And you could win a gift certificate for $25. I don’t have mine up but wanna see everyone’s as u get them up:)…. Soooo thought I’d make it a CONTEST bc that makes u guys post pics;)! Lol. Post your tree photos on our FB biz page wall. PUH-LEEEEAASSEEE I like to get to see ya’lls photos and stuff TOO;). xoxo

Awwww… My babies in upper LH CORNER bout made me cry my eyes out… Then It hit me this photo was probably snapped before:

A)their 3 year old “big sis” sneaks in and switches them in their bouncy seats (she often did this bc she wanted to be big and carry them. Me and my mom realized one day that when we walked outta room hildy was on left and Henry on right and hadly was only other one in the room. Lolol…OR…

B) this could have been snapped just moments before their anal mommies FRONT HEAVY TREE topples over on them;)! Geesh. But sure is a sweet picture. Dang they were some CUTE BABIES:)!

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It’s only fair I share my own personal faves from my crazy, random playlists (Laura and I call Z 93.EM)since u guys gave me such new rockin tunes!:

• Africa by Toto (Jenny Lane days;))
• Train in Vain-The Clash….(one of my ALL TIME FAVORITES)
• Collide Over My Head-the Fray (obvious reasons;))
• FuNkYtown-Lipps, Inc.
• Bitch-Meredith Brooks (I’m a walking contradiction much like song)
• Beautiful Day-U2
• Back that AZZZZZ-400 degreez
• In a Big Country-Big Country (one hit wonder but one of my all time FAVES)
• Animal-Def Leppard
• Voices Carry-Til’ Tuesday

• ATLiens-OutKast
• Bitch-Meredith Brooks
• Black & Yellow-WizKalifah
• Blister in the Sun-Violent Femmes (Em & Sue days…we were the only preppy NON-pot smokers in the ampitheater at this concert FOR SURE! LOL)
• Break Every Chain-by OUR VERY OWN WILLIE…WILL REAGAN & THE UNITED PURSUIT BAND
• Break it down again-Tears for Fears
• Can’t Fight this Feeling-REO Speedwagon
• Collide-Howie Day (my reminder that “even the best fall down sometimes”LOL..cocky beeeeatch..haha..JK)
• Desire-U2
• Dirty Little Secret-All American Rejects
• Dizzy-The GooGoo Dolls
• Don’t Stop Believin’-Journey  (reminds me of Adam Sandler and love him but also reminds me of some other profound soul but cant put my finger on it right now..hmmm?)
• Dreams-Fleetwood Mac
• Fifteen-taylor Swift (totally takes me back to the butterflies and boyfriends days!…love it…makes me feel like a giddy high school Freshman trying to decide what to wear to the dance!)
• The Final Countdown-Europe (Laura has THE BEST DANCE TO THIS ONE..lol)
• The Freshman-The Verve Pipe (love it but reminds me of that person that got killed in elevator shaft at UT for some reason???)
• Friday im in love-the cure
• freeze frame-J. Geils Band (Skatin’ Rink BABY..awww yeahhh)
• Gin & Juice-Snoop Dogg
• Gives you Hell-all american rejects
• Glycerine-Bush
• Good Life-OneRepublic (this song makes me hopeful for balance, change, less stressful way of life??)
• Gossip Folks-Missy Elliott
• Head to Toe-Lisa Lisa & the Cult Jam (awwww yeaaaa=))
• Here is Gone-Goo Goo dolls
• How Far Weve Come-Matchbox Twenty(this song feels like a bundle of nervous energy…hmmm…wonder why I LIKE IT???)
• I Remember You-Skid Row (LOVE THEM)
• I still havent found what im looking for-U2
• In a Big Country-Big Country(one of my personal FAVES and no one
• In the house of Stone & Light- Martin Page
• Burning Down the House-The Talking Heads
• Halo-Beyonce
• Hanginaround-The Talking Heads
• Im so Excited-The Pointer Sisters (reminds of Vacation)
• Im Too Sexy (Right Said Fred)
• Insane in the Brain-Cypress Hill
• Invincible-Pat Benetar
• It Ends Tonight-All-American Rejects
• Jack & Diane-John Cougar Mellancamp
• Jenny/867-5309-Tommy Tutone
• Just Like Heaven-The Cure
• Landslide-Smashing Pumpkins
• Like a G6-Far East Movement
• Mambo #5-Lou Bega
• Milkshake-Kelis (hahaha…all my kids sing this..OOPS…my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard…haha..niiiiice)
• **Mr. Brightside-the Killers (another REAL FAVE FAVE of mine!)
• One night in bangkok-Murray Head
• Owner of a Lonely Heart-Yes
• Photograph-Def Leppard (PHOTOS and ME ….im OBSESSED)
• Pictures of You-The Cure (again, photo obsessed!!!)
• Pretty Fly for a White Guy (The Offspring)…LOVE LOVE LOVE this one makes me wanna busta move! lol.
• Remedy-The Black Crowes
• The Safety Dance-Men Without Hats
• Semi-Charmed Life..third eye blind
• Send me on my way-Rusted Root (makes me happy!)
• SexyBack-Justin Timberlake
• Shake It-Metro Station (FUNK’N ROCKS)
• Someday-Glass Tiger
• Stacy’s Mom-Fountains of Wayne
• Strait to Hell-Drivin’ N Cryin’ (COLLEGE DAYS)
• Sugar Were Goin Down-Fall Out Boy
• Swingin’ Engine-Byron Lee & the Dragonaires (from the Caymanian/Redneck days…a little SOOCCAAAA that reminds me of the waitress on the beach with the southern twang!)
• Tennessee-Arrested Development (enough said.)
• This house-Tracie Spencer (OMG a BLAST FROM THE PASSSSTTT)
• Thanks for the Memories (Fall Out Boy)
• Toxic-Britney Spears (this song is another nervous energy one like my head!..they work well together)
• Toy Soldiers-Martika (ROFLMBO)
• Unwritten-Natalie Bedingfield
• Viva La Vida -Coldplay
• We Didnt Start the Fire-Billy Joel
• We No Speak Americano-Yolando B. Cool & Dcup (haydn and his friend beau got me onto this one!!!)
• When I Grow Up-(The Pussycat Dolls)
• Where are you Going (Dave Matthews)- feels like a valid question everyday!
• You Spin Me Round-Dead or Alive-This is GREAT ONE!
• 18&Life-Skid Row
• 99 Red Balloons-The Wedding Singer
• 100 years-Five for Fighting

