Finally getting some layouts made!

I have still been having computer woes, but perhaps I have finally solved my problems, at least for the moment my programs are up and running at a decent rate of speed again. As much as I love "playing" on my computer, I am definitely not a computer wiz! Hopefully all my computer needed was the "registery cleaning" after all the time I have put in to trying to make it run effeciently I will be mad if it dies any time soon. It is about 5 years old but until recently it has always worked great and does what I need it to do. I guess time will tell and in the mean time I am even more diligent about backing up all my stuff. As long as my new external hard drives don't quit like the old one, I will be in good shape. Photos I am a bit more obsessive about and they have always routinely been backed up to a disk as well, so in all my woes I have not lost any of my photos. Enough rambling about my computer.

We went camping "up north" with some friends last weekend and had a good (but rainy) time. I am downloading my photos from the SD card as we speak and hope I have some good ones. It rained a lot during our time at Harrisville State Park and on Saturday afternoon it also hailed. By the time the storm passed the ground looked as if it had snowed. Crazy!! We slept nice and dry in our pop up camper....our friends were a bit more damp in their tent. Over all though it was still fun. We love this campground as we had an awesome site right on the beach. We fell asleep at night listening to the waves and while sitting at our campfire we watched the almost full moon rise above the water each night. Unfortunately on the east coast of Michigan you don't get the awesome sunsets...but it is the only place I have ever seen the moon rise on the water and it is a site to behold. I tried my hand at taking some night photos of the moon...we shall see how they turn out. At least this year I remembered my tripod...last year I forgot the piece to mount the camera to the tripod :)

I spent all Sunday evening washing the damp and wet dirty stuff from camping. Today has been a rainy day, so since we are stuck indoors I have been cleaning my house...fun, fun, fun!

We are anxiously awaiting next weekend to travel to Iowa for our annual visit with Danielle's family and friends. The kids are very excited to go swimming and to try out the new golf clubs Grandma and Grandpa got for them. Oh and of course to drive the golf cart around and around and around Grandpa's yard.