OK, so you can read the whole story if you feel like it, but the short of it is I'm going to start posting most all of our family stuff to: www.westcoastwalkers.blogspot.com -This is the name I originally wanted when I joined the blogging world, and come to find out, Brandon Walker was the one who had it, so I thought while I was only a month into posting, I'd make the transition now.
Check it out sometime!
Sara
Here's the real story...
In January 2007, Brandon being the on the ball boy he is decides to start a blog for our family. He even picked a really cool easy to rememeber name for our blog: http://www.westcoastwalkers.blogspot.com/ Well, the only thing he didn't do is tell me about it. And being as "tech savy" as I am, and having lived in a blogless world for so long had no idea what I was missing out on, and was intimadated by all my friends and their blogs. I really didn't even know what a blog was (perhaps something to blow your nose on?) -let alone how to start one of my own.
Fast forward one year to January 2008: one day it happened, I thought, I'll give myself an hour and see if I can figure out this world of blogging that I yearn to be part of. I even thought of a really cool name for my future blog: http://www.westcoastwalkers.blogspot.com/ !! I could hardly believe it when creating a new gmail account (necessary for blogging) that westcoastwalkers@gmail.com wasn't taken!! What luck, I was on my way to starting my blog, and finally being almost as cool as all my friends.
-So I was shocked when I was informed that I couldn't have the URL I wanted as some other creative person had snagged it before me!
I settled for http://www.myellabelle.blogspot.com/ in honor of our little Ella Belle, and thought that my second choice was just as good as the main reason for starting the blog was to show pictures of the little princess to friends and family out of the area! So in less than an hour (I can't believe how easy it was!) came the birth of my first blog.
I've been blogging for about a month now, and it occurred to me that maybe I should check out the blog of the other "West Coast Walkers" -the ones who had stolen my name!
OK, this is where it gets really funny as I realize that my Brandon was the culprit, and I can have my #1 name after all! For a year, our blog has sat, without anyone to post things to it.
But that, my friends, is all about to change...
I'm still going to keep Ella's blog -maybe she can have the same experience I had when she gets older and wants a blog name, but all the good names are taken! And in the meantime, the West Coast Walker's blog will rise again.
We are the West Coast Walkers. All alone on the West Coast, not a relative in the same state, let along zip code! Our family is all in Utah, and yet somehow we ended up in So Cal, and are loving it.
Growing up in the Red Rock Country of Kanab Utah, I remember hearing: "Once you've lived in Kane County, the red dirt flows in your veins." -I think there is something similar that happens when living near the Ocean. Once you've been conditioned to beautiful weather year round, and being able to go to the beach in January -yes I said January! A part of you never wants to leave. The warm sand and Ocean waves flow through your veins. We miss our family and friends back home, but there is nothing like an Ocean sunset and at this moment I can't imagine leaving!
Besides, if we did move back, who would you stay with when you visited Southern California? :)
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