Belle Trousseau and Healing Deals!

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With the Holidays right around the corner, this is a great time to get a great deal and for a great cause!

For every deal sold, Healing Deals donates 10% of the profits to one of three foundations: Make a Wish—Utah Chapter, Huntsman Cancer Institute or Primary Childrens

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Our "Healing Deals"starts

Tomorrow

Wednesday, November the 7th
and runs through

Wednesday, November the 14th

You can buy a certificate worth $20,
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How great is that!

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Friday Favorites

So a couple weeks ago I got sucked into.... I mean "invited" : ) to play an app game. The invitation had been sitting there for probably a good couple weeks prior to the initial "accept".

Needless to say... I got sucked in good.

It has been a "Favorite" pass time since 

(mind you, as a mom 'pass time'  time is definitely here and there!!)

If you like music and listen to it a lot, then you too will love Song Pop. There are all sorts of genres and the songs are from lots of time periods.

Check it out and give it a try.

Friday Favorites

My Favorite is Halloween! I Love Halloween...the candy, the silly costumes, the scaryness -(if scaryness is or can be a word) the scaryness of the trick-or-treating, the Fall temperatures and I love all the new colors that decorated the trees. 

 

So this year I decided that I should decorate my pots with Halloween decor. So I've gathered all the necessary items, pumpkins, berries, spray paint, leaves, ribbon and went to town and this is what I got.

 I love it! And if you are wondering if maybe it looks a little familiar or similar to something you may have seen before, then yes, you may be right, it is my take and copy of some of the awesome Disneyland Halloween decorations. So Fun!

Well I guess I'm off to my next project.....my kids Halloween costumes. 

Enjoy the many beauties of Fall.

 Yay, it's the weekend!

      I just got the coolest things for my birthday.  My husband spoiled me and got me some new running shoes and a new watch.  The shoes are so comfortable and I think they look great.  The watch it awesome because it tracks where I run, how fast, how long and how many calories I burn.  I am a techno geek, so I love coming home and seeing all the stats.  I actually look forward to going out and working out.  If it takes cool shoes and a snazzy watch to get me to like working out, then so be it!  Have a great weekend!  Happy Fall!

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Wednesday, September the 12th
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Wednesday, September the 19th

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How great is that!

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(This is a similar special that can be found on Groupon, City Deals, etc. SO..... even if you don't live in the Utah Region, you can still take part!)

Happy Shopping!

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Friday Favorites

  Last week I had the opportunity to hike to the summit of Mount Timpanogos. I went with my husband, my good friend and some of my husbands co-workers. We started our hike at 4:30 a.m.... yes, a.m.!, and hit the summit about 9:15 a.m. The first few hours were all in the dark. Was it long, yes. Was it hard, yes. BUT, it was totally worth it! It was an amazing view from the top in all directions and beautiful scenery all along the way.

My "favorite" part was accomplishing something that I knew was going to be hard, and believe me... it was a mental debate leading up to "hike day"! The best thing was we did it.

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Belle Trousseau and The Daily Deal!
Don't miss this great deal!

Get ready for Family or School Pictures, complete an outfit, a gift, Christmas or just because!

Be sure to check out our site to see what you need for your special little one.

Our "Daily Deal"starts

tomorrow, Wednesday, September the 12th
and then as a side deal through Wednesday, September the 19th

You can buy a certificate worth $20,
FOR ONLY $10
How great is that!

Here is the link!

You can also check out the ad on sltrib.com
(This is a similar special that can be found on Groupon, City Deals, etc. SO.....
even if you don't live in the Utah Region, you can still take part!)

Happy Shopping!

Email or call if you have any questions
info@belletrousseau.com or 801-376-8383

Friday Favorites

It's that time of the year when everything in your garden is bursting with veggies and even some of my fruit has come up for round 2. 

My favorite! 

I love, love, love all the yummy veggies and especially my tomatoes, they have grown so good this year, that we are eating them 24/7....they taste just like candy. 

We've had so many tomatoes and I don't want them to go to waste, that I've decided to make and jar salsa. 

Super yummy and it will be even better when Winter rolls around and we have yummy fresh salsa from our garden. 

Have an awesome weekend!

Friday Favorite

I have a new love for subway art.  I love the different fonts, the different colors some have and I love what most of them say.  I have printed some for my daughters room and framed them, I have used some as handouts for different things I'm involved in and I have printed them for decor in my house.  A friend of mind introduced me to the cute ones that you can find here.  It's been fun to print them and change them up for different occasions. 

Hope your first weeks of your kids back in school have been all you want them to be.  Enjoy your long weekend and watch for a great upcoming sale!

