How to Run Windows XP for Free in Windows 8

How to Run Windows XP for Free in Windows 8Microsoft gave Windows 7 users a way to run older applications via Windows XP Mode. With Windows 8, however, that mode is no longer officially supported, and if you want to run Windows XP in a virtual machine, you need the license for it. Lifehacker reader Milo?, however, has found a workaround.

He discovered that within the free WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe file, there's a VirtualXPVHD file containing the Windows XP virtual machine, which you can open in VirtualBox. Here are the steps to get this working:

  1. Download WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe from Microsoft. You'll need to run the validation tool to prove your copy of Windows is valid.
  2. Then use 7-Zip or another archive tool to open the EXE file as an archive.
  3. Within that archive, find the "sources/xpm" file within it, and extract that folder to your hard drive.
  4. Finally, in the extracted xpm file, you'll find a file called VirtualXPVHD. Rename it with a VHD extension.

In VirtualBox, open the VirtualXPVHD virtual machine, and voila! You've got Windows XP Mode (running Windows XP Professional) in Windows 8, no need for the XP license.

This might also be possible with Windows 8's built-in virtual machine manager, Hyper-V, but that's only available in Windows 8 Pro.

Thanks for the tip, Milo?!

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Making music together connects brains

ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2012) ? Anyone who has ever played in an orchestra will be familiar with the phenomenon: the impulse for one's own actions does not seem to come from one's own mind alone, but rather seems to be controlled by the coordinated activity of the group. And indeed, interbrain networks do emerge when making music together -- this has now been demonstrated by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. The scientists used electrodes to trace the brain waves of guitarists playing in duets. They also observed substantial differences in the musicians' brain activity, depending upon whether musicians were leading or following their companion.

When guitarists play a duet, the activity of their brain waves synchronises. Scientists working with Ulman Lindenberger at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin had already discovered this in 2009. Now they have gone one step further, examining the brain activity of various pairs of guitar players performing a piece of music with two different parts. Their aim was to find out whether synchronisation of the brain waves would still occur when two guitarists are not playing exactly the same notes. If it did, this would be inconsistent with the assumption that similarities in brain activity between the two guitarists are entirely due to perceiving the same stimuli or performing the same movements. Instead, it would suggest something more spectacular: that the two brains synchronize to support interpersonal action coordination.

To test this hypothesis, the psychologists assigned 32 experienced guitarists to 16 duet pairs and attached 64 electrodes to each of the musicians' heads. This enabled the scientists to record the activity of the brain waves over different regions across the entire head. Then, the musicians were asked to play a rondo sequence from the Sonata in G major by Christian Gottlieb Scheidler a total of 60 times. Importantly, the two duet partners were given slightly different tasks: They had to play in two voices, and one of the two was assigned a leading role, ensuring that they both started at the same time and were keeping the same tempo.

The difference between leader and follower was reflected in the electrical activity captured by the electrodes: "In the player taking the lead, synchronization of brain waves measured at a single electrode was stronger, and already present before to the duet started to play," says Johanna S?nger, the first author of the study. This was particularly true for delta waves, which are located in the frequency range below four Hertz. "This could be a reflection of the leading player's decision to begin playing," S?nger thinks.

The scientists also analysed the coherence between the signals from different electrodes attached to the duets' heads. The result was remarkable: When the musicians had to actively coordinate their playing, that is especially at the beginning of a sequence, the signals from frontal and central electrodes were clearly associated -- not only within the head of one player, but also between the heads of the duet partners.

"When people coordinate actions with one another, small networks within the brain and, remarkably, between the brains are formed, especially when the activities need to be precisely aligned in time, for example at the joint play onset of a piece," says Johanna S?nger.

The current data thus indicate that interbrain networks connect areas of both brains that previously have been associated with social cognition and music production. And such interbrain networks are expected to occur not only while performing music. "We assume that different people's brain waves also synchronise when people mutually coordinate their actions in other ways, such as during sport, or when they communicate with one another," S?nger says.

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Camera trap photo of rare cat wins prize

ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2012) ? A photograph taken by Wildlife Conservation Society scientists of a little known Bolivian cat species called an oncilla has won a BBC Wildlife camera-trap photo competition.

