I'd like to thank...

All of my friends and family (including bloggy friends!) who put me in the position of being considered worthy of this award!!



And an extra thank you to Kaci, Kristina, and Jodi for all three giving me this award. Your love and support mean the world to me. Except it's so dang tiny. I want a bigger award...

There! Much better! Wouldn't you say?


JUST KIDDING! SHEESH! What do you think I am? A total snob? The original is just fine and dandy with me, and I'm appreciative of receiving it.


I'm supposed to award it to seven people, except those three lovely ladies gifted it out to just about everyone I know, which leaves me in a bit of a pickle.

SO, I award this to:

Rachel because her little man gives her "the look", and I've seen that same LOOK on Connor's face!! (go ahead, click on over and see it!)

Steph because she was super sweet to let me guest blog for her while she was away (talk about trusting!)

Melissa because she has GREAT ideas for family together time, and craft ideas, and cooking ideas (I'm still determined to try the truffle recipe she posted awhile back...)

Valarie because I have faith she will take to blogging her hilariousness again soon... (hint hint Valarie!)

Rennie because she is absolutely one of the funniest people I know, has A WAY of writing and telling a story, has darling little boys whom my little boys think are the BEST EVER, and because she unfortunately got some weird blog comments awhile back, but is sticking with blogging (with the comment feature turned off, so you won't be able to ooh and ahh to her about how great she is, but believe me when I tell you SHE IS!)

Munchkins And Music because she recently found my blog and was sweet to comment. AND she posts great ideas about introducing kids to music in fun ways!

And last, but NOT least, Are You Serious! because she has done some pretty cute things to her daughter's hair that I haven't seen done before (and I've done a lot of stuff to Emily's hair!)

LOVE YOU ALL, and if you feel worthy of the award and haven't received it yet, FEEL FREE to consider yourself awarded!!!!

And the winner is...

ME!

Maria was so sweet to give me another award! I've been really enjoying keeping up with her blog and reading about her family.



I'm supposed to give this award to ten people, but I honestly don't know ten people well enough to give it out to that many people! I'm going to give it to my friend Kristina over at "Confusaled". She just recently posted the scrapbook pages she did of her wedding pictures, and if you look at the pictures closely, you'll see yours truly, and Emily (at 15 months old!).

Thanks again Maria! And Kristina, enjoy the award! (And Happy Birthday for tomorrow!)

Another Award!

I'm starting to feel rather special around here! LOL Thanks Jen !! She gave me this award:

She's so sweet. And has adorable kids. And she's helped me save many a messed up picture, AND is patient and kind with all my photography questions. Among other things... Thanks again Jen!

I now pass the award on to Valarie, who is HILARIOUS. And has adorable kids. And leaves me lots of comments!

My first award!!

Maria gave me my first award! Yay me! LOL It's a "spread the love" award:



I, in turn, give this award to ALL my readers (especially the ones that comment!!). My site is right-click protected, so you'll have to visit Maria's site to copy the picture.
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I didn't want to have two "cop-out" blog entries in a row (quote, and award), so I thought I'd add in a little bit here about how my brother, his girlfriend, Alisa, and her daughter, Allie, came over yesterday afternoon for a visit. The adults played the game Eye to Eye (from the game company SimplyFun.com, if you're interested! Here's the link to Eye to Eye ). The kids played Play-Doh and dress-up and lots of this and that. We had a nice time!