It's true, I am addicted to Old Navy...really. I love it. I feel like most of my clothes are Old Navy. So, I am always excited when I get the chance to score some FREE ON clothing AND to get something free for a friend too!

In case you have not read my previous posts about this, let me explain: I have been a member of Crowdtap (which is a place you get to share your opinions and sometimes even get to sample awesome items) for quite a while now. I love all the different things I get to discuss, review and try out through them. My favorite things though are always the Old Navy sample and share programs. If chosen, you get a coupon for a free item for yourself and a free item for a friend. I have been lucky enough to do quite a few sample and share projects. I reviewed Old Navy Jeans, Old Navy Outerwear/coats, Old Navy Shorts, Old Navy Dresses, Old Navy Active Wear and Old Navy Perfect Tees. This time I got the opportunity to once again try out the NEW Old Navy Active Wear (I think maybe someone is trying to tell me I should be more active...Touche.) :)

I was about to visit a friend in Cali when I got the coupons, so I gave one to her and I kept mine to redeem when I returned from vaca. I loved, LOVED checking out all the new activewear! SO cute! There were a number of things I loved! Now, I was in Arizona shopping, so a lot of the activewear is geared toward a hot climate. Which is great, but keep in mind, I am about to move to a significantly cooler climate...so I was looking for the warmer options! Here are some of the wonderful items I tried on (and LOVED). (Please excuse my poor picture taking, my CRAZY hair, and my daughter in a few shots!)





In the end it was really REALLY hard for me to choose what to get. So I did something rare for me, and I bought an additional item! This is the outfit I bought:


The shirt and pants were free with my coupon, and the jacket was on clearance for less than $11. (Have I mentioned I LOVE Old Navy clearance!!!!!)

BTW, my friend told me that she got "the cutest black striped workout pants and black running pull over jacket." So glad she was able to get her awesome Old Navy Active wear as well!!

I love Old Navy clothes! LOVE them and I am so grateful for the opportunity to try them out for free! Thank you CrowdTap and Old Navy!

If you also want the chance to become a Crowd Tapper so you can apply for future sampling events, please join through my referral link here and we can start tappin together! :)

***By way of Disclosure, I was given a coupon for me to get a free ON outfit, as well as a free coupon for a friend. Thanks CrowdTap and Old Navy for this fun experience and these free outfits for me and my friend!!***

OK friends! I sure hope you have ahd the chance to see the awesomeness that is the new Cottonelle ad campaigns! If not, check this gem out (it's my favorite of a whole campaign full of great ads):
The #CottonelleCleanCrew wants us all to think about why we think it is ok to wipe our tushies with dray paper towels. Wouldn't a wet option work better? Well, the#CottonelleCleanDrew adn #Crowdtap send me some Cottonelle to test that out.

I was sent the following items:

• One 18pk Cottonelle Clean Care Toilet Paper (for me) 
• Two 4pks of Cottonelle Clean Care Toilet Paper (for two friends) 
• Three tubs of Cottonelle Fresh Care Flushable Wipes (for me and two friends)

Oh My Goodness! I just might be addicted to Old Navy...really. I love it. I feel like most of my clothes are Old Navy. So, I am always excited when I get the chance to score some FREE ON clothing AND to get something free for a friend too!

In case you have not read my previous posts about this, let me explain: I have been a member of Crowdtap (which is a place you get to share your opinions and sometimes even get to sample awesome items) for quite a while now. I love all the different things I get to discuss, review and try out through them. My favorite things though are always the Old Navy sample and share programs. If chosen, you get a coupon for a free item for yourself and a free item for a friend. I have been lucky enough to do quite a few sample and share projects. I reviewed Old Navy Jeans, Old Navy Outerwear/coats, Old Navy Shorts, Old Navy Dresses, and Old Navy Active Wear. My most recent opportunity was for an Old Navy Perfect Tee Shirt Sample and Share and I want to tell you all about it!

I have a terrible admission to make about this Sample Share opportunity. In spite of my great excitement, I did not make it to Old Navy before my coupon expired. It was a sad blow, but I was so excited about the Old Navy perfect Tee's that I wanted to make sure to go get one (or 3) anyway! So, I headed to Old Navy to shop for MY perfect Tee. I also brought my sister-in-law with me. In the end we found a lot of FABULOUS tee shirts there and I bought a few (3) for me, one for my sister-in-law and one for my daughter. I want to share with you all some of the pictures of the great shirts I tried on:







And here are the 3 shirts I bought for myself:



My sister-in-law got a shirt like the v neck ones I bought, but hers was red. She is going to send me a picture of it and I will add it to this post when it comes.

