happy birthday uncle vw

Dear Uncle VW,

Happy Birthday! I sent you a picture when I was in your favorite baseball player's shirt. When are you coming back here? Can you send me a letter and tell me? Thanks. Did you see Mickey Mouse and Captain Hook in Disneyland?

Love R {from Miss S too}

{a letter to Uncle VW as told to Mommy}

the time traveler's wife

If you are still thinking about the movie the next day, it must have been good right?

Last night I saw The Time Traveler's Wife with some girlfriends, and I am still thinking about it today. Christine, Jen and I had read the book, and Lee Anne hadn't {which made the experience more entertaining because I kept hearing Jen whisper to Lee Anne explaining things that you could have easily missed if you hadn't read the book. I especially loved the part where I heard Lee Anne say "Well how many of him are there then?}.

I think my review would be that the movie was good. But I am always biased to the book, if I have read it first. I love reading more than I love watching movies. I loved this book. And there is just no way they can put all the detail of the novel into the film, without making it ten hours longer. The film did a pretty good job of touching on the most important parts of the story, but it is harder to get into the characters and really understand Claire and Henry's relationship without all the detail of the book. You know what I mean.

So I highly recommend the book. And the movie is good too. Just different. And if you read the book first and then you go to the movie, you can't really just enjoy the movie for itself. Because if you're like me, you will be constantly comparing it to the parts of the book in your head. Or if you are like Lee Anne, you will be sitting in the theater wondering out loud why Henry's hair is suddenly gray. {Just teasing Lee Anne - you know I love you}!

pages

Since it has been a sweltering 40 degrees or so outside all week, I have been doing some crafting inside with the kiddies, to keep us from melting. The routine this week seems to be: playing outdoors in the morning {baseball and bike riding are the activities of choice lately} and then cooling off in the air conditioning in the afternoon.

Some of my recent pages that I have scrapbooked and scraplifted...

{Miss S and her baby doll "Sophie"}

{K's sister on her visit to meet Miss S for the first time}

I need to add some journaling to this page. I want Miss S to know that the dress she wore for her Baptism was made by my Grandma, over 60 years ago, for my Mom's Baptism. I love that it was handed down, and now it hangs like a work of art, in Miss S's room where we can enjoy it...

Need to add some journaling on this one too...

let's go to st.louis

How cool is this...

Mary Engelbreit is hosting Home Companion Workshops! And check out the list of amazing instructors...Wendy Addison, Amy Butler, Tinsel Trading, Claudine Hellmuth, Mathew Mead, French General, Charlotte Lyons, just to name a few of my favorite creative celebrity type people. Wow, wow, wow.

Oh. My. God. I want to go. Are you in???

I will be waiting not so patiently to hear more of the details.

{Posting from The Grandparents laptop, waiting to hear if anything can be recovered from my hard drive}

i'm mad at my computer

Immediately after I uploaded all my photos from a recent trip to Boston and Cape Cod, my laptop decided it hated me. And it quit on me {conveniently one month after my warranty expired}. So right now I am very mad at my computer. And I miss it...


So over the next few days while I see if it is possible to recover any of my ten gazillion photos off the fried hard drive, I may not be blogging. I may just be sitting around crying over the loss of all the photos that I have not backed up {I know, I know. I should know better. But it was always on my list of things to do...}


I am also very mad at Dell right now, who instead of telling me how exactly I could recover my priceless photos, just continued to try and sell me a new hard drive. I really don't care if you are going to "waive the cost of shipping" I just want to know how to save the photos of my kiddies. Oh, and thanks for emailing me a quote for the new hard drive - less shipping. I'll respond to that right away. Or maybe not, since your email is sitting on my laptop that I can no longer turn on. Thanks for all your help.


Today, I'm going to check out the new Apple store that is in Ottawa - so there, Dell.


And I'm going to buy an external hard drive. I have learned my lesson, the hard way. I will be backing up my photos in multiple locations, from now on.

just add water

Take my kiddies.
Add water.

Instant summer fun.

Lots of time spent at various beaches...

running through the sprinkler or splashing in a pool at a friend's...

Swim lessons at the local pool. Summer is so easy.

What are we going to do when summer ends?