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ps…the happy rainbow cake was featured on the blog for Urban Outfitters! yeah…the store! AND…that's enough questions. :) thanks. I would like to know if your have decided on what to do with the 3rd floor? I guess this has nothing to do with talking but I really wish you would pop over to my house (just round the corner – Cape Town on the far side of the world!!!) and take about a million bazillion photographs of our house and kids – now that would be lovely!!! So cool about your cake link… have a great weekend, even if it isn’t in sunny South Africa!!! You’re a brave girl. 🙂 Why don’t you just adopt all of us here? That would take care of everything! :p Haha, but really… my one question for you is: 1.) Can I set up a photo session with you!? i was wondering if you always wanted a big family and if you want any more kids? what’s it like to have a wide range of ages from a teenager to a preschooler? Can I move in with you? You have the coolest house ever! yes. i would like to know how craig feels about your chippendale obsession. i want to know about talby’s name too! also…how are your pics so bright even when you shoot indoors? and…what does craig do? sorry, that’s prob too personal 😉 Oh I have sooooooooo many questions I want to ask but I will keep it short. 😉 have you figured out how to cook pork yet? i am one of your biggest fans, too! your posts always bring a smile to my face. i’d be interested in how you chose your children’s names as well. still trying to pick out our next ones name (that isn’t even on the way yet) I want to know where the name Talby came from? I guess while you are at it, how did you choose your other kids names as well? How about some organizing tips — like how do you stay on top of the kids and photography and the crafts and scrapbooking … I have 4 kids (almost 5 year old triplets and one almost 2 years). Most days I feel like I am going crazy and nothing gets done and that with 3 of them in preschool full time, 5 days a week. I love your blog. I went to preschool in your home. Brings back memories! i want to know lots of things =) My friend Kara and I are two of your biggest fans. I have ?’s! the etsy shop is OPEN!
not my etsy shop….the WATER4CHRISTMAS etsy shop.
in the shop you will find…these bracelets are simple and sweet and only $15.00!
water4christmas is awesome! here is the write up on their profile page… "There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." (Denis Waitley) At Water for Christmas, we've allowed the existing conditions to break our hearts and spur us to action. * We want to join others in solving the world's water crisis, where 1.1 billion people on the planet don't have access to safe, clean drinking water. Water for Christmas is partnering with charity: water (www.charitywater.org) to build wells in Africa. All proceeds from items sold in this shop will go directly to building fresh water wells in Liberia, West Africa. We believe that a small group of people can work together to change the world. Visit us at http://water4christmas.com *If you would like to donate a hand-crafted item to Water for Christmas, to be listed on this site, please send us a message. As with everything else, all proceeds will go directly to building fresh water wells in Liberia. (and this is added by me….)
NOW LET'S GO SHOPPING!
for them.
they are worth it. "For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, Just got my beautiful bracelets in the mail! I bought a bunch to give to my nieces for Christmas. And one for myself, of course. : ) I’ve blogged about it! Thanks, again, for letting us know about this wonderful group. (I also ordered the water ornaments!) love this! you go meg 🙂 The theme for Corner View, which is a worldwide blogging thing tomorrow is WATER. I am going to use this for my post! I hope that’s all right! My order has already shipped, apparently. How in the world will I wait until Christmas to give these things to their recipients!?! Bought two tear drop ornaments yesterday! Thanks for telling us about this GREAT gift of HOPE and JOY … i’ll be blogging about it, too. I also wondered if there was any chance to get bigger tshirts. I bought some things already. i don’t see the dish towels on the site, did they sell out? and i thought i saw a journal, but it’s gone? and i adore those shirts, are they only in kid’s sizes. i would wear an adult small, i have long arms, think a kid’s would fit? sorry for the barrage of questions. heartwarming, project! Is there any chance you take orders for shirt sizes? love love love the shirts! Great cost, definitely gonna buy one of these bracelets! I first heard of this on Amy’s blog a few months ago. It looks wonderful, especially with Christmas coming up. I love meaningful gifts. (and there are a lot of people-who-have-everything-and-can-get-what-they-want in our family, so this might be a great option!!) Thanks for the info! I think this is fantastic. I think that you are fantastic for spreading the word to others. I needed to be reminded today of how blessed I truly am. Thank you 🙂 Meg, Awesome! I will have to check it out! Lovely. Wonderful cause, beautiful gifts, generous hearts. Just did some shopping! thanks for posting this!! i’ve been waiting to hear when things were going to go on sale!! Blogged it! I’ve posted a short summary on my blog to promote the cause! Wanted to let you know. Let me know if you’d like me to change anything. You ladies are going to heaven for sure! I am so happy to see this! I have showed this to our pastor at church to see if we can help! I would write more, but I have to go shopping 😉 yay! Oh, I love this! i had linked to this charity’s homepage last year at Christmas time but I locve the idea of raising funds through etsy sales- it’s win-win in an economy where just making a straight out donation may not be an option! Beautiful… Christmas is so excessive now a days. Love the idea of giving something we take for granted to those who desperately need it. Fabulous… Done and done! You’ve jump started my Christmas shopping! thanks meg!! I’ll be taking a look today! Thank you for spreading the word. I can’t wait to do my Christmas shopping there, I had NO idea and such a terrific cause! I heart your blog SO much, it makes me happy to visit here, thank you for blogging! :O) ♥ ♥ ♥ 😀 ♥ ♥ ♥ Oh what a great store and what a great purpose. random.org pulled up number 283. which makes the winner….
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Congratulations! 🙂 First, happy belated birthday. Second, I love your blog – I always leave feeling happy for having looked at it. Third, I absolutley L O V E your photographs. Of all the blogs and photos I look at, yours speak to me the most. Thank you for sharing your life and your photos. Have a wonderful day, Patty Congratulations Kelly Anne! Happy Birthday! I read your blog often and I always leave a little happier. Hooray for Kelly Anne!!! WOW!!! 732 comments…you are soooo BIG TME!!!! Wow!! Congrats Kelly Anne!! I’m so glad you had a great birthday Meg!! 😀 What a sweet birthday present!!! Congrats Kelly Anne! Wow! Kelly Anne. That is MY favorite gift to ever hear about! Lucky. Congrats to kelly Anne! I’m sorry I didn’t win, but I realize now that I cheated anyway and didn’t tell my best, or worst, birthday gift. Anyway, I linked to you on my blog today since I ran into you downtown! Woo Hoo! Congratulations Kelly Anne! yay kelly anne! omg 732!!!wow!!!! CONGRATS to Kelly Anne! Just wanted to say hello! I’m new to your blog, and I love it already! Really? Oh my goodness! Thank you! Congratulations Kelly Anne! it's my birthday…so i want to give a present to you. ColorInc Pro Lab hooked me up with a 20×24 gallery wrapped canvas of one my photos. look at the one i got….
my "whatever" sign was a gift to me from heather…she made it…it's one of a kind…perfect perfect.
you could use one you just took this summer like i did. ColorInc Pro Lab has every kind of photo processing you would need.
contest closed. :) I just love your blog. You make me want to be a more crafty mom. Happy Birthday Meg!!! I read you every day!! am i too late?!?!? how did i miss this??? me want me want! Happy Birthday Meg. Your blog makes me smile, mostly your comments about random things make me laugh. Glad you had an alone day, also my favorite birthday gift. My best gift was dinner at melting pot… yummy!!!! after enjoying “watever” for ages .. Oh, my. How could I win with all these entries? lets see the best b-day present would have my 16th…I got an awesome 87 toyota supra I loved that car that started my love for toyota’s dorky I know but not ever 16 year old is so lucky to have a car…Thanks Mom and Dad… happiest birthday & loving seeing kansas through your blog! (i moved to denver & need a little kansas from time to time) My best Birthday present ever was when my daughter was born… On my birthday. She only live for a total of two hours BUT those two hours were the best birthday present God could have ever sent me!! Thanks for asking us to share!! Happy birthday to you! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! first, happy birthday megan! Happy Birthday, Meg! I love reading your blog, looking at your photos and getting inspired by your creativity! Thanks Gorgeous! I love your sunflowers! I would love to have a canvas from our family vacation. A day off from my kids to be with my sweet husband. Ahhh… Happy Birthday. Happy Birthday! My best birthday gift was the surprise party for me and my husband, put together and hosted by our 12-year old daughter. It was so sweet!!!! love your blog meg i read it everyday…my favorite presents are the sweet cards from my husband, our kids and parents Hello! I have been reading your blog for quite some time, and I love it!!! Happy Birthday!!! I hope you have a great one, I am getting ready for my little girls birthday tomorrow and we will be having 16 first graders (and my 2 year old)at our house(me and my mother-in-law)(my husband is in the harvest field) Meg, Am I too late? Ooh–I hope not!! best bday gift ever…hmmm…probably when my hubby took the day off last year to spend w/ me and the kids. nice family time! My best birthday ever was last year, my 40th. My sweet husband planned a surprise party for me, invited all my old high school friends and family. It was a great day! He also bought me a new fabulous camera that I have taken great photos with that would look wonderful on a wrapped canvas! Awesome give-away and Awesome picture!!! My favorite gifts are the homemade ones from my kiddos!! Happy Birthday….. The best birthday gift I ever recieved was my current camera! The worst was a make up palette the person had obviously used! Happy Birthday Meg Happy Birthday! Thanks for all the pretty gifts you share all year on your beautiful blog!! It just makes you an even prettier gal! Now- go, have a cupcake! 🙂 When I was 10, I reeeeally wanted a talkboy pen. It was like 30 dollars for this lame pen that recorded your words. But for some reason, I HAD TO HAVE IT! I knew it was waaay to exspensive to even think about. But, I opened up this HUGE box and inside was this small pen!! I leaped up and gave my daddy the biggest hug. Luckily someone got a picture of that hug. It’s hanging next to my bed. Best. birthday. ever. Happy Birthday! How about the best Christmas gift ever…It’s really the most memorable. From my hubby. A pair of ice skates. I was 38 years old but I felt like I was 10 years old! And I couldn’t wait to get out on the rink. Hi! happy birthday … oh boy do giveaways ever bring the readers out of the woodwork. the best bd gift i ever received was having my bdrm painted by my dad and husband. dad’s no longer here on earth to give gifts like that so i never ever want to change that paint. the memory of him doing that sweet thing for me is priceless! Happy Birthday, Meg! I love reading your blog for the “eye candy” and inspiration. My best birthday was #23, I got tickets to see The Lion King at the Pantages Theater in LA. Amazing! Happy Birthday! This is so rad! We are getting family photogs done tommorrow so this would be epsecially awesome! Crossing my fingers! Happy birthday- Happy Birthday! I hope you get a day OFF!! That was my best gift! The placement of your new photo canvas is beyond perfect. You have a good eye! happy birthday, meg! i love to read your blog! So sorry I meant found your site:0) Happy Birthday.!!!!!! Just fud yur site and I adore it!!! Happy Birthday! Love the canvas of your photo. Looks awesome in your home!! Ooohhh! I love that Sunflower picture of yours…it is just so happy! Anywhoo, my best birthday gift was on my 16th birthday, my dad had been working out of town for months and he came home for my birthday and him and my mom got me my first car…a yellow volkswagon karmanghia….i don’t have it anymore, but I always tell my husband that one day, I am going to find that car or at least one similiar…it was so much fun! Happy Birthday, Meg! My favorite birthday had to be the year when my son wrote me a BEAUTIFUL poem that brought me to tears! He has such a big heart and it was so sweet that I had to keep it forever and scrapbook it too, of course! :o) Hope you have a great birthday today and please pick me – I’ve never won anything! HA! Big hugs! Trac~ :O) Happy Birthday Meg! I really can’t start my day off without a visit to my favorite Kansas girl’s blog. Love it! Happy Birthday Meg! Favorite Birthday gift: Our first two years of marriage my husband memorized a lengthy poem for me. He “gave” me his gift-of-words over a sweet homemade breakfast….and then we had two darling children…and alas, our “free-time” has changed….so…the poems have now officially come to an end. Happy Birthday! You are too sweet to offer something like this. Love the sunflower … wish I could take pictures like you! This would be a great gift of a picture of my daughter for my mom’s birthday … thanks for the chance to win! Happy Happy Meagan I just followed a link from Heather’s blog… i love discovering new blogs! Happy Birthday! My favorite present was last year from my boyfriend… a beautiful necklace. 🙂 Happy birthday Meg!! I remember the year I had to use a can opener to open my gift. My hubby had bought me an opal ring… my birthstone… and he took it somewhere to have it canned! It made me cry!! wow! that just looks awesome. I don’t know how you managed to pick just one photo since all of yours are so great! Pick me! Pick me! My favorite b-day present would have to be a green necklace my husband had made for me a few years ago. It’s my favorite piece of jewelry to this day. Happy Birthday! LOVE your blog. It is the first thing I check on my computer every morning. My favorite birthday gift is the check my father still sends me every year. The amount of the check equals how old I am that year. If I am with child he adds an extra dollar for the baby. Very Sweet. happy bday 🙂 some of my favorite gifts were jewlery with my kids names/initials. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEG!! Wowser’s, I love visiting your blog and am cracking up at all of the responses…this is my very first time ever commenting on a person’s blog so you are the lucky one today! My fav birthday moment was when I turned 13 and my friends & I snuck onto the golf course at our local country club and stole the flag from the 13th hole. Wow, you have quite a following with over 600 comments! Happy Birthday! It was also my baby’s 1st birthday too. My best birthday gift was when I turned 30. My husband and I took a trip to Puerto Rico just the two of us. It was an awesome getaway. I just love the picture and would love to have one myself. Hope I win! This past spring I was due to have my baby a week after turning 40 and my goal had been to have all my babies by the time I turned 40. Our son arrived early, very early and contracted pneumonia so was in the NICU. By the time my birthday rolled around we knew he would be okay and get to come home soon. That was a wonderful birthday present. I have a great picture of me snuggling with my two boys and I think that’s the one I would get blown up. It’s who I am right now. It’s my favorite me. Thank you again and again for your wonderful blog, Meg. I just love it. Happy Birthday! I would love to enlarge of photo of my daughter! Happy Happy Birthday. I just adore your blog. the best present every year are the hand made cards from the kids….thanks for such a great giveaway! love the print you had made and the whatever sign…so you!!!! have a great birthday!!!!! -jess Happy Birthday! My best birthday present… Um actually I cant really think, But my worst… a $10 opera Cd from hubby in the first year of our marriage. I was gutted! I HATE opera. We acn laugh about it noe but boy I wondered if I had married the wromg man. Haha. Wow!