General Conference. It is a favorite time of year for a lot of people. The time to hear our Prophet speak and give us counsel... To be able to hear and know the thoughts of The Lord.

Now that Autumn is upon us, we have a giveaway for you with goods and services totaling over $900! Pretty sweet, huh? That's how much we love you guys! Make sure to get your maximum entries. Giveaway closes Friday, October 2nd 11:59pm. Good luck!



Thanksgiving Point, in Lehi Utah is offering one lucky reader a Family 4 pack to visit its facility. They have a new science exhibit, "Magnents, Motors and the Mind" that you for sure don't want to miss. Thanksgiving Point with their dinosaur exhibit, gardens, farm country and seasonal corn maze is a blast! One lucky reader will get to enjoy the entire facility!


Handipoints is an online resource that helps motivate kids to work hard. They have chore charts, behavioral charts, arts and crafts, and they even have a virtual world to play in... but to earn points in the virtual world, you have to do your chores in THIS world. Handipoints is offering one lucky reader a free one-year subscription of premium membership to the Cool Cats Club. What else does Handipoints offer? Read a full review here.






Smelly Washer is a washing machine cleaner that is made to remove odor, fungus, and mildew. It's made from 100% all natural citrus based ingredients, and one bottle will give you 24 treatments. Now, why do YOU need this?

You know how sometimes you wash, and then rewash, and then rewash AGAIN that same load of laundry? And even though you just washed it 3 times, it still smells... just a little? Enter Smelly Washer. The problem most likely is that your washing machine needs a good cleaning. Smelly Washer is guaranteed to eliminate odors from mildew. (Because let's face it, your washing machine is almost always wet.) And today, they are offering one lucky reader a bottle of Smelly Washer!
Envirosax -Chic, inexpensive and compact, Envirosax® environmentally friendly shopping bags carry the message of re-use to a world ready to embrace a brighter ecological future. Justin Timberlake even uses these awesome bags! You will be the envy of your neighborhood, for sure if you are one of our lucky winners! Both of us here at MMB have some of these bags and we LOVE them!!

FOUR lucky readers get to shop on their site for their choice of awesome environmentally friendly shopping bags.

Bringing Up Minds - Is a tool for parents to help children in attention, sleep, homework, memory, test taking, reading, writing, spelling and so much more! It is a fantastic resource. Bringing Up Minds helps you better understand your child's unique mind. Bringing Up Minds will help you

• discover a child's mind's strengths
• identifies a mind's weaknesses
• shows how strengths and weaknesses impact success in school and at home

In short, the profile gives you a new understanding of your child's mind and a basis for targeting functions that can propel your child to new levels of success in school.

THREE lucky readers will win an entire YEAR subscription to this incredible website-- Bringing Up Minds -- dedicated to enriching young minds. That's a $300 value right there people! They are also offering a coupon code to all of our readers... just use MMB as the code to get 10% off your subscription.



Inspire Your Walls is the fun, easy, and affordable way to decorate your home. You can get that hand painted feel in just minutes, without every having to use a paintbrush!


Inspire Your Walls is offering TWO readers a $10 gift certificate, good for any item in their store. They are also offering all MMB readers a 10% off your order, using this link, until October 15th!



One lucky reader will win a book with FIVE different mystery dinner scripts for your Mystery Dinner Fun Enjoyment! A mystery dinner event is a full evening of laughter, good food and an opportunity for the audience to figure out "Who did it!"

Each book contains everything you'll need to put on a successful event: script, costumes, sample program, costuming ideas, food ideas, advertising and much much more. These original scripts were written and produced by Shaleen Wilding in Round Rock, Texas and she has graciously donated her entire set for one of our lucky MMB readers!

For more information, check out her website, Be A Texas Star or search Mystery Dinner Fun on Ebay.



To enter, simply leave a comment on this post. You have until 11:59pm MST on Friday October 2nd to enter the giveaway. Winners will be announced Monday morning, October 5th.

To get a second entry spread the word about the giveaway by Blogging about it with a link back to MMB in the post.

To get a third entry, Twitter/Facebook about the giveaway - with a link to MMB- then come back and comment again, letting us know you posted.

To get a fourth entry join our Blog Frog Community.

To get a fifth entry, follow us on our Review blog.

The first two winners will be chosen from our followers. We will choose one winner from the followers of the main blog, follow us here, and one winner from the followers of the review blog, follow us here.

The remaining winners will be chosen from the comments below.

Remember: Make separate entries for each thing you do. We use Random.org to choose our winners, and it only counts how many actual entries we have-- not multiple entries on one comment!

Good luck!

They were wonderful to work with, prompt and courteous, two things I can't get enough of. I was sent an email about when my order shipped, so I would know when to expect it.My order came with detailed instructions, and they also have an online instructional video, which can be viewed here.

The best thing about these wall words was the stickiness. I have to be honest, I was skeptical because in the past, I've had problems getting vinyl to adhere to the surface. Not this time. I followed the instructions and in under 5 minutes, I had a beautiful addition to my home.

