ultimate blog party winner!

well, the party's over; the floor's a mess, the alcohol cabinet is bare, but i'm still left with a tonne of nuts....
i didn't quite make it to 125 followers. i netted 60 new followers in ONE day with SITS and 13 new followers in a week with the UBP. i guess the sheer size of the UBP accounts for that.

STILL! - a warm welcome to all my new followers. you should know by now that i have giveaways all the time and there's plenty of goodies to be had.

i'll probably give away the 2nd kiwana package for my 15,000th visitor (i'm at 13920 now) - so not long to wait!!!

so...without further ado...the winner of thisis.........

"Kristi Smith said... 6

Please, please, please pour me a drink!!! yum.

Fun post.

You look smashing next to your dashing husband!!!"

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

6 

Timestamp: 2009-03-31 04:54:42 UTC.....

MY KC PEEP KRISTI!!!

(as you can see, we've met before...)

the ultimate blog party

Welcome to my Ultimate Blog Party Post!

please make yourself at home.

can i pour you a drink?

anyone for nuts?

speaking of nuts - let me introduce you to my family

here's the girls last december hamming it up after we decorated our treehere's my yummy husband. yes i know i'm in this photo too, but apparently women become invisible when there's a man wearing a kilt in the room!and here i am jumping for joy (for no particular reason at all)

No party would be completed without FREE STUFF, so here it is...

kiwiana goodie package #1 will go to my 125th follower (start folllowing NOW!) (cute shoe bag, caramello easter eggs, silver fern magnet, paua earrings, and an adorable scarf!) and kiwiana goodie package #2 will be chosen randomly from all comments.

(eco-book/recyclable bag, i heart NZ magnet, caramello easter eggs, paua necklace and kiwiana phone bling)as usual i'm willing to post ANYWHERE WORLDWIDE, on ONE condition:

follow me, then leave me some comment love. i promise i'll do the same for you.

apparently i'm in the running for some cool prizes too! There are so many to be won at this year’s Ultimate Blog Party, but my top three picks would be:

#3 - $15 amazon voucher

#37 - earrings from lulu's hook

#38 - $25 gift certificate to collective elements

And if my top three picks are already chosen, I’d love any of the awesome bloggy makeovers on offer.

i hope you have enjoyed your visit to my blog. you had to come a long way you know. new zealand is very far.....

Monday Morning Math (the fun kind)

i don't know how to make a 'sticky post' (where you leave an earlier post at the top on purpose), so i'm putting the banner in again and you can just read on down!!!

so, some math for a monday morning...

number of days until i get to see this guy

14

(oh, that's the big buddha on lantau island, btw)

number of days since i looked like this

days? lady are you kidding me? centuries more like!

i can't think what would have been so amusing off camera. maybe someone was poking me in the side. who knows. photographers and parents will do anything to make a kid smile, and smile i did. just not into the camera. nobody said i wanted to be america's next top model.

things i've learnt since my first day of school

1. wearing an apron to school is not cool
2. birthdays usually mean cake. even when you get beyond the age where you lose count of how many are on top

hey - there's more than 29 on here! what gives?

that was last year. hopefully my family have learned to count since then.

but i digress

1. family and friends are what it's all about
2. chocolate is right up there too
3. being sad on a sunny day should be outlawed - it's just not right!
4. do unto others as you would have them do unto you
5. there is no life without coffee and laughter
6. oprah's cool
7. music is the laughter of the soul

other things i've learnt since my first day of school

how to point

that's me in the sunnies and the ridiculously over-sized t-shirt i was required to wear at our school gala yesterday. i was a 'spotter' during the auction. we raised over $10,000 at the auction alone. our gala usually raises over $40,000. an awesome result for many months hard work.

and last, but by no means least...

WAAAHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

the noise you wanna make when u see a pic like this!

happy monday everyone!

The Ultimate Blog Party

once again, i'm happy to be promoting and joining in the fun. this time the brilliant idea for this global blogging get-together comes from 5 Minutes for Mom. The Ultimate Blog Party is a carnival for you to meet other mum bloggers, have fun and win prizes; and you DON'T have to be participating to be eligible for their HUGE list of prizes!!! go take a look.

so for my UBP post, i thought i would share some community service, death-defying acts and (aptly) - friendship and support.

there are photos of death-defying acts (of the acrobatic type) below, but tash holding this sign up in the wind also qualifies! girl guide biscuits are the southern hemisphere equivalent of girl scout cookies. we sold lots this morning and will continue to all month long.

then i took these 4 lovely girls

to see this

and this

looks like fun, huh?
they're called 'GRAVITY AND OTHER MYTHS'

bad time to itch your butt dude...

now that's a supportive woman!!!

that's all folks!!!