The photo, which won the New Discoveries category, documents the first-known occurrence of this extremely rare spotted cat in Madidi National Park.

The Oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus) occurs across the Amazon and along the tropical Andes. About the size of a house cat, they are the smallest cat species of South America's lowlands. Very little is known about their life history.

WCS researchers Guido Ayala, Maria Viscarra, and Robert Wallace submitted the photo taken last July during camera trap surveys of jaguars and other wildlife living in Madidi -- considered to be among the most biodiverse protected areas on the planet.

More than 1,300 entries were submitted from around the world. The winning entry received ?1,000 (approximately $1,500), courtesy of Paramo Directional Clothing Systems and the World Land Trust.

The new record for oncilla in Madidi pushes the number of confirmed cat species in the park to six with at least two more waiting to be confirmed. Madidi National Park contains 11 percent of the world's birds, more than 200 species of mammals, almost 300 types of fish, and 12,000 plant varieties. The 19,000 square-kilometer (7,335 square mile) park is known for its array of altitudinal gradients and habitats from lowland tropical forests of the Amazon to snow-capped peaks of the High Andes.

The Greater Madidi-Tambopata Landscape Conservation Program aims to develop local capacity to conserve the landscape and mitigate a variety of threats, including road construction, logging, and agricultural expansion.

WCS's work in the Madidi-Tambopata Landscape has been made possible by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the blue moon fund, the Beneficia Foundation, the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund, and other generous supporters.

The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild places worldwide. We do so through science, global conservation, education and the management of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Together these activities change attitudes towards nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in harmony. WCS is committed to this mission because it is essential to the integrity of life on Earth.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, established in 2000, seeks to advance environmental conservation, patient care and scientific research. The goal of the Foundation's Andes-Amazon Initiative is to maintain the climatic function and biodiversity of the Amazon Basin by promoting forest conservation and addressing the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation.

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Greener storage for green energy

ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2012) ? Renewable energy solutions like wind and solar operate on nature's timetable. When the sun blazes or when the breeze blows, power is plentiful -- but not necessarily at the moments when consumers need it, like on a hot, calm summer night.

Storing energy from these intermittent sources has aroused interest, yet practical economics and basic chemistry have limited the wider use of green energy. Storage, to be viable, cannot add much to the price of renewable electricity without making it unacceptably expensive. Fossil fuels remain the world's chief energy source due to their relatively low cost.

To give renewals a fighting chance, a team led by engineers and chemists at Harvard University will use a one-year, $600,000 innovation grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program to develop a new type of storage battery. The grant may be subject to renewal beyond a year, depending on performance. The award is part of a $130-million funding effort by ARPA-E through its "OPEN 2012" program, designed to support innovative energy technologies.

Called a flow battery, the technology offers the prospect of cost-effective, grid-scale electrical energy storage based on eco-friendly small organic molecules. Because practical implementation is a core driver for the program, the researchers are collaborating with Sustainable Innovations, LLC, a commercial electrochemical system developer.

"Storage of very large amounts of energy is required if we are to generate a major portion of our electricity from intermittent renewable sources such as wind turbines and photovoltaics," says lead investigator Michael Aziz, Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). "Currently no cost-effective solution exists to this large-scale storage problem. Flow batteries may make stationary storage viable in the marketplace, and that will enable wind and solar to displace a lot more fossil fuel."

A type of highly rechargable fuel cell, flow batteries are suitable for storing large amounts of electrical energy in the form of liquid chemicals, which are flowed past the electrochemical conversion hardware and stored externally in inexpensive tanks that can be arbitrarily large. This permits the designer to independently size the electrochemical conversion hardware (which sets the peak power capacity) and the chemical storage tanks (which set the energy capacity).

By contrast, in solid-electrode batteries, such as those commonly found in cars and mobile devices, the power conversion hardware and energy capacity are packaged together in one unit, and cannot be decoupled. Consequently they can maintain peak discharge power for less than an hour before being drained. Studies indicate that 1 to 2 days (the cycle of day/night) are required for rendering renewables like wind and solar dispatchable through the current electrical grid.

