XX and her new Compaq

David's old HP laptop died (several times) over three years ago and he decided never to buy another HP. Recently though, he found out that all of the problems that the laptop had were because of a defective video chip and that there was a Class Action lawsuit against nVidia (the chip maker) involving thousands of laptops that were built with the defective chip. David signed on and, long story short, we won. As part of the settlement we received a new Compaq laptop, which isn't truly fair considering what we lost.

David and I already changed to using Macbook Pros, and since our new laptop isn't really worth anything (it's a single core budget laptop selling for $299), Dave decided to set it up for XX to watch PBSkids.

Well, at least someone is excited about it :)!

We are still here....

This time I am going to blame my new photoshop guidebooks for my lack of blogging. A few months ago, I decided to learn how to use photoshop on my own so we bought 2 books and I was determined to conquer them. Don't get me wrong, I love reading those books and am amazed at how much I can do with my pics. However, the more I read, the more I wanted to edit my photos; so I ended up spending hours on a single picture. As a result, I only posted the pictures that I took from my phone on Facebook.

We actually did quite a bit since my last post. We tagged along for David conference in Whistler, Canada, visited ah-Ma in Seattle, saw the Cherry Blossom Festival in DC, witnessed XX graduate from her Tot 2 ice skating class, and of course celebrated Easter.

Back in March, David had a conference to attend in Whistler, which is the ski resort known for hosting the recent Winter Olympics. Dave had been talking about this conference for months because most of the meetings were scheduled for the early morning or late afternoon, so he would have plenty of time to ski. We also invited the Vuongs to come join our "conference/ski" trip. Despite the fact the United Airlines lost our luggage, causing David to have no clean underwear for 2 days, and him catching a stomach flu virus that would eventually get us all sick, our trip was wonderful.

Charlotte and her best best bud Jacob. They always talk about each other.

Us in the Gondola on our way to go tubing 

First real dog sled ride, smelled like dog poop afterwards

XX fell asleep half way through the sled ride. It was a good experience but won't do it again.