Thank You! Awards For Me; Awards For You

My readers make me smile, so stay for a while, please take your time. ;-)

At my elementary school, whenever one of us would compliment the other or whenever we did something we were proud of, we would boastfully say "Arretez les flashes!" -- "Stop the flashes!" -- as if we were talking to the Paparazzi. So with 7 more awards in such a short time, I just laughed out loud when I saw this theme was available and I couldn't resist.

This blog is quickly looking like a Hollywood Blog rather than a Dessert Blog!! I'm having award posts almost as often as dessert posts. And my thanks go to:

*** Mercedes of Mercedes Rules for giving me this "Share The Love" award with a touching message on June 18, 2008. These are the rules which must be posted:

This award was created by Memoirs of a Mommy. It’s a very special award that she created in Honor Of The Donor That Saved (her son) Noah’s Life. Noah received a heart transplant, and she hopes that by passing this award around the blogosphere everyone can help raise awareness of the need for Organ Donation.

The rules of this award are: SHARE THE LOVE!!! Share this award with all those blogs out there that you love. All the people who make you smile. All those that make you laugh. All those that make your day. All those that leave uplifting comments on your blog.

**All I ask, is that you include a link to this post with the award and ask your recipients to do the same**

As the song playing with the paparazi slideshow says, "you (my readers) make me smile. Please stay for a while now, just take your time, wherever you go (on my blog)." So if you are one of my regular readers, this award is FOR YOU!!

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*** Tamy for giving me the Kind Blogger 2008 Award on June 20th and for saying that my kindness and friendship keep her smiling. :-) It's mutual, Tamy!
*** Kathy, my friend in real life for more than 12 years already, for giving me the Kind Blogger Award a day later on June 21st.
I am lucky to have so many readers who comment on my blog, and they are all kind, so this is difficult to choose only a few. I pass this on to these kind and friendly bloggers:
Tartasacher at Mil Postres (1000 Desserts)
Gloria of Canela's Kitchen
Gina of Gina's Public Diary
Erin Craig
Beloved Mama at Beloved Mama Prays and Beloved Mama
Grace of Grace Today
Twinkle Mom at Sunflower Faith
Amy Deanne at The 160 Acre Woods
Melanie at The Fruits of the Spirit

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*** Tartasacher for giving me the Brilliant Blog Award on June 23. I am giving this award to a few of my very favorite blogs, so it has to go right back to Tartasacher too. :-) Visit these blogs! They really are Brilliant!
Tartasacher of Mil Postres (1000 Desserts)
Tamy of 3 Sides Of Crazy
Tanya of Texas Tanya
Tad of Tad Cronn's Blog
Apron Queen at Confessions of an Apron Queen

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*** Tamy for giving me the Super Commenter Award on June 27th. I'm one of her top 5 commenters. It's easy to comment on her blog because she has such wonderful posts.
Here are my Top 10 commenters. Thank you for having a conversation with me! No matter how many thousands stop by here, it would be lonely without commenters like you.

1. Tartasacher
2. ~TAMY 3 Sides of Crazy~
3. Grace
4. Mercedes
5. Gloria
6. Amy
7. Lore
8. ames
9. Melanie
10. Twinkle Mom

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*** This beautiful chocolate heart was given with love and with no rules attached from Tartasacher on July 9th. Thank you! This "Corazon" heart is so appreciated.

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*** Beloved Mama is "Sharing the Love" with me too with words of encouragement and appreciation. Thank you Beloved Mama! I am giving it to a few bloggers who help me smile or help make my day on a regular basis.
Tartasacher of Mil Postres (1000 Desserts)
Tamy of 3 Sides Of Crazy
Tanya of Texas Tanya
Mercedes of Mercedes Rocks
Gloria of Canela's Kitchen
Gina of Gina's Public Diary
Grace of Grace Today
Twinkle Mom at Sunflower Faith
Amy Deanne at The 160 Acre Woods
Sandy at Writing in Faith
Lore of Culinarty
Omami
ames of yay pie!
Lori of All You Have To Give