Cheerios Do What You Love! Enter to win an experience of a lifetime! - GIVEAWAY {CLOSED}

What do YOU love to do?  Read, knit, ski, play volleyball?

Having a healthy heart is essential to making what you love to do even better!

Cheerios is a great part of a heart healthy diet, since it's made of whole grain oats.  

Want to win the chance of a lifetime?

Cheerios is running a "Do What You Love" Contest through July 23 that will give you a chance to do meet Martina McBride or Cal Ripken, Jr.!

There will be TWO winners!  One music lover and his/her guest will tour the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum with Martina, get a chance to hang out with her in the world famous Blackbird Studio in Nashville, TN AND get VIP tix to one of her upcoming concerts!!  Woot!

If you're more of a baseball fan, you and your guest will have the chance to hang out and play catch with Cal and accompany him on a tour of the Ripken Youth Baseball Academy in Aberdeen, MD.  The winner will even get to throw out the first pitch at the Cal Ripken World Series and sit in Ripken's reserved seats at a Baltimore baseball game!  Woot! again!

Now through July 23, 2010, you can submit YOUR 150-250 word original story and photo, showcasing what you love to do. For a chance to win the experience of a lifetime with McBride and Ripken, visit http://www.cheerios.com/love today.

When you're done there, come back HERE!  Thanks to Cheerios and My Blog Spark, one of you will win a "Do What You Love" prize pack!  You'll get a box of Cheerios cereal and a $25 American Express gift card to do what YOU love!

MANDATORY ENTRY:  How do you show that 'extra' love for your heart in order to keep doing what you love?

EXTRA ENTRIES (please leave a separate comment for each; if you already follow or subscribe prior to this post, leave 2 comments for each):

1. Follow Knitting and Sundries publicly on Google Friend Connect and/or Twitter

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3. Spread the word! Tweet (maximum of ONCE daily - include @jewelknits and #mbsspark in the tweet so that I see it. To make it easy, you can use the "Share" button at the bottom of this post!  Blog about - 2 entries/comments.  Sidebar link to giveaway - 1 entry/comment (leave the URL)

4.  Enter another one of my giveaways that are current at the time you post your entry comment. You can get one extra entry for each giveaway that you enter.

ALL ENTRIES:  Please leave your email in your comments: Like this: imacrazedmommy at whydidihavekids dot com OR like this imacrazedmommy(at)whydidihavekids(dot)com to avoid the spam bots.  If I can't reach you, you can't win!

In addition, if you follow, tweet, etc., please leave the name or email address you follow/tweet/subscribe under.

Eligibility: US, 18 and older. 

End date:  August 4 2010 at 11:59 PM EST

I will pick the winner(s) using Random.org.  I will post the winner(s) on the site AND send an email to the email address used to enter.  The winner will then have 72 hours to reply with their mailing information; otherwise, a new winner will be picked.  The email will be easy to spot; the subject line will begin "You WON on Knitting and Sundries"

Disclosure:  I will receive a "Do What You Love" prize pack and the winner's "Do What You Love" prize pack will be provided by Cheerios through My Blog Spark.  I received no other compensation for this post and any opinions expressed are purely my own.