MY 100th POST!!!!!!!
(GIVEAWAY IS OVER!!!)
I had everyone comment ideas of what I should do for this post. I got 8 comments. SERIOUSLY??? Is that all that reads this blog? And only 1 comment from a family member. (Mom Madsen) Bree I saw you comment on Heather's blog. Gee thanks! jk
So a couple of you that commented ideas will get a small reward (keep reading).
First, Alicia Deets gave me some Fabulous ideas!!! The first one was to find 100 pictures and make a collage. This was actually REALLY neat and I highly suggest it to EVERYONE! It will be a lot easier for those of you with kids. I did the collage in order from the end of dating, engagements, first year of marriage, and second year of marriage. Good timing too because our 2nd anniversary is on Monday!!! First, I discovered I have NO idea where our honeymoon pictures are and I got really bummed out. I'll have to check my parent's computer. I also realized that in the past 5 months I have not taken any pictures of us! I guess the busier I get with my photo sessions, the less we take pictures. The last two were tonight. So EVERYONE TRY THIS! It's really fun to look back!
Alicia married Coby's best friend Danny. Another idea from Alicia (her blog is amazing, but it's private... dang!) was to dress Coby in 100 things. I asked Coby to do this about a week ago when she first suggested this. He said no way and I was crazy. Well tonight we finally took the last 2 pictures for the collage so I could do this post and I asked again. Same response. So what did I do??? I begged. It took awhile, but he huffed and puffed and said, "Let's do this!" Great sport!
We started this at about 12:30 am. I have never laughed so hard!!! We were both cracking up and are glad we did this because it was really funny. 100 items of clothing... it's a lot!
So he had on:
1 pair of underwear
7 pairs of sweatpants
6 pairs of shorts
25 T shirts
13 ties
5 sweatbands
10 socks on his feet
9 scarves
15 hats
9 socks on his hands
TOTAL 100!!!
(Alicia, if he calls... RUN!!! He says you're in a lot of trouble; but thanks for the laughs!)
It was really funny because after he had all the shirts on they started to choke him. I had to pull down on the necks so he could have some breathing room. The picture of him with all the shirts on is hilarious because they were SO thick that his arms hung really wide and he had to flex to get his arms by his sides. Without flexing he couldn't get through the door because his arms would get stuck. I was dying laughing so hard. This was hard to find 100 things, and we doubted half way through that we could do it! So if you're bored, have at it and try it out!
LIKE I SAID... GREAT SPORT!
On to the GIVEAWAY!!!!
Jessica Higbee, another wife of a Madsen friend growing up, suggested to
do a giveaway! Always fun, right?
First up is a $25 gift card to JCREW!!!
Love their stuff so why not!
No, I'm not giving away 100 of them. Sorry. Just 1.
I asked what everyone would want in a giveaway and since Coby didn't want
be given away (nice try mom), I am going with Jessica's idea and giving away
a FREE PHOTO SHOOT with
YES.... FREE!!!
The photo shoot includes a FREE sitting fee and any pictures I retouch for the
website or photo blog, you will get those emailed to you for FREE!!!
Anything else will need to be purchased! Photo shoots need to be scheduled
within a month and must take place in 2009. You can choose
any kind of photo shoot. BRIDALS AND WEDDING DO NOT APPLY HERE!
So what do you need to do to be a part of the giveaway?
Well there are LOTS of ways!!!! And it doesn't matter if I know you,
you're a blog hopper (we all do it), if we're family, best friends, don't live here...
JOIN IN THE FUN!!! Also, if you have a photo shoot scheduled
before the giveaway is done and you win, you will be fully refunded. AND...
If you win, but don't want the shoot, you can give it to a friend. Anything goes.
FIRST OFF: Since I used Alicia and Jessica's ideas (thanks for commenting) you
each get a FREEBEE!!! Post a comment saying "FREEBEE" just so I remember.
Now for everyone else, you can only do each entry way ONE time:
THEN YOU NEED TO PUT A COMMENT FOR EACH
ONE YOU COMPLETE!!!!!
