Sorry this is so late but it has been a busy busy day.  We got free tickets to the zoo because Phoenix is doing this awesome thing right now where you can go to the library and get what is called a “Culture Pass” which gets 4 people into a destination of your choice.  You can pick from basically all of the museums in the area, the science center, and the zoo.  Earlier this week we went to the Children’s Museum.  A great great place to go with young kids.

We spent some time walking around the zoo in 100 degree weather (hot but we still enjoyed ourselves), came home, hopped in the pool, barbecued dinner, and now we are getting ready to vegg out on the couch watching TV.  It has been a delightful Mother’s Day.  It helps to have such a wonderful husband.  He has let me do whatever I want today without question.  This morning his gift to me was a day all to myself one day a month for the rest of the year.  He will either take Eva somewhere and I can stay home or he will stay here with her while I go somewhere.  One whole day of no cooking, cleaning dishes, or dealing with bodily fluids.  HEAVEN.

Not to say that I don’t LOVE spending time with my daughter because I do.  Without her I obviously wouldn’t be a mother but I also wouldn’t get to experience the greatest love life has to offer.  I love just watching her play, especially with her dad.  Her sweet little smile, the look of wonder on her face, her contagious laugh, those beautiful big eyes.  I now know what it feels like to literally want to freeze time and just be able to remember a moment forever.  A moment so mundane as sitting on the living room floor surrounded by toys, holding out a fake blood pressure monitor and saying “help me daddy”.  Then sitting there with the most serious look on her face as he “checks” her bp.  When he is done she takes it off and a charming smile comes over her face.  Not on a pristine beach or a glorious mountaintop just in my own little house.  This is where the really special moments in life live.

Okay enough blubbering on about my daughter.  I hope you all had an equally wonderful mother’s day, and if not have a do over next Sunday.

Now…the lucky winner of the $50 photofiddle gift card is…

ERICA from The Candy Bar

Head over to her site and check out her meatloaf cupcakes.  They really do look delicious!

I used random.org to choose the winner but I cannot figure out how to do print screen (my keyboard won’t work) so you will just have to take my word for it.

Thank you to everyone who enetered.  Hope you enjoy your prize Erica!

I’ve always known that Mom’s are special people but now that I’m a mom myself…I REALLY appreciate all you Mom’s out there.

If  you read my review on photofiddle.com last month you know how much I love this website and their product.  It really is one of my favorite things.  Which is why I am sooooo excited I get to do a $50 giveaway for Mother’s Day.

*This giveaway is for anyone who is a mom or who has a mom!*

If you’ve never heard of photofiddle it is a website where you can upload a picture of your own and turn it into artwork.  They put the finished product on either stretched canvas, regular canvas, or on high quality photo paper.  I can tell you the stretched canvas looks great!  I got these images from their website and they are just a few of the things you can do with your pictures.

As you can see you can pretty much turn any picture into artwork.

Okay so if you live in the US all you have to do to win this awesome prize is…

1. Click on this link at photofiddle.com and check out all the different styles you can get.  Oil, impasto, modern, pop art, watercolor, charcoal, or any of the other ones listed.

2. Leave me a comment here telling me what your favorite style is.

3.  You can get an extra entry if you either subscribe to my RSS feed, follow me on twitter, and/or twitter about the giveaway.  Make sure you tell me in your comment that you did this.

Entries will be accepted up until Saturday at midnight.  I will announce the winner on Mother’s Day this Sunday.