<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382145295726041451</id><updated>2012-02-16T01:41:12.041-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Summers are CHALLENging</title><subtitle type='html'>How do you cope with the endless days of Summer Vacation? Do you do sports, or are you stuck at home? Do you chill with friends, or are you stuck with siblings? Do you have a hobby, or do you search the nooks and crannies of your house for something to do? Take a peak at the Challen house hold during the summer from the eyes of a child.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5382145295726041451/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Eva Challen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07021037662778678691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382145295726041451.post-1968450613528542878</id><published>2010-07-26T10:16:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-26T10:16:10.992-07:00</updated><title type='text'>European Experience</title><content type='html'>I am waiting for my pictures to be developed before I start relaying experiences. Please vote on my poll for how many I should share per day. Thank you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5382145295726041451-1968450613528542878?l=challenfamily.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/feeds/1968450613528542878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5382145295726041451&amp;postID=1968450613528542878&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5382145295726041451/posts/default/1968450613528542878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5382145295726041451/posts/default/1968450613528542878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/2010/07/european-experience.html' title='European Experience'/><author><name>Eva Challen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07021037662778678691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382145295726041451.post-3653607324758763473</id><published>2010-07-26T05:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-26T05:39:15.781-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fancy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TE2BSWd78nI/AAAAAAAAAIE/eKPUWU5HNEY/s1600/IMG_4659.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TE2BSWd78nI/AAAAAAAAAIE/eKPUWU5HNEY/s320/IMG_4659.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is my sisters idea of fancy...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She told me she looked &lt;b&gt;FANCY&lt;/b&gt; so she could go to a &lt;b&gt;FANCY&lt;/b&gt; meeting in a&lt;b&gt; FANCY &lt;/b&gt;building in a &lt;b&gt;FANCY&lt;/b&gt; room with a &lt;b&gt;FANCY &lt;/b&gt;door. And to think her favorite word is plain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5382145295726041451-3653607324758763473?l=challenfamily.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/feeds/3653607324758763473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5382145295726041451&amp;postID=3653607324758763473&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5382145295726041451/posts/default/3653607324758763473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5382145295726041451/posts/default/3653607324758763473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/2010/07/fancy.html' title='Fancy'/><author><name>Eva Challen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07021037662778678691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TE2BSWd78nI/AAAAAAAAAIE/eKPUWU5HNEY/s72-c/IMG_4659.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382145295726041451.post-2901990017837964951</id><published>2010-07-23T15:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-23T15:30:59.263-07:00</updated><title type='text'>You Think She Was Tired?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEn76l42ELI/AAAAAAAAAH0/-qmUx4SHgM0/s1600/IMG_4657.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEn76l42ELI/AAAAAAAAAH0/-qmUx4SHgM0/s320/IMG_4657.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEn7-6uZXEI/AAAAAAAAAH8/dGaWvK-afDw/s1600/IMG_4658.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEn7-6uZXEI/AAAAAAAAAH8/dGaWvK-afDw/s200/IMG_4658.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEn7zF-NWzI/AAAAAAAAAHk/3V_qvrud0PM/s1600/IMG_4655.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEn7zF-NWzI/AAAAAAAAAHk/3V_qvrud0PM/s200/IMG_4655.JPG" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEn72h10Y0I/AAAAAAAAAHs/rDcDa9BRbPI/s200/IMG_4656.JPG" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;When you get overly stressed, or work out for too long, or didn't sleep well at all, you get too tired to stay awake. At least, during the day. I took these pictures at 4:32, and just so you know, she did none of these things. I guess it's very tiring being 3. I'll never understand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5382145295726041451-2901990017837964951?l=challenfamily.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/feeds/2901990017837964951/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5382145295726041451&amp;postID=2901990017837964951&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5382145295726041451/posts/default/2901990017837964951'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5382145295726041451/posts/default/2901990017837964951'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/2010/07/you-think-she-was-tired.html' title='You Think She Was Tired?'/><author><name>Eva Challen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07021037662778678691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEn76l42ELI/AAAAAAAAAH0/-qmUx4SHgM0/s72-c/IMG_4657.