Favorite Things Winners 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This year I used the Excel random number generator to find our winners... so if you have a problem you can take it up with =RAND().  Hopefully you can use your items if you won, if not: 'tis the season for re-gifting!  ;-)

Neti Pot

We love the Neti Pot!  Jake and I use it every time we start to get a stuffy nose.  It works the best if you use it while in the shower (just close your eyes and don't watch what comes out of your nose).  It takes a few tries to really get the hang of it.  Jake used to get several sinus infections a year, but I don't think he's had one since we bought our first Neti pot!

Winner: CAROLYN

Dry Erase Crayons 

These crayons are so cool!  You can color on a white board then use a cloth and wipe it off.  For Sacrament Meeting we have used these to color page protectors with coloring pages inside them.  You can use the same coloring pages over and over.  Sometimes we rip the coloring pages from the Friend magazine and put them in page protectors for the girls to use (until they are sick of it!)

Winner: JAMIE B

The Wet Brush

I don't know what it is about this brush but my girls LOVE it.  They went from screaming and crying every night to mostly tolerating the brushing.

Winner: SNORT

Illegal Length Fiber Mascara

I LOVE this mascara.  I use it when I want to feel "fancy".  It contains little fibers that can help your eyelashes look thicker and longer.  Since it's not perfectly even it looks more realistic than false eyelashes.  I usually use my normal mascara first then this one on top, starting in the middleish of the lash - that way the fibers don't poke in my eyeball.

Winner: BERLYN

Fiber Fix 

Jake used this to fix Siena's crib.  It is premade carbon fiber tape that you get wet and wrap around broken things.  When it dries it's super strong!  The best part?  It was created by BYU engineers!

Winner: JIMI LIGHTNING

Everyone else (Kandy, Braxtyn, LL, Hailey, Laura, Christy, Nate B, Mom, Jami, Dad, Ashley, Mom G, Dad G) we love you and thank you for being such awesome Blollowers!  Better luck next year!  ;-)

Also, this year I decided to skip the "top commentor" thing.  Mostly cause I get comments so many different ways now: on the blog, via text, phone calls, and lots of emails.  I just really don't feel like combing through all that data and tallying it up.  But hey, it's my free thing giveaway so I get to make the rules bwahahaha!!!

Here are a few bonus things that we loved in 2015 but decided they would make random/awkward/weird/silly prizes....

Built-in Child Potty Seat

We just bought this two weeks ago and I already love it!  Our toilet seat on our main floor was loose and while we were looking for a replacement Jake came across this.  It's a quality seat and I love the little child seat!!!  It's so sturdy and tucks right inside the lid until you're ready to use it.  And it even has a damper to prevent the lid from slamming down.  Click on the Amazon link and watch the video.

Electric Apple Peeler

My kitchen counter space is precious, but this one earns its place.  It only has one purpose: to peel the skin off apples.  But man, do I love this thing.  When the girls were small, and even sometimes now, the apple peel gets caught in their throats.  This eliminates that problem while making the apple taste sweeter (the skin tastes bitter to me).  We also use this bad boy to peel pears and other fruit.  We've even used it to peel potatoes!

Food: I really like preggie pops, but not the lozenges (they make my mouth feel raw).  They seem to help most on days I'm slightly nauseous.  Sometimes I will use them to hold me over til my Zofran kicks in (dang this morning sickness!  I'm 17 weeks now and it's still lingering around!)  Rainbow Chip Frosting!  It was discontinued, but a FB petition brought it back!  Love those little frosting balls!  Good 2 Grow juice.  The juice isn't anything special, but I love those containers!  We have several characters (I usually cut the plastic label off the bottle).  They are my favorite to use in the diaper bag.  They don't leak and I'm not really worried if we lose one of them.  Plus they are skinny so I can fit many in one pocket.  

E6000.  I do like this glue a lot, but mostly I put this in here for Christy!  ;-)  It really does fix almost anything.  As long as you can wait 3 hours for it to dry, this glue works great - especially on materials/surfaces where super glue fails.  And often I will pick it just so that I have time to work with what I'm gluing instead of having super glue dry before I'm done. 

Random things: Ok to Wake! clock is wonderful.  Scarlett knows she's not allowed to wake me up 'til her clock turns green.  So helpful!  Telestrations is a fun family game.  We've played it with the Seaver clan a few times now and really have enjoyed it!

Google Keep.  It's an app on my phone (sorry iPhone folks) that I can use to make lists, write notes, etc.  The part I love is I can view it on my computer too.  I use it to keep track of random things I need to get at the store, funny things I need to put on the blog, quotes I like, medications I'm taking, ideas for my fave things giveaway, etc.  I love that you can share lists with people via email (even if they don't have the app) and you can both edit a list together.  It's free and really handy!

The girls' fave thing?  Rainbows.  Enough said.