a summer over and so is september almost

YEAH YEAH!! time flies.....i must be having fun!

so summer was spent driving. i drove to beaverlodge 9 hours twice this summer. Once to visit my maternal grandparents...once to lay to rest my paternal grandmother.

we also drove down to wasington state to Whidbey Isalnd...about a 2 hour ferry ride from Vancouver.....beautiful. while there we were told we were only 2 hour drive from Forks.....yeah you read that right Twilight fans......check these out!!

now that the kids havwe been in school for a month we are back to schedules, homework and have already added hockey, volleyball, and my dance.

yes! MY dance. i have decided this is the year i am taking both hip hop and jazz....ok for exercise because thats what all adults say.....but the real reason is because i want to dance like Michael Jackson did!!

i also have decided i need more creativity in my life. it is hard to find time for everythig. but we do what we can.

today i painted two old pictures i had laying aroud. i painted them a solid color to prep them to turn into new pictures. we are also trying to finish our basement in our free time......i always seem to have a few projects on the go at all times. although my mind feels full and at times i feel overwhelmed.....i must thrive on this as it is my norm.

the next two days will be full of hockey and then friends.....some needed adult socializing!!!

MINI VACATION JUNE 2009

my kids and i went to visit my grandparents in Beaverlodge this past few days. my youngest bought himself a camera.....so we were playing photographers...




this is the brusing from my grandma's broken arm. she fell off a broken stair on her friends motorhome

NATURE RECLAIMING






NATURE







this is my favorite......a bug eaten perfect heart on this leaf







BEING MODELS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

well it was canada day! beautiful weather. and i am not even sure how old we are.

our day was spent in different ways. the boys went swimming, mariah spent time at kinsmen park with a friend taking in the activites, then went to a football game.

canada day shares space with FREE AGENT FRENZY..........an NHL thing. and it lasts ALL DAY!

we have learnt that not very many players are willing to play for the Edmonton oliers team....

i had the unfortunate experience of finding my rental house in a disgusting dissaray.........

but we all ended the night enjoying the FANTASTIC FIREWORKS at kinsmen park last night!

WOW!! it lasted 15 min! it was great!

THINKING RICH

so my latest intrest is the stock market.........i do not pretend to understand how such a virtual world works........i just like it!
i am not formally educated in investmets, but have managed to make a little money in the past few months.
if anyone has any tips, knowledge, or secrets........please feel free to let me know.

i also am trying to "put out there" that i am going to move into calgary this summer by winning the show home offered by the Childrens hospital home lotto

if you would like to look at my home go to http://www.homelotto.com/ and click on menu and grand prize.

you may also go look at it by visiting it at 91 panatella view nw calgary.

i am so sure that we will be moving i have ordered address stickers with the above address on them!

life can be so fun!

JUNE

There is something about june that arrises a mixed bag of feelings in me similar to december. excitement of school ending so the lunch making ends, the crying over homework ends, the backpacks laying around the house ends, the morning broken record of yelling "GET DRESSED GET BREAKFAST, BRUSH YOUR TEETH, PACK YOUR LUNCH, PACK YOUR BINDER, GET YOUR SHOES ON HURRY UP" ENDS!!!!!!!!!!

worried as to what to do for child care as school has ended. how to keep the occupied, interested and safe.

the month of june seems to be one i wish and waste away. lack of giving a shit weather i get homework done or not. wishing for warmer days. hoping my flowers will not get frost bite!

making sure studing is done for finals........and this year mentally preparing myself to teach a 14 year old how to drive.

looking forward to holidays, rest, lazy days...........and realizing i will have 3 kids home that almost always makes this challanging.

june is a month similar to december also when it comes to end of the year stuff. instead of christmas concerts it is spring flings, field trips, operas this year, baseball tournaments, reportcards, relay for life, braces,

all the kids are on countdowns at this time of year, they are as done as we are with the daily never changing routines...........

maybe it is a good thing that june and december are half a year apart.

sharing 1000 words

Karli helping me tile my backsplash....a project that i wanted done for a year and a half.........this is the before picture

THIS IS BEFORE

.....this is after

this is "SAM"..... TIME OUT!..because Saftey Always Matters

THESE ARE FUN! (and i had 2 other pictures here that somehow disapperared!)

thses cups are called "PICK YOUR NOSE" .....check out http://www.fredandfriends.com/

my original recycle project. a metal square found at the metal recycle pile. it was green already. spray painted a silver swirl pattern on it, added decrative wire and three wishes to be filled out. a funky and free magnet board i made my neice for christmas!

my latest use of recycled treats! Stacey wilson helped with the discovery of this jem! i am going to plant a clamatis for it to climb up the rusted metal door

this is the little baby jack rabbit that i found abanodoned on our front lawn. we loved it for three days, then the little guy went to bunny heaven. our hamster "chubbs" followed a week later. we are left with our gunie pig Jeff.

yet anther project insipred by the metal recycle pile.........from thrown away material i created these beauties into magnets for my friend twink as her birthday gift.

this is me suffering from the hours of crafting fun with an allergic reaction to something...........i think it was from the crazy glue i used. i ended up having to go to the hospital to recieve a shot in the arm, a pill, and had to do the ventilator thing up there! focus on the eye here!

BINGO...not my name-o

and i am sure that people do play here everyday! to quote a funny friend...."there were people there dobbn' for rent"........serious players!!

ones who didn't like the 'ole girls group with our trolls, SAM's, double dobber trophies, and penguin penises...........they did however enjoy the lucky hat from the luck store..........it's around!

so to summerize......i have a new found respect for the full time dobbers.........there is definitely an art form, skill, and level of concentration that is required........and that i do not posses!

so to summarize......add trying bingo as an adult to the what i have done list! i love that i keep adding to this list.........glad i will not be forming an addiction to bingo!

and on another note...........my first born turned 14 today! 14! so many emotions that i cannot put to words! WOW seems appropriate.

what about BOBS'?..........what about it?