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		<title>My Christmas Lights &#8211; First Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben.kevan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year marked a very exciting year for me, as I purchased my first house. Not only are we in a new house for the&#160;[&#160;<a href="http://www.freetechie.com/blog/my-christmas-lights-first-year/">continue reading...</a>&#160;]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This year marked a very exciting year for me, as I purchased my first house. Not only are we in a new house for the first year, but this is the first year since my son was born that we&#8217;re going to have XMas Mornings / Night at our own house (this is big for me, since I started to think that my son wouldn&#8217;t believe Santa actually came to HIS house). But so here you have it:</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.benkevan.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DSC03884_1.JPG"><img src="http://www.benkevan.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_DSC03884_1.JPG" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://www.benkevan.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DSC03886_1.JPG"><img src="http://www.benkevan.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_DSC03886_1.JPG" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://www.benkevan.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DSC03889_1.JPG"><img src="http://www.benkevan.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_DSC03889_1.JPG" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://www.benkevan.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DSC03892_1.JPG"><img src="http://www.benkevan.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_DSC03892_1.JPG" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>In the one picture you can see the tree on the inside of the house, which is a 10FT Noble Fir tree. I purchased the lights from the 2 websites below (which I am have an affiliate program with). This is the first time I&#8217;ve ever decorated (we didn&#8217;t decorate outside much as a child), so really the first time I really feel like I&#8217;m in the &#8220;Christmas Spirit&#8221;.</p>
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<a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=171352&amp;u=393876&amp;m=21952&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.shareasale.com/image/480x609.gif" border="0" alt="468x60 eLightbulbs banner" /></a><a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=184694&amp;u=393876&amp;m=22032&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.shareasale.com/image/468x60509.gif" border="0" alt="Christmas Tree Lights" /></a><br /></center></p>
<p>On another note.. both houses next to me (I only have 1 house to the right, and one to the left) are both decorated, and we plan on decorating just a tad bit more this year, but even more so next year when we pick up lights / decorations (we plan on doing a santa + raindeers across the houses next year) during post-christmas sales.. because boy .. alot of lights sure do get expensive (disclaimer: I have yet to see how bad my electric bill will get affected). I&#8217;d be interested in seeing your Christmas Ligts / Decorations.. Feel free to send them over, or whatever. </p>
<p>Happy Holidays to you all.</p>


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		<title>Oregon Wildlife Safari</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this weekend Sarah, Baby and I went to the Oregon drive through Wildlife Sarafi. I have to say this was a great great experience.&#160;[&#160;<a href="http://www.freetechie.com/blog/oregon-wildlife-safari/">continue reading...</a>&#160;]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So this weekend Sarah, Baby and I went to the Oregon drive through Wildlife Sarafi.</p>
<p>I have to say this was a great great experience. We all really enjoyed it, and I don&#8217;t believe that little guy being only 6 months old was a limitation. He really enjoyed it, he even tried to talk to the animals.</p>
<p>It was great being in the animals habitat, you really felt like you were in their home instead of walking around seeing them in a fake habitat. Seeing the Giraffes, Rhino&#8217;s and other exotic animals roam free, without a care about you or your car felt like I was back years ago, watching Jurassic Park wishing I was on the tour.  Seeing the brute force of the bears, and being able to see the massive size of most animals really made me appreciate nature and the animals much more. I would write up more, but there is nothing I can say or show you that will give you the experience you are looking for, especially since each trip can and will be different, they are wild animals, and are very unpredictable.</p>
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