Review and Giveaway: Boudreaux's Butt Paste {CLOSED}

I am super excited at the opportunity to host a giveaway for Blairex Laboratories Boudreaux's Butt Paste! They sent us a box full of goodies to try out, including...

All Natural Boudreaux's Butt Paste
Original Boudreaux's Butt Paste
Boudreaux's Butt Paste Max Strength
Boudreaux's Butt Bath - Body Wash & Shampoo
Boudreaux's Baby Kisses - Lip and Cheek Moisturizer
Boudreaux's Rash Protector


Despite the fact that I've had friends rave about this diaper cream, I tend to be brand loyal and in my over 7 yrs of diapering bottoms, I have always used the same product.

Since Boudreaux's Butt Paste was created by a pharmacist with direction from a pediatrician, I felt comfortable trying it even with Konny's crazy sensitive skin. We got right down to business and gave these products a whirl!

Konnor's favorite was the Baby Kisses. He loves sharing lip gloss with Mommy and this is his very own tube! This product would be especially fabulous for winter when those sweet baby cheeks get so red and chapped!



Give me back my Boudreaux's!

I adore the Rash Protector and the way Konny giggles when I apply it. I just squirt a little on at bedtime and even if he messes his diaper, his bottom is still pretty when he wakes up! I especially love that it seems to work really well with our cloth diapers whereas regular diaper creams do not.

E was quite fond of the pastes (I love that one of them is natural!). He thought they were much smoother and had softer feel than our regular hiney cream. I also took some to daycare so that Debbie try it. She thought it was great too and she's probably used every cream out there.

I don't think it's far fetched to say we're totally sold! Then I'm reminded (and sad) that Konny is our last babe and we've got less than 2 yrs left of diapering him. Not that sad though because I miss sleeping and I can always buy Boudreaux's for my baby making friends!

{WIN IT}
Boudreaux's is going to send one of my readers a care package which will include one of each of the following:

All Natural Boudreaux's Butt Paste 2 oz.
ALL NEW Boudreaux's Butt Paste Max Strength
Boudreaux's Body Wash & Shampoo
Boudreaux's Baby Kisses
Boudreaux's Rash Protector

Mandatory Entry :
Visit Boudreaux's website and leave a comment telling me which product you would like to try or already enjoy using.

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Be sure there is a way for me to contact you!
This giveaway will end Thur, July 7th at 11:59 PM CST. A winner will be chosen with random.org and will have 48 hrs to respond or a new winner will be chosen.

Disclaimer: I received free samples of the products to review for this giveaway. No other type of compensation was received. The opinions expressed here are my own and may differ from other's experiences.

Father's Day!!

What a great weekend we had! The kids were super excited to give Daddy the shirt we made a couple weeks ago. I thought I was being all creative and then I saw something similiar at Walmart this afternoon and it burst my bubble! Oh well, ours is definitely one of a kind and Daddy loved it!




Katie's are the purple hands. She was a little overzealous. I swear, she only has 2 hands, not 3. :)

I wanted to make Papa a shirt too, but figured it would be more special if we waited and put all the grandKids hand prints on it. So we made him this present instead...


For a special Father's Day treat, Katie and I made a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. We used one of the new Hodgson Mills gf mixes. It was really tasty, which is great since it's also a very reasonable price!


I think we all agree that the best part of the weekend though is all the walking that Konnor did. We've been praying so hard to avoid PT and are just thrilled that he's finally getting the hang of it!


**I am very aware what Konnor is wearing doesn't even come close to coordinating. E swears that Konnor picked it out himself. Uh huh ;)

Fun with the K-Cousins!

We were lucky enough to sneak in a day with Eric's brother's family while they were here for a short visit a few weeks ago. There's so many people to see when they're home and we're always happy that they try hard to fit us in!

Katie and Kelton were super excited to get there and thankfully Konnor napped on the way.



Nana's new horse Cheyenne was a huge hit! Katie wasn't too excited after her tumble from Blackie earlier this spring, but we did get her to at least get on for a bit.




I didn't get many pictures because I forgot the camera and had to rely on my cell phone. It was a fantastic day though and we cannot wait to see them again this fall!! After refusing to even look at him for nearly the first two years of her life, Buggy has developed a deep affinity for Uncle Shawn - notice who she's with in most of the pictures! :)





We let Katie skip her nap to get in some extra playtime. We weren't even in the truck for 10 min and she was out!


A week from today, Konnor will be having surgery to repair his hypospadia. I know everything will be just fine, but we would appreciate all the prayers we can get!

Crockpots, coupons and crafts

Yep, I still do all of those.
All. The. Time.
It's really great stress relief for me.
At least every Wednesday, I have one (or more) crockpots going.



Some of the recent recipes that we've tried and turned out to be a huge hit are....

Loose Meat Sandwiches
Peach Cobbler
Jalapeno Corn Pudding
Honey and Cinnamon Glazed Carrots
Chocolate Fudge Pudding Cake - This one is great to start at work first thing and we have a great treat by lunch time!

And of course, I still never shop without coupons. I rarely take pictures anymore, but I was proud of this stuff from Dillon's and snapped a quick one. Most of it will be donated or shared with family members. The total was $6.14. The cereal was .99, the cereal bars were $1.99 each and the rice cakes were .29 each. All the rest was free.


We picked up this stuff today at Target for $18.40. All the K's were with me and we high fived after we left for doing so well with our coupons! Cleanwell soap is usually almost $5/bottle, so we were psyched to get it for such a great price!


Finally, a few pics of the fun stuff I've been working on lately...











I get to have a giveaway on my blog soon and I'm so excited!
Stayed tuned!

Joplin clean up

As the scenes from tornado ravaged Joplin started appearing on tv just shortly after the storm hit on May 22nd, my immediate thoughts went to what we could do to help. I knew we would donate money, I knew we could donate from our stockpile, but it just didn't feel like enough. After some prayer and discussion, we decided to also volunteer our time.

E's parents come over Sunday evening to stay with the kids. We got up shortly after 4am on Memorial Day and headed out around 5am. The drive really wasn't that bad. I don't mind driving in the early morning as long as I've got my cup of coffee. We got into Joplin sometime after 8am.

We didn't take a lot of pictures. I felt kind of numb the entire time. It was the most surreal thing I have ever experienced. When we first got into town, I burst into tears. The tears came again when we were being bused out to the area we were to be working. What you see on tv, just doesn't prepare you for what you see in person.








I have never seen distruction like this. It was as far as the eye could see. Our group had people from all over the states of KS and MO, even someone else from Mulvane. We didn't meet the two families who's property we cleared, we don't even know if they survived the tornado, but I prayed for them almost the whole time we were working. It was our honor to help them and we'd do it again in a heartbeat.

We are hopeful to return once a month for the next few months. It's easy to think that you're just one person and insignificant to provide help in such a large disaster. But if everyone felt that way and did nothing, there would be no help at all. In addition, Kelton will never forget that we did this. I pray that our children will be driven to help others as they walk through life and I can't expect that to happen without modeling those behaviors for them.