Soooo the ones that im MOST EXCITED about are the WINNERS and here they are! Really lots of GREAT ones that i CANNOT BELIEVE i was missing bc i have LOTS of MUSIC but prob the MOST pumped about being reminded of Candlebox..LOL…I didnt realize how i’ve missed them! ROFL. xoxo (winners please post your email address in the comments here on this blogpost and we will be sending you a code for your $25 gift certificate good for up to a year!) Thanks for playing w/Emie friends! Will be thinking of a new contest bc they are FUN and very beneficial to me!!! i also posted one of Em’s Fave playlists for ya’ll …bad part is that isnt even the half of it but the ones i posted are my FAVES! xoxo

So yes, it has taken me FOREVER to go thru all these but a)there were a lot of comments and b) I never know names of songs so literally had to listen to lots of them on iTunes and then I loaded the ones I was like, “OMG HOW DO I NOT HAVE THIS?”onto my phone:)! SOOOO I said I would post some of the ones I loaded but sorry not everyone wins just bc I loaded one of your songs bc well…that’d be far too easy and we’d go broke workin’ for freeeee! Lol (adam sandler FOR FREEEEE VOICE IN MY HEAD)…sooooo the winners will be the ones I’m most excited about getting;)! So for now here are some of the suggestions that I HAD TO HAVE and can’t believe I don’t already have!(then it’s only fair I share my own faces w/u guys cuz I’ve got some seriously RANDOM ROCKIN’ SONGS IN THE OLE’ playlists! Geesh! Do I ever!…okay some of my new tunes from u guys (note I didn’t even look at who suggested when I picked btw):

WHIP IT! by Devo (really cannot believe I didn’t have this–total EM kinda stuff! Haha.

Far Behind-Candlebox

Dancing Queen-ABBA

MMMBop-Hanson (ROFL)

There she goes-the La’s

Your Woman-white town (OMG!!!)

