need a weeks notice (not days) for plans. Will they understand if you have to cancel said plans last minute, because your son is throwing up?

All these things and more are the things I think about. I'm lucky to have the friends I do have, the ones I met when I was Oliver's age. The ones that have stuck by me though it all. Those friendship are the most important and I hope that my boys find friends like that.

Monday we worked our buns off getting ready for our pool party. It was a beautiful day, hot but with a breeze. Those are the days I love. Where you don't feel like you're suffocating or you're going to sweat your boobs off. We got up early to fix up our backyard. It's been a process. June 1st will make it 3 years we've been in our house and we're now just starting to make the backyard presentable. It's been a challenge. We have a small yard and an in ground pool to work around. We wanted somewhere for the boys to play, but also needed a fence around the pool for safety. I'm happy to say, it's starting to look how I pictured it when we signed those papers 3 years ago.

Houses are always a work in progress. I'm happy we have lived in our house and now are making the changes we want. It gave me time to determine my style and not make rash decisions.

Speaking of the pool, Oliver loves it. He's technically been in it since he was 4 months old, but this year is the first where he wants to be in it. Yesterday he wanted to get right in. So we put him in his floaty and he loved it. Mr. Independent didn't want anyone holding on to his raft so we just stood aside and watched him. I'm so proud of him, his fearlessness is a blessing and a curse - I'm sure.

All in all it was a wonderful weekend, full of family, friends and fun. I hope each of you had the same.

I don't like tooting my on horn but I am proud of this - I made that dress. It was my first attempt at making a dress for myself and even though I wanted to burn it a few times - it turned out. I've named it my "Son of a Birch" dress. Replace Birch with the other "B" word because that what I said more than 100 times!
 

If you haven't entered yet, the giveaway is still open!

Oh and what do you think of the new blog design? I'm happy to say, I did it all by myself. HTML use to confuse the heck out of me - but I'm starting to get the hang of it. I love the new blog - I can't make any promises, but I'm hoping to keep it like this for awhile!

Awards up the Wazoo

I'm really grateful for every one of my readers. 

It's like the bees knees when I get one more follower

and I stalk check my stats and see that my

page views have gone up. 

I honestly never thought Little Mudpies would 

evolve into what it has

but I am so very happy. 

So I've been awarded some bloggy awards. 

Awesome right?!

Alicia over at The Better Nester and Robin at Garage Sales R Us awarded me with the

Liebster Award 

The hilarious Emma at Your Doctor's Wife Your Doctors Wife awarded me with the 

Versatile Blogger award 

First up The Liebster Award 

Liebster apparently means "dearest/beloved" How sweet! Here are the rules of the Liebster Award:
Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter
Make sure to link back to the blogger who presented you with the award
Copy and paste the blog award button on your blog
Present the Liebster Blog Award to 5 blogs of 200 followers of less and who you feel deserve to be noticed.
Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blog.

Alright and now on to the 

Versatile Blogger award

Nominate 15 fellow bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award
Add an image of the Versatile Blogger Award
Thank the blogger who nominated you in a post with a link to their site
In the same post share seven completely random facts about yourself
           Inform each nominated blogger of their nomination by posting a comment on each of their blogs
Include the rules

Alright 7 Random facts about me!

* I like to dip my pickles in ketchup.

*When I was little I had 2 imaginary friends Fred and "The Boss"

*I'm the only child

 *I don't like chalk. I hate writing with it, it gives me the chills. 

* I don't wash my jeans

*I don't like spiders. Like even just writing this is making my skin crawl. 

Can't handle them. At all!

*I'm really shy when I first meet someone.  

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I Have a Secret....

Well if you know me in real life it's not really a secret.

But I feel that we're BFFs now and I'm ready to spill the beans...

Are you sure you are ready for it?

I have an unhealthy obsession with him! 

It's okay, my husband knows and he's okay with it.

It all started with Twilight. That's when I first discovered this beautiful man. 

Then I started stalking researching him and found out that he sings! Did you know he sings?

I love a man who can sing.

Then I found out that he was a model. When he was like 12.

