My absence...

I feel bad about my recent hiatus from this blog, but to be honest, I have been a little afraid to use the computer. Our usual routine involves me putting MacKenzie down for a nap around 1 and then I will snuggle and nurse Keegan while I watch a show on the computer in our bed. Sometimes it will be a show on hulu and other times it will be an episode of Gilmore Girls on DVD, but that is beside the point. Last week (I think) I did just that and opened the computer to a black screen of nothingness. I pressed several keys to try to wake up the computer to no avail. I hit the power button to restart the computer and was greeted with a whirring and clicking sound and a beautiful grey screen with a big question mark in the middle of the screen. This was not a good sign to me...if the computer has a big question mark in the middle of the screen there are probably some big issues at hand. I did a quick search of what could be wrong on my phone and was dismayed to find that, in all likelihood, our hard drive had crashed. In all fairness we are pretty tough on our computer...but that is why we got a Mac...so we wouldn't have to coddle it! We took our beloved Mac to the Genius Desk at the Apple store and they told us it probably had not crashed, but just needed to be "found". After two minutes of poking around the "Genius" said "No, it has crashed". She told us that Apple could replace it for almost $300 or we could get a much cheaper and much faster one and easily replace it ourselves. She even showed us how...that is pretty genius. We replaced it with a $70 hard drive from Best Buy and went to the task of retrieving all of our files from our backup files. This is where my heart begins to break because apparently the last backup of our pictures had failed and so far we are unable to recover thousands of our most recent pictures. Here are some of the pictures we don't have: Puerto Vallarta, NYC and Philly, Us buying our house, My masters degree, Israel, Canada, Our England and Scotland trip, MacKenzie's pregnancy to birth to growing up until this point, Keegan's pregnancy to birth to growing up until this point. The only pictures we have since 2007 are iPhone pics that were backed up elsewhere. We are hopefully going to be able to recover them some other way, but our first attempts have failed until now...