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MilkBank Giveaway Contest

... sponsored post and giveaway contest by MilkBank

MilkBank is a patented, clinically-proven breastmilk storage and feeding system that treats every drop of breastmilk like the precious commodity it is. If you can't nurse, for whatever the reason, there's no healthier or safer way to store, warm and feed pumped breastmilk to your baby. The vacuum storage system is clinically proven superior to traditional storage bags or bottles in protecting vital nutrients and flavor. The triple-vented, insulated bottles keep milk warm, even through longer feedings, and best of all, they are easy to clean and guaranteed not to leak. The entire MilkBank system—including the packaging—is free of lead, phthalates, PVC, and BPA.

SV Moms Group is thrilled to giveaway THREE MilkBank systems!  Just leave a comment below and share your funniest or most challenging breastfeeding story.  Come on, we know that everyone who has successfully (or not) breastfed their child has a story to share!  Make sure you leave your name and email address.  We promise NOT to share your information with anyone... we simply need to contact you if you are one of the three lucky winners!  Winners will be selected at random on Monday, February 23, 2009 at noon, PST.

SV Moms Group bloggers had a chance to receive and review the MilkBank system for themselves!  Check out their review of MilkBank (and note, many of them are giving away a MilkBank system on their sites - so you have many chances of winning a MilkBank system!  Just click below on their links!)

• Andi from Mama Knows Breast
  
• Sandie from Urban Baby
• Jennifer from The Mama Chronicles
• Catherine from Everyday Life As Lyric Poetry
• Farrah from Baby Loves Sling
• Melissa from Cool Stuff We Dig
• Stacy from Fabulous or Not
• Elizabeth from Traded My BMW For A Minivan
• Kim from Prairie Mama
• Elizabeth N. from Cape May County Herald
• Karen from Momviews.net

This is an original post and contest on Silicon Valley Moms Blog.

T-Mobile Giveaway

T-Mobile is conducting an Ultimate Home Giveaway, giving away one home on ABC’s The View and another home to a winner selected from entrants on T-Mobile’s Ultimate Home Giveaway micro-site. T-Mobile will set aside daily prizes and two larger weekly prizes to award at random to those who fill out the information below ( Click HERE to enter). After the two week period is over, we will post the results and the winners will be sent an email with the prize notification. The weekly prizes for this giveaway are a $100 home improvement gift certificate and Spa@Home (including Archipelago Botanicals Pomegranate Collection – hand crème, body scrub, body wash and body lotion).

CLICK HERE or select "continue reading" to enter the contest:

GIVEAWAY-- Gail Scheinder T-shirts (Winner is...)

The winner of the giveaway is.... Ginny!! Thanks to all who entered..

Did you know that February 1, 2008 is National Wear Red Day?

Go Red For Women is a national movement founded by the American Heart Association to help fight back against the Number one killer of American women, cardiovascular disease.  To celebrate National Wear Red Day we have a giveaway.

GIVEAWAY--Do You Have a Honey or a Hero?

Attention SIlicon Valley Parents and Blogosphere!  Are you tired of shopping for kid’s clothes at the same old places?  If so, you have got to check out Honeys & Heroes!  A new Honeys & Heroes store has JUST opened up in Palo Alto Town and Country Center.  They also have an amazing online store that is you simply must check out for fresh and unique selections of the hottest kids clothes! (sizes run from newborn, up to age 15).

This incredible shop carries an impressive array of designer clothing for both boys and girls, including  hip and trendy designers; Diesel, James Perse, Kingsley, Ella Moss, Vans, Miss Sixty, Seven for all Mankind, Butterfly Dropout, and Tea Collection.  Honeys & Heroes also sells its own line of everyday wear.  They're well-made, supremely comfortable and come in a variety of colors for easy mixing and matching.

Honeys & Heroes is our newest Silicon Valley Moms Blog Sponsor to offer an amazing giveaway!  Leave us a comment by Saturday, November 24th and tell us why your child is a Honey or a Hero in the comment section below.  Alanna Klein, the oh-so-fabulous owner of Honeys & Heroes will choose one lucky winner to receive a $50 gift certificate to her store!  (Please be sure to leave an email address in the comment section.  We promise not to share this with anyone!  We simply need to be able to contact you if you are selected as the lucky winner!). 

