Anyone who carefully read the rules to yesterday's contest knows that the contest was scheduled to last for several more decades, but as is allowed by a loophole in its well-written rules, I've decided to end the contest 99 years and 364 days early and reveal the winners tonight. I knew the suspense would be too much for all of you and frankly I was a little concerned that I might have spent the gazillion dollars by then anyway. Without further ado, here are the 10 truths and a lie!
1. Helped one of the kids open their own bank account. True--after taking Cami to the bank to cash several weeks' worth of checks for babysitting and cupcakes, we decided it was definitely time for Cami to stop keeping her money in a jar....especially since we didn't have any jars big enough for her stash of cash. :)
2. Just got our passports in the mail. True! The Make-a-Wish people said we should be hearing about Spencer's wish plans soon! {Please ignore my 11pm hair}
3. Made disgusting popsicles. True! I got brave and decided to come up with my own coconut popsicle recipe, thinking that there was no way I could mess up too badly where sugar is involved. Unfortunately my optimism proved to be misplaced and these popsicles ended up sickeningly sweet with a very odd texture. {the kids never even finished theirs if that tells you something}
4. Got a busy, new calling at church. True! I am very humbled and excited to be the new young women's president in our ward. We have awesome young women and I'm excited to be working with some wonderful ladies!
5. Bid farewell to my sister who's been staying with us ever since Spencer got sick. True! After being our right-hand woman for 8-months, Heather decided it was time to let Cami have her room back. We miss her already! :(
6. Spence is at the beach with a friend this week. True! Apparently they haven't been able to do a whole lot of beach going yet because of the rainy weather, but he's excited about his first ever vacation without parents.
7. In the process of making homemade fruit roll-ups (with 100% fruit). True! Although never a huge part of our diet anyway, I've been trying to cut down on preservatives and artificial dyes and flavorings even more lately. I've tried blueberry roll ups and mango-apricot roll ups and the kids love them both!
8. Haven't bought any bread for the entire summer. True! Going along with #7, I challenged myself to go for the entire summer without buying bread for our family. I've been experimenting with grinding my own wheat and discovering the perfect homemade recipe. I'm almost there and the kids are begging me to keep up the bread baking during the school year as well. We shall see...
9. Cami got an order for 10 dozen cupcakes for an upcoming wedding. True! And she is super excited about it!
10. Finally finished organizing the kids' room. False! We've made significant strides forward and most of their room is done, but their closet remains quite the challenging foe. Someday I hope to enjoy organizing and house projects as much as I love cooking and blogging, but in the meantime I continue to chip away at it each day for as long as my attention span will allow before getting grumpy about it. {I'll post more pictures when I'm done, but for now here's a little teaser picture of their new art/homework station. }
11. Want to go on vacation later this week and still haven't finalized our plans. True! All summer we've been hesitant making vacation plans not knowing when Spencer's Make-a-Wish trip might come through. Since it's only a few more weeks until school starts and we still haven't heard anything about the trip's timing, we finally decided that we needed to do something before the summer totally got away from us. We've been a little wishy washy about making our final plans and now we've had a minor wrench thrown in which is looking to complicate things even further. (don't worry it's nothing serious) In the meantime, we're still taking suggestions for vacation ideas that are not-too-far-from home (less than 8-hours away), not too expensive, and fun for the whole family. Feel free to shower us with ideas.
AND THE WINNERS ARE.....
My beautiful sister, Kristina
My Mom and Dad
JP
...who apparently knew only too well that me finishing a house project in less than 2-years would practically qualify as miracle status. The gazillion dollars will be split evenly between the three of them and if they send me their bank account information, I will direct deposit it into their bank accounts as soon as I pay Glen the gazillion dollars I owe him first.