My daughter's name means Peace, and she LOVES Peace signs. So when I saw this shirt in the Graphic Tees section I had to get it for her:

All in all I have to say, Old Navy has lots of great shirts-different styles and options. There really should be something for everyone I believe! And for you deal loving friends out there I have to tell you that I was in there the other day, and lots of their Tee shirts are on sale for FANTASTIC prices (like $5-$6.)

This has nothing to do with the tee shirts, but I have to tell you that when you head over to Old Navy to check out the AWESOME Tees, (or for any other reason) make sure you head to the back of the store and check out the current clearance section. Look at the skirt I am wearing in this picture:

I got it in the clearance section for (you'll never believe it) $.97 (gasp)! For real! It was marked down and I like it even more and feel it is all the more fabulous for the fact that is was such a FAB DEAL!!!

***By way of Disclosure, I was given a coupon for me to get free ON shirts, as well as a free coupon for a friend. Though I did not use them and bought my own shirts, I still want to thank CrowdTap and Old Navy for this fun experience and these free coupons!!***


If you also want the chance to become a Crowd Tapper so you can apply for future sampling events, please join through my referral link here and we can start tappin together! :)

Wow! I may mention this far too often, but I LOVE being a CrowdTap member! Really! I get to try out some SWEET things, give my opinions on them and share them with my friends! As a member of CrowdTap and their Verizon Crowdtap VIP's I got to try out the new Microsoft Windows Phone 8X by HTC! And I got to tell lots of friends about it and have a fun Pinterest party all about it as well!

I want to tell you all about my party, but even more than that, I want to tell you all about the phone! WOW.

First things first, the party:

So, I invited 12 people to the party and found I could not find a great night for all the come, so I stuck to my original party night and had the 6 of us that could make it that night come, but then I had some one on one talks with a few other friends about the phone! The party was low key-dinner and a Pinterest party with a focus on learning about and trying out the phone. We spent some time taking some pictures on the phone, testing out how it works with the XBox and looking at the general windows set up on the home page. But I am getting ahead of myself...more on that later! Point is, we had a small but fun party and were able to talk about the phone.

Now, about that phone! First, check it out:

And look how thin it is:

LOVE that part! It is so skinny you can put it in your pocket and forget it's there.

Here are a few awesome features of the phone:

• You can totally customize it! 
• You can create rooms where you can share updates photos and more with specific groups of people
• It can become a control for your XBox!
• There is a Kid's Corner that allows you to set up a separate and secure area for the kids to play with your phone without access to information you have on it.
• You can connect your phone to your XBox Live
• You can use your XBox music on this phone or any capable device
• Office Mobile 365 on the phone lets you easily create, edit and send documents and more!
• The camera is ultra-wide-angle lens camera on the front or back. Photos will be sharp and crisp even in low light!

Last thing I want to talk more about is the camera! The Main Camera is an 8 megapixel camera with auto focus, LED flash, and BSI sensor (for better low-light captures) and it has 1080p video recording. Um...I know this will make me seem old, but I still own my first digital camera and it was top of the line at like 5 megapixels. I LOVE that my PHONE now has 8! Also, can I just say, the current phone I have taken ok pictures, but they are more often than not really blurry! I have kids-lots of kids-5 in fact. They are young and they do not sit still so when I take a picture, it has to be quick! And my current phone is any thing but quick! With THIS camera phone though it snaps picture fast and is ready fast for me to take another one! Obviously this makes it much easier to get great pictures!

Here are some of the pictures I have taken on this new phone:







Now, If you haven't had the chance to check out a  Microsoft Windows Phone 8X by HTC phone yet you should! Stop me sometime and I will show you mine (which they were nice enough to let me keep for having the party!). Or go check one out at the store!

Hey-just a few more things! If you too might want to do things like this party, please join me on CrowdTap. After you do, you should make sure to become a Verizon Crowdtap VIP!  And if you are so inclined, you ought to Like Verizon on Facebook, Follow then on Twitter @VerizonWireless or @VerizonInsider.

