Annoying things...

Something strange and not so neat happened with our computer today. I was surfing along, enjoying some downtime, when I started to see double-underlined links. Put my cursor over one to discover an ad. An annoying, nothing-of-interest-to-me ad. So I do what anyone would do. I Google them! After some finagling (sp?), I took care of some of them, but geez. Brand new computer, starting out fresh and that stuff comes up? Yuck.

Took a few pictures of my sweet little girl today and I'll be darned if she didn't avoid looking at the camera on purpose. However, I was able to catch this one...what a funny baby:)

Now that we have this new computer, I really want to use my pictures more. I catch funny stuff and it sits on my memory card like that commercial where all the people (fisherman, a bride and groom, etc.) worry about who's getting deleted next. No one gets deleted from my card, they just get uploaded to the 'puter, get put on a disc, and they....well, sit there. It's purely a hobby, but I have loads of pictures and I'm anal about them all. Must be labeled, must be protected, must have a backup. Guess I need to add: must be displayed/have something fun done with it!

The wonder that is me.

A little introduction I suppose....

First off, I am not a writer so I'm just warning you now. Often times the funny things I say or think are never as funny in writing...not sure how that happens.

Anyway, I'm a SAHM (stay-at-home-mom), with one husband and 3 kids. I've never really had a big plan for life, just kind of going with the flow and docking wherever life leads me. My house is NEVER clean, my kids aren't always well-behaved, and life is never boring.

My husband and I have been married for almost 4 years and while he's like a 4th kid, I wouldn't trade him for anything. He keep things interesting and is a great husband and dad. I don't complain about him often because I've been divorced and he is an awesome upgrade:)

My kids...
There's Taylor, my daughter from a previous relationship. She's 12 and definitely in the preteen stage. Phone ringing, Jonas Brothers/Hannah Montana loving, boy-crazy preteen stage. God help me. She lives primarily with us and even shares our last name (yep, she's a hypenated kid!). She's a great big sister!

Cole is our son who is almost 3. This kid is an exact replica of my husband when he was young and there are many days where I want to ask my mother-in-law how she made it out alive (and had 3 more kids!!). He's learning so much and can be such a hoot I think we should build a stage and charge admission to pay for his college.

And Lexi. Sweet, sweet, precious Lexi. She was born this past January and has been such a super baby. I firmly believe she is our reward for dealing with the first two (cleft palate, acid reflux, gas, eczema, braces, drawing on skin with permanent markers....). She's our last as I was shut down (by choice) during my c-section with her. We achived perfection, we're done:)

Change.

So the other day we got a new computer, complete with my fear of moving to Vista. Yikes. Now, I'm not one that is big on change, but I'll adapt after awhile and soon discover that the change really wasn't that bad. And then I discover just how wrong I am.

Today I spent 8 hours trying to manuever the wonder that is my Ipod and it's fellow program. By the time I finally got it figured out, I felt like just turning on the radio. The computer wasn't the problem and neither was Vista. It was just one machine trying to converse with the other and somehow my innocent self got caught in the crossfire. Ugly.


In all of that, all 3 of my children took that oppurtunity to request everything they possibly could need. A drink. A snack. A toy fixed. The secret to life. Tomorrow when I have nothing to figure out, they won't want anything to do with me. I wonder what I can break/screw up to keep myself entertained....