Merry Christmas!

We are really enjoying the holidays with my family. There are nine kids in our house with the oldest being 9. My brothers and thier families are here so it is hectic and fun. Both of my brothers with kids have one Lexi's age and one Jordan's age. As you can guess, the kids are soaking it up. Anyway, I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

The Cove in La Jolla

I snapped a few pictures yesterday when we were at the Cove.

Still Waiting...

I decided to do a little update. My files are still locked on the hard drive. Fun, right? My office didn't have any luck with it, so they decided to send it out to a company that specializes in this kind of thing.

http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com

Unfortunately, it is going to cost about $1000 and take a week, assuming that anything can be done. Please for your own sake, back-up your file.

Other than that, I am just enjoying the holidays. My brothers are already showing up. One came a few days ago and another one last night. The third one is coming this afternoon. Our house will be FULL of kids and activities. That will keep my mind off the stress.

Nearly Nervous Breakdown Time

This has been an awful work week, one truly for the books. It all started on Monday, when I realized that my hard drive was inaccessible. I tried to use it on different computers hoping that it was some kind of sick fluke. Finally, I realized that I had to call my boss. It was last afternoon and he told me to send it to him ASAP through Fedex. I had to wake Jordan up from his nap and drag my kids out in the pouring cold rain. I made it to Fedex moments before the cut-off.

All of my work for the last 18 months is on that hard drive. Yes, I knew ALL along that I should do back-ups. Unfortunately, I failed to make it a priority and therefore I never got around to it. It is now the end of the week of me being nervous and so far my office has had no luck recovering the files. Yesterday, they gave it our IT consultant.

I am praying for a Christmas miracle because I really don’t want to deal with the MONTHS of long hours for make-up work this will cause. For now, I can gladly report that the extra nervousness has helped me lose 5 lbs.

Lasting Love

For a while, I have been thinking that long lasting love is so wonderful. Isn't the idea of sharing your life with someone amazing? What could be better than growing old with someone and knowing most of the people in each other's lives and all of their stories? Believe me, I am all about adventure and crazy shenanigans in life. However, when it comes to romance and love nothing could be better than stability. Perhaps, that ultimate dream kept my marriage together for longer than it should have been. This week, we finally watched “Up.” What a cute story and it just happens to go along with this theme.

Anyway, when I saw this article: How to Make Romance Last, I had to laugh and do a quick post.

I am already in my upper 30s, so spending most of my life with someone isn't possible. I guess I can still dream of meeting a great guy someday and spending half of my life with him.

Baby Boy Turns Two

I can't believe that Jordan is two today. He is turning into a little boy and leaving his baby years behind, which makes me so sad. He has also just entered into the terrible twos and has begun demanding to "do mysef." Like most little boys, he loves balls. I gave him a set of nerf balls on Sunday and he has slept with one of them every night since. He also carries one around where ever we go. One of the best things about him is that he is generally a happy little prankster and pulls sly pranks on all of us. Almost everything makes him laugh, even getting punished. What a joy these two years have been!