My Sons, Christopher and Laurence...............
1 day ago
Oct 10, 2006
Oh Daughter of mine...................
Susannah on our walk yesterday, and with her little sister Abigail.............
And one of us..........................
Doesn't Lloyd look just sooooooo happy to be having his picture taken??????????????Hahahaha!
This is why there are so few pictures of him and us ;) I love you GROUCH!!!!!
Time for Fall pictures.....................
We walk the same trail at Elk Island Park EVERY year in the Fall to take our Fall family pictures...........we chose today (Thanksgiving Day) to do the walk this year and the weather was PERFECT!!! The walk is the same every year........Lloyd making sarcastic jokes about having his picture taken, the children jokingly moaning about having to sit so close so often and me stressing out about getting them to sit still and look at the camera at the same time....and always one child (this year Sam) who doesn't want to be a part of any of it ;) but all in all we always have fun :)
The trail we walk is almost 4km so it isn't too long but is just enough for little guys and has soooo many tumbled trees and rocks etc to sit on amongst the trees and very few people to get in the way ;)
Oct 9, 2006
Hoopla..........................
I spotted this leaf as I walked along the trail....it had a hole in the centre and had 'hoopla'ed itself onto a branch!!! I thought it was amazing and definitely worth a picture!!!
Wild Moose chase..............
Last night at dusk Lloyd was bathing the children and I was going through the pictures from yesterdays shoot......all of a sudden he yells down from upstairs 'Jane!!! Look outside!!'......we had a fire burning outside so I thought the grass was on fire!!!! So I ran and looked and there was a HUGE bull moose stood beside the trampoline!!!!!!! Wow!!! So of course I run and get my camera, get the right lens get the spare card (other card was in computer as I was working on the pictures) and by that time the moose was running off.....towards the side field.......and then we see a car driving up that field!!!! So of course we panic...what if they are going to shoot the moose!!!! So Lloyd gets on the quad and races after the moose chasing it into another field.......we knew if it got into the other field then our neighbours aren't allowed to shoot it!
It was all a bit bizarre and hilarious really....we were on a mission to save Mr Moose! He must have casually wandered up our driveway :)
Of course at dusk the camera is useless at distances :( Mr Moose was here and we didn't get a picture :(
But we DID save him for another day :) no one shot our moose :)
I love Moose......I can understand people like Heather hunting them for food in Alaska etc......but here where we are surrounded by grocery stores and meat shops etc ...well, I just don't think there is a need to shoot them....they are gorgeous and I just sooooooo LOVE having them on our land.......well to be honest the way I see it is that we are living on THEIR land!
Stay safe Mr Moose.
It was all a bit bizarre and hilarious really....we were on a mission to save Mr Moose! He must have casually wandered up our driveway :)
Of course at dusk the camera is useless at distances :( Mr Moose was here and we didn't get a picture :(
But we DID save him for another day :) no one shot our moose :)
I love Moose......I can understand people like Heather hunting them for food in Alaska etc......but here where we are surrounded by grocery stores and meat shops etc ...well, I just don't think there is a need to shoot them....they are gorgeous and I just sooooooo LOVE having them on our land.......well to be honest the way I see it is that we are living on THEIR land!
Stay safe Mr Moose.
Oct 8, 2006
Conkers..................
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/northamptonshire/4801933.stm
I want to play conkers!!!! We used to play at school....my Dad would skewer a conker for me and tie string through..............
I miss England in the Fall.....going into the woods to hunt for Chestnuts to eat and conkers to play with....having to squich the conker cases with your shoe because the cases are prickly........there was a wood opposite Lloyds house with HUGE chestnut trees when I was little...we would go in there and hunt for them and takes BAGS full home....then we would eat them....mmmmm and sometimes Dad would roast them in the ashes of the fire.................
I used to love buying roast chestnuts from the stands in London and in Edinburgh...........Lloyd would buy me little bags on Princes Street in the winter and we'd walk through the gardens eating them...they'd warm your hands in your pocket :)
Chestnut and Horse Chestnut trees are the most gorgeous trees with huge leaves shaped like hands with lots of fingers.......you can't eat the conkers from a Horse Chestnut tree but you can eat the nuts from the chestnut trees...................
I miss beautiful big old trees..................Susannah was asking about the Sycamores with their helicopter seeds that fly..................and gorgeous old Oak trees with their Acorns we would collect for the squirrels....or to make crafts from...................
