Da da da daaaa! Blog Award!

Well, I am thrilled to have been honored with the Kreativ Blogger award!

Thanks, Katie!

Here are the rules:
1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award. (check)
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog. (check!)
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award. (check)
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might not know.
5. Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know they have been nominated.

Here are seven things about me:
1. I hate the abbreviation "thru." Ugghhh!
2. I love pomegranate-flavored items, especially drinks.
3. I have a pet turtle and he is awesome.
4. I hate coffee, but I love tea. Especially chai tea lattes from Starbucks, which I have figured out the secret to making myself.
5. I want to have a ton of kids one day.
6. Colorado is my favorite state thus far.
7. I am so excited to get a puppy of my own some day.

Next, I'm supposed to pass this along to seven other bloggers. I'll try not to re-award it to those of you who have already received it, but if I do, sorry!! Here are 7 great blogs!

1. That Chick Over There @ Jason. For the Love of God.

2. JennyMac @ Let's Have a Cocktail...

3. Fai @ Letters from a College Student

4. Mama Kat @ Mama's Losin' It

5. Judi @ Lines Composed...

6. SimplyValorie @ On the Pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Happiness

7. NINA @ Nina's Theories

Wow, can I just say that this is the first blog award that I've received that I've actually followed enough people to pass the award along to? Yaaay!

Happy Sunday, lovelies.

Happy.

Well, I'm back from the last vacation-ing that I'll be doing for a while! Yes, very sad, I know. I completely missed this week's Tova's Totally Awkward Tuesday as well, and I'm very sorry about that! But what's done is done. I do have a fantastically funny (now, anyway) story from vacation for you though.

First, you should know that I went to the beach this past week with my boyfriend and his family. And I mean his whole family. Let me break this down for you...the boyfriend is the youngest of four siblings, who are all adults, 3 of which are married, 2 of which have families of their own. One of these families has 4 kids and the other has 5, making a total of 9 youngsters ranging in ages from 1-14. In addition, both of my boyfriend's grandmothers and his parents accompanied us on vacation as well. In case your head hurts, or your math skills are comparable to my own, that equals 19 people. Not such a big number, you might say? Did I mention that all of these 19 people (including small children) stayed in the same, 3 bedroom beach house?

And actually, it was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be! I'm usually pretty optimistic and I like to think that I have a good attitude most of the time, but I'll be the first to admit, I was not thinking that having so many people in one house was going to be a good idea. But everyone was somehow fit in (including people sleeping in sunrooms and attics, on couches and air beds) and everything went pretty well.

My boyfriend's mother instructed us that I would be sharing the laundry room with my boyfriend's 13-year-old niece. Yes, ladies and gentleman, I would be sleeping in the laundry room. On vacation. Once I realized there was an actual bed involved, this was not so surprising to me. Due to the rather large size of the laundry room, a full bed was pushed into the corner of it. While I was frustrated at first to have to share a bed, since I hadn't gotten a lot of sleep recently, it ended up working out fine since I really enjoy his niece and we had a grand old time. Well, if you're ever seen Dan in Real Life, then you have the perfect picture of the situation I found myself in when my boyfriend's mother decided that a load of clothes needed to go in the dryer at 7 o'clock in the morning on our vacation. I probably don't need to remind you how noisy dryers are (not the new, nice, quiet kind), especially when you're sound asleep less than three feet from them.

Needless to say, I was not thrilled when it happened. But now I think it's pretty funny, so no harm done.

Ebony over at Sizzling Publications tagged me in Six Things That Make You Happy, so here you are:

1. my turtle

2. my boyfriend

3. my bed...ahhh

4. the beach

5. my family

6. new furniture

I'm also supposed to tag 6 people whose blogs make me happy, but I don't follow enough blogs apparently, because many of the people I would have tagged have already been tagged. So until my blogging popularity increases (or if it does...), I'll have to remain tag-less. Sorry to disappoint!

My First Blog Award!

I am very excited to share that I got my first blog award thanks to Ebony over at Sizzling Publications! So now I have to follow all the instructions and pass it along!





1. “The Honest Scrap” award is not one to hold all to your self but it must be shared!

2. First, the recipient has to tell 10 true things about themselves in their blog that no one else knows.

3. Second, the recipient has to pass along this prestigious award to 10 more bloggers.

4. Third, those 10 bloggers all have to be notified they have been given with this award.

5. Those 10 bloggers that receive this award should link back to the blog that awarded them “The Honest Scrap’ award.

Well, I don't think I even have 10 things to list that no one knows, but I will list 10 things about myself, so here goes...

1. I love avocados and I could eat them with nearly everything, or just by themselves.

2. I am in love with a wonderful man :)

3. I would like to live either at the beach, or in Colorado one day.

4. I love reading and I really wish I had more time to do it (right now I do since I'm off work! Yay!).

5. I really like adventures.

6. I really like Ikea.

7. I'm not very good at accessorizing, but I'm working on it.

7. I've kept a pen & paper journal since the 2nd grade.

8. I have a really high tolerance for physical pain (emotional, not so much...)

9. I'd like to have a ton of kids whenever I get married somedayyyy

10. I love my bed-related items like pillows, blankets, covers; anything comfy and wonderful.

I know this is lame, but I think that almost all the blogs I follow have already been awarded this, and most of them pretty recently, so I'm not going to be tagging anyone :(. I guess I'll have to go make some more blog friends :)