Destructible Dell....

When Morgan was a few months old, Shane had a work conference in San Destin, Florida so we packed up every baby gadget in the entire house and brought it to Florida.  While Shane was in meetings, Morgan and I played in the pool, took naps, strolled around and one afternoon I let her fall off of the sofa onto the tile floor... Naturally I was hysterical and certain that my neglect had allowed a severe brain injury.  She cried, I cried, I called Shane and admitted my neglect, and an hour later, she was fine.  A little ice cream, a few kisses, and she was good as new.  It was at this point that I realized I made a pretty indestructible product.  I grew her...  And she would probably survive the numerous scrapes and bruises, falls and bumps she would encounter during her lifetime...

This is not the case for my laptop... But I think if I can make a durable "product" (and don't blast me for calling my child a "product"), why can't Dell? Let me explain.... Last week my laptop was in the protective computer bag sitting on a bench in my house.  Naturally there was "kid crap" on the bench, so the bag wasn't exactly level and the bag fell off... Big deal, right?  Morgan survived her fall, I was sure my computer would...WRONG!  NOTHING was recoverable from the hard drive...Luckily I only lost a few months of pictures and I'm purposely not figuring out which ones they were, oh my Christmas Card address list is gone too, so I'll be playing the game, "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" this year... I'm just moving on, but I'm really upset about this whole broken hard drive thing in the first place...  Doesn't Dell make enough money and employ enough engineers to figure out how to put more padding inside the laptop?  Like the amount of padding that Morgan has... It think that should be enough...

But like I said, after a little public ranting, I'm officially moving on...My Walmart started carrying SMASH products, oh it makes grocery shopping just a little more enjoyable...and it was so neat and organized and since my scrapbook style leans toward "piling crap on top of crap", these things were perfect...

some vintage and some girly, just perfect...

I saw Magic Mike last night and it just confirmed that I never need to see a Chippendale's show in my life because there is NOTHING attractive about greasy naked gyrating men...and I mean NOTHING!  Six packs abs are nice, but not when they are accompanied by greasy hair, thongs and very bad acting.  But I am glad that I saw it, otherwise I would have been the only woman in America who hadn't...and there was ONE man in the audience...disturbing...

Now for a few layouts...Avery's 7th birthday last November with the sweetest friends a girl could have...

For Avery's birthday, the girls got Coco "The Dog that Cancer Bought"...Shane and I promised ourselves that once the girls made it through cancer, there would be a dog...just another thing I have to thank cancer for...When people ask me if I love Coco, I say "I love that my girls love Coco...."

Last Mother's Day I took the wig off...and never put it back on...it was a fantastic celebration!!

I never in a million years growing up in NOLA imagined that my girls would be going to 4H festivals...helloooo Dutchtown!!

Mia looked beautiful at her Baptism, but the picture that cracks me up is the one of Hannah, Morgan and Avery studying the prayer books - as if THAT is going to help!!

I could have an album each year dedicated just to the Christmas season.  I collect Christmas paper and embellishments all year long.  Here are my cute girls...

That's it for today...Shane and I went to a friend's wedding recently and on each table was a plaque that said "It's never too late to live happily ever after" and I thought it was just perfect.  Hope you are laughing this weekend!