New Year, New Blog

Happy 2008!

And with the new year comes change!

I have started a new and improved blog, so this will be the last post on this blog.

To find my new blog, simply click here:

http://loribokavich.blogspot.com

Don't worry, this blog and all of its archives will stay right here.

There is a link back to this one on my new blog.

I hope you will visit my new blog often.

I will try my best to keep it updated!

Lori

Merry Christmas!

Well, here I am up early on a Tuesday morning because my mind can't sleep! There's only one week before Christmas, and I have so much to do still! I did finish my Christmas cards last night (yea!). I hope most of you get them before Christmas. I still need to get a few last minute Christmas gifts, but I'm pretty much done. Casey and I have his work Christmas party tomorrow night and on Thursday night, the kids' school is doing their annual Christmas program. I think Riley is playing a solo on his recorder! (so cute!) I know it will all come together, but I still can't help but stress!

Sorry for the short note, but Drake is ready for his morning walk. Unfortunately, I can hear the wind howling and the rain pounding outside right now. Oh boy!

If I don't get another post done before Christmas, I hope that you all have a safe and wonderful holiday!

Still Stuck in Limbo...

Well, it looks like our computer has gone "Kaput!" Casey ordered a new computer and it should be arriving within the next week. Hopefully, we will have better luck with this one! I just hope we can retrieve our files from the old hard drive. I have tons of pictures and lots of digital scrapbooking stuff I need to get! Since my pictures are all trapped on the old computer, I'll post one that is somewhat recent. My friend, Noelle, took this of Raegan and me at a Mother's Day tea we attended with Raegan's girl scout troop this last spring. It was a fun event. We ate finger foods, drank tea, and learned some basic ballroom dance steps. We were even escorted to our table by a tuxedo clad gentleman. I like this picture of the two of us. I actually look half way decent in it too!

We had a nice Thanksgiving again this year. It was my mom's turn to cook the turkey, so I just brought a couple of side dishes. Casey's parents came up as well, and we all stuffed ourselves at my parents' house. That means I have Christmas dinner at my house this year. I am so not ready for it to be Christmastime. Not only have I not bought one single present yet, but I've been having a two day battle with our Christmas tree. So far the tree is winning and my patience is wearing extremely thin! As usual, we went up into the local mountains the day after Thanksgiving to chop down our tree. This part went off without a hitch. The next day, I decided to begin tackling the lights. I can see why people buy pre-lit Christmas trees. After several hours and one aching back, I finally got all the lights on the tree. Did I mention there were a couple of strands of lights that had a section in the middle of them that refused to light? After a few choice swear words and lots of jiggling, I was able to get most of the lights to come on. Ok, so there's still one branch that refuses to light. I'm over it and have moved on. So, then I start to string the little red beads from the branches, when suddenly... TIMBER!!! Yes, the tree fell straight to the ground! After a few more choice swear words (this time in my head because the kids were standing there), I lifted the tree back into its upright position. It was still pretty wobbily, so I kinda propped it up against the wall. This morning Casey helped me tighten everything back up, and it seemed to be secure. So, I carefully removed the red beads I had started to string yesterday because they got all messed up in the fall. I started over again with the beads and everything was going smoothly when suddenly...WOAH...WOAH! Nice catch, Lori! Yes, the damn tree almost fell over again!! Unfortunately, Casey was on his way out the door to work, so the tree is propped up against the wall once again, still undecorated. I think I heard it snickering at me when I walked by it awhile ago. Stupid tree.

Yes, I'm Still Alive!

Holy Cow! Has it really been since July that I posted last?

Ok, here's the deal...

Once again, our computer has taken a dive. We have the worst luck when it comes to computers! So, we have been using the kids' computer. However, all of the photos that I still need to scrap from our trip are trapped on our other computer! Hopefully, we will get it up and running sometime fairly soon.

In the meantime, I made this cool video montage for free at One True Media! So much fun to do and easy too! I found all these pictures of me from when I was little on the kids' computer (used to be my dad's old computer). So, I have made a montage of ME! Wow, what a change, huh? Anyway, watch and enjoy! Make sure your sound is on too! There's music on it.

