6 Month Pictures...

what a story....we had Lucas' pictures taken at Picture People in the Orland mall. They did a fabulous job...see for yourself (http://smilestore.picturepeople.com/ - not sure what info you need but put in my email address also the user id (azukow27@hotmail.com), access code is a60ceb668f and password is lucas1211 - hopefully that will work). However, I did not do such a fabulous job in caring for the pictures that we ordered...and so we begin...

So as most of you know, it is far too hard to pick only a few pictures to order when they are so many gosh, darn cute ones so of course I spent way too much money and ordered enough for what seemed like the world! I brought all of the pictures home with us this past weekend so I could show the families and give them theirs. We stayed with my parents this weekend so they got theirs and then our busy Sunday began. We packed up all of our things and left Nala at my parent's house and decided to just swing by and get her on our way out of town. Our first stop was Wally's Aunt Missy's house...Missy, Brian, and the girls hadn't met Lucas yet so we stopped there for a bit, then we headed to my grandparents house for a Father's Day lunch, and lastly we headed to Wally's parents to celebrate Father's Day and of course so they could get their share of Lucas for the weekend. As we got into the house, I remembered that I had these pictures to show and give them. I went out to the car, but couldn't find them anywhere. I remembered putting the envelope of pictures on my parent's kitchen table that morning, but I coud have sworn that we grabbed everything. Then, I got this horrible feeling that I put the pictures on the roof of the car as I was putting Lucas in his carseat. I couldn't remember doing that, but it was like I subconsciously knew it happened. So I hopped in the car and backtracked from Wally's Aunt Missy's to my parents house hoping that the pics were on the kitchen table and I wasn't going to find them on the road. I went into the house, no pictures to be found anywhere, I started crying and figured I would bring Nala back to the Zuk's with me (my parent's were still over at my grandparents). As I pulled out of the alley onto Roosevelt Road, I saw them...my beautiful, expensive pictures run over and soaken wet (it was raining that day) in the middle of the road. I slammed on the brakes, got out, and picked them up. The envelope had disintegrated and the pictures were all exposed. I put them in the backseat of the car (at this time I am full-out bawling as Wally and Carly can attest to from my phone call) and headed back to Wally's parents. Then, my lovely dog Nala decides to jump in the backseat of the car and sits on the pictures...I pull onto a side road off Shooting Park and put the car in park. I go to open the back door to get Nala (she wouldn't come back to the front seat when I told her to) and she jumps out of the car and takes off...I am furious! She runs up to a house and wouldn't come until I pretended like I had a treat for her....uuuggghhhh!!! When I finally got back to the Zuk's, I brought the pictures in and everyone kindly starting helping to lay the pictures out and saving what we could. We actually were able to save some, but most were basically ruined! I was a mess....what a waste of money - I was SO angry with myself...how could I forget that I put the pictures on the roof of the car????? Maybe it has to do with the fact that I have a million different things running through my head at all times these days...I need to slow down, relax, and not fret the small stuff...hopefully that is what can come out of the photo incident...needless to say, I ordered some more pictures (therefore, spent way too much money again)...I was ok with Picture People not giving you a cd of the photos, but oh what I wouldn't have given to have that cd now!