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! Best birthday gift….hmmm…my car when I turned 16!!! First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! Your sunflower picture looks beautiful…I love the way you have everything arranged together. My favorite birthday gifts are always the ones that my kids pick out for me. Some of them are strange and some I might even consider “ugly” if I walked by them in a store, but when your child picks it out JUST for you KNOWING that you will love it…YOU DO (and it’s suddenly the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen)!!! I love your blog…Happy birthday! One of my favorite birthday presents was from back in the day- an adoption doll by Xavier Roberts named “Loretta Tamera”. I thought that her painted on face and yarn hair were adorable 🙂 Great give away too!! I wonder, did you ever think you would celebrate your birthday with over 600 people wishing you a happy birthday? Wow, what does that feel like? a few years ago my husband surprised me with a new camera…we could not afford it at the time, but he saved and sold some of his own things to pay for it. it meant to so much to me…. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!! Wow…I love the picture of the picture (if that makes any sense). So far one of my best gifts was my kitten that my husand just gave me this year. Have a great day….holy moly, you have 667 comments!!!!!!!!! Joyeux Birthday! Enjoy your day! When I turned thirty last year my husband surprised me with a weekend getaway to a resort similar to the one in the movie “dirty dancing” soooooooooo neat. He also booked me a massage for the 1st morning we were there. My first massage ever 🙂 Wow! Never commented before, but I like reading your blog. Happy Birthday! My best birthday present was when husband surprised me by flying two of my best friends up to New Jersey (which is where we were living at the time) to spend the weekend with me. Such a happy picture and nook in your house. Love it. Have a wonderful day Megan! Your little blog brings such happiness to my world! Happy Birthday Meg! Happy Birthday! Best present….a pink plus on a pregnancy test!!! Hi!! I’m about 33 minutes late, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I love love love the sunflower! They are my favorite flower..I even have a Sunflower kitchen!! 😀 Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! happy birthday! love your blog! happy birthday! 🙂 What a swell offer, Meg — thanks for the opportunity to win a print — possibly even one of yours! (BTW, if you had to choose 5 or 10 of your favorite prints for your contest winner to choose from, which would they be? We’d love to see them…) Happy Birthday…The best present I got was an Ipod. Happy Birthday Meg. Today is my sister’s birthday too! I hope an entry at 11:53 pm is acceptable. My favorite bday present would have to be my son. He came ten days before my birthday, but I remember feeling so important on that bday. Motherhood was so much more than I ever could have imagined. I love being a mom. My best birthday ever was when I turned 21. My mom and sisters-in-law took me to New York for a girls weekend. We had the best time, just the girls! Happy Birthday Megan! Love the picture, good choice! My best birthday present was eight years ago on my birthday August 8, 2001 when my home pregnancy test came back positive, little did we know that day that God would bless us with not just a baby but our precious twin daughters Megan and Morgan! Happy Birthday!!!! I hope you have a wonderful day!! My best birthday present was just this last year. My husband cleaned the house, made a great dinner and invited my whole family over without me knowing. It was perfect! Hi Meg! Happy Birthday to you and love your blog! Would LOVE the photo canvas since I love the camera…hardest part would be choosing one picture! Love the new peek inside your home, and especially that picture – so happy. And speaking of happy, happy birthday!! happy birthday 🙂 I hope it’s been a great day! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! Best birthday present- two years ago my sister took family pictures of my husband, our kids and I at the lake. I love those pictures and every time I look at them I remember what a fun and special day it was. Happy Birthday! My birthday is in 22 days and it’s a big one. I’m wanting to ride my bike 50 miles that day. Guess how old I’ll be??? Let me just say that you have OVER 600 COMMENTS, YOU ARE VERY POPLIER (as my youngest used to say). I would love a big photo of something. I hope the randomizer likes me 🙂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Happy Birthday! Hope you had a great one! One of my favorite birthday gifts was a card made by my 4 year old daughter this year. She has just learned how to write her name and it melted my heart! I really must share two 😉 My favorite birthday gift was from my oldest son when he was just a baby. He finally lost his umbilical cord stump on the day he turned six weeks old, which was my birthday! =] Well tomorrow is my birthday. I will turn 26. I was born on my grandmother’s (my mother’s mother) birthday. I now have two daughter’s of my own. Four genrations of vivacious beautiful women. All together. It’s really awesome. Every birthday is good b/c of this. But tomorrow might be my best birthday yet. When I got home from work this evening my husband and two(ages 20 mos and almost 4)little girls had made me a cake (HUGE task). It was on the counter with a 2 & a 6 candle on top. All lit up. They were hiding or trying to…I could hear all the giggling. They jumped out and said Happy Birthday Mommy! Nothing beats that. It’s the best. I would love the canvas. I am a picture junkie. I photograph everything. But if I don’t it’s okay. Life is good anyway! Happy Birthday Meg……..and ME! Happy Birthday!! Love your sunflower picture and “whatever” sign! My best birthday gift was a trip to Paris for my 30th. I had always wanted to go there and it was WONDERFUL! Happy Birthday Meg!!! That’s so cool. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! My best birthday present…at least one of my favorites was just last week. My husband and I do campus ministry and several of our college students filled our screened porch with over 500 balloons in the middle of the night! It was hilarious and colorful and my kids had a blast playing in them. A new car!! Thanks for the wonderful giveaway! Happy Birthday! The best birthday gift I have received was a Coach purse from my husband…not necessarily because of the specific bag, but because he picked it out himself and COMPLETELY surprised me – just 3 weeks after our son was born. 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway! That is big….what an awesome photo on canvas….that would be so much fun! Happy Birthday! Best birthday present was from my 10yr old son this year who went shopping with his own money and bought a bunch of fun things from TJ. He then ran out of money so used a christmas card for the birthday card . . . I loved it!! Happy Birthday! Hope you had a great day! Happy Birthday! I hope you got everything you wanted and more today! Best gift I ever got was a LV purse my husband knew I wanted and surprised me….made my day! happy birthday! well, i don’t receive many gifts. but for my 40th birthday, my favorite thing was vera wang princecess perfume from my twin daughters. Happy birthday to you! I love your blog and read it most every day. My favorite birthday gift was my senior year of high school, when my best friend got my boyfriend (now my husband) to come back from college to surprise me for my birthday. He hid in a box and jumped out and yelled “happy birthday”. It was the best gift ever, because I thought he wasn’t going to be able to travel back to our hometown for my special day. Happy Birthday! Hello, LOVE the picture you chose! My favorite was a ring from my hubby!! LOVE HIM!! Jodi Happy birthday! I enjoy your blog and your take on life quite a bit – thank you for putting your energy toward this! My best birthday gift happened three years ago when my husband sent me to Finland (where I had lived for a while about fifteen years ago). Alone. Meaning no children. You know I love my monkeys, but seriously – I would have taken ten days in a drippy stall at the DMV parking lot, just to get a little break from sippy cups and diaper bags. Ten days in Finland (right at that achingly beautiful line between summer and fall) with great friends and fantastic food? Well, that was heaven on earth. Well, Happy Birthday to you, Meg! September babies are so special (I say that because I am one too). Love the canvas. That is a great giveaway!! I already know who I would like to have featured on mine. What an awesome giveaway and Happy Birthday! My favorite birthday present would have to be my Kitchenaid mixer! I love that thing! Happy Birthday! What a great giveaway! I think one of my best birthday presents would have to be a bicycle when I was about 10 years old. Love the pic! My BEST birthday gift was when I was 6 years old. My Grandparents took me out for ice cream, and when I got home, and walked into my room, I had the most wonderful Barbie dreamhouse all set up. My parents had planned the whole thing….sent me out for ice cream, and they put it together….even the bed was all dolled up! WOW!!! FIrst off….HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!! Secondly….LOVE that sign!!! Okay, now….my favorite bd present….hmmmm….probably my 4Runner….my hubby surprised me and had it parked out on our property!!!! We drove out there and it was parked on a clump of rocks…. I did the “TOYOTA” jump…you know, I had to!!! (We have recently built our home out on that property and I get to look out at that clump of rocks every day!!!) I sure hope you had a great day!!!!! Happy Birthday! Hope it’s a good one. HAPPY HAPPY Birthday Megan! Hope it is a wonderful blessed day for you!! Happy Bday. Hope you’re having a wonderful birthday. I don’t have a specific birthday memory jumping out at me, but I will always remember how special my Mom has always made my birthdays…now and when I was a kid. My husband grew up in a household where birthdays weren’t a big deal. So he tries…but my Mom always comes through for me. I had a birthday when my son was 3 months old and Mom went to Gymboree and bought all the clearance stuff I had my eye on. I can always count on her to make my day. Happy Birthday! My best birthday gift would have been when I was 6 and I got a puppy – what a sweet little dog she was! happy birthday! i don’t know you personally, but i read your blog ever day and it makes me so happy! if you ever want to sell your house – with everything in it – let me know 🙂 also, where did you buy all your beautiful chandeliers? My dog Annie! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEG!! I think EVERY reader is commenting on this post — all those girls that read blogs but don’t omment just decided to comment, ha!! My favorite birthday gift was when my husband surprised me with a weekend trip to Boston. I’d love to win – thanks! sks1124(at)hotmail(dot)com My best bday present was tickets to go see the Dixie Chicks with my cool older sister and all her friends! Happy Birthday! I am here from Heather’s blog. The sign she made you is awesome! The best birthday present I have gotten was what I got this year for my 30th birthday. My husband got me tickets to see Wicked in SF and he got me the Canon 50D. so, I have plenty of pictures to pick from for the wrapped canvas, hint, hint 🙂 Happy Birthday!! My favorite gift, hmmm…as a kid it would have to be a pair of red and white striped footie pj’s that had the butt flap. I was having a slumber party that year and I thought I was “too cool for school” wearing my footie pj’s w/all of my friends. But these days I would have to say my kids gifts are always exciting, whether they are super thoughtful or totally off the wall. Happy Birthday Meg Happy, happy, happy birthday!!! one of my best birthday presents was when my then new boyfriend, now husband, got together with my family without me knowing it and all went in together to get a digital camera for me (my first!). It was a really special surprise. I liked that he just jumped in there with my family and arranged the whole thing. Then I married him. 🙂 Kelly My favorite Birthday gift was a trip to Vegas on my 21st birthday!! Holy crap you got a lot of comments for your birthday! I hope you had a great day!! Happy birthday! Happy Birthday!!! Hope you had a fabulous day!!! Happy Birthday! My best gift was an engagement ring almost 8 years ago. Still love that man!! I reallllly hope I win!! Hi Meg! I love that picture of yours. Have a great birthday. One of my best gifts was my Willow Tree nativity sets. Each year I get new pieces to add to it. It’s perfect because my birthday is 3 days before Christmas. I love Dr Pepper Berries & Cream soda but they stopped making it when I was a freshman in college. My best friend (and now boyfriend) managed to find a 12 pack online and had it shipped and wrapped from California to Illinois for my birthday. I was so psyched when I opened it! Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday, Megan! WHAT? No way! Coolest giveaway EVER. Happy birthday Meg! Best birthday gift ever…? Shoot I don’t know. My son came pretty close to my birthday last year, so I’ll say he was the best present EVER. Hands down…THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER was going to New York City with my Mom for my 21st. The guy behind the ticket counter was making casual chitchat like, “How are you, today?” and “Head to New York, huh? Any particular reason?” Upon finding out that I was turning 21, he upgraded us to first class (the one and most likely only time I’ll be sitting there). My Mom and I spent 7 days sightseeing, walking and walking and walking, getting lost, and best of all, enjoying our girl time together. Megan, I can remember my worst gift! I wanted a camera so bad when I was 11 and my mom gave me one – I thought. Then I realized it was one you put water in and when you press the button, water squirts out. What a rip off. I was so sad. Guess she thought I wasn’t old enough for a real one. My best gift was probably a journal my own daughter hand made for me. The binding was made from a small branch with holes drilled in it. I love it and have re-read often the words I wrote down. Hard times, but times of leaning on Jesus. first off–happy birfday!! Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! My best birthday gift was a travel pillow made by my mom with my daughter’s hand and foot prints appliqued. A week later I flew to San Diego and was away from her for the first time. Spent lots of time clutching that pillow! Sign me up for a picture of Waffle! Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday to YOU! My best birthday present was when my husband proposed & gave me an engagement ring… MY best birthday gift was last year. Our first son was born 1 week before my birthday and my husband also gave me a third ring (to complete my wedding band) in honor of him! Happy Birthday!! The best gift ever was my Big Wheel when I was 5 years old. Loved that thing! Then it was stolen from my front yard! Happy Birthday .The best birthday gift i have ever gotten would most likely be the most comfortable new balance shoes.They are awesome.I hope you have an awesome birthday. happy bday meg! Best birthday gift ever? Hmmm. I guess it’s the laptop my hubby gave me this year. Boring, I know, but he’s a practical sort, my sweetie. Plus he gave it to me so I could use it to write a book. Which, in the end, is pretty dang sweet. Happy Birthday!! Happy Birthday!!! Like a previous poster, my best birthday gift ever was my daughter, Lauren, who was scheduled to be born on my birthday, but the doctor decided to take her early so she could have her own special day. I LOVE that gallery picture, I know exactly what photo I would choose for it. Thanks for the chance! Happy Birthday! I just wanted to say Happy Birthday! The best birthday gifts I received were these ceramic birthday girls each year from birth – 16 years old. Each year the girl was a little bigger, and it had the year on each. My grandparents gave them to me each year, and when I was 16, the year of the last doll, my granddad made a display case to house them all in. I thought it was a little silly at the time, but now that he has passed away, I am able to look back on it and see something that he made for me with his own hands and a lot of love! Happy Birthday!!! I love the idea of this artwork! My best present ever would have to be having the offer on my first home ever accepted on my 25th birthday! It may have been from myself, but it was such an accomplishment that I will cherish forever!!! Happy Birthday! 