A Year with Six Sisters’ Stuff: 52 Menu Plans, Recipes, and Ideas to Bring Families Together and a 10 book Giveaway!

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Apr 052014
 

 

 

 

Product Details

 

  • Title: A Year with Six Sisters’ Stuff: 52 Menu Plans, Recipes, and Ideas to Bring Families Together
  • Authors: Sis Sisters’ Stuff
  • Series: Six Sisters’ Stuff (Book 2)
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Shadow Mountain (March 25, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1609078160
  •  FTC, FYI: I received a review hard copy in exchange for an honest review.

 

Book Description

 

Publication Date: March 25, 2014

 

 

 

“What’s for dinner?” Three words every mom dreads.
Don’t panic! The Six Sisters are here to help you answer that question. The Sisters have gathered together more than 150 of their most popular recipes for entrees, side dishes, and desserts and have combined them into 52 stress-free menus of perfectly prepared three-course meals.
Filled with delicious tried-and-true family favorites and oh-so-easy-to-make dishes, A Year with Six Sisters’ Stuff features all-new recipes using basic ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen. Each menu is designed to make your dinner plans as easy as possible—and with such wide variety and a photograph accompanying every recipe in the book, you can easily mix and match menus to create a year’s worth of dinner ideas.
In addition, the Sisters share some of their favorite family dinner traditions and crafts, as well as 52 dinner conversation starters, a list of pantry staples, and, food storage plan for beginners.
So what’s for dinner? Whatever you’d like.

My Review: 
Can I tell you how much I love this cookbook? OK, I’m telling you now…I LOVE this cookbook!! There are so many things to love about this book and there are so many reasons to buy a copy for yourself. 

–There are 52 menu plans included in this book. The beauty of this is that you can mix and match them and then have even more than 52 menu plans by the time you are done. 
-The layout of this cookbook is user friendly. My sister-in-law Lynne and I were looking through the book and we both said the layout is easy to see what ingredients are needed. Some times you have to search, but not here, it is in bold crisp print.
–Recipes That Are Uncomplicated: The recipes included in the cookbook are easy to make. With women so busy these days we don’t have time to throw together complicated dinners. We need fast and easy dinners to put together for our busy families.
–Inclusion of Crafts, Traditions and More:
These things were a happy bonus along with all of the fabulous recipes. Here are some of the exciting things you will find in the cookbook.

  • 52 Family Dinner Conversation Starters
  • 52 Weeks of Food Storage
  • The Six Sisters’ Pantry Staples=They list all of the ingredients that you will need to make the recipes found in this book.
  • DIY Menu Board: They show you an easy way to make a menu board to use in your home. Very cute!!
  • The “Crazy Dinner” Tradition” = This is such a fun idea. Every family member gets $5.00 to spend in the grocery story. each member can buy whatever they want for dinner. Then everyone heads home, fixes what they purchased, and then set a candlelit table and eats the meal together. I can’t wait to try this with my family.
  • Thankful Tablecloth  
  • Family Pumpkin Walk
  • Dinner on the Doorstep
  • DIY AT-Home Family Restaurant  

 -My Favorite Recipes:
I needed to include in this review some of my favorite recipes that I tried or want to try. Here are just some of them without including every recipe found in this book. ;)

  • Creamy Chicken Lasagna
  • Cheesy Artichoke Bread
  • Brown Sugar and Bacon Green Beans
  • Overnight Caramel French Toast
  • Tomato Tortellini Soup
  • Fresh Lime Salsa
  • No-Bake Peanut Butter Corn Flake Bars
  • Almond Joy Cookies
  • Caesar Salad Supreme
  • Hershey’s Cream Cheese Brownies

 Well if I haven’t convinced you yet that you need this cookbook, besides inviting you over for dinner some time, then you must not enjoy eating good food. As I said at the beginning of my review, I LOVE this book and I will be using it often!

 Here is where you can purchase this book: 
Amazon and Deseret Book.

You have a chance to win one of ten cookbooks being given away!! Believe me, you will want to win one of these!
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 Please go visit the Six Sisters HERE!

 Meet the Six Sisters:



 In February 2011, we started our blog SixSistersStuff.com. After years of living close to one another, we were being pulled in many different directions- one sister moved to the West coast, another sister followed her husband to medical school, one moved away to college, and another sister had just lost a baby. We needed each other now more than ever and we used our blog as a way to stay in touch. We are all busy, whether it’s with our kids, jobs, school, husbands, community involvement, or something else eating up our time, so all the recipes and projects you will find on this blog are quick and easy! Our recipes are family favorites that use ingredients that can commonly be found in your pantry and our crafts and home decor projects can be made with little or no money. We don’t claim to be amazing chefs- we just know the importance of feeding your family a home-cooked meal and sitting down to eat it together. Our mom and dad taught us so many great values and we are thankful that they instilled the importance of family time in our lives. Even the busiest of people can make the food and project ideas we share, which will give you even more time to spend with your family and loved ones.

