And the winner is.....

The winner of my first ever giveaway is.....drumroll please.........

Jalena's Mommy!!! Random.org picked comment numner 9 and she was the luck winner.

Send me an email at cortney0509(at)yahoo(dot) come and let me know what color, I am assuming pink for your sweet little girl!!

True Random Number Generator Min:1 Max: 19Result: 9

Thanks for everyone that participate and stayed tuned, once we get back from vacay there will be a couple more fun giveaways! Something straight from the Mountains of NC for sure!!!

MckLinky

There’s a great new “linky” service available and I wanted to let you know about it. It’s called "MckLinky". After realizing the need for a new, reliable link-list capability, Brent Riggs and MckMama got together to create a free, easy to use linky service for all their blog friends.

"MckLinky" is a free links list feature that allows you to do include lists of other blog links like MckMama does on Not Me Monday. Some people call them “carnivals” or “memes” but you can use "MckLinky" any time you want your blog readers to leave a list of links on your blog. It’s simple, reliable and free.

So try "MckLinky" today!!

**Contest now closed, winner very very soon!! Mickey Mouse Ears......A Giveaway

In 10 short days my family and I will be embarking on our week long trip to the most magical place on earth, Walt Disney World! In honor of our trip I am super excited to host my very first giveaway. I have been thinking for a couple of weeks now about a fun giveaway and this fits perfectly.

The winner of this giveaway will get a set of these straight from the mouse's house....

Do you have a child that loves Mickey or Minnie, maybe a niece or nephew, god child, heck maybe even you want a pair. The winner of this giveaway can pick either pink ears or black ears and I will even get the mouse to put the name of the person you are giving them to on the back.

Alright are you ready to enter the giveaway, there are many ways you can.

1. Post about this giveaway on your blog, link back to my post and then put a comment on this post so I know that you blogged about it.
2. Tweet about the giveaway make sure to either @cortney0509 me or put the blog link in your tweet, then come back here and let me know you tweeted so I can make sure it counts for an entry.
3. You can tweet every day once a day from now until the end of the giveaway every day that you tweet make sure you come back here to let me know you tweeted.
4. You don't have to have a blog to post, if you want just leave a comment in the comment section letting me know anything you want about yourself and that counts too, but make sure to leave your email!
5. You can even enter by just leaving me a comment about who you would want to win the mouse ears for.
   

The giveaway will run from right this second until Tuesday July 30th at 9p.m. est. I will pick the winner using random.org and their number generator based on the number of comments I get. The winner will be posted on my blog right after the contest ends. We will be back from Disney on July 13 and I will mail the winner their prize then!

Good luck and I am super excited about my first giveaway!!!

Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

• I was not supposed to make a dish from our culture for my son's multicultural picnic at school this week and I most certainly did not forget!
• I then did not stop by the grocery store after remembering that I forgot to search for a cultural dish. I most certainly did not purchase a German chocolate cake, because hey I am German after all! I would have never done that!!
  
• I did not let my 3 1/2 year old son play for hours outside, in a huge field, during Ft Benning's Independence Day celebration this weekend. I would never allow him to do that, I mean that is really gross.
• I also did not allow him to eat and M&M ice cream sandwich cookie and a blue sno-cone for dinner, but hey he did have water to drink! Not me!
  

Wordless Wednesday

Best buds already!

Baby J's Macbook Giveaway!

I found this family's blog Cole Family Mission Blog while visiting MckMama's blog this morning. This family is in the process of adopting a child from Korea and are in hopes of raising money through a raffle, the winner of the raffle will win an awesome Mac Book laptop computer! The best part, this is not some crazy expensive raffle, for each $5 you donate you will get an entry, plus if you blog about it you can be entered as well, if you don't have a blog you can forward email your friends, get your entries doubled and be in a drawing for a Target gift card. The best part everything you donate goes to aid in their adoption process.

I do not know this family, but felt led to post this for others to see as adoption has been an idea that Daddy C and I have been tossing back and forth. No, not right now, but when the boys are a bit older, it would be so wonderful to give a better life to a baby girl in need. So, if you feel led hop on over to their blog and see what they are all about!!

Not Me! Monday!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I most certainly did not take entirely too long at the grocery store yesterday while the hubby was home with the boys to simply enjoy my first time alone in weeks!

I did not buy my husband a Father's Day present that while I know he will enjoy, I most certainly will enjoy as well.

I also did not entertain the idea of buying my husband tickets to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. I would never think about spending so much money to go to a soccer game for one day in a foreign country.

I do not let baby C sleep in a onesie so in the morning I do not just change his diaper and put a pair of shorts on him, it does not makes life so much easier.

I do not love clipping coupons and saving money at the grocery store. I do not love saving more than I pay. What 26 year old would get a thrill out of that?