A Salute To America

6:36 PM by trafficpro
When I think of the 4th of July many things come to mind. It really is a great and exciting holiday for children. The parades, cook outs, festivals, and fireworks make it one of the favorite holidays for children. Like many other holidays the meaning sometimes gets forgotten. A Salute To America can help.


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The 4th of July should still be a day to remember our country's history. We have gone from just an idea had by a few men to a great nation. Today a digital album has been released for download on Amazon. The album is named A Salute To America. The album is a collection of 30 patriotic songs.

This digital album will normally sells for $9.49. That is already a big savings for such great patriotic song. You can save even more on June 3rd. Amazon is making it the MP3 Deal of the Day on June 3rd. This means that you can buy the album for only $1.99.

That makes it an extremely affordable addition to any 4th of July gathering. The patriotic songs will get everyone in the mood for a great Independence Day.

We are looking forward to a nice weekend spending time together. I still am not too sure what kind of food I will make but I am sure food will play an important part.Food is always important to James and the girls.


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Great American Backyard Campout

6:36 AM by trafficpro
June 27, get outside and enjoy nature with your own backyard campout.

The economy may be keeping people closer to home this summer. Instead of packing up and hitting the road, here’s an idea for family fun, no further than your backdoor. The National Wildlife Federation encourages parents and kids alike to trade their website for a campsite and screen time for green time.

Turn off computers, TVs, iPods, Wiis, MP3 players, cell phones and all things high tech, to experience a night with Mother Nature, listen for nocturnal wildlife (maybe even see a few), star-gaze, cook outdoors, tell stories about Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, and explore a whole other world right in their own backyard.

Last year thousands of people from around the country participated in the Great American Backyard Campout®. You don’t need to go to Yosemite National Park to experience the great outdoors and the wonders it has to offer. Just open up your backdoor! June has been officially designated Great Outdoors Month by the White House and more than half of America’s governors and what better way to celebrate

This was our family's backyard campsite last year. We are looking forward to the fun once again this year. I hope some of you will get outdoors for the Great American Backyard Campout just like us.

Here are some of our camping posts to help you get started...

Camping Crafts

Camping Games


Camp with the Great American Backyard Campout

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Goodbye Project Wonderful

9:32 AM by trafficpro

You may have noticed that I am no longer doing Project Wonderful ads. I tried to stick it out since I was 21 cents from the $10 pay out but I could not take it any longer. I had to dump the ads.

The ads are great for advertisers. When you can place ads on websites for pennies and sometimes even no money at all, yeah that is wonderful. For publishers that is horrible.

I ran the ads for just under 5 months and almost hit the $10 pay out. That is not worth it to me. I could not stand it any longer though. I have been getting rid of ads that do not do well to get rid of clutter. The flashing and blinking ads became annoying and there was nothing to gain by them.

Yes, I know some people place the ads on the top of their site or they cover their site with them so that they can make money but I do not like how it looks.

I have been trying out some CPC ads from Social Spark to see how they do. I will dump them too if it ends up not being worth the added clutter. I am even thinking about dumping Adbrite.

Since I got rid of Project Wonderful there is not a way for people that do not already have a relationship with me to advertise on my site. I will now take email requests and payments through Paypal.

You can email me at ... melissa(at)yourfunfamily(dot)com
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Save Our Summer Vacation

4:50 PM by trafficpro

Are you still taking a vacation this year? The economy has caused many people to rethink their family vacations this year. The added stress the economy causes is exactly why we all need a vacation still. Save Our Summer Vacation has a cute petition and a contest to win a $10,000 getaway.

Life gets stressful and we all need to take time for ourselves to relax. Time to put all of the stress behind us and forget about everything but having fun. Even if you need to cut way back on your usual family vacation you still need to try to find a time to just have fun and get away.

Save Our Summer Vacation is a cute petition to Congress. It asks Congress to proclaim August 7 as "National Vacation Day". I like that idea. August is the only month without a holiday so you do not get any days off of work. I say if banks and businesses can get bail outs we deserve a holiday in August!

So what about the contest for a giveaway? HomeAway Vacation Rentals is not only organizing the Save Our Summer Vacation petition. It is also having a contest on it's blog. The winner gets a $10,000 getaway to the vacation rental of their choice and two runners-up will each receive a $5,000 trip.

I would have a heck of a time deciding with vacation home to pick if I were to win. On one hand I really miss Tucson. I could go back and visit family and friends. I would also love going to Hawaii so I could relax on a beach.

