DESIGN BY CALEY: The Liebster Award

Thank you Dawnelle for selecting me to be one of your recipients of the Liebster Award. It was fun to come up with things I wanted to share and answers to your great questions! Enjoy!

Quick Description of the Award:

The Liebster award is given to upcoming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. The meaning: Liebster is German and means sweetest, kindest, nicest, dearest, beloved, lovely, kind, pleasant, valued, cute, endearing and welcome.

So here's how it works...

Each person must post 11 things about themselves.
Answer the questions that the tagger set for you, plus create 11 questions for the people you've tagged to answer.
Choose 11 people and link them in your post.
Go to their page and tell them.
No tag backs!

11 Things About Me:

I am married to my best friend of eight years and we are celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary tomorrow! I have never loved him more than I do now and I can't wait to see what the future holds for us!
I am from the potato capital of the world: Blackfoot ID. And I really do love potatoes...all types.
I recently moved into my grandmother's house that is on the market and have realized that I really do love painting. I totally feeds into my love for change...and it's pretty instant! I finished all the moldings and I'm starting on the doors today! I can't wait to show you the pictures, stay tuned!
Like Dawnelle, I am quite picky with my writing utensils. It started in middle school for me. I remember seeing a girl write my name on a check-out slip in really cute handwriting and I thought, "I want cute handwriting too". (Silly middle school girls...haha). I began to practice all different ways of writing and found that I preferred a fine pen to anything else. Then, when I was introduced to Drafter's Handwriting in college and began practicing, I realized I preferred, like Dawnelle, a thin sharpie. Still do. ;)
I LOVE filling out agendas, journals, lists, calendars, and sometimes forms. Might be another "handwriting" thing...I have at least one of each thing that I fill out on a regular basis. It's also probably a sanity thing now that I think about it. haha.
I love a good chic-flick. Although most of them have similar happy endings, they remind me that life really is good and that I really am blessed.
I think this is the first time in a long time that I don't have a favorite color. There are so many beautiful ones out there right now that I couldn't tell you a favorite. Weird.
Sometimes I really enjoy silence. And I'm realizing that I need more of it in my life. Have any of you tried meditation? Any tips or sources to go to?
I have an awesome family. I am the oldest of five children: four girls and a boy. I also have some of the greatest in-laws too! Couldn't be more blessed there!
I have an obsession with these little things called Texture Balls. I will never have enough.
I also am obsessed with fonts. The other day I may or may not have squealed and told my husband that I had just found a bunch of beautiful new ones and he winked and said, "Nerd Alert!" haha...

Dawnelle's Questions for Me:

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? Honestly, SE Idaho. I would love to raise my family in that beautiful area. I really do miss it! But I can't lie and say that I haven't dreamed about living in a different country for a little while...Hungary, maybe?
Where is your favorite place to spend your money? Ross. I really shouldn't even walk into those doors...
Would you change your name if you could? and what would you change it to? I wouldn't change my name, I would just change the way people read it...it's a long A friends...the E makes it so...
If you could live in a book (or movie), what book would you choose and why? The Notebook. Seriously the styles back then were absolutely beautiful!
What is the scariest thing that has happened to you? When I thought I would lose a family member to cancer.
What do you procrastinate the most? The dishes or laundry. Ugh. Hahaha...
Who inspires you? My mother. She is always trying to do the right thing, no matter the consequences.
What do you think is your best personal quality? I try to be kind to everyone and stay in contact with friends even when our time together is done.
What is one of your most vivid childhood memories? When my grandparents came home from serving an LDS mission, some of us younger grand-girls dressed up in my grandma's old dresses and the older girls did our hair and makeup We, then, put on a fashion show on their front porch with music, outfit changes, talents, and speeches for all of our extended family. The family videos of it all is hilarious now...haha!
What will you not leave the house before doing? Making sure the lights are all off...
Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is one of your list items and why? Yes, my husband and I have a couple, you can see all the items HERE. :)