500 + comments! A lot of people love you, me included. Happy Birthday! I LOVE your blog and photographs…have been reading for months, but never commented. I just had a birthday and my lovely husband redid my kitchen, complete with our very first dishwasher while I was out of town. Happy Birthday!! My best present had to be my 40th…my husband surprised me by arranging for our 3 children to spend the night with some great friends so we could spend a special evening out. I thought we were going out to eat, but low and behold, he walked me out to a marina. We hopped onto a boat and spent the evening watching the sunset out on beautiful Lake Michigan. That one was a keeper!! happy birthday to you! Happy Birthday! Holy Cow!–I can’t believe how many comments you have gotten! I will never forget your birthday as you share it with my mom–Hope you had a great day. The best birthday gift would have to be the Kitchen Aid Mixer I received a few years ago. Happy Birthday!! My best gift was a necklace from my mom – something I’ll keep forever. If I have a daughter, I plan to give it to her for her 21st birthday 🙂 Happy Birthday! The best birthday gift I ever got was when my husband and I were dating, he flew to Canada to surprise me (I was doing a mission trip with MBMSI..i know you know that that is..haha). He surprised me with the presence and a beautiful necklace…I couldn’t let him go after that! My favorite gift was last year, we had been married 30 years and I turned 50. My kids threw a surprise party, after we ate, my husband got down on his knees and said a bunch of stuff about how wonderful it was being married to me, and pulls out a diamond ring!!! Talk about being shocked! Never in a million years would I have expected it. The kids also, sent us to a B&B in Franklin, TN, which was absolutely fabulous! Best day ever. My best birthday gift was my baby girl, who was born on my 31st birthday! She’s now a year old, and I’ve given “my birthday” to her! My best birthday present was when my 3rd child and 1st daughter came the day before my birthday. I really, really didn’t want her to be born around my birthday, but now, I love that she was! my worst present to date was the ‘corporate sized’ edible arrangement that my husband got me for my birthday this past year. my sister had originally gifted me with a modest arrangement for doing a triathlon a couple years ago. i loved it, it was so appropriate for the occasion. because of my excitement over the gift, my husband thought a bigger, better one with more chocolate would place him in the ‘best gift ever’ catagory. not only did i think i was being ‘punked’ or on candid camera when recieving it, i also learned that he paid $175 for it. he really missed the mark! now it’s a huge family joke. Happy Birthday to you! I don’t know what my best birthday present was. I love birthdays and my family always make an effort to celebrate them with me, which is the most special! This is a really great giveaway! Happy Birthday! The best birthday gift I’ve received was a weekend trip to Destin, FL with my husband…and no kids. It was the greatest! Happy Birthday! hmmm…my in-laws got me a family membership to the zoo a couple of years ago – that was pretty awesome – tho’ not as awesome as a giveaway! Happy Birthday! That photo canvas is awesome. I think I’d have a hard time choosing the perfect photo!! Happy Birthday to YOU! My best birthday was 9+ years ago. We were waiting for our first child to be born. A sweet little girl named Macy. My birthday is August 1 and my due date was July 31. Well, Miss Macy made us wait. She was born on August 8th. We were in the process of moving so by Macy being a week late we delayed our move by 2 weeks. So worth the wait! A million times over! Happy Birthday!! A present for me, on your birthday… now that is why I like you! Happy Birthday Meggie! Hope your day was great. This sounds so bad that it took me all day to think of a great birthday present. (Since my b-day is the same week of Christmas usually we are at the in-laws, (whoopie) or traveling home.) I guess the best thing in a while is that we finished our kitchen remodel around the same time as my birthday last year. Catch you soon! The best birthday gift i ever received was a necklace from my husband that is strung with beads that say: Liam & Bronte…. (our children). Enjoy!!! You deserve it! Happy Birthday! Thanks for sharing this fantastic gift with us! I have many favorite birthday gifts…anything homemade of course, but to pick just one I guess it would be my first birthday after my daughter was born. I got a “mother’s” necklace! Hey ! Happy Birthday Meg! Happy Birthday! I’ve just recently found your blog and love your photos! My most memorable gift was tickets for my best friend and I to go see Josh Groban at Starlight! He has the perfect voice for an outdoor concert! My favorite birthday present is the cross necklace my dad gave me the birthday after I was baptized (13th birthday). I have the perfect photo for this! My fave present: A Hedda Get Bedda doll I received when I was 6. My mom looked high and low and I was floored when I got her. Worst present: Chicken mug from my husband many years ago. Seriously. The neck was the handle with a head on top. But I treasure it and still have it around! Happy Happy Birthday dear Megan! Happy Birthday!! Such a beautiful and happy space. You really do have a knack of arranging. My best birthday present was a surprise sweet 16 party, especially after I had been a whiny brat the week before because my parents wouldn’t let me have a party for my birthday. I felt like such a poop, a happy 16 year old poop. I love your pictures and the fun way you look at life. thank you Becca …and i forgot to post my favorite memory…. 30th birthday, my first-born at almost 1 sitting on my lap and squealing while helping me blow out candles, and realizing just how great life really is:). Happy Birthday to you! happy birthday!!! for me, sunflowers= happiness, so that picture just makes me smile—as does your blog!! hope you had a wonderful, fun day of celebration! Wow! It looks great! And perfect with the sign! My favorite birthday gifts are anything my kids make…cards, clay things, cupcakes, etc. When my kids are little they like to wrap up things that are already mine…”Look, my wallet!” It cracks me up! Thanks for the giveaway. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! The best birthday presents are the ones that I buy for myself! “Happy birthday to me!” Megan, I cannot lie…I like anything FREE. Call my cheap (I prefer thrifty, smart, pretty…you get the idea) if you like, but you just made me DAY!!! Ha! Ha! I don’t know if it’s my best but, for my birthday one year, I bought the book called Getting Pregnant. A very scientific book to maximize your chances on getting pregnant. Includes diet, exercise, medications to avoid, foods to avoid, so many things. It must have worked because 2 weeks later…I got pregnant! 🙂 Happy Birthday! My best birthday present was a digital camera from my little sister when I turned 21. I got a little cranky at her for spending so much on me though! Well Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! My best gift ever was my daughter- she was born the day after my birthday! Happy Birthday! I hope you have a great day. That whatever sign is so you;) best was keyless entry added to my 1993 Honda Civic when I was in high school. That was before we all carried our cell phones around with us. There were just “car phones” Worst birthday gift ever? A FULL SET of handmade ceramic Smurfs from my grandmother WHEN I WAS 16 YEARS OLD. Well, when I win this contest and get to use one of YOUR pictures, I will consider it an early bday present and it will certainly be the best yet! Happy Birthday! My best present was when I received my sweet puppy, Fiona! My birthday is December 31, so she was a Christmas/birthday combo. I can’t imagine my life without her! She’s my heart! Happy Birthday! I hope you’ve had a fabulous day. 🙂 Happy Birthday! Hope that you are having a great day. Glad you’re having a good day. LOVE the sunflower print! Annie was so excited it was your bday today – too cute when she wouldn’t give away your age! 🙂 a BIG ‘ol hAppY biRtHdAy to YOU! Happy Birthday! I think the best birtday present i got was a necklace from my mom last year for my 21st birthday! It was my birth stone with diamonds around it.. it was very unexpected and amazing! Fun fun fun! Happy birthday to you! it’s my birthday today, too!! i knew i loved you when i first started reading your blog. and today, that’s the best birthday present i’ve gotten. funny, i bought myself some sunflowers today (to me, from me) and now i come and see this post with your sunflower photo. so fun!! Happy Birthday Megs, I hope it was a good one!! My best Birthday was in Feb. when Dan threw that big party for me!!! Have a great day :)keriel6 Oh how fun!!!! My best birthday gift…you know, it’s just one that sticks in my mind, and it really wasn’t that great, but it marked a new phase for us…I was 8 1/2 months pregnant with my first, and got a playpen for my birthday from my husband. Practical. I think there was a bottle of perfume, too, but the playpen still makes me smile 🙂 Happy Birthday! I love your blog and hope your day is great. The best birthday gift I’m ever given is time with the people I love, a date with the husband is perferable. Gorgeous canvas photo! You chose well, that must bring a smile to your face every time you look at it. My favorite birthday gift is always a pretty cake… Cake is my favorite food! This year, a bunch of nurses i work with threw me a surprise birthday party and one of them (a cake baker extraordinaire!) made me a Snoopy & Woodstock cake… YUM! Happy birthday! I’d have to say that my best birthday was my most recent celebration – my 30th – spent with my hubby in Europe…our treat before we welcomed baby number three into our family! Happy Birthday, Meg! Your photo is really neat. Wow! I hope I win! 🙂 Anyway, my favorite b-day…hmmm…I had a lot of fun parties when I was a kid. I think my favorite was going to an old-fashioned ice cream shop with a bunch of 1st grade friends. I still remember it and the piano that played by itself! We had ice-cream sundaes and watched old black-and-white movies. I think the place was called “Maloney’s” and it was in Niles, IL. Have a super birthday! Sincerely, Ann LOVE THAT! Happy Birthday! I love your blog. I’ve never commented, but couldn’t pass this up. Love your photos, your colorful home, you are an inspiration to me! My best Birthday gift was when my oldest son then 20 years old gave me a gift certificate to the salon in town. I think his thoughtfulness was more appreciated than the gift. Happy Birthday!!! My best birthday was my 30th. My husband, friends and I went to VEGAS! It was so much fun! dinner at Babbo in NYC for my 30th…still dream about that meal! The best birthday gift I ever received was a Macpro laptop! Happy birthday! I came across your blog through Jess & Joel’s…love it! So, the best b-day gift I have ever received is a simple solitary diamond necklace from my husband – the one he originally gave me for our one year anniversary of dating was stolen last summer, and he replaced it for me! Very sweet! Wow! What a neat birthday gift! I hope you have a very happy birthday full of joy and laughter! Happy 29th birthday! 😉 Hope it’s fab. The picture turned out beautiful – love it! the worst birthday present i got was a pinata because my roommate couldn’t find anything else for me :[ HAPPY BIRTHDAY WHATEVER! haha! WOW love the sunflowers. Favorite birthday present was my surprise party for my 39th birthday last year. It was awesome and blew my socks off! I was in TOTAL shock. Thanks for your blog! You are so inspiring and cool and beautiful and happy and have the cutest kids and dog on creation. I love that you love Jesus. (i have an almost 15 year old too and WOW we could talk for hours). Thanks and WHATEVER!!! MARGIN! This year Brent’s mom gave me margin for my birthday. A maid and a trip to the spa. Whoot! (I hope your day was awesome…unlike mine where I tearfully told my kids “hey, thanks for ruining my birthday, that was really great of you.” I know, mom of the year. Let’s award it early! 😉 I think any birthday where I got jewlery would be my favorite! BTW saw your bathroom featured on BATHTASTIC! the other day! My favorite present was a horse when I was 14!!!! Happy Birthday to you! I know exactly what picture I would use. Well I think so anyway. We are going to DisneyLand in a couple weeks so some good ones might come up then too. 🙂 Anyway, best birthday gift I’ve ever recieved…hmmmm…well my birthday is smooshed in between Thanksgiving & Christmas so a lot of mine get combined but a few years ago my husband made me a “Day After Thanksgiving survival kit” and it was hilarious. That happens to be one of my favorite days and there was cash included in the kit with specific instructions to spend it on ME, not the kids, not Christmas but ME. It was pretty fun! Happy birthday to you!!! I love the sign Heather made!! I got the “Pa’s Bar & Grille” for my dad’s birthday from her, but it says “Papa’s…” and it is HIS favorite birthday present ever!! MY favorite were a pair of tickets to see George Michael in concert – I’ve loved him since I was two! The worst was when my (now) husband and I started going out, about 11 years ago – a gold lamé coat he thought was so thoughtful, because I was always chilly. Would’ve been great if it wasn’t gold lamé! Happy Birthday! My most memorable birthday present when I turned 12….I thought I was going to get a dollhouse, but instead I got a .22 rifle. Whaaaa?? Haha! Happy Birthday Meg! The picture is boooootiful! My most memorable birthday present was on my 6th birthday. It wasn’t so much the present as such – although it was a lovely dolls house with lights tat WORKED! wow! But the reason it was my fave was that mum had wrapped it up in lovely bright pink paper, and it was a BIG ole box, but then she cut out the letters of my name all big in silver paper and stuck them to the present in an arc. I was all, “WOW! this is my NAME!” back in the day, before Kylie Minogue was all famous and cool, my name was unusual, so seeing it actually on the present took my 6 year old breath away… *sigh* just being with my husband-“munch” & my 2 adorable jelly beans…simple yet memorable. 485 Comments. Seriously. You. Are. Famous. 🙂 Happy Birthday! my best birthday just happens to be my 30th…four days ago. my husband surprised me with a lunch and pedicures with 9 of my closest college friends followed by a surpise dinner with friends and family. Happy Birthday Meg. My first baby (Hannah) was the best birthday gift I ever received. She was born 4 days before my birthday. She was and is such a delight! my absolute favorite birthday gift was the goldfish i received from my father for my fifth birthday. i named it cleo after the goldfish in pinocchio. Sorry Meg- I was so excited I forgot to leave my best bday memory…hmmm.. probably my 1st sleep over as a kid. Seriously fun! Happy birthday!!!! Happy Birthday! I think I’m having my best birthday ever this year. After a very trying year, for many reasons, three of my girlfriends are flying into my state to spend the weekend of my birthday with me in November. I am counting down the days! Happy Birthday!! What an awesome gift! woops – I was so excited – forgot the other part – the best birthday gift I ever received was a watch from my husband – I look at it all the time (not just when I want to know the time) and think “wow, I’m spoiled” hey momma! sign me up! Happy birthday! Happy Birthday! My best birthday gift was recieving flowers from my husband while he was deployed to Iraq. It was so sweet to know that he thought of me 3 months in advance to order the flowers (this was before they had the phones and internet set up there) and I got a phone call from him! happy birthday meg!! my best birthday present was a couple of years ago, i was studying in ghana and my parents sent a package over with a friend who was visiting… full of CHEESE!! much missed… it was heaven. Happy birthday! I LOVE birthdays — especially if it’s someone else’s! My best birthday was last year when I turned 32. I got to go to California to visit my brother with my best friend/stepmom. It was a whirlwind 3-day trip — Hollywood for a fashion show, the Chinese Theater, Kodak Theater, and Hollywood sign; Santa Monica Pier; Beverly Hills (Rodeao Drive Baby), L.A. for my first viewing of Wicked, and Disneyland. It was a blast. Best Birthday gift….a day of pampering from friends followed by a fancy dinner and words of encouragement (things we love about jenni…)I still have them and pull them out on hard days. Last year I turned 30 and I got the best present ever when I found out that I was pregnant. A year later, my son really is the most amazing gift I have ever been given. My favorite birthday present was for my 3rd birthday. Even though I was very little I remember it clearly. Best present ever – the Barbie-doll cake my mom made for me when I was 8 🙂 Happy Birthday! I love the way your photo turned out. I hope I win too! happy birthday! last year for my birthday my now-husband proposed to me! it was a total surprise!! My best birthday was spent in Florida driving a Mustang convertible with my hubby in December. Great times. Happy Birthday!! Fun Fun! My best birthday was my 30th. My hubby helped my friends plan a surprise party and he surprised me with a pearl necklace to boot! (He NEVER gives me jewelry). Great memories! My driver’s license and car, of course! Even if it was an old rust bucket-it was ALL MINE!!! Have a fantastic birthday! Absolutely love the sunflowers photo from earlier this summer and your blog. Happy Birthday! 