the liebster, little darling.

oh hi. just me, on a monday morning, trying to recover from the AMAZING time we had at #sariweddingweekend. it was so exciting to celebrate the start of a wonderful marriage between two of my dear friends. you both were radiating pure joy, thank you for reminding Mister Man and me what a gift from God marriage is.now on to today's programming.

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last week, i was notified by little miss amber over at mr. thomas and me that she'd nominated me for the liebster award! what you need to know is that amber is blond and has (awesome) tattoos, but that's where the differences between us end. she's kind of my soul twin in every way. and that girl has the best attitude around, do yourself a favor and visit her.(full disclosure: haley over at les petites joies nominated me for a liebster award a while back, but i didn't have time/didn't have enough blogs to link to, so i never actually paid it forward. haley, consider this a joint passing on of the liebster from you, and also, is it weird to link back to you now? you don't have to answer that.) now. what is the liebster award?"liebster" is german and means sweetest, kindest, nicest, dearest, beloved, lovely, kind, pleasant, valued, cute, endearing, and welcome.  basically it's like calling someone a little darling. and isn't that just the nicest?to me, the award is not only a way to say you appreciate new bloggers writing and efforts, it's also a really good way to find and connect with a larger community of bloggers in the same place in their journey as you. and i love me some community. also, FYI, i find all my favorite blogs through other people, so these are the best.once you have been nominated for this award, there are a few rules that you have to follow:

• you're required to answer 11 questions that the blogger who nominated you has set.
• you then need to state 11 random facts about yourself.
• you then need to mention other bloggers/blogs that inspire you or that you enjoy reading and nominate them.
• once you have nominated other bloggers, you then need to set your own 11 questions for them.
• once you have been nominated, thank the person that nominated you and post a link back to their blog if you feel so inclined.

amber's 11 questions for me

1. your all-time favorite book....and why? this is hard, because i have so many books that i love, but little women has to be one that i could read over and over.
2. did you have an imaginary friend as a child? if you did, tell us about said friend. you guys, this is so boring, but i did not have any type of imaginary friend. i did not need one, because i had siblings for as long as i can possibly remember. i ran around the living room in circles with them and read books to them, and i was too busy to have any friends in my imagination.
3. what song is you? this is maybe weird, and not that deep, but "you make my dreams" by hall and oates is one that just feels like it matches my energy and my positive outlook on life. plus i love singing it to Mister Man.
4. if you had to live in a decade other than the current one, which would you choose? oh gosh. this one is tough. i would say the 1940s, but later on in the decade once the war was over. people were just so GOOD back in that time.
5. beauty product you can’t live without.concealer. no debate. funny story: when a friend of ours was entering the religious life, mama hools and i made her ask her mother superior if the sisters were allowed to wear concealer, because we can't live without it and wanted to know if we could have been nuns in another life. the answer was no, and now my mom and i are confident we are in the right vocations. the end.
6. are you a morning person or a night owl? i am a total night owl, but am practicing (LIES!) to be a morning person. did you hear that sound just now? that was my husband laughing.
7. what is your favorite season of the year?fall is my favorite. minnesota gets a bad rap for just being cold all that time, but you guys, our summers are REDONK. humidity, heat index in the 100s, it's no joke. fall is my happy place.
8. your favorite meal. i have way too many. but if i had to choose, it would be the cajun jiffy blucy (a burger with peanut butter, mayo, pickle, bacon, pepper jack in the middle) with buffalo tater tots from the blue door. it's like a heart attack on a plate, but i dream about it sometimes.
9. three favorite online shopping websites.i'm on a shopping freeze right now, so i've almost forgotten what my favorites are. i'd say etsy, zappos, and target (free shipping!)
10. which justice league hero are you? i had to look up which heroes were part of the justice league. i seriously had no idea. probably the flash? because i'm incredibly slow in real life.
11. post it notes or push pinned papers? post its. local invention represent!

11 random facts about myself

1. i am the oldest of five children.
2. i have had the following random ailments, all before the age of 13: shingles, whooping cough, and an appendectomy.
3. in high school, i lettered in academics, choir and golf (for being on the team for three years) before i lettered in tennis, the only athletic sport i played.
4. i secretly signed a 9-month lease the summer before joe and i got engaged, because i wanted to be able to get out of it if we got married within the year. whoops.
5. i speak (almost) fluent spanish and have my certificate in spanish-english translation.
6. my favorite movie in the whole world is the little mermaid, and i wore out the vhs we had at my parents house.
7. the scariest thing i've done in the last year was sign my name on the dotted line when we bought our house; i'm pretty sure that i didn't breathe the whole time. (a close second scary time was announcing the hooley with a 'z' facebook page to the world. pure terror. please head over and like it if you haven't yet, it will make me feel better.)
8. cats freak me out.
9. my second and third toes are longer than my big toe.
10. i changed my middle name to my maiden name when we got married.
11. i strongly believe that babies will be easier to take care of than dogs, albeit with more middle of the night wakeups than dogs.

my nominations for the liebster award

trisha from the dish by trish || haley from les petites joies || etley from etley enlightens

my questions for you

1. what is your favorite feature on yourself?
2. what is your honest opinion - complimentary and/or critical - about my own blog?
3. tell me your go-to recipe for dinner!
4. do you have a guilty pleasure tv show?
5. pie or cake?
6. sweet or salty?
7. what is your favorite grown-up movie?
8. do you have any favorite words of wisdom?
9. what is your most worn piece of clothing?
10. do you have a favorite season? what is it?
11. give me one piece of blogging advice.

woohoo! thanks for being you kids!

(if i didn't include you, it's because i don't know about you yet! come out of the woodwork and participate too!)

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