Holy Smokes Y'all!

It's been a good month over here at Next to Heaven! I reached 100 followers, I had TWO giveaways, my Google analytics are like off the charts, which is exciting too, AND I got 3 awards this week! Holy Smokes!!

Thank you thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU!! Ye-ow :)

OK, so let's give out some props and awards shall we?

The first award is from little Miss Bailey @ Addicted to Addison. My phone and text buddy :) {whom is much too far away!}

The Sunshine Award

It says that I am supposed to pass this along to 12 other bloggers. Here's some little rays of bloggy sunshine...

Jacky @ The Sweetest Petunia
Jenn @ Keeping Up With Kaegan
Alissa @ Newlywedded: Life, Love, and Me
Dawn @ Thoughts From Along The Broken Road
Heather @ Planning Our Wedding
Meredith @ Design You Can Live In
Rachel @ And If It's A Hero...
Ashley @ ABC: Life from the start of the alphabet
Mommy Lisa @ Mommy's Nest
Patty @ The Pittman Show
Supposed to be "Mama G" @ this ain't no dress rehearsal
Goose @ What's Good for the Goose

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The next award is from Ashley @ For the love of shoes...and a baby, too! She is a new blog follower and I am now following her blog as well. She is a real sweetheart and has an adorable blog. Please show her some lovin'

You're Going Places, Baby Award

Rules: Post where you’d like to be in 10 years and then give it to 10 bloggers.

{Where I want to be in 10 years} In 10 years I will be approaching my 35th birthday. I hope to have two beautiful children with my wonderful and loving husband. I hope to be even more settled than we are now financially and have no debt but our house (we're really close to that now!). I hope that I am still involved with my jewelry and that Spunk & Sass is thriving. I also hope I've learned to sew at some point. I'd like to still be in our lovely little home where we watch our kids play in the front yard in the evenings and we spend the nights cuddled up together on the couch with our dog napping quietly nearby. I imagine life will be much the same, happy, but with a few more additions :)

10 bloggers who are definitely going places:

Julie @ Brown Eyed Belle
.debbie @ Deb and Jay
Caro @ The Caro Zone
Mrs. Teddy @ Becoming a Mommy
msprimadonna67 @ Looking Forward and Back
Jennifer @ Practically Imperfect
Fidgeting Gidget
Melanie @ Melanie's Randomness
Lacey @ The Next Chapter
Christine @ A Leap of Faith

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The last award I received from my lovely Cali bloggy friend Alissa @ Newlywedded: Life, Love, and Me {whom I hope to meet!}. Alissa is a real doll and total sweetheart. I love reading her blog as it always cheers me up. She's a bright ray of sunshine, which makes sense since she is from Cali!

The Best Part of Waking Up Award

Apparently, this is a new award floating around, so I'm very excited to receive it! The rules are:

"The best part of waking up..." award is awarded to the 5 bloggers that you're most excited to see have posted when you log into your dashboard/google reader/ whatever. Yes, only 5! If you're always checking someone's blog to see if they've posted, they deserve this award!"

I'm awarding this to:

Eyegirl @ Life As Eye See It
The Purple Princess @ My Life in Purple
Bailey @ Addicted to Addison
Amy @ Ha, ha. Wait. What?
Melissa @ The Ideologies of Melissa

Whew! And now...I'm pooped! I hope all you lovelies enjoy your awards. I tried to spread the love :)