Summer Block Party WINNERS

A drum roll please.... the moment you've all been waiting for!

The winners of the Summer Block Party!

First, the technical stuff. All the valid entries from all the participating blogs were put into a spreadsheet that assigned a unique number to each one. There were a total of 156 valid entries. Then Random.org was used to find the winners.

And the winners are:

Winner of a year's subscription to AboutOne: Valerie Stayton @ My-2-Cents, who said "I am a Google RSS feed subscriber, Valerie Stayton, my_2_cents at hotmail dot com"

Winner of a year's subscription to AboutOne: Kim, who said " And because I really, really want to win a b-day onesie: Bonus Entry No. 2: Your birthday is June 2. Melissa is also part of the trio. I generally remember because mine is the 3rd :)"

Winner of a year's subscription to AboutOne: Lisa, who said "I like being able to track medical information on AboutOne."

Winner of a year's subscription to AboutOne: StacyT, who said "I have signed up for my free trial."

Winner of a year's subscription to AboutOne: Cassie, who said "You prefer to read!"

 Winner of the Amazon Gift Card: Maria D., who said "I signed up for the Free trial!"

Winner of the Blog Bling Button: JJ, who said "I'm cooool and subscribe to your blog with Google Reader"

Winner of the Cookies: Seussgirl, who said "Hmm..favorite summer song...right now, I'm loving "Knee Deep" by the Zac Brown Band. I also love "Redneck Yaught Club". Apparently, I go country when it gets hot. :)"

Winner of the Birthday Shirt: Tasha, who said "I follow you through my Blogger feed."

Winner of the Necklace: Geek by Marriage, who said "Following as GeekByMarriage "

Congratulations, winners! If you won a prize, get in touch with Jen by using the contact form on her blog and she will either get you your prize or get you in touch with the person who will get you your prize. If we don't hear from you this week, we have a list of alternates who will get your prize!   

Thank you for playing along and filling up my summer playlist with great tunes!!  Don’t forget to check out AboutOne if you haven’t, it is fantastic.

In the blink of an eye

They go from this adorable, not yet walking, short haired, big blue eyed baby.

January 2010

To this spunky, adorable, dancing, singing, long haired, big blue eyed toddler.

July 2011

I can hardly believe that’s the same child. MY child. My BAYBEE!

In the blink of an eye I am amazed at the girl who stands before me.

 

If you haven’t checked out the Summer Block Party – get on over there before Midnight tonight!! You can win some REALLY cool stuff!!

Wordless Wednesday: Block Party Reminder!

 

Just a reminder to check out the AboutOne Summer Block Party – still going strong through 7.31!!

Invite your friends & don’t forget to visit my neighbors:

   

Wordless Wednesday

I spent the last week in Texas

It was a GREAT time

But now that I am home there is lots to be done for The Event on Saturday!

Including reminding you to head on over to the Online Auctions!

And!! Don’t forget about the Summer Block Party either – one of my readers needs to win those cookies! And the AboutOne membership! [Keep the summer-soundtrack ideas coming, I love them!]

AboutOne Summer Block Party!!!!!

It's summertime in the blogosphere and most of us are running around enjoying the extra day light and (hopefully) a vacation or two. Soaking up the sun, hanging with the family, making memories etc.

This can be a pretty quiet time on the interwebs so we decided to let you guys know that we are blogging this summer by throwing a summer block party. (Who doesn’t love a good party?) Since parties are always fun with gifts we decided to have a giveaway with lots of prizes and lots of chances to enter.

Six bloggers teamed up with each other and AboutOne (you can read my review about their service & how much I adore them here) to bring you:

So bring your favorite shades, pull up a lounge chair and join us at our block party!

THE PRIZES:

5 winners: will receive a one year subscription to AboutOne
1 winner: $25 Gift Card to Amazon.com compliments of AboutOne
1 winner: custom 125 x125 "blog bling button" from the blog loving world of Plaid House Designs
1 winner: one dozen {kind of cookies. OMG I WANT THEM RIGHT NOW!!!} Frank's Big One's cookies
1 winner: adorable custom embroidered print shirt from Little Star Shop
1 winner: custom designed and made necklace from I'm Not that Pregnant

The giveaway runs July 15th – July 31st & is open to US residents only and you must provide a valid e-mail address. Each winner will have 72 hours to respond. If you win the cookies you must mail them to me (they are the best EVER!)

HOW TO ENTER:

• MANDATORY ENTRY: Check out AboutOne's site and leave a comment telling us what feature looks the most interesting to you.

1 BONUS ENTRY: Follow my blog on Google Friend Connect and leave a comment letting me know that you do.

1 BONUS ENTRY: Leave a comment telling me your favorite summer time song – it is a block party afterall, and what would a block party be without music?!

2 BONUS ENTRIES: Sign up for AboutOne's totally free trial and leave us TWO comments letting us know you signed up. {Seriously, how can you pass this up? FREE!!} {{Also, besides AboutOne – ya’ll NEED to win those cookies!}}

Now!!  Let's get this party started!!

But the fun doesn’t stop here - there are 10 (TEN!!!) more ways to enter!

Go to one of the other Summer Block Party Neighbor Blogs and find out how!

Meet my neighbors:

   

 

**This contest is sponsored by AboutOne and the participating bloggers. All participating bloggers were given a free one year service but all opinions in their posts are their own.