My Upload Bandwidth?

Last night I was working with some of my pictures, posting a few to my blog, when the boys called up from downstairs..."Hey Mom, are you doing something on the internet?" They were trying to play Halo 3 and my picture uploads were interfering with their ability to use their xbox live to its full potential. I was finished with what I was doing, so life went on happily for them in their xbox world. I was working on several things around the house and on the computer, finishing up some things before bed, when I decided to upload a few pictures to my online picasa album. I really didn't think anything about it until I heard the boys in an xbox live game downstairs... It went something like this: "I can't pick up the flag! Hey guys, I'm here but I can't pick it up! ..." At this point it occurred to me that I was probably the problem, but I was keeping my fingers crossed that maybe it would be okay and I could finish my pictures, then came a voice from downstairs, "Mom, are you doing something again? You're using all our upload bandwidth! How long are you going to be doing that?" Me: "Maybe about 5 minutes?" (Which was probably optimistic - I had a lot of pictures!) "Is that going to be too long?" Well, it was... so being the nice person I am, I figured I could upload my pictures later and not use all their "upload bandwidth" while they were in the middle of saving the world on Halo 3! Later, Adam was kind enough to explain how things work with the whole upload bandwidth stuff and I did think it was interesting and it made sense....but I'll let him explain it to you.

Family Stuff

Merry Grace and Papa at Kristen and Cory's house. Isn't she sweet?! And Papa is cute, too!

Adam and Logan enjoy playing outside on the trampoline and the water hose adds and extra dimension of excitement.

This is Jr. - what a great dog! He is really smart. One of the cutest things he does is bring you a "present" when you come home. It could be a stick or a rock or just whatever he can find. He is always so proud and he makes this moaning kind of sound and wants you to brag on him.

I got very nice hand-painted pots from Kristen's family one year for Mother's Day. I have two of them by the front porch that the grandkids painted. I have enjoyed them so much and it makes me think of them when I water my flowers.

At home and at Kristen and Cory's

Adam looks like a missionary. Papers are in, so we're just waiting for the call.
Don't you like Logan's hair?

This was taken in Kristen's back yard at their new house. I thought it was an interesting camera angle.

This is Logan doing a jump off Ian's skateboard with Elise close behind on the tractor.

So you've never had cable - EVER?

"So you've never had cable - EVER?" That's what the cable guy said when he came to install cable at our house. I guess he didn't think there was anyone left like us! I'll bet he would really have been surprised had he been told that we hadn't had TV in our house in...probably about 15 years! We've rented some movies or shows, or seen some online recently, but we haven't even gotten ANY channels in years, and it's been a long time ago that we even got a couple of channels and they weren't all that clear. We've been at this house 19 years, and it was before we moved here that we even got the 3 local channels pretty well . So, I guess we've been in the TV dark ages around here! I guess it's just never been THAT important. During the school year we didn't normally have the TV on during the weekdays for most of the kids' growing up years, so this whole TV thing is going to be different. We'll see how it goes in this new adventure!