Getting Our Act Together

First off, I want to welcome Joyful Jessi Bear into our little blog circle of friends and family! The kids were jumping for joy (or should I say, jumping for joyful *smile*) to see a new follower. Knowing someone out there is interested in what they have to say put huge smiles on their faces. Thanks for brightening our day!

We're getting this little blog project off the ground, one day at a time. Yesterday, Cody and Sidney were my art design consultants as we (finally) decided on a background and banner we all liked. How do you like the way it turned out? The banner was the most fun to create, and the kids picked up some of my mad Paint Shop Pro skills along the way. Fun!

This morning, Cody and Sidney started working on their personal "pages." Blogger's latest feature is perfect for a family blog, because each family member can create a page all their own, introducing themselves to visitors who don't know us and catching up family members, who live far away, on all their current likes and dislikes. They'll add to these pages as they become more comfortable with the format, but I hope you'll take a moment to click the links just under the blog banner and read what Big Sid and Code Man have presented so far.

Christian, preferring his role behind-the-scenes where this project is concerned (...okay, he's not interested at all in blogging...LOL), has nonetheless agreed to let us make a page for him. The kids and I will use this week, our Spring Break, to think up three questions each for him. Once we have our nine-question list ready, we'll interview Christian and record all his answers. From that, we'll create his "Papa" page. And he will like it!

As I said, this is our Spring Break and since our trip to France this summer will be our vacation of the year, this week we're on stay-cation. That means we'll have time to blog, so check back soon!