Is anybody wondering?????

Is anybody wondering who the winner of my giveaway was?!?! No you did not miss the announcement, you did not miss the drawing. I just finally got around to it last night. :} (sheepish grin here)

What its only 38 day after the fact. Really I am so so sorry..... :(

Anyway lets get on with this thing!

Drumroll please......................................

My lovely assistant

Tidymom come on down!!!!

For participating and being oh so patient. You are the lucky winner of a Week in the Bahamas!!!!!!

Ok, not really :)

But you did win these lovely prizes!

Mango and Lime Sugar scrub!

Tea towels that have a magnet attached that will stick to your fridge!

(unless you have a stainless steel fridge that magnets wont stick to like mine)

A spa mask... ahhhhhh

and this oh so cute nest with eggs in it!

But oh that's not all!!!!!!

You have also won a wonderful chalkboard made by yours truly!!!!!

(tutorial to come later)

Now because I felt bad for taking so long to get this done (which is the reason I have not had a giveaway sooner) I decided to pick one more name. :)

This person will receive a chalkboard that I will make for them. So lovely assistant who is it going to be?!?!??!

Its Archie Mck!!!! Hey Archie, I hope your a crafty kind of person. :)

I will try not to make it so girly, unless you are gonna give it to your wife, then I will make it girly! :)

Again I am so so so so so so so so so so sooooorrrrrryyyyyyyyy, for being a procrastinator! I am working on it, not very hard, but I am working on it. :)

TODAY WAS THE DAY!!!!

Let me tell you, when you meet one of your blog buddies, everything changes. No more are they in the "blogworld". They are your in real life friend. Ya know what I hate the way that sounds. My "in real life" friend, if you are my friend you are my friend "in real life" whether I can actually hug you or not. There is no distinction. :) Moving on.....

Today I actually got to hug another one of my in real life friends. Valarie (and no I am not talking about myself) and her family drove all the way from Georgia to come visit us, and we had a blast. They are here in the states visiting family and friends. They are missionaries in Mexico. It is quite cold here today, so I cooked chili, white chicken chili, and potato soup (thank you Lisa M. it was awesome, even though Syd still says its not as good as yours). Big Logan was going to cook chickens on his mega grill, but I didn't want him to have to cook all day. Did that stop him from grilling something out? No! He still went and grilled on the little grill. You will not believe what he did though. He grilled "redneck steak". What is that you ask? Well I didn't know either until he told me, but let me show you a picture of it and see if you can figure it out.

Any guessers??? Its a big honking slab of bologna ! It actually was really good, basically tasted like fried bologna.

So when they got here, it was like we have known each other forever. Like family you just have not seen in a while.

Syd had already called dibs on Israel, their baby.

Oh my gosh would you look at those eyes and checks!!! He was so squishy!! I could just eat him up!!!

Logan, Shiloh , and Abigail played from the moment they got here until they left. They had a really good time together. Oh and Abigail can hold her own with some boys.

Would you look at this face! Her shirt says it all....

They played outside, they played the Wii....

We ate chocolate icing on a spoon, with homemade hot chocolate....

We even watched the Auburn/Georgia game. With actual Auburn and Georgia fans in the room together, and no fights. :)

Seriously no Auburn or Georgia fans were hurt in the making of this post! :)

We fed the donkeys and enjoyed the cold fall weather....

Hmmmm, am I missing anything so far?? Oh yeah! Me and Valarie, Valarie and I, Valarie and Valarie, Valarie x 2, Valarie squared, Ok I will stop now. :)

Yeah we were not ready, this would be the photographers (Syd) fault.

I just love this girl!!!!

Ok and just incase you did not get enough of those checks of Israel's, here you go!!!

I am so so so Excited!!!!

 

Let me just  say that this blog thing; well I never expected in a million years to have found so many wonderful friends!  I love the community that is here.  It is uplifting and wonderful and creative.  So many wonderful and talented people are here.

I love the fact that every now and then, I get to meet some of you!  Well tomorrow, I get to meet one of my first blog friends ever!!!

Here is just some background info!

Way back on January 10, 2008 I received this comment on this post.

Valarie said...

I actually saw your name on Pioneer Woman's comment page. I have never met anyone else who spells their name the way that we do! How exciting!
I'm sorry about your son. That looks awful. Oh the joys of kids :-)!
~ Valarie from Atlanta, now in Mexico

http://valarielea.blogspot.com/2008/01/trampoline-shot-ok-i-took-this-of-my.html

 

I commented back...

 

Valarie said...

I saw your name on Pioneer Woman also and thought, Oh my goodness someone else whose mother spelled there name that way and caused her to explain for the rest of her life no its Valarie with an "A" not an "E". Tell your son congratulations on the tooth. Believe me the fun has just begun.

January 11, 2008 10:58 AM

 

And the rest is history...

 

Now tomorrow, I get to meet my wonderful friend Valarie in Mexico. (which is what I call her when explaining who she is to everyone) Her and her family are in the states visiting family for the holidays and they are coming to my house tomorrow!!!!!  I am so excited!!!!

So I want to say Thank You to Pioneer Woman, if it were not for your blog and the Grace of God, I would not have meet my friend Valarie.  :)

 

Be Jealous :)

So I know all of you want to know who I got to meet yesterday. I know some of you already know. Well I wont make you wait any longer. Ok well maybe just a minute longer.

This will not be a complete post on who I met, because unfortunately I have to pack up and leave. :(

Yesterday I got the awesome pleasure of meeting my BBFF (Best Blog Friend Forever) Jennifer the Dust Bunny Hostage!!!!!!!! Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She is the best! I was just so excited to meet her! The other day when I called her, I had like butterflies in my stomach. I had them when I meet her yesterday also. Would she sound the same as on her blog, would I not sound like a total hick? Would I not make a complete idiot of myself? No worries though, it was like we had known each other our whole lives.

So here are just a few pictures that were taken by the lovely Syd a/k/a photographer for the day. :)

(Notice Who is most prominent in the picture. SYD!)

Um Syd? We are the other direction..

Random

Jennifer hiding to make sure that Syd does not get her skinny butt. She says she has a booty issue, but I am telling you she doesn't. Jennifer you are beautiful and you definitely are not ample! You are perfect just the way you are!! Now the one thing that I did not expect about Jennifer is that she is taller than me. When I told Logan that, my dear husband said, "Valarie it doesn't take much for anybody to be taller than you". Thanks Hun! Really I don't know why I normally expect people to be the same height as myself, I guess I just think everybody should be 5' nothing. :)

One more and then I have to get ready and help pack up the truck. :)

Yep like we have known each other forever. :)