We Have Winners!

This morning after I woke up and had a tiny bit of coffee (I'm finishing it as I write this post), I put all the entrants' names into a hat.

I folded them, shuffled them around, and enlisted Morgan's help to draw the winners.

Our first winner was ... Rick!

Number 2 was ... Cathy! (You can see that Penny was starting to wonder what we were doing and crept into this frame.)

Lucky number 3 was ... Elizabeth! (By now Penny really needed to be involved.)

Winner number 4 was ... Cindi!

And our 5th and final winner was ...

... Penny's nose? Let's try that again.

Oh, it's Vicki!

Congratulations to all the winners! I will be contacting you shortly for your addresses. (Cindi, I don't have a way to contact you, please get in touch with me at st.ursula (at) gmail!)

A note about how weird randomness can be at times: I wrote the names in the order they commented on the post, then shuffled them around when I took the first photo, folded them up, put them in the hat and shuffled them again. Each time a name was drawn, I shuffled the names again before Morgan drew the next one. Nevertheless, the 5 names drawn were the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th to comment. I thought for a moment it had been the first five, and Morgan was going to start running the odds of that happening (this is what it's like when your husband is getting a PhD in Math).