Monday, February 19, 2007

Sorry it's been a while but...

I got a new computer AND an iPod last week (did I mention the sinus infection?)! It is a really nice new Dell XPS 410 with dual processors and the new Windows Vista. I'm having so much fun with the Media Center too. I've been busy, busy, busy loading all of the pictures (over 6000 in 3.5 years *gulp* and that's just the good ones--who knows how many I've deleted?!) from my old computer onto the new one. I can't get over how much faster the new computer is when I pull up my photos to edit them in Adobe Photoshop Elements (had to go and get the 5.0 version too... *wink*).

There have been a few frustrations, such as several discs that I had off-loaded photos onto from 2003 and 2004 became partially corrupted, so I've lost several hundred of those photos (not included in the count above). Fortunately, all of those photos have been printed and most of them have been scrapped, so I just need to get my scrapbook pages scanned and sent to Iron Mountain so if there's ever a fire, the photos will still be recoverable. That should only take about a month or two...

And then Kevin went and got me an iPod nano (8gb) for Valentine's day! The romantic stinker. He even got it engraved! And got the red one, since he knows how red is my favorite color! Sigh. We may not be a wine and roses and candlelight kind of couple, but he still knows how to make me weak in the knees. So I've been having more fun loading the songs that I like from all of our old CDs into my iTunes library and shopping at the iTunes store. Fun! It's reawakened my love of listening to music--I've realized how quiet this house has been (noise from 3 kiddos excluded) in the past years.

Here are a few cute kid pics for anyone missing them!


Katelyn workin' it for the camera--what a little poser she can be!


Olivia learned to put barettes in her hair today


Ryan tearing down the court at a basketball game--check out the muscles in those skinny little legs!

2 comments:

Beth said...

Go go go Anne! I have to agree that the ipod rekindles love of music. I now listen to music as I commute and it has reminded me how much I enjoy it. Now I just need to introduce Allison to some new CDs, we've been playing the same 3 for her for months.

Cute barrettes. The other day I took one out of my hair and Rob said, "that's a barrette, right?" I wonder what Ally's hair will look like when daddy has to do it in the morning?

Rob said...

Wow! An iPod nano and a new computer. Call me jealous. Did you know that your red iPod is helping to fight aids in Africa.

As for how Ally's hair would look, it would be banging!