You Make Me Smile Award :)

Tamy at 3 Sides of Crazy has awarded me The You Make Me Smile award. So, mow I am suppose to give this award to people who make me smile. So here is my list!

Gayle from The Grocery Cart Challenge. She has more than one blog but that one specifically makes me smile! She tries to spend about $50 a week for a family of 6. She does a really good job too!
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Dawn from The Parnell Family. Her blog is about her family and all the funny stories that happen around her. I smile just about every time I go visit her blog!
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Jen from My "Losing" Motivation. Jen has helped me with things as much as she says I help her. She also made my beautiful header that I LOVE! I also love all of her recipes that she shares on her blog.

So now all of you go pick some people on your blog who make you smile.

Another Pretty Award!

I won another blog award! Dawn gave this award to me and here is what she had to say about me and my blog:

"Lorie is totally inspirational, she has lost a remarkable amount of weight through sheer determination and Weight Watchers. Lorie is an amazing cook and has begun to hone her art to being as healthy as possible. She's a hero to me in that she's making her family's eating habits more healthy every day! She also has twins that are a little younger than Justin and I shudder to think of how I would deal with 2 Justin's, Lorie's a hero!"

Here are the rules of this award:

1.) You must post these rules.
2.) You must name 5 blogs worthy of this award based on creativity, design, interesting content, and contribution to the blogging community.
3.) You must list the name of each blog and link to it.
4.) You must link back to the presenter of your award.
5.) You must link back to the original presenter.

I went back a few awards but never found the original presenter so here are my 5 award winning blogs. (I think I did all the other rules.)

1. Rhonda has a really cute blog all about her life as a daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother. I met Rhonda when I first started this blog. She and her sister were doing a biggest loser contest and she somehow found my blog. She has been one of my biggest supporters since the beginning!

2. Jen has also been a huge supporter to me, although she says I support her more. I love her "Losing" Motivation blog. She has really neat tips and recipes. She is a fellow Weight Watcher too. She was one of my biggest supporters when I was trying to decide if I wanted to start my new meme, Watchin' What We Eat Wednesday!

3. Heather always has wonderful ideas on her blog! She is a weight watchers leader so I just love reading what she has got to say! She is also a GREAT supporter to me! Oh and while you are over there, check out all her wonderful recipes.

4. Natalie has a great Weight Loss Blog. She helps keep people accountable through her Fitness on Friday check in meme. A lot of people have benefited from this meme, including ME!

5. Michelle also has a weight loss blog that inspires me. I started my "WOW Moment" post after reading her "You Go Girl" post. I really like reading about her adventures in races etc. Go check her out!

I got an Award!

Jen nominated me for a blog award because my blog is the key to a weight loss success story! Thanks Jen! Now I get to nominate some people whose blogs have inspired and motivated me!

The WWChic- Heather's blog is the reason I started going to the Weight Watchers meetings instead of just doing it at home. I love all the great ideas she post on he blog. BTW, she is a Weight Watchers leader!
Tracie- This girl has lost over 100 pounds. I first found Tracie on U-Tube where she had a video giving ideas to eat on weight watchers. Well, I have since found her webpage and I have enjoyed seeing her lose weight and she just got to onederland (the 100's) She is definitely an inspiration! She was even on the Rachel Ray show! She also has Tracie's kitchen at her web page and I just love it!
Tammy- Tammy was the person who's blog I found talking about starting a biggest loser group that keeps up through blogs. I had never thought about using a blog as a way to help me lose weight and so that is how my blog was born! She has since moved her weight loss blog to her personal blog, but I still like to follow it. I also LOVE her pictures! While I did not have enough money to join the biggest loser competition, they still let me participate by giving me some greatly needed motivation!
Byebye Fat Mom- Natalie started doing Fitness on Friday and has motivated not only me but lots of people wanting to lose weight!
Melissa-Melissa posted her pictures of her wonderful weight loss on her blog which really inspired me. She has also been one great encourager to me!

There are so many other people that have blogs/web pages that have inspired me on this journey! My list is too long to name everyone!

For those I have named, please take this award and post it on your blog and pass it on to some blogs that have inspired you.

Thanks Jen for this award! I am really honored!