🙂 Happy bday!! You have lots of comments!! But for a great prize! My favorite bday gift was my daughter being born….not exactly on the day, but close enough!!!! xoxo every birthday since being married, and then having our kids. Nothing material could ever compare to the feeling of warmth and love that comes from such blessings. Happy Birthday to You!! I think my best birthday present was from my dad on my 10th birthday. It was a dozen pink roses left on our doorstep for me to find the morning of my birthday. Loved them! Happy Birthday! My son’s birthday is today too. He’s five. I’m not too big on birthday gifts anymore. Just love being with family and friends. But the best gift ever? When I turned 21 I was expecting my first baby and my mom gave me a rocking chair for the nursery. Five babies later I have spent countless hours in that chair. And have lots of sweet memories of snuggling tiny babies, the sweet smell of their little heads, lots of lullabies, and hundreds of goodnight kisses. Happy Birthday! My best birthday gift = spending time with my family. I seem to never remember the gifts from year to year, but I remember who was there! Last year my fiance (then boyfriend) gave me the 12 Days of Kimberly since my birthday is on the 12th of December. There was a sweet little gift each day. He wrote poems and gave me wonderful trinkets. The best part though was the dedication he took in getting them to me on schedule! He lived across the country so he had to time the mailing of each gift so that one would arrive each day. He was 12 for 12:D I’m not sure that I would think so now…but at the time, I almost fainted when I opened the birthday card. At 14 years old, I got Lionel Richie concert tickets. It was so cool (at the time :o)) Oh I hope you have a wonderful birthday! Happy birthday! What a fantastic idea and such a cool gift! My favorite birthday gift that I received was my first camera. That gift has resulted in thousands of pictures taken and a deep love and appreciation of photography. Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! Your canvas is gorgeous. I can’t think of any outstanding birthday gift, but I just wanted to tell you I admire all you do and that you inspire me to be a better person. I hope your day is full of sunshine and family. ~Peggy in TN My best birthday was two years ago when my mom was in town to celebrate with me. Best birthday present ever? Just a cake, but it meant a lot. My husband is a C5/6 quadriplegic who was living at home with my baby sister there to help out when I was on the hospital high risk unit waiting for our twins to be born on my 35th birthday. He can’t get out and drive for himself, but he had my sister track down my favorite cake to bring to the hospital. Everyone had been so excited (and worried) about the babies that my birthday got lost in the worry. I was surprised anyone remembered. Ehh, see i was right about your birthday! Beautiful picture. I wish I could take photos like that! yikes, a lot of comments. my fav gift is a weekend away at an art fair. this will be the first year for that! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! best birthday gift was my husband secretly setting up a home gym for me! so sweet! Happy birthday. My best gift was my DSLR camera. Love it. Happy birthday Megan! x Oh my goodness I love how it looks like the sunflower has lips and is singing….ok I need some more sleep Ha! My best birthday present was ummmm yup a baby! Hmmm…best birthday present…I’d have to say finally getting my own phone in 7th grade!! I was so stoked! My parents were just sick of me always talking on the phone and this was pre-call waiting. I am old! My husband threw me a SURPRISE 30th birthday party. I was totally surprised! He flew my mom in from California and called all of my best girlfriends. He had it catered with my favorite food (tapas) and my favorite ice cream cake (Cold Stone Creamery). And it was so unusual when everyone wanted to stay for the gift opening. I mean, who stays for birthday gift openings? Anyway, he presented me with a little box from Tiffany’s. Inside was a key. A car key. To my dream car. A BMW X5. While we were opening presents, someone took it out from the garage and parked it in the front lawn. I literally cried. It was the best birthday ever. Needless to say, 4 days later, we found out that we were pregnant with our second child (our son was born just a mere 14 months after his sister). Whoops. Happy Birthday! What an awesome giveaway! I am in! happy birthday Meg…my favourite presents are the cards my husband writes to me. They always, always make me laugh and I must say the best ones were never accompanied by an expensive gift…I think the lack of a gift was the greatest gift in the end. Oh, I want that!!! I love pictures on canvas! My best birthday present? This years was pretty good. My husband (who I thought was at work) stayed home and surprised me by doing a bunch of stuff that needed to be done around the house. I was out running errands and when I got home, I was speechless. Then he took the kids, finished my errands and gave me the rest of the day off. It was better then anything he could have bought for me. Happy Birthday!! I found out I was pregnant with my first baby on my 20th birthday. That has got to be the best present ever. My daughter Daija is going to be 2 in Dec. and I am pregnant ready to pop anytime with #2, another baby girl named Violet. The best present I ever got from my husband was a Story People made out of wood.. I love it so much! Going to the cabin with girls…who happen to be FRICKIN’ HILLARIOUS!! Happy Birthday Meg!! i love the pic you chose and the colors of the suitcase/cup/books/shelf all together! The best b-day gift i received was a book from my grandmother that she filled out of our family tree, photos of her as a child, her favorite recipes, everything about her life. i treasure it and read it often. when i am not reading it, i keep it locked in our safe so that nothing ever happens to it- even if i do not win, its ok~ i just wanted to share an idea w/everyone- its something inexpensive and easy to do for someone, but priceless for the one receiving it. I received *almost* a baby!! He was supposed to come on my bday… but ended up arriving 6 days later instead. I can still count that right?? Happy Birthday!!!! My favorite birthday was this past year… Hey, my birthday is today also 9/30/68 I’m a few years older than you, but am so inspired by you and your photos, blog, personality. You have the light of God shining in all you do. My best birthday is probably today…I told my family my gifts could only be homemade, and it is just so nice to see what they’ve come up with for me…Have a great day. Love, love, love the picture – it’s so cute on your wall:) The best birthday gift I ever got a this long, creme robe that is the softest thing I’ve ever owned. It is so comfy on a cold day to wrap up in and drink hot chocolate. I would love to win the canvas photo, because, well, I’m a photo nut:)!! Thanks for the chance! First of all… HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Happy birthday! The best gift I’ve gotten for my birthday was a personal note from my husband. It was when times were financially tough for us. That note stands out more than anything else. Happy Birthday! Hmmmm, my best birthday present has to be my 30th birthday party that was a surprise by my hubby who, honestly, is just not good at surprises. He did an amazing job, theme, invite list, pulling it off…I love it!! The best birthday gift I ever got was a positive pregnancy test!! This past birthday I received an antique pocket watch from my mother-in-law, passed down to her from her grandmother. She knows I love all things old! my best birthday gift was…. The best gift that I received was actually a gift for my son’s first birthday (which was the 20th of this month). My dad had started a college fund for him – it’s something I’ve been wanting to start for him but haven’t yet found the financial stability to do so. I seriously weeped in glee over that wonderful gift. Oh and the best b-day gift i ever received was going to Iowa on a plane. 🙂 Happy birthday Meg! Beth is freaking out over it. 🙂 I love the picture. Please enter me in! The best birthday gift I have received, was this summer. Having moved 500 miles away from family three years ago, we don’t throw big birthday parties. We never do anything for my birthday, specifically. This year, my friend (and photography partner), threw me a party with both of our families in attendance. A special dinner, special dessert, even a special birthday drink. They even sang to me! We finished the night with me kicking EVERYONE’S butt at wii boxing! I can’t remember the last time anyone made a big deal out of my birthday. It was so thoughtful and so special to me! MY best birthday present was an unusual surprise party from my husband for the 2 of us. When I was pregnant with my first child, his due date was a day away from my birthday, November 30th. WELL one day I came home from work (in October) and my husband had decorated the house, bought gifts, a cake, a ton of balloons, and surprised me with a private birthday celebration. He didn’t want my birthday to be overshadowed by the birth of our first child……THAT was a fantastic gift and surprise, in October, to celebrate my 27th birthday! my best birthday gift was a diamond teardrop necklace from my husband!! I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to win this. I would use it for a wedding picture of me and my husband. Love your choice and placement of your canvas and love your blog!! My favorite birthday present was this year and it was from myself! My daughter and I went on our first ever, not-visiting-family-and-stay-in-a-hotel vacation. It was amazing. My daughter (she’s 13) was nearly perfect the entire time which was a gift in itself. She didn’t talk back, she didn’t argue (much), we got to be goofy and fun with each other and she didn’t spend too much time worrying about who would see us. She even held my hand in public (once, for just a minute, but still). I took 800(!) pictures which will end up being Christmas presents for my family and have a million memories of a wonderful time spent together. the year i got my training wheel bike has to be near the top! i had been wishing and hoping and dreaming about how free it would feel to ride that bike all over the neighborhood. it was pretty great! Happy Birthday to you… Happy Birthday to you…. Happy Birthday Dear You… Happy Birthday to YOU! Happy Birthday! happy happy to you! i forgot my best birthday gift: it was a bb gun when i was 10 years old. i loved that thing. happy birthday! i love it printed on canvas. it looks great. best birthday present??? hmmm….date night with The Hubs has been my favorite in the most recent years! Happy Birthday! I made the rainbow cake on Monday & it was gorgeous!! My 4 year old squealed when he saw it! My best birthday gift was my surprise 15th birthday party… my parents rented a school bus to take all of my friends to play laser tag. Happy Birthday! Hope it’s a good one. I had a surprise party given for me when I turned 30. I had never had one before. I was totally surprised and in shock for most of the night!! It was so much fun!! Happy Birthday, Meg! I will forever remember it because both of my moms'(birth and in-law) birthdays were yesterday. What an awesome prize! I really hope I win! Happy birthday!! You have a great birthday because it is mine too! Thanks for sharing your awesome blog. I found it through the web awards a few months ago and I love reading it. The pictures you take are so beautiful. Enjoy your birthday with your family and friends. Happy Birthday…Oh, I hope I win this prize on your birthday 🙂 My favorite gift was a special day of surprises planned by my husband – including a relaxing massage followed by a surprise luncheon with about 20 of our friends and family. He even arranged for a babysitter, bought a beautiful cake and had gifts there for me to open. I married a good man! My 30th was the best. Hubby shopped for me at White House Black Market, took me on a get-away weekend(no kids) and a surprise party at the end. It was fabulous! I’d love a canvas! Oh me me!! That is gorgeous! My favorite gift is something that I’ve gotten each year from my grandparents for the last several years: a family pass to the Sedgwick County Zoo. Being a single mom trying to go back to college, it’s awesome to be able to take the kids out as often as we like without it costing us each time. For Christmas they get me a family pass to Exploration Place as well. 🙂 I was given a professional pregnancy massage when I was pregnant with my first which was the greatest thing ever!! my best birthday gift? really??? i love birthdays. and i love celebrating birthdays. but i honestly can’t think of a single birthday gift that has put me over the top excited. is that sad? so i guess i’ll just share about my last birthday. the big 3-0! 🙂 my husband sent me flowers. a few friends gave me gift cards for a local coffee shop and my mom gave me 30 packs of gum, 30 packs of kleenex, 30 $1 bills. all great gifts! really. i’m grateful! just not anything to get too excited about! Happy Happy Birthday! Wishing you a fantastic day. I LUV your WHATEVER sign and canvas pic. Happy Birthday! happy birthday! would love a canvas for my home! Happy Birthday to a fellow September birthday girl! One of my favorite gifts was my ipod nano I received (and, ok, begged for) for my Birthday last year. I don’t know how I ever lived without it. Happy Birthday. A home made cake, and my husband was the chef. Happy Birthday Megan! Sept. bdays are GREAT!! I can’t believe I’m commenting and trying to win this thing…what are the chances?!?!? But here goes. My favorite bday gift of all time was probably my ipod. I love it. That’s boring I know. But I really haven’t gotten that great of gifts that I can remember. Poor me. Happy Birthday! Your photos are beautiful. happy birthday little lady! My favorite birthday gift is from this year (I really can’t remember many birthday gifts – very sad how bad my memory is). My mom knew that I wanted a basket for my bike and so she special ordered one for me and put the picture in an envelope for me since it hadn’t arrived yet. I appreciate true acts of thoughtfulness and this was one of them! (Happy birthday to you, btw) Hmmm…I would say my last birthday! I turned 32. It was a SNOWDAY so I didn’t have to go to my job as a teacher AND I got to stay home with my kiddos and hubby. It was perfectly awesome! 🙂 My first was last year and it was a couple of days early, but Baby Todd came. He was due the day before my birthday but came 4 days before. He is such a gift. What a wonderful little boy. hApPy BiRtHdAy To YoU! Well hey there – Happy Birthday!!!! Worst? Nothing. Not for Christmas. Or anniversary. Or Birthday. For 2 years. As a NEWLYWED. Hubby just didn’t “get it” that these things were important. So I went out & bought myself an amazing necklace that I figure cost as much as 2 years of gifts. HE WAS THRILLED!!!! All that pressure was off of him & he was overjoyed. So excited for this opportunity! September birthdays are the best! Happy Birthday to you! Awesome! I just had a birthday in August, I turned 30 and my husband surprised me with a Canon Rebel XTi camera. It is most definitely my favorite materialistic thing I own. I take it everywhere with me and have already captured some great memories. The best would have to be my husband to read Total Money Makeover and getting us started! It was just what I asked for! My favorite gift was a gift certificate for a cooking school! Happy Birthday!!!!!!! I would LOVE to be able to get one of these. And BTW – U2 concert was last night and it was amazing! Happy Birthday! I have been reading your blog for over a year and never comment. Don’t know why, but this contest was too good to pass up. Kind of shallow I know. 🙂 My best present was years ago when my husband surprised me and dropped me off at a salon for a day of pampering. