Only 4 Hours of Sleep

I went to see New Moon last night at midnight with 4 of my girlfriends---it was so good. I can't even do it justice by talking about it, so I'll be brief. They did a much better job of portraying some of the underlying emotions between Edward, Bella, and Jacob this time around. The werewolves are MUCH larger than what I imagined when reading the books. The Volturi are mesmerizing and Edward was at his best in the scene with them where he was wearing this blood red robe--it was a delight to say the least. Okay, enough.

This was the start of my favorite part of the movie--and there is that red robe.

Okay, so on a lighter note. I almost feel like these two topics shouldn't even go together. Well, anyway.

I am starting a new tradition this Christmas. I went to the library and let the boys pick out 24 Christmas books. We got an assortment--reindeer, snowmen, Santa, and Baby Jesus. We are going to put them in a big basket by their rooms and starting on December 1, we will read one book per night, slowly emptying the basket, and letting this be our "countdown to Christmas". I have seen where some people wrap each book in Christmas paper so the kids get the thrill of unwrapping the gift and being surprised by which one it is. I am considering doing this, but am trying to weigh the effort versus the enjoyment--hard to say. Maybe it will get old opening them every night. I'll think about it for a while.

I also really want to make one of these.

Up and running

I went over to the Apple store today and picked up my computer. It now has a brand spankin' new hard drive that has double the RAM of the other one. I'll have to admit it is super cool. It's just different enough that I notice. I kind of feel like I have a brand new macbook, especially since there was NOTHING on it. Yep--no pics, documents, iTunes songs, mail, calendar items--zip.

While I was waiting to get my little white piece of heaven back, I sought out to discover just how many pictures I lost. What I discovered was that I had backed up quite a bit AND I had uploaded almost all of our significant events and vacations onto my blog or facebook page. So, now I am totally looking at it as I am not nearly as behind with my scrapbooking as I once thought. How's that for perspective?

So, just wanted to give you a little update. I'll post again later this week with some pictures--maybe some oldies but goodies just to celebrate that I have them.

Until then, I'm going to go downstairs, retrieve my external hard drive and BACK UP my new computer AND do it every month for the rest of my life.

How's that for a hard lesson..........