Over the Top blog award

Thank you to Debbie at Heart Choices for giving me the the Over the Top blog award. Debbie is a sweet blogging friend and I appreciate her encouragement so much. She writes such wonderful, thought-provoking posts too that make me pause and think as I read.

Here are the rules:
You can use only one word!
Pass this along to 6 of your favorite bloggers!
Alert them that you have given them this award!
Have fun!
Here are my answers:

Where is your cell phone? counter
Your hair? up
Your mother? secretary
Your father? machinist
Your favorite food? dessert
Your dream last night? none
Your favorite drink? Sonic
Your dream/goal? mommy
What room are you in? extra
Your hobby? blogging
Your fear? rodents
Where do you want to be in 6 years? here
Where were you last night? home
Something that you aren't? violent
Muffins? chocolate
Wish list item? camera
Where did you grow up? Texas
Last thing you did? pack
What are you wearing? jeans
Your TV? old
Your pets? died
Friends? loved
Your life? wonderful
Your mood? excited
Missing someone? Peepaw
Vehicle? white
Something you're not wearing? earrings
Your favorite store? Target
Your favorite color? purple
When was the last time you laughed? yesterday
Last time you cried? unsure
Your best friend? husband
One place that I go to over and over? library
One person who emails me regularly? Mom
Favorite place to eat? Chick-fil-a

And now I get to pass this award to 6 of my favorite bloggers:

Country Roads

I Am Mommy

In Light of the Truth

Mommy Accountability

Musings of a Minister

Susan's Space

There are many other favorite bloggers I have as well, it's always hard to choose.

Have a day of blessings!

Thanks for being a fan!

Did you know that April has been named Tell 'Em Your A Fan Month? It was news to me also! I have been fanned by Debra and my new blog friend Alleluiabelle. And apparently there are rules to follow...hopefully, I can get these right.



1. Leave a comment for your favorite blogger telling them that you are a fan of their site.
2. Feel free to copy and paste the award when it is awarded to you.
3. When you receive more than 1 fan, put the number you have received under the image.
4. The more fans you receive the better!


Thank you for being a fan! Now I'm off to "fan" some friends!
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"Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs." Psalm 100:2

Awards

I have received some awards lately and wanted to post them together and past them on to fellow bloggers! It is always a fun surprise to receive an award!

These first three I received from my good friend Michele at Michele's Morsels. I'd like to pass the Bloggy Goodness Award to My Gifts, Among Other Things and In Light of the Truth.
I'd like to pass on the Color My Life Beautiful Award to my blog friends Country Roads and I am Mommy. These two ladies are sweet friends to me and I'm thankful for them. They brighten my day!

This Blessings Award I would like to pass on to Denise and Ruthie. Both of these ladies shine Christ's love in all they post.

Thank you to Ruth at Life's Journeys for this Blog Love. I have enjoyed reading Ruth's blog lately and learning from her. I would like to pass on the Blog Love to Kristi and Marsha.

Award

Thank you to Charlotte for giving me the Christmas Spirit award.

Here are the rules for this award:
You must be a true Christmas lover to receive this award. The person to whom you give the award must also be in love with Christmas. You must link back to the person who gave you the award. You must list 5 things that you love about Christmas. If you can’t limit it to 5 things, then keep going till you run out of space! Pass the award along to as many people as you like. That can be 1 or 50. It’s up to you! But, you must pass it on to at least one person in order to keep the Christmas cheer going! Let your recipients know that you have tagged them by leaving them a comment.

The five things I love about Christmas are:
1. Christmas music
2. decorations

3. looking at Christmas lights with my family

4. visiting family

5. yummy treats to eat
6. excitement of Christmas morning in the eyes of my little boy
7. sharing with others

I'll pass this on to these bloggers. Some may have already received this award but their blogs come to mind!

1. Heather's Humor

2. The Fruits of the Spirit

3. Married to the Preacher

4. Shortybears Place

7 things and 8 things

Shortybear tagged me for this "8 things" post. Here are my answers!

