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Lidia's foundation, Tiny Sparrow, has taken flight! If you live in Texas (or not) come out for an evening of great fun and support this worthwhile cause. I am so excited to be attending this event and to meet all of the people behind Tiny Sparrow! 
For more information about Tiny Sparrow Foundation, please go here. If you would like to make a donation for this event, please leave a comment.
Let me start by saying that I am not a fan of anything on MTV...that is until yesterday. They were showing back-to-back episodes of Silent Library and my older boys were watching it. I kept hearing laughter and screams so I sat down with them to see what was so funny. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. (which just might indicate that I am not right)
Silent Library is modeled after a Japanese game show. On each episode, a team of Six friends performs stunts to earn cash prizes for the team. For each round, team members draw cards to determine who must perform the next stunt. Whoever draws the skull and cross bones card is "it". If the teammate performing the stunt does not make it through the required time limit or their friends are too loud, the cash prize is not awarded for that round.
Here are some examples of the stunts performed:
The other day when we went to the stream, Kellen got in with the dogs. It wasn't long before he was totally drenched and in full-on swim mode.Look mom, I caught the ball.
I love that he can still find joy in the simple things!
Have you heard of Wordle? ( It is another new obsession of mine. ) According to the website, "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."We were looking to create some cheap art for my sons' rooms. Since they are both golf fanatics, we entered in a bunch of golf terms. Note: I have had trouble when I used the paste in text box. Half the time is doesn't work. I prefer to use the advanced option where you enter in your weighted text. Give the words you want to be bigger a larger weight. (Golf is 1345 on mine.) The numbers I used for each word were totally random.One result. Once the wordle comes up, you can hit randomize and another wordle with the same words will appear. You can also change your original wordle by clicking on the menu options.Another one.In order to save your wordle so that you can manipulate it, you need to download a third-party software program like CutePDF. You also need to download the converter. Once you have done this, select print on your wordle and change the printer to the CutePDF. You can then name your wordle and save it.
This is the wordle that Tyler wanted for his room. I opened the wordle in Photoshop and enlarged the wordle. I made it slightly smaller than the finished size that I wanted. I then copied it and placed it on an 11X14 black background. I did this because Wordle places the words all the way to the edge of the box and I wanted a little more black around it.
I then printed the wordle and placed it in a cheap frame from Walmart. (not the best pic, but you get the idea)
Total cost was around $6.I also used Wordle to make invitations for Tristan's 18th Birthday!
The possibilities are endless. Now go forth and create!
I am linking up to these blog parties today: 
This is Bosley, our 5 year old Portuguese Water Dog.Bosley has three loves...water, people and other dogs. He believes that every human and every dog was put on this earth to play with him.Imagine how happy he was to swim in the stream yesterdaywith all of these new friends.He spent over an hour runningplaying
chasingjumping and swimming.He's still asleep today.