Friday (un)Favorite

 I have mixed feelings about the fact that school has started. My kids started this past Tuesday. It is nice to (try) to get back into a routine and I know, for the most part, my kids have been excited to get back (never for the homework though!) : )

My un-favorite part about it is that summer is coming to a close! Where did it go... seriously!?! I love the casual days, the warm weather, the fun activities, the no worries approach.

But, what do you do?? Sigh.... Nothing I suppose, but to try and take in the warm weather while it's here and enjoy the weekend!

Hope you enjoy yours!

Friday Favorites

Shopping is a favorite, especially with school right around the corner. Even as a child I remember going back-to-school shopping with my mom and we would buy new shoes, socks, a new back pack if it was needed and some new clothes because we had all grown out of just about everything from the year before. I also loved shopping for all the new school supplies that were required for school like new pencils, fresh new folders, maybe a binder, a trapper keeper...do you remember those....I loved them, a new note book with all empty clean pages. Funny stuff.....right? Come on you remember.

Well, we have some new shoes and some new shirts and we got lucky with most of our pants, they still fit, but who knows the weather is still warm and we won't be putting those pants on right away, so we maybe out shopping for more. Now all we have left is are school supplies. 

I still can't believe that the lazy days of Summer are winding down and school is starting....crazy and a little bitter sweet.

Happy shopping and happy weekend!

Weekend Favorites

It has been a fun and relaxing weekend...so far.  In my opinion, that is the way weekends should be.  Time to hangout with you husband and kids and try not to work too hard.  This weekend started with a fun date night with my husband..dinner and a little shopping.  Today, we caught up on last nights Olympics, then finally left the house around 2:30 to make our weekly Costco run.  If we go as a family, we are there for at least a couple of hours. Today, we were there for at least that, but we walked out of there with "The Lorax".  

This is such a cute movie with a sweet message.  It was fun to watch my boys laugh at the funny characters.  They especially liked the mini-movies it came with.  My 4 year old laughed so hard, it made my husband & I laugh just as hard.

I hope you're having a fun and relaxing weekend and enjoy watching the last day of the 2012 Olympics!

Friday Favorites

Love the Olympics.

Love seeing and hearing about all the different events and the individual athletes competing in them.

Love the competitive spirit.

Love the feeling of the world-wide "coming together" to take part in the games.

Need I say more?

Hope you're loving the games too!!

Friday Favorites

A fun favorite is a summer outdoor concert. We just recently went to the Red Butte Garden to see Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band and it was a lot fun and always entertaining. For whatever reason you some how forget how fun they are until you finally go and then you are asking yourself, "why haven't we done this sooner". Always a fun summer getaway.

We are also going to check out the Twilight Concert Series in Salt Lake at Pioneer Park. Shows are Thursday nights and get this...they are only $5.

 Perfect! Lots of fun!

Happy weekend!

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Friday Favs

Last week we were in Lake Powell.  That place is amazing!  We spent our time with great friends and loved every minute of it!  When I asked my kids what the best part about the trip was, they said they LOVED the "extreme tubing".  The faster the better and if they caught air, it was amazing (especially when they stayed on the tube).  If you haven't been, I highly suggest taking a couple of days and enjoying the beauty and fun Lake Powell has to offer.

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Friday Favorites

What a great week.... Family has come to town to visit and play, my son has returned after two years of serving in Mongolia and celebrating the 4th of July. So many great things to be thankful for, especially our freedoms. I hope everyone has been able to take a moment this week to really realize all that we have and all that we are able and allowed to do "freely".

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Friday Favorites

How is your summer going? It seems to be flying by a little to fast for me ...kind of crazy, but it has been fun. It's always a favorite to be with family no matter what it is that you are doing. We've been to St. George to visit and see Aladdin at Tuachn, we've hiked the mountain in Alpine, been swimming every where, played at an awesome new park, and we just got home from Yuba lake.

 Always fun! Enjoy all of your summer adventures!

 

Friday Favorites

Summer is in full swing at our house. Kids are sleeping in, playing with friends, doing the dreaded summer workbooks, and going to swimming lessons. This year I enrolled my boys in swimming lessons. My 9 year old needs to learn some technic, and my 4 year old, who is very comfortable in the water, needs to learn to swim without his arm floaties. They have a really great teacher who is very patient and has taught them a lot over the past two weeks. I must say, I am so glad that today is the last day, because sitting outside in 100+ degree heat for an hour and a half each day is not very fun. 

I'm excited for all the other adventures summer has in store. Trips to see family in Utah, boating as much as we can, Lake Powell, girls camp and just enjoying being with my kids. Happy summer!