THAT IS SUPER IMPORTANT!!!
1.
COMMENT 1 time and tell me something you are currently:
loving, reading, project you are on, wishing for, want to do... ANYTHING!
That will give you 1 entry! ADD A COMMENT!!
2.
Next, you can do a post on YOUR BLOG about this GIVEAWAY!!! In a new
post on your blog, add a link to either my blog, or this post specifically.
That will give you 1 more entry!
ADD A COMMENT!!
3.
THEN, you can put a link on your sidebar for
Use this picture below and put a link to the website!
That will give you 1 more entry!
ADD A COMMENT!
4.
AND LAST, you can put a link on your sidebar for
Use this picture and put a link to that website!
That will give you another entry!
ADD A COMMENT!!!
WHEW! AWESOME RIGHT? So many ways to enter and you can have up to 4
yes, FOUR entries!!!
IMPORTANT: YOU NEED TO DO 1 COMMENT ON THIS POST FOR
EACH ENTRY OPTION YOU COMPLETE!!!! So you would need a total of
4 comments for all 4 entries!
No fudgin... I'm checkin your blogs!
If you don't have a blog, you at least can do the first option,
or just start a blog, they're great!
WAIT ARE WE DONE???? NO THERE'S MORE!!!
If I get at least 100 comments with entries for my 100th post.....
I'LL GIVE AWAY A 2ND FREE PHOTO SHOOT!!!!!
The most comments I've ever had is about 10 so GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!
I pretty much demanded comments on that last post and I got 8.
You have 92 more to get.
HURRY AND POST THOSE LINKS TO THIS GIVEAWAY
so I can GIVE more AWAY!!!
Deadline is in 10 days!!! Monday, March 9th, 11:59 pm.
I'll announce the winners shortly after.
112 comments:
this post is so cute!
your hubby IS a good sport! those pictures are hilarious!!!
i am loving listening to innocence mission right now. they have a great lullaby cd that our whole family loves!
oh my gosh he looks hilarious! i am so glad you did this, that was too funny! what a great memory!
i am reading These is My Words. such a great book,and an easy read.
and i am loving getting my family prepared. we are starting a garden and i have been canning. it really feels good.
FREEBEE!
hey, i just posted this on my blog!
i am hoping for the photoshoot, we are so needing a new family photo! :)
and thanks for the extra entry :) your too sweet!
hey - i lurk on your blog cause i love your photos! i'm trying to learn a bit so i can take better photos of my kiddies. right now i'm working on New Beginnings ... I'm in charge and it's TOMORROW!
-Becky (Barlow) Tiffany
Right now I am really into running. In April Jon and I are going to participate in the Pat Tillman run, which raises money for his foundation.
We also want to enter Ryder into a baby photo contest. Maybe if you take his picture and people love it we could just tell them you took it?!
Check out my blizzog I've got you advertised :)
LOVE looking at all the pictures! What a great idea! Coby in all those clothes is SO funny!
Here's my first one. Yes your honeymoon pics are on mom's computer. I've seen them. I don't have time to do the rest right now. I'll be back.
Ashley this is a great post! Tons of fun pictures to look at and fun activity that you put your hubby through :)kinda sad that now i think about it, if I asked Ryan to do it I think he might be too happy to do it. haha.
I am currently working on a painting right now. I am trying to incorporate Lehi's dream in it. It is very contemporary abstract so it is not like any details. (i can't do details)
I feel so privileged that I am in a couple of the 100 pictures! Love it! Well, currently I am LOVING decorating Gus's room. I just got finished painting and moving the furniture in there. Now it's time to decorate! I will post pics once it's done on my blog. And I have too many people coming to town today for his blessing to mess around too much more on the computer, but I will add you to my sidebar soon! Miss you! Come visit me and we can go to the beach. Gus misses you. I am so excited to get those pics you took of him, I can hardly stand it!!!!