And last, but not least!  Not only do you have a chance to win a gift certificate, but through December 15th use the promo code MOM at check-out and receive 15% off your purchase at http://www.honeysandheros.com

Happy Shopping!!!!!!

Giveaway - What About Bob? The Winner Has Been Chosen!

Carolyn is our Winner! Thanks to all that commented.

Young people spend an average of three hours per day watching television, 49 minutes per day playing video games and more than an hour per day using the computer for something other than schoolwork. (Quote from the Kaiser Family Foundation)

Are you having trouble controlling how much TV is on in your house?  Are your kids on the computer all the time?  Are you reading too many blogs?  For those people looking for help to curb their TV and monitor viewing, I would like to introduce BOB.

BOB is a screen time control created by Hopscotch Technology.  BOB can be plugged into any electronic device with a screen.  It allows you to manage screen time for up to 6 users.  Once kids reach hourly, daily or weekly limits, BOB shuts off the screen.

San Francisco Symphony Giveaway - We have a winner!

THE WINNER is sasha360. Thanks to all who entered.

Do you have a budding musician in your family?  A conductor in the making?  If so, this is just the giveaway for you and your family!

One of our amazing sponsors, The San Francisco Symphony, is hosting a Music for Families series to be held at the Flint Center in Cupertino!  Music for Families will give the opportunity to see kid-sized classical concerts designed for families—great music, fascinating talks, and free home materials to prepare for the concert.  This series always sells out in San Francisco. We are so excited to be able to give away 4 tickets to this event!

A Masterpiece for Piano and Orchestra
Date:  Saturday,  November 3rd, 2007
Time:  2:00pm 
Location:  Flint Center, Cupertino

Giveaway Time on Silicon Valley Moms Blog

Hello Silicon Valley Moms and our friends throughout the blogosphere.  It is giveaway time on Silicon Valley Moms Blog, and we know that all the Yogi's out there - as well as anyone who loves books will do yoga flips/stretches over this one! 

Barefoot Books will be giving away three "My Daddy Is A Pretzel" books that you and your children will enjoy - TOGETHER!.  Limber up with this unique, child-friendly yoga book! Created for parents and children to share together, but also suitable for adults and older children to use alone, My Daddy is a Pretzel not only introduces a range of postures, it also connects the practices to everyday life, showing how families can integrate their yoga with their activities in the world. A light-hearted look at yoga, yet one with a lasting message, My Daddy is a Pretzel is a wonderful introduction to yoga for readers of all shapes and sizes.

They will also give one "grand prize" which will include

• My Daddy Is A Pretzel
• Mr. Yoga Pretzel Bendo
• Yoga Pretzels

 

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Barefoot Books is an independent publisher of award winning books, gifts and art for children of all ages We absolutely encourage you to visit their site and learn more about their company and products.

How can you participate in this giveaway?  In the comment section below. tell us about your yoga or exercise stories.  Are you a yogi, gym rat or never make the time to get that body in to shape?  Really, tell us your accomplishments, goals or desire to get yourself back to the gym.  We want to hear it all!!! Please make sure you leave your name and email address.  (We promise NOT to share your email address with anyone!  We just need to contact you if you win.)  Rebecca (our contact at Barefoot Books) will select the four lucky winners.  Please only enter one time.  The comment section will close on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 3:00pm PST.  The lucky four winners will be announced later that day.

Check it out.... first giveaway on DC Metro Moms Blog

Hello Friends of Silicon Valley Moms Blog!  Go visit our sister site, DC Metro Moms Blog for our first giveaway/contest on that site. 

We are going to give away five, hard cover, "Whole World" books, along with a singalong cd.  Whole World: Sing around the planet, from high in the mountains to low in the valleys, in every town and every city, and with all the fish and birds, trees and flowers! Includes eco-tips on how to live green and a catchy singalong CD, sung by Fred Penner. 

Giveaway Time!! Four, one-day passes to Santa Cruz Boardwork!

.. and the winner is....