New Age Girl-Dead Eye Dick

You-Candlebox

My Hero-Foo Fighters

Gloria-Laura Branigan (hahaha)

What I Am-Edie Brickell

Bizarre Love Triangle-New Order

Celebration-Kool & the Gang

Blurry-puddle of mudd

Hot Stuff-Donna Summer (LMBO)

Black Velvet-Alannah Myles

Linger-Cranberries

Time for me to fly-REO Speedwagon (what? My BFF even brought this one up the other day too and I have the CD’s somewhere but not on playlist)

Can’t fight this feeling-REO Speedwagon

It’s tricky-Run DMC (lovin it)

You & Me-Lifehouse

It’s a sin-pet shop boys

Laffy Taffy-D4L (bahahaha)

Need you tonight-INXS

Dancing in the moonlight-Toploader

Come on get higher-Matt Nathanson

The MAN Hands Results are IN!

So as I have explained before I am a freak and have a MAN HAND FETISH….weird thing is SOOO DOES LAURA! Really, we discovered this a few years back and it led to a long discussion about how long is too long of a nail bed to be sexy..ROFL. Yep, totally serious. Were SICKOS! We know this. I promise we do!!! Annnyway…we decided to go on a rampage one day at work and see who could “collect” the most MAN HAND PHOTOS via text the quickest…hahaha..which in turn led to this contest bc welllll…yep, WE WANTED TO SEE YOUR MAN HANDS TOO. But hey, it could be much worse than hands, right?? LOL. (okay, sorry)…So needless to say we definitely enjoyed filing thru big burly, sexy, dirty, manscaped, chiropractorish, SMOKIN’ HOT, manly, strong, SMART hands that all of these MEN of our FB friends have! Really, some quite nice hands guys! haha…AND NO I DONT THINK THERE IS ANY CORRELATION WITH HANDS….the ole’ saying ive always heard was with FEET…NOT HANDS…=). Sooo nice hands means JUST THAT…NICE HANDS! BAHAHA.

(click on link below to see the entire gallery of our MAN HANDS)

http://app.photorocket.com/galleries/7a7ddfc9-0c45-45df-8711-1a00eb651ae4

I really have ALWAYS noticed MAN HANDS ever since i had “boyfriends”…I can’t really peg WHY I like MAN HANDS but i think maybe Casey Midgely was on the right track with her deep facebook post regarding MAN HANDS…

” Its strange and a bit silly, but I have to say looking at all these husbands’ hands I sort of teared up a bit. When you think about it, these hands hold us, they’ve held our tiny babies just out of the womb, they use them to support us, and their hands are a comfort and a constant in our lives. In a way, their hands are an expression of love. Ok, enough of that. These are t…he hands of a Physicist. He is a super geek, super smart, and I don’t understand half of what he says. And they are SOFTER than mine, jerk, because he is in a fancy office all day while I am changing diapers and potty training and gardening and cleaning… but I still love those hands. Especially when they are holding me.”

“Well, I’m a writer. I over think everything. But its strange, looking at all these men’s hands, my heart melts a bit. I just think of every moment they’ve held me, comforted me, and I remember the first time my husband reached out and held my hand. The hand is such a deep reminder of love for me. Can’t help it.”

Nicely put Mrs. Midgely! However, I am obviously a tad less “deep” than that it still made me stop and realize…”HEY wait, THAT’S a HUGE part of my man hand fetish”!!! Granted, sometimes I have loved my husband’s hands more than others but CES’T LA VIE BABY!, right?…But i must admit even when i want to beat him silly I still think my husband has very sexy hands! They are big and strong when you hold them and look huge when holding our skrawny little kids (very sexy when holding babies or the girls)…But also if you think of it, it’s like their hands do kinda tell their life story! Look at the gallery link of all the hands and notice the manscaped ones are really clean cut chiropractor/business man/etc. and then the ones that have hands on jobs are rougher, dirty, sexy dirty…not knocking the dirty hands AT ALL EITHER GALS, my husband works w/tractors and sometimes he gets down and dirty too! Dirty is HOT too. sooooo basically what my ADHD, psycho, insomniac head is TRYING to say is that they are all SUPER SMOKIN HOT IN THEIR OWN WAY! They tell a story.Laura and I also realized when we were talking that both our dad’s have nice business man hands…we said it at almost the same time, “my dad has good hands”…lol…and OBVIOUSLY WE ARE BOTH DADDIES GIRLS SOOOOOO could also be part of the issue? (my dad never sent me his hands…he just thought i was losing my mind by texting him and asking him to send me a photo of the front of his hands..ha! Even my mom was texting back after I asked for like the third time, “WHHHAAATTT ARE U TALKING ABOUT, EM?”…THEN she disappeared. They know im nuts, they’ve learned to ZONE ME OUT i think. haha. (no not really–im not scarred by my parents..actually YES I AM…Carol (my therapist)helped me conclude that i am scarred by a perfect childhood just as much as someone with a tough childhood is (but that is a entire blogpost in itself..save for later date!). Laura’s hubby sent his toes first in a super close up photo and i jumped back thinking, “YIKES, Laura says Bill has nice hands”…HAHA, then i realized…WAAAIIITTT those are TOES! LMBO! We got a fist, and a bird too. haha. Good thing it’s kinda hard to offend me boys!

