Yes, It's a blog but...

The other day I was thinking that I rarely know what any of the 'guys' in the fam are doing, and I remembered seeing a blog on the Mitt Romney website called the "5BrothersBlog" where any of the 5 Romney brothers could post the latest from wherever they were on the campaign trail, so then I thought maybe we could pull something similar off and have sort of a communication forum/Bulliten Board for the Champlin Family males. Okay, so the idea subject to evolution is that we can all use this blog to post stuff about what is going on in our lives, ask questions, share cool links etc... I also thought it would be a good place to transcribe letters from missionaries in the field as 'Max posts' or 'Chad posts', and Dad when you guys are in the field you could use the blog to keep the fam up to date. We could discuss family events/trips/reunions solve world hunger and develop a functional car that runs off of hydrogen power, I mean the possibilities are endless!

As you can see I've the set up is pretty simple. I've put a list of favorite links for everyone, with a lame sample fav link that you can change and add as many as you want. Once you have the sign on info you'll be able to access and customize and post and everything. The way the whole blogger thing works is you have to have an account which is the same as a google account. In order for us to all access I set up a generic gmail account champlinbrothers@gmail.com so the sign in name for the blog is "champlinbrothers". The website is http://www.champlinbrothers.blogspot.com/ and the password is the title of the blog (the words that look like hebrew without the capitals or spaces. Once you log in you can fiddle around a bit with adding links and posting. There are a couple of pitfalls so I don't want us to get too adventurous quite yet with adding features to the blog e.g. if you change the template it erases all the links. So for now you can add and delete links under you fav link section, post blogs, and add other features in the blogger lists. By the way all of this is done by first going to http://www.champlinbrothers.blogspot.com/ then signing in then you can go to customize in the top left (next to sign in) and then go to layout and explore from there.

Well, lets get started and let me know if you have questions or stuff isn't working. I'll make an effor to grease the wheels and get things going so the only job for everyone else is check the blog periodically and participate.

It may end up that we all decide to start personal blogs on the side too and put links to them on this blog. We'll see how it evolves.