Nov 13, 2008

Snowflake/ Christmas ATC swap....



My friend Tess has hurt her back and is off of work at the moment, so today while Sam was at Pre-K I drove over to visit with her for a little while. Poor Tess really does look as though she's in so much pain :( I can't empathise with her at all because I'm the only person in my family who HASN'T had a bad back...(I got blessed with migraines instead sigh....) so I can't relate to what she's going through, but I do know she can barely move and can't stay in one position for long, so please keep her i your thoughts! She's off to her Doctor tomorrow and will hopefully get x-rays and thoroughly checked out and hopefully STRONG MEDS!!!!

I hope you're on the mend soon Tess!

The above ATC's were from a snowflake/ Christmas swap that Tess organized on the facebook 'addicted to atc's' group. Aren't they great? If you'd like to join the group then we'd love to have more members!! They're so much fun to make and swap and get in the mail!!! Get addicted and join at Swapbot too :)

After visiting with Tess I raced back to Sherwood Park and on the way ran out of washer fluid in my truck grrrrrr so had to run to get my pictures form Icon Photography then run to the 7-11 and grab some washer fluid and then get that into the truck then RUN to get Sam from Pre-K.....then we were finally on our way home!

The weather today was HORRIBLE....high winds (50-70km an hour) with a mix of snow and rain. I am glad to be home and warm inside although the sound of the wind blowing around the house outside makes me feel cold. The workmen gave up on roofing today - the shingles were blowing everywhere - they went back to decking and then left early - I don't blame them - pouring washer fluid into the truck was difficult - it was going everywhere because of the wind! I was NOT happy and told Lloyd so as I had asked him to refill it for weeks.....did not appreciate having to do it just off the highway on a day like today on my way to get Sam from Pre-K.....sigh.....and yes it IS one of his chores in this house - just the way we are...sorry if thats old fashioned - I'm a hopeless old fashioned pathetic girly - there - I admit it! And no I still don't put gas in my truck. My truck still magically refills itself. But I do know that it now refills itself much more cheaply than it used to ;)

Sam the photographer!


Sam took this picture of Laurie and I this afternoon! Great job Sam! He moves the camera around as he presses the button so Laurie and I were moving around trying to stay in the lens so we'd actually be in the picture! Thats why we look kind of funny :) But at least we are IN this one!!!! You should have seen some of the others ;)

Icon Photography...







In August we saw an advert in the local paper saying that Icon Photography were looking for models so that the photographers could practice....they wanted to take test shots on students in the Sherwood Park area before school started so they could prepare for taking all the school pictures once the year started. In return for letting them practice on you, you got two sheets of pictures FREE!!! Cool! So with 5 kids I thought this was a great deal! I called up and they said I could have all my kids done! So we went down to Woodbridge Farms and the kids had their pictures down (all but Sam who flat out refused).

We got to choose which images we wanted (I was shocked at this as I thought we'd get what we were given!!) and there was no pressure to buy anything - in fact we didn't even have to go into the office!!) and the images were ready weeks ago but I didn't manage to go and pick them up until today. I liked these pictures sooooo much better than the school pictures and they were free, so we didn't bother to get the school pictures this year - saved us over $60!!!!! And we got pictures of Chris too :) I have plenty of Sam from our own woods that I can add to mini albums etc that fit the style so I'm more than happy :)

Oh and if the pictures look a bit odd its because I put them on my bed and took a picture of them and then cropped them so they're cropped at weird angles and look a bit weird......I should have taken flat pictures of them but I couldn't be bothered to do it properly......so the pictures look much better than this in real life!!! Like Chris and Susies pictures look all a bit squashed and make them look fat for some reason and thats the way I've taken the pictures and cropped them and NOT what the pictures look like lol......sorry.........Just me being lazy taking bad pictures of good pictures! If I see an advert for this next year I'm definitely doing it again!!! Thanks Icon Photography!!! They were so friendly and helpful and great to deal with!

Tonights moody sunset for you.....

Thursday

All our snow melted fast yesterday. I wanted to take a picture of the snowman almost melted away but I didn't get to him in time - Laurence's foot got to him before me.....sigh....

Yesterday Sam and I went to spend the afternoon with Stacey and her VERY cute children Taylor and and Kylie :) We had a great afternoon visiting with them and Sam was asleep within minutes of leaving. Yet again I have to say I LOVE the Henday :) It would have taken me sooo much longer to get there without that road but because of it, Staceys house is like a 10 minute drive!!!

Denis had a dental apt this morning, so when I took the coffee out, I was chatting with Tim for a while. He was out spending time with Charlie. He says Charlie is his new friend :) Charlie follows the workmen everywhere and keeps an eye on them for us ;) I will take a lot of pictures of the house and update the reno blog this weekend - the workmen are here until after dark so its difficult to take any during the week.

My online course is going well - so far its been mainly preparation - making the binder, lots of printing and getting the pages all ready for the actual writing part. Today we are doing a practice exercise for writing and have some pages to read about writing in general......tomorrow the writing begins!!! The prompts and 'sparks' are interesting....and the detail she wants us to write with is interesting too - more detail than I had thought of.......it has already made me rethink the way I have journaled many memories in my book of memoirs that I keep - I dont think I have enough detail. The kind of detail I wish I had from my Grandparents. The kind of detail I want from the books I read. You know? So already it's a good course for writers and it hasn't even started properly yet!

Today is Thursday. Sam has Pre-K today ad I am going to visit Tess at her home because she has hurt her back and has been off of work all week. I'm just hoping the snow stays away until later - the weather forecast is for high winds and snow/ rain so I'm hoping that stays away until after I get back because I don't want to drive in THAT :( I also have to go to Icon Photography because the childrens pictures are ready and I need to pick them up - they've been ready for a while but I just haven't managed to pick them up yet. I NEED to do that today if I have any chance of getting the projects done in time!

Tomorrow is Rock and Ride for Laurences birthday - delayed form last month after THAT disaster......then the weekend.....
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