Last of the snail mail

Another contest win goody box came my way today. This one was a name that photo contest over at Joel's Journey. Cindy is a busy mom raising 12 children while missing her son Joel who died of a horrible cancer almost 3 years ago at the age of 3.

She sure packed this box up. I was shocked at all the loot.

from left to right: Thanksgiving cookie cutters, jar of leaf sprinkles for the cookies I will bake.
2 wooden Thanksgiving dolls to color. An Indian and a Pilgrim girl. ( the girls are coloring them now)
2 Joels Journey And The Sanctity Of Life videos. This video was the 2007 winner Best Biblical Family film at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival
1 video of Gardening Workshop for Beginners that they also filmed. I want a bigger garden next spring and I am a beginner. My brown thumb should turn a shade of green after watching this.
A lovely shade of burnt orange nail polish. Perfect for the fall season.
2 wooden (rectangle) pumpkins. so cute!
and behind the pumpkins is a neat metal acorn
and on the back of the couch is an awesome metal hanging decoration that reads F A L L

Very exciting past couple of weeks I've had receiving these wonderful gifts from my bloggy friends. I may never meet them this side of heaven, but I will catch up to them in heaven and give them the proper hugs.

All of you are so special to me.

We are Family

The babies are here and have a look that only a mother could love.
There were 6 eggs, but I see only 4 babies. I'm not sure if the others are laying on two of them or what. I don't want to hang in the nest too long. I'll keep on taking pictures til they leave the nest.

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I've been challenged by CC @ His Heart. 6th folder, 6th picture. And the lucky photo goes to...

ABBY- a month shy of 2. She still had her curls. They never returned after her haircut.
Funny how she looks like the baby birds, with her mouth open. Only a whole lot cuter.

Also Miss CC is having a contest to win a cool CD. Check it out, for a chance to win.

Oh, and remember the other day when Pearl the cat killed the chipmunk and brought it to my backdoor? Well last night she presented us with a baby bunny. Nice kitty.

and the winner is...

Thanks to all of you who participated in my little "what's Abby thinking" photo contest. Instead of me judging, I read them all to the girls and let them decide.

It was hard. I would read one and they would say, "Oh, that's a good one."

Then I read another, and they said, "Oh, that's good too".

That kept on and on, until I had no more left. So we had to start whittling them down.

Phoebe asked me if there could be more than 1 winner. I wish I could say yes.

So on and on we went. Over each one, a second...third, fourth time.

They narrowed it down, and they both agreed on.......

abby's thinkin'.....
she pretty much can't see without her glasses...i'll just replace the ds with a pop tart and she'll never know.
submitted by Amanda (proud mommy of 4+)

Congratulations Amanda.

Phoebe and Abigail both laughed at that one. They are Pop Tart girls, and they thought it was funny that a Nintendo DSi, indeed looks like a Pop Tart.

Amanda, let me know where you would like your $10. gift card to be from, and I"ll get it and send it off to you.

Thanks again to all of you for playing along, and stay tuned because...

I just had my 200th post, and something else is happening the end of the week, which means more gifts to be given away. No contest, just giving. See you around.

We Heart Art

There's a week-long festival going on celebrating ours or our kids art. Do you/they draw, sing, paint, dance? Then post about it and enter over at Three Bay B Chicks or Domestically Challenged or I'm Living Proof that God has a Sense of Humor. They all have Mr. Linky set up for others to view the art. They are also giving some great prizes away. Head on over to their places to see all the details.

Abby is our budding artist in the family. She's 4 and draws for me daily. Her pictures make me laugh. She has lots of detail and expression in them. Take a look.

Happy 100th Post to Me!

Toot, toot, toot, confetti flying, streamers streaming, balloons floating.

It's my 100th post, and I have all you lovelies to thank for this. Because of all of you reading and commenting, I have had the desire to continue to post.

I consider all of you friends, and wish we all lived on the same block so we could get together in person.

I would love to give all of you a gift, but that's not going to happen, so you will have to try to win what I have to offer. What am I offering? Something fun and sassy, and something heavenly smelling. Have a look.
Oooooo, it's so Valentiney! Isn't it cute? Well, I love it anyway. This sassy little purse would be perfect for you, (if this is your style), or your daughter, or sister, or mom, or wife, or girlfriend. And this Yankee Candle (medium size).....I could take a bite out of it, it smells sooooo delicious. It's Very Berry. Half strawberry, half, buttercream. Yum.

Here's another photo shot, to let you know how big the bag and candle is.

Thank you Abby for taking the picture of me enjoying a good sniff.

Do you want it? Do you want to give it? I don't mind regifting. It's easy. Leave me a comment if you want to enter. Easy peasy. Tell your blog friends, or don't, if you want a better chance to win it for yourself. Names will be thrown in a hat and picked out by one of my kids, and if they fight over it, then I'll pick it out myself. I'll take photo's to keep it honest. Even though I don't cheat. Contest ends Monday, Feb 2, at 7:30 p.m. central time. Just before my girls bedtime.

Good luck. And thank you for reading my blog.

Gotta love contests!

MckMama wants some hype. Ok, she wants some more hype. I thought the bazillions of followers she has now was plenty of hype, but she wants hyper-hype. So she is having a Small Fryday contest. Click here to take you to MckMama's blog and see what all the hype is about. I hear there are some great prizes. And even if you don't enter, just reading about her life and looking at her beautiful children is prize enough.