With Heartfelt Thanks

I got this BEAUTIFUL award from my sweet friend, Renee. How precious you are to me, my friend, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart!

From the moment we met, you have been encouraging, gracious, loving, compassionate, and just a TON-OF-FUN! You are always there with a kind word and a smile. You cheer me up when I am down and just when I thought I couldn't laugh any harder, you showed me how wrong I was! lol

I can't tell you how blessed I am that God allowed our paths to cross.

Thank you, my friend! LOVE YOU!

Aww......How Sweet

Today, I want to share with you, the most "AWESOMEST" awards that I have ever been presented with. Jacob, over at G*L*O*W Academy gave these to me and I can't tell you how special he has made be feel by presenting these sweet gifts to me.
THANK YOU!

Jacob, young man.......I will wear these with honor!

For Little 'Ole Me?

"I would like to thank the Academy....ahem...I mean....."I would like to thank G*L*O*W Academy, for this very prestigious award!

My sweet, God loving, easy-going, compassionate, caring, html helping, template making, purple hating, friend loving, blog posting, SON and HUSBAND LOVING, photo shrinking, crock pot using, French Vanilla coffee drinking (I knew we were kindred spirits!), photo bucket surfing, cherry cheesecake eating, friend, Renee, gave me this precious award.

THANK YOU, RENEE! I will wear it with honor! :> )

The rules for accepting this award are fairly simple.....


I am to tell you six things about myself that you don't know and then award it to six other gorgeous bloggers.

Hmmmm.............I don't know I can think of 6 things that you all would LIKE to know! lol

1. I am probably one of the most UNORGANIZED people you will EVER meet! Although I try really hard NOT to show it! Wait....does that then make me "somewhat organized" in a weird, demented sort of way?

2. I dye my hair..............NOT! Are you reading this, oh siblings of mine?

3. I play the alto horn

4. I massage my cats feet....they LOVE IT! And NO, I'm not a freak! ROFLOL!

5. I am a photography NUT, however, photographer and my name will NEVER be used in the same sentence! LOL

6. I LOVE having a nice hot cup of French Vanilla coffee while chatting with my Heavenly Father on my front porch!


Now to pass it on.....

Bevy @ Dreaming of Peace

Terry @ Just Call Me Grammy

Martha @ Fly Away Birdie

Kat @ Art's Chili Pepper

Andrea @ Arise 2 Write

Stephanie @ Living On HIS Terms

Honest Scrap Award

Hope @ over at My Hope Is In The Lord has passed this Honest Scrap award on to me. Thank you, Hope. I am honored! If you get a chance, go on over and meet Hope. She is a sweet woman of faith who loves the Lord and her family deeply. She is a wonderful story teller and a great artist. I LOVE reading her blog. Always encouraging, always down-to-earth, always has pictures, always HOPE!! I am blessed to have met her in the blogging world!

In accepting this award, I need to do the following:

1) Say thank you to the presenter of the award and link back to them (check)
2) Share 10 honest things about yourself (check)
3) Present this award to 7 8 other people whose blogs you find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged me. (check)
4) tell those 7 people that they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving it. (doing that now)

Ok....that seems easy enough....I think?

1) I AM A CHILD OF GOD! I love the Lord with all my heart and am amazed everyday by all the blessings he has bestowed upon my family and I

2) I am from a family of 8 children....5 girls and 3 boys. I am number 7 in the line-up and we range in age from our oldest brother turning 57 on Wednesday, to our youngest sister turning 41 this October.

3) I have an addiction.....I am a closet LOL CATS lover!

4) When I was 7, I wanted to use deodorant like my older brothers and sisters, but my mom wouldn't let me, saying I was too young and didn't need it. However, I thought differently. So I went and got a can of deodorant to spray on underneath my armpits, only to find out that it WASN'T deodorant, but a can of............PURPLE SPRAY PAINT! Yup, you read that right......PURPLE SPRAY PAINT! ROFLOL! At least I can laugh about it........now!

5) I have my Career Studies Certificate in Sign Communication and worked for the public school system as a Teaching Assistant/Interpreter in the Special Education Department

6) I play the alto horn and was a member of the Divisional Youth Timbrels for The Salvation Army. I am not in this video as I could not find one that I was in, but wanted to give you a glimpse of what we did all those (ahem) 20-something years ago

7) I am a DEADLIEST CATCH fan and am NOT ashamed to admit it! Go, Sig!!!

8) I picked up a hitch-hiker ONCE and will NEVER do it again! My friend at the time, thought it would be a nice idea, which it was for about a nano-second. I will never forget the feeling of TERROR I had the entire time, not knowing if I would make our 2 mile drive out alive. (insert physcho shower scene music here)

9) I don't like FEET! EEEWW! Don't ask me to spend a girl's day at the spa having pedicures. BLECH....I just can't do it! I know.....WeIrD!

10) I am 6'1". We grow BIG in our family! Six out of the eight of us are all over 6' tall. the other tow are runts! LOL

Ok. let's see who the next lucky victims contestants shall be:

Christina @ Christina's Created Creations
Martha @ Fly Away Birdie
Mocha Momma @ Life: Be In It
Brit @ Toddler Mania
Jessica @ The Beauty Of Home
Bobbi @ Great Adventures II
Beth @ Journeying For Him
Grammy @ Just Call Me Grammy