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Let’s Be Friends!

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Welcome to the Let’s Be Friends Blog Hop!



A blog hop is a set time frame for current or aspiring bloggers to find new blogs and quality content. It is a great way to make new friends and find inspiration! It is also a fabulous way to promote your own blog and posts.

Dear Friends,

What a day to celebrate! This is the 78th week of the Let’s Be Friends blog hop! Thanks for joining us on this special day. Chelsee and Tiffany are extremely delighted to see the way this hop has grown and love to see your faces each week! 

Join us every Tuesday at 7am (MST). This blog hop focuses on content. LINK UP YOUR FAVORITE POST from last week in this fun content-sharing blog hop! I love the idea of blog hopping, but I love the idea of reading posts and quality content on new blogs I’ve never been to even more. Instead of simply linking up your blog button, you are now able to link up your favorite post you recently wrote. Have a delicious recipe to share, DIY tutorial, or heartfelt post? Share it with us! All hosts and co-hosts put up some unique and fun content from the past week. Make sure to check them out. P.S.- you may still link up your blog button and blog name, but it is encouraged to link up your favorite post instead. You will get more page views and interest if you do so! Some of the most successful blog hops I have participate in focus on content rather than just exchanging follows. You never know who will become a loyal follower or pin that delicious new recipe you posted!

The BEST part of this blog hop? Each week there will be a WINNER! That’s right, each week we will choose one lucky blog to feature from the previous week’s hop. This hop receives thousands of page views every week, so your blog will have the chance to be center stage for free. You must follow all the hosts and co-hosts in order to win. Only those who link up a specific post are eligible to be featured! *You must follow all the hosts and co-hosts in order to win.

The last exciting change is that the co-host spots will now be available to all sponsors of  The Dwelling Tree or Southern Beauty Guide. If you are interested in co-hosting the blog hop, email Tiffany or Chelsee about sponsorship opportunities and how to co-host the weekly hop!

There are a couple of great giveaways going on right now at Southern Beauty Guide and The Dwelling Tree. Go check them out! :)

Let’s Be Friend’s Blog Hop Guidelines
1. Link up your favorite post from your week.
2. Follow your hosts and co-hosts.
3. Grab the button and post it on your blog so we can share the love.
4. Visit 3 other blogs and follow them along!
5. Tweet about this blog hop, using #letsbefriends
6. Pin the button on pinterest so we can spread the news! 




***Once a week, one blog will be chosen to be the featured blogger from the previous blog hop. 

Meet your hosts: 

The Dwelling Tree: Blog, Bloglovin’

Southern Beauty Guide: Blog, Bloglovin’

&
The co-hosts:

Jamie @ North of Something
Ashley @ A Faithful Passion
Jillian @ Hi! It’s Jilly
Christine @ Life with a side of Coffee
Emily @ Emmy Mom
***This weeks featured post from last week’s hop:


Hi everyone! This is Tiffany today. Thank you all once again for continually linking up at our blog hop. It is such a fun time and I am so impressed each week with all the amazing posts. Please continue to link up an actual post instead of your blog. We want to keep reading your content and it makes it more fun to pick a winner! 

… onto the winner! 

Ugh. You guys are all posting so much good content I can hardly choose a winner! After reading about fifteen posts right now, and definitely going over my time limit to blog today, I decided to choose this post by Life with Amberly and Joe. I love Amberly and her blog, and recently saw her amazing Pinterest board. Have you seen it? She puts me to shame! 

Anyways, she has fantastic advice for old or new bloggers on how to better your blog brand. Good read for everyone involved. She pretty much rocks, so if you do not follow her blog, do it. You will thank me later! 

Now, all of you, have a splendid week and keep doing what you do so well. You all make such an impact on us. Thank you for joining our blog hop! 

Follow Life with Amberly and Joe

Keep posting awesome content! You make it so fun for us to read all your posts! If you can, please link up a specific post. It makes it easier for us to come and visit! 

*Remember YOU can be next weeks winner! :)








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LET’S BE FRIENDS!

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Welcome to the Let’s Be Friends Blog Hop!

 

A blog hop is a set time frame for current or aspiring bloggers to find new blogs and quality content. It is a great way to make new friends and find inspiration! It is also a fabulous way to promote your own blog and posts.
 
Dear Friends,
 
What a day to celebrate! This is the 77th week of the Let’s Be Friends blog hop! Thanks for joining us on this special day. Chelsee and Tiffany are extremely delighted to see the way this hop has grown and love to see your faces each week! 
 
Join us every Tuesday at 7am (MST). This blog hop focuses on content. LINK UP YOUR FAVORITE POST from last week in this fun content-sharing blog hop! I love the idea of blog hopping, but I love the idea of reading posts and quality content on new blogs I’ve never been to even more. Instead of simply linking up your blog button, you are now able to link up your favorite post you recently wrote. Have a delicious recipe to share, DIY tutorial, or heartfelt post? Share it with us! All hosts and co-hosts put up some unique and fun content from the past week. Make sure to check them out. P.S.- you may still link up your blog button and blog name, but it is encouraged to link up your favorite post instead. You will get more page views and interest if you do so! Some of the most successful blog hops I have participate in focus on content rather than just exchanging follows. You never know who will become a loyal follower or pin that delicious new recipe you posted!
 
