I Finally Have Time to Breathe

The past few weeks have been more than a little bit busy. (hard drive crash, hosting neighborhood bunco, landscaping, CATALOG, and chasing around a bouncing baby boy!)

I am so happy to say that the catalog I've been working on for the National Book Network went to press on Friday. It was supposed to be a 30 page catalog that ended up being 76 pages. I knew I'd have some sleepless nights working on it, but I seriously don't know that I would have been able to pull it off if my mom hadn't been in town all last week. I absolutely hated that we didn't get to do more fun stuff because I was working basically the whole time, but thankfully I have a son that is pretty fun and I think they entertained each other. :) (Love you mom....thank you for coming, I couldn't have done it without you!!! Oh, and Connor loves his "Nana" too.---we all like this name and perhaps most importantly, she thinks Connor will be able to say it pretty soon. Hopefully it will stick.)

Since our little camera that takes good movies officially died (and our other one took awful movies) we are now the new owners of a little Kodak camera that takes great movies...but I haven't figured out how to make them small enough to upload here. So, I'm adding some that my mom took during her stay. Oh yeah, mom also taught him to wave bye bye! They said "bye" to EVERYTHING and he finally got it. :) We get a kick out of it every time he does it.....see bottom video.

My mom decided to document the action that I spend lots o f time preventing (she did it all week...) Constantly in the cabinets, opening the trash (and pulling stuff out) or in the bathrooms unrolling toilet paper or trying to reach in if we forgot to close the lid!

The boy loves to "talk". :) I just hope he doesn't have multiple personalities that we don't know about yet! It's as if he's carrying on several conversations at once!

On a VERY VERY VERY EXCITING note....I just got a Facebook message from one of my new neighbors that is also a photographer and she has software to recover pictures off SD cards that have already been deleted. There were about 600 pictures on the card that I uploaded right before the crash and so far, she has gotten back over 400 and when she sent me the message, it was still going!!! You have NO IDEA how excited I am! I hope to be posting all sorts of "old" pictures soon. A few events you can (hopefully) look forward to ar e 1—Connor's first MLB game, 2—Texas trip, 3—Connor and Brian on a longhorn steer, 4—Grant & Carrie's visit go Michigan, 5—many others including my favorite of Connor with Mitsy's mouse. I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight from all the excitement!

I am going to have to do another post tomorrow because I am so far behind on my updating. To up the excitement....you'll meet Kyleen, the Killdeer bird who is nesting in our yard. We are eagerly anticipating the hatching of 4 baby Killdeer birds. :)