ROFL…the photo Laura’s hubby sent me first (his toes) but i flinched! ha.

Soooo, If you are able to follow my head on paper let me remind you that you HAVE GOT TO BE INSANE TOOOOO! =) We chose 3 MAN HAND WINNERS and here they are with an explanation of why we liked it!!!:

THE MOST MEANINGFUL POST: If i remember correctly he sent this as he was getting on plane, correct? I’m sure he didnt think about it but very GOOD CALL LEAVING The Camo in the background. quite a sexy touch…but very sweet that he just did as his wife asked and sent the pic even though I am certain he was thinking….”WTFuNk?”…LOL…very sweet though…and these hands help keep US ALLLLL SAFFEEE!!! SOOOOO I APPRECIATE THESE HANDS FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY AMERICAN HEART!=)…REALLY!

GENIUS STAGED PHOTO HANDS!!!/MOST CREATIVE WIFE: This is TOTALLY something I would have done!!! LOVE IT! LOL….and yes she is right when she posted this pic on facebook saying, “nothing much sexier than a man doing the dishes” (or something to that effect..haha. Very creative touch that well OBVIOUSLY CAUGHT OUR ATTENTION!!! nice hands too of course but the EMTanner Designs plate and creativity reminded me of my crazy ars and well…..i think we’d probably be FAST FRIENDS..ROFL!!!

…ANNNDDDD DRUMMMROOLLL…of course we HAD TO HAVE THE HOTTEST MAN HANDS:

and well, these hands are just HOT. haha. really Kristen u did good! The silver toed white socks made me laugh but i gotta be honest I didnt notice those until after seeing these hands and watch lots of times soooo they are just some NICCEEE MAN HANDS. Really. NOTE: NOT making fun of the sock feet but i am weird about men in socks and for some reason this made me think of ya know like Seth Rogan on Knocked up when he’s hooking up in ummmm JUST WHITE SOCKS..haha.. I think that movie has made me zone in on the white socks even though it’s not like he has no clothes on and just white socks! Kristen you have been around for a while so you know IT’S MEEE and my INSANE BRAIN and NOT your hubby!!! His hands=SMOKIN’ HOTTT!!!…Guessin’ he just had his watch on but if not it was a very nice added touch of masculinity!=)

Alright ladies that are the owner’s of these nice MAN HANDS please post your email address on the comments so we can send you a gift certificate code via email! Funny now that I was being nice about my hubby’s hot hands he has texted me and is being a big turd and if my super mature ars wasnt so tired and still a LOT to try to get done I wanna go EDIT the NICE PARTS!!! LMAO!! But he still does have HOT hands SO i WONT but ughhh…However, now that i am thinking while i type im willing to bet all of these hands can be tied to complete fartheads from time to time too!!! haha…There ya go Em, perfect way to wrap up the rambling, confusing, grammarless blog post! VERY “EMTannerISH” way to end! lolol..

This is kind of a strange photo but his hands really are quite SEXY and NOT discolored like these look! LOL…look at the dirty office floor…my guess is they are just DIRTY..ha! They dont look big here either but they are really big(again, im just referring to HANDS, ladies!)…may have to get a better pic of these just to prove it later! haha. kinda look like he’s been BURNED or something. hmmm….well, it’s all i got to wrap this up …so im leavin’ ya with the HANDS of a FARTHEAD LATENIGHT TEXTER TONIGHT! LOLOL.

xoxo, thanks for letting us see your man’s hands too BTW;). LOL.

