The Value of Backing Up

I like to think that I'm pretty organized, I also like to think that I'm diligent about backing things up like my photos, my documents, my taxes etc. This theory was kind of put to the test last week when my computer spontaneously started to crash and reboot itself over and over again. I was just able to get an e-mail off to Francois, my computer guy, saying that my computer was starting to act funny (I think it heard me) when, poof I got the black screen of death. My brain immediately went into panic mode trying to figure out when I last backed up my photos. Ironically two weeks ago I decided to move ALL of my images onto two EHD and changed my downloading and any work I did to one of them rather than my computer's hard drive. So now everything I did was off of my 2TB EHD. So I was pretty confident that if my computer's hard drive was fried, I wouldn't be loosing much. Thankfully in the end it turned out to be the motherboard that bit the bullet, and it was easily replaced, all data I had on my computer's hard drive was saved, and everything was fine. The only inconvenience was not having my computer for 4 days and then having to install all my programs on again. Since the last time I replaced my computer, I've moved to using my e-mail strickly through the web, and similarly with bookmarking, I change to using Delicious. So whatever I can save on-line I will. Very useful when your system crashes!

Halloween Minis....

Highlight video from Saturday's mini-session. I had a lot of fun with the little ones! They were so cute and posed very well for me under the circumstances... Bribery with Halloween candy will go a long way!!



It was tiring, but I very fulfilling - learned a lot, met a lot of new people and had fun all at the same time. The only downside of it was missing hanging out with the girls and Eric getting ready for Halloween! I didn't even take pics of my own kids on Halloween!! But I'll recreate it next weekend for pics.

Wow, where have I been!

I've been sick, the girls have been sick and finally, finally everyone is healthy. I realize how difficult it is with 3 kids and how as soon as one is sick, a few days later the other is sick, then I get sick, then Eric gets it, then the baby gets it, then three weeks later - we're healthy. I'm not exactly sure how one is supposed to manage this when working full time?!! During all of this I had to proof a couple of shoots I did, and I still have two to go. Can't do much when you are up 24 hours a day, and the kids are home, supposedly "sick" yet running around like it's party time! I did manage to take a few photos during all of it and some favourites are:

My girls! Notice how Madison is staring at her hand. She started
chewing it a couple of weeks ago.

She also started following things that move, like her jungle
animals on the swing.

Her eyes are a stunning blue. (just ignore the crusty nose, I didn't feel like
photoshopping it out!!)

Where's Waldo?

Gillian and Madison spend some quality time together.

All the leaves fell... so lots of fun to be had!

Over the past week, I've made some yummy desserts: Pumpkin Chocolate Squares, and Chocolate Coconut Bars. I also made a couple really good and really easy dinners one of them being: Apricot Pork Tenderloin with Cranberry Black Pepper Sauce.

That's it, tomorrow I have a shoot (a baby!!), Thursday I may try and get vaccinated for H1N1 with the girls...(however waiting in line with them for 4 hours may just be too torturous!) and Friday I have to prepare for my Halloween Mini Sessions at HUSH!

Envy...

Isn't the best trait to have, but I do envy people who do stuff like this:

Monthly Roundup

Katie the Scrapbook Lady does a monthly roundup, answering specific questions to highlight the month. It's such a great way to capture memories, everyday memories that you may forget about, and would have liked to! Considering how bad my memory is, I'd start this then forget I did and only do it once...

...now what was I doing...

What the $@&% is that??

My kids spotted this crawling rather quickly on the rock in the backyard today...they thought it was pretty neat. I had other opinions about the "inch" worm, as Abby referred to it. (I thought it was more like the 5 inch worm)





At least it was a pretty cool colour though!

Scrapbooking Challenge #14

I'm in the middle of finishing challenge #13 but I thought I would post our next challenge today, in case I don't get to finish it today.

ETA: Finished the page, well almost, I just re-read the challenge and realized I didn't meet the criteria, it was supposed to be 5 images of equal size, oops!! Anyway, I'm just happy I got one done, here is mine for this week:



This week lift the following Creative Inspiration Copy Cat Wednesday, AND post your layout on their site (via Designer Digitals or however way you want!).

Have fun scrapping!

Fall

Some people think we are crazy to live in Quebec, and at times (usually April each year, during the first snowfall trying to drive to work) I have to agree with them, but on the most part I would have to disagree with them. This is one reason: The view from our deck:

It takes my breath away every year!