the liebster blog award.

the liebster blog award is given to up and coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers.

my precious julia, who i miss! awarded my tiny blog with this award.

if you check in here often you already know julia but if you're new here let me introduce you two. . .

julia is one of my dearest friends.

she is the newest mom to sweet little perry girl.

she is wife to mr. b, aka andrew.

she is wonderful.

she is beautiful inside and out.

she cloth diapers.

she is a jcrew magazine.

she has a charming house on the cutest street.

she is encouraging and real.

she is a true blessing in my life.

she is just fantastic, love her.

thank you dear one for this blog nod!

Liebster is a German word meaning 'dear, sweet, kind, nice, good, beloved, lovely, kindly, pleasant, valued, cute, endearing and welcome'.

To keep this award going (by passing along to other new deserving blogs), the recipient must now recognize five other bloggers with less than 200 followers that have really stood out in the crowd.

The rules for the Liebster Award are:

1. Thank the person who gave the award and link back to their blog.

2. Reveal your top 5 picks and let them know!

3. Copy and paste the award on your blog post.

4. Have faith that your followers will spread the love too! 

*like jules, I personally want to add to the rules by saying a little something about the blogs below!* 

So, here are my top 5!

1. growing up grier.

brittany is married to my cousin brent. 

they are the best couple and have dated since highschool, which means we have all had the pleasure of knowing and loving brittany for quite some time.

together they have the cutest little girls, grier and ardynn. 

her blog is full of the girls,

 their cute pups, their incredible house and the cutest little things they are up to on a daily basis.

she literally is super mom!

2. everyday lovely.

i get school girl giddy when kristina updates her blog.

she is such a sweetheart, so incredibly creative and just so stinkin' cute!

i have known kristina forever and have enjoyed cheering with her, helping her highschool bf shop for the most perfect gift for her (ha!) and now enjoy in a non-pyscho way catching up with her and her cutie patootie ellie trough her blog.

i know you'll love her too!

3. keeping up with the manns.

i can't say enough about kelly mann.

she seriously should have her own television show on hdtv.

the things she and her husband brandon have done to their home is incredible and so magazine worthy.

and that's not all, kelly also is a photographer, a graphic designer, an interior designer, a former younglife leader and a lover of high heels. :) 

she seriously does it all and does it all very well.

you're the best kelly!

4. beth and co.

i have only had the pleasure of meeting beth for one afternoon over a year ago when she took my families pictures.

at the time, her dad was the high school football coach for the cooper cougars and she was in town for thanksgiving, so somehow my mom got hooked up with her and she snapped our pics.

we all loved her and i remember thinking just how cute and professional and real she was.

so, i've been stalking her every since. :)

she has the best taste, the cutest girls, the coolest pictures.

she is the mind behind this incredible birthday party and has the funnest blog posts.

i love it when she updates.

5. all's bright at the allbrights.

how do i 'know' all of these incredibly talented ladies?!?

sharon is redbud designs.

she designed june's birth announcement and i used one of her designs this year for our christmas card.

i love everything she creates, so so much.

and. . .!

her second daughter august is about a month older than june so i love to read up on what she's up to, just makes me so excited to see what june will be doing next.

cutest girls.

thank you again julia!

will you do a tutorial on how you do your cute top knot?

i know you've taught me once, but the world, i am dying to know.:)