It’s The Ultimate Blog Party 2011!!!

Ultimate Blog Party 2011

It is party time!!! If you are new to The Diaper Diaries thank you so much for stopping by. I have the BEST loyal readers on the planet and would love for you to join them. This is a really serious and deep blog where we discuss the most serious and deep issues. Oh my word, APRIL FOOLS!! Did you read my tagline “Always Loaded, Sometimes Full of Crap”? Clearly we don’t take ourselves too seriously around here.

I love finding the humor in life. With three little kids at home, I can find a lot of it. But I also love to encourage you to find the humor in your life, even the most mundane parts. An Open Letter To The People of the Gym is one of my personal favorites.

One of my other favorite things to write about are….my favorite things (allow myself to introduce…….myself). So I host the weekly “Things I Love Thursday” carnival……on Thursday. Feel free to stop by every week and link up one of your posts. Or if nothing else, come read what everyone else is liking. I have discovered some awesome things that way.

Ok so occasionally I get serious. In fact one of the things I am most passionate about is seeing people rock their marriages. I have been married ten years to the most wonderful man in the world and we teach marriage prep to the young ins at our church. So I have been posting a weekly post on Mondays to encourage you in your marriage. Love is….. is one of my favorites.

Either way I hope you will poke around a bit. You can always find me over on Facebook and Twitter as well. Happy hopping!!

To add to the party fun, I want to introduce you to some of my blogging friends! There are ten of us who each have a picture of a word in our post. These pictures will make up a quote about friendship. We will each link you up to the lady who has the next word in the sentence—but keep in mind that I might not have the first word in the sentence! Once you have the sentence, e-mail it to sisterchickies@gmail.com with “UBP11″ in the subject line. Each person with the correct sentence will be in a drawing to win a $100 Target gift card! Winner will be announced on all of our blogs April 11 and the winner will be e-mailed. The winner has 48 hours to respond or we’ll pick someone else.

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You next clue can be found with Tricia at Once a Month Mom.

Favorite Plug Ins- Works For Me Wednesday

WFMW  I guess if you aren’t a blogger this post will be super boring, but if you are a blogger you will love knowing about a few of my most favorite plug-ins. P.S. Switch to WordPress so you can use plug-ins. Seriously, do it now.

  1. WordPress Editorial Calendar: When I got a new computer I lost my calendar that I planned out all my blogs posts on. This calendar actually sits in your dashboard and allows you to plug in ideas, drafts or scheduled posts. So easy.

  2. And The Winner Is: If you ever have run a giveaway and wanted to pull out your hair counting entries for a winner, this takes all the hassle out. Simply push a button and it randomly draws a winner for you. I cannot tell you how happy this plug in makes me. I will pause while you install it.

  3. Broken Link Checker: Broken links hurt your SEO. SEO frankly makes my head want to explode, but I do know that. This plug in finds them and lets you easily fix them. Easy as that.

  4. WP Touch: I would bet that many of your blog readers are reading your blog on a phone. This plug in allows them to do so in a readable format. Seriously, go grab your phone and see. It isn’t fancy, but it works.

  5. Four seems wrong. I have a bunch of other plug ins but they don’t seem earth shattering.

    So what plug ins do you love? Give me a fifth.
    This post is linked up to Works For Me Wednesday at We Are That Family.

Blissdom Recap in (other people’s) Photos

I am hunkering down for #snowpacolypse11 and it is thundersnowing. THUNDERSNOWING. It is a bit crazy and they are calling for like 2 feet of snow. School is already cancelled tomorrow and my sanity is hanging by a thread as I come down from my Blissdom high.

I perused the Blissdom Flickr stream and it made me so happy so I thought I would share some of my favorite photos with you. Taken by other people of course because I am lame and didn’t take a single picture.

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Me with Robin and JoLynne (photo by JoLynne)

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Me with Melanie and Robin (photo by JoLynne)

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Me and my roomie Tricia (photo by Mishelle)

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Amanda and I probably inappropriately laughing (photo by Staci)

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Best picture ever with Mat Kearney and Michelle Branch

Becky, me, Mat, Mishelle, Michelle, Lotus (photo by Jana)

Blissdom rarely disappoints, mainly because I get to see so many people I love. It really is a party like no other. Let’s get an island (preferably somewhere warm) and all move there ‘kay?

This post is linked up to the fabulous Jo Lynne’s Blissdom recap.

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