S.O.S.

This last weekend we had TWENTY people staying in this house. This 1200 sq. ft., one bathroom house. Jef's sister and her family were staying with us for the holiday weekend. So we borrowed the parents big ol' trailer to put people in. But when we tried to plug in the trailer's cooler, it drew too much power and tripped the breaker. Somehow this managed to completely wipe out the hard drive on our computer. The computer guys are still working on a data retrieval, but it's not looking good. At all.
We now have a new hard drive in the computer and our long week of living computer-less is finally over. I was quite shocked at how hard it was.
So now we're starting over with a blank computer. We are definitely missing some things.
Like our..
Programs. It is so weird to have such an empty desktop. And re-installing and re-downloading everything is a huge pain and takes HOURS.
Financial information. Bye-bye QuickBooks. Luckily we've backed up recently, but not recently enough. I'm going to be entering a lot of transactions.
Emails! Already I've thought over and over again about this email or that email that I wish I had. And all of your email addresses are pretty much gone.
But most of all:
MY PICTURES!!!
I am so sad about my pictures. Two and a half years of my children's lives are gone. True, I have printed some, and thank goodness I've been posting pictures on my blog for the last nine months, but there were so many others. It just makes me heartsick.

So here's where I need your help, please. If you could please email me (stefanie at skaterace dot com), so that I once again have your email address, and also if you have any pictures of us from the last two and half years, I would be SO excited to have them.

And do me another favor: Take this very moment to back up anything of value on your computer. No, really. Just do it.