He is Risen – Mormon Tabernacle Choir

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Apr 032014
 

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Mormon Tabernacle Choir: Orchestra at Temple Square

Mack Wilberg & Ryan Murphy Conductors

SKU: 5119167

FTC FYI: Received a CD in exchange for an honest review.

From their website

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square present on this CD a selection of musical works centered on the miraculous events recounted and commemorated in the Easter story. In a variety of styles, and from different eras, these musical expressions of faith share the same fervent message—that our Savior lives, and has redeemed us with His love.

Reviewed by Mindy

My Review

This CD is exactly what this worn-out gal needed to get me feeling the lovely spirit of this Easter season.  I am so grateful for my Savior and his atoning sacrifice for me.  This CD from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will get you in the right frame of mind to have Christ in your heart for conference this weekend, Easter and anytime through the year.  How blessed are we to live in the same area as this magnificent choir.  These songs are uplifting and bring tears to my eyes as I reflect on my Savior’s love for me.  They are songs you will be familiar with, but added flare from a bell choir and how the arrangements are done, will lift you up and do you good, like it did for me.

From Deseret Book website

The 360 members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir represent men and women from many different backgrounds and professions and range in age from 25 to 60.  They reflect a medley of unique loves and experiences and are brought together by their love for singing and their faith.  Their incomparable voices are the common chord that unites to form the choral group known all over the world as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir originated in the mid-19th century in Salt Lake City.  As the Latter-day Saints moved west, Church President Brigham Young included musicians among members of the advance parties.  Consequently, a small choir first sang for a conference of the Church in the Salt Lake Valley on August 22, 1847, just 29 days after the first group arrived.  The origins of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir may be found in the desire and commitment of early converts to include appropriate music in both sacred and secular events.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has apperaed at 13 world’s fairs and expositions, performed at the inaugurations of five U.S. presidents and sung for numerous worldwide telecasts and special events.  Five of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s recordings have achieved “gold record” and two have achieved “platinum record” status.  The most popular was the Grammy Award winning 1959 release of The Battle Hymn of the Republic with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Purchase Links

Website / Deseret Book / Amazon 

Another “Read ’em All” Random Weekly Winner!

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Apr 012014
 

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Happy April Fool’s Day!

Don’t worry, this isn’t a trick. We really are giving away another prize in the “Read ’em All” Challenge random weekly-ish drawings. Karlene over at New LDS Fiction gave away TWO Divergent prizes that looked really awesome, so now it’s LDSWBR’s turn.

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This week’s winner receives a pretty wire-bound journal, a color-coordinated pen that scrolls out to show the Articles of Faith, a wooden “Believe” tag, and a 9 oz. bag of their choice of candy (not pictured): either Heath Pieces, York Pieces, or Reese’s Pieces.

I wonder of those Heath Pieces are gluten-free.

It’s probably better if I don’t know. Then I won’t be tempted to keep those for myself.

And the winner is….

Julie Castro!!!

Congratulations, Julie! I will contact you by email to get your mailing info.

There are now less than two weeks left until the voting deadline for the Whitney Awards. Don’t worry if you don’t think you will be able to read them all. I still have one more prize to give away, and I think Karlene has another prize as well. Just read what you can in the next few weeks and you will still qualify for the weekly prizes.

Don’t get discouraged! It’s a lot of reading, and sometimes life gets in the way. We want to encourage you to do your best to finish either the Main or the Youth reading so you can at least vote for Best Novel in one of those categories. Your vote is important, even if you can only vote in a few categories.

It’s not too late to join the “Read ’em All” Challenge. Just go here to register and you could win one of the remaining weekly prizes.

Good luck, and happy reading!

A Year With Six Sisters’ Stuff — Blog Tour/Giveaway

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Apr 012014
 

20609212A Year With Six Sisters’ Stuff: 52 Menu Plans, Recipes, and Ideas to Bring Families Together

Six Sisters

Publisher: Shadow Mountain

Published: March 25th, 2014

ISBN13: 978-1-60907-816-4

Paperback: 242 pages

FTC FYI: Received a paperback copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Reviewed by Mindy

Goodreads Summary

“What’s for dinner?” Three words every mom dreads.

Don’t panic! The Six Sisters are here to help you answer that question. The Sisters have gathered together more than 150 of their most popular recipes for entrees, side dishes, and desserts and have combined them into 52 stress-free menus of perfectly prepared three-course meals.

