My little handyman.......

Laurie did great putting these drawers together for Christie...................he's learnt a lot from helping Lloyd in the workshop and building the downstairs bedroom and helping with bookcases etc etc........

Sam wanted to help but was a little too eager!!!

Every picture a name.......

My camera card holds 500 picturs and I have a habit of filling it quickly......I like to have room to taker pictures when necessary so I have to get my pictures off the card and onto the laptop as quickly as possible....but as Christie learnt today, I have an obsessive personality lol and I have to name each and every picture...I have to go through each picture and decide whether to save it and then I have to give them eacha different name so I know which ones I want to print, which ones go in which blog post and which ones to email etc etc........

So I may have a folder for splashpark...in that will be
Abby nice
Abby nice best
Abby nice best1
Abby best nice2 etc etc all the way up to 9 and then
Abby nice best 99
Abby nice best 999

Abby best best

You get the idea lol! Yep I don't make things easy on myself......................so I have 500 pictures from yesterday and today to sort through........................Its a really boring job......I think I'll do some later...I;'m going outside to join Lloyd by the fire........

Oh and many of todays paintball pictures I can't blog because Abby only had underwear on.......I kept asking her to go put some clothes on for pictures and finally at the end of the afternoon she put a tshirt on so she could shoot the gun!!!

Ooops I missed......................

Our aim at shooting wasn't always the best and the house, garage and porch managed to get hit lol! It looks like someone has vomited pepto bismol all over my house but I kind of don't want to wash it off yet because it reminds me we had so much fun today!!!!

And this was actually our target.........a chest of drawers for Christies boys bedroom.....I think it looks really cool and it's extra special because my Son Laurnece built the drawers all by himself and then decorated them with paintballs! Very cool :)

He had so much fun Christie thank you SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!
Of course now he wants paintball guns for his birthday :)
I don't think he will forget today for along long time!

Can I have a poo Miss?

Christie was telling us how when she was at school she would have to raise her hand to ask to use the bathroom.....and they would have to raise one finger for a pee and two fingers for a poo...............how degrading and humiliating is that??????? I'm hoping ALL schools have changed since then.....although even having to ASK to use the bathroom is a nasty idea.......are children not people??????

Do you need a poo Christie????? lol!

Nice pictures of Chrystal.........................

So Chrystal came and joined Christie and I for a while this afternoon.....I took these pictures of her trying out my paparazzi button (lol) and Chrystal said I could post them if they were nice......well the two above I thought were lovely....and I just HAD to post the one below because it's just funny! Chrystal was pretending to pose for the camera like a movie star :)

Shooter!!!!

I shot a gun today!!!! What a blast!!!! Not a real gun as such lol but a paintball gun....but its still a major first for me......and ok my aim was a little off to start with but WOW it was so much fun!!!!

Here are some pictures of me shooting, and Laurie too...who was actually a very good aim when he wanted to be (ie when he wasn't purposely shooting at the house and garage lol)

The top pic shows Christie teaching us what to do.....I have to say she had ENDLESS patience with us and must have been dying laughing inside!!!

Chickadee dee dee dee dee................

Robert Barrington Leigh.....

You know I can't stop thinking about this family........we went to Whitemud Park last night and much of the time I was looking around for signs of ....anything....helmet.............. bike............

I was glad to see so many posters about Robert on signs and lamp posts in Edmonton....Lloyd says they are everywhere at work........this is a great city in that it pulls together so well in times like these...................

I don't know.....this case doesn't seem to make sense......and its just so sad........its been over a week now.....we were talking last night and I was saying to Lloyd......what must it be like???? It must be just so awful to have a loved one go missing..................and at what point do you say....'we have to go on'...'we have to go back to work'...'we have to go on with our lives'.....do you spend your whole lives looking in the crowds????? wondering..................

I don't know....I just can't stop thinking and hoping........these cases don't often hit me like this but this one just seems so sad.............

I so hope he has just gone off on his own for a while.....I hope he's ok.......

www.findrobert.ca please read the daily updates for changes.................

Bungee jumping................

Ooooh bungee jumping...I've always wanted to try this..........you know this bridge is awfully high.............that river looks so deep.........and you're sure we don't really need a rope or elastic or something????????

Where'd my comments go??????

I used to get lots of comments left but people don't seem to leave many these days.....where'd you all go???????? I'm getting an average of 100 hits a day to my blog but only a handful of comments!!!

If you're reading then say hi :) I love to hear from you :)

I have regular visitors in Chile, NZ, Mexico, UK, Edmonton, Lancaster Park (my top visitor!!!), Sherwood Park........Calgary......Lloydminster, many in BC, Toronto, Markham.............Georgia, NC, China....and many other countries, so I know who you all are and it would just be fab if you all said hi as you pass through...............

I dream of squirrels..................

Lloyd had a dream about chipmunks last night......that, and the pictures of the squirrel remionded me of a dream I had a couple of years ago.......

There were lots of squirrels runnning around my house (the house I grew up in)...running over the ceilings and furniture and walls.......then they started chewing bubblegum......they started inflating and getting fatter and fatter......until they were like balls with tiny hands and feet (think Veruca Salt in the old Willy Wonka movie after she has turned into a blueberry...except they were still squirrel coloured).................anyway lol

So these squirrels are rolling about and then they start to burst and all this blood pours out...sooo much blood that the house floods and the door bursts open and the blood is pouring down the road.....like a river!!!!

I have weird dreams...what can I say??? lol......I should tell you about the Uri Geller dream .......and the baked potato camera dream............

Stories for another time....................