{computer help}

Any computer pros out there? I can't seem to get my new computer (Windows Vista) to recognize my Western Digital external hard drive. Debbie and I googled it and apparently many, many people have had the same problem, but none of their fixes seem to work for me. Any suggestions????

UPDATE: Apparently it's not the computer, it's the EHD. I tried plugging it back in to my old computer and it's not recognizing it either. Ugh.

{tennis}

Look out Roger Federer, here comes Gerard! He loves tennis camp again this year which reaffirms my belief that he chooses the sports he likes based on whether he can carry a big stick (think tennis racket, hockey stick, baseball bat, golf club, NOT soccer ball). Today they were learning proper serving techniques:





And Morgan will always be his biggest fan!

{at the park}

I am LOVING having a laptop!!! The kids are finishing up their lunches so I thought I'd post a quick picture from the park today. We meet up with a bunch of friends on Wednesdays at the park and we usually stay all day and have a picnic, but it was way too hot to stay that long today. So we brought the picnic back home and had our lunches in the comfort of our air-conditioned kitchen. Ahhhhhhh.

(taken with my cell phone)

{a gift for morgan}

Morgan loves the Disney princesses so Grandma Andrea made her a wallhanging for her room. On the back it says "For Morgan, our princess" and Grandma used Morgan's favorite princesses: Sleepin Booty, Snow White, and Cindawella. We haven't hung it up yet, as Morgan would rather walk around with it. Here is the photo play-by-play of Morgan opening her gift:













And Gerard finally agreed to get his hair cut. I thought I took a picture, but apparently I did not. You can kind of see his hair in this one of the kids playing with Gerard's Wedgits:


Goodnight. I am tired and I have a headache and I was supposed to go to bed hours ago, but having a laptop makes it too easy to lay in bed and work on the computer instead of going to sleep! I am officially turning the computer off now. Or in another 5 minutes....

{new computer}

We did it! We finally bought a laptop for the house. It has been wonderful computing upstairs instead of in the basement. I had to order a 19-1 media card reader because the only problem with this laptop is that it doesn't read CF cards for my Canon SLR. The media card reader should arrive today (oh ho the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin!!) and then I'll be able to upload some recent pictures. So expect a new blog post soon!

{happy father's day!}

Happy Father's Day to Gerard, Grandpa Ian, Grandpa G and all the other dads out there!

{cell phone pics}

I realized that I never do anything with all the pictures on my cell phone since the quality is really crappy, so I figured the least I should do is post them here! Enjoy...

Here is a partial view from our hotel balcony in Myrtle Beach. We were on the 19th of 20 floors and had an awesome ocean-front room. The balcony wrapped around from the living room (we were in a suite) to one side of the bedroom to the other side of the bedroom. It was very nice.


All she needs now is a pair of leg warmers. Let's get physical, physical. I wanna get physical. Let's get into physical...



A random shot of the gang:


Morgan loves her Care Bears. Here she is reading "Goodnight, Moon" to them:



And finally, here is Morgan eating her cereal like a normal human. She has been eating the same breakfast forever: yogurt and dry cereal. Today she just decided to try cereal the regular way: in a bowl, with milk, eaten with a spoon. Imagine that.