I'd Like To Thank The Academy...

OK, OK, it isn't that award, but it is an award none the less and it made me feel really special!! Thank you Cassie-Ann over at 'Cassie-Ann's Life', (a soon to be mother of 7), for bestowing this honor on little 'ol me.



What I especially love about this award is the meaning behind it: "These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated."

Here are the rules: "Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."

Whoo...that is a task, because I have had so many lovely bloggy friends be so kind to me!! But, I did narrow it down to these lovely ladies that have come to mean a lot to me since starting my blog experience.

1. Although Natalie, my SIL, also received this award from Cassie-Ann, I couldn't resist double awarding her. I adore her and her blog happens to have lots of my favorite little people in it!! Congratulate her at Raising Miracles. Her blog is a God fearing blog and she is a homeschooling mommy of 4.

2. I am so excited to be able to give my first real bloggy friend out there an award. It is so deserved by Jennifer over at a Very Full Quiver. She has been so welcoming to me and I just wish she lived closer so we could hang out in 'real life'. She also is dedicated to praising God on her blog and is a homeschooling mommy of 4.

3. My dear friend, Kristi over at The Wheelz Are Rolling, was my 2nd bloggy friend. Her and I have shared some precious emails to eachother and I am blessed by her and her mama's heart! She is always blogging about some fun activity she is doing with her 2 boys. I just love keeping up with those Wheelz!

4. One of the women that I have come to know and love out in blog world is Brooke, over at Livin' La Vida Garcia. Talk about a woman after God's own heart! I also have gotten to know her through email and to know her is to love her!! She is a mom of 2, soon to be 3 in June, and adores her husband. Why can't you live closer, Brooke??!!

5. This next blogger is always getting award after award...she probably has already gotten this one before, but I just could not go without mentioning Ohilda over at A Bouquet of Blessings. She loves Jesus wholeheartedly and I adore how she is always giving him the praise through ALL! You bless me, Sister!! Check out this mommy of 6 on her blog.

6. This next blog always manages to bring me to a place that I need to be...such as prayer, or a moment of clarity and conviction because she writes from the heart and you know that God is the author of her blog. Please be blessed by going over to Kelly's blog at The Beauty of Sufficient Grace.

7. Now, this might be out of order, but I am choosing to nominate these 2 amazing women together because they both just started their blogs, but from day one their blogs have been honoring the Lord! One is my SIL, Susan, over at God, My Savior Forever! and my future SIL, Kelley, over at Remember When We Danced. Both of these women are beautiful inside and out! Susan is a faithful and loving wife to my little brother and Kelley is serving in the ministry of worship at her church with my BIL.

8. Now, I could totally say I was saving the best for last, but each of the women mentioned above hold a special place in my heart, it is just that this Jennifer over at the Williams Bunch has been around from the beginning, it seems. Technically she would be the first bloggy friend. I started to 'stalk' her back when I saw that she was a mommy of 5, going on 6. I was inspired by what a loving mommy she is and that she is also a homeschooling Mommy. She is so respectful of her husband and loves the Lord and seems to always find humor in her daily life. I do thank you, Jennifer, for being around for me so long. BTW, Jennifer had her 6th child, Savannah, and she is the cutest little thing you ever did see.

There were so many wonderful women I could have nominated but I really wanted to point out the ones that are striving to be Proverbs 31 wives, mothers, and daugthers to our King!!

PROVERBS 31:26
She speaks (blogs) with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
(parenthesis added...in case you had to ask.)