More Awards!

Wow! I have been nominated for a couple of awards and I am so thankful!!

Thank you so much Antoinette and Emily as well as Cheryl at Spotted Around the School for honoring me with The Versatile Blogger award.
There are only 3 rules to follow once you've received this award :)
1. Follow the person who gave you the award
2. Link back to the person that gave you the award
3. Pass the award on to 7 new bloggers

• The Idea Backpack
  
• Mandy's Tips For Teachers
  
• What the Teacher Wants
  
• For the Love of Teaching
  
• Just Wild About Teaching
  
• Primary Possibilities
  
• My (Not So) Elementary Life
  

Thanks so much to Anna over at Life...As I Know It and Cathy at C is for Cookies, Cakes, Children, Classroom, and Class for the Liebster Blog Nomination! This award recognizes blogs with under 200 followers!
Here are the rules for this award:

1.Copy and paste this award on your blog.

2. Thank the giver and link back to them.

3. Reveal 5 other bloggers and let them know by commenting on their blog.

• Teaching Third
  
• Ramblings of a Deaf Ed Teacher's Mind
  
• Mrs. Jackson's Class
  
• An Apple For The Teacher
  
• Inspire, Dream, & Create
  

THANKS EVERYONE!!

One Lovely Blog Award

I am so excited to have been nominated by Mrs. Slocum from Teachers Don't Steal - They Share! for the One Lovely Blog Award! I absolutely LOVE reading all the teaching blogs out there and I am so happy that others are reading mine and, I hope, getting something useful out of it.

There are only 4 rules to follow once you've received this award :)
1. Follow the person who gave you the award
2. Link back to the person that gave you the award
3. Pass the award on to 10 new bloggers
4. Share 7 random facts about you


I am passing on the award to the following 10 blogs:
1. Journey of a Substitute Teacher
2. *Teaching Maddeness*
3. 005 Watkins' Way
4. 3rd Grade Sprinkles
5. Mrs. Standford's Class
6. Where Learning Is Fun
7. Step into 2nd Grade with Mrs. Lemons
8. technology rocks. seriously.

My random facts:
1. I am working to become a better cook. Baking is where my heart is, but you can only survive so long on cookies, brownies, cupcakes, and pie.
2. I met my husband when I was 16. We were high school sweethearts, dated through college, broke up while I was student teaching (we now refer to that as the "intermission" of our relationship ;) And were married in March 2010!

3. I am a HUGE Kansas Jayhawk fan! Nothing makes me happier than wearing a crimson & blue shirt on a Jayhawk game day! Our family room is decorated in all KU items!

4. I ran the KC Color Run on June 30th. It was soooo much messy fun. If you have the Color Run coming to your city, get signed up!

5. Traveling is my favorite thing to do! We try to go to a new place each year and would like to check all 50 states off our "been there" list!

6. I love to watch the Kansas City Royals play baseball. I am super pumped that the All-Star game is in Kansas City this year and all the festivities that go along with it!

7. I am a Sigma Kappa. I joined the sorority at KU my freshman year and am now an active Alumna as an advisor!