In the end- LOVE WINS!!!

First, let me express my sincerest THANKS to everyone who took some time out of their day to check out the cards and cast a simple vote!!! 

Next, I would like to THANK my best friend Lauren, from Knowing Norrah for surprising me and deciding to also donate funds to love146 and for all of her faithful blog readers who participated!!!

I would also like to THANK anyone who posted or shared links via blogs or facebook to help SPREAD THE WORD.  My hope in doing this "contest" was not just to be able to donate money to love146 - but to really spread the word of this organization, and even more importantly, the issue of human trafficking and childhood sex slavery....there are so many out there who are oblivious to this growing darkness, and I wanted to make as many aware as possible.  I hope that the efforts were successful and that others will also now choose to do something to make a difference in anyway they know how!  So THANK YOU for anyone who chose to SPREAD THE WORD this week...it certainly has meant a lot to me =)

I decided to do a PICTURE POST to announce the winners and totals and such...so thanks to my wonderful daughters who "suffered" through a short photo shoot to help me out with this!

I will OF COURSE will write everything out here too!

Our grand prize winner is Laurie Horanburg. She will be receiving a photo shoot for up to 2 people that she may use for herself or give to someone else!

Kristie Kachel will be able to choose a love146 t-shirt of her choice!!

Nick Garland will be receiving a $10.00 iTunes gift card!!

** I will be in direct contact with these winners at some point today! **

AS FOR THE FINALS NUMBERS...

We reached a total of 174 votes!!!  66 of them included a mention from the "Knowing Norrah" blog. So between our donation and Lauren and Ken's we will be giving the love146 organization a total of $120!!!  I pray that this would be multiplied and used in mighty mighty ways!!!!

The winning 'card' was.....

NUMBER SEVEN

card NUMBER THREE came in a very close second!!

I ended up voting for number 14, the ice cream card, solely based on the fact that that was my favorite picture that I took...it was a very hard decision for me...right away I also LOVED the way number 7 turned out...but in the end, I went with the ice cream card =)

The 'loser' cards were NUMBER 8 and NUMBER 13 =(  Each receiving ZERO votes..haha...OH WELL!

Again, Anthony and I are extremely grateful for everyone who took part in this first time crazy contest!  We hope to do more things like this in the future!  We encourage you to continue to remember the love146 organization...and the hundreds of thousands just like it that are working day and night to put an end to human trafficking and slavery all around the world!  

In the end...LOVE is what will put an end to these horrible crimes...

Here's to hoping that in the end, LOVE is the WINNER =)

~holly~