I could use a hand

I am seriously not that computer literate and never claimed to be, which brings me to my problem. I sell Stampin Up and I can't access my catologs or anything else. My computer keeps popping up wiht a error saying I need Adobe acrobat reader 8 or 9. I went onto Adobe and tried to find a download and thought I had downloaded it ok but I try to click on the new mini and view what's in the book and I still get this error.

Jennifer Welborn, I need your expert opinion here...LOL....HELP ME....Jenn has been a friend of mine for many years, then she up and left me and moved to Arkansas. She has always been very computer savvy as well as an amazing scrapbooker. Her oldest son and my son were really good friends. Anywho, Jennifer or anyone else who reads this blog who might have a site I can go to that is trusted and can help me out I would love it. I have a Red Ridinghood ink pad up for grabs if you can help me.

Red Ridinghood is one of Stampin Ups new In Color pads that is soon to be leaving our catolog. I have one that is brand spanking new and would love if someone can help me.

I would also like to know if the download is free or if I need to purchase it. Thanks in advance.

I know I'm a dork but after 2 hours of trying to download this reader I am now desperate.

Have a good one.
Susan

I have to just post this...

This is Mitchell he is ten and he was diagnoised with Autism when he was 6. It was a shock to all of us and I was in complete and total denial. My sweet baby boy couldn't possibly be autistic but as the IEP meeting wore on and his teacher produced a booklet he had kept on Mitch from the first day of meeting him, my eyes were opened wide. He kept this book he called "Mitchellisms" and this book wasn't to show me I was wrong it was to show me just how unique Mitch was compared with some of his other classmates. It explained his inability to cope with substitute teachers and why he would run and hide when he had one, or why he lined up his cars in a very straight line up, or make loud noises, or think he was an animal, as well as other things he would do that I couldn't figure out why. He is the sweetest most lovable little guy you will ever get to meet and this year he is coping well with change and social situations.

I logged onto Thecutestblogontheblock to change my blog background and this background was the first one up and of course I had to use it. I want to thank the people at thecutestblogontheblock for designing a background like this and the super cute all true blinkie I used in my sidebar. That blinkie is just so perfect for my son Mitch. He makes life so fun and very interesting. I will add I am blessed in the fact he is high functioning and not so severely autistic but I have friends with a son with severe autism and he too is such a sweetheart and to know that they will forever be one of Gods children, totally perfect in our Heavenly Fathers eyes and mine.

Scraplift page

I finally did a challenge on scrapbook.com. I am really good at signing up for them but not so good with actually getting them completed. It's kind of like my scrap supplies, I am an expert at collecting and hoarding but soooo not good at using any of the stuff I buy. Anyway this page was lifted from Dyluvs2scrap ( click on the link to see her page) I have been having a great time doing photo collages and did one for these four pictures. Shutterfly.com is where I got my collage from and it was free. My daughter Jillian and son Zachary turned 18 and 17 this year and it scares me how fast they are growing up. They can slow down anytime now. Thanks for looking.

New page

I fianlly did a page for my hubby. I don't seem to do any pages for the two of us, my pages are mostly of our kids. This was a page kit that I was given at a crop I went to last week. I really liked it and how it turned out and can you believe it it isn't Stampin Up related. It's rare these days I do anything that isn't Stampin Up. I have to say that I mostly use their stuff because I totally hate matching up papers to cardstock and then having not match because my lighting was bad. With SU products there isn't the frustrating guess work. I believe this paper line is from Scenic Route paper company but I am not 100% sure. My hubby, who is serious most of the time can be a total goofball when it comes to getting his picture taken. So I turned his goofy pictures into a page for him. Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Week #6 page

I can't believe I have done six pages!!! For any and all that know me well, I'm lucky when I get 1 page done in 6 weeks...LOL...I just couldn't get into my groove. I can tell you what really helps is Stampin Up...Their products that match everything so well make it so much easier for me to get things done. I think that's what makes me the most crazy with scrapbooking is I don't want to guess if what I am using matches. Stampin Up is so great for me that way, all the guess work is done on matching paper to cardstock. Anywho, this is my daughter Jillian who I can't believe turned 18 this year. Seems like yesterday I brought her home from the hospital. Where does time go.

Stamps-polka dot punches

paper-certainly celery, bashful blue, so saffron, ww, Sahara sand and Delicate Dots DSP from SAB catalog

ink- C Celery, S Saffron, B Blue, S Sand

Accessories-dazzling Diamonds, Loads of letter & Heidi Swapp chipboard, iridescent ice, ribbon bundle from SAB catalog

Thanks for looking

Susan

Scraptahlon Week #5 page

This page was for week #5 on the scraptathlon challenge on scrapbook.com. We had to have a picture of motion and we had to come up with a Haiku, which I didn't even know what a Haiku was until this week. I came in first with this page on the neighborhood votes and the judges votes. I have come close but never taken first place until this week. I work on my pages for days and this page I did in about 30 minutes and I came in first. Maybe that is the key for me...LOL...This is my son Jeremy on one of our trips to Rosarito, Mexico...we love the beach and I love getting pictures of the kids at the beach. I can and have taken hundreds of pictures of them here...LOL....

I used:

Stamps-Sanded background stamp

Paper-old DSP paper, baja breeze, kraft, whisper white, and Blue Bayou

Ink- blue bayou, baja breeze, close to cocoa

accessories-bling, Prima Marketing, chipboard-Heidi Swapp

Week #4 Scraptathlon page

This weeks challenge was to scrap about a positive change and it had to have something about President Obama on the page. It could be like my page and have pics or it could be some of his AWESOME speeches and quotes. It didn't have to be about him but I had wanted to do a page about his election and the excitment of that election night. Then I went online and found some pictures of him and that was that...there was one pic I found of Bush and Laura in Air Force one flying away from the White House with the Obamas and Bidens waving good bye on the White House steps...and I was going to talk about the positives in just that one picture...LOL...but decided I wanted votes...hee hee hee....Which by the way I came in second from the neighborhood vote and I don't know where I placed with the judges...We also had to make the page in purple whcih was the true challenge for me as I really dislike this color...ALOT!!.