Holiday Weekend

Busy, Busy....We had a great feast at our house over Thanksgiving. Manthy, Ruben and the kids came down and also we had Janice here for dinner. Tasty!!! I do believe that Manthy and I thought we were cooking for the entire Wilson gang....there was so much food leftover. All was good until Zane came crying into the house....Creston had shot a fake arrow that hit him above the eye. Scary....I know Creston learned a valuable lesson....he was quite upset about the ordeal. Zane is o.k...thank goodness....bruised but o.k. Jord and I and the kids loaded up Thanksgiving night and went shopping at Garden Ridge. What a blast! We got fun things for the house and Christmas tree. They had 50% off all Christmas Decor', they had 6 rows of specialty ornaments....needless to say....we went a little overboard. They had fleece blankets for $2.99!!!! That was my shopping excurtion for the weekend. Hope everyone had a great holiday and you know what they say......28 days left of shopping.

Life!

Today is Jord's first official day at his new job. Exciting for the whole family. Creston had his first basketball game last night and Kat is still going at softball. I believe her last tournament is this weekend in OKC. We had a stressful weekend, as most of you know. Church Sunday was a solumn meeting, much of us thankful for life and yet grieving for what was to come. Many prayers are needed here. Ruben, Manthy and the kids were down on Sunday. I cooked Fajita's for everyone, Isaac came home with us too so he could play with the boys. We always enjoy company! Christmas is around the corner and of course I wait until the last minute to go shopping although Jord and I have a date for Thanksgiving night. Garden Ridge is open for the big holiday sale and we love to go and pick up things for the tree. For those who aren't from Oklahoma-----Garden Ridge is a huge warehouse full of goodies (like a Michael's but much bigger) I'm sure Manthy will be there at some point!! I've been trying to schedule pictures for my kids....I want to get them taken with all the beautiful fall color on campus but life is so busy, last week there wasn't one night that I got home before 9:00. A little hard to take pic's when its dark out. Where's Jan when we need her!!! Oh...I forgot....she's going to Hawaii!!!!!

Advice

For all of you out there in www land don't forget to back up everything on your computers. I would suggest copying all of your pictures this week on cd or dvd and storing them in a safe place. I have had numerous computer crashes over the years, but never one that actually melted all of my access to my documents and pictures. It literally would not allow me to transfer them off the computer on dvd, cd, flash drive or hard drive. Gone! Everything Gone! I had the most expensive and best anti-virus program and I got hit. I was able to save a few of my pictures. I had backed up some as I went, but nothing like I should have.

So if it was to hit you tonight, would you have backup copies somewhere? I have had a backup harddrive before, but it got infected, so I would really suggest making cd's of your most precious pictures. I have read several articles in the last year of people that actually reformat their computers every six months.

So....To MOM: back up all of your genealogy stuff immediately! Jan: Don't take a chance on a backup hard drive. Start pulling your pictures off and putting them on DVD. Archive all of your documents on DVD or CD. I know that my DVD writer actually has a command that allows me to backup everything onto DVD. Spend the time to figure yours out and use it.

1. So my plan:
2. Keep a much more organized computer
3. pull off my documents and store them on cd or dvd
4. only keep documents on my computer that I don't mind losing
5. Expect and be prepared to reformat my computer every 6 months or less.

Once the error messages start popping up it is an indication that Microsoft is crashing. After I downloaded Microsoft Office 2007 I started having trouble. I had a professor at school that had the same problem. My laptop crashed on Thursday, I hope I haven't lost the hard drive data on that or I'm going to be in real trouble.

I'm not very happy camper tonight.

jlw