Think you have a cute kid?  I know I do.  Well if you enter a picture of your kid in The Cute Kid of the Year Contest you have a chance of winning a $25,000 College Tuition Fund for your kid.  Also every contestant gets a free 8 X 10 Canvas Portrait, and access to casting calls and parenting advice articles.

I went looking through pictures of my kiddos and I had a hard time choosing which one I wanted to submit.

I really like this one of my son

and this one of my daughter:

What do you think?  Are my kids cute enough?

For the MommyFest Potluck, I bring our household favorite, Pepperjack Enchiladas from Kraftfoods.com.  I actually just made this for Mother’s Day for my mother-in-law.  I know the ingredients calls for Velveeta Pepperjack Cheese, but I have never prepared this recipe with the Velveeta because I have never been able to find it in the store.

Ingredients:

The rules of this meme are very simple, just post five things about you.  So here are 5 things about me I’m sure you never knew.

1. While I enjoy the occasional chick flick, I love horror/thriller movies.
2. I went for over 2 weeks without internet connection and discovered I had an addiction, an Internet Addiction, and more specifically a blogging addiction.
3. I hate rap and hip-hop music.  I don’t understand the pleasure in listening to it.
4. There are 20 years between my mom and her mother and 20 years between my mom and me.  No way was I going to continue that tradition.  There is 26 years between me and my daughter.
5. My best friend from high school lives in Washington state and just had a new son.  I miss her like crazy and wish I could go visit her and the kids.

Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing

Healing Promises by Amy Wallace

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Amy Wallace is the author of Ransomed Dreams, a homeschool mom, and a self-confessed chocoholic. She is a graduate of the Gwinnett County Citizens Police Academy and a contributing author of several books, including God Answers Moms’ Prayers and Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Diabetes. She lives with her husband and three children in Georgia.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Facing a new threat.

When FBI Agent Clint Rollins takes a bullet during a standoff, it might just save his life. But not even the ugly things he’s seen during his years working in the Crimes Against Children Unit could prepare him for the overwhelming powerlessness of hospital tests revealing an unexpected diagnosis. If only Sara weren’t retreating into doctor mode…he needs his wife now more than ever.

Frozen in fear.

Sara Rollins is an oncologist with a mission–beating cancer when she can, easing her patients’ suffering at the very least. Now the life of her tall Texan husband is at stake. She never let the odds steal her hope before, but in this case, the question of God’s healing promises is personal. Can she hold on to the truth she claimed to believe?

Faith under fire.

As Clint continues to track down a serial kidnapper despite his illness, former investigations haunt his nightmares, pushing him beyond solving the case into risking his life and career. Clint struggles to believe God is still the God of miracles. Especially when he needs not one, but two. Everything in his life is reduced to one all-important question: Can God be trusted?

If you would like to read the first chapter, go HERE

MommyFest 2008 has started.  Mommyfest is turning 5 and is having a blog party in celebration.

MommyFest will be on May 12-16, 2008 and moms all over the net will be blog hopping through other participating mom blogs. We will have a list of participants in a special post in the Mommyfest 2008 blog with Mr. Linky. Moms will have an opportunity to meet, learn a bit more, share and chat with other moms in cyberspace.

My intro for the party:

My name is Courtney and I am a stay at home mom to 2 great children.  I have son who is 3 and a daughter who is 19 months.  We just recently (last week) moved from Maryland to Oklahoma but I’m originally from Texas.  I love reading, blogging, movies, and anything to do with technology.

I come bearing gifts.  I’m am giving away a book, The Simple Truth by David Baldacci (hardback).  I wrote a small review of the book at The Book Nook Club and you can read it here or click the link above and it will take you to Amazon.  To enter, just leave a comment telling me the title of your favorite book.  I’m always on the look out for new books to read.  This contest will end at the end of MommyFest, May 16, 2008 and I will announce the winner on May 17, 2008.

If you have a chance, check out the The Book Nook Club.  We are having a monthly reading discussion.  The next one is on May 15 and we are discussing The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry.