**********UPDATE**********
Random.org selected the winner, Congratulations REDCURLYQQS who was commenter #23.
I am also awarding a bonus prize to Jen Barnes, commenter # 19, Jen is going to receive a $5 Starbucks gift card for making me laugh out loud when I read her comment “…This is the fanny that Starbucks built” I couldn’t let that go without some recongition. 
Thanks everyone for playing along!
Next month we’ll be hosting another give away, we have a super prize lined up.
I’m not a coffee drinker; I love the smell of fresh brewed coffee but never acquired a taste for it. When I saw someone walking around with a Starbucks cup bundled in its recyled corrugated sleeve I felt like the kid that got picked last for the dodgeball team. I didn’t understand the mocha, latte, vente, tall, grande, soy, java, espresso language that “everyone” was speaking. One day a couple of months ago my 13 yr old informed me they have more than coffee.
What?!?!
I know, a little late to make such a discovery but I was delighted! I am happy to report I am not sitting on the bench anymore. I have a favorite Starbucks beverage!
Ta da!!!! Say hello to Strawberries & Creme Frappuccino Blended Creme and all of it’s yummy goodness:
In honor of me being one of the “cool kids” I am giving away a $20 Starbucks gift card to a randomly drawn blog commenter.
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Want to get in on the fun? It’s simple just leave me a comment below and on July 23rd one lucky commenter will be selected. Please make sure you include a reliable email address in the comment form so I can contact you if you win. If the winner does not respond to the ”You’re the winner” email within 1 week another winner will be selected. Don’t worry you will only be contacted if you win, this isn’t a trick to collect email addresses…just sharing some Starbucks love. Leave your comment or just say “hi” below.
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I sooo understand! I, too, hate coffe but love the Strawberry Frapp! Great pic, too!
Starbucks,
yum! wide eyed
give me mocha,
hot or cold.
Thanks Ashley, and Congrats to Maria and Robert on 15 beautiful and loving years together.
Thank you Maria for the fun contest, and the Starbucks card.
Congratulations REDCURLYQQS and Jen Barnes. Thanks Maria for a fun giveaway. I can’t wait to enter next month’s one:)
Yah!!! LOVE the cafe vanilla frappacino with whipped cream on a hot day!!! YUMMY! or a hot caramel macciato on a cold day
Glad you found a cool delicious treat you enjoy!
Maria (Ramos) makes me drink green tea with her when we’re trying to behave!
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh ICED WHITE CHOCOLATE MOCHA DECAFF all the way – its my drink of love – so good. Either that or they carry IZZIE – have you tried an izzie grapefruit? its delicious!
I am not a coffee drinker, but Richard is. I do like the frapps. Bananas and creme is my favorite. During the holidays I like Egg nog and pumpkin.
Confession time. I never go to the freestanding Starbucks; the only ones I see are in Target department stores. And Target’s coffee and fruit smoothies are a LOT less expensive and very good, so the only time I go to Starbucks is when I GET a giftcard! I do love their hot chocolate in the winter, as well as their Tazo hot tea!
wow i love your pictures. they are really amazing
i saw erica’s pictures and they came out great 
Your Dad and I always shared a white chocolate cafe mocha with a shot of amaretto.
Hi Maria! Thanks for posting a comment on my new blog site. You found me through a good friend of mine’s blog. Marissa Rodriquez. I do LOVE starbucks. So I decided to get in on the fun!
BTW, MARIA IS ONE OF THE TOP PHOTOG IN THE AREA
MMMMMM,,I’LL HAVE A VENTI, SKINNY, SOY, CARAMEL MACCHIATO. THANKS TRISH,,,,
looking for a photographer for my wedding, a starbucks gift card would be nice. My favorite is the caramel macchiato
Nice i would like to win my fav drink is the white mocha
I love SB’s venti Java Chip light and at this time of the year their “treat receipt” allows me to go back to get (for $2) the Bannana Chocolate Vivanno for supper.