To store 50 hours of energy from a 1-megawatt wind turbine (50 megawatt-hours), for example, a possible solution would be to buy solid-electrode batteries with 50 megawatt-hours of energy storage. The effective result, paying for 50 megawatts of power capacity when only 1 megawatt is necessary, however, makes little economic sense.

"Not only are existing solid-state batteries impractical for storing intermittent wind and solar energy, but flow batteries currently under development have their own set of limitations," says Aziz. "The chemicals used for storage in flow batteries can be expensive or difficult to maintain."

For example, vanadium redox flow batteries -- the type of chemistry receiving the most attention -- have limited commercial head room because the high price of vanadium sets a floor on the cost per kilowatt-hour of storage. Sodium-sulfur batteries operate with their components in a molten state, requiring the tanks to be kept at very high temperatures in hot houses. Both cost and complexity limit their use.

Aziz believes that using a particular class of small organic molecules may be the key. These molecules, which his team has already been working on, are found in plants and can be synthesized artificially for very low cost. They are also non-toxic and can be stored at room temperature. Furthermore, they cycle very efficiently between the chemical states needed for energy storage.

As an expert in materials science and a developer of high-performance flow cells, Aziz will focus his efforts on molecular and electrode electrochemistry and flow cell development. Joining him will be Roy Gordon, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science, who will be responsible for the chemical screening and synthesis of molecules and of practical electrocatalytic and protective coatings. Al?n Aspuru-Guzik, an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, will use his pioneering high-throughput molecular screening methods to identify optimal molecules. Trent M. Molter, President and CEO of Sustainable Innovations, LLC, will provide expertise on implementing these innovations into commercial electrochemical systems.

"We think our particular approach could have advantages over other flow batteries, such as higher power density, high efficiency, inexpensive chemicals, and a safer type of energy storage," says Aziz. "The success of this program would render intermittent renewables like wind and photovoltaics dispatchable at will, and thereby permit them to supply a large fraction of our electricity needs."

Aziz foresees using next-generation flow batteries for local energy storage, such as in the basement of a house or office outfitted with rooftop solar panels or, at a larger scale, directly integrated into wind and solar farms. The technology could even out-compete lead-acid batteries for solar energy storage in remote areas without access to a grid.

"While not eliminating fossil fuels, flow battery storage potentially eliminates a barrier to doing so within the existing energy system and market," says Aziz. "The best engineering and chemistry alone are not enough to solve our energy challenges. Compatibility with current infrastructure is almost always essential, and economic viability is always essential. Flow batteries may play a huge role in our transition off of fossil fuels and I am very excited that Harvard has the opportunity to develop a potential game-changer."

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Have you ever wondered why the Supreme Court is taking so many patent cases over the last few years? ?In Part I of my interview with Seth Waxman?we learned that while he was the Solicitor General of the United States, and even before ascending to that position, he advocated within the Department of Justice for at least occasionally seeking Supreme Court review of Federal Circuit cases. That lead from a trickle of cases to what has become a handful of cases year after year.

Personally I think there are plenty of cases that the Federal Circuit gets wrong and should be taken by the Supreme Court to get things correct. But that is now what the Supreme Court does. ?They are looking for meaty issues, not just to get some esoteric point of patent law correct. In fact, it is my observation that the more esoteric and the more incorrect the Federal Circuit the less likely the Supreme Court will get involved. But that is just my view from the sidelines.

Waxman, steeped in the rules, procedures and art of Supreme Court advocacy drills down deeper.

WAXMAN: Well, I think it?s a combination of several different things.? When you?re talking about patent decisions of the Federal Circuit, for purposes of answering this question it?s useful to distinguish between rulings about litigation procedure in patent cases and rulings about the meaning of substantive patent law.? With respect to the former, it?s easy to see why the Supreme Court?s interest would be piqued if a petitioner says, as it did for example in Medimmune, ?there?s a general rule that applies across all the regional circuits with respect to standing in declaratory judgment actions. ?But the Federal Circuit applies a different ?rule ?in patent cases.?? That is just the kind of disuniformity the Supreme Court is looking for.? It?s proverbial ?split in the circuits? that the Court feels it needs to address ? where a particular law or set of procedures is being interpreted or applied differently in one part of the country than another.

