Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner!

After using the highly technical method of putting your names on pieces of paper and then drawing from a bowl, we have a winner from my 100th post giveaway!

April M. from Auntie April!

YAY!!! Email me with your address and I will send it out this weekend.

CONGRATS!!!!

Random Thoughts

I have decided to start a new feature on my blog... Random Thoughts. It is just something for me to be able to get out the things in my head so I can go about my day.

There is a great need for a Sarcasm font

My 100th Post! A New Look, A New Name and… A GIVEAWAY!!

I have been wondering what to post for this momentous occasion. I started my blog in 2007 to document our house being built, because our families are spread out across the U.S.

My friend April in CA encouraged me to start blogging and I had NO idea what I would write about and here I am writing about EVERYTHING.

I originally decided to name my blog Ponderosa Jr., because it was all about my house. My hubby’s parents live in Northern New Mexico and my father-in-law, refers to their place as “The Ponderosa”. Having lived up there for a while after Mike and I got married, I fell in love with the place and so when we moved to Las Cruces, I nicknamed our house the Ponderosa Jr. Since my blog is no longer about our house, I decided to rename it. The link is still the same, so in your blog list, be sure to change the name. I will officially change it in 1 week in my settings.

So, to shamelessly plug my blog and to say thank you to all my readers and followers, I am giving away…..

1. Burt’s Bees Travel Kit

2. Mini Gel Pens

3. Monopoly Deal card game (we just bought it, it is soooo fun!!)

4. Magnetic Note Pads

5. Mini Bowling Game

6. Fiji Apple Body Butter

7. Whoopie Cushion

8. Flart - “Noise Putty” use your imagination

9. Parents easy scrapbook

10. Hair Wrap Towel

To enter you can do one (or all) of the following, each will give you an entry:

1. Leave a comment (letting me know you did one or all of the following)

2. Post about this giveaway on your blog

3. Follow my blog (if you are already a follower, you will get credit for that, just !)

4. This is more of a request, grab my adoption button and put it on your blog. You can get it at oureternalcircle.blogspot.com

Home Study Today!!!!

Well folks, today is the day of our home study. I am excited and nervous. (actually I am wound tighter than an 8 day clock!)

After today... I can take a breath.

And then... we wait and wait and wait. Well, that is not all we will be doing. We are going to be very proactive in getting the word out about our hope to adopt, even more than we already have. To help with that, I have ordered some pass along cards from Spaces for Faces and hired Erin from DesignerBlogs.com, to design our adoption blog.

Our adoption blog's address is oureternalcircle.blogspot.com if you want to check it out, it isn't finished yet, there is still some things we need to put on there. PLEASE grab my button for your blog (once it is on there) to help us spread the word about our adoption.

Thanks for all your support my RL and Bloggy friends!! You're awesome!

P.S. I need to give a special shout out to Ashley, Sariah, Kendra, Shaela, and Amber for the card and flowers. You really made my day!!! I love you!!!

Are We Really THIS Lazy, People???

My hubby and I went to the grocery store last night and upon returning to our car, there were several carts in various places in the parking lot. This by itself is not uncommon.

The part that really gets to me is that we parked 1 space over from the "cart corral" and there were carts in the parking lot 2 feet from it!

I am just floored that people are parked right next to that thing and still don't put them away.

Seriously, are we really that lazy?