The BEST part of this blog hop? Each week there will be a WINNER! That’s right, each week we will choose one lucky blog to feature from the previous week’s hop. This hop receives thousands of page views every week, so your blog will have the chance to be center stage for free. You must follow all the hosts and co-hosts in order to win. Only those who link up a specific post are eligible to be featured! *You must follow all the hosts and co-hosts in order to win.
 
The last exciting change is that the co-host spots will now be available to all sponsors of  The Dwelling Tree or Southern Beauty Guide. If you are interested in co-hosting the blog hop, email Tiffany or Chelsee about sponsorship opportunities and how to co-host the weekly hop!
 
There are a couple of great giveaways going on right now at Southern Beauty Guide and The Dwelling Tree. Go check them out! :)
 
Let’s Be Friend’s Blog Hop Guidelines
1. Link up your favorite post from your week.
2. Follow your hosts and co-hosts.
3. Grab the button and post it on your blog so we can share the love.
4. Visit 3 other blogs and follow them along!
5. Tweet about this blog hop, using #letsbefriends
6. Pin the button on pinterest so we can spread the news! 
 
 
***Once a week, one blog will be chosen to be the featured blogger from the previous blog hop. 
 
Meet your hosts: 
 
The Dwelling Tree: Blog, Bloglovin’
 
Southern Beauty Guide: Blog, Bloglovin’
 
&
The co-hosts:
Krysten @ Why Girls Are Weird
Jillian @ Hi! It’s Jilly
Christine @ Life with a side of Coffee
Jamie @ North of Something
***This weeks featured post from last week’s hop:
Taste of Tuesday: Mexi-Corn Dip
Home of Malones
 
Hi everyone! This is Chelsee this week. Thank you all once again for continually linking up at our blog hop. It is such a fun time and I am so impressed each week with all the amazing posts. Please continue to link up an actual post instead of your blog. We want to keep reading your content and it makes it more fun to pick a winner! 
 
… onto the winner! 
 
I admit picking a post while starving is not necessarily a great thing considering the amount of delicious recipes linked up each week. As I was panning across the linkup looking at the link addresses I noticed one in particular included the work “Mexi.” Well I am pretty much a sucker for anything dealing with Mexican cooking, so this word rather intrigued me. I of course clicked and saw a combination that I did not expect. I admit that Annie…a mom from New Orleans, raised in florida, new mom, and amazing home builder is quite simply a genius. I have never heard of anything like this, but I must say Annie is a genius! This looks so yummy and is a recipe that I will be trying soon! I highly recommend you head over and check it out!   
 
I have to say that regardless on what you like to read Annie has a bit of it all on her blog. If you have a few minutes to spare I recommend you just looking at the home she had built. It looks like something straight out of a magazine! Make sure you head over and say hello! I am excited to have a new recipe to try! 
 
Follow Home of Malones
 
Keep posting awesome content! You make it so fun for us to read all your posts! If you can, please link up a specific post. It makes it easier for us to come and visit! 
 
*Remember YOU can be next weeks winner! :)
 

 

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Weekly Wishes #3

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Weekly Wishes

 

I’m linking up with the Weekly Wishes series and I’m excited to get stuff done this week!

Last Week’s Wishes:

1. Back up iTunes and iPhoto to both my HDs. I did it! I did it! I also got travel cases for both my hard drives. I’m thinking I’ll keep one with me during the move and the other with our stuff that the movers pack and move.

2. Read “In the Neighborhood” for my class. I read it all and it was great. I wrote a book review that hopefully I’ll post later this week.

3. Do yoga at least once this week. I did this too! Only for about 15 minutes. It’s certainly not the same doing it in my bedroom on my yoga mat compared with a calming yoga class… but I could get used to it :)

This Week’s Wishes:

1. Write a final paper. I have one more paper to write for my last summer class!

2. Donate the baby/toddler clothes. I am probably taking these to the homeless shelter, but possibly to friends that might need them.

3. Do yoga TWICE this week. Yep, I’m upping the ante. I just need to start making it a habit!

Ok that’s all I have on this beautiful Monday!

Do you have any goals or wishes for the week?!

The Nectar Collective

Mommy Moments This Weekend

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IMG_8200 1. We couldn’t find matching shoes, but sometimes you just need to go go go!

2. I found a hot wheels airplane in the washer.

3. Before nap time today we were lying on my bed. I was reading and holding my little boy’s hand while he watched Daniel Tiger. I couldn’t take notes in the margin because he wouldn’t let go of my hand, squeezing it tightly to his chest.

4. I got jumped on, my head whacked, cried at, cried on, and begged to sing one more song at bed time. And I couldn’t leave because he kept saying, Don’t leave me, mama.

5. While cuddling with him and enjoying his little hands resting on my arm, my mind wandered to a time in the future when he won’t want cuddles or songs or toy airplanes in his pockets, and I felt grateful.

It was a good weekend.