The paradigmatic role of the Supreme Court is to harmonize the application of federal law across the country.? So when different circuits are at loggerheads about what a particular law means, or how a particular doctrine is applied, only the Supreme Court can resolve it.? Several of the cases the Supreme Court has taken from the Federal Circuit in recent years have involved ?procedures sanction by the Federl Circuit that ddidn?t strike the Supreme Court as warranted a patent-exceptional. The declaratory judgment standard was one obvious example.

Another was the eBay case, involving the standrds for ?injunctive relief was another.? The other packet of cases are cases that annunciate substantive patent principles.? The test for obviousness.? The standard of review when one is challenging patent validity based on art that the examiner never had, arguably never had before him or her.? Subject matter eligibility for new life forms, or software, or things like that.? And there I think the Court is taking cases where it genuinely is skeptical about whether the Federal Circuit has decided the issue correctly.? And you can say that the Federal Circuit is sort of unique in this regard because by and large the Supreme Court doesn?t view its role, surprisingly, as one of error correction.? It?s not grounds for certiorari on the grounds that the 4th circuit, the 8th circuit, or the 9th circuit just decided it?s wrong.? They are looking principally for cases in which the Supreme Court is the only court that can resolve a lack of uniformity across the country.

With respect to substantive patent law, obviously that never applies because the Federal Circuit has exclusive jurisdiction so that there?s rarely an instance, maybe Coronado vs. Holmes might be some sort of example to the contrary, but there rarely is a split in the Circuits over the standard for determining obviousness with respect to a patent because no other court of appeals is ever going to answer that question.? And therefore it?s appropriate for the Supreme Court of the United States to assure itself that in fact the Federal Circuit, which has specialized jurisdiction, is in fact answering significant questions of patent doctrine in a way that the majority of the Supreme Court thinks is correct.? And that certainly characterizes a number of patent cases that the Supreme Court has taken in recent years.

The other thing I think that?s at play here, and maybe it?s the principal reason is a point that I made earlier which is our economy depends utterly on intellectual property.? That is in fostering innovation and inventiveness in the manner in which the framers of the Constitution understood needed to be fostered.? That is within appropriately countered system of protections for discoveries and inventions and novel expression.? But that doesn?t smother innovation by competitors and by others.? And because our economy is so utterly tied to intellectual property the Supreme Court correctly understands that this is a substantive area in which it is very, very important for the correct balance to be struck.

And I think the final reason for the increase in the cases is maybe the same reason that I?m attracted to doing cases like this, which is they are just darn interesting as an intellectual matter.? You get to learn about a technology that you don?t know as much about as you need to to decide a case.? And you get to learn and scrutinize and question the contours of substantive legal doctrine that you?re not otherwise familiar with.? I don?t know how comforting that is the Patent Bar.

QUINN: That?s what I was just going to say.? And I would agree with what you say, but to hear you articulate it just makes me want to sigh and say that?s exactly why I?m scared when the Supreme Court takes a case, because I understand when you look at this globally, why should patents be different?? And the argument that I always hear is is well, copyrights are an exclusive right and you?re doing it different from copyright law.? But for better or for worse since practically the beginning of intellectual property law in the United States, copyrights have been different than patents.? They?re calling them an exclusive right is almost comical because there are so many ways that you can use a copyright that directly infringes, that copies the entirety of what you?re doing that is okay.? And it?s not exclusive.? Fair use swallows these rights whole in a lot of cases.? And there is no concept of fair use in patent matters.? But how do you lay the foundation to explain that, no, these things are different?? When you can?t get an injunction as a matter of right after you?ve won, then what good is the patent because the patent is supposed to be practically an injunction when the Patent Office gives it to you.? It says, don?t do this stuff and if you do you?re going to get punished.

WAXMAN:?You?re certainly preaching to the choir on this issue.

QUINN: I know I am.