And just by way of disclosure, I was not required to write this blog post, but I WAS given the phone and a $75 Gift Card for having my party about the phone. These were provided to me through  CrowdTap and  Verizon Crowdtap VIP!  As always though, all opinion expressed are my own!

Oh My Goodness! I just might be addicted to Old Navy...really. I love it. I feel like most of my clothes are Old Navy. In fact, when I was in Old Navy in Utah last week, I was trying to talk to a manager and when they called the manager to come talk to me I heard them over their walkie say "She's the one up front wearing our jeans and our Pea coat...and her husband is also in ON jeans and an ON jacket." I looked at us and realized she was totally right! So, you can imagine that with my love of ON, I am always excited when I get the chance to score some FREE ON clothing AND to get something free for a friend too!

In case you have not read my previous posts about this, let me explain: I have been a member of Crowdtap (which is a place you get to share your opinions and sometimes even get to sample awesome items) for quite a while now. I love all the different things I get to discuss, review and try out through them. My favorite things though are always the Old Navy sample and share programs. If chosen, you get a coupon for a free item for yourself and a free item for a friend. I have been lucky enough to do quite a few sample and share projects. I reviewed Old Navy Jeans, Old Navy Outerwear/coats, and Old Navy Shorts, and Old Navy Dresses. My most recent opportunity was for an Old Navy Active Wear Sample and Share and I want to tell you all about it!

So, this has been a crazy month with Christmas and all that excitement AND with a birthday trip to Disneyland for our now 10-year-old.  We were out of town more in December than we were in town! It was a fun a crazy time! I got the coupons for the ON Active Wear the day I was driving out to Cali for our Disney trip! I was so excited because that meant I could use my SHARE portion of the coupon to share with my good friend Carly (who was letting my family stay at her house AGAIN for our Disney excursion).  I thought it would be something fun for us to do and that it was a small thing I could give her to thank her for letting us crash at her place over and over! Unfortunately, it being a Disney vacation, we did not actually ever make it over to Old Navy during business hours! So, I left Carly the Share coupon to get her own Active Wear outfit and I took mine home with me.

The first chance I had to use my coupon was right after Christmas in Utah while visiting our family. Wes (Mr Beckee's Deals) and I left the 4 oldest kids with my mom and we ran over to the neighborhood Old Navy with the baby (who is really almost 2...).

Upon arrival, I always like to talk to the manager and let them know what I am doing so they will let me take pictures and try on all the best stuff they have. The manager came over and talked to me a bit about the Crowdtap/Old Navy Style Council program as she had never seen these free coupons before. After we talked and she looked at the letter stating that I should be able to take pictures and stuff, she showed me where the Active Wear was (thank goodness because they were in the process of moving it and I would have had trouble finding it all without her help). I picked out quite a few outfits to try on, and she pointed out the ON tennis shoes and sports bras as well. I admit I skipped the bras, but did try on the shoes with each outfit.

Here are some of the outfits I tried on:

I MUST show you my favorite part of the tops. Many of the tops had this feature:

I LOVE it because I tend to get cold hands when I exercise, but I HATE wearing gloves, so this is a perfect solution for me and I LOVE LOVE it!

Now, I have to note that all the outfits pictured above were good options, but my two favorite outfits were these ones:

I had a really hard time choosing, but in the end I bought the second one mostly because the top has the thumb holes and the white top did not. Also, I admit a white top with my messy life and 5 kids seemed less realistic for me.

My friend Carly sent me this picture of the outfit she picked (it is a super cute one too!!)

Happy With my Choice:

I loved checking out and trying on so many of the current Old Navy Active Wear! I am not a skinny little lady anymore, but the ON Active Wear fit me nicely and looked good. I felt like there were many outfits I could have bought and felt good about wearing to work out in. Many times I am self conscious in tight work out clothes, but I was able to find MANY options that did not make me feel fat or self conscious. I would totally feel good out and about in these outfits and highly recommend checking out Old Navy for your active wear needs! Did you by chance, like me, put lose weight on your New Years Resolution list? If so, you can grab some cute work out clothes to help you start on the right foot!

If you also want the chance to become a Crowd Tapper so you can apply for future sampling events, please join through my referral link here and we can start tappin together! :)

***By way of Disclosure, I was given a coupon for me to get a free ON outfit, as well as a free coupon for a friend. Thanks CrowdTap and Old Navy for this fun experience and these free outfits for me and my friend!!***