Over a year ago A short while ago we announced The Carmen Contest. We tend to do things slowly around here, if you haven’t noticed!
Sooooo, without further ado, the winner is:
Stephanie in NC submitted this picture of her boys from Guatemala, Gabriel and Joseph, and their friends Allie-Maria and Sara.
We chose this picture because it brought tears to our eyes. In a good way.
Thanks Stephanie! You are getting a $50 gift card to Amazon. Happy shopping! 
The final photo submitted as part of the “Carmen Contest” was this one from Nancy in Iowa. She has eight children (five adopted, four from Guatemala). Thanks Nancy!
That’s it! These are all the photos, animations and paintings that you submitted. Thank you so much for helping us celebrate Carmen and how God has used her to bring us all together. We thoroughly enjoyed all of your submissions! You may not remember but this was a contest…which means that there is a winner. We’ll be announcing the winner within a couple of days along with the prize that this person will receive for winning.
In the coming weeks and months, we are hoping to do more things like this to make Beautiful Canvas “a little less about us, a little more about you, and a lot more about Him!”
Thanks again!
Del and Cristina are an amazing couple who live near us in MD. They have pretty much “been there, done that” and have great wisdom from all of their life experiences. Thankfully, they openly share their wisdom and hopefully a tiny bit rubs off on Lana and me!
This photo was submitted by Cristina.
Carmen has never been to San Diego…but she did move recently. Lana will tell you all about it in an upcoming post. Stay tuned!