Okay....I LOVED your photo collage! It would take me forever to find that many pics of Nick and I. Second...Coby in costume....fantastic!! That made me laugh SO HARD! :) :)
As for the giveaway...your blog logo and photography site logo are on my sidebar. AND I will gladly make a post on my blog and send the info out via email to all my peeps too. :)
For one last entry....my latest obsession is working out! YES! I am finally motivated and have been doing The FIRM videos at home along with an amazing kickboxing workout...it's the best I can do being at home with the girls, and I've enjoyed it!!! There you go.... ;)
P.S. I'm sorry I didn't respond to your last post....it's been a REALLY, REALLY long time since I've checked blogs...
Comment #1:Loved the photo collage. I should send you a pic I have you & Coby when we first started hanging out. Anyways. Lately have been on this quilting kick. Not very good at it, but i do it.
Comment #2: I added your photo website(pic) to our blog.
Last but not least comment #3: I added your photo blog to ours as well. Miss you guys
K this is so random but a while back I was looking for a photographer in Mesa and found a few sites I loved (yours being one). Now I'm looking at your blog and you and your hubby work for the suns? I used to work for the suns, since 06! Small world!!
Anyways I'm having a baby in about 3 weeks so a newborn session would be great! I will definietly post your info on my blog, and comment when I do!
-Tasia
I put up your little button link!
-Tasia
I totally want to win!! Right now i'mm reading Dan Browns Angels and Demons!
Entry number one baby!
Did a blog about your contest!!
One more for adding your website and picture to my sidebar
last one for adding a link to your blog and picture to the sidebar.
I haven't really played around with the whole blog thing that much, so if i did it wrong, let me know and i'll fix it. :)
Posted about your giveaway on my blog!! YAY!
Added your photography blog to my blog. YAY!
Added your Ashley Madsen Photography logo to my blog. WAHOO!
Coby is a good sport! Funny pictures! I am really excited about your giveaway!
Right now, I am loving mod podging... that goes for almost anything. I am into anything crafty! (You know that)But hey, it's what I'm in to!
I did number 2 :)
I did number 3 :)
I did number 4 :)
another Freebee! whoopeee!
k, i put a link on my blog! i really want this!!!
I'm back. Sorry baby was crying and then we were gone all afternoon and night. I am loving my baby right now. That last one was for #1. This is for #2. Whatever it is. I don't remember anymore, but I've done everything.
My comment on your last post was going to be do nothing, but I never left it!
#3 check (been done for a long time)
#4~ check check
Do you get extra comments when it's your friends that have blog hopped on over before I put it on my blog!? Don't worry everyone. It's not like family is going to win. I mean a sister. We get freebees anyway. Especially when their aunt is dying to take a new niece's picture. We're just helpin ya get comments!
So I haven't even finished reading the blog and I found a mistake. The picture were you me and coby went and took pictures behind that yellow wall. Well you took me out of if? What is up I thought that you liked me.... Well wait I did comment on your sisters blog and not yours so I guess it's ok. haha
Well since I don't have a blog I only get one chance to win this thing. Lets see... I love that you are my sister-in-law and that we get a long really well! I also love that you are a photographer because since I am family hopefully when I have kids or get married I will get some kind of discount like Heather said. hahah You are awesome Ashley I love you tons!!!!
Found you through Heather's post on her blog, (I am her sister-in-law.) Anyway, we see all your cute picts of Chase and Peyton and just love them! (I could really use a darling shoot of my two kids - that is if you are coming to Utah anytime soon!)
Right now I am reading "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" - highly recommend it!
thanks for the heads up on your giveaway!!
i am loving spending time with my new baby boy and i am currently reading the last lecture.
OH, SWEET MOTHER OF FREEBIES!!!
Woot -Woot!
Something I really want to do right now is learn how to play the banjo. I think I could be a serious banjo plucker.
I'm reading "Talk to the Hand" by Lynne Trusse, a book about the Utter Bloody Rudeness of Society. It's funny.
And I'm really wrapped up in getting my house in order right now.
