Oh Girls.... You just REALLY Don't Even Know!!!

There are not even words to express my frustration, blood pressure elevation, or disappointment!! Since I have given EVERY extra spare minute I have had to my calling/church responsibilities, my new "job/responsibilities" at work (Lead Charge Nurse), my kids/household responsibilities and my "mama dance class practice" (recital in 6 weeks and I didn't want to be the one messing up the performance:), and the school play (over ticket sales etc the last 2 weeks), I was just planning on catching up the blog at our girls/sisters weekend in 3 weeks! I was going to start from Christmas and go through our BFF's coming to visit from California...all of our snow picture/photo shoot with them...right down to our February trip to Disneyland, Sea World, The Wax Museum, San Diego Wild Life Park--everything! But you guessed it! Our computer crashed (less than a year old) and when we sent it off to retrieve the data, apparently the hard drive was toast and they were "unable to retrieve anything!" We have not been the most consistent with our "back-ups" and we are SICK! We lost everything and all of those photo memories! I wish you could have seen the one of Christian sitting in the Sea World Bleachers "Soak Zone" all by himself...and then the after picture of him soaked! It was so cute and I am beyond ill that all of those memories will have to live in our minds! We had tons of pictures with the pilot on our flight giving our kids a personal tour of the cock-pit and letting them sit in the pilot/co-pilot's seats etc. We spent hours taking photos with characters at Disneyland for our "character book." We had so much fun feeding nectar to the Lorakeets at the San Diego wild life park out of little cups. We had up close pictures of the cheetah walking right past us and memories of them telling us to keep our little ones right by us so they wouldn't be a snack for the pacing cheetah. The memories of our hotel and the pool to ourselves every night for a week will also never show on pictures! The tour of Hollywood in our open air tour bus and all of the fun insider info to share! Ahhh! All of the YW activities that we have worked so hard on: The Brand New Year activity where Steve and I cooked dinner for 100, and all of the youth pictured with their "escort" (a YM) for the etiquette dinner- plus many others! It is kind of like death in a way...we can't take any of the hard copy pictures with us, everything that goes with you is in your mind, thoughts, memories, knowledge you have gained and relationships you have made with others! That is the only comforting thought in all of this is that we have that! I am so mad right now though, that you can bet there will be an abrupt change in my priorities where things I need to have happen will definitely be moved to #1 & 2 on the To-Do list! Note to all: Back up your computer and keep up your blog:)!