Winner is: Richard – and it’s now officially ‘Jammin’ in July’!
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It’s 1 a.m. and we just arrived in Canmore about an hour ago. It’s a fantastic town (just down the road from Banff) in the Canadian Rockies! For me it doesn’t get any better than this – I *heart* the mountains! It was a long drive with some bad weather (we actually had to pull over while “nickle” sized hail pelted the van). Georgia decided today was the day to start “peeing” on the potty, so she was begging to stop and pee the whole way, while we begged her just to pee her pants! Can’t win for loosing around here …
Hayley looked beautiful for her Graduation.
See! This is “my” grad and “my” dad (Grandpa/Poppa to Hayley)! It was windy but I think the shot is nicer than some of them taken inside against the bland walls.
There are more pictures …
Here is one in her gown and mortarboard.
This is the last of the grad pictures for now.
For those of you wondering about my amazingly, talented dress-altering husband. It didn’t involve a needle and thread (great-Grandma did that), but a bernzOmatic microflame torch and medal working solder. See the ‘jewel’ part up from neck to boobs, well it was too long, so ‘super-dad’ took out a whole length of beading and then soldered the dress back together making it fit perfectly. Hayley (and I) enjoyed telling folks that her dad was altering her grad dress! Lots of shocked looks. He’s ‘Will the welding-man’ of the grad-dress world. Go Dad!
Did you all realize that it’s the last day of JUNE JIVE (I didn’t, I thought there were 31 days in June – duh … :( that’s why I am desperately posting at 1:45 in the a.m. – I thought I had one more day …) it’s over, done, it can’t be JUNE JIVE anymore, BUT there is nothing stopping me from doing a JULY thingy, right?
In reality, I am doing a little “June is over, it’s really over, it’s finally over, over-over-over” dance! Well, I am not dancing I’m like sitting and wiggling … weird but true! IT’s OVER! For those of you just tuning in I am not wiggling around because I don’t like giving stuff away (I DO), it’s because JUNE is like the month of 20 Christmas’ for me and I am ready to drop dead of exhaustion! We’ll talk again tomorrow after some hiking …
I’m going to need a name (for the JULY contest, not me – I’m Kim, silly!), so to be eligible to win today’s $25 Gift Certificate you need only to leave a comment AND tell me what the JULY contest should be called!
Today’s winner will not be by random drawing. I will pick the name I like the best that person will win the $25 Gift Certificate.
I think JULY will be a bit different than JUNE JIVE and MAY MADNESS, I think I might skip the weekends? It is just too much work and it’s kind of slow … I will think more tomorrow exactly how to work it. If you have suggestions let me know.
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Well well well… that’s a niiiccee looking daughter you have there… ;)
Anyway, about the names… I s’pose the obvious one would be “July Jamboree”… so here are a couple more… “Jovial July”, “Jamtacular July”, or my personal favorite… “Jammin’ in July”.
Hmm, these names are hard to come up with! July Frenzy?
Great dress!
What about Jewels in July? Or Christmas in July, July Quake, July Brake Away…I couldn’t think of any more alliterations.
How ’bout:
“July…thanks goodness it’s not June!”
I won!!! Thank you very much Kim, I appreciate it!
What about Sizzlin’ Weekdays in July (if you do, in fact, choose to do giveaways on weekdays only)?
Jumpin July
July Jingle
Hmmm…
Generous July Giveaway?
How fun!
Joyous July
Joyful July
Jolly July
Giant July Giveaway
Jazzy July
Jumping July
I will try to think of some more.
Oh Just thought of another. :)
July Jubilee
Freedom Fest (July 1st for Canada and July 4th for USA)
Sweet Summer Goodies
Summer Free Spree
I think that is all I got.
Summer Sensation Sale. (it could be used for July and August if you want). I’ll think of more later.
Christmas in July
It’s July…and All That Jazz
or
All That Jazz in July
Maybe you should just call it “mommyknows’ everyday giveaway” since you know you will want to continue it…
Well, I really liked “June Jamboree” (but ‘Jive’ is nice, too!), so I’m hoping that will turn out to be “July Jamboree”.
Nice work on the dress… kudos to your DH.
