Little Bo Peep and Her 2 Little Sheep!
Email me, Holly, and I’ll give you the details to claim your personalized Chocolate Silver Design Necklace!
It was certainly a close race and nearly 1,000 of you voted! Thanks for making it so much fun, AND for not making ME pick the final winner!
If you’re name isn’t Holly and you haven’t lost your sheep, have no fear…
There’s another exciting giveaway just around the corner here on www.4tunate.net !
Before you send me hate mail, unsubscribe to 4tunate, or egg my car, please know that I had a VERY DIFFICULT task of narrowing the 60+ entries down to a Top 5. If it’s any consolation, I made a photo montage, so everyone can admire the tremendous originality of your costumes and beauty of your children. Seriously, you are ALL one creative, adorable, sensational bunch of Trick or Treaters!
**** Here’s the Top 5: Vote For Your Favorite (Poll Located at the Bottom of the Post). One vote per person. Share with your family and friends! Voting Closes Wednesday, November 11, 2009. ****
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PHOTO #1
Campbell the Pumpkin
Submitted by Micah
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PHOTO #2
Will the Alligator
Submitted by Megan
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PHOTO #3
The 50’s Girls
Submitted by Kimberly
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PHOTO #4
“Pride and Joy”
Submitted by Michelle
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PHOTO #5
Little Bo Beep and Her Sheep
Submitted by Holly
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And Here’s My 68 Favorites in Video Form:
Music by David Benoit “The Great Pumpkin Waltz”
These 3 items are clues for our Halloween Family Costume:
I can’t wait to hear your guesses and see if you can put the pieces together!
I also look forward to hearing what YOUR family is going to be for Halloween. Hopefully, we got your creative juices flowing from our previous Halloween Costumes Post. Feel free to send us your pictures to quatro_mama AT yahoo DOT com and we’ll highlight our favorites, and let you vote for your personal favorite in a special giveaway.
Thanks for being a daily “TREAT” to our family!
I recently purchased our Halloween Costumes online, and while I’m not ready to reveal our family costume just yet…I did run across some unique and creative ideas that might help you if you’re still searching for the perfect costume idea.
(You can find these costumes by following the link under the pictures.)
Car Air Freshner Gnome Man-Eating Shark
Of Course You’re Welcome to Steal Our Halloween Costumes from the Past 2 Years:
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If you had a great costume you’d like to share with 4tunate, we’d love to feature our favorites. Perhaps I’ll even whip up a contest! Email me at quatro_mama AT yahoo DOT com with your cute, crafty, unique Halloween costume pictures.
OR…Tell me what which costume that I highlighted was your favorite.
OR… Leave your own costume ideas in the comment section of this post. I have a feeling your creativity is about to “Wow!” me.
I admit it. I had to think twice about this picture. I even checked my answer with another picture just to be sure. These boys are gonna be trouble for their teachers someday!!!
Tracy was the first comment and guessed correctly. (Email me Tracy, quatro_mama <at> yahoo <dot> com and I'll send you out a little something!) The TV theme song was indeed The Patty Duke Show. Nick at Nite provided some quality entertainment growing up.
This picture was the closest they've looked since this one...
Same order as above. Sweet baby boys. This one is a stumper too...
Brooks on the left Clark on the right. Love the arm around his brother. You think they did that in the womb?
(For those of you new to 4tunate, Brooks and Clark are a rare form of identicals called mono-amniotic twins. Henry and Isaac are fraternal.)
It's official, Superfans! We are the recipient of the 2008 Weblog Best Parenting Blog. Woweee! Now the pressure's on to maintain "award worthy" blog material, right? We were competing with some highly professional, well written, top-notch blogs- Hats off to ALL of the nominees!
I cannot thank you enough for your enthusiastic response to our request for votes. (All 2,851 of them!) You guys went to town with emails, updating your facebook statuses, blog posts, etc. YOU are the ones responsible for this award!!!!! I wish I had a prize to share with all of you, but you'll have to settle for the same prize I received - the image "badge" posted above. Isn't she a beaut?
