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Monday, September 28, 2009

Weekend O' Fun

What a busy, tiring but fun weekend we had here! Here's the quick version of all the fun....

Thursday night I went to the Royals/Red Sox game with my sister! Not only were our tickets a bargain ($43 for a pair and a parking pass and the tix were normally $43 each - thank you Craigslist!) but the Sox won! Woohoo!



Friday morning we took the boys for their flu shots and Tyler's weight check - you can read about that here

Friday afternoon I entered the boys in the Gap Casting Call! It would help if my blogging friends could vote for them and try to propel them into the fan's choice. You can vote for each picture once a day. Voting ends in mid-November so I'll likely remind you again a few times. You can see and vote for my entries HERE!

Saturday started very early. This was the first time in a loooong time I've gotten up before the sun. Early that morning I loaded the boys up and headed to our church to watch Nick run in the Sacred Steps 5K, a fund raiser for many of ministries in Africa that our church supports. I've run the race twice before but Nick had never had a chance to until this year. He came in 3rd in his age group with a time of 21 minutes even! He was the 15th person to cross the finish line out of the 1,500 or so participants. Go Nick!


 
 

After the race, Nick took the boys home while I stayed at the church for an All Day Crop! Because Kodak has been super slow in getting me the prints I ordered close to 2 weeks ago now, I had to scramble to find something to occupy me. I chose to catch up on the book I started for Nick and me back before we had kids! What a fun change of pace. Oh and I officially want a Cricut now. I'd never used one prior to the crop, but two ladies brought theirs and I now love the Cricut!



Sunday (yesterday) afternoon Laura and I loaded up the boys and headed to The Plaza Art Fair! We had a great time wandering around and heard lots of comments. We'd only been out of the car 5 minutes when Laura asked me how I handle all the stares and comments. I told her I just kind of tone them out now unless someone is specifically talking to me (versus just commenting to their friends). It just doesn't phase me. And I know the boys had their picture taken at least twice - once by a guy who asked if he could and once by a woman in a van we walked past.

The best comment I heard there? A woman walked past us and told me "that's the best display I've seen here all day!", meaning she enjoyed seeing my boys more than the art I guess :)



It was unseaonably hot, so after a bathroom stop at McDonald's I bought the boys each their own "orange drink". They loved it and by the time we got home they were wired from all the sugar!


 


Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Fascinating

I don't usually post twice in a day, but I find this too fascinating to not post about! Every so often I look around my Google Analytics account to see how many visitors I'm getting each day, how much time is being spent on the blog, how they found the blog, etc. I recently noticed an increase in international visitors which is cool and mystifying at the same time!

In the past month I have had visitors from 28 different countries. 28! Check out this list (in order of number of hits from that country in the last 30 days):

USA
United Kingdom
Canada
Germany
Australia
France
Romania
New Zealand
Italy
Norway
China
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
Peru
Ireland
South Africa
Russia
Singapore
Iceland
Malaysia
South Korea
Phillipines
Spain
Indonesia
Brazil
Guam
India
Sweeden

Ok, so some of these I can understand... I obviously know people in the USA. I also have friends in Canada, cousins in the UK and know a few missionaries in Europe and South America. But Singapore? Guam? Sweeden? South Africa? No clue! I was shocked when I looked at the map that shows where my visitors are from. How did these people even find my blog? It's not like most of these countries are one hit wonders either - I consistently get hits from a lot of them!

So if you're from one of these many countries or even if you're one of my THOUSANDS of visitors from the USA and I don't "know" you or know about you, please comment! I'd love to hear how you found us!

Friday, December 12, 2008

Who Are You?

Last night I was bored and was checking out my blog stats on Google Analytics. I find it fascinating to see how many people visit the blog, where they're from, how long they stay, etc.

In the last few weeks I've noticed a trend. Monday through Friday I average 100 hits per day (and that doesn't include hits from my computer), and of those 100 an average of 80 of them are unique visitors. Wow! Then on the weekends my visitors dip to about 30 a day, which is why I've stopped writing posts on weekends. It seems I have a lot of people that read my blog in order to slack off at work!

As I was looking over the numbers last night I started to wonder just who exactly is visiting Three Times the Giggles. Where are they from (I only see countries) and how did they find us? I know a handful of the readers because they comment or they "follow" my blog, but what about the others? We'd love to know who you are - so please comment today!

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