Liebster Award

Well color me surprised!  I've been nominated for an award!  This award is for new bloggers that have less than 200 followers.  It's super awesome that Valerie @ Fabulous Chick Gets Fit nominated me.  Check out her blog.  She's awesome.

To accept the nomination I must:
1. Link back to the blog that nominated me
2. Nominate 5-11 blogs with fewer than 200 followers
3. Answer the questions posted for you by your nominator
4. Share 11 random facts about yourself
5. Create 11 questions for your nominees
6. Contact your nominees and let them know you nominated them

The blogs I've nominated are:
1. Jenna @ Jenna Rae Everyday
2. Tiffany @ The Fit Train
3. Melissa @ My Life As A Folz
4. Crystal @ Through Crystal's Eyes
5. Samantha @ 24 to 30

11 Questions for my Nominator:
1. Why did you start a blog?

A few years ago I started reading a blog and she had a giveaway where you had to follow her blog to enter.  That's when I signed up with google.  Then a little while after that I started not one, not two, but three blogs.  Ambitious much?  I was terrible at keeping up with them and later deleted all three.  Then, after months and months of following several other blogs I thought I'd take a crack at it.  It seemed like a fun way to document my life, have family members that live far off keep up with us, and to make new friends.

2. What is your favorite blog {besides mine?}

For realz?!  This is super hard.  I love Mama Laughlin, Skinny Meg, 4Kottez, Where We Can Live Like Jack and Sally, and Hubby Jack.  I follow many others, but this crowd really sucked me in!  I feel like I'm the awkward new girl in town and they're the popular crowd that everyone wants to hang with.

3. What is your favorite TV show?

Yikes!  I'm such a TV junkie.  I'll just make a list...Real Housewives Franchise, Glee, Big Brother, Grey's Anatomy, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Dancing with the Stars, New Girl, Smash (so sad it's cancelled), The Bachelor, Awkward, Gossip Girl (Netfilx Marathon), and the best for last...Sex and the City.  That's quite a list.  WOW.
  
4. Any family traditions?

My family always tries to get together for most major holidays. 
     Easter...church, eat a amazing dinner and hunt eggs.
     Fourth of July...we hang at the golf course, play games, eat, and watch fireworks.
     Halloween...carve pumpkins, wear awesome costumes, and eat truck loads of candy.
     Thanksgiving...get together, eat WAY too much, take naps, and watch football.
     Christmas...my mom and dad gave us 12 gifts before Christmas Day, one for each of the 12 days before Christmas and the last always being PJ's to wear on Christmas Eve.  I've kept that going with my little guy.  We always try to get together to eat and play games on Christmas Eve and then everyone comes to our house to open presents and eat breakfast Christmas morning.  Christmas is my favorite!
    
5. Have you met any celebrities?

I think I have, but I guess it wasn't life changing since I don't remember!  Does that mean I'm getting old?

6. If you could meet one person dead or alive, who would it be and what would you all do?

I feel like this question is meant to say a lot about someone and it's supposed to be philosophical and tell what someone is like deep down.  Yeah...I'm not answering it like that!  Lately I'm obsessed with Bruno Mars.  I like to meet him and have a dance party!

7. Favorite alcoholic drink?

My go to used to be a Margarita, lately it's been Barefoot Moscoto or Angry Orchard.  Yum!

8. No kids, no hubby, no work- what are you doing with your time?

If I have mulah...I'm going to get pampered and shop.  Nails, hair, tan, massage, shoes, clothes, and dinner and drinks with my ladies.  That makes me sound shallow.  Oh well!

9. Where is your favorite place to shop?

For Billy... Target, Children's Place, Carter's and Old Navy
For Bill... Academy, Target, and Kohl's
For Me... Target, Old Navy, Kohl's and several boutiques around my home town

10. Bath or Shower?

Shower for morning, Bath for night...is that weird that it must be a time of day?

11. If you could live anywhere, where would it be?

I've only lived in Texas and Oklahoma and I've loved both.  They both feel like home and I'll always want to live where I feel at home.  Maybe a mansion near a beach would feel like home. :)

11 Random Facts About Me:
1. I was a baton twirler for my high school band.
2. I hate being cold.
3. I also hate being too hot.
4. I'm obsessive about my hair, it's bad.  Good/bad hair days affect my mood.
5. I check facebook, instagram, and my email, in that order before I go to bed.
6. If my workout clothes feel weird my workout will must likely suck.
7. I have a running ticker constantly going through my head.  It's helpful and annoying.
8. I bite my nails.  It's a horrible habit but I do it.
9. I have two small dogs.
10. I've been married 3 years and have just in the past two months lived with my husband full time.
11. I start teaching in a new school, district, city in a few weeks and I'm freaking out!  It's a good freak out though.

11 Questions for my Nominees:
1. Why did you start a blog?
2. What is your favorite blog {besides mine?}
3. What is your favorite TV show?
4. Any family traditions?
5. Have you met any celebrities?
6. If you could meet one person dead or alive, who would it be and what would you all do?
7. Favorite alcoholic drink?
8. No kids, no hubby, no work- what are you doing with your time?
9. Where is your favorite place to shop?
10. Bath or Shower?
11. If you could live anywhere, where would it be?


So there it is!  I've been nominated!  Whoop!  Thanks Valerie!  You Rock!