Let me just say how much I enjoyed reading all of the comments for this post.  I read every single one and l laughed and cried and was a big, sloppy mess by the time I got to the end.  You guys have some amazing stories you’ve shared and I wish I could give all 520 of you a Flip video camera and a time machine so that you could capture each memory!

Sadly though, only one of you could win the $200 Visa gift card and that person was commenter #515…

And #515 belongs to…

Congratulations!  Shoot me an email at katie@marriageconfessions.com to claim your prize!

Thanks to everyone for entering to win.  Special thanks to Flip video and BlogHer for sponsoring this fun giveaway!

The kind folks at Flip Video asked me to share about a time when I wished I had my Flip Video camera with me to capture a moment.  But the thing is that I always have my Flip video camera with me.  We bought this camera at the same time we bought our big girl photo camera.  I was about six months pregnant and we decided to splurge and get us a camera and a video camera so that we could document Bean’s little life from Day One.  We got a Flip because it was small, compact, affordable, and because it is really cute!  (That last one was my criteria…)  Flip just released their new SlideHD camera and so I have begun campaigning for one of those, too!

I love my camera because it is so small that it fits anywhere.  Its assigned place in our house is on our living room coffee table in the basket that holds our remotes.  We keep it here because no matter what’s going on, we can grab it at a moment’s notice.  That’s how I’m able to capture things like this video, where Bean is moaning for his Tylenol bottle.  It wasn’t a big moment where I planned to have my camera, but because the Flip is so portable I was able to have it handy right when the moment presented itself…

So, there haven’t been too many times when I’ve missed something that I wish I’d have had my camera for.  But there was this one day when we all were at the playground together for the first time.  I had thrown my camera into my purse, but forgot to grab my Flip video camera.  It was Bean’s first time in a swing and I wasn’t sure how he’d react.  I sat him in the infant swing and gave him a good push and instantly this perfect, loud, gut-belly laugh exploded from his little mouth.  It was such a pure, sweet laugh and everyone on the playground started laughing back at him.  It was that contagious.  I did get pictures with my camera and they were pretty good.  But they just didn’t capture that laugh.  And I would love to be able to hear that again.

Today on Marriage Confessions, Flip Video is sponsoring a $200 Visa Gift Card giveaway in celebration of the release of their new Flip SlideHD video recorder!  You can use the gift card for anything really, but I would highly recommend using it towards the purchase of a Flip SlideHD video recorder so that you’re sure not to miss those little gut-belly laughs in your life!

To enter to win, leave a comment below telling me a moment or time when you wish you’d had a video camera with you.  Your comment can be as simple as, “When my sister flipped over the coffee table in her prom dress and landed in a bowl of salsa” (that’s a true story, by the way…) or you can share the whole doggone stinkin’ story that you really should have captured on camera.  I’m easy to please.

Also, there are four other bloggers hosting this same giveaway, so be sure to visit their blogs and enter to win a total of FIVE TIMES!!!  For a list of participating blogs, visit the BlogHer round up reviewer page.

For more information on the NEW Flip SlideHD camera, visit the Flip website.  For BlogHer’s official contest rules, please visit the BlogHer website.  The giveaway runs from May 17 to June 14, 2010.  Good luck!

I’m so happy to give this Select Comfort pillow away to entry number 164…

…to lucky Alex because Alex is pregnant!  And if you value anything during pregnancy, its some gooooooood sleepin’!

Alex, Select Comfort will be in touch with you directly via email.  Congratulations and sweet dreams!