American Girls-The dolls and yours truly

This post sort of evolved into what could have been two seperate posts. I should have seperated them so as to look like a very prolific writer that posts a lot,but alas, I did not. One post, two seperate (but equally important)stories...

True to American Girl standards this movie was wonderful. I thought it was incredibly well done. We went for Rylie's Birthday the other day and LOVED it. We have several of the American Girl dolls and their baby doll counter-parts Bitty Baby. We love them so much and the quality is unbelieveable. The clothes could be used for real babies.

We had a great time for Rylies B-day. She is the big 8 years old now. We are prepareing for her baptism and she could not be more excited. We have lots of pictures I have wanted to post but I have a new computer that I haven't learned how to upload photos from my camera...which reminds me of a super funny story...hold on to your seats friends this one is embarassingly hysterical...


Awhile back my computer started acting weird, it was sort of old so it was not unexpected. Anyway, I said to Rich one day "I need a new computer...this one is driving me crazy" his eyes lit up and he got all excited (which I expected cause thats what happens whenever I suggest a new electronic gadget) because to him that translates into "Honey, you get a new computer".

See, how it works in this house is, when my computer gets too old and slow I get Rich's computer and he gets a new computer. He needs more memory and the faster stuff for his work. All I do on it is blog ,check e-mail, a few favorite web-sites, and our school stuff, so I dont need all the bells and whistles and it works out great. He started researching what we needed right away and decided on a new MAC (which we love, the photo stuff is awesome...) Anyway, this is not the story...

After he re-built his machine and made the switch my old computer stayed sitting here beside my side of the desk (where it was) for a few weeks. We were trying to decide if we wanted to keep it here for the kiddos or what. A few times Rich saw me reach down and push the power button on that machine and he would chuckle and say "Your button is over here now babe..." and point to his computer, which stayed in its old spot since the MAC has the computer built into the monitor (confused yet?).

I keep fussing about how I cannot upload photos anymore since we switched computers. I always think of it when we were not at home so he can never look at the computer right then to see what I meant. Then we forget about it. Well, one day I was fussing about it again and he said "Tell me what it does" and I said "Well, when I stick the memory card in the slot nothing happens...it used to come up with a..." He said "Your computer doesn't have a slot anymore"....then dead silence followed by hysterical laughter.

I had been putting it in my old computer. The one that was sitting here lifeless and unused. Uh, ya, that would explain it. When you put a memory card in a computer that is not hooked up to anything (or even plugged in for that matter) it doesn't usually do anything...UGH!!! (Now I bet you understand why I dont get the new computer...)

So there you have it. Scary but true.