Tuesday, February 21, 2012

In lieu of a newsletter...

Welcome to the Comin Family Blog!  We're glad that you've decided to give us a look.  In lieu of having a traditional family newsletter that is mailed or emailed to each family member once a quarter, we are going to keep this blog going.

We have decided that we would like each family to contribute something on a specifically assigned month.  For example, the Van Comin family, will be in charge of blogging something for the month of March.  They can decide, as a family, what they would like to post.  It can be what is currently happening in their family or can be anything from the year that they would like to share.  Pictures are welcome, if not encouraged, and it can be as long or as short as you want.

We also would love for anyone to email us with special highlights that are happening in your lives as they happen, especially if you do not have a blog where you share those things, and we will post them as they happen.

We have created a family email address so that there is one location where we can collect all the information for the blog.  The address is cominfamilynews@gmail.com.  Please feel free to email anything that you would like included or posted on the blog.  We will notify you that the blog has been updated using this email.  A big thanks to Mike and Sarah Baker for creating a family spreadsheet with most of our current emails!  This is the list that has been used to generate the email list...so PLEASE PLEASE email us with any updates or corrections to that list.  If you notice that someone's email has unintentionally been missed, please again let us know so that we can add them to the list.

Also, you will notice on the right side of the blog that there is a list of links to blogs that people in our family already have.  Please feel free to browse all of the blogs as that is a great way to keep up on the goings on of each individual family.  If we have missed someone's blog, please send us the link and we will add it on the list.

Here is the schedule that we have created for our blog.  Please email us if you have any questions.

March - The Van Comin Family
April - The Sundquist Family
May - The Smathers Family
June - The Tod Comin Family
July - The Lewis Family
August - The Wigginton Family
September - The Sommer Family
October - Grandpa and Grandma

We are excited to get this going and show off what the family is doing.  Again, please let us know if you have any suggestions or ideas.  This is a tool for us to stay connected and we want to use it to bring us closer as a family!

Matney and Whitney