The trees here in Alberta are sooooooo boring!!! Tall straggly looking things...no character...no age...no huge trunks you can climb inside.......
I want to play conkers!!!! We used to play at school....my Dad would skewer a conker for me and tie string through..............
I miss England in the Fall.....going into the woods to hunt for Chestnuts to eat and conkers to play with....having to squich the conker cases with your shoe because the cases are prickly........there was a wood opposite Lloyds house with HUGE chestnut trees when I was little...we would go in there and hunt for them and takes BAGS full home....then we would eat them....mmmmm and sometimes Dad would roast them in the ashes of the fire.................
I used to love buying roast chestnuts from the stands in London and in Edinburgh...........Lloyd would buy me little bags on Princes Street in the winter and we'd walk through the gardens eating them...they'd warm your hands in your pocket :)
Chestnut and Horse Chestnut trees are the most gorgeous trees with huge leaves shaped like hands with lots of fingers.......you can't eat the conkers from a Horse Chestnut tree but you can eat the nuts from the chestnut trees...................
I miss beautiful big old trees..................Susannah was asking about the Sycamores with their helicopter seeds that fly..................and gorgeous old Oak trees with their Acorns we would collect for the squirrels....or to make crafts from...................
The trees here in Alberta are sooooooo boring!!! Tall straggly looking things...no character...no age...no huge trunks you can climb inside.......
Oct 7, 2006
Bye bye balloon......................
We let the balloon go and watched it fly off ...............can you spot it in the above pictures???????
High in the sky........................
We have had a bunch of helium balloons here this week..............I bought them for Emersons birthday pictures (you're welcome Tasha......I love the balloon pics!) and knew that my kids would enjoy them...they have played with them soooooo much! Tonight we decided to try an experiment to see how high we could get the balloon to go on a piece of string........................so we took it outside and had a ball of string attached......Unfortunately due to a) the weight of the string and b) the wind (although it had died down a lot) the ball went in a horizontal direction instead of vertical..............
So then we decided to let go of the balloon and watch it disappear...before this happened though Sam got tangled up in the string :)
Weekends business.............
Last night Lloyd and I curled up and watched Best Friends....it is such a good movie...funny and sweet and I didn't want it to end :) Sometimes its good to just watch a movie where you don't have to concentrate much but can just enjoy :)
Its a little like our story...the couple were best friends at school but the boy wanted to be more than friends......then as adults they meet up again and try to become 'more than friends' but its difficult because of their history.....just like us :)
When Lloyd and I started being more than friends it was weird...for months I couldn't really look him in the eye because when I did all Isaw was the little boy I grew up with ;) but now its fine :) I still don't like to think of 'who' he is......because I can't imagine doing the things I do with him the Lloyd I grew up with (lol) and its so funny seeing Abby and Sam growing up because they sometimes look so much like that little boy from all those years ago :)
But I also LOVE that we grew up together...that we share a history and know all the same teachers and friends and have memories from so far back. And I love that we were always good friends. Even though I wasn't interested in more back then, I always liked him :)
I'm rambling!
So after that movie we went to bed and watched Closer........its a horrible movie...but a brilliant movie....the whole infidelity, nasty men, internet sex thing is just nasty but its a very clever movie too...and of course Anna is a photographer so I was looking at the lighting in her studio and her backdrop etc etc :)
This morning we had coffee in bed and then got up and went into town for breakfast at Smittys........I had the 7 grain pancakes.....they asked if I wanted 5 or 3...people can really eat 5????????????? HOW???? I ordered three and ate one and a half! They are so filling! And I had them with the sugar free syrup so it wasn't a bad breakfast really and was so filling I didn't need lunch!
After Smittys we went to Costco......we normally go every three weeks but we hadn't been for 5 weeks...for some reason we didn't use up everything this last time.....I guess with Lloyds week off and our trip etc it made a big difference. The parking lot was heaving with people buying for Thanksgiving but the store didn't seem so bad.....we soon OVER filled our cart but we had a nice big GC to cut down the cost .....with the exec account we get a lump sum back each year so we used that today....we got a few Christmas gifts which was good :)
Came home and Lloyd was outside with the children doing stuff around the yard and in the workshop and they were playing with the dogs.......I worked on a clients photographs and put them onto CD ready to go. Now I'm blogging and then I am cooking dinner.....veggieballs from Costco which I adore....with couscous and a sauce...............
Tonight? Maybe a family movie..........its cold and windy outside...VERY cold...but they say the wind is a sign that a high is coming through, so tomorrow should be warm.
