Laidman Family blog: Welcome to Janel & Russell's Laidman family blog

We have recently had several visitors to our new home in Oregon. It's been an exciting time for us because we've never had the space to host visitors before, and we are thrilled to have our family visit our home because moving away from family has been more isolating than we would like. Although we don't always have time in our busy lives to chat on the phone or sit down and pen an old fashioned letter, we are often thinking of our family and wondering what they are up to. Last night it struck me that we could keep in touch with a blog!

What is a blog? A "blog" is short for weblog, or a website log of whatever topic you choose. I'm choosing family for my weblog.

How does it work? A blog is easy to use. You just sign in to your blogger account and begin posting. Right now it's set up for Russell and Janel to post information, but if you'd like to post things to the blog too, we can set you up as members so that you have posting privileges. It would be fun if everyone wanted to post their own updates on the blog.
What kind of things do you put on a blog? Well, anything you like really. We'll start this one off with some photos of a recent trip we took to a waterfall in central Oregon.
What if I want to respond to your blog post? We hope you do! It's easy to respond to the blog posts by clicking on the comment link at the bottom of the post. Just click there and type in your comments. We would love to hear from you.

Trip to Sahalie Falls and Koosah Falls near Bend Oregon with Bryce and Wilma Wheeler (Janel's parents)

Russell and I recently took a day trip with my parents to Sisters Oregon. It's a beautiful 2 hour drive from Eugene along the scenic McKenzie river. We stopped along the way and had lunch and did a bit of hiking. The highlights of the trip were the two waterfalls we stopped at for some hiking and picture taking. The day was sunny and the forest was lush and green - a lovely outing for all of us and well worth the trip.

Three Sisters mountains