The other day while working on my Halloween of Years Past post I started digging through my photo files to find some of the early shots of Alex. I got a new computer a few months back and had backed everything from my old one up to an external hard drive. When I booted it up, in search of my photo history, it was nowhere to be found. We're talking about YEARS of photos and videos here and I had the worst feeling in the pit of my soul. My face felt like it was 110 degrees - a feeling I get only in times of uber high-level stress.
Vacations. Christmases. Random shots of random awesomeness. Videos. Oh the videos!
I could feel the tears starting to form and panic was certainly setting in. Immediately I started running through some of the photos and videos that I would no longer have proof of. Moments in time, captured digitally and now, maybe lost forever?
I couldn't take it.
The thought of losing the past 4 years of Alex's life on "film" was devastating. Luckily, my hero of heroes was able to locate and retrieve the files and brought the past 4 years of our lives back to life. I was reminded just how important it is to back up your files and back up often. Save your photos, save your life!
Among the thousands of photos I now had regained access to, I had the one video that immediately came to mind when I thought about what might be lost. It was the one file I couldn't bear to live without! As this blog has and will become a time capsule of sorts, I figured I may as well post the most amazing 2 minutes in a then-3 year old's life. In the event that I ever do lose my files, at least this one, my favorite one of all time, has a place forever online.
