A very special blogiversary [giveaway]- ended
Hi friends 🙂 How’s your morning going? Hope you’re having a wonderful day. <3
So the blog is 3 years old!!
The blog actually turned 3 last week, but with the Summer Shape Up and exciting news, I didn’t want to overload the week with too much going on.
For this post, I was originally planning on doing a list of events that have happened in the past 3 years, and then I realized:
1. A LOT of stuff has gone down and
2. the events aren’t what matter– it’s about the community, support, discussions and relationships that have been created in this tiny speck on the internet 🙂 You are 99.9% of the reason why this blog is what it is… I just write it, you’re the ones who show up for the party 🙂
This little blog began as an urge to share my love of health and a distraction from online shopping while I was bored in Valdosta – it has grown so much in the past 3 years. It’s changed and evolved with me, and I’ve had so much fun writing every word.
As a little thank you for changing my life, making this so rewarding and enjoyable, and just for being awesome, I thought it would be fun to do a little giveaway. Giving is always better than receiving for special occasions, anyway 🙂 I picked a few of my absolute favorite things and this giveaway is sponsored by myself and the Pilot 😀
To go with the “3 years” theme, there will be 3 different winners:
-1 commenter will receive my favorite lululemon jacket, the Define Jacket in a color/size of their choice ($99)
-1 Facebook fan will receive a pair of Toms shoes (size/color of choice) and a Nars Orgasm blush from Sephora ($100)
(I’m OBSESSED with the new crochet ones!! And everyone needs this blush)
-1 Twitter friend will receive a iTools Style Winder 1” curling iron ($140)
(I still owe ya a video on how to use it, because it’s life-changing)
+ each winner will receive a dozen macaroons in a flavor of their choice 😀
This means you have 3 different ways to win 3 different prizes:
***This giveaway has ended as of 9:35 EST on June 15.
Thank you again for an incredible 3 years 🙂
Love you guys,
Gina
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I seriously adore this blog and am loving even more now that you are prego! 🙂 Thanks for being amazing! I would like to see more baby stuff for the following year!! 🙂
Congrats on your three years Gina! In the next year I’d love to hear more about juggling health, work, and family. I don’t know too many young couples whose marriages I would care to emulate, so I find your posts on family really inspiring. I also wanted to thank you for not equating fitness and health with being a certain weight. It’s very refreshing. So yeah, keep up the general awesomeness!
Wow what an awesome giveaway!! Would LOVE this jacket. I have a 4.5-month-old and she’s about ready for me to start running with her. So, I need some new workout-y clothes 🙂
So excited to see how your lifestyle adapts to the pregnancy and baby! I lost all my baby weight in a few weeks, but still have some jiggiliness I didn’t before – it’s extremely hard to find time to exercise when all you want to do (when you’re not working) is hang out with your baby.
I just found your blog via Iowa Girl Eats and love the summer shape up challenge along with your recipes! I’m looking forward to reading more recipes and great motivation. Thanks!
I am looking forward to seeing updates on how you manage your health and fitness through pregnancy.
I can’t wait to see more about your pregnancy, giving birth, and adjusting to life as a mom in the next year!
Love love loveeeee to see more new and healthy recipes. For someone who always has to pack lunch, I always stick with bringing salad…and that gets a lil boring. So more new recipes that are on-the-go friendly would be great!!! Thanks Gina and congrats on your baby and blog!!
Congrats on the three years! Amazing what it’s turned into.
This year I’d like to read about how you stay fit during pregnancy, what you do after you have the bambino (which will be in 2012, but that’s still in the next 12 months) to get fit, how it feels to have a changing body, etc.
I can’t wait to read more family posts, I’m loving them! Also, more gluten-free recipes!
Happy Blogiversary! I think this is the best giveaway yet! You’re awesome 🙂
Great giveaway! I am absolutely hooked on Lululemon and would not complain if my whole closet was filled with their clothes!
I am really looking forward to reading more about the little bun in your oven. I was so happy to read about the little bundle of joy that you and your Pilot will have soon. Congratulations, what a blessing! 🙂
I am a Facebook fan, and OMG do I want my first pair of Tom’s!!!
Happy 3 years! Loved reading your blog for the past year 🙂 I would like to see more Q&A videos with you and the Pilot. I think the last one was so fun to watch.
Looking forward to the baby pics! Also can’t wait to hear your journey with healthy living with the newest member of your family. 🙂
Congrats!
I can’t wait to see the baby! I love the new family section, and the regular fashion posts. I would love to see more WMOW videos.
Happy Anniversary! I look forward to reading about your pregnancy journey along with all of the usual food and pilot shenanigans! 🙂
Having just had my 3rd baby, I would LOVE to see more on the Family page about your pregnancy, delivery, and new baby! It truly is the most wonderful, beautiful experience ever! God bless!
