Ok, so maybe it hasn’t been that long and hopefully our old posts holds up better than that movie did, but we are finally back. It’s been 2 years and 1 day… we just missed the 2 year anniversary as we have been having problems with the ‘Follow the Blog’ button. 😓 Anyway, just to give you some background information as to how we got here, this whole thing started when our faithful Mac mini was corrupted, most probably by a virus and completely crashed on us. Luckily we did back up all of our photos before it crashed, but not before all the folders were completely jumbled, duplicated and the dates were mixed up. So a few months later we bought a new Mac desktop and a new photo library/editing program (Adobe Lightroom) and we started to rebuild our library. Of course when you have 2 terabytes of photos that process can take some time especially when you work as much as we do. Finally a couple of months ago we finished that project and started to look for a new blog hosting site. Of course it’s really never finished as we still have some digital files to go through and a lot of photos that need to be scanned, but that can wait a while longer.
The old site, Blogger, was Free but very limited by size, the number of email followers (only 10) and the amount of storage as well as general design features. We also needed a site that could import all of our posts. The best site for all of that was WordPress, it’s relatively inexpensive, has unlimited number of email followers and has some great design potential. Of course it took us a couple of months to get all that figured out and up and running, but we are finally ready. The initial design we chose is very minimalist and clean – we will probably mix it up after the holidays and try some new themes, but for now this looks pretty good.
Now that we are up and running you are probably wondering what all you missed?? Well for starters, Alex got a new car right after the blog went down and has been doing well in college (Pitt Community College) studying Health Management Technologies. He also got his 1st job, Toys R Us and then his 2nd job at Best Buy. Sam has also been doing quite well in school and last year transferred to Pope John Paul II High School. He also attended his first prom and he got a new car for his 16th birthday. Lis has been working as well at Academy Sports, Lidl and currently Publix. In between all of this there was a vacation to Europe and a vacation to Niagara Falls. Hopefully that should have you at least a little caught up on our lives. Phew… the last 2 years have flown by! We’ll try to get you more caught up with some throwback Thursday posts/photos each week until we have gone through most of the big events. Don’t forget to sign up for the email list in the top right border and let us know if you have any questions.
The Payne Chronicles 