(For a full listing of the award winning blogs by category, go here.)
Working on a new blog post starting right.......NOW.
Update Tuesday @ 8 pm EST : Looks like we came out ahead at the last minute, thanks to your final campaigning efforts. No "certified" word on winners until Thursday, but regardless you guys were OUTSTANDING! I'll let you know when the official winners are announced.
They're BROTHERS,
Identical brothers and you'll find
They laugh alike, they walk alike, At times they even talk alike —
You can lose your mind,
When brothers are two of a kind.
124.6 points to the first person who can correctly identify who's who AND the sitcom theme song from which I remixed the lyrics. (Maybe I'll even dig up a REAL prize!)
Oh and I'll try to let you know as soon as I know about the Weblog Best Parenting Blog Contest Winner. Voting ends tomorrow evening. It's a barn burner, so get out there and VOTE! =)
AND THE WINNER IS:
Nikki from Comment #87!
Nikki, Send an email my way (quatro_mama{at}yahoo{dot}com) and I'll send a gift certificate your way. Should be perfect for the little bun in the oven!
Oh were ya'll waiting on something else???
Oh yes!
I believe you wanted to see this...
More pictures, video, and commentary guaranteed to make you melt coming up shortly...
October is just a fabulous month...well, for LOTS of reasons. One of them being tomorrow (wink, wink). So what better way to celebrate than a GIVEAWAY? All you have to do to play along is guess what our "pumpkins" are going to be for Halloween this year. You've got time to mull it over. The contest will end 10/30/08 at midnight. I'll pick a winner randomly from the guesses. (Yep, that's right you don't even have to guess correctly to win! I grade on a curve!) Just leave a comment in the comment section with your best guess. Oh yeah, the prize is a $25 Gift Certificate to Jackaroos Boutique! Oh how I love their little John-Johns!
One last time, here's how you can participate:
If you like the pictures in this post, you'll like the boys WITH the pumpkins even more...I'll work on posting those soon! Best of luck guessing!
I think we set the bar much too high last year with our little Halloweiners! We can't compete with ourselves! If you are new to our blog and missed our Halloween costumes from last year, you MUST check out last year's Halloween post. It's one of my absolute all-time favorites.
Go ahead. Check it out. We'll wait on you...
While you long-time true blue readers are waiting, here's a picture to refresh your memory.
Oh how I "relish" those memories!
THE PERFECT follow-up exists at a well known, always cute, but over my budget kids store, that shall be left nameless. (Think "Clay Farm Building".) I spotted them, immediately called Brad with hilarious elation, and then became crushed with disappointment over the not-so-quad-budget-friendly price tag. Needless to say, they were left hanging in the store and over $350 dollars was spared from our checking account. That's one expensive fast food bill! But seriously, wouldn't they make the cutest Hamburgers and French Fries on the Block?
I simply can't beat the "Value Menu" costumes, but I do have a plan! Save your guesses for now....
A contest is in the works. Hope that wets your "appetite"! More details to follow...
For now leave me a comment about how you'll be dressing your little pumpkin(s) this Halloween or pout with me about how Halloween costumes cost more than your high school prom dress!
"I Got Dumped" Contest Winner:
Note to Jenny: Would you email me your home address so that I can send you the Starbucks gift card? Just don't "DUMP" your beverage while you're there! =)
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Happy Future Dumping!
AND THE WINNER IS......(*holding breath*)
Powder Blue! Hahaahaaa! Well, actually there is 1 hour and 43 minutes left to vote for the "Best Dump", so keep exercising your right to vote! The BIG Winner will be crowned tomorrow!
P.S. This is NOT a picture of my Trivial Pursuit pie (like I have the time to frequently play)...it's a pie graph of who's in the lead for this lovely competition! I wonder which color represents each picture??? Hmmmm...
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