a GIVEAWAY in honor of today!!

***UPDATE: Contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone who entered! Stay tuned for the winners to be announced tomorrow (Monday)!! If you missed the contest, but still want to confess your blog stalker status, comments are still open! :-) ***

What is today, you ask? Well, today is the day that this little blog turns 1 year old! I can hardly believe that I have actually kept it up this long. But it has been tons of fun...and a great "escape" form reality! One of the most fun things about it has been finding other friends who have started blogs and being able to keep up with them. A year ago, when I first started, I read maybe 2 or 3 other blogs... and may I please just tell you that they were people who I totally did not know. They were blogs that I found through a friend of a friend of a friend...etc that just for some reason kept me interested! But as more "real life" friends have surfaced with blogs, it has become even more exciting to keep mine going and keep up with them too!

However, after this whole year, I still don't know who all of YOU are who read the blog! I know there are some of you that are signed up to "follow us" (in the left sidebar) and I do have a counter at the bottom of the blog that tells me how MANY people have visited, and that map thingy (on the left) that tells me WHERE someone who viewed the blog is from. But in case you were wondering, NO, there is no way for me to know WHO actually comes to the blog & reads! We will sometimes have between 50-100 hits in a day and I always wonder who is reading and how you came to the blog. And let me just tell you, there is no reason to hesitate to admit that you're a "blog stalker." I am probably the biggest "blog stalker" of them all. I might just read more blogs of people that I don't even know than those of my own personal friends! ha! Cullen thinks I'm crazy. :-) And then of course there are those people that I haven't talked to in 5 years, but found their blog and am addicted. So, there is no reason to be ashamed that you're a blog stalker!! I'd love to hear from you!

I would be thrilled if you would just leave a comment at the bottom of this post by clicking where it says "(#) comments." So 'fess up, fellow blog stalkers... even if you think I already know!

So, what's in it for YOU?!

Well, it just so happens that this is my first ever GIVEAWAY post! And all you have to do is leave a comment on this post (just to say hey & let me know you read our blog... or to say nothing interesting at all if you want!) and I will have random.org randomly pick the winners.

And the prize??

My friend Natalie has generously offered to award THREE winners with some awesome goods from Sweet Lemons!! They have some of THE cutest things!!! Here is some of their work:

adorable stationary

super cute address labels

& tons of precious personalized things by special order - including invitations

The 2nd runner up will receive a set of 12 personalized notecards, 1st runner up will receive a set of 60 address labels and the grand prize winner will receive notecards and address labels!! All will be in your choice of ANY design! Check out all of the awesome designs, graphics, and fonts there are to choose from on the Sweet Lemons ETSY website.

All you have to do is comment on this post... new readers, old readers, first-time readers, readers who arrived here from Sweet Lemons, ANYONE can win! (If you don't have a blogger account, you can comment as "anonymous" - just make sure to sign your name so I can contact you if you win!)

*The giveaway will end at 11:59pm Sunday and I will announce the winners on Monday!*
You have THREE, count 'em, THREE chances to win... so get to commenting!!

***UPDATE: Contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone who entered! Stay tuned for the winners to be announced tomorrow (Monday)!! If you missed the contest, but still want to confess your blog stalker status, comments are still open! ***