Updated Relief Society Blog

After getting all five boys down for naps today (my nephew, Jaden, spent the night last night and part of the day with us today), I sat down at the computer with a whole list of little things that I needed to get done. Now that I am 2 weeks and 3 days away from my due date, I have started to think about the last few things I wanted to make sure I get done before the baby is born: getting all of his clothes out of the storage bins, finding him a baby book (after I got baby books for the first three boys, Hallmark stopped making them, and I want them to all be the same size book, so I need to take a look on eBay and see if I can find another matching one), and I want to schedule a date a few weeks after the baby is born to go and have photos taken of all 5 boys together, plus I had some other non-baby-related things that I needed to get done.

But when I sat down at the computer I noticed an e-mail about a man from church who had passed away, so I decided that I needed to post that information to the blog that I am in charge of for the Relief Society (women’s organization) at church. After posting that information, I saw a few other things that needed to be updated on that blog. So now it is a couple hours later, Jaden’s dad came and picked him up, I had to move Kolby into my bedroom to finish his nap (not that he actually slept at all during naptime today) because he and Camden kept getting up and playing and reading together (yes, very cute to go in and see them sitting in the dark reading a book together, but not so cute later on tonight when they are both grumpy from not having taken a nap today), Camden got up for a diaper change, Eli is helping Isaac get up from naps now, and none of the things on my list have been completed.

But I have updated the Relief Society blog, not only adding new calendar information and removing some outdated events, but messing around with the blog’s template HTML until I got the text and sidebar widths adjusted to my liking and then re-doing the blog header. I didn’t really change the header drastically, but when I changed the text and sidebar widths the header needed to be larger to fit on the page, so I had to make a new header. I didn’t want to spend too long doing it, so I didn’t change the picture or anything, but I added a striped background and I think it turned out pretty cute.

Anyways, that’s what I spent “my” naptime doing (it’s “my” naptime, not because I take a nap, but because the boys take a nap and so it is my time to do what I want). Oh, and here’s a random tip: (maybe all of the other PhotoShop users out there already know this, but I just learn new things in PhotoShop as I’m going along, so I thought I’d share). So, the other day I discovered PhotoShop’s color replacement tool. It is one of the options under the brush and pencil tools, and I thought it was pretty cool. You can choose any color and then use the color replacement tool to replace the color in a picture with the color you chose – but it doesn’t erase the picture, it just changes the color of it. So, for example, I used it when I made the new R.S. blog header with the striped background. Originally there were a lot more orange and yellow stripes, but I wanted them to be more pink and red, so I just used the color replacement tool on the stripes that I wanted to change. Pretty cool, huh? (I know, I know, I’m a total computer geek, but oh well, I like that kind of stuff).