Friends and Family Garden

I wanted to share some picutres of the flowers growing in our garden. These are just a couple of the examples that a blooming so beautifully.
We will take a complete picture of our flowers in the middle of the summer when our bed looks a little better.
We really want to thank everyone for everything that special day. We are so bless that we were able to have you all hear with us.

recent layout.

Gentleness
Destiny was one of 7 kids in her school to receive an award.
She received her award for her Gentleness towards others.
It was a nice ceremony at school, and our friend Jayse won the award for "Self Control".
I am very proud of both of them.

Family and Friends

Hello, I am back from planning, prepairing and cleaning up after our "family and friends" party. We had a absolute blast last weekend and I can't wait to see everyones photos. i was so busy running around I didn't get really any pictures of the event. If you have photos will you please let me know so I can get a copy of them.
I had a ton of help and a lot of people brought food. I didn't even get a picture of the mounds of food that we had. Thanks to everyone and a special thanks to Maureen my sister in law for all the hard work the day of the party cutting and prepairing food and getting everything out. I really felt blessed to have her here.
It was good to have all our family come from Saskatchewan for the weekend.

Jim's family all made it as well except his sister. I am sure we will catch up again this summer.

Well, if you are reading this post can you please just leave a simple comment ... such as hi or read it.. or something.. not sure if it is even getting read and purhaps I am wasting a lot of my time. It still is fun though... I did recently join facebook.. that was addicting at first too.. I do still love to blog.. please read it!!

Getting Ready.

JUMPing for JOY
I have spent two sleepless nights getting ready in my mind for our family party.
I can't wait to have all my family here. It is coming fast and I have just got a couple of things to finish and then, just the decorating .. which are going to be simple. Bright colors is simply my theme. Orange is the color of choice.

I have set up our gazeboo I bought at the end of the season last year. Jason, Tanya, and Stacey helped.
I hope to have some activities for the kids and the adults will entertain themselves I am sure.
I will post pictures of the whole event.
twink

Happy Birthday Tanya

Well life continues to be busy and out of control. Have been busy planning for the family Adoption party that we are have on the 16Th. If you haven't replied to let us know if you are coming can you please email us and let us know.
Our basement is getting closer to completion. I Finished the floor yesterday, Jim and I finished the baseboards last night. Just have to do some trim in the play room and paint the doors do some final cleaning and hook up the TV.. and we are done.....It has been a long time coming but I can see the end in sight.
Baseball was cancelled due to rain last night. what a relief! Jim is helping coach and have one extra night at home has made a difference due to the fact he is leaving today for a 3 day rodeo excursion.
Tanya Birthday.
We had a fantastic day in Okotoks. Something different and out of the ordinary for the day.

What a great way to spent June 5, 2007
The Birthday Purse
the birthday ring
We each got a spa service at a spa in Okotoks. It is alway fun to do something like that at a spa away from work. We were not totally impressed but enjoyed the time together and learned that Bangles is still the place to go..!!
Another "Self Portrait"

It was a great day with friends. Happy Birthday Tanya.. Glad to be your friend.

Canmore Alberta

may long weekend

Pretty Purple Pj's

Pretty in Purple
After a long day of playing, Destiny was ready for a bath and what better to put on after a bath but a new pair of pj's.
I picked these silky bottom pajamas up at Costco the other day and they are supper cute.
I am playing with the settings and lighting of my new camera. I got about a 45% success rate tonite. Not bad considering I am just playing around. I do have to really use my tripod in low lite settings. I am getting a lot of blurry pictures.

I am really loving my new toy.. I took a ton of pictures in Canmore on the long weekend. I am pleased with the way they turned out and will share theme when I get them all sorted out.. I took a lot.!!

Surprise.

I flew to Saskatoon Saturday night to drive to Melfort to surprise my mom for mothers day. I got into Saskatoon Saturday night and stayed at Wendels and we drove out Sunday morning and showed up at 9:20. Mom was totally surprised and we showed up just in time for brunch with the family.


It has been a great day.. Sorry the time is going to be so short but I am glad that I got to come for a couple of days.

I rented a car to come out to mom and dad's.. it is quite cute.
Have a look..


Jim was so sweet to book me my flight ... It was my mothers day gift.. Now I get to go home and have another "mothers day" with my kids.
Thanks Honey bunny

completed digital page

a complete 12x12 page

Marlene visited last weekend for 3 nights. We had a fabulous time with a lot of little giggles. We did do a picture diary of our Saturday but to show them all would take to long. I'll give you just some of the high lites.... But just to let you know, I bought my "Twinks" eyeshadow at the M A C counter and Marlene and I were entertained by the staff for a short time..

The following pictures contain scenes of bad aim and good humor, please look at your own risk.
Vanilla Bean & Mar


Giddy UP!



great angle


It was a treat to have her hear and we all look forward to her return.

