Playing Catch Up

I have had good intentions to get on the computer and update the blog, but what I didn't plan on was our computer crashing. It has been super slow the last few weeks and hard to get onto the Internet. But this last weekend it froze up and we couldn't even turn it on. So we took it to a computer guy and he cleaned it all up and now it is as good as new. Luckily we didn't have to buy a new one. Along with the computer falling apart I had to get new brakes on the van last week. $400 later the van is running great and I can now drive it without being afraid that the brakes will give out on me. A few days after the brake repair my phone quit working. All the screen would show was a white screen. I couldn't do anything on it, I took it in and it is defective and just my luck they don't have a replacement phone in their store so I had to go about 5 days without a cell phone. I hope that this is the end of things falling apart and breaking for a while. We can't afford to replace anything else!! Oh and on top of all that, we have all been sick! So 2 co-pays and 11 prescriptions later we are on the mend. Hopefully this will be the last of the illness in our house for a while too!

On a good note, I was gone last weekend with my mom and sister for our semi annual scrapbook retreat! We had a great time and got a ton accomplished. I worked really hard to mentally prepare myself for the weekend so I was in a "scrapping" mood. I really wanted to get a lot done. This is one of the only times I am able to scrapbook without interruptions and to get caught up on all the pictures I have been taking. Luckily I was in the right mood and didn't have any major brain blocks and was able to get 50 pages done!! That is the most I have done at one time. I think that was the most that any one there did too. I had put my pictures together with paper that I wanted to use and things went together fairly smooth and I worked really hard to get that much done. I stayed up late and woke up early and kept getting page after page done. At the start of the weekend my goal was 30 pages. I had done about 25 in the past and was trying to out do myself. Well after the 2nd day I had reached that goal and exceeded it by 10 pages, so I changed my goal to 50 and I worked right until we had to pack up and leave. I felt really good about accomplishing so much and getting some what caught up on past events in our family. When I came home on Sunday and was showing the pages to Matt and the kids, Matt said to Big Brother "Aren't you glad mommy does this so we can remember all these good memories" I thought what a great husband!! Not only did he take time off work to watch the kids so I could go, but he fully supports what I do to capture the memories if our family. I love to scrapbook and I love love love to look back on the books I have done and reminisce over the great memories! I am so glad that my mom and sister and I all love to scrapbook so that we can spend time together and enjoy one another's company. It was just what I needed, to get away from the everyday routine and have to time to myself!! I look forward to the next retreat in about 6 months!