Friday Favorites

A snow cone, a shaved ice, a Snoasis, a Hawaiian Ice.... 

whatever you want to call them, they are all the rage around my place. 

It's a social gathering really. 

We have a few places where these "hot items" can be found and you can always count

on a line full of friends, a variety of flavors and a yummy treat on a warm summer evening!

Summer Favorites

I love, love, love summer and its here! Ah... my summer list of "summer favorites". Swimming with my kids at the water park or the closest public pool, getting a rockn' tan....yeah it doesn't usually happen, but I try. I love the smell of BBQ in the air...mmm hot dogs, hamburgers, kabobs and a favorite around here is smoked pulled pork with all the southern sides coleslaw, baked beans and peach cobbler....I'm hungry. Camping at the lake, roasted marsh mellows, but you have to have the striped Keebler elf  cookies to go with it. The smell of fresh cut grass from the lawn mower....that smell has always reminded me of warm summer weather. Summer nights and watching all the kids in the neighborhood play until dark. Watching movies on the lawn....want to make that one happen this year. Getting together with family and friends. Going to St.George to visit grandma and see a show at Tuacahn.When it gets super hot in the middle of the summer going to see a movie is awesome. Visiting the Hawaiian snow shack....or any shack that provides cold snow in a ball with red tigers blood all over it.

Yep, these are a few of my summer favorites.
What are yours?
Happy Weekend!

        

Friday Favorites

One of my families favorite things to do when the weather is nice is to go on family bike rides.  

We choose a different route every time and that makes the rides fun.  Some nights we'll ride around the neighborhood and other nights we'll ride for a couple of miles.  I'm so impressed with how well my kids do on the long rides, especially my 4 year old. The best part about our bike rides is that we are spending time with each other.  It is time away from the TV, cell phones, ipods and other distractions.  

Enjoy your Summer!

Friday Favorites

Ever wonder how you got so lucky?? I do.

I sure love these kiddos. Especially that handsome young man. He's turning 16 this next week and has had quite the ride the last several weeks after a bad crash. Lots of worry as he's recovered. Finishing up the school year has been a little crazy to say the least. But he's worked hard and I am amazed!

Yay for the end of another school year.Excited to head into a fun and relaxing summer with these kids of mine.

Have a super great weekend!

Weekend Favorite

A Summer favorite and a must. . . well, for me anyways, is a yummy garden and our little one is finally all finished and put into the ground. Yah!

We love, love tomatoes and I plants tons of them so that I have extra to jar and use throughout winter. I also love the tomatoes for fresh salsa...yum. I have also planted pumpkins, green bean, red onions, basil, cucumbers, zucchini, jalapeno's and bell peppers. I'm excited to try an epson salt and water spray on my bell peppers this year to see if they really will grow bigger and better. 

Now grow veggies and strawberries and raspberries so we can eat and enjoy you. 

Have a great weekend!                                   

Friday's Favorite

School projects are not my most favorite things.  I've found that 60% of the projects are done by us parents.  This week my son came home having to do a Solar System project.  It is fun to be able to work on it together and let them him come up with what he wanted to do.  I must say, we are really happy with how this turned out.  I have also found that as your children get older, they can take on a lot more of the work. I hope we get a good grade!

Friday Favorites

So it's this cute little guys birthday today! Oh I love him! He has been such a joy to our family. He is amazing in so, so many ways. 

The most amazing thing about it is that the picture below is him today!

21!... Yes, 21 years old today!

How did that happen, I do not know. The above picture was yesterday! I promise. : )

Unfortunately, we will not be with him today... 

he is currently in Mongolia serving the wonderful people there, and LOVING it, I might add.

So we will celebrate his big day when he gets home in a couple months.

Happy Birthday Son!

Definitely my "favorite" this Friday.

Friday Favorites

My Friday Favorite is painted pots. Love them! 

I've seen cute painted pots in photos, at Disney World, at cute little boutiques and of course on Pinterest. So this week I decided that I wanted some of those cute painted pots at my house for some of the many plants I've grown this year. 

I decided on Spa Blue...isn't it so cute? and I bet it will be even cuter when those petunias start to flower. I can't wait!

So all I did was paint 1-2 layers around the base of the pot and then I let it dry and when it was dry I sprayed it a nice shiny clear/protective finish. I think I sprayed a couple of coats of the Clear Acrylic. 

It gives it a nice finished look. 

Easy Peasy and I'm done...why didn't I do this sooner? Anyways, I'm having fun getting all my yard cleaned up, cute and ready for the warmer weather and of course Summer.

