Carrabba's Italian Grill

Carrabba's 
683 E. University Parkway
Orem, UT 84097
(801) 765-1222

Facts: Started by Jonny Carrabba, and Damian Mandola.  They have centered this restaurant around family. Each location has pictures of their families, and those mother's who have inspired them.  Serves Lunches and dinners. On the Carrabba website there is a whole Q&A section of questions asked to Jonny and Damian, I love that they want us as their customers to get to know them personally, even if we might never meet them in person.  

Pros: Great food, love the choices and options, gives great desserts for special occasions.  We went for our anniversary once, and they gave us an amazing dessert for free.  I love their their new summer smoothies.  Two of their best flavors are: peaches and cream, and raspberry banana which I have pictured below to the left.  They give you a free loaf of bread with their yummy olive oil and seasoning as an appetizer which I have pictured to the right.  This is a great option for those on a budget wanting to snack before their food comes, but not wanting to pay for an appetizer.  The picture to the left is a make your own pizza: eggplant, mushroom, pepperoni.  $11 it was amazing!  

Cons: I classify it in the more expensive restaurants.  Usually very long waiting lines for dinner, so come early, or later, and or make reservations.  It is usually really crowded so you will need to plan on waiting a bit for your food, but the food is totally worth the wait!  

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Diapers

Huggies Diapers


Facts: costly, holds a lot, fits great, night time diapers, day time diapers, pull ups, sold at many different stores.
Pros: Kids and parents a like love this product, you can get great coupons to get great prices for the diapers
Cons: without coupons, price matching very expensive, does cause rashes to very skin sensitive babies, when it gets too full it will tear on the size and spill out jell, but can be avoided.

My Rating: you are paying for the quality of the diaper, these are awesome!  I love the night time Huggies diapers best of all the Huggie diapers.

Pampers Diapers


Facts: costly, fits baby body shapes, holds in a lot, night time diapers and day time diapers, pull ups, sold in many different stores.
Pros: smell so good even the larger sizes, the Snuggly new born diapers are the best for new born babies of all the brands of diapers. You can get some coupons, can price match, kids and parents love these.
Cons: hard to find diaper coupons outside of Sunday papers, costly without coupons, when they get too full they will rip on the side and spill out some jell stuff, but can be avoided.

 My Rating: The cost especially when price matched and couponed is not bad, when you get a quality diaper from the bargain. I personally love the smell, my 20 month old loves when I put these diapers on because he smells so good!  This is my top diaper choice, over Huggies and any store brand diaper.

Parent's Choice Diapers


Facts: Inexpensive, large amounts for a great price, sold only at Wal-Mart.
Pros: cheap, great quantity, doesn't cause rashes, can price match.
Cons: isn't shaped to fit baby body perfectly, doesn't hold much at all, attachments tear off sometimes, leaks when used at bedtime.  No coupons.

My Rating: The cost doesn't out weight the cons.  Its better to buy a better quality diaper, then deal with the mess of leaks, laundry, and the wasted diapers when the taps tear off.

Chic-fil-a

 Chic-Fil-A

Facts: Home of the real chicken sandwich. Fast food place with real food taste.  Has breakfast, lunches, dinners and caters.

Pros: Play area is very clean, and safe.  Food is AWESOME!  They offer lots of free food opportunity like Cow Appreciation Day.  Friendly service, clean family friendly bathrooms.  I accidently went into the men's restroom today and it was just as nice and child friendly as the women's was.  A plus, I know the owner of the Chic-fil-a in American Fork, Utah!

Cons: none

  
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Big Hair, small hair, all hair needs hair spray

Garnier Fructis Sleek and Shine Hair Spray


Facts: Anit Humidity hair spray.  Has natural bamboo extract which provides a bouce back hold.  On Garnier's 1-5 strong scale (5 being really strong) its a #4.  10.35 oz.
Pros: No funny smells, can be reformed with a dab of water and a comb.
Cons: For thin straight hair, that according to Garnier Fructis needs the sleek and shine style, this hair spray doesn't hold your hair where you want it.  Even after a ton of hair spray has been added.  I'm a no fuss person.  I don't know how to use a flat iron, or curling iron, or curlers of any kind.  So when I do need hair spray I want it to work all day.  This does not work all day.  It works for about 5 minutes.

