Fun with the scanner

I recently acquired a new printer/copier/scanner/faxer machine, given to us for free by someone in our ward who no longer needed it. I was super excited because for the past few months I had already been talking to Josh, trying to convince him this item was a necessity, rather than a frivolous want.

Well, when we inherited it we knew the ink cartridges were in need of some cleaning first before we could print, but after several attempts to clean them per the manual's specific cleaning instructions, buying new ink cartridges, and spending a long conversation on the phone with a technical support person, we've realized something inside the machine itself is broken and is in need of repair. Since we payed nothing for this machine and still have a regular printer that functions perfectly fine, we are not going to invest any money in trying to get if fixed. It also means we can't copy anything, and we don't have a phone line to fax things, so that leaves only the scanner function working. But that's ok!! That's the function I was most excited about anyway. We got it at just the right time to scan in our ultrasounds pictures so you could all have the opportunity to "ooh" and "ahh" at our little miracle peanut. :)

I also wanted to try scanning in old pictures I have, so I looked through a photo book from my younger years and found several pictures of birthday. I figured this would be a fun place to start. So, thanks to my new scanner you get to enjoy some fun, but not always attractive, pictures of me through the years. I think I'm pretty brave to do this. No laughing allowed.

The Original Birthday:

November 17th, 1981

10:43pm

8lbs 2oz, 21 inches long

Desert Samaritan Hospital, Mesa, AZ

(yes, I know the stats from memory)

3rd birthday:

we're at Pioneer Park in Mesa

4th birthday:

I was in love with cabbage patch kids at this time,

so I had a cabbage patch cake and I also got a cabbage patch!

5th birthday:

6th birthday:

8th birthday:

I don't think I had a birthday party this year because we celebrated my baptism.

I was so proud to have my own set of scriptures.

9th birthday:

We're at Reed Park in Mesa. This is when the girly parties started!

All these girls stayed over for a sleep over too.

My poor parents!!

(yes, it's November and we're still in shorts. Love it.)

(I'm the one with the huge plaid shorts)

10th birthday:

Remember, I said no laughing!!

11th birthday:

This ended up being smack dab in the middle of 5th grade science camp!

But it was fun to have my friends around.

Sorry to Maranda and Malinda for your pictures ending up on here!

(I'm wearing the hot pink sweat suit. I loved that outfit!)

13th birthday:

entering teenagehood

this pretty much sums up how nerdy I was as a teen.

(man, my family had that brown table for a lot of years!!)

26th birthday:

Ah, finally a little more decent looking.

Guess I've changed some over the years!

I know there were several other memorable birthdays, I just don't have pictures from them. The most fun birthday I had that I can remember is when my friends threw me a surprise party, which really was a complete surprise! They even passed out flyers/invitations at school without me noticing. And the time when my friends made me a shirt that said something like "it's my birthday, wish me happy birthday" and made me wear it to school all day. Embarrassing. Another fun one was when there was a meteor shower the night of my birthday and Josh and I went out to the desert to watch it. Talk about being able to make a bunch of birthday wishes on shooting stars! I hope I have many more memorable birthdays to come!