Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner!

Drumroll please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The winner of our Outback Steakhouse gift card is the fabulous:

Ashley Flynn!!!! She gave us 17 names, and we ended up picking the name Clementine for our cow. I know Ash in real life and she is one of my good girlfriends from college. Both she and her husband Dan are in the Army and have served overseas several times between both of them. They are more than deserving of this! 

I'll email you letting you know the information I need to send your gift card! CONGRATS!!!

Second drumroll please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The winner of our Amazon gift card is the amazing:

Kelsey Eaton!!! 

Again, I'll email you the info I need from you to get your gift card to you asap!

THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone who entered! Rest assured, there are plenty of cows born every year, so this probably won't be the last time I do this sort of thing!

And for any of you who are SUPER bummed about not winning, I have GREAT news for you! My girl Kelli over at Kelli's Kraziness is doing the SAME EXACT THING in April! So really, you have another shot at winning. Beef lovers unite! And non-beef lovers too (that's for you Celeste and Sarah ;) )

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So not only was the title referring to my winners, but I'm actually going to share a Chicken Dinner recipe with you. Seems kind of odd when adding it to a blog giveaway promoting beef, no? Well, I'm just trying to spread the agriculture love around to all types of dinners.

I give you: Chicken Tamale Casserole

Ingredients:

• 1 cup (4 ounces) preshredded 4-cheese Mexican blend cheese, divided ( grate my own cheese-it's just better)
• 1/3 cup fat-free milk 
• 1/4 cup egg substitute
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper
• 1 (14 3/4-ounce) can cream-style corn 
• 1 (8.5-ounce) box corn muffin mix (such as Martha White)
• 1 (4-ounce) can chopped green chiles, drained
• Cooking spray
• 1 (10-ounce) can red enchilada sauce (such as Old El Paso)
• 2 cups shredded cooked chicken breast 
• 1/2 cup fat-free sour cream 

Directions:

1. 1. Preheat oven to 400°.
2. 2. Combine 1/4 cup cheese and next 7 ingredients (through chiles) in a large bowl, stirring just until moist. Pour mixture into a 9 x 9–inch baking dish coated with cooking spray.
3. 3. Bake at 400° for 30 minutes or until set. Pierce entire surface liberally with a fork; pour enchilada sauce over top. Top with chicken; sprinkle with remaining 3/4 cup cheese. Bake at 400° for 15 minutes or until cheese melts. Remove from oven; let stand 5 minutes. Cut into 8 pieces; top each serving with 1 tablespoon sour cream.

Guuuuys, this is SO good. Patrick doesn't usually eat leftovers and even he said, "If you made this, I would eat leftovers ALL the time!" Tis true.

Name That Cow!!! Giveaway!

I am SO SO SO SO excited to announce this giveaway to you guys!!!

As many of you know, I name some of our cattle. I call them by name, and yell at them by name when they're naughty. And my FIL actually writes their names in the cattle book where we keep our records. LEGIT.

Other times on the blog I've asked you guys for names before, so this time I thought I'd do a little giveaway as an incentive!

After talking with Patrick about what the giveaway should be for, he made the suggestion that since we're in the business of raising and promoting beef, it should probably have something to do with beef. Therefore, the winner of this contest will be winning a

 $25 gift card to Outback Steakhouse!

And since I'm picking the name out of whatever you guys give me, I'm also going to be doing a random drawing too, for whoever has the most entries! This will be a

$10 Amazon Gift Card!

Since you'll be giving ideas for names, it's only right that you meet the little lady you'll be naming, so here she is:

If you recall, one of the cows I have is named Britney. As in Britney Steers. (She's not actually a steer, because that means she would be a boy. The name was too cute to pass up). This little one is Britney's daughter, and she is tag #208.

Since I hate super complicated giveaways, so I'm going to make entering this as easily as possible! 

Here are the rules: To win either of the cards, you must be a follower of my blog. Or if you're family and friends I know in real life, you can just email it to me :)

1) To win the $25 Outback Steakhouse card:

• Leave your name idea in a comment. Patrick and I will choose the name we like the best.

2) To win the $10 Amazon card (this one will be a random drawing):

• Each name=1 entry (so you only have to leave 1 comment, but you can put 10 names in it and still get 10 entries)
• Blog about it=5 entries
• Tell me your favorite recipe that uses beef=2 entries
• You can do all of this in one comment, so you don't need to leave separate comments for all of the different entries.

And that's it!!!

This will be open all of this week, and we will choose and announce the winner on Monday, March 18th.

Ready, Set, GO! 

New Look for Me

So, I think I've officially "made it" in the blog world...I had my first company contact me to do a review of their product! I know for some of you larger bloggers, this isn't that big of a deal and you get offers left and right. But for me, this is big! So of course I said yes!

