the versatile blogger

I was awarded The Versatile Blogger Award twice this week from two of my favorite Bloggers ~ I am very thankful to both of them for thinking of me!

Kerry from It's the Little Things... has a very fun blog and lives in Australia! 

(how cool is that?) 

She cracks me up talking about her pet peeves, is misguided in her belief that 

Vampires could defeat The Force 

and she needs to watch read Gone With the Wind. 

I love checking out her pictures of her adorable kids!

Jazmin over at The Miller's Happily Ever After often blogs words 

{and photos} of inspiration. 

I adore the questions she asks on her 

Star Struck Saturday 

and am crazy for the matching outfits she puts on her girls!

Both Kerry and Jazmin also leave the nicest comments ~ Please make sure and visit them, as they would be at the top of my list of Versatile Bloggers had they not awarded it to me first ~

the rules of The Versatile Blogger Award are as follows:

Thank the person who gave you the award by linking back to them in your post.
Tell us seven things about yourself.
Award up to fifteen recently discovered bloggers.

seven things about me:
{from my first Award}

• I am thinking I should finally write an About Me page. The problem is, I can barely think of 7 things to write About Me, so I really don't know what to say.
• I love taking pictures of my kids (you might have guessed that already)
• I tear up watching my daughter run when she plays soccer ~ I mean when she run - runs, she is fast! and it makes me teary eyed 
• I am a good friend
• I love to sing when I am cleaning and when I am driving the car
• I would probably have another baby if the doctors didn't freak my husband out telling him that "nobody likes to do a 5th c-section" (whatever)
• I am often overwhelmed by how much my husband loves me. Oh, and he is not ever allowed to tell me how he feels about me out-loud. I can't handle it. It makes me all floopy. I can't even think about what he said when he asked me to marry him... Every day I am always just so happy to be Mikey's Wife

my choices for the Versatile Blogger Award:

• The Unexpected Education
• Act Fast Chef
• A Little Inspiration
• Life in Heels and Flip Flops
• Momma Totally in Love
• Life With Levi
• Vintage Precious
• mamamash
• Changing Diapers and Taking Names
• Yellow Tennessee {Trash Watch 2011}
• Tatooss & Diapers
• mermaid tracks
• Mama.ie
• I Should Be Folding Laundry
• Blended

and my always favs ~

Butterfly Award

Thrilled to be chosen by Aimee at girl talk for the Butterfly Award!

Aimee has a wonderful blog. It's all about well, girl talk AND she post great pictures of her little guy and shoes!

Please stop by her site and let her know I sent you over to visit ~

The rules of this award is that you have to share something about yourself

then pass the award on to other bloggers.

I believe that being kind to the people in your family is important. I just don't understand it when someone is nicer or more polite to the store clerk than their husband or even their children. I also don't think you should be obligated to care about someone just because "they are family". If they are not a nice person, why have a relationship with them?

These are always my favorite blogs:

La Familia Hendrickson

the worms paige

Book Reviews and Life by DJ 

RubyEnvy beauty Blog

and now these are too:

Aias Dot Ca

anonymous was a woman

Babes and Bling

kt moxie

Mr & Mrs Smith

Spilled Milkshake

The Adventures of J-Man and MillerBug

mommy time out

I am very thrilled to be awarded The Versatile Blogger award from Mommy Time Out  It was so nice of her to think of me ~
Please go check out her site and all the other blogs she picked for the award!

Since I recently received the Versatile Blogger award and being that it was super hard for me to come up with things to share about myself, I am not going to participate fully this time.
You can check out what I said the first time around here if you'd like.

Thanks again to Mommy Time Out !

versatile blogger award

Being fairly new to the blogging world, I feel very grateful to be one of the winners of the

Versatile Blogger Award!

I would like to say Thank You to Chauny from Chauny Writes! for kindly choosing me! Chauny Writes! is a blog that I just found and was immediately drawn to. Chauny describes herself as a "Writer, Encourager, and Motivator. Writes Self Help works that motivate and Inspire!" How could you not love that?!

Please stop by her blog Chauny Writes!


the rules of the Versatile Blogger Award are as follows:

Thank the person who gave you the award by linking back to them in your post.
Tell us seven things about yourself.
Award fifteen recently discovered new bloggers.

seven things about me:

1) I used to be obsessively organized, but I have let that go (for the most part)
I had to have every one's clothes categorized on colored hangers and all the kid's wooden puzzle pieces and their doll house and their books had to be in order if they weren't playing with them. I would still be like that if I had time to do it -- and if my husband didn't make fun of me for it. My stomach still hurts sometimes when I can't find the 'whole set' of something.
2) I was an Army Brat and I hated moving. Until we moved to San Francisco when I was 14, I went to a different school every 18 months or so. Some people thrive in that environment, I did not.
3) I was my Grandma's favorite.
4) I am head over heels, madly in love with my husband -- and it makes me mad that he knows it. If you know Mike, you know what I mean and can feel for me. It even makes me all girly and weepy to think about it.
Ick.
5) I never understood what love was until I held Paige. I remember just staring at her and being overwhelmed by this feeling of having always known her. Before and after, forever.
6) At times I have the sense of humor of an eight year old boy, and I am never sarcastic.
7) I think my kids are The Best and The Most Adorable kids on the planet. I really do. I know there must be other cuter kids out there, and I know you are supposed to think all of them are cute in some way... but, I like mine The Best.
-- I also have some majorly freakin' cute nieces and a nephew, that really, in my head I also count as mine.


I don't just enjoy 'mommy blogs' so my blog list has a little of everything -- including my son's!
So check them out when you can, I'm sure you'll like them too ~

fifteen wonderful blogs:

La Familia Hendrickson

Book Reviews and Life by DJ

Ruby Envy Beauty Blog

Elite Travel Planners

Is this my life?

The Gnome's Mom

i am baker

Super Mom Blog

that sounds like crazy

Cherry Blossoms {the blog}

Nicole's Random Things

Utah Baby Blog

Barnes family blog

Spilled Milkshake

groovy mojo