Double Blessings- Bloggy Award

So I have been busy the last couple of days in preparation for the new school year.  I am so excited to have 2 in school now, the third starts next year hopefully.  She is a September baby so we have to wait and see.

I am so blessed this week!  First I got a great blog award from Jen @

 

I love her button!!!! Drum Roll Please....

For this award, I must list 5 interesting things about myself.

1. My favorite food is chicken gizzards and hearts (hey, don"t hate...appreciate, lol)
2. I sing in the church choir
3. I love to go camping
4. I love purses (see below)
5. I prefer dark chocolate over reg chocolate

  I must nominate 5 bloggers for this Lovely Blog Award.  Well, I don't really have 5 to choose from this time around.  I am just getting into the swing of things but I think I will save this aware for later and pick 5 then.

Now onto my second blessing.... As I posted above, I love purses but I also love thrift stores, flea markets, garage sales, antique malls, etc.  Put the two together and you get a match made in heaven!!!!

We took a day trip to a "famous" northeast Ohio thrift store.  It is like huge!  On a side note, my hubby went for the first time and after an, ahem, couple of hrs, he looked at me and said, "Mercy... please have mercy on me, You win,"  LOLOLOL!!!! Love it.

So as we were getting ready to check out, I went to the show case in the front where they put the "good stuff".  And what to do my wondering do I see but a pretty black bag looking at me.  As soon as I saw it, I knew it was a Coach purse but I figured it was a knock off.  so I asked to see it, as I was admiring aka studying it, I realized I think it might be real!!!!  I figured what the hey, so I bought it and took it home.  I decided to get it authenticated and guess what?!?!?!  It is a real honest to goodness Coach purse that retails for $218.  How do you like that and the best part is, it only cost me $12, yep 12 bucks!!!!! Talk about through the moon.  The even better part is that it was a purse that I had my eye on at the outlets out here!!!

So, like I said, I received a double blessing this weekend!!!

Bloggy Awards

I feel like I should put on a red carpet gown....Just Kiddin!!!! I was blessed with a nice award from Jen @ Simple Pleasures.

The Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity & creativity

inspires others in the blogworld!

The rules for accepting this award are:

Post the logo on your blog.

Pass the award on to 10 bloggers.

Link the nominees within your post.

Let the nominees know they received this award by commenting on their blog.

Share the love and link to the person you received this award from.

I'm sharing this Sunshine Award with:

1. Jen- Simple Pleasures

2. Mimi- He&Me+3

3. Sue- Life is the Lemonade You Make

4. Glenys- Morning Cuppas With Glenys

5. MamaBear- Bears in Exile/Return Home

Thank you Chasity- WORKING MOM WITH A STAY-AT-HOME HEART!! For this nice award.

1. Thank whoever gave this to you.
2. Copy award.
3. Post it in your blog.
4. Tell us 7 things that your readers don’t know about you.
5. Link 7 new bloggers.
6. Notify winners of the award with a comment on their blog.
7. Keep being awesome!

Seven things about myself...
1. I am the oldest of three.
2. I have never lived outside of Youngstown, even buying my parents home.
3. I only dated my husband 3 months before getting engaged and 13 months before getting married.
4. I had a miscarriage when my Jessica was 9 months old. I was 3 months along.
5. I have never dyed my hair, and I am a natural blonde.
6. Christmas is my favorite holiday.
7. I am a die-hard scrapper. I love scrapbooking and my Cricut!

I love all my blogland friends. Please grab this nice award and post on you blog!!!

I'm feeling the Blogland love :)

This seems to be a good week for awards. This time I was blessed by my Blogland friend Bonnie (Seriously Too: Weight for It).

I was thinking about these awards. It really is a nice way to recognize someone. Thank you again Bonnie.

I'm supposed to list 7 things I love and then pass it along.
1. I Love my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
2. I Love my husband Chris.
3. I Love my kiddos, Jessica, Sam and Emily.
4. I Love my family.
5. I Love my my best friend, Jen.
6. I Love my church family.
7. I love my blogland friends who encourage me on this journey to a healthier me.

So now I get to pass it on... Here you go Dee (Ds Health and Weight Loss Journey). Her blog is very creative and such a blessing and support to me. It is one of my favorites.

A Blogger Blessing and A little fun

I have been blessed by meeting some pretty special ladies during this journey and one such wonderful blessing is Joan (More God-Less Me). She was gracious is honoring me along with six others with these nice "awards" plus throwing in a little fun with a get to know ya meme. Thank you Joan.
The text from these awards: “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. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to a few bloggers who must choose a few more bloggers and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.”



My blogland friend, Joan tagged me with this meme too...
There are some rules with this tag:
I need to link to the person that tagged me.
I need to share 7 things people may not know about me.
I need to tag 7 people to share 7 things and link to them.
I need to let them know they've been tagged.


Seven Things you may not know about me.


1) I have been pregnant in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

2) I have collected dolphins, teacups, lemon dishes, oriental figurines, and elephants. I've gotten rid of all them. Once I get a collection, I get bored with it.

3) I have been known to re-gift and put gifts in garage sales.

4) I am a natural blonde. I've never dyed my hair.

5) I'm a secret high heel junkie. Unfortunately, I weigh too much to wear them comfortably but if I could, that's all I would wear.

6) I love cooked vegetables but hate raw ones.

7) Every year my favorite color changes. Last year was red, this year is purple.

I’m tagging these wonderful gals to play along, plus I wish I had more to give them because they have given me so much and don't even know it. I want to honor them with these awards too:

Candice: Welcome to my Blog

Jen: My Life: A Happy Wife and Mom
Karen: BabyFat Go Bye-Bye

Skye: Skye is the Limit

Karyn: A Failure's Journey to Success

Jill: Quite Needs

Bonnie: Seriously Too: Weight For It

Darcie: My Road to Weight Lose