sad story of the day.

so tim took me on this sweet lil' overnight date the other day to palm springs.
as soon as we took off, his car broke down.
which led to us pushing his car to a nearby shop.
and walking to a rental car shop across the way in the blazing heat.

we laughed it off.
always an adventure with us.

should've taken it as a sign though.
but no-o.
we were determined to getaway.
just me&him.
in a bright electric blue hyundai rental car. yesssss.

everything was dandy.
soaked at the pool most of the day.
packed up for dinner & forgot my phone was on top of my towel.
got to our room.
dumped out my purse.
gone.
within minutes tim ran back to fetch it.
& IT WAS GONE.

we dumped every towel bin.
traced our steps.
scoured the pool.
called security.

gone.

not only gone, but gone & turned off.
i never ever turn my phone off.
ever.
so i knew that whoever took it, knew what they were doing.
and in a 5 minute period too.

[when your iphone is off, your iphone tracker will not work. yep. nope.
now you know.]

over 5,000 photos.
gone.
countless videos of eden's firsts.
gone.

my whole summer in adventures.
gone.
a&e 6th birthday.
our road trip to idaho.
videos of audrey & ellie & eden with their great-grandparents.
the summer olympics.
first day of school.
and the list goes on...

sad story right?
don't cry. it's okay.

now the bummer to this is that my mac was full to the max.
wouldn't let me download any more.
and i procrastinated.
got the external drive A DAY before we left to download everything onto.
procrastinated some more.

never downloaded my pics.

oh, yes. i cried big crocodile tears.
the employees looked at me like i was a crazy nut.
but i don't think you really understand until it happens to you.

anyways, there's my sad story of the day.

tim tried so dang hard to not let it wreck our trip.
even though he knew i was so bummed out.
we had a dang good time anyways.
pretending to be all cop-like stealth for the guy we thought took it.
i even dreamed that night that we went to the dude's house & caught him red-handed. ha!

i know it's just a phone.
and there are so many bigger problems in the world.
BUT GOSH DARNIT I MISS MY IPHONE.
and i'm still praying that it's found. or turned on. so i can track it. muhahaaa.

lesson learned.
folks, download your pics.
pay the extra money for your iCloud storage to be bigger.
get an external drive.
learn from ME.
goshdarnit. even print them most of the time.
i have the worst memory & i'm gonna try so hard to remember all the memories this dude stole from me. thankful that instagram has at least a few snippets on there to remember.

okay, sad story over. thanks for listening to me whine.

random picture of the day a&e met eden in the hospital. cue the tears.

ps. my lil' design shop is back in swing! yay!