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! My favorite present would have to be my camera. I bought it as a gift for myself. :0) Happy happy birthday Meg! Best birthday ever? well my birthday usually falls on thanksgiving or somewhere that week and 2 of my 5 kids birthdays are that week also so by the time we get to my birthday we are usually all birthday-ed out. One of my best birthday presents was my “practically perfect in every way” {name that movie} Happy Birthday Meg! I love your photo…if I win, can I choose it? 🙂 Hope your B-day is the best ever! happy birthday meg, love your blog and check every day! best present was the year my husband bought me flowers when everyone else in my family forgot! we were overseas and the time difference confused them all!! My worst birthday was when we were going through IVF treatments so I was very hormonal and my husband had to go to plumbing class? that night and I sat in the dark on my bed and ate a large pizza while I had several phonecalls that I didn’t answer and my dad sat outside my house for a couple hours. Sounds weird huh? Hormonal may have been an understatement. Wow, I can’t imagine I’ll win with all the great entrees already posted, but I thought I’d try. The worst was a nitted sweater that was neon striped, went to my knees and had grey dancing elephants on it. Yeah…beautiful. 😉 I can’t remember if I ever wore it…maybe in a thank-you picture to send to my loving creative grandmother who gave it to me. Happy Birthday! Love your cabinet and bookshelf, by the way. Happy Birthday! i check your blog all the time…. everyday. but, this is my first comment. so, i may seem new to YOU, but, you aren’t to ME! The worst gift I received was from my husband in our early years of marriage, which explains the gift, he wasn’t “trained” yet! He gave me seat covers for our car. I was sad but hated to admitt it. Now I can look back and laugh like crazy! Thanks Meg! Hi Megan – Happy Birthday! best birthday was the year after I had my first child – my best friend took me to Hot SPrings for the weekend. it was the first full nights’ sleep I had in 8 months!! LOL Flowers from my husband while we were still dating…and the promise that we would have many more birthdays to celebrate together! I hope you have fun plans for your day! Too many great birthday gifts to remember so i’ll pick my most recent one. For my 40th birthday, back in June, I received a Canon EOS Rebel – i’ve been wanting an SLR for years so this was a perfect gift! Happy Birthday! My best birthday present was new tires from my dad…I know…really boring but its always the last thing I want to spend money on so I thought it was really thoughtful. My mother-in-law and husband threw a surprise party for me while we were vacationing in Palm Desert. I was lured out of Mom-in-laws house using the old let’s-get-our-nails-done trick, and after THE best mani/pedi ever I came home to a house ready to party. Great time. Happy Birthday Megan! Happy Birthday!! Happy birthday, Megan! Your blog brightens up my day. I LOVE it! Happy Birthday MEG!!!!!! I just love you and your blog and wish you nothing but the best for your special day 🙂 It’s a coincidence that I became engaged on my birthday and found out I was pregnant with my first (not the same birthday! lol) and I think those are two pretty awesome gifts! This is a super giveaway, I would love to blow up some photography… fingers crossed! Happy Birthday MEG!!!!!! I just love you and your blog and wish you nothing but the best for your special day 🙂 It’s a coincidence that I became engaged on my birthday and found out I was pregnant with my first (not the same birthday! lol) and I think those are two pretty awesome gifts! This is a super giveaway, I would love to blow up some photography… fingers crossed! My husband got me UGG slippers last year for my 28th birthday. I would never splurge on something like that for myself…so it was nice that he got them for me…and I wear them EVERY day 🙂 Happy Day to you !!!! What a wonderful giveaway! My best all time birthday present happened this year on 9/3. I received breakfast in bed from my husband and three kids! Happy Happy Birthday – my best gift was a getaway with my hubby! That is a wonderful vignette!!!! My little brother and my best friend took me to Krispy Kreme donuts for my 18th birthday, that was the best present ever 🙂 I love Krispy Kreme like nothing else. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I’m lame, I can’t think of a stand-out birthday gift I received. How ungrateful of me! I will try to think on it and be thankful! Last year my 95 year old Oma took me to dinner as my gift and that was better than anything she could have bought me. happy birthday!! big barbie doll head when i was 6 so i could do her hair. i grew up to be a hair stylist:) best b’day gift…always the handmade cards my girls make me. The worst birthday gift was from my parents when I turned 20. Momentous occasion, right?–finished with the teen years, into the 20s? I got a red plastic ladybug desk set. As in, red plastic staper, pencil cup, blotter pad. All with ladybugs. Ugh. My new Canon 7D – Happy Birthday!! My favorite present was when I turned 30, my three best friends and I received a weekend get away from our husbands. We were all 8 months pregnant and turning 30 so it was much appreciated! What an awesome giveaway Meg…thanks! The best birthday present…when I turned 13 my Mom threw me a surprise birthday party. I just remember having so much fun! I dont rememeber a specific gift…but the party was the best part. Happy birthday! Happy Birthday! My favorite birthday present (brace yourself, this is weird) was when my husband (boyfriend at the time) paid to have my cat “fixed” and declawed. I was a broke college student head-over-heels for the gangly stray kitten that kept lurking around my apartment. My landlord had a strict “no pets” policy but finally caved under my begging and said I could keep the cat if I had him declawed. Franklin (our cat) is the best birthday present I’ve ever received! Happy Birthday Meg!!!! Happy Birthday to you!!! Enjoy your day 🙂 My best birthday was my sweet 16. My b-day is on Jan. 3rd. We always threw a New Year’s Eve party at my house, but that year, my family and friends also rolled in an early surprise party for my birthday! SO much fun! Whoa at all the comments!! Happy Birthday to You!!! Hope your day is wonderful!! And what a thoughtful offer for us! oh, LOVE canvas prints! Oh I would so love to win this……I have so many awesome pics from the beach it would be hard to choose but it would be fun to have!! Happy Birthday Meg!! several years ago I rec’d my first coach purse – from my parents Happy Birthday. Love the sunflower picture…so gorgeous! Happy Birthday to you!! First I want to say that I love love LOVE this contest!! We just built our first house just over a year ago and the walls are still in desperate need of some great artwork! I love the photo you chose. I just reading your blog almost a year ago and I love you photos, your house, and all the color in your life. Best birthday gift was just this month! My husband bought me a Nikon D90 and I LOVE it! I love that canvas too! Hmm… the best? Not sure. The hubby hasn’t given me one in a few years, it just “slips his mind”. But he always makes up for it on Christmas – I get the most awesome Christmas presents! Wowzer! Lots of comments 🙂 That’s cool! You really do have a cute blog here. Love the pic you got done! Nice Job! Please do enter me I know Just what I would do! I started reading your blog off of the link that’s on the Mac’s. Happy Birthday. My worst birthday present was this year… and I’m not sure if it really qualifies for a present… BUT this year I turned 30 and we drove down to Savannah, GA for the weekend where there was a Moroccan restaurant I had been hankering to try. I had a piece off of a metal scrubber you use to scrub pots and pans with in my food. Which was in my mouth. Happy Birthday! Never left a comment, but love reading and enjoying the “eye candy”. Best bday gift is breakfast in bed with kids, cards, husband. Worst was a thigh master (I mean, seriously?) 🙂 Happy Birthday Meg! Your whatever sign and canvas look terrific! The best birthday present I ever received was a kitchen aid mixer from my (then boyfriend) husband. I love to bake! Awesome give-away! I know which one I would choose too. Happy Birthday!!! Best Birthday gift = Sea Monkeys…worst gift = underwear. Hope I win!!! Happy Birthday! My best birthday gift is just being alive and being a teacher to wonderful special education students and being a mother. I have a close friend who unexpectedly just lost her son to SIDS, so I am thankful for the things God has blessed me with:) It was my birthday on Monday, and I’m still accepting presents. So pick me, and we’ll call this the best gift ever. (Even though it was really the all-out celebratory bonanza my husband and my 2-year-old planned for my 30th birthday.) How funny – I just recently discovered your blog and read it almost daily. And that was before I knew we shared the same birthday!!! So here’s hoping both of our birthdays are wondefully special! Happy Birthday!! 🙂 My best birthday gift ever was my surprise 30th birthday last year…my friends and family bought me baby gifts since we’d just gotten the call a few weeks earlier we were chosen by the adoption agency for our baby girl! 🙂 WOW! This is so awesome! I love how you used the new green box. Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great day! On my latest birthday I received a beautiful ring from my sweetie with our names engraved, two hearts and our birthstones. Love it! Happy Birthday!!! I got engaged the day before one of my birthdays (can’t remember which one — I’d have to do the math!) I then spent the NEXT birthday in chemo. Yes, chemo! I was really sick and it was really not fun — but I’m still here — so I’ll take the tradeoff. 🙂 I’m going to go check out their site… I love the idea! Thanks for sharing. Happy birthday! I so love the daily uplift you bring to my life through your blog. this is a great deal! my fav gift has to be my MAC from my hubby I got last year 🙂 Also, last year I got a mother’s necklace made from a good friend… it’s so special because it even has the gem from my daughter that is in heaven 🙂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Happy birthday Meg! Hey Meg…happy happy day!!! Great to have you at our garage sale last week!!! Let’s see…best birthday gift would have to be my twins that were born 6 1/2 weeks early, but five days after my 28th birthday!!! Pretty awesome!!! Have a good one!!! Happy Birthday! Nice to meet you at my garage sale. My Nikon D40!! Happy Birthday! I dont know about a best present, I do have a great memory. Before I was married and started spending all my birthdays with my inlaws (my birthday is a week after Christmas) my mom, sister and I would spend the day together. For dinner I would always ask to get fresh crab. We would all sit around talking eating our crab. I loved those dinners! I’ve been thinking about getting one of these for my bathroom. HMM, not sure which photo I’d choose. Love the picture!!! Best gift??? Hands down, it has to be the Miss Piggy puppet I received for my 8th birthday. I still have it and my 5 year old HATES it!!!! Happy Birthday! Love your sunflower picture!! Best birthday present, my Kitchen Aid mixer for my 30th birthday. Love it! The best birthday gifts are packages from home when I live far away. Happy Birthday! That picture is awesome and I would love a huge picture for above my mantle! The best birthday gift I have ever received was probably my sewing machine. My hubby thought I would never use it but I do and I love it! Oh, this is so fun!! My favorite birthday present was the year my friends drug me out of the house to paint ceramics with our kids. I was seriously ill and house bound at the time so it meant so much to have friends at the worst of times. Happy Birthday, Meg!!! Happy Birthday! My best b-day gift would be my easy bake oven. Happy Birthday Meg, I love, love, love your blog! Love it! Can I have the sunflowers, too?? 🙂 Happy Birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGAN! Hope this is one of your best years yet 🙂 What a COOL birthday present! Thanks for sharing with one of us! I’m crossing my fingers! I’ve been wanting to do this for years but it never seems to make it into our budget 🙂 my favorite part of my birthday isn’t really the gifts. each year I ask for the same thing. A cook-out, black magic cake, and invite my grandparents, pastor and his wife, and of course my immediate family and sit out in the garden eating and having a fun time. I honestly don’t remember a lot of bday presents………..those don’t always give a lasting memory! The cookouts- now that’s memories! Happy B-day!!!! Happy Birthday! HOpe you have a fantastic day! Happy Birthday Megan!! Happy Birthday! I’m a September girl too! my camera so i could launch my business. from my dad. because he believed in my skills. and that probably speaks bigger than any ole camera. oh, and my husband willing to do whatever it took to help me get started. even if we had two little humans running around. so, freedom to return to being an artist. and the support of my family. and a camera. my camera so i could launch my business. from my dad. because he believed in my skills. and that probably speaks bigger than any ole camera. oh, and my husband willing to do whatever it took to help me get started. even if we had two little humans running around. so, freedom to return to being an artist. and the support of my family. and a camera. Happy Birthday! my new camera!! Happy Birthday!!! The best birthday gift was on my 25th…I lived far, far away from my “home” (parents, friends, sister) and they all chipped in and got me a ticket home for a week long visit. PS HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!! Happy birthday! The best birthday present I ever received was finding out I was pregnant with our first child just a few days before my birthday! For my 27th birthday (okay, a week-and-a-half early) my husband and I found out we were expecting! That lovely revelation sort of {wonderfully} erased any memories I had of my birthday that year! i have a wonderful old balck and white photo of my house from the turn of the century that i have been wondering how to put it into my decorating …this would be perfect..thanks for the chance Happy Birthday, Meg! I love birthday presents and can’t think of a favorite. I CAN think of a worst, though, and that was from my new boyfriend. He was from Europe and I was turning thirty and expected something amazing and beautiful and me. He gave me a nylon Janzten backpack. I wept like a baby, so hard that I’m embarrassed about it still to this day. I landed up marrying him a year later, though, and he’s never given me a “bad” present since! Happy birthday from the UK Megan! I hope you have a marvellous day, filled with presents, balloons and lots of cake 🙂 Happy Birthday! I think the best birthday gift I got was this year when my husband surprised me with a fancy new camera! I grew up in a village, small town Nebraska. Now I’m living smack in the middle of the city and your blog makes me feel like home! Happy Birthday Meg!! The best birthday present I ever got was my first SLR, a Canon Rebel. It has opened up my world to endless possibilities, new adventures, and an opportunity to see things I would have never noticed before. Happy Birthday Meg! Hope you have a great one. Happy Birthday! Beautiful picture! I would love to canvas wrap the most perfect picture of my daughters and hang it where everyone can see!! Happy Birthday Meg! The photo is awesome!! Happy Birthday Megan! Which birthday is it for you? I would love one. I do not have a picture of all of my kids together yet, since my last little girl. My best birthday gift ever was my husband taking me antique shopping in Paxico and other surrounding towns for the weekend with no kids and then of course out to eat and some wine tasting. It was wonderful! HaPpy BiRtHdAy!!!!! Love your BLOG!! I look forward every day to reading it! Happy Birthday! My best birthday present was last one when my husband and my girls decorated our house like a little kids birthday and hid when I got home then they Yelled out Happy Birthday Mommy! So fun! On my 21st bday I got engaged. That I would say was the best so far. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday Meg!!! I love your blog!!! My favorite Birthday Present was a Surprise Party for my 30th from my Husband~yep, he totally surprised me and It was great! Happy Birthday!!!! Perhaps my best and worst birthday present happened last year on my 28th birthday when I was violently ill yet pregnant with my beautiful baby boy. Morning sickness sucks (especially on your birthday). Happy Birthday Megan!! Love your pictures and your website!! Have a BLESSED Day! My best birthday “gift” was a surprise party. My 19th birthday I had been away from home since Christmas the year before. I didn’t have any idea until really close to the start of the party when my brother had to go on a beer run and he took me to the liquor story 20 minutes away-when there was one within 5 minutes, and I couldn’t even go in the store. A lot of my friends taht I had not seeen for months were there too! i hope you’ve gotten lots of birthday love! that corner looks amazing with all your goodies displayed! i want that turquoise tin so BAD! i am so glad you love the sign. one of a kind and perfect like you 🙂 Happy Birthday to you! At the time I thought I deserved more than a sewing machine for my 30th bday…but it has served me well and I so enjoy creating with it! PICK YOUR MOTHER!!! Happy Birthday to you! Happy birthday! I hope you’re having a wonderful day today! Happy Birthday to You! It looks like my best birthday gift will be next year.. I’m due for child number 2 on my birthday! The best birthday present ever….after 36 years thats a tough one! But I would loooove a canvas of one of my favorite shots that i just took of my two year old birthday pics i just took 🙂 This is really sad, because I know I’ve gotten “better” presents, but the one that is really sticking out to me right now is the bike my parents got me while in elementary school. They brought it to the school and left it in the bike rack with a giant bow and balloons on it. (they were waiting in the parking lot nearby) I then got to ride it home from school with my Dad. Loved it!!! Happy Birthday!! Happy birthday! Hope you have a lovely day. Happy Birthday!!! Have a wonderful day with lots of cake. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! Happy Birthday Meg! Happy birthday! Best birthday present? Hmmm… I can’t even think of one right now. Isn’t that sad? Love, love, love your sunflowers! I would probably have to say that my kitchenaid stand mixer was one of my favorite birthday presents. As we get older, we tend to not receive as many gifts so I guess I would say that just living another year to have a birthday is a great gift. Happy Birthday to You! I have enjoyed reading your blog and love your dog “Waffle!” Happy Birthday!! I recently started reading your blog, and love it so much. You, your family and house are all SO WONDERFUL! Hope you have a great day! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you. And me too, we share a birthday. What a wonderful, blessed day! Happy Birthday to you! 🙂 I love birthdays! I think the best birthday present that I ever received was my watch. I had been wanting it for several years and a few years back my husband surprised me with it! Happy Birthday. This is a wonderful giveaway! Thank you! Happy Birthday, I love all your photos. My best birthday gift is having my children remember it is my birthday. love love this! and yesterday was my birthday, we are September babies together!! happy day to you!! hope it is lovely! Happy birthday to you! My best birthday gift…was a combination birthday and graduation gift. For my 18th birthday, my mom gave me a bag full of travel books from the library. Which was weird. But the books were all about Paris, because we were going! It was just my mom and me for a week in Paris. I’d never crossed the ocean before, but had been talking about Paris my whole life. It was perfect. oohh, i could think of a few images i could use. Forgot to share my best birthday story (ooops): Happy Birthday! What a great giveaway! Happy birthday! Happy Birthday to YOU! I love your pics and encouraging posts. we’ve just had anniversary portraits taken and I’d love to have one put on a canvas! Happy Birthday Girl. I love your blog. Happy Birthday Megan! Hope you have a wonderful and stress-free day! The best and most unexpected birthday present I received was from my friend of more than 20 years. We don’t normally exchange gifts, but one year she sent me a beautiful necklace (similar to Vintage Pearl) with my daughters’ names on it. It was so out of the blue and so thoughtful, it is one of my most treasured things I wear. Loving your blog and reading about your family’s adventures, it really makes my day and inspires me to be a better wife and mother. You are the best! Happy birthday Megan. Happy birthday Megan. Happy Birthday to you! Hope you have a wonderful time celebrating! Happy Birthday to you! What a great give away, would love to win. I will tell you about my worst birthday gift ever received (or so I thought at the time). I was in the 8th grade and received a square dance outfit that was lime green with silver rick rack trim! Now, I ask you, how many 8th grade girls would wear that? I didn’t even square dance. Funny thing is, that it has provided me with many laughs since then. So, maybe it was a good memory maker after all! Your picture looks great…. and what a great giveaway! My favorite present was when my hubby and I were only dating we flew to San Diego for the day! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! Happy Birthday, Meg! One of your posts said something like ‘thank you for sharing your sunshine’ and I couldn’t agree more. You really brighten my day. My birthday is not until the spring, but I think the best birthday present I ever received was finding out I was due with my first child on my birthday! (We’ll see if it actually happens, but hey – still pretty cool!) Happy Birthday! The picture is wonderful 🙂 Happy Birthday Megan. I love your blog. My best birthday way when i turned 26. My husband asked me to marry him! Hurray! Great givaway! great photo canvas and pictures of your home. Best birthday present – when I turned 16 I got my first “nice” tennis raquet. Worst birthday ever was when I finally got pregnant after a couple years of trying and then I miscarried and had to have DC on my birthday. Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! My husband bought me a Cuisinart food processor last year for my birthday- I’m still learning how to use it but I love it! beautiful!!!! wish my photos would turn out like yours do!! Happy Birthday and I love your blog…so happy! My mind is like mush today so I’m having problems remembering what I did yesterday, but this year’s birthday was pretty sweet. I turned 30 this year and my husband gave me homemade cards from the kids and a SPA DAY!!! I had NEVER had any form of a spa treatment before in my life…no mani, no pedi, nothing. Needless to say, I truely appreciated and loved the gift! Have a Great Day! Happy Birthday! The set up you have in your house is beautiful and so refreshing…love it. happy birthday to you!!! hope your day is lovely. Happy Birthday,Megan! What a great giveaway. My favorite birthday present ever was a trip to Hawaii…. What an amazing gift to give on YOUR birthday!! Oh I hope I win. Meg here’s hoping you have an extraordinary day…because you my dear are such a blessing to me everyday:) I need this badly. The worst present I ever got for my birthday was the stomach flu on my 29th birthday! What a birthday! At least it wasn’t my 30th, that would’ve been DEPRESSING!!!! Happy Birthday Megan! Just fyi today is my dad’s birthday too. Its a good day for a birthday, but don’t worry you are way way younger than him. 🙂 Happy Birthday Megan! Just fyi today is my dad’s birthday too. Its a good day for a birthday, but don’t worry you are way way younger than him. 🙂 WOW!! I love those sunflowers!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! HaPpY bIrThDaY tO yOu! Happy Birthday! I think my best birthday present ever was from my then-fiance. It was a KitchenAid mixer in gorgeous matte charcoal gray. I LOOOOOOOOVE to bake so it was an amazing gift and a total surprise. 🙂 im bending the rules but it was a christmas present – since my husband and i were married pre-digital-as-mainstream-age, we only had about 50 pics from our wedding. my parents contacted the photographer and bought ALL of our negatives from him. of course i cried big tears of joy when i opened the present – its was the BEST! Happy Birthday! Ooooh what a great prize!! Happy Birthday, Meg!! If it’s ok with you, I think I would choose the picture taken of your son on vacation…where he was feeding the squirrel in front of the sign that says Do Not Feed the Animals. That’s the first one that came to mind. Happy Birthday! I’m fairly certain that the picture that I would choose would be one of the pictures that YOU took! Happy Birthday Meg! Love your picture – its perfect there. My favorite birthday gift was my son, who was born 2 days before my birthday 3 years ago. All I wanted was to meet him (and not be pregnant anymore!). I hate to say this after all the meaningful posts above, but getting my iPod on my 40th was the best birthday gift ever. I LOVE music and I LOVE my iPOD!!! The best birthday present I ever received was my first TiVo! Happy Birthday to you!!! The best birthday presents I have ever received are the ones hand made by my kids! Seriously! My husband and I just celebrated out 13th anniversary and my 10 yr. old daughter made us a scrapbook of ourselves! Those are the kind of things I cherish! Have a wonderful birthday! Love your photo and your whatever sign to by the way! Melaine The photo is awesome and so is the sign…and the bookcase….and the tins. I LOVE your style!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!! The best birthday present I ever got was from my sweet hubby – he took me on a shopping spree at my favorite antique stores! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEG!! Happy Birthday, Meg! Love your photos. You are such an inspiration! Happy Birthday!!! What a GREAT picture (and sign)! Happy Birthday. Best birthday gifts: handmade cards from the kiddos. My fave featured the broken off tip of a pencil secured with scotch taped and read, “You are as sharp as a point!” Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday, Meg! I LOVE that print! The best birthday gift that I have ever received is the “gift” of time! Time to seize the day and do “whatever” I want! On my birthday, I get to choose what I do, where I go, where we eat, etc. It really is great not having to get 5 people to agree on choices for the day! Whatever I say, goes!!! The best gift I ever received was a car from my parents for my sixteenth birthday!! Thanks for the chance to win. Oops… I completely forgot to tell about a birthday of mine that was very special… Happy Birthday, hope you have an AMAZING day!!!!!!! Funny, cause my birthday is today too! LOVE your blog, not sure if I’ve commented here before, but I love reading about your family and all your fun crafts. Hope you have a great day! and LOVE the picture on the canvas. I love that canvas! I love your sign and that photo is gorgeous! Gotta go check out that website! Have a happy birthday! And your decorating style is awesome…so me….I love it! Happy Birthday! Your blog is so inspirational! The pictures are just pure “yellow”, you are gifted with the crafty juices my dear! Have a great day celebrating! Happy Birthday, Megan!!! Happy Birthday!! Happy Birthday Meg! My favorite birthday gift is a birthday cake from my favorite bakery in town. Cake is my favorite food of ALL FOODS so getting my favorite cake once a year is absolute heaven. 🙂 Happy Birthday!!! Happy Birthday!!!! Happy Bithday to you! Happy Birthday! I would love one of these!! My favorite birthday present was a bracelet I got my for my 21st birthday. I wore it for YEARS and it always reminded me of my parents. Some people think jewelry is too easy, but I am very sentimental about jewelry. Me, please!!! Happy Birthday – make this a great year! Keep making us smile. Happy Birthday! Thanks for telling us about this company too..I’m always hesitant to try someone new I’d love to win, and I’m on my way over to check out their services. That sunflower print is just beautiful! Oh, and happy birthday! Your canvas is beautiful. I know exactly which picture of mine I would get in canvas. Happy Birthday! I hope you have a wonderful day. I LOVE to read your blog. I look forward to it everyday. I envy your creativity and zest for life. I love your house and your children are adorable. That little Annie has style! Awesome giveaway!! The best birthday gift I’ve ever gotten is one that my husband gives me every year. We give eachother handmade creative cards – and I absolutely love them! We don’t buy eachother gifts anymore because this is so much more fun. This year he bought a piece of huge posterboard and decorated it with pictures, string, stickers, his writing, drawings, etc. It’s the best gift ever! Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! I Love your blog! I have withdrawls on days you don’t post. Happy Birthday to you, to you…. happy birthday! my favorite birthday had to be when i got my 3-wheeler as a little girl. that thing got used daily and only caused one broken bone. pretty good considering how we drove it! Happy Birthday! I love stopping by here each day. Your pictures make me want to move to Kansas! Happy Birthday you! Hope this next year brings you everything you so richly deserve! Happy Birthday! There is a little something on its way to you right now. My best present was a couple years ago from Kevin – my zydeco washboard, delivered to me by Chubby Carrier. That thing has been so much fun to play. Although walking around the corner at my surprise 30th, and seeing you and baby Talby flown in from Chicago…That was a pretty good one too. 🙂 Happy Birthday! I am drooling over the colorful vignette under your fantastic photo. Hi Meg. Happy Birthday! I just happened to find your blog one day when I was blog hopping and I have been hooked ever since. Your pictures and decorations are amazing! I would love to win, so PICK ME:) Happy Birthday! Way to share your birthday Megan! 🙂 Well Happy Birthday!!. I have never left a comment and can’t even remember how I found your blog…but I love your pictures, your house, etc. I only wish we lived closer because I would love for you to photograph my sweet boy. Happy Birthday Megan! Oh how I would L-O-V-E to print a picture and give it to my husband as a gift. It is on this blog post of mine http://imnotabloggermom.blogspot.com/2009/04/lets-go-fly-kite.html Happy Birthday! A hand-made journal from my husband. My “best” gift comes every year. My husband puts so much thought into my birthday gifts. It is usually something I mentioned to early in the year during some random conversation, I am always amazed that by September he remembers it! He must take notes! ;o) What a guy… My grandfather passed away on my birthday this August. It was so sad and so wonderful at the same time. We had 15 people gathered in his room to celebrate his life and help him to pass on. My family was worried that my birthday was spoiled, but I was filled with joy to be able to spend my day with a man that built such a caring and supportive family. Happy Birthday! I LOVE the way your pic turned out. Happy Birthday to you! Today is also my birthday and one of your pictures on canvas would be a fabulous birthday gift! I love your blog and your pictures. Hope you have a great day! The best birthday present I ever got was my canon 30d camera. My dear husband knew just how much I wanted one. I have taken so many great pictures with it and just love it years later. Happy Birthday! The best present I have ever received was on my 18th birthday. My papaw had passed away earlier that year and my mamaw gave me her engagement ring. The band was worn through in one spot. He had long since replaced her diamond with a bigger, more sparkly version, but she always wore this one. My favorite birthday was when I was 40 and pregnant with my first and only child. I had my sonogram and found out I was having a girl. I was totally shocked because for some reason I always knew I was having a boy. First off! Happy Birthday! Hope you have an awesome day! I can’t think of a specific gift that stands out – but I do love it when I can get the birthday treatment all week! Wow! This is so cool! Mine was this year…I got my mac computer!! What a great give a way…..my favorite birthday memory is a surprise birthday party my girlfriends gave me…..I was totally surprised….I still don’t know how they pulled that off! Happy Birthday Meg! Happy Birthday to you!! Love your blog and photos! And my kids LOVED the Rainbow cake–huge hit! One of my fav birthday gifts was my husband surprised me by sending my bff & I to NYC for a weekend. This year I want to go with him! Have a great day! Happy Birthday!!! I hope you have an amazing day and somebody makes you a cake!! That is one incredible picture! Happy birthday! I am a reader off of Jess’s blog while praying for baby cora. I’d LOVE one of these for a picture of my daughter!! Happy birthday! It is funny how people love birthdays when they are young–then you hit about 25 & start to question the need for them–then you have kids & birthdays become fun again! I love to watch how excited my boys get about MY birthday! Happy Birthday! My best birthday’s are the one’s I spend with my family on a nice little getaway. Maui was a great one! Happy birthday! I hope you have an awesome day. Happy Birthday!!! I hope you have a great day! Happy Brithday!! I love following your blog. You are very talented. 