I am a Twitter follower as well 🙂
Happy Blog Birthday!! I’d like to see more recipes! Bonus if they’re vegan or at least veg. 😉
Oh, oh, I’m in! 🙂
Over the next year I would like to see LOADS more family posts and awesome kick ass workouts. As I am also “in a family way” and will be looking to shape up after having the baby in August!
I love the family and fashion posts!!
Is it wrong that I’m more excited by the macaroons than new Toms?!! Haha!
I love all the creative ways you incorporate protein powder into snacks – I’d love to see more ideas along those lines in the next year. 🙂
Congrats on 3!!!
I love the blog the way it is! But I love healthy recipes the most!!!!!!
I love your healthy eating/fitness posts but I’m enjoying the family posts!!
I’d like to see more workout out plans… and of course awesome adorable baby info!!
I would love to see more recipes and your tools you use to cook with! Congrats on three years!!!
I love everything this blog has to offer and can’t wait to see what all unfolds. You have so many sections (family, workout, the main one, etc.) and I can’t get enough of ’em. Love it and can’t wait to see the blog grow!!
I can’t wait to see more about your transition into motherhood, but I also want the blog to stay fresh and fun and not too “baby-centered”.
I would love to see more about your exercise and eating changes through pregnancy (like if you’ve made any major food changes or things you’ve cut out and what you are going to keep doing or stop doing as the pregnancy continues!) – obviously this isn’t the next year thing, since you won’t be preggers the whole time lol. So, I’d also like to see recipes, eats and workouts – which you do now and I find them fab!
Happy 3rd birthday bloggy! What an amazing three years.
More baby and family posts!!! I’m obsessed. Just cant get enough:)
Gosh, what would I like to see more of? Although I’m not planning on getting preggers anytime soon I am definitely interested in hearing more about that. I also love the Show Me Your Fit posts, they are inspiring, give me ideas of new things to try and remind me how fun being active is. Just more of what you’re already doing :).
I too would love some more recipes and some more tips on toning and building lean muscle. I’m a big runner and am very into the cardio aspects of fitness.
I would love to see more tips on balancing fitness and family and work. I need some help with that 🙂 Also, more Bella, because you can never have enough adorableness in your day.
Happy third blogiversary! I think I’ve read every single one of your posts and you and your wisdom have definitely changed my life for the better. I make much smarter decisions about healthy eating and exercise thanks to your guidance. I’m personally dying for more family posts– I walked around with a huge smile on my face the day you gave us the news!
I love the new family page! I’m can’t wait to see everything that happens in the next few years…can’t believe it has been 3 years already!! Whatever you post will be fine and I can’t think of anything else I’d like to see. You’ve covered so much 🙂
I’m excited to see more about the baby!!! And how you deal with keeping a healthly lifestyle while pregnant and after the baby’s birth.
Happy Blogiversary! I’ve been following your blog for years and love the fitness/family/military vida/healthy eating balance that you have!! In the next year, due to the exciting news, I would love to see how you balance your love of working out and eating while being pregnant – what are some things that you will be changing, but still doing the things that you love to some extent at the same time?
More about a healthy pregnancy/healthy living post-baby. Congrats on your blogiversary!
I also tweeeeted about the giveaway! SO excited for this 🙂
Happy Blogiversary! I have been reading for a few months now and I love all of the content, but I am super excited to read more about your growing family over the next year 🙂
I like you on Facebook.
PS I also replied to the question.
I love your blog! I’m looking forward to pregnancy updates & all of your awesome fitness/food posts.
Your blog is absolutely fabulous! I’d love to see more ideas for healthy and easy snacks/meals for gals on the run 🙂
Gina, just keep doing what you’re doing. I especially appreciate that you’ve seperated your family posts from your lifestyle posts…but don’t feel like you have to do that all the time! I mean, the baby is going to be part of your life, right? But i love that you are focusing on the community that you built and not trying to switch it up on us.
Three years! That’s awesome!
I’m excited to learn more about your new little addition in the next year.
Since I just started following, I’ve really liked the summer shape up so I would like to see more workouts. But the recipes look great too!
Id like to see more body weight moves and pilates moves!
mmm macaroons!
I LOVELOVELOVE that you post lots of vegan/vegetarian recipes! It’s so helpful. Lot’s more please 🙂
I would love to see some ab routines and/or some examples of stomach flattening foods and meals. My middle is my trouble zone and I’d love to shape it up.
Thanks for hosting such a fun giveaway!
Well, there are so many things I love about your blog, it’s hard to decide what one thing I would want to see more of. I do love your new family posts, though! I can’t wait to see more of those!
I am new to the blog.. so still catching up! But I would love to see more “how to” videos for some of the excercizes! Love your blog! Congrats on 3 years and the baby!
Hi Gina! I would love to see more shape-up routines! I think they are so helpful and you do a summer shape-up, but what about a winter keep-up?? I find that tend to lose it in the winter because it is so cold, maybe you could do a special winter feature? Oh and as many baby pics as possible 🙂