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There are two bloggy events going on to help increase blog traffic. Some really great prizes can be won at both events! So without further ado, here they are!

Blog Around The World - This is a directory dedicated to listing blogs by state. There’s only like 1 blog listed in each state, so get while the getting’s good! There will be a drawing for a $50 gift card to Target and Macy’s!

Blog The Recession - The purpose of this event is to help increase blog page views. So this means no reading blogs through your rss feedreader unless you’re going to click over and poke around a bit! There’s a bunch of prizes up for grabs, Land’s End backpacks, a 3-in-1 Graco carseat, and a $50 Amazon gift card to name a few.

I was featured in Spotlight on Dads over at Discovering Dad! Spotlight on Dads is a series where every week a dad is thrown into an interrogation room, placed under a spotlight, and forced at gunpoint to answer questions about fatherhood. This week was my turn! I really encourage you all to check it out, as you may discover something about me that you didn’t know before. For example, I bet you all didn’t know that I have thirteen toes!

Ok I lied, I don’t really have thirteen toes. I only have twelve… and a half.

Today’s Flashback Friday features a picture of Daddy and I last 4th of July. We took this picture during a fireworks show. The streaks you see in the picture are due to said fireworks. Today I’m being a bum. I’m wearing the SAME shirt again!

In honor of the 4th of July, we are giving away two Russ Shining Stars Eagle Plushes! For a chance to win, leave a comment telling us how you are celebrating or how you celebrated Independence Day! 2 winners will be chosen on July 6th at 7PM CST! This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only!

I took this picture at a Hammond, IN gas station back in the spring of 2005 because I wanted to look back at it in the future and laugh at how ridiculously high the gas prices were at the time. Boy, how I wish those were the gas prices now. Before heading in to work today, I stopped to gas up my car. The price of gas has been hoovering in the $3.90’s in my area for a while now, but today it had finally surpassed $4.

I asked our followers on Twitter how high the gas prices were in their area…

As you can see, some areas are still lucking up with gas prices under $4, but in other areas, they are as high as $4.65! Craaaaazy!

So how high is gas in your area?