- The Mom Behind the Blog
Kelli
Hi! I, Kelli, live in a small town on the coast of Southern Alabama with my husband (Ricky) of over 12 years, our three wild and wonderfully different little boys, and one totally spoiled little dog named Annie.
Tripp will turn 11 in November and is lovingly referred to as our Computer Geek. He owns a blog called, “A Dose of Nascar… as told by a 9 year old racing fan” and has received quite a bit of fame from it (too bad he doesn’t update it anymore). In addition to being contacted by our local news station, he has also been interviewed by “Racing News Digest.” Tripp is homeschooled due to his disabilities. Tripp is Gifted and is also in the Autism Spectrum. Throw ADD and OCD (gets them honestly) in the mix and you have my wonderful little boy!
Zack turned 9 in April. This kid has used hair gel for two years, puts on cologne every day, owns a gold chain, and only wears button up shirts to go somewhere… unless, of course, he goes down the road to visit his friends. Then, he goes shirtless to show off his “muscles.” Consequently, we call him Joe Cool. 
Tank is our baby. He will turn five at the end of August. He idolizes his brothers and follows them everywhere they go – much to their irritation and our amusement. We consider him the Class Clown, because he loves attention and will do most anything to get it. He is so excited to attend “real school” this year, but I hope he doesn’t get into the trouble! You know, he IS the baby. 
Ricky is a Special Education Teacher and Varsity Baseball Coach at our local high school. He also coaches football at our local middle school. All of those jobs keep him busy, but when he gets a bit of free-time he makes model cars. You can find him running and pumping iron most evenings now. (as of 9/03/10 Ricky has lost about 40 pounds! Go, Ricky!)
Annie is short for Little Orphan Annie. She was found at the Mississippi/Alabama state line after Hurricane Katrina. Annie and several of her puppy siblings were only a couple weeks old, motherless, and homeless. My Father-In-Law picked her out of the bunch and told us to come get her. Of course, he told us he had a Chihuahua for us… turns out he was wrong (or at least partially… she has Chihuahua IN her). LOL! I love dogs and Annie, although I think I like her least of all five of us. She, on the other hand, thinks the sun rises and sets with me. Good thing for her I am a softy. 
Frister Fluff is the newest addition to our household. In early January 2011, I was sitting outside on the phone when all of a sudden a beautiful, smokey grey, Persian cat jumped into my lap and settled in! Although she looked fat as can be, it was all fur. She was actually pure bone! We advertised everywhere about her, but no one claimed her. She is full-grown and absolutely wonderful! Although, she is very lazy and eats more than anyone else in the house, we love her. My husband joked that I would need to change the name of my blog to 3 Boys and a Dog… and a Cat!
I am an avid reader and enjoy all things crafty like: scrapbooking, jewelry making, knitting, cross-stitching, baking, cooking, and dollhouse miniatures. I have always been a writer, so blogging just comes naturally to me. I post an average of 2 posts a day and typically have several giveaways running. Ok, I admit it… I am addicted to the internet. I have a list of over 100 sites (blogs, forums, & groups) that I visit randomly. I also frequent Stumble, Technorati, Twitter, and FaceBook.
My family has many varied interests that keep us busy at all times. We spend tons of time in the outdoors, but have to come in when it rains. In the summer, you can find us in our pool during the hottest times of the day. We also visit parks, beaches, and family regularly.
I love doing reviews and my family really likes trying new things. So far, I don’t really have a “favorite thing to review.” I have a varied audience of moms, homeschoolers, single women, and organizers and I try to review items that work for all of those groups.
This was hard! LOL! For a bit more information about my crazy life, please be sure to read my Elevator Pitch.
i love your giveaways and reviews! and your kids are soooo cute! keep up the good work
Hi Kelli. It’s so nice to “meet” you and your family. You have a fabulous looking family! I have a Chiweenie, named Obi, that looks very similar to that pretty pooch in your header. I have a picture of Obi uploaded to photobucket.
http://s834.photobucket.com/albums/zz262/talonsmom731/?action=view¤t=pup2.jpg
The picture is almost 1 year old, but he still looks pretty much the same.
