I 💙 STEEMIT ! And as you may have already read in my previous post , on what a great week I just had on steemit ! And my goals that I wish to achieve in 2017 ! You will know that I am putting all my steem 100% POWER UP, as Im saving for my future home and retirement fund ! Heres a link if you want to check it out ! : https://steemit.com/life/@karenmckersie/my-life-long-dream-and-goal-for-2017-whats-yours

So now I would like to give a special thanks to all my fellow steemians that really supported my future plans , from entering contests to putting Christmas steem in my wallet which I powered up , towards my retirement fund ! THANKS EVERYONE ! Your all awesome here on steemit , I just thought a special Christmas THANK YOU ! was in order for some special steemians this week ! So in no special order here we go !

💙 (#1 ) Hive account@meesterboom ! Whom just 3 hours ago donated to me 10.00 steem into my wallet towards my house on the hill ! Which I powerd up into steem power ! That was a totally unexpected , surprise Christmas gift ! And much appreciated on his time line ! Thank you very much ! And Happy Holidays to you and your family ! 💙🎄🎉🎊🎄💙 STEEM ON ! ♨♨♨

💙 (#2) Hive account@pappa-pepper ! For choosing one of the names I entered for his 5 bunnies nameing contest ! They are all so cute ! He and his family together chose the name Pepper for one of the bunnies ! And I was awarded 10.00 steem ! Thanks a bunch ! It was alot of fun , and I recomend all steemians to get involved and enter contests ! Eventually they really do pay off , and you have fun at the same time ! Check out his post for all the other bunnie nameing winners ! : https://steemit.com/cute/@papa-pepper/we-have-names-5-week-baby-bunny-update#@papa-pepper/re-karenmckersie-re-papa-pepper-we-have-names-5-week-baby-bunny-update-20161216t073913318z

💙 (#3) Hive account@good-karma ! Thanks a bunch ! I won 20.175 steem power for entering his calender contest ! Heres the link ! Please check it out and follow , theres plenty more chances to win daily prizes ! Thanks again and Happy Holidays! https://steemit.com/steemadvent/@good-karma/day-16-steem-advent-calendar-2016-win-prize-everyday

💙 (#4) Hive account@englishtchrivy ! For helping the community by putting on the Steemit Culinary Challenge every week ! Thanks a lot for all that you do ! Heres a link to my entry in contest # 8 ! Where I already made 13.87 in upvotes ! Which I also Steem Powered Up ! Yippee ! if I dont win anything in the contest im already a winner in upvotes ! So its really worth it for you guys to try and enter ! Its alot of fun as well ! Thanks again and Happy Holidays ! Also thanks to Hive account@kus-knee ! For guest judging !

fhttps://steemit.com/steemitculinarychallenge/@karenmckersie/steemit-culinary-challenge-8-pasta-perfetta-one-pot-mac-n-cheese-tuna-casserole

💙 (#5) Hive account@bullionstackers ! For all that you do for the comunity in catching these plagerists , spammers and flaggers that are out to make lives miserable for our fellow steemians ! Aso for the 3.00 steem you put in my wallet for helping to spread the word about a recent 6 time( 6 different names) Plagerist identity thief / impersonator ! You are more then awesome ! Thanks again and Happy Holidays ! Hers a link if you want to see what the idiot flagger looks like : https://steemit.com/steemit/@karenmckersie/beware-the-steemit-spammer-flagger-plagerist-is-back-this-is-5-now

So those were my top 5 Steemians that I picked for this week ! Which is my first week of doing a top 5 picks ! Which I will continue to do on a weekly basis ! So stay tuned , you may be on my Top 5 List next week ! Of course I want to thank everyone else that puts on contests and helps out the comunity in different ways, as well as all my fellow steemians that support , upvote and follow me ! Your all awesome ! Happy Holidays EVERYONE! STAY SAFE ! 🎄💙🎊🎉💙🎄

THIS IS 100% STEEM POWER UP / RETIREMENT FUND POST ! THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT ! ⤴🆙⤴