I Blogged! (It's a miracle!)

So as we all know, my blogging has become non existent. I have terribly missed this, as it's been one of my favorite past times these years of doing it. But my life has been busy with school and kids, and so it hasn't been something I've been able to keep up on. I have a few posts in draft, and I plan on back posting as I go. I decided to just start posting anyways, because since I'm behind, it was keeping me from blogging about the here and now. I'm tired of it, so I will eventually fill in the gap as I get time. I can't just have 5 months of our lives missing from a blog. So I will fill in what I can, when I can.

So here's to hoping I can get some blogs up and keep up on our current adventures. We have some fun ones coming that I will post about soon.

For now, you can read about my fun girls weekend!

MIA

I've been MIA for a while now. I don't want to be, I've just had a lot on my plate, and it just keeps getting more full. (Story of my life, I can't ever stop eating even when I'm full!) I have lots to blog about, so I'm just going to back post. I have to get it all down, even though I've forgotten half the stuff already. I gotta get it done this week, before next week when life will get a little more crazy. I have lots to fill you in on!! Hopefully you can keep up!

Annoying!!

So I was doing my last post on Winston uploading pictures when I get a message saying that I've reached my Picasa Web Album limit! What!?! So apparently we are limited to the amount of photo space and if you want to succeed that you have to pay so much per year. If you delete any pictures, then they are deleted from your blog. But then I'm looking through the albums, and there's some duplicate pictures. Why? I don't know! But then who's to say if I delete one of them, it won't be on my blog anymore? Has anyone else had this problem or know anything about Picasa to know how I'm suppose to know which duplicate is on the blog so I don't delete it? UGH!! I'm mad a blogger!!!

I should clarify a little. When you upload your pictures just like you've always done, blogger now puts them into a picasa album. They recently changed it to do this. Why I don't know? They must be trying to make money for picasa!! The limit is 1GB, but my pictures are so big, I guess it filled it up fast. It's only $20 for 10 GB...but still really annoying. Matt also made a good point of when I publish my blog into a book, we could just delete the pictures...but when will that happen!

Just a random picture from this weekend which I'll post later about later when I can delete some pictures from my albums!!

Good News and Home for the Weekend

I was going to do this post earlier in the week, but I have gotten a little distracted. I am so happy to say that I have found all my posts from my old blog!! I've been thinking about some of my posts that I lost, so I search on Google for "thehardytimes anniversary" and I found it. I had to click on "cached" under it, and it takes me to the page. Then I started looking up other ones that I remembered, like Quinn's trauma. I kept finding them and were saving the pages to my desktop. Matt had tried searching for March 2007 before and it never came up, but I started searching by month, sometimes had type it in different ways, but I ended up finding all my post right from the start. Needless to say I have been trying to get up some of my old post, starting from the most recent. It's going to be a long process, especially since I have to find and reload all the pictures. It's so annoying, yet at the same time I am so happy!!!!!

This last weekend we went back home. Matt's sister Laura came home, and we haven't seen her since May. Our niece Rose has gotten so big!! She's a year now and walking, and she's a total girl. Mike and Laura are going to end up having all the girls for us I think. I'm not seeing it in our cards. We were so glad that we were able to see Laura and Rose, they'll be coming home again at Christmas.

