My Dancing Fool

A New Favorite...

I stumbled across this great blog this weekend.

I love it!

I've really been thinking of how I can (don't laugh Cristina!) 

simplify my life lately because, quite frankly, I'm tired of all the craziness.

This blog has a lot of good information and I thought I'd pass it on.

It's Small Notebook.

Check it out!  

Fun Run 2009

Pictures of the elementary school's annual Fun Run:

It has been Red Ribbon Week and today was "dress like your favorite sports team" day.

After going through her brother's clothes, she decided to support our high school and show her Bulldog Pride.

(That's why she's wearing boy clothes.)

And she's off...

Max was bookin' it!

Almost done... (check out those red cheeks!)

Coming in for the finish...

The PTA passed out popsicles to all those who ran...

Emma with some of her cute friends (popsicle faces and all!)...

Way to go guys!

Look What's New...

Come on over to 

Albury Avenue...

Cute new hairclips and pins are now posted!

Be sure and keep checking over the next few weeks.

New items are coming...

All items will be under $20 (most under $10!) and will make great gifts!

Time Does Fly

I came across this picture while getting my computer issues all situated.

This is Emma in 2006.

I can't believe how much she has changed in 3 years!

*sigh*

I love her skinny little braids and her short little legs!  

What a cutie!

Fall Decor

Emma and Max totally love it when I bring out any decorations for the holidays.

Not that our decorations are fabulous or anything, but I guess it's just the idea of a new season that's exciting.

This year, we just went into the backyard and picked our 5 pumpkins that survived

(I can't believe that huge plant only produced 5 pumpkins!)

and our midget corn stalks

(We didn't plant our corn in the right spot. It didn't get enough sun I think.)

and decorated the front porch.

I don't decorate for Halloween.

In fact, I don't like Halloween.

I like making costumes but other than that,

it's a dumb holiday so I just decorate for fall.

Yes, I am a party pooper.

Well, Why Not?

Life's funny.

Not always in a "ha ha" kind of funny way.

I wish I could say my life was the "ha ha" kind of funny right now.

This morning, my computer was fine.

It informed me that I had three new updates so I thought today would be a good day for that.

Well, something happened during the updates because now

my computer doesn't work properly.

I can't open anything off my desktop.

The icons on my desktop can't be dragged.

My dock is gone (For non-Mac people, that's where you store your icons for applications.)

I can no longer open my Microsoft office or iTunes directly.

For a second I thought I lost all my music because iTunes wouldn't open either but I dug around and figured how to open it (thank heavens!)

I just need to get cd's tomorrow to backup my library.

I've spent all day backing up my priceless family pictures that I have saved on my computer.

I haven't practiced what I've preached.

None (NONE) of my pictures for the past 4 years have been printed out.

It's all saved on my hard drive.

Stupid?

Uh, Yeah!

Luckily, (I'm thanking the heavens!) nothing happened to them.

My external hard drive doesn't work so I transferred them over to an online storage source.

I've emailed everyone's documents saved on the computer to them.

The only thing I'm trying to figure out is my videos.

They've all been burnt to dvd's but I really like to keep the raw copy but it doesn't look like I'll be able to do that.

I'm sad but considering what I could have lost,

It's not too bad.

I'm hoping, once I have everything backed up, I'll be able to restore my computer. The last thing I need right now is spend money to fix this.

At least we can still get onto the Internet.

I can tell you, that I'm going to start printing out my over 4,000 pictures little by little so at least I know I have them for sure.

What a royal pain in the patootie!

First Sewing Lesson...

As many of you know,

Emma has a lazy eye.

One of the things her eye doctor recommended was for us to patch her "good" eye and have her do things that she will have to concentrate on like reading, coloring, etc. to help strengthen her lazy eye's muscles.

Well, I thought she'd love to learn to needlepoint and I wasn't wrong on this one.

She thought that was really cool!

(So today we're practicing without the patch.)

I told her I'd even help her make Christmas presents using needlepoint.

She is so excited.

So, today she had

her first sewing lesson.

I think she's getting the hang of it.