Firmoo contacted me to pick a free pair of glasses, in exchange for a review of their product.

Here's a little about their product, from their website:

• Vision - An ideal pair of prescription glasses as a half medical tool to correct vision should be made up of a quality frame and lenses with accurate prescription. We promise all our eyeglasses frames are of high quality. Besides, all eyewear provided by us goes through strict inspection by our experienced opticians before shipping to ensure the accuracy of lens prescription. That's why we keep the lowest return and exchange rate among all online optical stores worldwide.
• Fashion - We offer classic and fashion glasses frames for you to choose from. All of these frames which are quite popular in the world are elaborately picked by our staff from thousands of frames in the market.
• Frugal way - Our prescription eyeglasses are inexpensive even though with high quality, therefore, everyone can afford it. 

Now....for the goods. When I opened the package, I was pleasantly surprised that I got the case, a bag to hold the case, and a cleaning cloth. Now, I don't have glasses because my vision is better than 20/20, so this glasses stuff is all new to me. And, in the case was a little screwdriver and little nose piece replacement pieces. Yes, these are all very technical terms :)

I chose style #SDSB1706, which are these:

I thought they were pretty cute. So in my review, the company asks to take "stylish pictures" to show off the goods...well, I'm not so stylish, so a couple of selfies was about all I could get.

Here, we have the saucy librarian:

Notice the seat belt...safety first, everyone!

And I toned it down a bit when I got to work:

 

With this being my first experience wearing any glasses for more than about 5 seconds, I would say it was a good one. I was pleasantly surprised when I put the glasses on, because they were so lightweight. I could barely tell they were there. And I'm actually freaking out as I type this, but I liked wearing these more than my two pairs of Coach sunglasses! I know...blasphemy. And they didn't leave those annoying little red marks on your nose after you wear glasses for a long time. 

They seem pretty sturdy, and not cheap at all. I also have a hard time with sunglasses sitting crooked on my face, but after analyzing these things on my face for a good 5 minutes, they are spot on. Not crooked! And when dealing with their customer service department to get the glasses, they were very helpful when the first link they sent me didn't work. Even though I don't wear real glasses, I would definitely buy from them for another cute pair to wear just because. 

And because this company is so nice, and you guys are awesome, they're letting me introduce you to the First Pair Free Program. You get your first pair of glasses for free, and only have to pay for shipping! For those of you who do have prescription glasses, when you order, there is a place to enter all of your technical eye vision stuff. 

And one last note, they have a virtual try-on program, so you can upload your own photos and "try" the glasses on. I didn't do that, and was still happy with the pair I chose. 

So there ya go! 

Happy weekend, peeps!

FRIDAY!

Yep, pretty much sums it up!

Join Amanda and I for our weekly link-up!

FLIP ON!

...to winning my very first giveaway from the blogger world! It's from VAL, and it's SUPER cute! A little pig oven mitt! Val is a hog rancher, so she's as big of an advocate for pork as I am for beef. Thanks Val!

...FLIP ON to my amazing blogging family! You guys showered me with comments this week, and I truly felt the love!

...to Patrick and I's birthday week next week! WOOHOO!

...to attending my first yoga class this week! It was regular yoga, not that super sweaty/smelly hot yoga nonsense. I would probably pass out if I tried that. My boss, coworker and I went right after work and it's conveniently located in our office building.

...to getting new carpet in our bedrooms! I went and looked at samples yesterday and just have to pick what I want and schedule it!

...and to painting our bedroom! I've been scouring pinterest to see what I can find, and haven't fell in love with anything yet, so we'll see what happens. It's a REALLY REALLY small space, so I'm going to have to get creative. Don't worry, there will be before and after pictures taken.

...to my schedule slowing down. I still have lots to do, but it's not as crazy as this summer was.

...to having LOTS of blogging material! Seriously, I have almost all my blog posts for next week done already!

...to Kenny Chesney. Yum.


FLIP OFF!

...to not hearing back from the company who's driver cut me off and made a giant crack in my windshield from a rock that he kicked up. Oh well I guess...

...to the mother-flippin' wind this week! It was out of control! Like the kind where it swings your vehicle doors open, rips your screen door on your house from your hand and where you can feel the dirt/sand blowing against your face. And my hair? Don't even get me started.

...to those stupid chocolate chip cookies I made for Patrick...that I've eaten most of. Dang it!

...to myself for not cleaning the floors in our house for almost 3 weeks. Gross, I know.

...to people who are rude on the phone. You being rude doesn't make me want to help you any more than I have to :)



Hope you have a GREAT weekend friends!