Butterfly suncatchers!!!

This is a suncatcher that Abigail made at preschool last week. It is one of the butterflies that I drew (freehand woohoo lol!) when I worked last week.......Then they put bits of wax crayon on it, folded it over and melted them with an iron.....it's much prettier than it looks in this dark picture - and such a great idea :)

Bubble blowing on the porch.....

.......and a few of my pots of Hummingbird-attracting plants :)

Hat fits - cool hat.

Sam has been wearing Christophers cap all day....he keeps saying 'hat fits....cool hat'!!!! Very cool Sam!!!

races for cup cake cases...

Abigail and Sam had fun for a while blowing cup cake cases around the house.....

Decorating cupcakes..........

Abigail chose green icing for the top and she decorated them with the jelly diamonds Grandma sent her.

Making Cupcakes

Abigail and Samuel had so much fun making cupcakes today - especially filling the cake cases for me :)

Cuddling up on the porch....

I love our front porch.......its the perfect place to sit and watch a storm. The children love it too :)

Susannah reminded me that its time to get out the quilts that go on the chairs for cool summer evenings :) I'll do that tomorrow!

Raining cats and dogs.....and ducks!!!

While we were sat on the porch watching the rain, Daddy duck came crashing down into the pond with a very big splash :)

Nice weather for ducks I guess ;)

Weather watching.....

Well we didn't see much of todays storm......the wind picked up and it rained and thundered a little but that was about it. I got a migraine from the change in pressure.....but thats nothing new.....

Lloyd is making me some rice for supper - he made the children scrambled eggs with our lovely yellow free range chicken eggs :)

Most of the cupcakes have been devoured....Chris cycled to his friends house before the storm, and he ended up staying for supper (cottage pie). He cycled home not long ago.....

Parts of Edmonton had bad flooding...Stony Plain got it worse...the Safeway had to close due to sudden floods....

They are saying because of the high snow pack this year that much of BC could flood over the next few weeks. And because of the wet winter.....we are more at risk of tornadoes this year and the set-up right now is just like in 87 when the big tornado was.

We sat out on the porch when the winds picked up and watched the rain fall..the temperature dropped from 27c to 19c very fast. It didn't last long though. When Lloyd phoned from his commute home to say a tornado had touched down, we went inside and the children went to watch tv in the basement while I watched the weather network.....

Its been an odd day all round...very up and down.......

Tornado

A Tornado has touched down the other side of Edmonton...we have a storm here right now...thunder, heavy rain. Am switching my computer off until this passes. Stay safe everyone.

Tuesday - shitty start......ok day!

Today did NOT start well..... yesterday an electrician finally showed up to wire up the new well......so we switched it on last night and the water turns BLACK.....did we strike oil??????? hmmmm could be (actually the well company say they frequently hit oil - especially when drilling in northern AB.)

It was yucky but my hair desperately needed washing so I figured...its just grey water - it won't hurt. WRONG...my hair was thick with tacky 'stuff' from the water...I tried rewashing using bottled water but it didn't help.... It was a REALLY bad hair day!!

Lloyd told me to switch off the new well and let the water run clear for a while so I could rewash my hair......so just before lunchtime I washed it again and finally have clean hair :)

Abigail went to preschool this morning and got to ride a yellow school bus for the first time! She was thrilled. The preschool went to a local farm for the morning to see the goats, pigs, sheep etc etc.....she got to hold a baby goat!

I took several boxes of eggs to preschool at lunchtime and gave them out to some of the Moms there....

After lunch, we baked cup cakes......and a large pan cake.....Sam and Abigail helped me and they loved filling the cake cases especially.....after that I gave them some cup cake cases and some straws and let them blow them around the house.....they had races for a while.....

Now they are outside blowing bubbles on the porch......

They originally said it was going to rain all week but they lied...now they say it may rain this evening....its 25c today :) nice :) with a nice breeze :) a storm would be good...tomorrow is supposed to be cooler....then back up again to hot weather......

I was so pissed off this morning with my hair etc.....I took it out on Lloyd, moaning to him about the fact that he arranges all these workmen and things to be done and then buggers off to work and leaves it for me to deal with! lol! Poor guy.....although that IS true!!! I also went online and ordered a new magazine subscription :) woohoo :) that cheered me up!

Oooh oven is beeping..the pan cake is ready! Off to decorate the cup cakes....

Artist at work...

I had to upload a picture of a scrapbook page that used 'paint' on it...this was for a topic at scrappershaven.ca.....


I found this page that I made when Abigail was 2. She has always loved to paint.....I thought I'd post it here too :)

My Dirty Little Secrets...

1. What's in your wallet? FAAAAAAAR too much! my credit card, my interac card.....costco card, safeway card and airmiles...drivers licence, directions to Sea World from our Villa (keeping it for sentimental reasons lol) love note from Lloyd that I found in my lunch bag a few years back! AHC cards.....business cards from my hair stylist, Katies Crossing, Esso garage restaurant, Nick from Joey Tomatoes in SP, my Docs card.....an opticians card that Cori gave me, community leagues membership card (are you bored yet?), coupons for the babysitting service at MP, coupons for free root beer at A & W, stamps, wow factor cakes card, library card, optimum card, save-on card, a few receipts.......2 five dollar bills, some small change (all my other cash I gave to the kids this morning and now I shall empty the loose change into my money tin for Connors Vest.

2. Whats under your bed? probably just dust bunnies and maybe a soother or some pennies that have rolled under....

3. What's on that way top shelf or in the very far back of your closet? scrapbook albums, snow globes that I have no where else to display, a bag full of bags from Florida......my wicker basket full of keepsakes

4. Whats in your underwear drawer? underwear, a gold bag full of gold coins (choccy ones) from Disney World.....oh an d alittle pink 'personal massager' lol!

5. Whats in the trunk of your car? stroller

6. What colour is the underwear you are wearing right now? black

7. Do you have a super-secret hiding place and what's in it? a locked cupboard in the dormer window of my bedroom........it has board games in it now....but at CHristmas it is full of gifts!

8. Do you feel guilty about something right now, if yes what? Yes, I forgot to take DD's lunch bag out of her backpack and put it in th ebasket for lunchbags at preschool - so she may ahve gone on her trip to the farm with NO LUNCH!!!!

9. What is the most embarrassing thing in your room right now? the coffee stain on the carpet :( it looks horrible

10. Have you done something recently you hope no one finds out about? not that I can think of.....

11. What is your last thought before you fall asleep? are there any mozzies in the room??????

12. How long have those leftovers been in the fridge? we never have leftovers here but I'm sure there is something festering in the back of the fridge!

13. If I confiscated your computer and took a look around....what would I find? lots of weird movies that my kids make.......some of which they put on youtube......most of th epics on my computer make it to my blog lol.......You'd find folders filled with preschool activity ideas for next year...and folders on running for beginners....nothing exciting here sadly!

14. Do you sleep with anything? Lloyd and Sam....and the occasional bastard mosquito!

15. What is your midnight snack weakness? I go to bed at10pm and never eat during the night...I drink a lot of water at night though.

16. Have you ever shop lifted? no....but my frind and I would go out for a walk at 5am and steal milk bottles from peoples doorways :)

17. Have you ever vandalized anything? Not that I remember

18. Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight? not that I remember ;)

19. What do you wait until no one is looking to do? eat Twixes the way I like to eat them :) oh and brush my teeth - hate being watched!!!