Smiles and Sunshine: Awards!!

Monday, July 2, 2012

Awards!!

Thank you so much Anne from Creative Happenings for giving me the Liebster Blog Award!!

This award highlights blogs that have less than 200 followers. Here are the rules for it:
1. Copy and paste the award on your blog.
2. Thank the giver and link back to them
3. Reveal you top 5 picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.

5 Bloggers

1.Nicole at Teaching, Stitching, and Parenting

2. Sabra at

3. Kristi at

4. Kelly at An Apple for the Teacher

5. Lauren at

I've also been given the Versatile Blogger Award from Ms. Walter at

. Thank you!

Here are the rules for the Versatile Blogger Award:
1. Thank the blogger who gave you the award
2. Include a link to their site
3. Include the award image
4. Give 7 random facts about yourself
5. Nominate 15 other bloggers for the award (I'll do some new ones...but not 15)
6. When nominating include a link to their site
7. Let other bloggers know they have been nominated

7 Random Facts:

1. I have been living with my parents ever since I got out of college (5 years!), but I am moving into my first apartment at the end of the month!!
2. My sister is adopted and we are friends with her birth family and spend time with them a few times a year.
3. I just received my M.Ed in Reading in May after 4 v-e-r-y long years!
4. I am a book hoarder...romance novels, professional books, children's books....I have a slight problem :)
5. I got a Kindle for Christmas 2010...I love it, but I do switch back and forth between reading it and reading 'real' books.
6. I am not afraid to let my opinions known (I've been having A LOT of fun playing with the poll people that have been calling ;)...and to speak up for my kids.
7. I love Tigger and have a small collection of Tiggers (people keep giving them to me!)

Bloggers

1. Lauren at

2. Sabra at

3.Brittany at