[the waiting] game's ON!

remember this little guy?

well, he's not so little anymore. he's i'm actually quite big, and ready for my little love to make his grand entrance into the world. not due until january 23rd, i still have one week to go. BUT... it really could be any day! right now it's just a matter of waiting.

photograph © heather lutterman

so while i have to sit here and wait, i decided we might as well have some fun—time for a contest!!

here's what you do: guess the date and time baby boy will be born. example, january 15th, 11:22pm. yes, i'm being quite optimistic and unrealistic in my guess!

rules: 1. one guess per person.

2. make sure i have a way to contact you (email, facebook, etc).

3. and fianlly, you may NOT guess that the baby will be born anytime after january 29th. sorry, i absolutely refuse to even think about being a week overdue!

whoever guesses closest to the baby's birthdate will win bragging rights. and, of course, a little something else! good luck!

drumroll please...

the contests have come to a close!

with her guess of 10:43 am for my time of birth, photoqueen wins the mary kay eye set! my actual time of birth was 11:03 am. great guess, photo!

and to pick the winner for the fireproof dvd, i put all your names into a bowl and let ben draw the winner. here's the proof!

congratulations winners! and happy lucky friday 13th!

paraskavedekatriaphobia

happy friday the 13th! anyone out there superstitious?

later today my contest will end. and two of you will find out if you're lucky on friday the 13th!

and there's still time to enter! so whatever you do, don't walk under a ladder, don't go to work, don't get married, don't kick a black cat, don't cut your hair, and don't travel. but go ahead and make sure you're entered in the contest!

click here and scroll to the bottom to see how you can enter to win a mary kay eye set or fireproof on dvd.

oh, and some useless trivia for your pleasure: the fear of friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia!

not me! monday

it's a happy monday....

make sure you visit mckmama's blog to play along and to read what everyone else has not been doing! but for now, here's what's not going on with me!

i certainly did not take advantage of the 70 degree days we had this week. i did not walk with the kids to the park in hopes of taking some great pictures. and, thinking ahead, i did not check the camera battery and change it before we went. then i did not walk 15 minutes to the park, get ready to take some pictures, and notice that there was no memory card in the camera. nope, not me! if i'm smart enough to check the battery i'm definitely smart enough to check that there's a memory card!!

while driving in the car with the kids, samantha did not notice some litter on the street, then proceed with this lecture while sounding entirely devastated, "oh no mom! someone littered!!! and this is the only world we have, mom!! we need to keep it clean for our kids... yep, it's our only world..." nope. my 5-year-old is not a green freak!

if anyone saw me at church on saturday, i was not dropping off samantha for sparks-o-rama practice which i found out doesn't start until NEXT saturday. nope, definitely not me. i'm way too detail oriented to skim over the flyer that had the times and dates!

i absolutely did not clean up drying paint on my floor at 11pm last night. my son did not tip over a paint bucket which did not create a lake of paint on our floor. and i did not blog about it before cleaning it up.

aannnnnnnddddddd..............

....last but not least.

today is not my birthday, so instead of giving myself a present, i am not gonna give you the chance to win one!

here's what you do: leave me a comment with your guess of what time i was born. whoever is the closest gets this lovely mary kay prize consisting of an eye essentials set, oil-free eye makeup remover, age fighting eye cream, and soothing eye gel!

sorry family, you can't play on this one!

and this is also not my 100th post, so i'm not gonna have a double contest!

to win a dvd of the new movie fireproof, you can get one entry for following my blog, one entry for following me on twitter, and one entry for leaving me another comment about your favorite thing about my blog. (you automatically get an entry if you follow my blog or twitter.)

family, you can play along on this one!

make sure i have a way to contact you if you win. and sorry, i can only ship to the 48 contiguous states! the contests will end when i post the winners on friday, february 13th!

happy monday!!!