No matter where the location the price is still awesome. We have never stayed at a vacation rental before but it sounds great. All the fun of a vacation and all of the comforts of home.

It would be more relaxing and comfortable than a hotel. It would definitely be more comfortable and private than staying in a relatives house.
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Blogger's Fake Baby

6:12 PM by trafficpro
A 26 year old single woman in Illinois blogs about being pregnant with a baby that she knows will die. She blogs for weeks to hundreds of thousands of readers about how devastating it is and how alone she is. Becca Beushausen was not even pregnant though.

Just like any other morning, I sat on the couch with my laptop and turned on the news. I do not really watch the news I just catch a story here and there. All of a sudden I heard the word blogger. Naturally, my ears caught that!

I was shocked with the story I heard so I had to go online and look up some more info. I will save you all from having to do all of the work and tell you what I learned. I will try to just stick to facts and not many opinions.

Becca's readers became suspicious when her lies started to get tangled. Due dates changed and the baby became weeks over due. The lies finally got discovered when she announced that the baby died and produced pictures of her "child". The pictures were of a life like doll.

Her readers became outraged and the blog was quickly deleted. It was too late though. People had already found out her name and the media got involved. She then posted an apology on her blog.

The apology is very lengthy. She does apologize but it sounds like she is still continuing some lies. She really tries to get people to feel sorry for her and make her life still seem horrible. I have trouble believing anything said when someone can lie so easily and for so long.

She states,
"If in the future I want to speak out more, or want to be heard in another public format, I will do so if/when able."
To me it sounds like she is just trying to keep people feeling sorry for her so she can start a new blog.

Becca claims that she is,
"no stranger to losing a baby. I have suffered this type of loss, more than once, to varying degrees, and while the circumstances and times vary (spanning from between my college years through just this last year), the pain is very constant."
In two articles it is reported that she lost a baby back in 2005. The apology states that the reports about her incorrectly report "an event" in 2005. A college friend of her's did in fact lose a child to the disorder that she claimed her baby had. These reports make it seem more like she stole her friend's story to get attention.

She claimed in an interview that she started the blog to help her deal with her lose. If this was true she could have just wrote a journal for herself to read. If she wanted to blog about it she could have done it without claiming it was happening right now. It just does not add up.

She states in one interview that she had expected only a handful of friends to read it, but when her first post got 50 comments, she was hooked. Are you kidding me? We all know how hard it can be to get a new blog noticed and she just happened to get 50 comments on her first post without trying!?!

She also states that she was not in it for the money and that Blogher contacted her asked her to run their ads. I can not say that I have ever heard of Blogher doing that. The fact that she had a P.O. box on the side bar so people could send her things also implies that she wanted people to send her things. DUH!


If you would like to learn more about the story you can check out these links...

* an old screen shot of the blog
* the apology
* Chicago Tribune article
* Good Morning America article
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The Guard Dogs

5:51 PM by trafficpro

So what do you use to keep your house safe? We use two big dogs. Jack London is 85 pounds and his son Padfoot is 100 pounds. The are huge dogs and look very scary. They even have a scary bark. The problem is that anyone that really knows them also knows that the only way either of them even gets off of their butts is if food in involved.

We probably have the laziest dogs ever! Padfoot will not even stand up while he eats and drinks. As soon as he gets to a food dish he does this strange sliding maneuver with his back paws and ends up laying down cuddled around the dish.

In the past we had moved very often so people did not really get to know the dogs. We have now lived in this town for a year and a half so people know that the dogs are not really scary.

Since we have lived here longer than normal we have also accumulated a lot more possessions. Add in the bad economy and I start to wonder if maybe we should look into getting an alarm system.

I looked at a wireless security system at Protect America and found some interesting packages. I really like the Platinum Package. It includes a garage door sensor. Our garage is full of expensive things because of James' work. There is no way that we could replace everything.

If anyone else is also looking into home alarms I have learned of a special offer through Protect America. If you call this special number 877-470-2751 you get 2 free keychain remotes with their order.

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Summer is Good

4:00 PM by trafficpro
Summer is in full swing and I am loving it. I have gotten so much work done! Of course I am nowhere near caught up but it has just been a week of no school after all. I have been posting a lot more which makes me very happy.

I really got behind there for awhile so I am feeling good about how much I have gotten done. My garden is really suffering but it is still better than the garden last year. We have started to go through the girls toys so I have hope that we will get rid of a lot of clutter by the end of summer.

There has been talk of having a garage sale but I really hate having them.
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