1. Helped one of the kids open their own bank account. True--after taking Cami to the bank to cash several weeks' worth of checks for babysitting and cupcakes, we decided it was definitely time for Cami to stop keeping her money in a jar....especially since we didn't have any jars big enough for her stash of cash. :)
5. Bid farewell to my sister who's been staying with us ever since Spencer got sick. True! After being our right-hand woman for 8-months, Heather decided it was time to let Cami have her room back. We miss her already! :(
6. Spence is at the beach with a friend this week. True! Apparently they haven't been able to do a whole lot of beach going yet because of the rainy weather, but he's excited about his first ever vacation without parents.
7. In the process of making homemade fruit roll-ups (with 100% fruit). True! Although never a huge part of our diet anyway, I've been trying to cut down on preservatives and artificial dyes and flavorings even more lately. I've tried blueberry roll ups and mango-apricot roll ups and the kids love them both!
8. Haven't bought any bread for the entire summer. True! Going along with #7, I challenged myself to go for the entire summer without buying bread for our family. I've been experimenting with grinding my own wheat and discovering the perfect homemade recipe. I'm almost there and the kids are begging me to keep up the bread baking during the school year as well. We shall see...
9. Cami got an order for 10 dozen cupcakes for an upcoming wedding. True! And she is super excited about it!
10. Finally finished organizing the kids' room. False! We've made significant strides forward and most of their room is done, but their closet remains quite the challenging foe. Someday I hope to enjoy organizing and house projects as much as I love cooking and blogging, but in the meantime I continue to chip away at it each day for as long as my attention span will allow before getting grumpy about it. {I'll post more pictures when I'm done, but for now here's a little teaser picture of their new art/homework station. }
AND THE WINNERS ARE.....
My beautiful sister, Kristina
My Mom and Dad
JP
...who apparently knew only too well that me finishing a house project in less than 2-years would practically qualify as miracle status. The gazillion dollars will be split evenly between the three of them and if they send me their bank account information, I will direct deposit it into their bank accounts as soon as I pay Glen the gazillion dollars I owe him first.
Will you please wire transfer our half-gazillion into our Credit Suisse account in Geneva? This will insure that we can totally avoid any tax liabilities for the next ten years-just like my good friend Mitt Romney taught me. Please don't tell my old gambling buddy Harry Reid.
ReplyDeleteI will be watching my account closely for my deposit. Hope it comes soon. It will help with the constant remodelling projects we have.
ReplyDeleteOh man, i missed another chance to win a gazillion dollars!!! :)
ReplyDeleteIve been meaning to talk to you, but its been crazy busy here. I don't know if you heard that I'm moving again. Roger got a job in Texas so we are leaving on the 17th. I know that we didn't see each other much, but I'm glad for the times that we did. I love reading your blogs and if you are ever in the area of Austin, Texas, look me up!!
Oh man, i missed another chance to win a gazillion dollars!!! :)
ReplyDeleteIve been meaning to talk to you, but its been crazy busy here. I don't know if you heard that I'm moving again. Roger got a job in Texas so we are leaving on the 17th. I know that we didn't see each other much, but I'm glad for the times that we did. I love reading your blogs and if you are ever in the area of Austin, Texas, look me up!!
I wish I would have seen the contest before it was over! I was totally going to guess the kids room, not because of any thought of your lack of ability to finish it...more because it's a kids room so it's potentially ever changing...or perhaps because if it were me it would be half finished (I have an entire home have half finished/organized rooms!)
ReplyDeleteThe next time you make bread may I come over? I have a bucket of wheat and after two attempts I've put my bread making/learning on hold, but really want to figure it out!
Our family is going to Rehoboth Beach in Delaware. We don't have teenagers in our mix though so I'm not sure what would be there for them...other than the beach of course. There's a little "funland" amusement park that my nieces and nephews loved last year. Good luck!
Thank you. I am so humbled to have won. My platform as a prestigious winner is to use my 1/3 of a gazillion dollars to end terrible Popsicle making across the world! I love your posts like this! I am totally going to try to steal this idea in the near future.
ReplyDeleteWant to know how to make 5 loafs of bread in an hour? Tastes fabulous too!! I use 50% whole white wheat from the church cannery. I don't have many skills in the kitchen, but I do know how to whip out fantastic bread in an hour. email me
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