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Happy Birthday Strength And Sunshine

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Happy 1st birthday Strength and Sunshine! Que balloons, fireworks, horns, and general fanfare… I just want to cry! My little blog baby is now 1 year old! O how the time has flown by. From the first post to this post and all the 263 in between. My o my how this little blog has grown. I am so forever grateful that I finally took that step and got serious about starting my own blog. Thinking back now to all that I could have accomplished if I hadn’t gets completely trumped by what I have accomplished, all because of SAS.

Happy Birthday Strength and Sunshine | Strength and SunshineStrength and Sunshine is still a baby blog. It hasn’t grown like some other blogs do in their first year or even 6 months, but it has grown enough for me and has grown with me. It’s my little space to share my recipes, my love for yoga and fitness, living a crazy gluten-free allergy filled life, to share products I love (honestly), random happenings and thoughts that pop up in my head and I write down all in a blog post, and soon to be musings from a DC college student. I don’t know where this blog will take me next or how it will transform in its next year of life, but I know I do not want to stop anytime soon. I have been given some amazing opportunities, been able to connect with so many amazing people, work with fabulous brands, companies, and blogging networks.

And I want to thank you most off all. To those of you who comment directly or connect with me via Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram, you have no idea how much it means to be and the joy it brings to my day. Even if you are a silent-stalker (I say this with the most love), I thank you too, because that is the whole point of blogging. To Share! If I didn’t want to share, well then I would just keep a daily journal; that’s what blogging is if there is no connection. But I have a blog and I get to share it with you, read all your blogs, and even just know that some are coming to read and enjoy on their own.

How about we take a trip down memory lane and re-read some old posts? How about the top 3 viewed posts on the blog that you all have loved first! (They all have to do with food…and I am a-okay with that ;))

1. Vegan Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms and A Crunchy Sweet Treat

Vegan Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms

2. My Take On “Spaghetti and Meatballs”

Vegan and Gluten-Free Spaghetti and Meatballs // Strength and Sunshine

3. Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken

Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken

All good choices indeed! Now for my top 3 favorite posts…

1. It’s Okay To Cry During Yoga

Yoga2. Vanilla Purple Sweet Potato Pancakes (a.k.a PSPcakes…how I miss them so!)

Vanilla PSPcakes 3. An Interview With My Yoga Inspiration: Fiji McAlpine

Fiji McAlpineAnd to thank you all for stopping by and reading, I have a little giveaway for you all! By now most of you know I am the giveaway-entering-queen (just ask Caitlin, she knows!). Really they are so fun and enter almost everyone. So now I am giving you a chance to enter one here on the SAS to show my love! I’ll put together a special Strength and Sunshine Birthday prize box to one lucky beautiful reader! What is in it will be a surprise…but you can rest assured it will be foodie related 😉

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Just use the Rafflecopter link above to enter (U.S. only please! Even though I love you all!). I will announce the winner on next weeks Friday Finisher (July 4th…how can it almost be July 4th already!?)

I have no idea where this blog will be in the next month, then next year, but I thank you for following and being a part of this journey with me. I wish you all the Strength and Sunshine that is out there to be had. I love this community and I’m proud to call myself the blogger of Strength and Sunshine.

So tell me:

+ What was you favorite Strength and Sunshine post?

+ What would you like to see in the coming year from Strength and Sunshine? Don’t be shy, I want to know!

+ If you’ve never commented before, introduce yourself! Tell me your name and one interesting fact about yourself!

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Comments

  10. Astrid says

    Wow, happy bloggiversary! My blog is going to be one year old in August, but I moved it to WP in November. I love these posts about yoga and your recipes are gorgeous. I’ll be sure to check out that “okay to cry during yoga” post, cause that’s a reason I gave up yoga.

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  11. Felecia Efriann says

    Congrats on a year of Blogging at Strength and Sunshine! It is quite an accomplishment. The cool part about blogiversaries is looking back and seeing all that has happened over that period of time.
    I am new to your blog and looking through the top post of your blog makes me hungry. I am pinning quite a few recipes to cook them at a later date, hopefully soon. Seriously, just looking is making me hungry. Again, congrats on a year of blogging at SAS. 🙂

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  12. Antoinette says

    I just found your blog today! Although I am about 10 years older than you, we have a lot in common and I’ve been enjoying reading your older posts. Happy blog-iversary! I can’t wait to read more!

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  14. Nichole says

    Happy Birthday Strength and Sunshine!! How exciting:)) Time flies when your having fun! Love that you included the top posts! I am so happy to have met you through the blogging world girly!

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  18. Sami says

    Happy Birthday Strength and Sunshine! I have really enjoyed reading your posts over the last several months and look forward to many more!

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  22. Tina Muir says

    Your blog is only ONE YEAR! That is amazing Rebecca! Loook how far you have come 🙂 Here is to another 10 years….dont forget us when you make it big time 😉

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  3. […] One year and 1 day old now! I am still in awe that I have made it this far! What a blessing it has been to keep Strength and Sunshine up and running every day! Did you enter the birthday giveaway yet? You should! I got some good stuff packed to ship to one of you lovelies! Now we bounce into year two! Remember how I said June is a great month, but also a very busy month. Well on Sunday I will be in DC for orientation for a few days. So if I can get through and survive three days of no sleep, running around the city, information overload, who-knows-what-food resources I will have, then I can say there will be a year two for SAS. I pray I can get my posts up and promoted on Monday and Tuesday (I am not ready for a blogging break. I must post!)…I should have asked for guest posts, but it’s a bit to late for that now! Fingers crossed I survive all this Colonial Inauguration craziness. My anxiety is through the roof right now! But after that, the summer will be much more relaxed and I can start marking the things I want to get done in my own time. Relaxed except for when I get my wisdom teeth out at the end of July (god help me!). […]

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