Oh what a week it was

First thing last Monday morning I took our desktop computer in to have it looked at, the USB ports weren't working on the front. They haven't been for a while but we came across the warranty when cleaning out the filing cabinet and it was still under warranty so yay I thought don't have to pay so will get it fixed now. Well what a drama that turned out to be. The problem was on the mother board not just a simple case of adding some new USB connections after all, had to get a new mother board and being a few years old parts are scarce so they decided to give us a new computer instead. Well that's fine and dandy except we weren't prepared for not getting our computer back and hadn't saved all our stuff to DVD's!!!!!! So having no way to get our computer back the poor guy over there is doing it for us, and believe me after having a computer for 3 years you gather so much stuff you just can't replace and so he is having to get it off for us. He is being really good about it and is happy to do this for us but I just wished I had of realized and done it myself before I took it in. It's a horrible feeling that we might loose documents or photos or something, just horrible.
After careful consideration and much research we decided to upgrade since we had to replace the computer. So on Friday we took ownership of a new big, fast powerful machine!!!! Craige even surprised us with a new 19 inch widescreen TFT - LCD monitor. All sounds exciting but truly having to set it all up until the wee hours of the morning takes the edge off!!!! lol and seeing all the folders empty is really sad, it doesn't feel like ours its all empty!!!!Brad the computer guy did send Craige home with 3 DVD's with some of my stuff on it which made me feel a bit better. I have some documents and photos on here now and even some e-mails but don't have my e-mail contacts!!!!! So if anyone reading this would like to send me an e-mail so I can add you back into my contacts I would really appreciate it!!!!!!. And if you have sent me an e-mail with anything important I'm supposed to remember or do, please send it again, chances are I don't have the e-mail anymore.
In the middle of this week we had Ethans 4th birthday!!!! YAY it was the first birthday he has enjoyed, he was excited about all his presents, he liked his party on Tuesday night and even enjoyed having happy birthday sung to him, which he usually really hates. He blew out all the candles in one go. After his party we made some cup cakes to take to kinder the next day. OMG I don't know where my head was but I didn't put enough sugar in the mix and they didn't really taste fantastic, but they were OK until I iced them, I was busily icing these little cup cakes with a beautiful blue colored icing that Ethan picked then he smelt the mix in the bowl, said yuck that smells like butter!!!! Huh?!?!? Yep I had a taste and realize what I'd done.......Silly me used corn flour instead of icing sugar DUH!!!!That made them so yuck. LOL. So I had to go do a late night dash to the supermarket to get more ingredients to make some more.This time they were lovely and a huge hit at kinder which was great, he enjoyed all the extra attention at kinder and showed everyone some of his gifts, he had a great time.
I also spent a bit of time helping a friend smock a christening gown, for her grandsons christening on Saturday, it turned out so beautifully. Really really nice, well I think so anyway.
This week I'm spending all my time catching up on more things so I'm prepared to go to Melbourne on Thursday. Very excited and not at all ready but I will get there. LOL. I'm taking the laptop with me so I might get to update while I'm away, if I don't just crash at the end of the day that is. LOL Catch ya all soon