(while driving home from the HEB after spending 1 hour, $112, and all my energy keeping the kids happy)

Mommy:  Whew, I'm thirsty.  I need something to drink.

Katelyn:  Whew, I'm licky.  I need a sucker.

The girls and I had a great time in OK with my parents and David and Libba and Drew.  I took a lot of pictures but probably wont upload them for a while (like I was ever that prompt about it anyways.)  My computer decided to get sick while I was gone (guess it heard I was thinking about replacing it and just wanted to help me make the decision).  My backup drive died and did something to my primary drive in the process.  Paul resurrected it just enough for me to salvage everything I want to keep and pay some bills online.  It has taken me almost 20 minutes just to load up internet explorer and type this brief post.  So my email will be spotty for the next unspecified length of time until I replace it.

5 years is a long time to have a computer that was pieced together from random parts that are potentially even older.  So it did its job and hopefully the next one will do as well.  Unfortunately, it looks like Paul needs a new computer ASAP as well.  C'est la vie.

I (amy) don't know how to upload and edit videos from the really big video camera, but I do have a few from our little still camera.  Here's some random footage from playing outside.  I don't know what all those numbers are next to the video, but I'll have Paul check it out.

I will be getting a new computer sometime this year and have big plans for video editing after that gets all set up.

Up to somethin'.

Whiny.

Deadpan.

Impish.

But always cute!

So recently I had a birthday and became 34 (yeesh).  Paul took me on a fantastic date the night before my birthday, and on the day itself I got to hang out with some of my friends at La Madeline.

L-R: Shannon, Brandy, me, Crystal R, Jen, Jeni.  We can talk for hours about nothing and everything.  It's so liberating to have an evening away from the kids!  (Sorry, kids, nothing personal, you'll understand when you are older.)

Thanks for a great birthday, friends.  I love you all!