OK so I typed this up yesterday and forgot to post it...

OH MY GOODNESS! So last night Brylee and I are hanging out in the floor talking to Aunt Lindy on the phone when all of the sudden ---------------NOTHING------------------ the phone just shuts off and we cannot get it back on. PANIC TIME! I went to the bedroom and stuck it on the charger (even though it had a full charge, I thought this may help). Still nothing, many, many, many failed attempts later Brian and I decide I was going to have to take it to Verizon because this time it is not coming back on. So I headed up there. I explained to them what happened and then I remembered that the night before it had done the same thing and magically it came back on and I had 20+ text messages starting at 7:30am all through 9:45pm that I had not received. That’s right I went an entire day without even realizing I hadn’t received one single text. (That should tell you how crazy my week has been)

They proceed to tell me that there is nothing they can do; my pics and videos are all gone even my contacts. ALL GONE – the entire first year of Brylee’s life GONE! I was mortified. Thankfully I send everything to my email most of the time so I still had them somewhere. I just never got around to saving them to my memory card. **Lesson Learned**

I went back in knowing that there had to be something someone could do because I could not live without my contact list. I would never get those numbers back and programmed in. Well needless to say an hour later, one brand new battery, 30 minutes of charging and Susan had all my contacts backed up on my phone. *If you have not done this you can backup all your contacts on your phone for FREE and then if this happens to you, you will lose everything else but not your contacts* She managed to get all my pics and videos saved to the memory card I had brought in with me so after all that I ended up with everything I had and a new phone. They said that normally when they do that (the phone shutting off) they never come back on. I have to admit I was saying A LOT of prayers because I hated the thought of losing all those videos. So thanks to the good Lord and Susan’s persistence the outcome was a plus. I asked her what could have possible caused this and when she told me I was a little shocked. She said that normally it was caused by a virus send in a FWD message. She said that if you delete them right away you should be OK but by letting them sit in your inbox/sent mail they just eat away at your phone. So I have to ask that everyone keep me off the forwarded texts you send. I do not want to go through that again.

When I came back home Brylee was walking around in one of my Bemis shirts. Apparently the only way she was satisfied was when Brian let her put it on and walk around wearing it. It was too cute.

Love you all! And remember no forwards!

Happy Valentine's Day!