I thought I’d share a little fun thing I just learned how to do — create an animated gif.  Ever seen one?  Well, here’s mine to share:This is my son doing the running long jump at his elementary school track meet.

I won’t go through a tutorial, as I learned it from a great tutorial from a friend of mine, Xanthe.  If you have Photoshop, you can use her tutorial here.  If you don’t, then there are a variety of free sites that you can use to create your gif animation.  Its lots of fun.  Just use your burst mode on your camera to capture a series of images in quick succession.  Then follow the tutorial or use some of the software and create something a little different and fun to share!  One key tip I learned — if you are posting it to your blog, you may need to be very careful about the size of the images PRIOR to making your gif.  You must resize them to the pixel width of the blog you are posting to (at least if it is a wordpress site) or it won’t display.  Resizing after loading to wordpress will NOT work.  (thus why this post is late since I had to remake the gif to fit TCM!)
Have a fabulous holiday weekend Mamas!  And make yourself a little GIFT.