AND THE WINNER IS...

Winner winner - chicken dinner...

And the winner of the build a bear give-a-way contest is...drum roll please...

JENI...COMMENTER #15 on the blog. YAY!

Jeni, if you will email me directly at Angie@AngelicaGraceDesigns.com with your address, we'll give it to the build-a-bear PR reps who will be shipping your winning animal to you. Thanks so much to all of you who played along. I love these give-a-ways and hope that each of you do as well.

For now...I'm off with Brennen and my Mom to finally go see "NEW MOON" at the theater. Due to the move, we missed the opening premiere. I have been dying to see it but just haven't had the chance until now. Kenidi is staying in with Daddy for the night while the three of us go see it this evening. Needless to say, Brennen and I are beyond excited. He loved Twilight as much as I did. We've been rooting our "undefeated" Indianapolis Colts on from afar today and are now ready to go and take in some "Edward" for the night. :)

Happy Sunday! Angie

AND THE WINNERS ARE...

OK ladies...this is the moment you've been waiting all week for. I just got done writing out each person's name who left a comment under the give-a-ways and posting your names on pieces of paper. If you blogged about our give-a-ways, you got an extra 5 pieces of paper in the bowl with your name on it. I had Brennen draw for the Ridemakerz give-a-way and Kenidi drew a name for the cross & zebra wall canvas.

Drum roll please...

The winner of the Ridemakerz $75 gift card is:

Congrats Sherri. Brennen drew your name and we were oh so excited for you. Email me with your address and I'll get this shipped out to you on Monday sista'! Thanks for participating and enjoy!

Next up...the winner of the canvas zebra wall cross...

Drumroll please....

The winner is:

Congrats gur-fren! When Kenidi drew your name out a huge smile came across my face. I love that I'm familiar with you and the winner of the RIDEMAKERZ card. You guys deserve the wins. Shoot me an email with your address sista' and I'll get this shipped out to you on Monday. OK? You are soooooooooooo gonna' love it!

I just have to take a second and thank everyone who participated in both of the give-a-ways but especially my 555th post celebration. I cannot explain to you how much all of your comments and all of your participation meant to me. Your words were so kind and so heartfelt. My Mom and I talked about it and we were both overwhelmed with regards to how many people commented. I love that many of our faithful AGD lurkers came out of the closet too. I love that part. I absolutely love hearing from new readers as well as readers who decide to comment for the very first time. It's just the best thing ever to get the comments period! Other bloggers will understand what I mean when I say that. The comments on a blog are what make the blog what it is. Without you who comment, this blog would be nothing. As we approach the holiday, I am so grateful and extremely thankful for my blog friends whom I've met in the past 5 years or so while doing documenting this blog and my family website (back before blogging was ever "blogging"). I'm so serious when I say that each of you hold such a special place in my heart.

Please note....I tried to comment on as many blogs as I could regarding those who posted a comment or who posted about the give-a-way on their own blog. However, after a while, it got to be too hard to keep up with all of you. Like I said earlier, you guys really blew both give-a-ways out of the park. I was having a hard time finding time to get to each blog and comment this past week due to our hectic schedule leading up to next weeks vacation. So, please know that if I didn't comment back on your blog, it wasn't purposeful. The overwhelming turn out and response to it all was fantastic and I'm so humbled by the experience. Thanks to each of you for continually keeping me astonished, amazed, blushing, my ego boosted (wink wink) and for keeping me forever grateful for your friendships.

As the old commercial used to say...

"I love you Man!"

xoxoxo, Angie

PS...And let's not forget the huge new welcome to all of our new readers who found us via other blogs thanks to these give-a-way postings. We welcome you and are so glad to have you here. Keep commenting & stay in touch!