For some reason you just look at these kids and they start laughing.

The kids are at an age now that they’re starting to choose which shows they like to watch.

I often complain because I feel like I never have enough time to devote to any of my hobbies.

Day 2 of “New in November”, a Halloween recap. It was cold. The kids carved pumpkins and went trick or treating. I wore a mask and scared kids. Did I mention it was cold?

It’s November again and that means I’ll be posting a new video at least every weekday for the whole month. This year we’ve added some more folks so it should be a very exciting month of daily content. Follow along at the New in November Tumblr group.

Hanging out up at Lo Lo Mai Springs Outdoor Resort one more time this season. Halloween is always a blast up here. The kids should have a good time.

Sierra wasn’t done making videos and wanted to talk about her upcoming birthday.

So I was going through Google Reader this morning as I tend to do every morning (I love the fact that I can say that now) and thought I would check my recent trends as far as who had been posting most frequently and who I’ve been reading most. Then I clicked on the “inactive” tab to see who hadn’t been upating. I was shocked to see how many people were on the list. At first I started just unsubscribing to some of these but then I started actually opening up the sites to see if the site was down or if just hadn’t been updated in a while. Surprisingly I noticed quite a few that had been updated but obvioulsy had changed their rss feed since I wasn’t seeing their updates. This makes me wonder why more people aren’t using FeedBurner.

For those who don’t know, FeedBurner is a an rss feed service that allows you to manage your rss feed and see detailed stats on your subscribers. One of the best features of using FeedBurner is the rss address that it gives you. You post this address as your own rss feed and on the back end you plug your blog’s rss feed into feedburner. This allows everyone to subscribe to one feed and any time you change your rss feed or blog address all you have to do is change the rss feed address in feedburner and all of your subscribers start getting the new feed. Thus eliminating the loss of subscribers.

Now back to the topic at hand. As I was saying, i started to check to see if any of the inactive blogs actually were inactive or not. Found a few that had been updated and I updated my subscriptions, others had been deleted or still lay dormant. I ended up unsubscribing to about 20 sites that either have been removed, I no longer had an interest in, or had been inactive for over a year. I’m a stats whore and so when Google Reader says I have so many subscriptions I want them to be legit subscriptions. Now of course, there are still a few blogs from some good friends that haven’t updated since 2008 but I won’t unsubscribe on the off chance that they update at some point.

So the question is, why aren’t you updating us on your life?

Sierra wanted to make a video. So here it is.

Who doesn’t love a good old fashioned rope swing?