Let's get this thing going again...

All right, I guess Zach has sufficiently paid for his blog destruction. Let's get some pictures back on this thing.

Baby Girl S The mom and dad came for these pictures and I LOVE the look of a daddy holding his baby.

I have a couple more baby shoots to post, but be warned, the pictures are really similar. I think I've exhausted the black sheet and camera set up, I need to branch out and mix things up a bit.

7 easy steps to upset your spouse

As evidenced by the numerous comments of the previous post, I Zach, the eraser of blogs, decided to let everyone know what not to do (in other words, what not to let your husbands do).

1. When signing up for blogger, you had to sign up for kind of a partial account with google to use blogger and google reader.  If you signed up for this account with any email account other than a gmail account- you made the same mistake that we did- read the next steps carefully or you may have the same problems we did.  Plus a few finger-wags from the person you married.

2. At some point, probably after a few years of personal posts that represent at least a few thousand hours of blogging time and picture taking/editing, someone decides to sign up for a gmail account on a computer that is used for said blogging.

3. When this person signs up for a gmail account, the gmail account automatically (yes automatically Melanie, no options) becomes the primary email address with the account. Result: google reader starts to have problems; others' readers don't update with new posts from our blog, and our reader doesn't update with some other bloggers' blogs.  

3a.  This may not seem like a big deal..... Oh wait, I forgot that if you're reading this, it's probably a huge deal, which it was to Mel.  So I decided to try and fix the problem, the google reader problem- I had no intention to change anything with the actual blog... Or so I thought.

4.  Before reading the rest...DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS UNLESS YOU WANT SOME RIPPLES IN YOUR MARRIAGE!!!!! Beware!!! Scared yet?  You should be. 

Moving on, I thought that if I could delete my gmail account, Melanie's original email address and "partial google account" would be reinstated.  WRONG.  For some reason, when I deleted my gmail account, Mel's blogger/reader account was wiped clean.  I'm not sure if somewhere along the way I could have avoided it, but I didn't and now I have empty posts to bring back memories.

My final advice: if your blog is blogging without any problems, don't mess with it.  If you signed up for a blogger account with an email address other than gmail, don't sign up for a gmail account.  Also, if google reader starts acting up, it may be better to deal with a bad google reader than an erased blog.  Most importantly, back up your blogs if you really do want to keep those memories.

I hope that you all have learned from my painful mistakes.  I am soooooo sorry Mel.

P.S. Mel, the new header is cute, I wonder how you got Aubrey to hold still for that picture.

my blog is ruined

You might notice that all my pictures are gone, all of them. Hundreds of them. Since my blog has always been more about the pictures then the writing, that's a huge loss to me. My husband accidentally deleted my google account, which in turn made all the pictures on any post done under my account disappear (that would be 72 of the 108 posts). I've filled out all sorts of forms contacting google and blogger regarding this and I think I have to accept that the pictures aren't coming back unless I slowly and tediously re-do EVERY SINGLE POST! For some odd reason the writing is still there for each post, so at least I'll have an outline to go by if I do go that route. But I would have much rather lost the writing then the pictures. Anyways, don't delete your google accounts! It's bad news! Had our blog not been linked to Zach's google account as well, I think the whole thing might have been lost, I'm not sure. And don't let your husbands mess around with your blogs, because bad things happen. I've heard there's a way to back up your blog and I think I'll look into that once it has anything worth saving on here (seeing as now it doesn't).

Also, my google reader account is gone as well, so until I get everyone entered back in there, I'm a bit lost on everyone else's blogs as well. Also, I cannot access any private blogs I had permission to anymore, so if you're private, I'll be bugging you to re-invite me.

I have forgiven Zach, barely :) Actually I was extremely upset with him, but life has a way of putting things in perspective and I realize that my blog being ruined is extremely insignificant. Emphasis on the extremely. But that's the story of why my blog is empty and how it got to be that way (his name is Zach).