Hi Kelli,
I am just wondering if your giveaways are open to Canadians?
thank you
Hi Kelli,
Great blog! Love your fmaily and you are a true mommie-preneur! Keep it up and wish you all the best!
Best,
Shaunak
You ha e a wonderful family.
I coming by after reading about you at Simple Stacy…
@Ms. Bibi, Ms. Bibi, thanks so much for visiting me! I hope you stick around a bit.
Kelli, It was so nice to visit with you at Savvy Blogging. Thank you so much for your encouraging e-mail, too! Can’t wait to discuss guest posting.
Love,
jessie
@Vanderbilt Wife,
Thanks hon!! You give me a hollar whenever!
love your site
@Misty,
Thanks very much for your comment.
Kelli, this is a great looking blog. I enjoy reading about your family. Keep up the great posts!
I like you’re blog and you’re logo is so cute. Keep growing and I’m sure you’ll earn that vacation you want!
Colleen
I’m completely with you on internet addiction. I can hardly remember life before internet! LOL.
The dream vacation sounds great. Good luck!
Hi, hope its OK to contact you here. would love to include your blog on our giveaway blog network: Giveaway Scout (http://www.giveawayscout.com). Have a look and if interested drop us a line on our contact form (http://www.giveawayscout.com/contact/). thanks, Josh
Love your blog–beautiful and well written. I too have three boys (aged 3 to 13), but without a dog, and love blogging too.
@Marie, Thanks so much Marie!
Boys are the BEST aren’t they?
those boys make me want to pinch some cheeks…they are sooo cute!!!!
Hi Kelli
Your boys are adorable!
Michelle
thanks 4 the awesome giveaways
Great minds think alike! I found you on MultipleMama’s site and am following you now. I love your rescue story … I’m a similar softie and MY little orphan Annie (or Annie Monster when she’s being a tad evil) is a darling 13-yr old tuxedo kitty who was left for dead by her mama cat at a day old. I took her home, bottle fed her for weeks, and became her real mama. She worships me but has a healthy disdain for all others of our species, especially males and those under 4 ft tall. Oh well.
You got a sweet wonderful family.Specially,I liked two things Your oldest boy got his own blog (Thats Cool) and you adopted annie (So Sweet).
Enjoying The life To Fullest.
Kelli, I love your blog and that you’re such a good mom to your boys. I’d like you to guest post on my blog about teaching children to love reading and books at http://carolineclemmons.blogspot.com When I tried the contact site, all I got was a spinning ball and it never posted.
Thanks, Caroline
I often tell people (not the ones with only one boy so as not to offend them…ha)…that the people who only have one boy…have NO IDEA what it’s really like to have boys!
I tease my mom about this on a regular basis! I can’t wait to read more about you and your great family!! I am the mom of 4…you can check me out at: http://www.tamaracosby.com
I love dogs, that is wonderful that you could rescue yours after Hurricane Katrina and it sounds like she found a great home!
Kelli, I have really enjoyed exploring your blog and reading through your posts! I am a dog person, (we have 5) so I’m especially drawn to your Annie.
Your Blogging Basics posts have been really helpful to me as I get my blog up and going! Keep up the great work!
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Thank God we have a common fascination, thank you for distribution, you’re a excellent author. Wish to see more of your reports.
I am following you here and on twitter…I am also a mom of three boys, we also have three Jack Russells…all BOYS lol
Love your page! Your kids sound really cute!