Want to hear something even more jaw-dropping. A friend recently got married, and his bride’s dress was entirely made by her father. No, he’s not a tailor, but a machinist. There was lace and EVERYTHING! *MY* dh can’t even make Kraft Dinner!!!
Summer free spree
Wow, your daughter is beautiful! (And the dress is as well).
Here are a few of my ideas:
July Jazz
Tryin’ July
July Jewels
July Jam
Welding a dress-very interesting!! It turned out beautiful.
I really like Jammin’ July.
ok here it goes:
Jiggly July
July-a-polluza
July Chillin
Christmas in July
July – o – ramma
July Feast
July Jive
Jivin in July
Summer Lovin’
Feastin in July
FREEzing in July
July FREEzing
Ok hope those help ya!! ;-)
Marcy
Hayley did look beautiful in that picture!
Enter me in for the gift card please.
July Idea’s. Let’s see. If you ever did just Friday’s you could say “Free Friday’s”. In July you could use July Suprise?!
Wow, Grad and potty training in the same house….WOW.
How about Sizzlin’ Summer Samplers….???
Great photo of your daughter. How about “Oh my, it’s July”?
here’s some more:
SunnyDays GiveAways
Summer Plunder
Enjoy Canmore, how about
“It’s Summertime, and the winning is easy”
I was going to say Jammin’ in July but saw that someone already said that. So, how about
Juicy July (your site is dripping with gifts??? possibly a little gross, but…)
or
Hot Fun in the Summertime
There ya go!
How bout July in the Sky? Fly in July? Jumping July? July Jigglers? I don’t know I”m not that imaginative.
Is the TUFFO blanket that you had the otherday eligible for the June Jive discount on your store? I’m trying to order it but it won’t allow the 20% discount, and that’s the only way I talked my husband into letting me buy it!
What a great picture of your grad and dad. Definitely better than an indoor shot would be.
How about “It’s free, baby!” for a name?
July Fiesta-Latin for festival,party or holiday.
July Mela- sanskrit for gathering.
July Giveaways
How ’bout…
Jubilant July
July Jubilee
Jump into July!
July Jag
Jag means spree! Like a shopping spree.
Or Jiggy July or July Julbliation or July Jump-off!
Hey! Sooo…a name for a July contest?! Well…I know it was mentioned above already, but I like the July Jubilee!
July Jabberwock (–>meaning = ‘meaningless’ … as in, “It makes no sense she’s giving this all away!”)
July Jambalaya
Jumpstart July
Joyous July
Just July
Jiggly July
Jitterbug July (June was a dance theme, so why not?? :P)
Jolly July?
Jumbled July
thought of another…
Jackpot July or July’s Jackpot???
Christmas in July :-)
Jolly July
Oh Kim! She’s lovely! And that dress! Wow, what a talented man your husband is!
And your dad look just like he did way back when…!
Weekday winnings if it’s only Monday to Fridays.
Wow don’t they grow up fast………….Another milestone passes and many more exciting things to come.
Names for July’s contest
How about July Jamberee?
Your daughter is beautiful and the dress was amazing. Way to go Kim’s husband :-)
I think there are many, many great names suggested already… I vote for July Jazz or maybe Jazzy July (some one above suggest something along these lines and I LIKE!)
How about Summerfest . . . although if you keep this up forever, you might want to save “fest” for October. Or you could go old Disney with Summer Magic. Some other ideas . . .
July’s Hot Spot
Red Hot Summer
Summer Free for All (which perhaps would be considered false advertising and in order to avoid lawsuits would need to be Free for Thirty-one+)
Okay, I’ll stop now.
How about “Hot July”.
I’m so thrilled to see I won a sloppy ~ and now a gc also! Wow!! Can hardly wait to get it so I can go shopping ~ thanks SO much!
I suck at stuff like this but I had to tell you how beautiful she looks in that dress. I mean, she’s beautiful regardless but that dress is…
Oh, nevermind.
;)
JULY JUBILEE of course!!! i think I mentioned it in a post a few weeks ago, but I must say that I think it is the perfect name! Have fun hiking, I wish I were there.
I think July Jubilation is perfect.
Great pic of Hayley and Brian.