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We Fell off the Wagon!


We sure did… well, I fell off the blog wagon and finally have a second to catch my breath and update! I last left you way back in November, and wow, it's January.  So much has happened since then, but to save you the agony of reading till your mouse can’t scroll anymore here is a quick one…errr not so quick.

December: It was just as crazy as every December is.  Matt and I took our yearly work trip to the NFCA Convention to recruit more softball teams.  This year it was in Orlando so I was WAY PUMPED because my Uncle Mack lives out there and we got to spend a night catching up over an amazing meal he made for us (seriously the best pot roast I have EVER had). The trip went well, and I am hoping 2014 will reflect it (yeah, 2014…we recruit a full year in advance)!

Now the bad part…After a quick trip to FL we came home to find that our office had been burglarized. Computers GONE, which means our 12 years of work were GONE.  We had to learn the hard way about backing up our files! The only good thing that came out of it was that they were so nice to leave my external drive (nice or just dumb because they didn't know what it was... I’ll go with DUMB).  They did damage it and it’s now at a “recovery” place where I am hoping some guy will magically dismember it and take out a microchip and place it into another drive and BOOM, there he will see every picture that I have every taken of my children, my wedding and all the memories I have ever taken a picture of (that’s how it works, I think). My fingers are still crossed and I am praying that they can recover those files, if not; I may be asking you to send me every picture that you have of us and our family!

This year we had Kris, Melissa and Gabriella in town for Christmas so we got to spend loads of time loving all over baby G. Christmas was so fun this year with the kids, hearing Micah’s little feet run over to the tree on Christmas morning, gasping in delight then hearing those little feet come into our room to let us know that Santa had stopped at our house. Our annual Christmas Machain party was awesome. This year during the party I took a step back to wrap my head around the gathering of our family (all 50 of us) all in one home and then looked at my Grandma Machain and couldn't help but smile.  She had to be beaming with thankfulness to see what she was a part of, what God created for her and our family. God is sooo good, and we really couldn't be more blessed with what we have.

January: Recovery, Recovery and RECOVERY.  We have been working all month to get what we lost in the burglary back; which means re-designing everything from our business logo to the 1,500 college database. We are STILL trying to recreate what we have lost but it’s EVERYDAY that we find something else we don’t have. So we will just keep plugging away.

The kids are doing well; we weren't one of the lucky ones to slip by the flu epidemic.  Micah and I got hit with it and Kapri caught some nasty cold…Matt seems to be doing well (knocking on wood). The kids are back in school and things are getting back to normal.  Too bad that won’t last, we have entered TIG season, which means longer work days, less playtime and as soon as March 1st gets here Matt and I become single parents for a month.  Right now we are trying to soak in as much family time as possible. So here are some pictures (that I have finally downloaded, still trying to get over my fear of losing them). 
Another Machain tradition...Tamale party!
Christmas Eve Crab Fest!
Kapri's School Winter Festival
That's no mountain the Snowman is standing under...
Showing off our tree this year!

soooo blessed.





Comments

Ruby said…
Sorry to hear about the theft. Though despite the burglary, you guys still managed to see the silver lining. And yeah, I'm betting the bad guys were clueless on how important that external hard drive was. It's too bad not all of your important files were in there. Hopefully the tech guys are able to repair it, or at least transfer your files before the drive completely crashes.

Ruby Badcoe @ Williams Data Management
5/15/2014
Unknown said…
Having something stolen from you is never an easy thing to handle. But it’s good to know that despite of this incident, you still had a great holiday with your family. And it's great that your hard drive wasn't stolen. At least you won't have to worry about having sensitive information stolen (if there was any), and your work and personal files are safe.

Roberta Scott @ Spectrum Information Services
1/23/2015
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