Inspire Your Walls is offering MMB readers an exclusive discount code. Use this link before October 15th, http://www.inspireyourwalls.com/?code=MMB10, to receive 10% off your order.

They are also sponsoring a special gift in our giveaway going on now at the MMB blog!

Go check out their site and see all the products they have to offer!

Conference weekend is coming up! I'm excited, because, for me, that means puzzles and treats and two pajama days IN A ROW because I have the pleasure of watching Conference in the comfort of my home, thanks to BYUTV.

And not only that, but I get to see Music and the Spoken Word, Relief Society broadcasts, as well as in depth histories about the Book of Mormon and the Bible. It is a wonderful channel, and is available through the Dish Network.

Dish Network is offering MMB readers the chance to sign up for the low price of $19.99 a month, so that you too can experience Conference at home.

Conference weekend is coming up! I'm excited, because, for me, that means puzzles and treats and two pajama days IN A ROW because I have the pleasure of watching Conference in the comfort of my home, thanks to BYUTV.

And not only that, but I get to see Music and the Spoken Word, Relief Society broadcasts, as well as in depth histories about the Book of Mormon and the Bible. It is a wonderful channel, and is available through the Dish Network.

Dish Network is offering MMB readers the chance to sign up for the low price of $19.99 a month, so that you too can experience Conference at home.

Has your grocery bag ever split wide open en route from the car to the house, breaking that brand new economy bottle of soy sauce all over the front steps? Do you live in an apartment or house that requires you to carry bags of groceries up hundreds of stairs and you try to carry as much as you can in one trip so that you don't have to run up and down those hundreds of stairs?

Both of those situations apply to me, and I bet you have your own story about a plastic grocery bag splitting and breaking something you needed.

Envirosax is here to help.


Envirosax makes reusable grocery bags chic. Offering a wide array of colors and styles, Envirosax grocery bags make going green a fashionable and smart alternative to the plastic grocery bag.

The bags are large, and can hold up to 44 pounds worth of items. They also roll up to about the size of a sushi roll, come in a handy carrying case, and can easily be stashed in your purse or glove compartment.

And they're not just for groceries. I carry the Planet Green pouch with me, and have used it to throw my kids toys into and to carry my library books. They really do come in handy.

Envirosax will be giving FOUR readers the Envirosax bag of their choice in our September 28 giveaway. So go check it out and tell me your favorite design.

Once again, Utah Foster Care Foundation is hosting its annual Pumpkin Festival at the Gateway!
This annual event--The Pumpkin Festival-- is on October 2 from 1p-4pm at the Olympic Legacy Plaza at The Gateway, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Come down and join us for FREE pumpkin decorating-- a fun and safe activity for you and the kids -- and some great information on how you can help Utah's children in foster care by becoming a foster parent or adoptive parent.

If you're interested in becoming a volunteer for the Pumpkin Festival, please contact Mike Hamblin at mike.hamblin@utahfostercare.org.

If you'd like more information on how you can get involved in foster care or to become a foster parent, please visit their web site at Utah Foster Care.

The Thanksgiving Point Museum of Ancient Life will welcome PBS Kids “Design Squad” host, Nate Ball, on Saturday, Sept. 26 at 11:30 a.m. in the Xango Mammoth Screen 3-D Theatre. The free event will feature interactive engineering challenges spectators can try from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and a special preview on the big screen of PBS’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series “Design Squad’s” upcoming season.

“The event is a joint collaboration between Utah’s PBS affiliate, KUED, Thanksgiving Point, and ‘Design Squad’ producing station WGBH, all of whom seek to provide adventures in learning through hands-on activity and quality interactive programming,” said Blake Wigdahl, Thanksgiving Point’s director of programming.

The Thanksgiving Point event will feature five activity stations with engineering challenges directly from or inspired by the show for young spectators to try and design. These include challenges like “Paddle Power,” a self-paddling boat using a rubber band as its power source, “Kinetic Sculpture,” a six-inch sculpture that moves in the wind without falling over and “Paper Tables,” a table made out of newspaper tubes that’s strong enough to hold a textbook.

The event will also feature a sneak peek of “Design Squad,” which returns for its third season this fall with a fresh cast of six college-aged contestants eager to take on design challenges that task their creative reserves. “Design Squad” is high-energy, high-drama reality TV that lets kids show off their smarts as they design and build working solutions for real-world clients and the grand prize – a $10,000 scholarship from Intel Foundation. In the new season, Nate and the cast will take on design challenges from toymaker Hasbro, WNBA team, the Connecticut Suns, and even the Jamaica Dog Sled Team.

The presentation and many of the activities are free and open to the public. Spectators who wish to stay the day and attend the museum as well, including the new national exhibition, “Magnets, Motors and the Mind,” will enjoy a two-for-one discount with a KUED Member card or can attend at the regular admission price of $10 for adults and $8 for children from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.