Is this Blog Worthy?

For those of you who know our Nat well, you know that one thing she LOVES is her Webkinz. For any of you unfmilure, Webkinz are little stuffed toys that have a code. When you buy the animal and enter the code on their website you get this little virtual pet that you can care for and love. There are also a number of games and activities that you can play.
One of the activites is mining for gems and trying to collect 25 of them to earn a Webkinz Crown of Wonder for your pet to wear. You can search for gems once a day. Some days you find one, some days you find nothing. Lots of times you end up finding something you already found.

This is Artie. He's the one that you have to go see to search for your gems.

So, we've been searching away ever since Natalee got her first Webkinz for Christmas 2007. She's had most of the gems for a while and there were two that were pretty tricky to find. I don't know if there's a pattern or anything. If there is, I'm too dumb to figure it out. The last one she had to find was the Earth Emerald and the other day we got it! Natalee was so excited. She made me take pictures so we could show Daddy. Then she said, "Mommy! You've got to put this on the blog!" This makes me feel kind of silly, but for some reason her accomplishments (is this really an accomplishment???) seem bigger to her if they end up here.

Here are all of Blackbeary's gems:

Here's the note they sent her saying she could trade for her crown:

Here's Blackbeary wearing her crown standing next to Sparkly the Goldfish:

Sorry these are all such super pictures!

After we got it all done Natalee said,
"Now we have to get one for Sparkly!"