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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Drum roll, please.....


And now....

For the moment you've all been waiting for....

After adding up the 215 comments, and typing up all those little slips of paper with all your names for each of your entries, we have the results.

But I'm not going to tell you who they are just yet!

Oh, no, you still have some work to do. I've decided that the best way to highlight my two years of blogging and almost 200 posts is to send you all on a little treasure hunt. Hidden somewhere in the past 191 posts are the pictures of the winning entries. I'll give you a hint: they're hidden at the end of a post, so if you want to scan down from post to post and look at the end, you'll see a little blurb that I've added to seven different posts, announcing the winners. As soon as you find out who you are, email me with your address (or the address of the person you would like me to ship these blankies to), and your color preference (is there anybody out there who likes orange?).

By the way, thanks T, for your sweet comment -- "I don't do ugly" -- I'm going to have to make a t-shirt out of that!

I'll give you a day or two to try and find the winners -- and if you don't find your name, at least you got to read through all of my posts and got to know me a little better! Which means there are no losers at the Quack Shack -- everybody's a winner!

Oh, oh, oh, and lest I forget the GRAND PRIZE
(which I won't make you hunt for, because I know a few people who might wet their pants in the process):


The winner of the LadyBug Pastoral Repast Ground Covering is .....someone who evidentally crossed their fingers to some purpose!
Stephanie of Diapers and Divinity!

She totally deserves this blanket. Stephanie has her hands full with three busy kids, a busy house, a busy blog, and she has nerves of steel. She operated on a frog recently, people! Seriously, Stephanie is one of the most spiritually in-tune people I've ever known, and she always manages to find a little spirituality in those every day moments. I love her General Authority Book Club, and even though I haven't been faithfully reading each selected talk as I should, I still love stopping by her blog to fill my daily cup, as it were.

Thanks, Stephanie, for all your positive comments! You're an amazing woman, and I'm so glad to have you on my blogroll!

Okay, so today I cheated a little bit....
I haven't exercised YET, but I have a date
to go walking to the library this afternoon
with a friend of mine. It's a one-hour
walk
round-trip , so that should count for something!

11 Happy thoughts:

T said...

what a FUN way to announce the winners - this means I will get a little joy even if I'm a loser :)

Off to hunt - and that sounds like a fun t-shirt... my current planned Tee is going to say "Mom's Travel Agency - we specialize in guilt trips"

Steph @ Diapers and Divinity said...

Yahoooooo! I don't know if I'm more excited about the blanket or all the nice things you said about me! Thanks so much.

T said...

alright, I'm going to have to come back later to search... though I'm LOVING some of the older stuff - I'd completely forgotten about James Hicks' nametag - did you ever find him?

also: remind me not to play Scrabble with your fam... I think they'd beat me as badly as my family beats me...

I copied your "why did the chicken cross the road" post to show my hub later

and we're the same age (for a little while yet) and share a love for the Foreman Grill!

I'll be back - but my brain cells are DYING one by one...

Barbaloot said...

Mmkay-I totally went through your old posts but didn't find my name. Boo! I was sure I had won...

But I got a new book idea (And Both were Young) and saw some great pictures of you at Girl's camp:)

Savannah said...

Wow! Who knew I'd been reading your blog for so long? I was surprised that I recognized the posts going quite far back! Craziness!

I can't believe I won!! And on top of that, actually found it in a post! I'm pretty much completely brain dead at this point. 8 days from my due date! But I was 9 months as of this past Sunday. That's why I haven't commented in a few days... just trying to stay sane and finish getting ready for this little girl!

All of the blankets are beautiful and I particularly like the Orange one or the Purple one. Whatever you want to give me is fine though! :) Now I'm off to figure out how to email you, as I don't have your email address. Can I find that on here? We'll see!

Anja said...

alright sue I only found 4 names, so if I'm one, you'll have to let me know!

Kaylynn said...

I thought I outsmarted you: I did a search for your blog with my name. I found my name in a couple of spots, but it didn't name me as the winner. I did, however, see Pancake's name before I tried to be smarter than a Quackenbush. You may need to notify her because she's on one of her many blog vacations.

T said...

You know... I keep trying - and LAUGHING at some of your posts that I was too slow to enjoy way back when - but I'll just give a general shout out of congrats to the winners... whoever they may be :)

(still laughing about the April Fools' Joke...)

Krystal said...

What a great way to announce the winners and keep us all in suspense even longer! Congrats to Stephanie on winning the coveted lady bug blanket! If keeping her fingers crossed worked for her, I'll be crossing mine as I begin to search for the other winners. :)

Mama Nut said...

What a fun blog you have here! I stumbled upon it from the Mormon Mommy Blogs.

You are all very fun girls! Makes me miss being young... almost... :)

Off to read some more!

Heidi Ashworth said...

I read these instructions yesterday but didn't understand--NOW I get it. I think. Off to see what I can find . .