…i have deemed it a tie BC both Amy and Sarah have stuff on the way..one will be ahead till we print orders then the other..LOL…too close to call which is another reason for the delay in calling it..lol..Once i looked at the “circumstances” of both i have decided they are BOTH winning! LOL…

AMY ZIMMERMAN

well, i just emailed Amy her gift certificate and told her a day w/no Zimmerman order in process in my orders seems like something is wrong..LOL…Just kidding! We appreciate our loyal customers soooo much! And we do have LOTS of you all but i know many of you are EMTanner gift givers soooo it didnt really help you in the contest bc you have “gifted” your purchases…point is we are soooo lucky to have soooo many super cool, PATIENT customers who return time and time again! We are glad you LOVE what we do! heck, someone better appreciate it or IM QUITTIN! HAHA!? Soooo here is the wild part of Amy’s status…SHE ONLY FOUND US IN MAY! HAHAHAHA~! AND she has had several more large packages go out since these photos too bc i DO personally recall a Zimmerman cutting board! It’s en route! Sooooo this isnt YEARS worth of LOOT..we are TALKIN months! LOL…with that said, we definitely are deeming AMY ZIMMERMAN AN OFFICIAL EMTANNER FANATIC!=)..And we are ever so thankful that you are! xoxoxo

SARAH STINNETT

..not sure ANY words are NEEDED here???=)

SO…yes i DO personally know sarah so i was hesitant to pick her BC i knew people KNEW that we KNEW each other IN PERSON..HOWEVER, when i started looking at her pics and every week that i had a zimmerman order in my hands i also had a s.stinnett one i thought…hmmmm…ok i dont think it matters that we KNOW each other…then i started looking at her pics and was laughing out loud as i put all the ones she has posted TOGETHER! HOLY MOLY….TRAVIS STINNETT MARRIED HIMSELF RIGHT INTO AN EMTANNERIZED WORLD AND HE DIDNT EVEN KNOW IT! …let’s just say…HE DOES NOW! BAHAHAHAHA! Sarah also gets RAGGED by her little SIS on facebook (sarah IS that “EVERYTHING HAS MY NAME ON IT “KINDA GAL…Laura her sis IS NOT…and her comments CRACK ME UP! It’s always like, NO OFFENSE EM, BUT holy crap SARAH i CANNOT BELIEVE YOU WOULD USE THAT CLIPBOARD AT WALMART! LMAO! But…SARAH doesnt care…NOTHING is gonna stop her from having her name on everything CuTe and FuN! Basically she is like the epidomy of the person everything in my WORLD was designed for! make sense? Now, with that said…i will move on and PROVE my point thru photos! LOL! OH AND THE BIGGEST THING TO POINT OUT HERE IS THAT…..SARAH DOESNT HAVE KIDS…….YET! ….hahahaha. Yep, all the loot is for her!

first we have, SARAH donning her TRAV tee..(btw..excellent use of my new age initial tee design!…TAKE NOTE customers…make it WHAT YOU WANT=)…Trav’s has Sarah’s name and number on front too but he doesnt want anyone to see…BAHAHAH..JUST KIDDING..i think he just has that, “oh hell my wife has another TRAV TEE on today look”..lol…pic 2…donning EMT inital tee walking down the aisle at rehearsal dinner!!! LOL…pic 3 would be Mrs. Stinnett’s EMTannerized “LUNCH KIT so to speak—COMPLETE W/A SONIC DIET COKE..HAHA…and last pic is the actual REHEARSAL DINNER EMTanner plates in alabama and tennessee colors..he played bball for AL…she well ya know is one of us CRAZY Orange/White peeps you out of towners dont GET!=)….all this is SARAH’s LOOT..yep..really! LOL…

Like i said we do have a lot of repeat customers that give our products as gifts soooo we arent forgetting about you all either! We appreciate everyone who comes back time and time again more than you can ever know! We feel like we do have a LOOK OF OUR OWN and that is different than everything else that was out their at the time i started throwing my vision out there for the world to see! We will CONTINUE to strive w/the look that we all KNOW AND SEEM TO LOVE for as long as Em remains SANE enough to keep pumpin the designs for laura to “invent” for lack of a better word..actually there is not a better word..that’s what she does..finds a way to INVENT what i WANT…crazy but it WORKS bc our skills together just make it happen! Thanks to you ALL for your support!!! xoxoxoxo.

