An Award from My BFF

Ok, I know, this is the nth award I've posted here but I hope you all don't mind. I love my friends and just like the computer game Diner Dash, my heart points increases everytime they pass on an award. :o) This is from my BFF Mira of Mira's Web Journal. Thank you! *hugs* The rules for this award can be found here.

Now, drum roll please. LOL I am giving this Certified Queen of Blogs award to one of my favorite blogger, Joy from down under. She definitely deserves to be a Queen of Blogs. She has many blogs and it is all updated frequently. I admire that about her. From her blog about living in AU, blog about her kids, blog about health where she writes about tips on staying healthy to info about hair loss treatments, blog about love and relationships, blog about beauty and fashion and other topics. To my friend Joy, a Certified Queen of Blogs. :o)

Smart Blogger Award

I received this award from Willa of Smart Mommy. Thank you!

"The recipient of this award is not your everyday blogger, if you visit their blog, one thing for sure, you will learn something (but most of the time, a lot) that really worth the time you spend reading their post. Their post is always well-written, with good grammar (I am absolutely not qualified in this award! lol!), very insightful,inspiring,thought provoking and you always wish that you've written it. They always have a great stories to tell,either about life, about themselves, or their family. Once you read their blog, there's one thing that will stuck to your head, that they are absolutely, no doubt, a Smart Blogger!"


- Link the one who gave this award and let them know you posted it.
- Pass this to as many Smart Bloggers as you can think and make sure to write something about them, like what makes you think they are Smart.
- Let them know they have an award.

Note: Ooops! I didn't know this was posted. I thought I saved it as a draft and was surprised to see Jodi and Debbie's comments. LOL I'll have to edit this later and pass this on to other bloggers. :o)

Kreativ Blogger

Thanks to Trish of Tripping Over My Tongue for this Kreativ Blogger award. Sorry for the delay, I was checking my draft folder when I saw this. Better late than never. :o)

The rules:
List 6 things that make you happy.
Pass the award on to 6 bloggers for Kreativ (creative).
Link to the blogger who gave you the award.
Link to the blogs receiving the award.
Notify the recipients.

Ok, it goes without saying that my family makes me happy. So for this one, I'm listing 'things'.
1. Very good dimsum
2. Belgian chocolates
3. Well-made bags that lasts forever
4. Perfect weather - temps in the low 70s
5. Gadgets that make life easier for me
6. My Dell XPS M1210 with 2GB memory which is way faster than any wholesale computers - makes my blogging life easy.

I'm giving this award to the following bloggers . No pressure to play along and follow the rules; besides, rules are made to be broken (sometimes). :o)

John Wright of John Wright's Art Blog
Carlota of My Web Blog Designs
Yen of Yen's Handmades
Rose of All About Cakes
Cen of Cen's Loft

Honest Scrap and Cute Award

Thanks to Angelika for these awards. Go check out her blog. :o) Here's the rules that came with the awards: List 10 things about myself & name 10 bloggers to pass these awards to.

1. I've watched the Young and the Restless soap opera since high school.

2. I only started drinking coffee a couple of years ago.

3. I don't care if it's expensive or whatever, I don't like caviar.

4. I like Foie Gras.

5. I love classic Alternative Rock (The Cure, Psychedelic Furs, The Smiths, Depeche Mode and Spandau Ballet among countless other alternative music bands)

6. I write in print, all capital letters. I've been doing it since my sophomore years in high school. I hate my long hand, I think it looks like chicken scratch although my signature rocks. LOL

7. I bravely went whitewater rafting in class 4 rapids in CA with dh. I swore I would never do it again for as long as I live.

8. I want to try sky diving, a tandem jump. Don't ask me why. LOL

9. I'm comfortable wearing pants more than skirts.

10. I learned to ride a bike @ 23. My parents didn't see the need to get us a bike even though we can afford it.

Life is Grand!

I received this award from one of my daily reads, Lola of Lola's Diner. If you haven't seen her blog, go visit and discover what she's about. She reads and answers all comments too! (Rare in this busy blogging world. LOL) Thanks Lola!

Here is the rule:
List 5 reasons why I think that Life is Grand and then pass it on to 5 people.

Life is grand because:
1. I have a healthy family: wonderful husband, awesome kids, ipods, a nice home with a white picket fence, and a dog. Oh wait, scratch the dog and the picket fence. I got carried away. LOL
2. Dh still has a job.

3. I'm still a SAHM thanks to #2.

4. My parents are stiill with us and I have great in-laws.
5. Some low-life hit my SUV on the front passenger door which left a large dent. $@#&*!!! Whoever it is didn't leave a note with their info. Life is still (kinda) grand because I'm just putting everything in perspective. At least it's just a dent and it wasn't a major accident where someone got hurt. (But whoever it was, will have to deal with bad KARMA for sure.)

