MULTIPLE BLESSINGS
NEWSLETTER
~ 2004 ~
Hello and welcome to our first Newsletter of the year 2003!!   We're sure starting the year off with a lot to say aren't we?   We've broken a post record at the Group in the first month of the year already, over 3700 posts!!  That's the highest number of posts in one month EVER!   We don't waste any time, do we!! lol  It's just a reminder of just how blessed we all are to have such a  wonderful bunch to share our days with!!  No matter if they are happy, sad, funny, trying, frustrating, maddening, you name it !  Oh yeah, I forgot to add give a rough time, tease, bug, pick on! LOL  BRATS I tell ya, you know who you are!!
The 2nd Annual Christmas Ornament Exchange was a success!!  Everyone received such lovely ornaments and had fun sending and receiving their parcels.  It was so neat to keep it all a secret until they arrived in the mail.  It was so nice to have an even higher number of  participants this time, and hopefully next year it will even be higher!!  We  had participants from five different countries which made it even more exciting!   Thanks to everyone who participated and made the exchange so fun!
Congratulations to Cindy (cincirose75) for winning our Christmas Trivia Contest.  Cindy won a Calgary, Canada
T-shirt and a cute kids photo album.   Also
Congratulations to Tina (fishtwinmom) for coming in as runner up!
Congratulations to Alice (bourdax) for winning our last word bingo game!!  Thank you Julieta for providing us with the delicious theme and the recipes you provided us along the way.   So sorry your computer crashed in the middle of being our bingo host.  Thank you Beth for taking over!!
I have a NEW CONTEST for all you Smarties!! The winner of this one will receive, what else, but  20 boxes of those yummy Canadian Smarties!! Are you up for this sweet challenge?  Here's the sweet deal, I'm going to pick a photograph of a well known place, monument, or landmark located somewhere in the world.  Then I'm going to chop the picture in pieces and every day give you another piece to the puzzle.  The first one to guess the 'exact' place, monument, or landmark in the picture/puzzle will be our winner.  The Smarties challenge will start on Monday February 10th.
Welcome to our newest members (since 2003):
I asked for some recipes for this issue of the Newsletter!  Thank you to those who sent your delicious recipes in to us, I hope to try a few out myself soon, they sound so good!
To get to the Recipes, just click on the place setting icon to your left or right!! 
MEET THE MEMBERS
Click here to see who's featured in this issue
Upcoming Birthdays & Anniversaries ................
February 2nd: Cindy's birthday (cincirose75) shared with twin sons Dustin and Jordan
AND Jennifer & Tony's anniversary (honeybear23505)
February 9th: Jacque's Birthday (rikisgirl)
AND Riki & Jacques anniversary
AND Lucas' 38th birthday (Alice - bourdax's hubby)
February 20th: Stathis'  (Bobby) 4th b/day (Alice - bourdax's DS)
Februrary 21st: Kari Horst Birthday (horst_family)
Nicholas & Matthew 1st Bday! (Teresa's Boys - tgtgngmg920)
Februrary 24th: Brandi's Birthday ( Sarah - SarahNTn's DD)
February 27th: Jessica and Jennifer turn 2! (Ginger - gin411's daughters)
March 5th: Melinda's hubby's birthday (Melinda - goingcrazyau)
March 15th: James' birthday (Robyn - misstwins2001'sDH) 
AND Trish's birthday (roadrunner_1966)
March 21st: RJ's Birthday,  2nd son of Jacque (rikisgirl)
March 26th: Ariel & Elric's birthday (Candi - Marrz74's twins)
March 28th: Kelly's birthday ( Wendy  - mommyocooltwins dh)
March 29th: Jessica's Birthday (TheLadyJessica)
March 30th: Filadelfo & Julieta (yulma1) Anniversary

April 1st: Vicktoria and Christopher Jr.'s birthday (Heather -heathertaveras' twins)
April 5th: Mason & Matthew's Birthday (Wendy - mommyocooltwins' boys)
April 6th: Kyle & Andrew's Birthday (Melinda - goingcrazyau's twins)
AND Kathy's Birthday (MsKathyElkins)
April 17th: Jessica's first birthday (Trish's daughter - roadrunner_1966)
April 18th: Hayden, Joel and Ryan's  birthday (Andrea's - wisteria418- triplet boys)
April 20th: Jessica's birthday (Becky -twins1020's dgtr)
April 23rd: Becky's Birthday (twins1020)
April 28th: Sheridan & Mitchell's 3rd birthday (Trish's - roadunner_1966 -  g/b twins)
I Love my computer because my friends live in it!