EM & LAURA…(even though i know you all probably think laura is just a figment of my imagination)…SHES REAL she just lays low! LOL

So the title of this was supposed to be mother’s day CONtest! but i couldnt get the CON to be uppercase…keep reading and it’ll make sense but i LIKED that title dang it! OK, soooo ill try to do this justice while not making it toooo terribly sad but it’s gonna be kinda hard…here goes it=)!

Alright one of my high school friends, Sarah, and i have lived reeeeallly super similar lives…i.e. her dad is a CPA in town, my dad is a CPA in town, her mom worked for her dad and still was able to STAY happily married..LOL…my mom works for my dad and still able to STAY happily married, her mom is THAT mom that always got her girls matching PJs to wear at Christmas even after they were grown, my mom is THAT mom that had christmas cookie decorating parties when i was little and Christmas Cookie Classes for me and my friends when we needed to learn for our kids!  Her mom was AS excited anticipating her future grandkids as my mom IS doting on her grandkids! My mom had run into her at office depot or somewhere and she had my kids and Sarah’s mom went nutso over them and told my mom how very READY she is to be a grandmother as well! She WOULD absolutely have been that grandmother that builds a tribal hut in the woods for the grandkids summertime fun (note:if you dont follow us on fb my mom just did this for my kids)…i have copied and pasted from Sarah’s facebook page to make sure i get the REAL point accross as to what a special mom she has! Then i will EXPLAIN what we NEED from my wonderful facebook fans, blog followers, etc….now from Sarah’s page…

My life has changed a lot within the past year. My very best friend and hero, my mother, passed away this year very unexpectedly. There were no symptoms, no signs, no answers. God just took her and one day we will understand why. My dad, sister, and I continue to struggle on a minute by minute basis. We miss the person that was always there for us no matter what, who put herself LAST when anyone was concerned, but also knew how to make us laugh uncontrollably! She was also the kindest, most gentle person I have ever known or will know. As my future mother in law puts it, “she set the bar TOO high that no one will EVER be able to fill her shoes!” I miss my mother so much that there are no words. I am a ticking bomb sometimes, never knowing when I will cry, but I know she is happy where she is…it’s us who suffer! My life has also changed in that I am going to marry my very best friend this year. Travis is special to me, not only because I knew him when he was 8 and I was 10 and that he was at my house a lot growing up, but because of how he has dealt with me during this great turmoil of my life. Trav has shown me how much he truly loves me by being there, saying the right things, and just loving me no matter how hard I push sometimes. He has been there every step of the way even when I have been a monster to deal with. Emotional stress can make you that way! SO on Oct. 24, 2009 I will marry my best friend and lover! And I can’t wait!!! I will be Sarah Stinnett…who’d of ever thought!!! Especially when he used to ask me out in 04 and 05 and I always turned him down! ha, God has a plan!!!!

The night of the funeral it all just hit waaaay too close to home given our eerily similar lives and i went to the funeral w/my mom and literally (kinda wierd for me bc i can maintain kind of a hard as* on the outside like my dad sometimes)BUT i literally LOST it in the parking lot just telling my mom bye to go home! They had an amazing slide show of all the memories Connie (Sarah’s mom) had lived, captured, with and for her husband and girls and it hit me like a TON of BRICKS….after my mom finally talked me into a state where i could possibly drive back to knoxville (about 30 min away) i raced over to my office and emailed Sarah that her mom just BEING THAT mom made me realize that i was soooooo SUCKED into my business i didnt know my a** from a hole in the ground and that i needed to get my sh** together! That’s about when laura and i started hiring and firing left and right so i could TRY (note: still TRYING but doing better)to run my business that i LOOOOVE and be a mommy to the kids that i ADORE! I remember what the t-shirt said that i was making when my mom called me stunned and nearly speechless that someone had just told her of Connie’s death! It was that kind of SHOCK and unexpected tragedy! Still honestly blows my mind! And it all just kinda in my head relates to my business bc Connie was a regular reader or “pointless blogs by emtanner”…LOL…everytime i sound like a sailor i used to think…”sorry Connie Overholt” bc Sarah had told me that she and her mom were addicted to my pointless ramblings..well she didnt say that but we all know that’s what it is=)..haha!