8 TV Shows I enjoy: (I don't want too much TV now so I'll do any I've enjoyed in my life!!)
1. Little House on the Prairie
2. Cosby
3. Leave It to Beaver
4. Price is Right
5. Dr. Quin
6. Full House
7. Family Matters
8. Andy Griffith

8 Things That Happened Yesterday:
1. made Christmas treats
2. got colder and sleeted
3. cooked supper
4. read books
5. changed our sheets
6. emailed
7. fixed Christmas gifts
8. talked on the phone to Lynn

8 Favorite Places To Eat:
1. Olive Garden
2. Texas Roadhouse
3. Chick-fil-a
4. Mom's house
5. Cracker Barrel
6. Cotton Patch
7. home
8. Subway

8 Things I Am Looking Forward To:
1. driving around to look at lights/decorations
2. Christmas morning
3. starting FPU in January
4. Women of Faith conference
5. next birthday
6. seeing family at Christmas
7. being a book reviewer
8. Heaven

8 Things On My Wish List:
1. new house shoes
2. new hand mixer
3. cure for cancer
4. finishing Caleb's scrapbook
5.
6.
7.
8.

Now, I tag the following 8 people: Join in with your answers if you haven't already been tagged!

Debra passed on this award/tag to me.
It comes along with a 7 things meme. Here are my answers:

SEVEN THINGS I DID BEFORE (a random list for me!)
1. went to college
2. worked in the education department
3. baby sat a little girl
4. tutored kids in high school
5. volunteered with Toys for Tots program
6. donated blood
7. went bowling in the summer with my cousin

SEVEN THINGS I DO NOW
1. read the Bible
2. listen to KLOVE
3. volunteer at a food pantry
4. teach my son
5. blog
6. scrapbook
7. take pictures

SEVEN THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO DO
1. visit Washington DC with my family
2. be debt free
3. be a secret generous giver
4. finish Caleb's scrapbook
5. volunteer at Caleb's school next year
6. go back to New York City
7. meet my August mommy friends

SEVEN THINGS THAT ATTRACT ME TO MY HUSBAND
1. He is quiet and not the loud obnoxious type.
2. He cherishes me.
3. He loves the Lord.
4. He is a wonderful example to our son.
5. He can calm me when I'm uptight.
6. He is money-wise and content.
7. He accepted me for who I was from the very beginning.

SEVEN THINGS I SAY MOST OFTEN
1. I love you
2. Come on
3. Good grief
4. Listen, listen
5. What do you say?
6. Are you finished?
7. Stay by me.


SEVEN PEOPLE I'M TAGGING:
Feel free to do this one too if you haven't yet! I've seen this one on several blogs lately

Awards

I received an email from Amanda from I Am Mommy to ask me to stop by when I got a chance. I was rather surprised with the post I saw there! Thanks Amanda for picking me in your Top 10 great blogs for Mom!

I would like to thank new bloggy friend Debbie for this award. It is called the "Superior Scribbler Award."

The rules of this award:
1. Post the award to my blog.
2. Link it to blog who gave it to me
3. Link to the originating post.
4. Pass the award on to at least five people.
5. Post the rules for the recipients.

I will pass this on to Country Roads, Michele's Morsels, and My Sacrifice of Praise.

Award

I would like to thank Debra for passing on this award to me. It is called Marie Antoinette ~ A Real Person Award. The rules for this award want you to reflect who awarded it to you, display the icon, and pass it along to seven (7) other bloggers.


Debra has shared from her heart many times on her blog. She is an encouraging friend with her comments and also her posts.


I'd like to pick these blogs to receive this award:




1. The Leaking Window
2. Sincerely Yours

3. Kathy's Klavier
4. At Home in Scottsdale

Award

Thank you, Debra, for giving me this award! If you haven't been to Clothed with Scarlet, go right now! You'll be blessed!

Have you read the reason this award was started? You can find out by reading here, how sweet!

I'd like to pass this on to my friend Pamela and also Runnergirl!

