Blogiversary Winner and Other News

It has been quite the week!  After I posted about my wonderful blogiversary give away and all, I was looking forward to finding out who the lucky winner would be.  Wouldn't you know it that we had a terrible thunderstorm to come through on Wednesday afternoon which knocked out our power at 5 p.m.  Our power was not restored until 8 p.m. on THURSDAY!  We slept at my parents' house and thank goodness they had power but they did not have cable or internet because of the storm.  I'm used to living like this when a hurricane comes through, but not just a thunderstorm.  Honestly, I have lived through hurricanes that did a lot less damage than this storm. 

This is what we saw all over the neighborhood.  Apparently there were many larger trees that fell on power lines, thus we had no power for 27 hours.  Our telephone is through the cable company so we had no land line either.  Thank goodness for cell phones.

Anywho, now to the nitty gritty of who won the Blogiversary Give Away.  And the winner is......Susan!  Go visit Susan here and congratulate her.  I will be sending her a copy of:

This is one of my favorite studies and I highly recommend you get it and do it either with a small group or even on your own.  I like all of her books, but this was the first one I read and perhaps that's why it's my favorite. 

A Blogiversary Give Away!!

Tomorrow is my blogiversary ~ the one year anniversary of this blog.  In looking back over the last year, so many wonderful things have happened.  God blesses me every day and now I have a great way to remember those blessings and to share them with you all.  I have "met" many wonderful ladies with their own blogs and have used this blog as a way to stay connected with others.  As a way to thank all of you who read my ramblings, I want to do a give away.  Lots of other people have done give aways and I think it would be fun to bless someone else.  I am going to give away a devotional book to some lucky random reader.  However, I need your help.  If you would like a chance to win, you have to leave a comment on here before midnight tomorrow night, March 30th.  Tell me anything you want to, just leave me a comment.  If you read this and have never left a comment or don't know how, you don't have to register with a google account.  You can leave the comment as "anonymous user" BUT you have to sign your name in the text of your comment so that I'll know it's you.  Also, don't forget you have to type the special characters you see after you click publish or it won't take.  The winner will be selected by Random Number Generator.  Good luck!!  Don't forget to check back to see who wins!  I will contact the winner to get your mailing address.