Filled with delicious tried-and-true family favorites and oh-so-easy-to-make dishes, A Year with Six Sisters’ Stuff features all-new recipes using basic ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen. Each menu is designed to make your dinner plans as easy as possible—and with such wide variety and a photograph accompanying every recipe in the book, you can easily mix and match menus to create a year’s worth of dinner ideas.

In addition, the Sisters share some of their favorite family dinner traditions and crafts, as well as 52 dinner conversation starters, a list of pantry staples, and, food storage plan for beginners.

So what’s for dinner? Whatever you’d like.

My Review

Not only is this book full of delicious meals that can help any busy family, it is beautifully done.  The colors and lay-out of the book is lovely.  For some of the recipes, there are personal stories/experiences from the sister that donated it.  The pictures are lovely and help you want to make them now!  So many yummy menu selections to choose from.  Also within the book are some fun DIY ideas that can be a fun family home evening project, there are food storage ideas, fun ways to plan meals, the “crazy dinner” tradition.  Plus many more great ideas.  What I love most about this book, is lots of the recipes have ingredients that many of us have in our pantry already!  Or, if you are like me, and am not the most motivated cook, anything yummy can be made with a quick trip to the store.  The best suggestion (one I need to work on) is the plan ahead.

About the Authors

The Six Sisters—Camille, Kristen, Elyse, Stephanie, Lauren, and Kendra—grew up in Utah, but a few of them have lived in other parts of the country since moving out of the house. Between them there are five nieces and three nephews, and all of the sisters love playing “aunt.” The sisters started the blog in February 2011 to keep in touch while they were apart, but it has since gained popularity, garnering more than 9 million viewers per month and more than 307,000 followers on Pinterest.

Purchase Links

Deseret Book / Amazon / Barnes and Noble / Seagull Book

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The Light We Share by Harriet R. Uchtdorf

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Apr 012014
 

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Harriet R. Uchtdorf

Publisher: Deseret Book

Published: March 2014

ISBN13: 978-1-60907-869-0

Hardcover: 48 pages

Nonfiction

FTC FYY: I received a hardcover book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Reviewed by Mindy

Book Jacket

“Oh how glorious from the throne above

Shines the gospel light of truth and love!” Hymns, no. 264

What difference does it make to have the light of the gospel in your life?  To a twelve-year-old girl in post-World War II Germany, it made all the difference.

In this charming book, Sister Harriet R. Uchtdorf reflects on the power of heavenly light in her own life and recalls the joy it brought to her family during a dark and difficult time.  “It was like a miracle,” she explains as she describes how hope came back in their lives.

Discover how the light we share can make a life-changing difference to those whose lives we touch – as family members, leaders, missionaries, teachers, friends, and brothers and sisters in the gospel.

My Review

I thoroughly enjoyed this sweet book.  Sister Uchtdorf’s experience with finding light in her life was heart-felt and lovely.  The pictures were beautiful and they really added to her words.  I love reading about or hearing personal experiences from the leaders of our church, and to have some from their wives, is even more special. She tells about a sad, hard time in her life when her father passes away and her mother can’t seem to go on.  They went to their church in Germany, but there was something missing.  Eight months after he passed away, two American missionaries come to their door.  They were taught, among other things, that families can be together forever.  It was the missing light in their lives that they needed.  Sister Uchtdorf, her mother and sister were baptized.  Soon after, their light spread to other family members needing that in their own lives as well.  I was particularly struck by this quote that tell us what we can do to help others:

You will be an example to our children and youth — an example in decency and quality in everything that affects our lives.  You will teach our youth to pray and to study.  You will teach them to be confident and have faith in Jesus Christ.  You will teach them leadership and humilty, and you will help them to claim the gift of decernment through their own righteousness.  You will teach them that the truth will not always be popular but that it will always be right.  And after all of this, you can promised them:

That which is of God is light;  and he that receiveth light, and continueth in God, receiveth more light;  and that light growth bigger and brighter until the perfect day.” (D&C 50:24) page 41

This beautiful story can be shared with all who know of the light of the gospel and to those who are seeking their own light.

Author the Author

Harriet R. Uchtdorf received a degree in business administration in Frankfurt, Germany, and worked in the private printing sector and with the public transportation department prior to her marriage to Dieter F. Uchtdorf, who now serves as the Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  she has served in many callings in the Church, including as a stake Young Women president and institute teacher.  She and her husband have two children, six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Purchase Links

Deseret Book / Amazon / Seagull Book

Imperfect Love by Rebecca Talley-Blog Tour Review and Giveaway

 Posted by  Blog Tours, Book Reviews, Sheila's Reviews
Mar 282014
 

 

 

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Imperfect LoveProduct Details

 

  • Title: Imperfect Love
  •  Author Rebecca Talley
  • File Size: 2213 KB
  • Print Length: 283 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: DuBon Publishing (February 28, 2014)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00IQ7T98I
  • FTC, FYI: I received a review ecopy in exchange for an honest review.