WAXMAN: But I think you?ve identified something that?s actually quite important. Which is in an era in which the Supreme Court is increasingly interested in the contours of patent law and practice.? And in which therefore most of the judges on the Federal Circuit are trying very hard to decide cases and write their opinions so that they are accessible by the Supreme Court of the United States and are written in a manner that?s sensitive to the reality that they are subject to review by not just a higher court by a court of generalists.? It?s extremely important for advocates before the Federal Circuit in anything other than the run of the mill claim construction dispute to advocate the case in a way that is sensitive to the way that whatever issues that are going to be decided may look to the Supreme Court, may look to Congress, may look to generalists generally.? And I think many of the Federal Circuit judges welcome help in this regard, welcome advocacy that?s sensitive to this new reality.? And which in the end may be all to the good.? That is having a clubby isolated bar and bench that understands all these things and the advocacy is pitched to specialists and the specialists write opinions that are intelligible to and useful for the cognoscenti is fine if you fell in that cone.? But if you?re not, it?s not that helpful and in a system in which the final review in the judiciary or in the? legislator is made by generalists it?s really important that cases be? even in a specialized area, be briefed and argued in a way that?s accessible to and intelligible by generalists.? And it may be another reason why it seems particularly edifying to me to be a resolute generalist as to all areas of the law.? And makes it less intimidating to argue patent cases before a specialized court.

TO BE CONTINUED?

Part I ??Exclusive with Seth Waxman, Supreme Court Patent Superstar

Part II ??Seth Waxman Discusses Advocacy in the Supreme Court

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Don't Be Bashful When You Talk To Credit Counselor

Mon Nov 26, 2012, 2:00 am |

At the dawn of the so-called Great Recession, the country?s unemployment rate reached the highest level since the infamous Great Depression of the 1930s. As a result, many Americans were forced to take on crippling amounts of debt.

On top of that, when they tried to seek out help, they were bitten by snakes and squeezed by anacondas in the great swamp of financial miseries ? the quagmire of debt ? that they were thrown in.

They were unable to get out the sinking sand without the help of someone who could drag them out, wash them and start a new financial life.

They were seeking help from debt-settlement firms. Many folks have known for years that this industry has more bad apples than good ones. They are rife with scams.

Many such firms were created for the sole purpose of conning innocent consumers. The face of the bad was very similar to that of the good helper.

It?s hard to differentiate between the two kinds. Consequently, many folks were bitten by the bad kind and lost more to them than they owed to their creditors.

According to the Federal Reserve, as a nation, Americans owe $721 billion on outstanding credit cards. CreditCards.com did their calculations and came up with the staggering amount of $15,950 in credit card debt per household carrying only one card.

Just these numbers tell us that people want help ? any kind of help to get them out of the debt shit they have stepped in. However, only a fraction of people seek aid from a credit counselor.

Difference between Credit Counselor and Debt-Settlement Firms

We must understand the difference between a credit counselor and debt-settlement firms. Credit-counseling agencies have been getting bad raps unfairly because most folks confuse them with debt-settlement companies.

Credit counselors advise folks on how to make better budget and lifestyle decisions so that they can pay off their debt expeditiously. These counselors help debtors to develop a debt-management plan to pay back their creditors.

The best part is that you can attend many counseling sessions for free. Some counselors charge nominal fee, typically $20 per session.

On the other hand, debt-settlement firms offer to negotiate with a person?s creditors to slash the amount of debt they own. Many firms charge clients a large fee for their services.

Debt-settlement firms are rife with scam artists and the primary reason is that historically they charge huge fees. There is a lot more money to be made if you own or work for a debt-settlement firm.

Fortunately, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), formed in 2010, has started to address some of those problems, but for many years deceptive debt-settlement agencies operated without a watchdog.

Even today under the watchful eyes of CFPB, some individuals and firms have been alleged to have deceived the American public, especially the senior citizens among us.

Be open to Credit Counselor?

There are misconceptions about consulting credit counselors:

  • Many folks are afraid that consulting a credit counselor will hurt their credit score. Nothing can be further than the truth. Talking to one has no impact on a person?s credit or credit report.

  • Walking into a physical location of a credit counselor can be intimidating and detrimental to their ego, especially if the person doesn?t want to admit face-to-face how much deep they have stepped in the quagmire of debt.

  • The sense of shame that can accompany having to admit to a credit counselor they owe a heap of debt. This does not make sense in the case of folks who don?t feel ashamed when they keep on buying even when they don?t need to.

Red flags why you must talk to credit counselor?