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"No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he'll never let you be pushed past your limit; he'll always be there to help you come through it." I Corinthians 10:13

Awards and winning giveaways

I have been bad about not keeping up with the awards that have been passed on to me. I do appreciate when someone reads my blog and gives me an award. I think about who I will pass it on to and then don't get around to it! I've seen some blogs with their awards in the side bar. I guess I need a way to organize them. Plus I never know who I should pass them on to when I get one.

Today I received an award from Debra. I have been reading her blog for the past few weeks and really enjoy it. Thank you for this award.

To translate the gift from Portuguese to English, it means:"This blog invests and believes, the proximity"[meaning, that blogging makes us 'close' -being close through proxy] How awesome is that?? "They all are charmed with the blogs, where in the majority of its aims are to show the marvels and to do friendship; there are persons who are not interested when we give them a prize, and then they help to cut these bows; do we want that they are cut, or that they propagate? Then let's try to give more attention to them! So with this prize we must deliver it to 8 bloggers that in turn must make the same thing and put this text. Here are my choices, they are mostly blogs I've been reading recently: 1. Simple Expressions 2. Susan's Space 3. Michele's Morsels 4. I Am Mommy 5. Sting My Heart 6. Spiritually Unequal Marriage 7. The Fruits of the Spirit 8. Beloved Mama

Also, I forgot to mention that I won another giveaway! Two actually that I don't think I've written about. First was a book giveaway from Sister Sheri. I won the book Sisterchicks Go Brit! Sheri had posts this past week about The 23rd Psalm that were really a blessing.

This week I found out I was one the winners in Marsha's blogoversary giveaway. I won~ Sisterhood of Faith by Shirley Brosius. and a $10 Starbucks or Lifeway Gift Card. (I chose Lifeway.) Marsha is doing a series on Legacy that is wonderful, check it out!

It is so fun to win! When I see something I'd like to win I never think when I enter that I will really win. It's great! I need to come up with a giveaway of my own as a "pay it forward" kind of thing!
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"Encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today....." Hebrews 3:13

Arte y Pico

I had a nice surprise to receive this Arte y Pico award today from Natalie. Thank you! I have been reading Natalie's blog for a while now and always enjoy her stories, pictures, and insight.

Now I'm supposed to choose five blogs to receive this award. It's always hard for me to choose these sorts of things! My choices are:

1. Marsha's Musings

2. The Leaking Window (Read her post today, it is just amazing!)

3. Sting My Heart

4. In Light of the Truth

5. Midgets and Moonpies (She has a very sweet post about visiting her daughter's grave.)

Like I said I have trouble making choices! These five blogs always bless my day with their stories, wisdom, courage, and honesty. I think they contribute to the world of blogging because each one is being a light to the darkness.

Thanks again Natalie for this award!

Rules:

To the recipients of the award...share this with five blogs you consider deserving of this award, whether for creativity, design, interesting material, or contributions to the blogging community, no matter what language.Name each nominee and link to his/her blog. Show the award and include the name (and link to his/her blog) of whoever presented you with this award. Link to the Arte y Pico blog so everyone knows the origin of this award. Post these rules.

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"Give generously, for your gifts will return to you later." Ecclesiastes 11:1, TLB

Award

Thank you, Ruthie at Just Ruthie for this award! It surprised me to receive the award. If you haven't checked out Ruthie's blog, you should! She is telling the story now of about her parents who were missionaries in China. It is very interesting to read about their lives and how God protected them.

I will pass on this Kind Blogger Award (it's hard to pick and I don't want to hurt feelings!) ..........

Country Roads--I "met" this sweet lady online several years ago through a message board. She is so generous and kindhearted. I'm thankful to know her! I enjoy her blog as she shares her many talents as well as her love for the Lord. She is an encouragement to me through her posts and comments.

Award

I received this award from Kathy. I have seen some blogs with awards and now have one too. Thanks, Kathy.

I would like to pass this on to a few of the blogs I read: Country Roads, Marsha's Musings, and Hippy Chicken Girl.