Hiking, an Award, and a Hop!

Hi All,

It's a lovely Sunday morning and I HURT ALL OVER!!  I went hiking yesterday to the Cascades (beautiful waterfall in Giles County, Virginia), and my knees hate me.  However, it was very pretty and I did have a good time, so it was worth it.

Anyway, I have a few shout outs to throw out.  I wan to say THANK YOU to Taylor over at Baking, Crafting, Teaching...Oh My! for giving me the Versatile Blogger Award!

The rules are to:

1. Thank the person who gave you this award (DONE!)
2. Link back to them (DONE!)
3. Select 15 awesome blogs to give it to (well, 7)
4. Let them know they won the award (right after this)
5. Tell those you awarded seven things about yourself (YUP!)

Because I am super new to this, many people already have this award, so I will try to find as many as I can to award this to!  Second, since I did a lovely Tell Me More linky party with Amy last week, I will just send them a link :)  Here we go!

1. Courtney at Classroom Snapshots
2. Stephanie at The Secret Life of a Teacher
3. Courtney at Flocking to Fifth
4. Ashley at That's So Second Grade 
5. Jeannie at Classroom Couture
6. From the Desk of... 
7. Kerri and Lindsay at Teacher Bits & Bobs

That's it, I'm stopping at seven...that took almost an hour!  Anyway, congratulations you guys!

Next up is a Blog Hop!  Kelley at Teacher Idea Factory is having a Rocking Resources: Things you can't Live Without Linky Party.

So here goes....

Things I can't live without.....

1. Felt Tipped Pens - I love these pens!  They are great for grading, drawing, writing, etc.!  They don't bleed through papers or stay on hands too long!  I always buy 2 or 3 packs a year, because I keep losing them!

2. Paper Cutter - I really can't live without this!  It saves so much time cutting out things.

3. Laminator - Again, I don't what I would do without this.  I don't even know how much time I spend laminating and cutting things out in front of the TV.

4. Agenda/Lesson Planner - I would be lost without this thing.  I've had my kids scour the room looking for "Mrs. Love's agenda!"

5. Scholastic Printables - In a pinch or need work fast for a sub, these are perfect.  You can find just about anything here!

What can't you live without?