Have A Good Weekend!

Friday Favs

Best thing about living in Las Vegas is the weather.  This weekend the weather is supposed to be beautiful with 95 degree temperatures.  We are going to venture out to Lake Mead and enjoy the sun by playing on our boat.  The water is not yet warm enough to play in, but cruising around the canyons, stopping for lunch and enjoying time with my husband and kids is my idea of a perfect weekend.

Hope you enjoy your weekend.  What are you going to do?

Friday Favorites

We are in the middle of Spring Break this week. Having the kids home is fun and they love the time off. Here is Utah, we are experiencing typical "Utah" weather which is rather bipolar! 70-80º one day and 30-40º the next!

So my Friday Favorite is a good weekend getaway. I'm not so much the "camping" type, so we are off to a hotel for a few days to get a little R&R, let the kids swim and play, enjoy a couple of our favorite restaurants, take in a good movie and to check out the new City Creek Shopping Center in downtown Salt Lake.


What's your favorite weekend getaway!

Happy Weekend!

Friday Favorites

Only a few short days left until Easter...are you all ready? I think I'm ready and my kids are super excited. We are big...well, most of us are big breakfast fans and so we have decided to have a yummy morning Easter brunch and I have recently discovered a site that has tons of food recipes and I've decided to make a few brunch breakfast finds from this site http://foodgawker.com/. Now be careful when you go to this awesome site because the longer you continue looking or "gawking", the hungrier you will get and you will want to make everything. Seriously! Love it! I'm getting hungry just thinking about it...it has to be all of those pictures. This is also a great idea dinner site which I often struggle trying to find something new to make for dinner...you know mix things up a little.

A couple yummy Easter morning possibilities. :)

Have a happy Easter, happy weekend and even a happy Spring break.

Friday Favorites

These are some of my favorite headbands. I love them because they are unique, soft and they come in all of our great knit colors.

This is the knit fabric flower headband.

It comes on a headband (as shown)

or as a clip. SO CUTE!

This is the knit fabric bud clip. This also comes on a headband.

One of the great things about this is your little girls can wear this,

and if you have older daughters, they'll wear this too. My 12 year has several!

Friday Favorites

It's always so great to come to the end of a busy week, to have fun plans for the weekend and especially to have a fantastic weather forecast. Yay! We have had some up and down weather the past few weekends, one would have the starting signs of spring, then the next back into the depths of winter, then the rain. It's been a bit crazy.

But this weekend... Awesome!! Sunny and warm. Things are starting to turn green, flowers are slowing popping themselves up and it's going to be great to be out in it having some fun!

Hope you have a great weekend.

Welcome Spring,
We are happy you are here!

Friday Favorites

Have you ever had one of those crazy busy days when your running here and dropping this off there and you can't forget to take care of that and then you realize that somewhere in all this craziness you have to throw something together for dinner and you don't want cheap takeout and you want something yummy....mmm, after all you're starving after the day you've had and the only thing you had for lunch was that apple you grabbed heading out the door...oh yeah, you know what I talking about...yep.

So here is a quick go-to favorite of mine. Homemade bread that is easy-peasy, you throw all the ingredients in your mixer and the best part is... it only takes 25 minutes to rise...yep, you read it right, 25 minutes and it's good and you can use the dough for pizza, scones, rolls, bread sticks, Navajo tacos and cinnamon rolls.

The bread is great with spaghetti, soup, or even make it a sandwich night on warm yummy bread. I love it!

This recipe make 4 loaves. I cut the recipe in half.

Homemade Bread Recipe

10 1/2 cups white bread flour or wheat flour (do not use all-purpose flour) I bought a bag at Costco

1/2 cup sugar

1 Tablespoon salt

3 rounded Tablespoons SAF instant yeast-I bought at Walmart

3 Tablesppons of liquid lecithin (squeeze or pour directly into bowl-approximate amount because the lecithin is too sticky to touch)

4 1/2 + cups hot water

Mix dry ingredients together. Add lecithin and hot water and mix for 1 minute. Dough should resemble cookie dough and be very sticky. If dough is too dry, add more water. Mix 5 minutes more. (Do not add flour to dough after it has mixed. Spray your counter and bread pans with PAM cooking spray. Quarter dough and shape into loaves. Place in bread pans and cover with dish cloths. Let rise 25 minutes then bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.

For whole wheat bread, add one cup of applesauce as part of 4 1/2 cups of hot water and 1 additional Tablespoon of lecithin. Mix for ten minutes.

You can mix whole wheat and white bread flour too!

Happy weekend!