So here's my SECOND entry!
I linked you up on my page! So put me in again, baby!
(Does Coby really want to smack me? What can I buy him to make him forgive me? Oreos?)
Okay, I don't know how to put a direct link button on the sidebar of my blog.
Please help remove the "dunce" sticker from my forehead by e mailing me instructions. Pleeease?
#2 I blogged bout your contest! this is so much fun!
#3 I added your link to your photo blog
it took me a while to figure out how to do that! haha.
#4 added link to your photo site. you have awesome logo for yourself. I like it a lot. we should hang out and eat snack packs
What cute ideas for your 100th post!
I'm into my baby Dallin :). We are just finishing up decorating his room and it is so fun. Between him, Aaron and work I really don't have much time for anything else.
I did #2!
and #3...
and #4!
"Even though you don't know me, please enter me into your giveaway because I know Alicia Deets. And btw if there were royalty in the US, don't you think Alicia Deets would make a lovely queen?" :P haha Alicia said to say that. But I really do want it!
I just realized I didn't do the buttons on my blog right the first time but they are all fixed now :).
i love my baby boy!
Ashley- you are the cutest...
Right now I am working on finishing Grayson's room with pictures, posters, a shelf with his name in big letters, etc...
Ok Ashley Girl! :) Here is my comment :)/entry I am loving Kelly Clarkson's new song "My Life Would Suck Without You" and have been obsessed with "Love Story" by Taylor Swift :) No surprise there huh! I love you!!! Also tell Coby he is a great sport and I love the pink and navy tie :) I LOVE YOU SWEETIE!!!
Task #2 is done and posted on my blog!
Hey Ash! I just did a post on my blog about the giveaway and did a link to the post. 2nd entry :)
Task #3 is Done
Task #4 finished and I get 4 entries-YEAH!
I would LOVE to have a photo shoot with you- hope I'm lucky!!
Ok Sweetie, sick of hearing from me yet :) I just posted your photography blog logo and link on my blog! Love you!
And I just posted your Madsen photography logo and link also! Love you!
Hey I'm a blog hoper and saw a post on Joy's blog and think this is a great idea. Right now I am currently trying to organize stuff, sounds boring buts it is kinda fun making things look differently and cuter then before.
cute post!
does that count for #1
#2 check
Alicia Deets sent me here...so does that mean I get extra entries?!? I hope so! :) Love the 100 clothes thing! Thats hilarious!
Currently I'm obsessed with making anything for the baby in my tummy...
I saw your blog through the great Alicia!! You and your hubby are pretty dang cute!! And you have awesome pics!!!
I was also sent your way from Alicia's blog. She is so popular!! I don't think that I would ever get my hubby to do that but it looked hilarious. I just got done reading a series of six books called The Great and The Terrible by Chris Stewart. They are fantastic books. I would love to be entered into your give away. Thanks!!
#1 I am pretty sure you will make it to ONE HUNDRED yay!... We are currently wishing for a house! We have been married two years and it is TIME!
#2 I posted a link to your blog, on my blog... It's private I think that your a reader though, it's private.
#3 CHECK- Your website is now a link on my saidebar
#4 Your blog is too! I really need my 7 month old to have his pictures taken again... like asap!
Somehow there needs to be 100!!!
Ashley I loved seeing the pictures from your wedding...you looked GORGEOUS!!
Mrs. Deets sent me here to enter into this!!
My current wish ... having my own house. We're living with my inlaws and I'm SO ready to buy our house, move out and have all my own stuff again ... *sigh* someday.
I did numero 3!
And ... #4 ... accomplished!
I am a mother of a little boy who just keeps getting bigger and bigger. I love photography myself, but it's hard to be in your own pictures. Since my little Colby has been born we have only had one family picture taken for christmas this past December.
I am currently loving AZ sunshine! After all this is why we live in AZ, right?
Entry #2 - post give away on blog - done!
