Panasonic memories

I've been so excited about our "new camera." We got it back in May but I'm still happy with it. What I'm sad about is losing all the videos I've taken. I thought they were just going in the folder with all the pictures but I guess not. They don't play after they've been moved to the computer. Sometimes they just show up as a still picture with really low quality.

I took a great video of the family singing Happy Birthday to Edin, including Edin. I've never been able to get him to sing with us. Well, now it's gone. It doesn't play. I just learned our camera came with a disk, a program to upload pictures. Maybe now my videos will be safe. I'm still mourning the loss of so many other cute captured memories.


**Update: I figured it out!! I'm using a different program, VLC media player, instead of Kodak Easyshare. And ALL my videos are still intact here on the computer, just waiting to be viewed. I am SO Happy. Thank you Matt Luken's for telling me about this program and thank you to my brother James for inspiring me to take a look around. There are so many dang videos I didn't even know I had and I LOVE watching my sweet little ones play and talk. They enjoy watching, too. Edin asks me to play them over and over. "I'd love to!"

The Beginning

I was just looking through some pictures on my computer. I found some of James and me when we first met and were engaged. (In our case, those about the same.) I thought I'd post some. We do look much younger. It's fun to take a stroll down memory lane.

This is our first picture together.

Nine days before we got married.

Here we are buying our first car together, two days before we got married.
Ice cream on our Honey Moon in Island Park.
We match!
Our first Halloween together

My first birthday married.

Our first Christmas together.

Announcing...

A new Baby Strait forth coming. "Exibit C" is due to the world April 7, 2009, but many of you know my record for early deliveries so we're planning for March. Currently I'm 14 weeks pregnant and just starting to show. I've had some ups and downs and definitely extra water works but I feel great now and I'm so looking forward to holding that sweet new person.

I should also tell you we are not going to find out the gender. We could know in as little as 6 weeks but we're going to be surprised.

What I'm not looking forward to is the blessing that will happen at 8am in our current BYU ward. Sorry about that. It can't be helped. But I'm sure this little one will be worth it.

He's some pictures of Edin and Lizzie when they were newborns:

Pumpkins of Halloween's Past

2005

Our first year married we carved pumpkins with Dan and Krystal. James' flaming sun and my "Da Cheet."

2006

James's moon and star

Edin was just born when I carved this one.

This is Edin when I carved that pumpkin for him.

2007

This pumpkin was in honor of Edin. It's a bum.

James's speared fish.

My moon and stars

2008
This is as close as we got to carving pumpkins I guess. Too much going on.

2009
Edin and I painted pumpkins together while James was in CA. We may carve or paint more later. These pumpkins are small. The perfect size for Edin.

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