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Paul Mitchell Firm style Freeze and Shine Super Spray


Facts: Finishing spray, Paul Mitchell has a guarantee only when sold by a professional hairdresser, as this product is likely to be tampered with.
Pros: All day freeze, product has not been tested on animals, this actually does what it says it will.  I bought this in a package of Shampoo and Conditioner, from a salon, when it was on sale.  For the whole package I paid $20.  Its been almost 2 years now, the shampoo and conditioner are now gone, but the hair spray has lasted a really long time, because you don't need a lot for it to do its job correctly.
Cons: highly flammable

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King's Speech

I have a horrible confession.  My husband and I are good Christian people.  We refrain from profanity, from pornography, and other things that we do not wish our children to say to us or others, things that we do not wish our children to see or hear, or have contact wit h for we do wish to keep as much innocence as possible with them.  However, we ended our 4th of July  weekend by accidentily watching a movie with an R rating.

King's Speech DVD
We both thought it was PG 13, until I researched to help me write a review on this movie.

Facts: based on the story of King George VI.  This man needs to find his voice! Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pierce, Michael Gambon and many other fine actors and actresses. Beautiful plot, and show of family life. This is a true story.

Pros: wonderful story line, great music, the best acting.  Actors you recognize from many popular movies (Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean...ect)

Cons: the fact that it is rated R, which was for two brief scenes of great language.  This is a British film and so there is a lot of British profanity, but there is less American profanity than another true story turned movie called the Grid Iron with Dwayne Johnson.

Right now at Target you can buy King's Speech for $13 for the DVD, and $14 for the Blue Ray.  Great Pricing!  Or if you don't want to buy it, it is still at the Red Box.

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Jillian Michaels 14 Day Cleanse and Burn

Okay, so my brother got married on June 24th.  So for a whole 2-3 months before the wedding, I was trying everything I could to loose some more baby weight that I've been harboring for the past 18 months.  (Its so sad, I love being healthy, and fit, but its taken such a long time for me to loose the baby fat from baby number 2).  Well one of the weight-loss ways I tried was Jillian Michael's 14 Day Cleanse and Burn pack.


Facts: Its a 3 part system.  You start with a 7 day pill called the "Total Body Detox and Cleanse." This helps gives you energy, so your body can flush out the toxins, and waist build up, as well as it supports your GI tract, so its an easy cleanse.  After you finish that pill set, you then take another 7 day pill set called the "Probiotic Replenishment" which gives your GI tract good bacteria to help keep you healthy after all the stuff was flushed away.  At the same time as you are taking this pill set you start taking the pills in the red bottle called "Maximum Strength Fat Burner".   Which helps burn fat.
Pros: This is easy on your body, it costs around $15-$20 at Target, but I have seen it at Wal-Mart too.  I just prefer Target when it comes to health products.  It is a jump start to a weight loss program.  It has lots of healthy natural herbs.
Cons: Okay, so I used this until I got to the fat burner pills.  My first dose left me sleepless for 3 days.  My first dose!  I didn't notice any difference in how I felt, and how my body became healthier while taking this.  Granted I was only looking to loose 5-15 lbs.  But to be honest I wasn't very pleased with this product at all.

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L'Oreal Youth Code Free Sample Part 1

I am a couponer.  I get emails from different websites about what deals are going on, what coupons just came out, and what's free in the world of stores.  Well, one of my favorite coupon websites, that I do get emails from, is Savvy Shoppers.com.  They just sent out an email where anyone can get a free sample of L'Oreal Youth Code skin care products.  This is pretty cool.  Its a new product, and if you like to try new things, you even get to be a tester, and choose to fill out a servey about how you liked the product or not.

So Part 1: this post is where you get to receive your free sample.
And Part 2: is where we all write our reviews, and discuss our thoughts on this product, separate from giving L'Oreal our real review.

Ready?  Okay, here's the link: http://instoresnow.walmart.com/enhancedrendercontent_ektid99203.aspx