Next Blog Button

Have you ever clicked on the "Next Blog" button at the top of a blogger blog? It's at the very top of this blogger page on the left, close to the middle of the screen. Over the last week I have tried it several times from blogs I am reading just to see what would happen.
Last night I spent quite a while looking at the 'next blogs'. There are a number of blogs that are in different languages, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese too. Since I don't understand nor can I differentiate between any characters of Japanese, Chinese and Korean I have no idea which language is which. I saw some stunning photos of a crater covered in snow, pictures of people all over the world, funny poems, pleas for families to take in rescue pets and even some items for sale. One page had flip flops for sale, they were dollar store flip flops with some ribbon added to make them cuter. The site was in Spanish and there wasn't any information about what country the blog was from but the blogger was selling them for R$28,000. I hope that converts to only a few US dollars because they weren't worth more than about $5.
Next time you want a little adventure on the internet try the "Next Blog" button. You never know what you will get.

Whirlwind Weekend

We are finally all healthy again. We went through a two week period of sickness. Something gastro related- yucky. Thankfully we are all better and were able to enjoy this past weekend. All of my siblings and their families gathered at my parents house for the weekend. It is the first time in almost a year and a half that we have all been together.

Our weekend consisted of two birthday parties, lunch out for all the moms, brunch on Sunday, a family talent show, a Take 6 concert (phenomenal), delicious dinners, walks around the golf course, playing outside, playing with cousins, movies, and more playing. Sunday night there were 22 of us at dinner. We did manage to get a family picture taken.

Here is a photo of all the cousins.

I hope your weekend was fun too.

Happy Birthday Hannah!

Today Hannah turns 4 years old. We celebrated her birthday with family over the weekend. Today she brought chocolate cupcakes with pink frosting and party bags to day care. Hannah picked out all the party bag contents with a little help from me.

She had a strawberry cake with pink frosting on Sunday. It was the closest I could get to a blueberry cake. She kept changing her mind about what color of frosting to have. She settled on pink after about 10 minutes.

Hannah got a lot of creative presents for her birthday, legos, markers with construction paper, scissors and glue, an art set with paint, stickers, markers, clay and chalk, and she got a princess coloring book/painting book with paints and crayons. In addition she got a little barbie girl riding a pink sparkly pony and a purse filled with purse things. I look forward to many days of creativity in our house. Thank you everyone for the great gifts.