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Hey! I loved your post; it’s better than 90% of the other blog posts I read (and I mean it)! I didn’t see a contact form so I hope you don’t mind me posting here. My hubby insisted that I offer you some advice. Both of us have been into blogging since 2007, so it’s safe to say we’re a bit talented and skillful. Both of us live extremely comfortably just by posting on our blogs. I wanted to let you know there’s a couple changes you can make to your blog that would increase revenue by AT LEAST triple whatever you’re making right now! There’s this site called http://alturl.com/iyp53 – it tripled (almost even quadrupled!) the revenue for all my blogs. The tool will actually send targeted traffic to YOUR blog. I had Google AdSense on my blog and I went from making $2-5 a day to $100-200 a day within one week! Cool, huh? Yesterday I even made a whopping $331 when I setup two more blogs and used the software on them! I just learned about it a few weeks ago and I never plan on running a blog without it again.
Take care and good luck!
Your family sounds great!
How about 3 Boys and 2 Critters? My husband makes fun of me ’cause I like the word critter – but I think it has charm. : )
Look forward to future blog entries & thanks for the great giveaways!
I love the way you write, introducing everyone. It gives me the imagination.
I just signed up for your newsletter. I enjoy your blog immensely.
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Hi Kelly, Thank you for the great costumes for the dogs. They are so cute in them. I got 3 of them!!!!
I hope you are having a great Halloween!!!!
I also have been hacked and haven’t received any e-mails for 6 days. I have been blocked out of my yahoo account. It could be driving me a little crazy!!! I have a new e-mail rjspratlen@gmail.com. So I am starting over from scratch so far anyway. Thanks again!!! Rita
We have two cats. My hubby wants to get a puppy next year, not sure how Fred and Ginger will like that, much.
Love your site! I can’t wait to get your new newsletter!
enjoyed reading about your family and look forward to your new newsletter!
polly~.
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HI I am confirmed! Nice blog –good work
Happy Holidays
Hi! I too am an Alabamian! Roll Tide! I live in a small town in the north central part of our wonderful state. I would love to live on our beautiful coast.!
do you have any giveaways right now? i want to join. im from the philippines.
Love your blog! Just one more question, is that you in this pic? If so, has anyone ever told you, you look alot like Katie Holmes! I’m pretty sure this is a Katie Holmes pic…. I be so embarassed if it isn’t! lol
I’ve always loved Katie Holmes!
I’ll* be
Actually yes it is 100% me and yes, I have been told many times that I remind people of Katie Holmes. However, since I am older than she… I guess actually she looks like me, instead of the other way around. LMBO! TY so much, I love her, too!!
Just started receiving your newsletter/emails. I had been very sick lately so I have an incredible amount to sort thru as you can imagine. Then I opened yours. I never laughed so much! I thought it must have been a typo. Surely it was. But my husband got a real kick when I had him read it too.
It said:
Note from Kelli:
Hey Carla Kelly! How was your Valentine’s Day? Did you share tit with anyone special?
Kelli
Well, my hubby was upset that I was sick and that I didn’t offer him any tit that day at all. But he sure can’t wait for my health to improve to better his chances.
I’m not upset or freaked out over it so don’t worry we all make mistakes when typing. Just thought I’d share the laugh with you and your crew. Maybe next year you can one up it! Hahahaha!
I love your blog and funny emails too.
Carla Warren Kelly on fb.
Carla, one of my readers called it to my attention after the email went to over 1000 people! I am so embarrassed and at least I now know why 3 people unsubbed yesterday! I am too vulgar for their tastes I guess. OOPS!! LOL!
I am really enjoying the theme/design of your site. Do you ever run into any internet browser compatibility problems? A few of my blog visitors have complained about my website not operating correctly in Explorer but looks great in Chrome. Do you have any ideas to help fix this problem?
Woah! I’m really enjoying the template/theme of this blog. It’s simple, yet effective. A lot of times it’s tough to get that “perfect balance” between user friendliness and visual appearance. I must say that you’ve done a very good job with this. In addition, the blog loads extremely fast for me on Opera. Outstanding Blog!
Woah! I’m really enjoying the template/theme of this website. It’s simple, yet effective. A lot of times it’s tough to get that “perfect balance” between user friendliness and visual appeal. I must say you have done a amazing job with this. In addition, the blog loads extremely fast for me on Opera. Outstanding Blog!