As you can tell by the lack of posting lately, things are really crazy ~ good, but crazy. School is in full swing and keeping all of us busy. Jacob is playing tackle football for the first time and loving it! It keeps him very busy, but also is a huge motivator to get his homework done earlier (why didn't we think of this before?) Nathan is bummed that he can't play yet, but we've told him that he can't play until he starts eating (he's too picky for his own good, and will often choose to go hungry instead of eating). Hopefully this will be a good motivator for next year ~ he actually ate three bites of a cheeseburger the other day, and liked it! What kid doesn't eat cheeseburgers?!?
We went to Boise over the weekend, but I forgot my camera! We had a great, if busy time. I got to attend the memorial for a favorite Boise State professor of mine who recently died in a fire. It was a great service, and there were great stories about Mary Ellen from her friends. I was so glad that I was able to attend.
We got to be there for part of my neice, Tabitha's birthday party. She was born after we moved to Utah, so this was a first. Grandma had me make her a necklace an bracelet and I was so worried that they wouldn't fit because she's so tiny, but they were perfect! It was fun to see everybody there.
After that, we got to have a BBQ with my family--well, all those that were still in Boise, although Tammy and Mandy were greatly missed! It was great to be able to catch up. There was lots of talking and laughing and the kids had a great time playing with their cousins.
On Sunday, we went to the Davis' house for lunch and to church for Suzanne's blessing. She is so cute and tiny. We love hanging out with the Davis family. They are such great people! Jeff and Robert have been best friends since high school, and that friendship has expanded to include myself, Jeff's wife, Sara, and our children. We love to be able to see Grant and the girls as well. Paige and Lauren are so fun and have grown so much! They are fun to be around and play with. Grant is their first born, and was born very premature and has some disabilities because of those circumstances, but he is one of my favorite people in the whole world! His spirit touches me every time I see his smile and listen to him laugh. I don't know anyone that reminds me more of the love Heavenly Father has for his children. He is absolutely amazing. I know that he holds a special place with Heavenly Father and I am a better person because I know him.
After the blessing, we headed for home. It was a fun trip, but we were very tired after cramming so much stuff into a day and a half.
Ok, so on to the request part of this post. Our desktop computer crashed at the beginning of the school year. This has not been a great burden, since we have the laptop, and now I have my laptop from school as well. Yesterday, however, I was thinking that I wanted to change the background and screensaver on my school laptop to some pictures of the family and such. At this point I realized how many pictures I lost because of the computer crash, and I almost panicked! I have a number of them on cd, but so many of them were from my digital camera and stored on the computer!! We've tried to get back in to the hard drive in order to save any data from it, but it is completely fried. So, if any of you have any pictures of my family--mainly the boys, I would so appreciate it if you could send them to me. I still have a lot on my laptop, but there were some great pictures stored on the other computer.
I've decided that from this point on, I am going to back up all of my pictures on a jump drive, so that this won't happen again. I love all of the technology that we have, but it is easy to forget that it is not always stable and that it can be lost. It makes me appreciate the negatives and hard copies of the pictures I have.
Anyway, I hope all is well with everyone. I'm trying to set a goal to update at least once a week, but please be patient with me ~ it is easy for me to get lost in life and forget that things are actually going on.