🙂 Um…one of the best birthday gift I received was my mini-i pod back in college. I had wanted one so bad that year and my parents surprised with one. I still have it to this day and still love it. 🙂 Happy Birthday to you-Love the picture-I have wanted to do a canvas picture but I have been afraid to take the plunge and spend the money to do it so just maybe I can win one and if I love it then I can do some Christmas shopping from their website-thats a great idea-don’t you agree-HA! Anyway love your blog and it makes my day each day and it makes me realize I need to get out and do something! You are great! BEAUTIFUL! And Happy Birthday:) Happy Birthday! Your sunflower print is beautiful! happy birthday! the best gift i ever received was when i was pregnant with my first child. my very first ultrasound just happened to be scheduled on my bday, and seeing my precious baby was the best present i could imagine! Happy birthday! do they ship to Canada? love it! Oh, I have one of the kids at the beach that I would love to do this to! Happy b-day! 🙂 One of the best birthday presents I ever received was from my older sister. I was obsessed with virology when I was in middle school (I know, okay. I know.) and LAST YEAR she got me a “stuffed animal” that was actually the Ebola virus. I am still laughing about it. 🙂 Happy Birthday!!! Happy Birthday!!! Love that picture! It is awesome! Love your blog, love your photography! Happy birthday! I never really got birthday gifts growing up, we were usually handed $100 and got to buy whatever we wanted, which usually ended up being lots of candy and bell bottom jeans from thrift stores. The best birthday gift I ever got was being allowed to have 20 girls from my school over for a slumber party. It actually ended up being a pretty bad gift though because one of them kissed my boyfriend who was at the boy slumber party next door, then someone fell off a swing and got a concussion. Oh well it was the best birthday gift at the time I guess! My best birthday gift was the wonderful dinner my husband made for me and I got to enjoy with my family. Happy Birthday! My best ever birthday gifts are the cards my children make me each and every year. I’ve kept every one. I would love a canvas print for our new house! I know just the picture I’d use. Happy Birthday, Meg! Have a fun day! Your canvas photo looks awesome with your *whatever.* sign. Love all the colors together. BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT! Mine ran a day late. I met my fiance the very next day 😉 that’s a great gift to me! And he is still absolutely the best! Happy birthday! Seriously?? When I saw the giveaway, I was thinking, “Please let this be the blog with the pictures I love. And please let her be willing let us use one of her pictures.” And it is! And you are! I have been ogling the pictures you took recently of the fields. I. LOVE. THEM. Seriously. Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday Dear Meg! Happy Birthday to You! – Best Birthday? Was definitely this year it was the big five-o and a group of my rug hooking friends got together and hooked a Bautiful Rug for me – I Love it!! the best bday present…hmmm…this is a tough one. Ooh, oooh, ooooooh! Pick me!!! Please random picker, pick me! What a neat give-away! The best gift I ever received were tickets to a Coldplay concert in St. Louis. My husband made a cool screensaver that was on the computer when I turned it on. I was shocked. The best birthday present I ever got was my digital SLR camera. I use it daily! I got it for my 40th birthday almost 3 years ago, as my 43rd birthday is in 6 days!! Happy birthday to you. I love, love, love your sunflower pics and your blog!! Happy Birthday! Best birthday gift….having a real chimpanzee come to by 7th birthday party…thanks dad:) Well, happy birthday! My best birthday gift ever… last year’s gift from my husband, a Nikon D60. I cried. Happy Birthday!! What a great giveaway. I am always looking for ways to decorate our home and beautiful family picture on a canvas would be wonderful!! Gorgeous picture and I love your house! Hard to even remember sometimes! Maybe when my husband bought me my sewing machine – he had his mom help him go pick one out and it was something I didn’t expect at all! Happy Birthday!!! Have a FABULOUS DAY!! Happy Birthday! My favorite was my easy bake oven when I was little. Man, how I loved that thing! What a great giveaway! it was last year – i turned 30 the day after we found out mom had terminal cancer. that might sound crazy but I didn’t want anything more than to feel the tangible love of my family. We were all sharing tears and laughter as our emotions ran high but it was everything wonderful because we were TOGETHER and that’s something we take for granted too often. God is good. Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! My best bday gift ever – my proposal from my husband 🙂 PS: Love the whatever sign. That rocks! Oh every year I get a new “best” gift–I love them all! happy birthday! i love the photo you chose! Happy Birthday and what a great giveaway…I so hope I win! Happy Birthday! 🙂 My best gift was my dirt bike in 3rd grade…yep, I was a tomboy!! Hope you have a great birthday! Happy Birthday! Love your sunflowers! Happy Happy Birthday!!! Thanks for the chance to win! My best birthday present EVA was this year my husband got me two tickets for him and I to go to see Def Leppard in concert. They are my favorite childhood band, always, always, ALWAYS wanted to see them and they finally came to Detroit area on a Friday night, he got a babysitter for the kids and took me to an awesome concert! I had the BEST time…would LOVE to win as I have a blank wall that I would love to add a photo too! Thanks Meg! Heart your blog SO much! :O) tonidreist@yahoo.com Happy Birthday!!!! happy birthday meg! hope it’s the best ever. one of my favorite bday presents is still the paper fan my grandma gave me when i was a little girl. Happy Birthday!! I love you photo and I would love to win this prize. I have the PERFECT photo of my niece that I would give to my parents for xmas! Happy Birthday! Favorite birthday present…hmmm…a sweet necklace from my parents for my 21st bday! Happy Birthday to YOU!!! What an amazing display in your home! Happy birthday! I laughed out loud (again) when you mentioned the lady at the fountain! So funny… my birthday is in the summer, and I love getting new flip flops from my husband! I love those in the $50-$100 range, but would NEVER spend that much to buy flip flops on my own! But they are a perfect GIFT! Happy Birthday Meg – love your blog, and your photo’s – a true inspiration! Happy Bithday! Love the canvas. Your picture looks perfect. My best bday gift would have to be my camera! Happy birthday to you! I love the picture you choose. My best birthday is when my husband proposed on my 21st birthday. Loved that birthday 🙂 HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGAN! Happy Birthday Megan! I love love love the canvas print! My favorite birthday gift was when my sister surprised me with a trip to the Grand Canyon for my 16th birthday! Happy birthday!!! I love the picture you used. It looks gorgeous!! This is such an amazing giveaway! My best birthday present was a surprise party with all of the children I used to babysit when I was 16. I was sooo happy, and we played all evening long….what a great idea! Happy Birthday! My favorite birthday preset ever was a plastic black clipboard that opened up and had a separate compartment to store paper and pens. I got it for my 8th birthday and i still use it today. My Dad gave it to me…he knew my love for office supplies. Happy Birthday Megan! The sunflower print looks perfect. Happy Birthday ! My best present was a big diamond ring – I got engaged on my birthday, on a plane and completely surprised ! For my 40th birthday my husband gave me a surprise party. I loved how he cared enough to sweat the details and make it such a special and truly surprise event for me. First) Happy Birthday! Heeeey ITS MY BIRTHDAY TOO!!! 🙂 a three day trip to New York with my mom and daughter! we didn’t stop the whole time we were there… i literally needed a vacation from our vacation when we got home 🙂 My best birthday present was getting married to my hubby of 22 years on the day before my b-day. How cool, I want a big canvas! Pick me Pick me 🙂 My best birthday present was when my husband brought my favorite Thai food home for me at lunch time last year….YUM! Happy Birthday! I read your blog daily and really enjoy it!! The best bday gift I ever received would have to be diamond studs from my hubby….it’s the only nice/expensive jewelry I have!! I would do a picture of our trip out west on the canvas…beautiful! Happy Birthday Meg!! I hope it’s a great one. LOVE the Whatever sign! Happy Birthday Meg! I got engaged on my birthday, that was a pretty awesome gift! For my birthday in August, my parents gave me a homemade coupon (my family is really into those) for a shopping trip to pick out either a picture or a kitchen faucet…the fun part was mostly the shopping part…we went everywhere…looked at everything and hit all the clearance racks along the way…drank Sonic and got my favorite sandwich at Panera…what a great birthday coupon! Happy Birthday, Meg! I hope it’s a wonderful day for you. 🙂 The best present that I can remember was for my birthday last week. Two little pom-pom animals hand crafted by one of my children (the chocolate raspberry fudge cake made by another child was too die for too). 🙂 I’m a big fan of Birthdays- Happy Birthday! The best gift I ever got was my 17th Birthday, April 9, 2001. My Brother had received a liver transplant in February and had been in the hospital since the previous November. He came home for the first time in 6 months on my 17th Birthday 🙂 I love that whole vignette. I want to sit right there and look through all the books…:) Happy Happy Birthday!!! I hope you are treated like a queen today! Happy Birthday!! My best birthday present was also my Christmas present (my birthday is in January) and it was my first sewing machine from my mom! I have used that present more than probably any other present!! We didn’t have much money when I was a kid but I never knew it. For my 6th birthday, my dad went to the dump and found all the pieces to put together a “new” bike. He fixed it up and spray painted it white and blue and put blue shiny ribbon tassels on the ends of the handle bars that floated in the breeze as I rode along. It was the best birthday present ever! And now that I’m a parent, it means even more to me that he went to all that work to provide me with something that I wanted! Happy Happy Birthday!! Happy Birthday Meg. I love your display. The colors are wonderful. The best birthday gift I ever recieved has to be the surprise 40th birthday party my husband threw for me. It was so out of character for him to do something like that. All of my friends and family were there. It was so nice. happy birthday! my best gift ever was finding out that we are pregnant! after a long road to get there, this was such a blessing. Wow I’d love to have one of my kids blown up huge for my living room! Hi there. Love the new header, btw. Very fun! Love your pic! looks awesome on canvas. What an AWESOME give away!!! The best birthday present I ever got was 8 years ago when after 7 years of trying to get pregnant and 6 weeks of shots for IVF, I found out that I was pregnant. With twins!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEG! Hope your day is full to the brim with everything you love! I Adore the big canvas print… my fingers are crossed! My best birthday present, hmmm… I don’t recall what my hubby actually purchased but he made his own giftwrap on the computer and made a custom bow and then left clues all through the house and I had to do a scavenger hunt of sorts to find the gift. It was so fun and I felt really loved that he put so much time into the day I wish I had that little nook in my house… the best b-day gift i ever received was at my 30th birthday party where i had 8 of my best friends over and we ate and drank and danced and everyone brought their own dish. my sis wrote a poem about me that made everyone cry especially me. i was done!!! 🙂 Beautiful! The best present was that my husband gave me a night in a hotel BY MYSELF without the kids! It was a blast! The next year he came with me, which was equally as wonderful. The best birthday present I have ever received is my oldest son. He was born just a few days before my birthday! Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! this is awesome! I’m off to check it out now! I know just the picture I would use! Thanks for such a great giveaway! Happy Birthday to you! I had a 09-09-09 birthday this year and that was fun. How about my best give ever? It was on 1-17-01 when my cousin gave me a kidney! Having someone do this makes you feel very loved and special. We are both doing very well. Wow-wee! I would love to win that picture. I found your blog by accident – what a happy accident indeed (some say there are no accidents. whatever.) Happy Birthday!! What a great give away too! I can’t think of any memorable birthday gifts, terrible I know. Happy birthday! I love that sign and I love the photo on canvas! Totally awesome, Megan!!! I’d have to say that the best gift was when I was 13 my grandparents got me the very first gameboy. I felt so lucky because no one else had it. Now that thing is like ancient! Happy Birthday! I would love one of your photos like that – I’d probably choose a sunflower photo as I saw those the first time I visited your blog this summer. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! oh so neat! happy birthday meg! 🙂 A trip to the mountains with my friends and family! I had so much fun! Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!!! I love that picture. Your style is awesome!!! Hope you have a GREAT day!! I forgot to tell you my best birthday gift ever…. Ellie being cancer free! That is the BEST GIFT EVER!~~~ Happy Birthday! Love the pic!! Happy Birthday…. and I hope I get picked… woo hoo!! Happy Birthday to you and I hope it’s grand and wonderful! LOVE your picture! Happy Birthday, Meg! I love your blog..it’s a highlight of day. You’re pictures and spirit are amazing. I love it! I think I’ll use a picture of my grandparents rolling in the grass in the 1930s. It was taken before they were married and VERY RISQUE at the time. I hope I win. BTW, I love your house. Happy birthday Meg!!!! 🙂 Happy Birthday! I would say the best birthday gift I’ve ever received is the 580EX flash my husband bought me for my birthday two years ago, because he knew I was wanting one to shoot my first wedding, but I didn’t want to spend that much money on something for myself. He picked it out all by himself! Happy Birthday- Hope you have a great day!!!!!!!! My best birthday gift ever received is actually coming up in 11 days! My sister is getting married on my 30th birthday. How fun is that!?! happiest of birthday’s to you miss meg! My best birthday present ever- my two kids- born three years apart but on the same day, Aug.28th, just a few days before my birthday. I love your blog and photos… I am always wonderfully spoiled by my husband and kids on my birthday. This is always the best gift! I love your photo and all the things around it. So cute and fun! love the sunflowers. that whole wall makes me happy! for my 30th birthday my mom made me an alphabetical listing of EVERYTHING from my first 30 years. so much fun! I love my Kitchenaid Mixer that my husband bought me one year. My kids and I use it all the time and we have a lot of fun. Happy Birthday, Meg!! without a doubt my best birthday present was my Nikon D40 which my husband got me last year. I’d mentioned once, very briefly and quietly, that I wanted a DSLR camera before we had kids- and he was listening!!! the best birthday present I ever received? Wow. I can’t even think of anything. That’s sad. I will have to tell my husband so he can make the next one more memorable. Happy birthday to you! WOAH. HUGE! Great giveaway Meg. Can’t wait- I hope I win I hope I win I hope I win. Ooh! We just had family pictures done on the beach, and I would LOVE having one printed on canvas! Wow, this is BIG! I hope I win!! Your photo looks amazing on canvas and you’ve selected the perfect spot for it. The photo of your photo is beautiful. this has been quite the interesting and GOOD few days. i have so much to tell you.
