If not for this blog, I'd have no photos at all

OK, so the laptop is back and reconfigured - how can a motherboard go kaput in less than two years. I'd loaded all of my photos onto it since July of 2007, which broke my heart completely. If I hadn't uploaded a paltry few special ones here, I'd have nothing to remember our trip to Seattle, family jetskiing, etc. Lauren has a few of my photos on her computer as well, but my one photo here of Adam as the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz is all I have to remember that. Nothing remains of White Christmas. So a Public Service Announcement: backup your photos somewhere else, people, I beg you!

Meanwhile, life is otherwise going great here. Andrew and the boys finished the ceiling, and it looks fabulous. I'm starting to pull out the dead stuff in the garden and watch the new green shoots come up to herald spring! Wedding caterer meeting is today, and invitations will be ordered this week. Life goes on. I hope things are beautiful for all of you too! Just please forgive me for being way behind on your blogs!