Randomly selected out of a baseball cap, we are pleased to announce the winner of the four, one day passes to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk ----  Anne, who wrote the following comment:

There is a picture of my sons' grandmother hanging on the top of her stairs in the South Bay.  The black and white photograph taken in the 1940's shows her sitting on the beach in a frilly white dress playing in the sand. In the background, you can see the boardwalk with men in suits and hats standing around talking.  Boy, how times have changed.

As a child, one of my fondest memories includes the time we spent at our grandfather's cabin in Scotts Valley -- the jaunts to the beach and boardwalk were the highlight of the summer. I wish my grandpa was alive today so he could teach my boys how to fish off of the wharf just as he did when I was a littel girl.

Its so challenging to find time to with over-scheduled calendars to just "be" with your kids.  I'd love the extra set of tickets so I could share the same memories with  my children as I had as a child.  I'd also love to re-create the photograph that is hanging on my Mom's wall - with my own boys.

Thanks for a fun contest!

Alright Silicon Valley Families.  Who wants to spend the day at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk with their kids?  Who wants to go on unlimited rides all day?  (me, me, pick me!!!)

We are giving away one, family of four, "All Day Unlimited Ride" passes to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk on Silicon Valley Moms Blog. The face value is $28.95 per ticket or $115.80 total.  Expiration date is 10/17/2010. Tickets may NOT be resold.

Makeover Winner Mod*Mom's Day-O-Pampering in photos

The Silicon Valley Moms Blog started makeover contests as way to bring moms who deserve pampering with local, silicon valley businesses who are generous to donate services and products. This was the first of many we hope to do. We want to offer our a big THANKS to the businesses that generously donated services and products to our first makeover (all in Palo Alto, CA): Vivre, Romi Boutique, LaBelle Day Spas and Mantra Restaurant Lounge. And a thanks for all businesses who donated products and services to our runner-ups and raffle winners. We are so happy to that Mod*Mom (her blog is modmom.blogspot.com) was our contest winner! Here's the day in pictures. 

All Photos Credit: Beth Blecherman 

We were privileged to have the Palo Alto Weekly cover the event for us. They will have an article and photos about the day, so please pick up a Palo Alto Weekly and check the Palo Alto Weekly Online. 

  Norbert Von Der Groeben, Palo Alto Weekly Chief Photographer


  Palo Alto Weekly Reporter Arden Pennell  (We decided she looks just like Kristen Dunst) 

The first stop of the day was to thank Vivre for the three month membership Mod*Mom has already been enjoying and to set up her personal training sessions. Vivre has high quality facilities that covers fitness, personal wellness and nutrition. And a very friendly staff!

 
   

 Vivre, Palo Alto 

The next stop was to thank Romi Boutique, Palo Alto ( Owner Romi Mahajan, Palo Alto Store Manager Lisa Massey and the helpful sales staff)  for the fashionable pair of jeans and cool tee shirts we found for Mod *Mom.  Romi has an amazing selection of fashion forward clothes, most of which are one of a kind. It is worth stopping by just to see their extensive jean collection and top floor that is devoted to fashionable tee shirts (important for moms!).

Romi Boutique, Palo Alto: Destination for fashion forward clothes
 

Mod*Mom modeling the ever so fashionable Citizens of Humanity Hutton High Rise (with stretch - yeah!) jeans at Romi Boutique 

The next stop of the day LaBelle Day Spa at Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto for Mod Mom's makeover, facial, manicure, pedicure, make-up application, hair cut and glaze. LaBelle Day Spas offer top rate beauty services.
 

 LaBelle Day Spa, Palo Alto: Location for an afternoon of pamperings
 


  Mod*Mom Before 
 

  Facial Pampering at LaBelle 


  Mod*Mom manicure at LaBelle 

 
   

  Make-up application at LaBelle 
 


  Haircut and Color at LaBelle
 


  The ever-so-radiant ModMom After picture
 


Mod*Mom Happy Dance After Makeover,  in tribute to  Vivre, Romi Boutique, La Belle Day Spa and Mantra!!!!
 
 

 
   

 
Talk about Mantra, here is the picture of the fabulous Mantra Restaurant & Lounge, Palo Alto where Mod*Mom and her husband had dinner that night. And because movie stars rarely have privacy, we decided to give the happy couple some picture free time.

Check out the post (published later today) "Mod*Mom - Movie Star for a Day" for more details of the day.