Dear Friends and Family

We sincerely apologize for our lack of updates. We do have several things to update, however, the simple task of getting two AA batteries for our camera so we can transfer the pictures to my computer has turned into quite a daunting task. No, there is not a national batter shortage...there is only a memory shortage when it comes to picking some up when out and about.

Another reason for the time between updates is that my hard drive on my beloved mac died a couple of weeks ago and it took an entire week to get it fixed. I did loose everything on my hard drive. I had most everything backed up... just not my photos :( Luckily, Neil has a copy of most on his computer. Lesson learned. Thanks to a little company called Elan, I was able to replace my hard drive and actually upgrade to a larger size for less than half of what Apple wanted to charge me. Now, I not only am backing up using "Time Machine" (a mac program), I also signed up for Carbonite, an online back up program. I just have too many important documents, contracts, client info, etc. on my computer to chance loosing it all.


So, hopefully, this post will help me to remember to pick up those batteries so you can see our home improvements and the most adorable video of Sara unwrapping presents. :)