win a free photo session with Muddy Boots Photo!

As I mentioned in my last post, I will be raffling off a free photo session to help Liam's friend, Léa, raise money for Leucan, an organization that supports families who have a member battling cancer. Here are the details:

For those who are local (Ottawa/Gatineau area), I'm offering a free photography session as a way to raise money to help Léa in her fund raising. For every $5 donation that is made between today, April 26th, and June 13th (the day of the head shaving), your name will be entered in a draw for a custom photography session with Muddy Boots Photography. When you make a donation through Leucan, be sure to leave at least your initials so we can enter you in the draw. Léa will draw a name following the Head Shave Challenge and we will post the winner's name here, on her blog and on Facebook.

The session will include a 1-3 hour on location session for up to 6 people with 30-40 images presented in your online gallery. This may be a family, newborn, baby, child, maternity or engagement session. You will also receive a DVD of high quality, full-resolution, professionally edited images.

If you'd like to see more examples of why this is a great prize AND WHY YOU SHOULD DONATE $5 TO LEA+LEUCAN FOR A CHANCE TO WIN, check out the rest of the images at Muddy Boots Photo... TOTALLY WORTH $5! Here's a link to some super cute pictures of Léa's younger sisters and other examples of my work.

Please consider a small donation. This is a little girl with a BIG heart. She can teach us all a lesson.

and the winner is...

...Maria from BORED Mommy!

Actually, random.org picked #4 (Sorry, I'm too lazy to do a screen capture and post the pic, but did you read about my harrowing trip out here? I deserve a break!), but that "anonymous" comment was left by my oh-so-funny husband, Peter. If you all notice a sharp rise in slightly rude/sarcastic/lame-attempts-at-humour comments in the near future, that would be Peter's way of showing me that I'm missed. Annoying sweet, eh? Awwwww...

So, Maria, hopefully you're online cause I'm off to send you a tweet.

Unrelated, but it has TOTALLY warmed up here. From -37C when we landed on Monday to a BALMY -10C forecasted for this afternoon (that would be 14F for you Yankees). The sun is shining and it's all white and wintery and lovely out. I might even bundle the boys up and venture out with them this afternoon, and I seriously HATE winter "fun" (heavy emphasis on the quotation marks). Not so lovely is the fact that all this sun and warmth (yes, -10C/14F is WARM around here!) is causing my mom's roof to leak around one of the sky lights. Although watching Simon's reaction when he gets hit with a fat drop of ice cold water is almost worth it. *evil grin*

a SUPER QUICK giveaway for Tassimo lovers

I mentioned a few weeks back on Twitter that I'd scored a bunch of 2 for 1 Tassimo coupons while out one Saturday afternoon. I managed to use about 10 of them, but still have four coupons left. The problem is that they're only good for use in Ontario Superstores, Loblaws, etc, and they have to be used by Dec 31st. Seeing as A) I am not currently in Ontario; B) I do not plan to be back before the end of the month; and C) I found the coupons in my purse yesterday, I decided not to let them go to waste.

So this giveaway is for four coupons for buy one pack of Tassimo discs get one free that will be mailed priority from me to you. This giveaway isn't sponsored by anyone, I just think these coupons are a great deal and want someone to benefit from them. The coupons are unfortunately not valid for use with Starbucks or the Chai Tea discs, which is a mighty, mighty shame.

If you'd like to enter, simply:

• make sure you own a Tassimon, or will own a Tassimo buy the end of the year
• live in Ontario
• leave a comment here telling me how much you missed me when I didn't blog for 11 straight days earlier this month

I'll be picking a winner tonight or tomorrow morning and you'll have until noon tomorrow to send me your home address so I can run out to the post office and get the coupons off to you. Stat.