And the winner is...

...well, to be quite honest we had a difficult time "randomly" choosing a winner. Each persons story made us laugh and we enjoyed reading your favorite quotes!

Our special favorite story was from Becca,

"For my comical memory: One day our neighbor gave us a great big stuffed monster. It was about six-feet long and orange with big purple polka-dots. It was stuffed tightly with little Styrofoam balls. Mama said we must throw it away because it might pop and make a mess. So we put it in our garbage dumpster, but it didn’t fit! Its head stuck out and made it look like Oscar the Grouch. Later, our other neighbors’ cleaning ladies saw it. They squealed and took it away!"

And our favorite quote was from our friend Joseph,

"There is no disgrace in a failure, only in a failure to try."

-Theodore Roosevelt

In the end we decided for Mom to pick names out of a hat, and she pulled out...

Laura Pedersen from We the Pedersens!

Thank you for reading and commenting Laura! We loved reading your entry!

You will be hearing from us about getting your special, mysterious prize :)

The Big 200 and a special giveaway!: celebrated mostly in pictures.

Well, we have done it; after starting this blog in August of last year, we have come quite a bit from our first few posts. It has been so fun to be able to share each of our different trials, lessons, and joys. It's wonderful to be able to look back and see the maturity and growth in each post.

Here are some pictures taken this weekend.

Thank you so much for reading and contributing to our blogging experience! Each of us enjoy posting and

We hope that the Lord will continue to be glorified in future posts and that you would continue to read and comment!

In celebration of this goal reached and an expression of our own excitement at writing 200 posts, we would like to send someone a special surprise! To enter this giveaway please write us one (or more) of the following:

~Your favorite quote

~Most comical memory

~Unique way you are being industrious in your home

You have until midnight of the 17th of October (or this Saturday) to send us one of the above! Then we will announce the winner that next Monday. So hurry and get your contributions sent in before midnight on Saturday!

Isn't this exciting? :)

*Correction: please leave a comment to enter the giveaway; our email address is temporarily unavailable.

ET Giveaway

Christa Taylor, over at Empowered Traditionalist, is teaming up Trisha Ramos to host a giveaway for a handbag made by Mrs. Ramos.

In addition to the cute handbag, this purse also comes with hundreds of Gospel tracts. Head on over there to enter this giveaway!

"Pajama School"

I recently won a giveaway on Jasmine's blog for the book "Pajama School" by Natalie Wickham. Thank you, Jasmine! I am enjoying it just like you said I would :-). As of today, I'm in the eighth chapter. Filled with funny stories, godly insight, and an encouraging journey through homeschooling, this book already has me laughing and is challenging me in different ways. She answers different homeschooling and other questions along the way and it is easy to identify with her and her life. I hope you too will read this book sometime.

In Christ,

Micaela

What He Must Be... giveaway link

Jasmine, over at Joyfully Home, is hosting a giveaway of her dad's new book What He Must Be... If He Wants To Marry My Daughter. The giveaway ends next Friday at noon. Hop on over there to enter and for more details. We're going through the book as a family right now and are halfway through it.

...All parents want their daughters to marry godly young men. But which qualities, specifically, should they be looking for?

What will you say when that certain young man sits down in your living room, sweaty-palmed and tongue-tied, and asks your permission to marry your daughter? What criteria should he meet before the two of them join together for life? What He Must Be… If He Wants to Marry My Daughter outlines ten qualities parents should look for in a son-in-law, including trustworthiness, a willingness to lead his family, an understanding of his wife’s role, and various spiritual leadership qualities.

Author Voddie Baucham follows up on his popular book Family Driven Faith with this compelling apologetic of biblical manhood. By studying the principles outlined in his book, parents who want their daughter to marry a godly man—as well as those who want their sons to become godly men—will be well equipped to help their children look for and develop these God-honoring qualities...

An interview and giveaway!

Miss Jocelyn over at " A Pondering Heart" has an interview with Christa Taylor, who started an online business offering modest clothing, called Christa-Taylor.com.
Here's what Miss Jocelyn has to say:

"You’ve gone and looked at C-T and now you’re wanting to put some of the items on your wish-list…. well, how about a chance to get something early with a $25 give credit for the C-T store?

You can enter a chance to win the $25 GC by leaving a comment, and if you want to enter again tell your friends and when they come to enter make sure they say who directed them here because if they say YOU did then you get yet ANOTHER entry! So if you tell 15 friends and they all say “Sarah told me” then you get 15 more entries."

I checked out some of the clothing and it's great! Very modest and classic clothing.
Hop on over to "A Pondering Heart" to enter the giveaway and read the interview!

In Christ,

Micaela