Too Many Photos!

Well, it's been a while since I have updated my blog. I have some fun photos from New Year's Eve that I am unable to upload because my hard drive is too full...do you think this could be attributed to the 21,000 photos I have stored already on the hard drive? Yes, thanks the digital camera age, I have more photos than ever.

So what have I been up to this past week? Mostly just trying to get the house back in order from all the festivities last month. I think I did 8 loads of laundry yesterday!!! A few days before that I completely cleaned the play room...and ya wanna know the best part? It has been staying clean thanks to the new LOCK we installed!!! It's one of the best things we've done to the house so far. By having the playroom door locked most of the time, the constant flow of toys has really come to a screeching halt! They are all trapped in the playroom and the kids, who are missing their toys, really appreciate them more and have done a great job at keeping them put back when they are done...because they know we won't let them play unless everything is put away afterwards...it's quite a monumental turning point in my housekeeping!

I've also been having fun with a site meter I installed on my paper capers blog. It allows me to see how many visitors are checking out my site. I've got visitors from all over the United States and Canada (represented by the colored dots):


...and even some in the Dominican Republic, England, France and Australia! I can track how long they have been on the paper capers blog and how they found the blog (google search engine, or links from other blogs etc.) It also shows how many pages they have looked at and where they are located. I thought it was pretty cool to see so many different locations listed in just the three days since I set up the meter.

Here's a what a referral looks like from Google:
Someone left a nice comment on the penguin party post and it (the meta tags) were picked up by Google! I've actually generated quite a lot of hits from people looking for party ideas. The penguin party has been the most popular so far.

Added Saturday morning. Just got visits from the Netherlands, Korea and Hawaii since I posted last night.

The Ernstopia blog is set to private for our friends and family, so I doubt there are too many viewers from other countries.

At any rate, I hope to download some photos on to Dan's computer and update my blog soon. I also hope to get an external hard drive to relieve some of the storage taken up by all my photos!