so much to think of how i want to tell it.
and literally hundreds of pictures to show you.
for now…just this.
i will write more soon. i HaVE to…there is SO much to tell you about.
Ahh! A cliff hanger. Love them or hate them, they leave you wanting more! Just wanted to stop by and say hello. We have been very busy getting ready to move 800 miles from Florida and it has been hectic here. You know, I am moving to the cold weather and I just might think about that hot chocolate machine! Just kidding. I know you have enjoyed it and I loved giving it to you. I hope you are doing well. so not funny. Isn’t it amazing that even when you tell us NOTHING, you get over 40 people commenting? enough! let’s hear what you’ve got! I think I have checked back 5 or 6 times today….do you have some pics from the arts and crafts fair? Just a thought! i think we can categorize this as cruel and unusual punishment. I have officially checked back here 4 times today, Dana M.!!! LOL! Pw and Meg are the only blogs I’d do that for. 🙂 I am holding my breath that it is pictures from the Cora Playground dedication. I have checking the Macs blog and yours waiting for a glimpse. If that isn’t the post you have in mind…please post on that soon. I wish I could have been there…. oh my word! ants in our pants! big FIRE ants! Dana M.-I have checked 3 times today! I just want to know how many times has everyone checked back today to see if Megan has filled us in……Way to leave us hangin’!! I think I have a clue…did you have some visitors? 😉 Can’t wait to see! GAH!!! So MEAN! Get back here and tell us already! Tease!!! can’t wait to hear and see!! Ohhhhhhhhhh, it’s almost time for me to go to bed, I have to wait till tomorrow? 🙁 hmmmm….. Ooh yay! I can’t wait! the colors make me happy, but my type a personality wants to untangle everything. sad. That’s cruel and unusual punishment. Pretty soon a rumor will start about #6 on it’s way. (I know…that has absolutely NOTHING to do with your teaser pics, so why would I even bring that up?) Can’t wait!!! I can’t believe you are being such a tease girl! Get on with it – I am not a patient person! LOL :o) don’t tell me you are doing your own I-spy books:)) O.k….. I’ve already done my errands for the morning and still no updates. I guess now I’ll *have* to do that darn yoga cd then maybe, just maybe I’ll get to read all about your news. 🙂 You’re good at building suspense. : ) Wow! Nothing like leaving us hanging here! 🙂 Not funny. Oh, I love the mystery!! Can’t wait to hear more 🙂 Looking forward to hearing all about it….. this is why i love your pictures….. what could be clutter or a mess is just beautiful!!!!! Have a gorgeous week! xx Such a great picture of random yummies! I was the “crazy” lady that was going to drive to Kansas from Michigan on Saturday 🙂 Oh Megan, that is just plain mean!! 🙂 i’m seriously envious of the bowl of sparkly things. 🙂 can’t wait to hear about your days! My four year old would have a hayday! Looks like all things fancy. way to leave us hanging Meg! Can’t wait:) You have us all wondering . . . . i had to laugh about your comment with the kids being “wack” in the bleachers. We went to our neices volleyball game a week ago and it was INSANE, it was like those pop up games where you hit one down and the other pops up. AHH! lol way to keep everyone on their toes! Hello? We’re waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiting! I’ve just starting coming over here from Clover Lane… You’ve got me hooked! What happy colors for this dark Monday! Can’t wait to hear whats going on!! what on EARTH is all that gorgeous stuff?!??!? oh goodness dont keep us waiting too long!! all that color just brightened up this rainy weather!!! please, please, please, don’t keep us waiting long! thanks for the cheerie colors this monday morning! can’t wait to hear…you’ve been busy, the senior photos awesome..Chicago/U2 wonderful…wow…, L I was settling in when I read you have so much to tell. Can’t wait to see what’s up! Ooooh you’ve got me intrigued, write soon…..! 😀 right now. not on letterman…
we are at the concert in chicago RIGHT NOW!!
sunday night…soldier field…oh yeah.
and i hoping that THIS is the year…
bono will pull me up on stage and dance with me and kiss me with his sweaty face.
and then i will pass out.
and he will carry me off stage back to craig's arms.
it hasn't happened at the previous 3 concerts we've attended…but maybe this year!!
Oh my goodness, Meg, we were at the U2 concert in Chicago on SATURDAY night! I won 2 tickets from the Loop radio station (97.9) back in March. We had field access, which was awesome. I saw them only once, in 2001, and it was seriously the greatest concert I have ever seen. I would LOVE to see them again and I hope you write some kind of review! how was it?!!! amazing, i’m sure. we go see them in vegas october 24th. it will by my 2nd time but michael’s 4th. black eyed peas are opening… kinda excited to see fergie!! who opened for them in chicago??? was it snow patrol??? i LOVE them. i’m dreaming of that same sweaty bono-kiss. {sigh…} 😀 My daughter is going to see them in Toronto this week, maybe she’ll get lucky!! There is nothing that compares to sweaty Bono kisses! I’m seeing them next week in Massachusets and New Jersey, so, so, SO EXCITED! One of my other favorite bloggers, Kasey from Lola B’s was at that concert. How cool! Love U2:) KC &I were just listening to U2 🙂 i loveeeeee it That’s so cool, Meg. Glad to hear you’re still enjoying yourself and your DH at a concert no less! I haven’t had so much as a date night in months. A friend of mine from high school was there and she WAS pulled on stage. How weird, right? Hope your ears aren’t still ringing. xoxo i have some friends that made the trek to the concert too!!! wooo hooo! i am squealing with jealousy! My brother was there too! Hope you had an amazing time! So jealous love U2 and Bono I have the same crazy wish too.Have a great time. That’s so cool. I have some family members there right now. They drove 5 hours there today and will drive the 5 hours back tonight after the concert for work in the AM. Hope ya’ll have fun! No way! I would love to give my husband tickets to a U2 concert. What a great time! May all you dreams come true! LUCKY! I would love to see U2 in concert. This reminds me of the Springsteen video that he pulls Courtney Cox on stage. My sister wanted to be her every single time we saw that video as kids. I hope you get your moment tonight Meg! Good luck!!! I’m so with you sister! Hope your concert is great – even if you don’t get sweaty kisses. you are at your FOURTH U2 concert?!?!?! i have to officially hate you now. am deeply jealous. but will still cross fingers for you. oh that is just not far…so, so jealous…so jealous…so jealous. Have fun! You are too funny! this is a song (no video anywhere to go with it…anywhere!) that i keep playing over and over.
i just love it.
breathing in and out is a blessing can't you see…
today's the first day of the rest of my life…
i'm alive and well.
  and today you know that's good enough for me.
i'm alive and well.
IT IS hard to look at the Capitol in Washington, DC, without a frisson of excitement I am a mom of 2 from WI and stumbled upon your blog from The Macs. I love all your pictures! You’re work is amazing. I am not sure if this is proper to be asking or not but wondered if you sell your pictures? If it’s not appropriate, just disregard my question, I totally understand. But if your game…what I am looking for is picture to go with the saying “Skip to my Lou”. I make barettes and wanted to make a sign to accompany them where I sell them or for a business card. I am a pastor’s wife and just do this on the side. It’s really not a big endeavor, just something small to try to help my sister’s family out….they are in the process of adopting a little girl from China. you could probably submit your pics of annie to kenny to make a video out of 🙂 she is perfectly cheerful! she’s such a doll!!!! never have i left a comment, but i just had to agree with you on how great this song is. this has been my new obsession and i listen to it over and over and over….by the way, love your blog, it’s part of my daily ritual. what a great reminder. i need spirit like your little one. (and i love the bench, too) Annie is so precious. She’s got a great sense of style! Her outfit is adorable! Not a care in the world… too cute! such a smiling post!! (but most of yours are 🙂 ) i sure love how she dresses herself, did you help her this time? I just LOVE the leggings underneath!! 🙂 she’s so precious. i always wanna hang out with her and talby! 😉 Alive indeed! Nothing like kids and colors to put a smile on someone’s (anyone’s!) face! Willie Nelson also has a version of this that I actually like better than Kenny’s…it’s on Willies new album. It is an amazing song, and quite a good thing to remember each day. That little girl of yours is simply magical!!! Wow… How do you not splather your whole house pictures of all that cuteness!!! And she just rocks in the sunflowers… I totally love your happy blog! Love that song 🙂 Haven’t heard it in a while. Love your blog too. I look forward to reading it everyday 🙂 Hey there. Found you thru Ohdeedoh. That READ room was rockin’! Your daughter is such a doll baby, love how she puts outfits together and love love love how you let her! She is full of childhood “charm”. Thanks for making me smile! I don’t have my speakers hooked up so I can’t listen, but I LOVE the pictures of Annie! LOVE the photos of your daughter – SO cute! And the outfit is just perfect — captures little girl style to a ‘t’! 🙂 I love your sunflower pictures! I wish I lived next door so you could take my families pictures….you are really good. I love your little girls with their bright and happy clothes! Those pictures are so STINKIN’ cute! I love them. Reminds me of how my daughter dressed not too long ago. Before the school uniforms took over… 🙁 I could sit and listen to that man sing forever!♥ that’s the song with Dave Matthews! LOVE it! Annie is adorable! LOVE the colorful pictures! my girlies just said…. “awwwwwe… that’s so cute”! you are beautiful meg, and so are your kids. Thank you for this! Sometimes I get caught up in stress and things to do and forget how lucky I am to be able to be stressed with things to do! I’m alive and that really is all that matters sometimes. Have a great weekend! Couldn’t agree more. GS Megaphone has a song called ALIVE. IT is so powerful. Have a great weekend Meg. Sometimes we forget how blessed we are to be of good health and alive. :o) LOVE pettiskirts. So fun! Great song, hope your trip went well. I wish I was coming for the Arts and Crafts fair – that would be so fun!- but we are heading to Fairview for a wedding. Jason’s performing it!! It will be a stunning wedding, it’s on their family farm! Deb Karber (Ratzlaff’s) daughter – she’s from Hillsboro so you may know her. ANyways, I want to start messing with editing some of the pics I take, got any starting tips. I still just have my good point/shoot camera – someday I’ll get a real one! I love that song too. Another favorite right now is “Sounds Like Life to Me”. Every once in a while I need a good dose of country music! Beautiful post!!! It is a blessing to be alive and well forsure:) Enjoy your weekend with your beautiful family! We are enjoying this wonderful weather and are thankful as Al starts long long days and nights harvesting all the crops for our farm:) She looks adorable my daughter use to dress like that lol cute! That annie girl is just a doll!!!! That blasted Kenny. Why is his voice so darn sexy? (And why are all of his songs either utter genius, or pure silliness, with no in between?) such a little cutie!!!! LOVE IT GIRL FRIEEEEND… and that annie too 🙂 love this post. |
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Happy birthday to you! My best birthday gift…was a combination birthday and graduation gift. For my 18th birthday, my mom gave me a bag full of travel books from the library. Which was weird. But the books were all about Paris, because we were going! It was just my mom and me for a week in Paris. I'd never crossed the ocean before, but had been talking about Paris my whole life. It was perfect.
Posted by: Kelly Anne | September 30, 2009 at 07:46 AM