Yeah okay, that's kind of creepy, pretend I didn't just share that.

Look at this instead 

Ah, that's better. 

Don't worry Rob we all have embarrassing pictures floating around...

So in my stalking research of Robert Pattinson, I found this blog Letter's to Rob. Do you know about this? It's pretty hilarious. I hung around there and met some kick ass girls, I still talk to today!! 

There are other movies Robert Pattinson has been in. Vanity Fair anyone? Yeah, so his part was cut but Reese Witherspoon was his mom. Fast forward a few years and she plays his lover in Water for Elephants. Odd? Cool? I'm not sure. 

Anyways. 

Remember Me, the movie about 9/11 made me cry my eyes out. I remember sitting in the theater with big ol crocodile tears running down my face, it was pretty pathetic sad. Then I felt like shit afterwards. Ever have that happen to you? You go see a movie and then it ruins the rest of your day. 

{Just look at this...It will make you feel better Lindsay}

Yup, that works. 

Then there was How to Be. It was actually a funny movie. I made Ryan buy it off On Demand. Then because I am crazy totally normal, I ordered the soundtrack - because there was a chance to win an autographed poster - signed by Robert Pattinson.  Well I won said poster.
It was better than the Golden Ticket. Eat that Willie Wonka!
 I carried that baby with me and even hung it up in our bedroom for awhile.

Eeeeeep!! 

My friends and family also feed into this obsession. They are enablers for reals. 

For Christmas a few years ago, my wonderful cousin gave me Robert Pattinson earrings. It was Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, but it was still him.

 I proudly wore them on my ears.

Then there is the Robsessed DVD my BFF Jessica gave me for my birthday!!

I won't mention how I had a sound clip of him saying "feel like it's dirty - feel like it's wrong" as a ring tone for months days. Nope, I won't mention anything about that. 

The obsession has slowly started to die down now that I am a mom. But I do still pick up a magazine here in and there if his mug is plastered all over it. Just don't look under the mattress - thats where I keep my stash. 

I'm not ashamed - I'll admit it.

I'm obsessed with Robert Pattinson, and you should be too!!

Yup, you're welcome!

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Oliver Says....

This is going to be a new series where I share the funny, gross, silly things that Oliver says. 

While holding out an apple slice, "Here Momma, try it. It's good for you!"

Oliver is like a nosey neighbor. He loves looking out the window numerous times a day he says, "Ut oh Momma, car's gone" "Hai people!" "People Momma - PEOPLE!"

I'm not sure what people he is talking about we live on a super quiet street so these people may or may not be real. 

While eating an English Muffin, he kept calling it a "Muppet!" "This muppet is so good Momma!"

Oliver enjoyed his first ice cream cone the other day, it was actually my ice cream cone and he up and stole it, when I went to take it back he says, "Oh no Momma, no way! Ahber's icream own"

This morning Ryan and I were listening to him on the monitor he's in his bedroom repeating, "Apples at the store Momma!" "Momma, apples at the store"

Speaking of apples. The other day I was leaving to go see my best friends baby as I was walking out of the house Oliver yells, "Don't forget the apples Momma" Apparently the only place he thinks I go is the store. 

This one was ridiculous. The other day I was doing dishes. This was the following conversation. 

Oliver: "Elbow Momma"

Me: "Yes Oliver, that is my elbow."

Oliver: "Hab it!"

Me: "You can't have my elbow silly!"

Oliver: {Throwing himself on the floor and crying} "Ahber hab it Momma!"

Me: {Pointing to his elbow} "Look you have your own elbow"

Oliver: {Straighting out him arm to see his elbow - makes his elbow disappear} "Ahber no elbow momma - Your, I hab yours"

25 minute tantrum over my damn elbow. 

His new thing whenever you tell him he can't do something or has to clean up he immediately pouts his lip and says, "Ahber sad." 

He's a cute kid, his vocabulary is nuts lately. He puts sentences together and comes up with the most off the wall things. I love him to death, but he is exhausting. 

Looking for more Oliver says? Check it out here and here! 

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