One more note...
I couldn't figure out how to post the video on only this post, so you will notice that it's on all the posts now. Until I figure that out, you can watch it over and over and over... :)

More about our trip!

I've been so slow about getting these layouts of our trip done! Well, first of all, we took so many pictures that it's a little overwhelming when I do sit down to work on one. Also, since we've been home, the kids and I have been living in the water all summer. Between trips out to Whiskeytown Lake and swimming at the pool at the YMCA, we're pretty much never home during the day.

So, back to our trip...

This layout is from our day in Peel. Charming little town with a beautiful old castle in it. I will do a layout just about the castle next. We took so many cool pictures of the castle that I couldn't fit them in this particular layout.

So far the summer has been busy, but relaxing. I'm having a great time and not letting myself feel guilty about it! So what if my house may be a little dirty!

This afternoon we're going to see a local production of "High School Musical". Raegan has been really into it since she saw the movie on the Disney Channel. It should be fun.

So, I'll try to get working on more layouts to share from our trip. It's hard to find the time. Relaxing by the lake or the pool takes up all my energy for the day, you know! (ha ha, poor me, huh?) Hopefully I'll get another one done before school starts. And soccer! Ugh, the fall is such a busy time!

The Isle of Man - Part 1

Our flight over to the Isle of Man went much smoother than the first leg of our trip. We were met at the airport by Wendy and Michael (the Britton's 3-year old son). After a quick stop at the Britton's house to drop off our luggage and pick up Rachael (their 11-year old daughter), we drove to the little town of Laxey...

We enjoyed our first day on the Isle of Man just driving around and taking in the scenery. What a beautiful country! Although we were met with some rain the first couple of days, the weather cooperated for the remainder of our stay, and we had beautiful sunny days.

As soon as I complete another layout, I will post about our next stop on the island, the town of Peel, where we saw a really cool old castle. Until then...

Finally...a post!

I know, I know...I'm a bad girl. I've been wanting to post for awhile, but have run into a few gliches (is that spelled right?). Anyway, we got back from our trip on June 14. At that time our computer was pulling it's annual "I'm not going to work" crap. Being that neither Casey nor I are very computer saavy, we just prayed the computer would miraculously work one day (it didn't, so we just cussed at it instead). Luckily my nephew came to visit from Illinois a couple of weeks ago. You know how those teenagers are with computers (makes me sick). Anyway, he came over one day and had it fixed within like 10 minutes (smart aleck!). So, now our computer is fixed once again! Hooray!

So then I decide to start scrapping our trip. Let me preface this by saying that Casey bought a new camera right before our trip. And let's just say he went a little crazy with the whole picture taking thing. Plus, I had brought my camera too, so needless to say, we have tons of photos from our trip. It was a little overwhelming at first to try to pick just a few to scrap. But, one day I was determined to get started, and I succeeded! Hooray! So, here's the first two pages of our trip. Our first day was spent in Dublin, Ireland...

So we were very happy to make it to Dublin, Ireland. It was a loooooong trip there. We thought we weren't going to make our flight in San Francisco. We thought we had left early enough, but when we got around the Berkeley area, the traffic was horrific! We finally made it to the Bay Bridge, but then the traffic got even worse! We sat and sat and sat. We realized we only had a short time to get to the airport and didn't think we would make it (we still had to drop off our car in long term parking). Well, miracles do happen because we made it to our gate just as the flight was boarding! Whew, that was close!

So, I'm a terrible sleeper on planes and knew I would not get any sleep before we arrived in Dublin (I was right). We arrived in Ireland about noon their time (yea, that's about 4:00am our time). We decided to try to stay awake the whole day, so we could start adjusting to European time. After doing a little walking around Dublin (well, it was more like dragging), we decided to hop on one of the city bus tours. Ok, we might as well have been in a cradle being rocked by our mommys because the motion of the bus was putting all of us to sleep. We somehow managed to stay awake(well, mostly) for the majority of the day before we finally crashed in our hotel room around 6:00pm. The next morning we headed to the Isle of Man...