Book Description: 
Lauren Wilson is well on her way to her happily-ever-after. She has a career she loves, a husband she adores and a baby on the way, but a devastating diagnosis changes everything. The life she’s built suddenly crumbles around her when her husband insists she choose—the baby or him. Returning to her small hometown to rebuild her shattered life, Lauren crosses paths with Ethan Campbell, the man who stole her teenage heart. The old attraction is still there, but Lauren won’t admit it to anyone—least of all herself. Her only priority is providing a life for her child, and she can’t afford to get it wrong. Ethan is confusing everything, including stirring up feelings she’s not prepared to face. Will she spend her life raising her baby alone or is the family she’s always wanted finally within her reach?  

Excerpt:

The students left the classroom, and Lauren rushed out to her car. She was anxious to go home and get on the road. She hadn’t been to Durango in months, and she couldn’t wait to have a break from school and to tell her mom that she was finally going to give her a grandchild.

 

 

Her stomach reminded her that she hadn’t eaten, so Lauren grabbed items out of her lunch sack and munched on them while she drove back to her condo.

 

 

Lauren finished packing her toiletries and set the suitcase by the front door. She called Paul to see where he was, but it went straight to his voicemail, so she texted him.

 

 

A few minutes later, he texted her back. I’m sorry. I can’t make it to Durango this weekend.

 

 

What? Why not?

 

 

Emergency conference with the Gilmores tomorrow.

 

 

Her heart beat rapidly. She wanted to slap the Gilmores. Saturday?

 

 

Yeah.

 

 

Paul knew how important this trip was to her. How could he cancel on her at the last minute? What about our trip?

 

 

I made a reservation for you.

 

 

To fly?

 

 

Yes.

 

 

When?

 

 

7:20 tonight on United.

 

 

Too expensive.

 

 

I’ve already paid for it.

 

 

Tears built in the corners of her eyes. I don’t want to go without you.

 

 

I can’t.

 

 

I wanted you to be with me.

 

 

Meeting is about to start. Flight 4920. Return on Monday.

 

 

She turned her phone over in her hand a few times. She desperately wanted to share the news with her family, but just as desperately wanted Paul to be there. It was their news. Together. If that meant they had to wait then so be it. We can go another time.

 

 

She waited for a response, but after ten minutes realized he wasn’t going to text her anymore. The disappointment stung. She wanted to share her news in person with her family, and she wanted Paul to be there with her. Why did it have to be so difficult?

 

 

If she didn’t go to Durango, her mom would be so upset. She didn’t want to be responsible for ruining her mom’s weekend like Paul had ruined hers, but she didn’t want to go alone either. It wasn’t fair that Paul was making her choose.

 

 

Lauren paced in the kitchen, her shoes clacking against the ceramic tile. What should she do?

 

 

My Review:

 

Rebecca is an author who knows how to write a heartfelt story and Imperfect Love follows suit. This story is full of raw and honest emotions that jump from one end of the spectrum to the other. Main character Lauren has so many hopes and dreams. When the thing she hoped for the most turns out differently than she imagined, my heart ached for her. I could easily relate to that feeling of being faced with what seems like a hopeless situation. Lauren’s character grows as she has to become independent and make some heart-wrenching decisions. Your own heart can’t help but be moved as she learns to love her precious son. 

 

 

There are parts in this story that are not all sunshine and roses. This women’s fiction deals with some hard issues that many women have faced before in life. Rebecca handles everything well with fairness and great thought. Everything is well written in the hands of this seasoned author. Imperfect Love will make readers think about their lives,making hard decisions and realize that blessings sometimes come in packages that we least expect.

 

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Meet Author Rebecca Lynn Talley Rebecca Lynn Talley grew up in the gorgeous seaside city of Santa Barbara, CA. She met, and married, her husband, Del, while attending Brigham Young University. She graduated from BYU with a degree in Communications. She currently lives in rural Colorado on a small ranch with a dog, too many cats to count, and a herd of goats. She and Del are the proud parents of ten wildly-creative, multi-talented children. Rebecca is the author of a children’s picture book, Grasshopper Pie (WindRiver 2003), a children’s chapter book, Gabby’s Secret (DuBon Publishing 2011), four novels, Heaven Scent (CFI 2008), Altared Plans (CFI 2009), The Upside of Down (CFI 2011), and Aura (DuBon Publishing 2012). She has also authored numerous children’s stories and articles for both print and online magazines. When she isn’t writing, Rebecca loves to date her husband, play with her kids, swim in the ocean, and dance to disco music while she cleans the house. She has folded at least one million loads of laundry, baked hundreds of batches of chocolate chip cookies, and eaten 5,478 gallons of ice cream.

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