An award...for me.

Amazingly, I got an award from my sweet friend Natalie.  I don't do anything to promote my blog or try to gain readers, so maybe this is a start :) Anyway, Natalie posted on my Facebook wall, "Giving you a Stylish Award" so I followed the link & sure enough, my little blog was listed!  It made my day & there was no doubt that I wanted to join in. 

The rules to play are as follows:

1.) I have to thank and link back to the blogger who gave me the award. Natalie has an awesome blog, Our Little Things. She is also an amazing mom & photographer who has given me great parenting advice on numerous occasions.  We have known each other many, many years & I am honored to call her a friend.  Thanks for tagging me Natalie!


2.) The next thing I have to do is share 7 things about myself. This has taken me about four days - to come up with 7 things, that most people may not know about me but here goes.



1.  Earlier this week I was reading over some old posts I had done & came across my New Year's Resolutions post.  For the first time ever, I have really stuck to each one of them.  I'm not quite to the 10 pounds that I wanted to lose, but I have lost 8.  I'm really really proud of myself for making those resolutions & sticking to them (for at least 4 months). 

2.  I am probably the least athletic person on the planet.  I wish that wasn't the case, because I wanted to play sports & be good at it when I was in school but it just wasn't that way.  Growing up with two brothers, our house seemed to be the one where all the kids gathered & there was always a baseball game, basketball game or football game going on in our yard.  I always participated but the term 'throw like a girl' could have been invented when someone watched me try to hurl the ball.  It's sad.   

3.  I can't go under water without holding my nose.  I was the kid at the pool wearing the nose clip.  It's all because I can't stand the feel of getting water up my nose, so I've always just held it closed.  I even learned to dive while holding it.  & yes, even to this day my friends & husband joke me about it.

4.  I grew up on a farm with animals and crops.  I always had to work, by feeding cows & horses & I worked in tobacco for many, many years.  I started out driving the tractor to pull the harvester when I was probably nine or ten years old.  Fun way to spend my summers, huh?  Looking back, I wouldn't have it any other way though.  I learned so many valuable life lessons & the definition of what hard work is at an early age.  I would have rather been outside doing work with my dad & brothers than helping my mom do housework inside.  Maybe that's why I still hate cleaning to this day??

5.  I have longed to own our home ever since we got married five years ago.  That's the American dream right?  Well my dream has come true & I couldn't be happier about it but at the same time it makes me sad that I don't have that to look forward to anymore.  Yes, I know how crazy that sounds.

6.  I really enjoy my job.  I like my co-workers & I love making my own money but hello, I miss my little girl like CRAZY.  If only I could work 20 hours a week, make the same pay & have benefits...that would be perfect.

7.  I've never been able to tell my left from my right very well.  I'm left handed & I always have to hold my left hand up when telling someone left or right.  It's another thing that I get joked about so I like to just point & say 'go that way.' 



3.) The final thing I had to do was tag 15 recently discovered bloggers to receive this Stylish Award. This is the hardest part for me because I don't have many readers!  If I tagged you & you wish not to participate, no biggie.  I was just trying to think of as many people as I could that I know how to contact who blog regularly & blogs that I enoy reading.  That's a big 7 :)



1. Me & My Boyz

2. Pearson Pack

3. Happy Adams

4. The Deaver Family

5. Baby Claire's Blog

6. The life of a brown eyed girl

7. Be Serious

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4.) The final step is to contact these people to let them know! I heart you all!