You ought to consult a reliable and reputable credit counselor when these red flags are raised.

  • Debt collectors are at your doorstep. They keep calling you day and night. You are unable to sleep because of your debt. In this case, the sooner you can get to a credit counselor, the better.

  • You cannot repay a single dime towards your debt. You live paycheck to paycheck. Wake up and seek help.

  • Debt is creating tension and uneasiness in your family. Media report many cases of divorces due to not being able to pay off debt.

  • When you receive bills, you hide it from the family. You are ashamed to even show them the bill let alone talk about them.

  • You are using cash advances on your credit card or you may be using the services of payday loans. In both cases, you are stepping deeper and deeper in the sinking sand.

  • A time comes when you don?t even care how much you are in debt. That means there is no way you alone can manage ? to say the least ? or clean your debt shit.

  • Your credit card has a maximum in a given month. You keep maxing out your card every month. Wake up and smell the credit counselor.

  • If you have retirement account, you start and keep withdrawing from it.

In a Nutshell
Credit counselors, because they are a lot less expensive ? can I use the word cheap? ? can be a great help to come up with a budget for your household finances.

The important thing to remember is ?Don?t Be Bashful When You Talk To Credit Counselor.? Open up your little gray cells (Agatha Christie) and start talking about your debt to the credit counselor.

The Credit Card Song by Old Man Pie

Ahead of its time this is a cartoon animation that?s been up on the web since 2006 and is all about the credit crunch crisis.

Credit card spending and loans from banks are in their trillions of dollars and something has to give. We no longer spend what we have earned, we spend what we haven?t earned on the back of house price rises and yet more loans.

The banks are prospering and fat cats are awarding themselves massive bonuses, but it cannot continue.

Beware the debt time bomb may bring the walls of the western world clattering to the ground.

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Google Makes A Pre-Holiday Marketing Push For Chromebooks With New Online, Times Square And Best Buy Ad Campaigns

for_everyone_logoWe don't know much about how successful Google's Chromebooks really are. Outside of talking about their adoption in schools and businesses, Google has never released any detailed sales figures. Most analysts assume they aren't exactly a run-away hit. That hasn't stopped Google from pushing forward with this initiative in the past, though, and this holiday season is no exception. Not only is Google running a massive campaign on Times Square and online, it also looks as if it has managed to secure some prime real estate on Best Buy's storefront windows.

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Baum Family: Baby shower in Utah - Townerstgaston's blog

I was so happy to be able to go home with my family for a little while. Cory wasn't able to come with me because he had work and school so I took a little bit more time off to spend time with my family. It's crazy that was the last time I will be home before I have the baby, ah! My Mom, Grandma, Whit and Teig picked me up from the airport. I told them that my flight came in early then it really did just so they would be on time and they were still late. I sure do know my family well haha. We did a little shopping while we were up in Salt Lake and by the time we go to Richfield it was around nine or ten and I thought I was going to die of exhaustion.?We were able to do alot of crafts while I was home. I think everytime Cory asked me what I was doing I was crocheting which is funny because I always made fun of my mom for doing it and now I love it. We had the baby shower on Saturday which was so much fun. I loved seeing everyone and they all gave me such nice gifts. I'm so lucky to have such wonderful friends and family in my life. Ive only been away away from my family for two weeks and I already miss them. I cant wait till Feburary to see a few of them again.?

????????? This is kinda blurry but it was the only one with my Mom and Sisters. So grateful for each of them!
?????????????? I LOVE my friends and I was so happy that I got to see most of them while I was in town.
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????????????????????????????? I loved the candy table. It turned out so cute

????????????????????????haha my Mom was crackin us up. She couldn't take a serious picture to save her life.


??????????????????????????????? Two of my best friends in the whole world!

????????????????? Cory said "well I guess it's offical, that's what we are going to name her" Haha
?????????????????? My mom seriously works with the most amazing group of girls. I love all of them.

My sweet friend Brittany drove down from Salt Lake for the shower. It was so fun to see her.

???????????????????? I only took a few pictures that weren't at the shower. I sure love these crazy boys.

Source: http://coryandshauntae.blogspot.com/2012/11/baby-shower-in-utah.html

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