I hope you are all having a great weekend...what are you all up to? Its Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada which means Monday is a holiday (second Monday in October always) What is everyone in the UK up to?????? Louise? Lynne???? Oliver??????????? Jacquie???
Its a little like our story...the couple were best friends at school but the boy wanted to be more than friends......then as adults they meet up again and try to become 'more than friends' but its difficult because of their history.....just like us :)
When Lloyd and I started being more than friends it was weird...for months I couldn't really look him in the eye because when I did all Isaw was the little boy I grew up with ;) but now its fine :) I still don't like to think of 'who' he is......because I can't imagine doing the things I do with him the Lloyd I grew up with (lol) and its so funny seeing Abby and Sam growing up because they sometimes look so much like that little boy from all those years ago :)
But I also LOVE that we grew up together...that we share a history and know all the same teachers and friends and have memories from so far back. And I love that we were always good friends. Even though I wasn't interested in more back then, I always liked him :)
I'm rambling!
So after that movie we went to bed and watched Closer........its a horrible movie...but a brilliant movie....the whole infidelity, nasty men, internet sex thing is just nasty but its a very clever movie too...and of course Anna is a photographer so I was looking at the lighting in her studio and her backdrop etc etc :)
This morning we had coffee in bed and then got up and went into town for breakfast at Smittys........I had the 7 grain pancakes.....they asked if I wanted 5 or 3...people can really eat 5????????????? HOW???? I ordered three and ate one and a half! They are so filling! And I had them with the sugar free syrup so it wasn't a bad breakfast really and was so filling I didn't need lunch!
After Smittys we went to Costco......we normally go every three weeks but we hadn't been for 5 weeks...for some reason we didn't use up everything this last time.....I guess with Lloyds week off and our trip etc it made a big difference. The parking lot was heaving with people buying for Thanksgiving but the store didn't seem so bad.....we soon OVER filled our cart but we had a nice big GC to cut down the cost .....with the exec account we get a lump sum back each year so we used that today....we got a few Christmas gifts which was good :)
Came home and Lloyd was outside with the children doing stuff around the yard and in the workshop and they were playing with the dogs.......I worked on a clients photographs and put them onto CD ready to go. Now I'm blogging and then I am cooking dinner.....veggieballs from Costco which I adore....with couscous and a sauce...............
Tonight? Maybe a family movie..........its cold and windy outside...VERY cold...but they say the wind is a sign that a high is coming through, so tomorrow should be warm.
I hope you are all having a great weekend...what are you all up to? Its Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada which means Monday is a holiday (second Monday in October always) What is everyone in the UK up to?????? Louise? Lynne???? Oliver??????????? Jacquie???
Wednesdays photo shoot..............
Here are some of the pics from Wednesdays shoot...........Getting four boys to all stand still and look in the same direction wasn't easy lol but we got a few :)
An hour a day.........................
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5409740.stm
Kids need MORE activity AND a healthy balanced diet....an hour a day is recommended.....
Do mine get that? Not every day, but most days..........I tend to kick them all outside after lunch for a while...we do dancing inside a lot, yoga dvd, trampoline, walking the dogs, walking to the mailbox which is down by the highway..............we go to MP, the girls have dance class.............Lets Play...playing outside.......yard work..............
Kids need MORE activity AND a healthy balanced diet....an hour a day is recommended.....
Do mine get that? Not every day, but most days..........I tend to kick them all outside after lunch for a while...we do dancing inside a lot, yoga dvd, trampoline, walking the dogs, walking to the mailbox which is down by the highway..............we go to MP, the girls have dance class.............Lets Play...playing outside.......yard work..............
Cola bad for bones..............
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5410476.stm
Drinking Cola can increase your risk of osteoporosis regardless of age or calcium intake.....
Renee???? Christie?????? Read the article!!!!! :) Look after your bones!!!
Drinking Cola can increase your risk of osteoporosis regardless of age or calcium intake.....
Renee???? Christie?????? Read the article!!!!! :) Look after your bones!!!
Loser!!!!
Again :) I weighed in this morning and had lost!!! 2.7lbs!! I have now lost 6.9 pounds. I was surprised I lost anything really ..not because I had eaten a LOT but because I hadn't eaten ENOUGH!! I know last time with WW if I didn't eat enough my body clung on to all it had lol and I didn't lose.....but I guess I did ok :) Everyone I know on WW lost this week so well done everyone!!! We are a bunch of LOSERS :) Yay!!!!
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