MY BIRTHDAY

It was my birthday today.. What a great day it was. Jim woke me up with a kiss and left for work. I got up at 7am and went to the kitchen to find a brand new "Canon Rebel" slr camera. Yes, I am a happy girl. all I could say when I called him was "shut up, SHUT UP!" I can't wait to get started with it. Then my brother Wendel called to wish me a happy birthday, I thought that was totally thoughtful, I talked to my mom and dad who are buying me some perennial plants to put in my front flower beds..and my brother Monty was there at work so I talked to him.
My girlfriends Tanya and Stacey arrived at 8:30 with gifts..Tanya got me wd40, a first aid kit and a hand held electric vacuum all for my trailer. Stacey got me a cookbook, spaghetti, wine opener, apron and a heating pad. The girls took me to Inglewood in Calgary for the day. (Can you believe I forgot my Camera?. My picture diary of the day is from my cell phone.)
Eat Eat in Inglewood
The Breakifast was Lovely.

"Break the Fast"
and what would a photo diary and a day with friends be without self portraits?
We actually got someone to take this one.

in front of the old Mclean auction. Jim and I actually bought six pigs here when we started dating. I had to show the girls.
We really think we should go to the horse races like this someday.

It was a wonderful day and I really had a good time. We all bought 6' tall metal flower bird feeder and I bought a couple of vases that hang on the wall for my basement. We sat and had a drink at a pub and just had a few giggles. thanks girls.!!

baseball

Well, baseball has oficially started. What a great night we had last night.
Our kids both did really great. This is Destiny's first year in ball and she did surprisingly awesome. aware of positions and very interested.
We acsesorized with pink last night for the benefit of "coach Jason" who asked her to tuck her hair in her hat so they didn't know he had a girl on his team.!!
the ball is orange, can your see it?
Hayze was the only boy on the team with a "can" on so he played back catcher for the game. Like a pro I might add..

"like a pro"
He also conected a nice one the last inning of the game and got a home run.
It was a very fun night..

Tagged

I have been tagged from Amy. I have to list 7 random facts/habits about myself, and tag 7 people at the end. This is harder than I thought but here it goes.
1. I am addicted to my blog and reading other blogs. (I will list them some day.)
2. I am a bit of a fanatic about clean closets and cupboards. I have to stop myself from organizing them when the rest of the house is falling apart.
3. I have worn the same perfume for 14 years. "Issey Miyake"
4. I love anything "gadgety" or electronic. (i get it from my mother) my current fav's are my 'Q' and my 'i pod'. (a canon rebel is my choice for my next new toy)
5. I love my new home, but the best part for me is the office and the laudry room.
6. My style of scrapbooking is using one large picture. I actually had to have this pointed out to me. (did not know I had a "style")
7. I love, love Norah Jones.

Who to tag.... Well that is easy.. who reads my blog.?
Tanya
Carla
Michelle S
Mom
Wendel
Tara
Liz

Please comment on my blog your 7 radom habits/fact about yourself. I look forward to reading them.
At the bottome of this post just click on the word "comment" and you will be able to add your lists.
Anyone else have a blog. Would love to read it.
have a great day.

POT LUCK...

We had woman's group at my house last night. 7 woman showed up and it was fantastic.
We had a pot luck supper and I didn't state what I wanted people to bring and the assortment was amazing. I must say a special thanks to Tanya's husband "mr. Rycroft" for making up such lovely dishes of lettuce raps and Taramazo. Your wife was a total hit.. It is all because of you.. !!!! (this time)
With that we had grilled shrimp and grilled veggies, smokies, cauliflower and broccoli salad, 2 Caesar salads and Stacey made this fantastic pizza with cambizola cheese, purple onion, pine nuts and pear. It was a great appetizer plus at 11ish we had another round of it. We spent the night visiting tell 1:30. Anne was the winner by default for the next round, she was the only 1 here that had not won yet this year. Obviously winding down for another year. She was talking about going golfing in may.. here is hoping.

to all the woman in womans group that read this. Thanks for another great time.
I look so forward to our monthly gatherings. twink.

Time for a Change

It feels like spring and I thought this would be a great time for a change.
Let me know what you think of the new colors and pictures. Self portraits are always fun and quite frankly no one takes any pictures of me.. These were taken at the "bloomin' Inn" in Pincher creek. Us girls were just fooling around and took some picture. It was a great weekend. I plan to digitally do some layouts of all four of us girls that went. Look for those posts down the road. I set out to be done my blog change by 10 am tonite. Here it is 11;20 and I'm still typing away.
I had a fantastic day today and felt that I accomplished a lot. I am thankful for days like this. Sometimes it is just nice to be at home.!!!!
Have a super day