Right after we got there Malcolm did a face plant into the side of the couch. I don't know what's up with him lately. He's been getting hurt left and right. It's usually Quinn who's accident prone. Like all kids he wanted a band-aid, and when he looked in the mirror, he thought he was pretty cool. He even got just a little bit of a bloody nose. He must have hit himself really hard!!
Quinn's loving the apples that Paka is peeling and slicing for him. It's so cute Quinn totally came up with this name "Paka" for Merle. He won't call him grandpa, and sometimes has corrected me on the name. I hope all the kids will call him that, it's just so dang cute.Rose with her cute little round face. I think she really enjoyed her cousins. Malcolm was cute with her too. He wanted to make sure she wouldn't choke on the toys downstairs. They always talk about baby Rose. Quinn also loved Rose. He does this funny thing with babies. He's always touching their heads. I'm not sure why. I love the white trash look. Matt didn't even do his onesie up, just tucked the flap into the back of his shirt.
Rose was mad at me, because she couldn't get past the chairs to go down the stairs. That's all she ever wanted to do, and of course hasn't quite mastered them like she thinks she can.
Brianne and Tom had a weekend getaway to Coeur d'Alene so Mom and Pop were watching Jayni and Mason. We spent the majority of the weekend with Matt's family, but while Quinn was napping on Saturday, Mack and I went to the park with them. Jayni and Malcolm love to play together, and generally play very well together. Jayni is just so dang cute with her new little haircut!!
Mason was all grin like always. He's started jumping and spinning, and it's so cute. I can't believe how grown up he's getting. I was going to say how big he his getting, but that's to be expected since he's bigger then Quinn. He was having so much fun and never slowing down.
Malcolm loving Rose. I think he must have thought he was pretty cool to be feeding Rose her bottle. (Even though she doesn't need the help anymore.)
The last weekend we were home, Quinn couldn't get enough of his lawn mower, so he was pretty excited to get back outside to play with it. Of course I could only get a shot of his back.
I was trying to get the boys to sit down together for a picture, but it wasn't working. I was totally wanting to get some family pictures while we were there, but it never happened. A weekend is just to short. Malcolm was enjoying the leaves though.
I took tons of pictures of Rose this weekend. I guess it's because she will sit still and just stare at me. I love her big round eyes!!
As I said before she is a total girl. She loves shoes, (She picked out some cute pink sparkly shoes all by herself, she know what she wants.), and she has this cute little purse that she wanted as her "new" toy. She will put toys in it and carry it around. It's so cute. This is her all ready to go to church, with her purse.

Sad Days!!

I know everyone will laugh at me, and I don't know how it happened so easily, but I deleted my blog. Not on purpose of course!! I was really near tears, everything that I have written about since March is lost. I of course have all the pictures, but I've lost all the "memories", my family journal. At the end of the year, I was really hoping to make a book from it. I was very frantic and can't find out any way of retrieving my blog. I tried contacting blogger, but no one has emailed me back. I've figured it's a lost cause. So I thought I would be able to use the same address since my blog has been deleted, but it won't let me so I've totally had to get a new URL too.

So what really happened is after I had my blog I signed up with a Gmail account. Well I never liked it, never used, and wanted to delete it. So I guess I was just in a hurry when it happened and I thought it was telling me that I wouldn't be able to access some things with that email address. But this is really what it says, " You are trying to delete your Google Account which provides access to the Google services listed below. Please check each box to confirm your understanding that you will no longer be able to use any of these services and all information associated with these services and your account will be lost." I thought I was just doing Gmail stuff, that's where I was told to go to delete the Gmail. But don't ever try anything like this. Not that anybody would because they aren't as dumb as me! Next time I'll read instead of scan the words! Now I realize that I actually clicked the wrong link and went to the page to delete my whole Google account and not the link to delete only the Gmail account. How sad that they don't give you warning that you are totally deleting you blog...they should!!!!!!!

So I found some of our posts by googling them....thanks to Matt and Nate! Their the brains!! We figured it out in a tricky way. So I can recreate some of my old posts...but mostly only back to the summer. I'm happy to have some...but I'm really sad about the rest!

Here it goes!!

Well I guess it's about time to start my blog. It seems the cool thing to do!!! I love seeing everybody else in the family who has one...I feel like I actually get to be a part of their lives. I love it, so I'll see if I can do half as good! These are pictures we had done last August...They didn't scan very good, but they are still adorable pictures. Malcolm (a.k.a. Mack) is the oldest. He's 3 in these pictures, but he'll be turning 4 in July. Quinn (a.k.a. Quinnie) is 1 in theses pictures, and he'll be turning 2 in July also.The Hardy Boys!! They are so handsome! Notice Quinnie's face. Some might think it's not that cute...but being his mom, I think it's the cutest face ever. It was the face of 2006!I felt like we were taking engagement pictures again...it's been that long since we've had just our picture taken!