Who Me? An Award!

I love the love shared among bloggers! Lucy gave me an award this week and I just love it! She said some nice things about me on her blog and we've never even met. Isn't that just the coolest? Thank you so much Lucy! I love having a happy reader and new friend!

So, in honor of the award, I'm to tell you 7 random things about me and share the love with other bloggers. So, in random order... hehe!

1. I spent a summer in Europe studying the European Union and attended Wimbledon as part of that trip. I am not a tennis fan, but I would go back just to eat the strawberries and cream. That was 12 years ago, but I can still remember them vividly.

2. I met my husband while interviewing to be on the student senate at Angelo State University. He didn't vote for me. :( It didn't matter. I was elected and served each year I was in college as a Freshman Representative, Student Senator for Liberal Arts, and as Student Body Vice-President my last year. I loved every bit of it!

3. I would love to meet Tim Tebow.

4. I could eat doughnuts every day for breakfast for the rest of my life. Likely, a short lived life due to a heart attack!

5. My daughter was originally a twin. Her twin passed away really early on (like 8 weeks pregnant) and if she had been a girl, her name would have been Amelia, or Millie for short. Through World Vision, my husband and I recently began sponsoring a little girl named Millie in South Africa born on the same day as my daughter. God is into the details of our lives!

6. I love colored pens and Sharpies, pretty file folders and my label maker. I spend too much money on office supplies.

7. I have been keeping a big secret for almost 3 months and finally get to share it next week in bloggyville. It makes me heart smile and will change this blog for sure! Stay tuned!

Along those lines- I created 2 new pages on the blog- my bucket list and our home. More ways to meet the person behind the birdie.

Now, onto my versatile bloggy friends!

Shannon at Bless Our Nest

I love Shannon's mix of family, faith, and home decor on her blog! Her style is simple and still unique. I want to sit around and chalk paint things with her! We've never met and live states apart.

Katie at Harrington House

Katie is the epitome of a Southern girl and she is moving to Texas soon! I can't wait to learn from her as she brings her Southern charm to Texas. Plus, her home is beautiful and now she has a new home to decorate!

Jessica McCash

I love Jessica's style, too! She mixes colors and patterns like a skilled artist! We share a love of scrapbooking, card making, applique and monogramming on our kids. She recently moved from the South to Detroit and had the best attitude about it. I can't wait to see Detroit and her new house through her eyes!

Honest Scrap Award

I am having a week filled with lots of bloggy love! Katy at What the Heart Wants gave me this wonderful award. Funny little story... Katy and I do not know each other, but I do have a good friend named Katy. Blogger Katy sent me a comment about one of my recipes and I responded to IRL Katy assuming it was her. IRL Katy thanked me for the recipe, but let me know it wasn't her in the original email. So, I had to go find blogger Katy.

Since I just shared 7 things about myself, I'll just skip that part and share this award with some of my favorite honest scrappers...

Tiny Greek Goddess- her honesty makes me laugh in real life and on the computer

Being Billingsley- this Momma makes me laugh outloud most often

Thanks Katy!

Beautiful Blogger Award

A big thank you to April at Cup of Delight for the Beautiful Blogger Award and for holding post as the Top Commenter on this board! I'm certain we'd be friends in real life. With this award, I am to tell you 7 interesting things about myself and then pass it onto another Beautiful Blogger.

1. I have a Master's Degree in Communication and Adult Education from Texas Tech University. I wrote my Master's Thesis on the impact fashion worn by college faculty plays in their end of semester student evaluations. I was a 21 year old teaching assistant and struggled with looking cute or looking like a mature and respectable TA.

2. I love Sweet Tea. Really, really love sweet tea. I eat BBQ more than most men and always wash it down with sweet tea.

3. I have been married for almost 11 years to my college sweetheart. Our daughter Abigayle is 13 months old and came to us via in vitro fertilization. I know the heartache of infertility and now the joy of motherhood. I could not have asked for a better husband to parent our daughter with. She will be an amazing woman based upon the relationship she already has with her doting father.

4. I am a major football fan- more NFL than NCAA. I once proclaimed my undying love to Denver Broncos' QB Brian Griese via a marriage proposal on a poster board on Thanksgiving Day at Cowboys Stadium. He signed my baseball cap after the game and a friend of his took my picture to place on his refrigerator. My husband accompanied me to that game, but refused to hold my sign while I went to the restroom.

5. I love God and am abundantly blessed by my relationship with Him. I am not Catholic, but regularly participate in lent. One year I gave up shoes. I could not buy shoes for 40 days. It was tough!

6. I don't eat colored tortilla chips, seafood or meat on a bone. I don't like water- it tastes like mouth.

7. I was a Stock Show Queen in HS. I grew up in a small suburb of Austin, Texas. It now feels like South Austin and isn't as country as it was. I am much more of a city girl now and the thought of washing sheep, cleaning out rabbit pens or wearing western clothes is foreign to me.

I want to share this award with 2 friends of mine who do a wonderful job of sharing themselves on their blogs. Their honesty makes me think and makes me laugh! Alison and Erica, you are beautiful bloggers!

Wanna Stalk with Me?

So, I've been digging around and have added some fun new (to me!) craft blogs to Your Little Birdie. I wanted to share them with you. I'll feel better about my blog stalking ways if you stalk with me!

I love a good polkadot- so cute! Check out more polka dots at Design Dazzle.

Look at these sweet gloves, A Pocketful of Posies made these along with other winter goodies and hung them across a window with glitter clothespins. I love glitter clothespins!

Cute belt! Learn how to make it on The Polka Dot Chair and her list of tutorials.

U Create is a fun blog that looks to just feature projects found all over the wide world of blogging. Love someone to funnel the cute stuff into one place. Cute stuff, like this lace tee. I'd love this under a denim jacket!

Friendly Blogger Award

Your Little Birdie received her first award this week- the Friendly Blogger Award from Thena. I am most excited- I love awards and sweet people who encourage my blogging habit. It is much cheaper than my shoe, purse and jewelry habit.

Thena and I have never met, but we've had fun emailing ideas for her new etsy shop. Check out her blog!