{Top 20} New Blogs of 2011

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In keeping with a tradition I started last year, I wanted to review the TOP 20 New Blogs {new to me} I've grown to love in 2011! I love finding a new blog, and I'm sure a lot of you do too, so here's my picks:

{in no particular order}

1. A Bowl Full of Lemons

2. A Small Snippet

3. Bring the Rain

4. Designed to the Nines

5. The Small Things Blog

6. Happy Together

7. I Am Momma

8. Little Miss Momma

9. La Vie Petite

10. Less Cake More Frosting
11. Little Baby Garvin
12. Momma Go Round
13. Nesting Place
14. No. 17
15. Paisley Petal Events
16. Scissors & Spatulas
17. The Believing Woman
18. The Preacher's Wife
19. Take Heart
20. This is Me Thinking

{you can read last year's list here.}

Okay, now it's your turn! Tell me what some of your fave blogs of the year have been, what have you been reading?!? 

Come back Friday to see my thoughts & my own Top 10 list of our little blog here! Hope you're all having a great week, we're still enjoying time here in Iowa with our family!

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I wanted to say thank you to Megan from Honey We're Home for featuring our Christmas tree on her blog last week! You can read it here. 

{Featured} Gust Post at This Is Me Thinking

Good Morning Friends! I'm excited to be guest blogging over at my friend Darrell's blog 'This Is Me Thinking.'

He's doing an NCU Alumni week series! I'm excited that I get to kick of the series with today's post on a few lessons I've learned along the way in ministry over the last six years. Stop by his blog, you can check out my post by clicking here.

Thanks Darrell for allowing me to be apart of this series.

{Featured} A Place for Us {Be Inspired} Blog Series

Hi Friends! Happy Friday to you all! Today I'm lucky enough to be featured over at my friend Destiny's blog A Place for Us during her {Be Inspired} blog series! This is a new series she's doing featuring some amazing ladies and I am happy to be just a small part. 

You can check out the full article here on her blog. While you're there you can enter to win an Ava's Closet gift card! 

Thank you Destiny, for featuring me today and for your sweet, kind words! I'm so lucky to have made a friend like you! 

Kind Mentions & Features

A BIG thank you to those that have featured and given kind mentions to Worley House, I'm so thankful to be apart of this wonderful online community! 

 

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{Featured} Birthday Girl Blog

Ava's Cupcake themed first birthday party was featured today on Birthday Girl Blog! I'm so excited to have her party featured there, I love her blog it has tons of great inspiration.

Thank you Becca for featuring Ava's party! 

Go HERE to read the article. 

Blogtrotting to Arizona

I want to say a BIG hello to all my Blogtrotting friends who are visiting us from all over the place! My husband and I are our adorable baby girl live in sunny and beautiful Glendale, Arizona. I lived up in Northern Arizona for a while but we've been living here in the Valley together for a year now. Living in Arizona is like waking up on vacation every single day, in my humble opinion. 

Sunny almost every single day of the year, with an option of should I or shouldn't I go to the pool today? I can drive North a couple hours and be in the mountains and snow and drive right back into the sun and warm temperatures! That's my kind of living! 

Glendale is home to some pretty amazing sights, sports teams, shopping and resorts in the greater Phoenix area. Today we're going to take a little tour of some of our favorite things to see and do in the Glendale area. 

Keep reading, let's take a tour! 

One of our all time fave & free things to do here is head out to West Gate City center, walk around, shop and eat at one of the local restaurants. There's shopping, tons of places to eat, a really fun fountain for the kids, and home to Jobing.com arena and the University of Phoenix Stadium where the Arizona Cardinals play. There's endless possibilities there for entertainment and fun! We like to grab a coffee or smoothing from Tully's, share it and walk around. It's pretty relax, and it's fun for our little family. 

On the 3rd Saturday of the month I like to head out bright and early to Momma's Organic Market and pick up some fresh and local produce from local farmers. This amazing farmer's market is located at Park West Shopping center in the parking lot. They have tons of local vendors, great produce, a petting zoo for the kids, face painting and more! I love going there and getting out for the morning and seeing what everyone has to offer. It's a great way to spend a Saturday! 

Also throughout the year the city of Glendale is home to some of the most amazing events like Glendale Glitters their annual Holiday celebration downtown, in the Spring the Glendale Chocolate Affair is home to lots and lots of yummy treats think the fair but everything involves chocolate! Check here for all the amazing events Glendale has going on this Fall. 

You can also take a stroll down historic downtown Glendale and eat at one of the local burger joints and do some antique shopping while you're at it. 

I hope you all have a chance to come visit us here in Glendale soon, happy blogtrotting everyone! 

{Featured} thenest.com

Today is a good day! Today, they announced the winners online for The Nest's 'How To' Contest. 

I was excited to pull up the site and see our pretty faces, and our article featured! You can read all the other winners entries here.

Can't wait see our faces in the pages of The Nest magazine this fall. But for now, this shot will have to do!

Happy Monday!!

I'm excited to announce that we won our category for The Nest's 'How To' Contest. There were 6 categories, and they picked 1 winner for each. Orion and I won in the category of How to Save on the Sly. 

I wrote about 5 tips for how we save daily & monthly here in the Worley House. I'm so over joyed that the editors of The Nest thought the article was helpful and insightful enough to be featured. 

We will be featured in the Fall 2010 issue of The Nest magazine!!! I'm so excited I can't wait to get my hands on one of those glossy mags and see our mugs on the pages. We're pretty excited! 

I'll be sure to post the article on the blog for those that don't get the mag. And if you wanna read the article we submitted, click here. If you'd like to subscribe to the magazine, click here. 

If you wanna read about our first stint in The Nest magazine, click here.