Drew Sitting

Drew is now sitting. He also really really wants to crawl. He gets up on all fours and rocks like crazy. His knees are moving back and forth, but he hasn't figured out about moving his arms. He even gets up on his hands and feet, with his butt high in the air! It is so funny to watch...

Happy Birthday Chip!

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Happy Birthday Chip!

Say Happy Birthday to the "OLD" Uncle

Buzzed!

Chase got his first buzz cut this weekend! Just in time for the Patriots game. Besides watching his Pats, he LOVES playing with his ball. 'Course to him, everything is "Ball, ball".

Toby & Sam

Toby's first game. He played safety on defense. They lost but he had a few tackles and one interception. When we get our film developed I will send more pics. He has another game tomorrow.





This is Sam on Rusty. He is competeing in an event called Stock Seat Equitation. He is judged on his riding style. He earned the silver medal

RSS Feed to Reader

Ok, for all you tech geeks in our family…

You can add our family blog to an RSS reader by using the following address.

http://tomthompsonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml

So you ask what an RSS reader is. In general, RSS allows a website to syndicate its content. Blogger allows us to syndicate our blog.

RSS is a growing technology. There are many places to add a ‘feed’, but the place I added it is on “my yahoo”. I use “My Yahoo” as my homepage everytime I open IE so I will always see the latest posts.

questions...

i'm not too bright... and i haven't spent much time looking at this, but is there a way to post without having to go back to the "dashboard"?

also... how do i add dates to the family calendar?

i spent all last week in training last week and many of the evenings were taken up with class... i didn't get much time with karen and chase. this weekend we tried to make up for it some, so i still haven't been on my email much. perhaps i'll get some time this week to look into this more.

Canoe

I bought a canoe today!! I've been looking online for a used canoe, I finally decided on one. It was a decent price. It's not top of the line, but it gets me in the water! It's fiberglass, so it's heavy, but I can stil carry it myself. Chip went with me on my her maiden voyage. Then, I dropped him off for a little solo action. We went on the lake here in town (< 5min. from home). As you can see, it has wood gunnels that are in pretty decent shape. It's built mainly for lakes, but it's short enough (14') and fat enough to make it pretty decent for river running, which is what I'd like to do most.

Sam's Horse Competition

Sam competed in a horse competition yesterday. He was in two events. We do not yet know how he placed in the trail ride. In this event he had to guide the horse through a trail. He had to get the mail, weave through cones, ride through a fence line, back up, over posts, and through a gate. In the second even he was judged on riding style. In this event, called stock seat equitation, he earned a silver medal. It was a lot of fun and Sam really loved it and can't wait to ride again.

Email Notification

FYI...I have set up email notification. You should all receive an email each time something is posted to our blog. If this is not the case, let me know.
Rob

My 2 cents

I think this is a great idea. Sending an email notification would be nice, but making this our "home" screen on each of our web browsers is a good idea as well. This picture was taken over the summer so it's not totally recent, but its mostly just a test.

Exclusive club

Now that I finanaly got invited this is a test to see if I can add a post along with pics

So what do you all think?

I assume you all saw Pauline's email? Are we interested in blogging or what?

It seems the question is, will we stick with it? These sorts of things tend to simply add another thing to our already overloaded plates. At the same time, with us all spread all over, it might be a great idea.

The success to blogging is consistency. If we don't post consistently it will fail miserably. Go ahead and add a comment to this post and let everyone know your thoughts. Are you interested? Do you see yourself posting?

Just a thought. Once you grasp the idea of blogging and learn how to post (it is really easy), we might find it becomes second nature to do regularly.

Shhhhh...The top image needs to be changed becuase it is from Suzy's beach pics. I don't have permission to use it. If we decide to this this I will change it. I just started to play with the look of the page a little. I will add a more info, like links to profiles and birthdays and such if we do this.

Rob