Poor Neglected blog

It is summer and I already spend way to many hours sitting in font of the computer (working on my secretary hips!) to stay caught up with blogging.  Here are some of the fun things we've been doing this summer. I've been reading everyone else's blogs and it looks like fun stuff. Happy Summer!

Yes, that is a one eye dog.

Grandma Bette & Granny

Kid bowling on the 4th

Lagoon

The West Jordan stampede

Thanks...

A little venting for myself (a hard day):

Thank you to the large dump truck that kick up a multitude of rocks that ruined my windshield while driving to work.

Thank you to the Highway Patrol officer gave me a ticket for driving 65 miles per hour in a 60 mile per hour lane on the way home from work. I was not even in the fast lane, but yes I was five miles per hour over!

Thanks to my cat who decided to throw-up hairballs all over my hall way. Yuck!

If I drank alcohol today would be a day I'd have a nice cold one to sooth the nerves. Onward and Upward I always say...life is to short to sweat the small stuff!

A little of life for us...

Some of these are a little old but I do not download my little point and shoot camera everyday. We have a lot of fun stuff going on with the end of school and beginning of summer. I will post more stories and pics later.

RD made me post this...he just loved my crazy corn row hair from Puerto Vallarta. It took over and hour to braid and about 30 minutes to unbraid, and it was just a little frizzy...

The kids are my Grandpa's grave on Memorial Day

Emery with an interesting snack: ICECREAM & EGG ROLL????

Kindergarten Day @ the Zoo, we had a good time!

Is it possible to have raging hormones in kindergarten?

So at the Bishop house we have been trying to not watch as much TV and limit electronic time. We have been doing a lot of art projects. Blakely is obsessed with anything to do with cats right now and pretty much any art work has a cat incorporated into it. Haden...well he is somewhat of a "Don Juan." His artwork seems to involve dragons, swords but almost always a fair maiden. The flavor this week on his girlfriend list is Jenna. I am telling you "lock up your girls!"

I did it...I actually signed up!

I signed up for the St. George marathon. I had a goal to run a marathon this year and even if I have to walk the whole thing-I will finish! Wish me luck with the training during the hot summer...if they ever get here!

It is official...I AM AN IDIOT!

Yes, yes I am an idiot. In my rush to get the laundry done yesterday I was  loading in a load of colors due to the fact that Emery had just had a little accident (she is potty training) that rendered the shorts I was wearing a bit wet. So I went ahead and loaded them in with the colors. Later when RD was putting them in the dryer he found my one month old cell phone in my shorts pocket. It did not survive the colored bleach nor the spin cycle...I AM AN IDIOT!

My prayer was answered... (a long post,lots of pics)

So many know that I am a professional photographer. Whenever I take professional pictures I download them, then immediately burn and archive the original files. Then after I edit I burn and archive the edited files. I am very careful with digital negatives. However when it comes to my own family pictures in the past I have been pretty good at backing up my images and stuff...EXCEPT for this time. The other day I came in and found my little Emery clicking around like crazy on my computer. I did not think much of it until later that night I took a look at my family hard drive (I have 2 one for PRO stuff and one for family) and noticed that instead of only having 15 gigs left I had a whopping 40 gigs left. I got to thinking "what the heck" so I started to look around at our files. This was about at 10:00 at night, by 10:30 I was in tears all of my family pictures, my address book, my email data, and a bunch of other stuff (25 gigs worth) had been deleted somehow by my little stinker. We have now put a lock on the computer room door so little fingers can not go crazy. Well to make a very long story short somewhat short, I was in tears as I went through each one of my backup discs and realized that ALL of my family pictures from my point and shoot camera had been deleted with no way to retrieve them. I WAS AN IDIOT AND NEVER BURNED A BACKUP CD OF THE FILES. These included 2 years worth of Christmas's, Emery's first bday & 2nd bdays, Blakely's baptism, our vacation to Sea World, Haden's first day of kindergarten and just lots of memories. I could not sleep by the time I went through all of the discs (with no luck) it was 1:00 in the morning. I sat at my desk and bowed my head and said a little prayer. I know it is cheesy to ask a very busy Heavenly Father who has to help people with real problems out, but I asked anyways for some way to help me recover these pictures. I just kept thinking about all of those fun times I'd never get to remember except for in my mind. Right before I was about to turn the computer off, I decided to do a little search on google. I typed in "Recovering deleted files from the trash on a MAC." From that search I was able to find a trial version of this software called file salvage that I ran on the computer all night. When I woke up I had 15,000 JPEG files that I could retrieve from the hard drive. Of course I had to buy the full version of the software but I did for $79 and was able to retrieve the images. I felt like I had been given a little miracle, here are some of the images I got back:

Emery's first Halloween

My Mom and the Big Chief

A high school jock and his pregnant cheerleader.

Good friends at a special time.

Cousins with a close bday.

Emery's first bday cake.
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Bean's bapstim

Easter Day
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Haden singing "a Holly Jolly day with Mary..."

first belt award

Blakely at Seaworld

Emery loved her stuffed animal

Bishop's & Cecil's feeding the dolphins.

My husband.

Self portrait of Amanda

Bishop monkeys

Haden with his Okapi.

RD being a BIG pervert...imagine that.

A day at the beach

Excited little one in the sand.

The night the last Harry Potter was released (see Mad Eye & Harry?

finding a lady bug

Riding by himself

Just fun at the Gateway

Emery's preview of 2 year old pouting

Interpretive dancing by Haden

Another special day for great friends.

First day of Kindergarten

 At the beach with cousins

Halloween

Haden's bday

Reflections

Emery dancing to Frosty the Snowman

Christmas

Bean's 9th bday

Emery's 2nd bday.

Easter morning.