Happy third birthday "Keep up the good work"

Well, I've been at it for three years now. I started this blog on July 27 of 2008 and I'm still going. To you good readers who have stuck with me, THANK YOU!
Google analytics and the "stats" tab on my blog have provided me with some good information about who has been reading my blog and where they are from.
Here is a little info:

• There have been readers from 23 countries and all but four of the United States over the last three years. I need a reader in North and South Dakota, Maine and Rhode Island. Anyone, anyone?? There have been a lot of readers from South Korea, Canada and Russia.
• the most hits the blog had in one day was 8,822 but it usually averages about 20 readers a day
• when I post more often, I have more consistent readers
• 68% of the people who read by blog come back again
  
• readers average 2 minutes and 23 seconds on site when they read an average of two posts
• 32% of my readers are new visits
• the blog averages 700 hits per month
• the posts that have had the most visitors are the posts "Called to Serve" about the Provo MTC, the inside model of the Salt Lake City LDS temple, the Carl Bloch exhibit announcement and the new eating symbol of the plate replacing the food pyramid. This tells me that people are interested in various topics and ideas that I am interested in.
  
• some of the best traffic sources are other blogs of my family and friends! Many thanks to Brooke N., Eileen, Team Z, Jamie, Kylee, Lee, Jessica, Mormon blogs and Google for providing a link from your blog to mine!

I'm celebrating my third birthday by using a new blog background and by going to lunch with some friends to eat Thai food! My niece Kylee is coming to visit today and I think we'll have some of these to celebrate her birthday and mine!



If you want to wish my blog a happy birthday, please say hello and tell me who you are! I'm very interested to know who is reading.