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382145295726041451.post-6296144968142822213</id><published>2010-07-22T15:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-22T15:14:30.950-07:00</updated><title type='text'>In your face, Grandma!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEjBRLg5VxI/AAAAAAAAAHc/b1KHiItKbZQ/s1600/IMG_4654.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;We, the four Challen children, love going to NC on vacation for many reasons, one of which is that we get fresh produce from the Farmers Market. Grandma was always proud and I'm sure mom was disappointed that we didn't have one. Then we saw it. Imagine angels singing as the small wooden building appeared on the side of the road. That's how we all felt. We felt like hero's as we drove the sweet corn, cantaloupe, red plums, and sugar baby watermelon home. Well, you win Grandma. I guess our small local shop makes the girls think like this...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEjBRLg5VxI/AAAAAAAAAHc/b1KHiItKbZQ/s320/IMG_4654.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If this is what it's going to do, forget it. I mean what am I supposed to say, something like, "When's the cantaloupe due?" You win Grandma.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5382145295726041451-6296144968142822213?l=challenfamily.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/feeds/6296144968142822213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5382145295726041451&amp;postID=6296144968142822213&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5382145295726041451/posts/default/6296144968142822213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5382145295726041451/posts/default/6296144968142822213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-your-face-grandma.html' title='In your face, Grandma!'/><author><name>Eva Challen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07021037662778678691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEjBRLg5VxI/AAAAAAAAAHc/b1KHiItKbZQ/s72-c/IMG_4654.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382145295726041451.post-4362863802957996374</id><published>2010-07-22T14:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-22T15:18:57.053-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeah... That's What I thought</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEimyhFfbTI/AAAAAAAAAHU/43ISNZvb7z0/s1600/IMG_4653.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEimyhFfbTI/AAAAAAAAAHU/43ISNZvb7z0/s320/IMG_4653.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;This picture perfectly describes why I took over this blog. I mean really, what did the bush ever do to you? When stuff like this happens at least three times a day, it's hard not to share at least some of them. For instance, today when I decided to play outside, I found this...&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEimptibJSI/AAAAAAAAAHM/kSsHaTVgWYI/s1600/IMG_4651.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEimptibJSI/AAAAAAAAAHM/kSsHaTVgWYI/s320/IMG_4651.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Can I help you find something? And if this wasn't enough, this showed up...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEimhrApUrI/AAAAAAAAAHE/Y8bPKp2rLmI/s1600/IMG_4650.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEimhrApUrI/AAAAAAAAAHE/Y8bPKp2rLmI/s320/IMG_4650.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Yeah, that's what I thought. Do I need to explain it any further?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I really hope this doesn't happen for the rest of the six weeks of summer.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5382145295726041451-4362863802957996374?l=challenfamily.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/feeds/4362863802957996374/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5382145295726041451&amp;postID=4362863802957996374&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5382145295726041451/posts/default/4362863802957996374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5382145295726041451/posts/default/4362863802957996374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/2010/07/yeah-thats-what-i-thought.html' title='Yeah... That&apos;s What I thought'/><author><name>Eva Challen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07021037662778678691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nOIxKjli5vI/TEimyhFfbTI/AAAAAAAAAHU/43ISNZvb7z0/s72-c/IMG_4653.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382145295726041451.post-6461911640454618817</id><published>2010-07-21T17:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-22T15:19:32.489-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bored Already?</title><content type='html'>These are the days that make me want to scream! I just got back from Europe and am already bored with everything. Nothing seems to sparks any interest and I end up moping around the house. I mean, of coarse nobody's home. I hope it gets better from here on out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5382145295726041451-6461911640454618817?l=challenfamily.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/feeds/6461911640454618817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5382145295726041451&amp;postID=6461911640454618817&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5382145295726041451/posts/default/6461911640454618817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5382145295726041451/posts/default/6461911640454618817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://challenfamily.blogspot.com/2010/07/bored-already.html' title='Bored Already?'/><author><name>Eva Challen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07021037662778678691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
