Big Winner!

Thanks to all my amazing family and friends (and their family and friends), I was able to win a contest on Facebook.  I submitted Ainsley's picture for County Market's Back to School contest on Facebook, and after seeing that there weren't many entries, I thought I actually could have a chance.  Sure enough, I did!  I ended up winning a $500 gift card to County Market!  I'm also pretty sure that Ainsley's picture was the cutest in the contest, so she deserved to win!!

I took the girls with me to Springfield one morning to pick up the gift card, and Ainsley wasn't having anything to do with it.  For some reason (marketing, I think), they had to take my picture.  Ainsley refused to let them take my picture, and screamed, cried, and pulled on my hand the entire time.  It wasn't like they were taking her picture, but she didn't want them to take a picture at all.  So, they let me shop some and then before we left they tried again.  That time, they were prepared for my temper-tantrum throwing three year old.  A girl came out of the back and distracted the girls with balloon animals while another one took my picture.  The girls were thrilled with their balloons....until they popped in the car on the way home.

I can't thank everyone enough for taking a few minutes out of their day and voting for Ainsley-bug.   I think we made it home with four boxes of "nuit-nacks" (fruit snacks), as Ainsley calls them, the day we picked up the gift card!