I'd like to pass this on to the following:

1. Shy

2. Sam of Show Me Your Interest

3. Baby Samantha's mommy

4. Lucille of Cherish, Dream, Live

5. Zima of My So Called Life

Marie Antoinette Award

I received this award from one of the friendliest blogger I've met online, mommy Liza of Moms...Check Nyo Thank you!

Here are the rules for the award:

1. Please put the logo on your blog.

2. Place a link to the person from whom you received the award.
3. Nominate at least 7 or more blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on your blog.
5. Leave a message on their blogs to tell them.

I am giving this to the following:

1. Willa of Fickleminded

2. Christin of ChristinChen's Soapbox

3. Sheila of Colorful World of Sheila

4. Beth of Everything Under the Sun

5. Ally of Eyes of the Beholder

6. Jenn of My Sweet Haven

7. Chris of The Mommy Journey

Triple Awards

I received this award from Lanie of I Thought So , Amor of My Life's Journey and Tim of Breathing In. I've known mareng Lanie since I moved here in the East coast 7 years ago. She's the first Filipina I met here, thanks to the internet. She definitely embodies what this award is about. She is everyone's friend and someone you can turn to. Amor is a fellow Filipina that I met online. I've known her before we both started blogging and we became friends. I hope to meet her in person someday. As for Tim, I came upon his blog through Entrecard and he's been a consistent dropper in my blog. He's a writer living in the UK. I like his name since it's the same name as my dh. *wink* You might be thinking why he's giving an award for sisterhood since he's a HE. Well, a fellow blogger thought he is special and deserve this award. He earned big brownie points from me and showed that he's a good sport. He definitely deserves this award. Thank you for passing it to me. :o)

1. Put the logo on your blog or post.
2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show great attitude and or gratitude.
3. Link to your nominees within your post.
4. Let winners know they have received award.
5. Link to this post and the person from whom you received the award.

Now, I am giving this award first, to my old friends. I've known them even before we all started blogging many years ago. Mira of Random Thoughts, Carlota of Dashing Smiles, Amy of Kalidadis, Amor of Places to Places and Lucille of Cherish Dream Live. Now to my newfound blogger friends. These are bloggers who are now my friends. Liza of Moms Check Nyo, Joy of Everyday Life, Lainy of A Journey To Forever, Sam of Show Me Your Interest, Jodi of Jodi's Journey and Shy of A Journey for Life

Kick Ass Blogger Award

I received this award from my BFF Mira (Random Thoughts) and my friend and fashionista from Oz, Joy (Kikay Site) Thank You friends! :)

Do you know any bloggers that kick ass? Maybe they’ve got incredible, original content. Or they’re overflowing with creativity. Is it someone that helps you become a better blogger? Or a bloggy friend you know you can count on? Or maybe it’s someone who simply inspires you to be a better person… or someone else who sends you to the floor, laughing your ass off.
Whatever the reason may be, I’m sure you know at least a couple of bloggers that kick ass. Well… why not tell ‘em so?

LOVE ON ‘EM

- Choose 5 bloggers that you feel are “Kick Ass Bloggers”
- Let ‘em know in your post or via email, twitter or blog comments that they’ve received an award
- Share the love and link back to both the person who awarded you and back to www.mammadawg.com
- Hop on back to the Kick Ass Blogger Club HQ to sign Mr. Linky then pass it on!

Here are my choices for this award. Some of them may already have it but I still would like to give it to them. (I'm doing 6.)

Liza of A Simple Life
Renee of Cutie Bootie Cakes
Tiffany of Breakfast at Tiffany's
FoongPC of My Very First Blog
Ellaine of Our Journey to Forever
Lanie of My Life and Family Journey

A Nice Award

I received this award from Gin of E-Pamilya. Thanks sis. :)

Rules:

1. Only 5 people are allowed to receive this award

2. Four (4) of them are followers of your blog.

3. One has to be new to your blog and live in another part of the world.

4. You must link back to who ever gave you the award.

I'm passing this award to my friends who I know visited my blog(s) even before I started dropping ECs.

1. my BFF Mira of Random Thoughts

2. my favorite kumare Lanie of My Life and Family Journey

3. blog designer extraordinaire and generous friend Carlota of Dashing Smiles

4. my blogger friend Laura of My Big Dreams

5. Joy of Words of Love - she's from Australia and the busiest blogger I know :)

Thanks Lou!

I'd like to thank Lou for always visiting my blogs and leaving messages on my tagboard while I was away for a month. :) To show my appreciation, I made you banner for your photography blog and Entrecard. (Click on the banner for the bigger file. Right click and save.)

Best Blog Hopper Award Goes To...

We all know that traffic to our blogs is very important. We visit our blogger friends and hope that they visit your blog too. There are three bloggers that are consistent in that regard. I made this award to show these bloggers that I appreciate their effort to visit my blog and leave a comment when they can. To Mareng Amy of http://www.kalidadis.com/ , Amor of http://amorsjourney.com/ and Liza of http://mlizcochico.com/, a big THANK YOU for always visiting my blogs. I appreciate it very much.