Jamie
scrapandjam@yahoo.com
I'm loving falling in love again after my husband passing away from complications from his cancer treatments. I'm loving finding someone who loves me for me and I'd love to win a photo shoot so I can have some new pics of me and my kids...
I am reading the outlander series for the second time.
Next, you can do a post on YOUR BLOG about this GIVEAWAY!!!
Done!
This is easy!
THEN, you can put a link on your sidebar for
ASHLEY MADSEN PHOTOGRAPHY!!!
Done, but I don't know how to get the picture there. I put the link on the sidebar under "sites I like"
AND LAST, you can put a link on your sidebar for
ashley madsen photography BLOG!!!
Done, but again, I don't know how to get the picture there. I put a link on my blog list on my sidebar.
All 4, whoo hooo!
Fabulous 100 post! I liked over from Jamie Anderson's blog and I thought I'd leave a comment... so I'm not one of those blog stalkers.
Ahem.
There is no time for hobbies these days. Out 13 month old was born with 1/2 a heart, is awaiting a heart transplant and undergoing chemo to lower his antibodies (so that he won't reject the heart). Talk about busy. Geez.
Oh.. I noticed you have linked to Brian and Shelley Barney on your sidebar. He was our home teacher.. until last month. Small world.
Andrea
simmonsfamilyupdate.blogspot.com
Looks like you're coming close to 100 comments and I don't even know you. Congrats, I'm excited for you.
Anyway, enter me in for a free shoot! I just finished the book "A Thousand Splendid Suns". I blogged about it A LOT, which I don't often do.
One more comment from me 'cuz I put up a post here:
http://azreadinglady.blogspot.com/2009/03/free-photo-shoot-anyone.html
i think jessica is married to my friend mark. anyway count me in..I am reading eat pray love..its an interesting book
posted on my blog...
This is the only time I have and probably will see Coby fat! Aren't you glad ~ he could definately be the "biggest looser"! (I'm talking weight here - settle down Cob!) Nice touch on the 100th blog. I guess I'll settle for 2 honorable mentions! Love you two! mom I am loving reading family blogs!
Thanks to your awesome tutorial, I linked up your photo blog button on my sidebar!
So toss my name in one more time!
I am wishing for a new dishwasher.
Blogged a post about your blog.
Added a sidebar.
added another sidebar, different one.
Cute post! And wow. . . .92 Comments already :)
So a project I am currently working on is Landon's scrapbook. I recently started digital scrapbooking and I love it!
Ok so I'm totally computer retarded and would've done #3 & 4 but I really don't know how. (does that count hehe) :)
Hey. So I have your blog button on my sidebar. :) love ya!
Ashley~ I created a post about your giveaway on my blog! :) :) One more down...
Yea hoooo! Free stuff..... sweet!
Sweet!
I'm loving the fact that we are finally getting our backyard done this week. and also the fact that I may get a free photo shoot for just commenting!
alrighty #2 is done!
#3 check...and I think you're over 100 comments!!!
#4 check!
I am wishing my baby will sleep. Seriously.
Your giveaway is officially mentioned on my blog!!! By the way you and Coby make a SUPER cute couple! That was fun to see all those pictures!
Your blog is on my sidebar...no fudgin.
Accomplished #3...no fudgin. I better win this thing. :)
#3 check
#4 check! Oh PLEASE let me win!
I laughed so hard, I cried when I saw those pictures of your husband. I don't think I could ever convince my husband to do that, but boy am I going to try!
Lately, I have found the wonderful world of online swaps- and I've fallen hard. I find myself making things to send to people for holidays I never even thought about before (ex. St. Patrick's Day). But, boy is it cool when you get something in the mail from your partner!
I posted about it on my blog. I promise
My friend Alicia Deets introduced me to your photography. You are super talented! Please enter me in the contest for the photoshoot!
I am loving being pregnant! I'm 34 weeks, so only 6 more to go!
**if I win, I will be scheduling a newborn photoshoot with you :)
please pick me hurray!!!!!
I thank you for being so kind to and offering this great gift!!!
YIPPEE!!!
Cute post!!
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