Updates and a Winner!

Whew! It's been a while, yes? It's been a busy week, with Mr. B. off for a week and the kids home from school. They will be off until the 5th, so I'm just checking in - I probably won't be on regularly until they are back to school.

We've been having a great time of spending Xmas money and gift cards, watching M.'s new collection of Harry Potter DVDs, playing games and just chilling out. It's been a great week. Today I am going grocery shopping and then trying to get the house back in some kind of semi-order. We also have to start on J.'s math project and M.'s book report that are both due when they go back to school. I just never understood the need to give kids homework during holiday vacations - but that's just me.

So....what you've probably been waiting for -- the winner to the "Where the Hell is Tanner" caption contest! If you are just tuning in, the contest was to caption this picture of Tanner:



The winner will received the gently used book, "1001 Artist Journal Pages".




There were so many laugh out loud entries! I loved seeing what everyone entered! It was a really, really hard choice. In the end, there was one that tickled my funny bone the most. Maybe it's been the endless stream of Harry Potter movies the last few days, combined with the Harry Potter DVD game that I got. Maybe it was the way this person went off from the norm - goodness knows I love a rebel, someone who thinks outside the box! So the winner, is Servitor Lucem from Practically Magic with this caption:

"Not Slytherin, not Slytherin, not Slytherin!"

Please email me your snail mail address, and I will send you the "1001 Artist Journal Pages" book. I hope it will inspire you to create!

And for those in doubt, no, that is not a photo shopped picture. M. stuck her Santa hat on Tanner, and she sat there, completely still, long enough for me to run and get my camera, come back, and take no less than 4 shots of her with the hat on. Who knows what she was thinking in there? (I did sleep with one eye open that night, let me tell ya!). For more shots of my weird cat, check out Where the Hell is Tanner?.