Gone...

It's missing, well more like gone I guess. As Ava would say "uh oh!"

We aren't sure how long it's going to be, but our posts from here on out are going to be lacking pictures. Last Monday I discovered our camera was missing when I went to get it to take a picture. I've been asked a thousand times, and the last place I remember having it was here in the office when I uploaded our Easter Egg "hunt" pictures. I also remember looking through the pictures on our camera at one point, but I'm not convinced that was after the upload. Anyway, we searched and searched, checked Ava's toy box and hiding spots, asked Ava if she had seen it (it's very possible she picked it up and did something with it...the trash maybe?), and then searched some more. By that point I was physically sick...literally. Me being the overly emotionally one, I cried for two days. Over the top? Probably. But, this was the nicest camera we'd ever owned and was only two years old. Nathan had gotten it for us for our anniversary. Not to mention there were a few pictures on it, not only of Ava but also of Joshua.... which I feel horrible about. (Why didn't I delete those after uploading?) So there is a few $$$ out the window.

Shall I continue on with what else is going wrong here at our house? It's been an interesting few weeks and everything seems to be happening or breaking. After two years we finally got curtains for the kitchen, and I couldn't be happier with them. They tie in not only the kitchen color but also the tan stripe from the living room. While we were at Lowe's getting those, we picked up a curtain rod for the living room. We just haven't taken the time to "finish" the house, we've had a lot going on (life, baby, new jobs, etc.) So we get home and attempt to put up the curtain rod only to find out the vertical blinds that the previous owners put up are coming out of the wall. Why? They didn't put it in the studs!!!! We had already patched holes from the previous positioning of the blinds, when we painted. We assumed they moved them to put them on the studs. WRONG! That was the end of the blinds. We took them down and patched the holes, but that left us with 4 white spots on our tan walls. Solution: get a double curtain rod and hide them with curtains and sheers... for now. We will eventually paint, but can't do it right now. I must say it looks quite nice and adds a lot to our living room. We both even prefer not having the vertical blinds. (I'd post a picture if I had one).

After the blinds came the DVD player. You've heard us talk about how Ava is addicted to VeggieTales, well, our DVD player is having a hard time keeping up with her demands. Granted, it is 10 years old. (We keep things until they die... have you seen our TV?) So the next thing on the list is a DVD player. We also have several Disney movies on VHS so we'll have to figure out what to do about that too. Why must they continue to come out with new forms of multimedia? I saw a funny thing the other day that said "can we please ignore whatever comes after Blu-ray? I'm tired of updating my collection" We totally agree. Thanks to my super smart Engineer husband, we didn't convert to Blu-ray; smart decision.

We're also in the process of updating our master bathroom. We like to refer to it as apartment sized, so we want to make it look a bit better. We haven't started yet, but we've picked the paint and fixtures and priced everything out. It's just so hard to get much accomplished when you've always got something going on. Maybe this weekend we can at least get the paint.

I don't know what has been going on, why we've lost things and can't find them, why things are falling apart, but it's very frustrating. Yesterday Ava and I had to go to Babies R' Us and replace a lost Lambie. I'm sure you've seen Ava's lamb that she can't part with. Well, it too was lost a couple weeks ago. We had a spare, but after a mishap and Ava had to go to bed without Lambie, we knew we needed to get another one. Hopefully, we can start fresh and get our acts together and stop misplacing things. So please bare with us, we will get a new camera eventually, and get back to posting pictures of our beautiful daughter and our insane life.