Haha. That is too funny. Don’t worry, you are not the only one behind on stuff. I just found out what a Wii really is not to long ago (and I am 27). My brother was like, your young, shouldn’t you know things like that?! I am like, “Um yeah..I am in the real world now…not the college world…haha”.
if you love that you MUST try the strawberry/banana vivanno OR vanilla bean frappe!!!
I am not a “coffee drinker,” but I do like the fraps. Mmmm…how about a white chocolate frap skinny, no whip. Ooooh I know, the special chocolate mint frap with chocolate whipped cream. Or perhaps today I feel like a blended strawberry lemonade… then again there’s the shaken passion tea lemonade. This is the fanny that Starbuck’s built.
OMG I love Starbucks strawberries and creme it’s the best!!!!!
Love your wesite and your pics. I work with Trish and she talks about you all the time and how good you are at catching a moment. I wish you well with all your endeavors.
Hey I love straberrys and cream it is my fav thing to get at starbucks I hope I win but I will be happy for the person that wins also but anyways! LOL Oh and hey Mrs.Butterfield it is luke and caleb sister Alyssa!
OMG okay, I am not a Starbucks coffee lover, but I do LOVE their Chai Latte, you HAVE to try one, it tastes like Christmas. Oh and in the summer, their carmel frapps are to die for, or the brownie frapp…of their chicken wraps….oh i miss my Starbucks…..
I must say i LOVE my starbucks ‘sugar’ coffee…..glad you found a favorite!!
Grande triple Iced non-fat Carmel Macchiato!!
Mmmmmmm!! What fun, in a very delicious way!
I don’t like coffee….So my favorite is Vanilla Bean Frapp! No coffee, just pure deliciousness
Hey Maria, My fav is non fat vanilla chai tea….hot in the winter, I even got my boyfriend hooked. LOL
Oh my, Maria! Too funny! I AM a coffee lover – my fav at Starbucks is a Grande Vanilla Latte w/ whipped cream. I go there so frequently that not only do they know my name but those of the kiddos too.
Randy & I had to put ourselves on a SB budget. We each have a card that we re-charge once a month. When the card is empty so is our SB cup. Maria, I loved the last time we had SB together. I would love to do it again. Blessings!!!!
Vente Caffe Latte with an extra shot, and about 2 1/2 seconds of sugar out of the shaker. Full cream, no foam. I am disqualified from this though….
I’m not a coffee drinker either though I am enjoying the smell more and more. I will have to try this drink! I usually order a Vanilla Steamer in the winter time. Congrats on discovering Starbucks in a whole new light.
There are certain Starbucks that bring back memories. I hooked Jesse pretty young on the caramel frapp…LOVE IT. When he and I would go to Tucson together (before the Vista had SB) that would be a special treat at the end of the day. But, my girls like the strawberries and creme and the other fruit ones. Jesse introduced me to the Chai Tea Frapp. Very good!
A coffee contest … couldn’t resist – especially Starbuck’s. Coffee Frappucino with a mountain of whipped cream = YUMMO!!
I never acquired a taste for coffee either… in fact, I can’t drink anything from Starbucks because there’s so much coffee dust in the air I taste in on everything in the place. But Jen loves it — Send me the gift card so I can look like a hero to my lady
Yay! Starbucks! I’m not really a coffee drinker so I usually get black tea with strawberry – Unsweetened. Sooo good! Once in a while I need a coffee fix and I order a white mocha.
Summer: Venti iced green tea, unsweetened. Winter: Chai tea latte. But that’s about as far as I get. Not a coffee drinker- that much caffeine does bad things to me, but I love tea!
Hurray to finding a favorite Starbucks drink. I happen to come from a coffee loving family… and I tend to lean toward the “stronger the better” category of coffee drinkers. (sweet though…)
If you’re a fan of hot chocolate, they had some fun flavors which might be fun to try once the weather cools down. (Hazelnut and mint… I really enjoyed their Hazelnut Hot chocolate.)
{smiles} =)