So now Sarah is married to Travis and they are ready to start working on Connie’s (and Lonas’…that’s Sarah’s daddy…not doing him much justice here am i…Sorry Lonas=) grandkidlets! Sarah and I have always had this odd friendship in that we have lived in different places and totally been in different worlds probably since high school but we have always kept up via mail, email, etc…It’s wierd bc it’s like no time has lapsed when we do talk,email, etc….it’s one of those ya know “comfortable friends”…for instance…(and she is maybe gonna wanna kick my you know what but this will definitely lighten the mood)…the other day she emailed me to ask me some questions about the “trying to get pregnant process” bc im well pretty dang good at it..LOL…and she said ya know you are one of the only people besides my mom that i honestly feel like i could just call and ask if it is normal that i have grapes coming out of my butt…LMAO…just to clear up! it was a figure of speech..Sarah does NOT have grapes coming out of her butt…well not YET anyway, but i assured her that it might be normal after a couple kiddies..haha…and then went on to explain to her how i stood on my head to be SURE it “took” when i wanted to be pregnant YESTERDAY with hadly! and it worked! Soooooo now i am sure you get the idea that we are quite comfortable w/each other! LOL..we can always continue to be REAL with each other and hide well pretty much NOTHING even though we dont see each other on regular basis these days…

NOW with all that said…Sarah asked me to get my creative wheels turning and help her and Travis think of both boy and girl names that have CON (for Connie) somewhere in it…doesnt have to begin w/ “CON”..just has to have “CON” in it!! That kinda thing is right down my alley BUT it is pretty dang hard after pondering it for like a week i am not doing so hot….sooooooooo i couldnt think of a better contest for MOTHER’S Day at EMTanner Designs bc i do have quite amazing peeps that help me out a lot! soooo now i want YOU to help SARAH name that baby in the works after her special mommy, CONNIE! And in the meantime don’t let everyday BS get in the way of you and your kiddies even though we ARE raising kids in a superduper hectic crazy day in time…STOP and smell the roses! be THAT mom! MY MOM and CONNIE are THAT MOM and look how great me and sarah (and laura..sarah’s little sis) turned out!!! JUST KIDDIN’!ha! Oh and just to make you want to help w/names even more Sarah WILL be THAT MOM without a doubt! She needs like 5 or 6 i think!  

SO post your thoughts here or on a facebook NOTE that ill be adding labeled CONtest..C’mon guys blow us away! we will randomly pick someone who played with us to win a $100 gift certificate in honor of her mommy, CONnie!=)…GAME IS ON…let’s name that Stinnett baby to be! I know i can count on you guys! get creative!!!! Cannot WAIT to see what you come up with!!!

Ok sooooo bottom line is i make samples ALL the time! AND i do LOVE my fb fans!!!I literally have a closet full of samples that i just dreamed up fir non-existant kids AND frankly im tired of using my kids names on it all and they wear uniforms sooooo needless to say they have plenty!!!soooo NOTE:YOU WILL HAVE TO BE A FB FAN or “like our page” to get chosen!;) but heres how it goes:

A. Im adding a “note” to facebook titled SAMPLES, SIZES FAN SURPRISES TEES (this will include all garments- dresses,rompers,adult tees,etc)! Sooo u have to go to this note and in comment include following info:

First name
Last name
Email
How many kids u have, if any?
Kids names,ages,sizes (if unisex name tell us gender)
OR any additional info that might need a tee or piece of clothing (ie-if ur a bride to be your future hubby and future last name, your hubby’s name or grandpas name for fathers day samples…u get the point)

B. This thread will stay active ALWAYS and when i am making samples for stuff that just needs a flat pic(sometimes i do send samples to a couple of photogbuds kids for shots but lots are just “flat product shots”! I will pick samples to make from this list my fans toss together and if it’s from your post we will email u for your address…

C.voila! A fan surprise will show up at your door!! Soooo c’mon over be our fan and post your “freebie wishes” to your comment!!!;)