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The Hounds of Baskerville

Posted by on June 23, 2008 6 Comments

I’m entering a contest this week to win another Bags for Zaza bag. I love mine soo much that It’d be sweet to give one away too. The best part about the contest is that its really simple to enter. You just leave a comment on my friend Leah’s blog and you are entered. So you should enter too. This is my favorite online contest because I actually know the girl who made it and who’s giving it away AND she won’t spam me ever!

This is called The Hounds of Baskerville. Its super cool. Comment away!

My week looks pretty busy, but I’ll try to get some new pictures of the little girly and my new hair cut up sooner than later. Who knows?

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Really on summer vacation

Posted by on June 12, 2008 1 Comment

Apparently I need to clarify on 2 things. Firstly. Thank you Leah for completely designing my bag and ipod case(which does not normally go with the bag) Still thanks to Jennie for sewing it. I’m excited because “The baronet’s Song” is on its way here tomorrow! Come see me pretty bag. I think there will be new Bags for Zaza next week if you are dying to have your own.

Secondly. I was wearing my wedding dress to a formal dinner. It said wear your formal clothes including prom dresses and wedding dresses. Roxy wore my Prom dress and I wore my Wedding dress. I just like proving I can still wear it. Or I guess I should say, can wear it again because this bod was not so small post Emily. Or pre-Emily for that matter. It was at a ladies conference in May. Super fun taking pictures in a dress.

Emily has got it into her head that she’s the boss and that she knows everything. On our way to daycare yesterday morning she asked me where Nanny and Grampa were. I said “Sweetie, they live in Richmond.” She said “No. They live in Taco!” I’m not really sure what the correlation is between Richmond and Taco, but for some reason I was wrong about my in-laws geographical location. at least in her eyes I was.

We’ve started a huge reno project in my office at the church. We ripped off all the wall paper, the wood siding, the HUGE bookshelves and the nasty borders. I then proceeded to scrap wall paper booger-glue off all of the walls except where the wood paneling was. Neither Morgan or I had done drywalling before, but we had to learn because there were 3 big holes in the wall behind the wood. So we’ve done drywalling and filled the 6 million little tack and dart holes. As a side note: when playing darts, please use a dart board and not just a wall, Thank you! It’s a fun project. It’s turned into more work than I figured, but I’m excited for the finished project. I’m hoping we will be able to paint tomorrow.

I took part of the day today to finish my final exam paper for school. Now I am really out for the summer! I hope I did ok on my paper, but at this point, I just wanted it done! So here’s to summer vacation! And now I’m going to go pick up Em from daycare.


I miss the little pudgekins. See she really didn’t have a neck or wrists. This is from 2 years ago. Oh and I was referring to Emily not my Grama. haha

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The Baronet's Song

Posted by on June 9, 2008 2 Comments

Its made, it’s made! Jennie from Bags for Zaza made me a custom bag. Its suits me so perfect. And Leah from The Informal Matriarch helped pick colours for my Bag and a matching ipod case too. Jennie names all her bags after books. Mine is called “The Baronet’s Song” by George Macdonald. Its a great book. I read it a couple of summers ago and just pulled it out yesterday to read it again. If you haven’t read it, you need too.

Emily was sitting in her highchair, where the great wealth of stories comes from, and she looked at Morgan and asked him “Do you want to see a trick Daddy?” Morgan said sure. Emily clapped her hands together and said “WOW!!!”. Obviously someone showed Emily a slight of hand trick or something because it was so cute to see her try to recreate that without actually doing anything. She showed the trick again later in the day but added one thing to it. She put her hands behind her back and said “WOW!!!Its all gone!!!”. She’s making us laugh way to much.

On Saturday we are going with Jr. Glory House to Kamloops to the wildlife park. We’ve taken Emily to little petting zoos before, but not a real big Zoo. It should be so much fun. We have the church’s new camera and our Still camera to take clips and pics with while we are there. There will be alot of other little kids there too from her class so there should be some great pics.

I just realized that in the midst of switching over my computer I hadn’t put up some of the pictures I meant too. So heres a couple from the ladies retreat that I go to with My mom and sister every year. Note: if you get the chance, stop at Ella’s Pizza bakery in Cache creek. It’s worth it! Mmm

My new Shades

My Cousin Cydney Running in the Background.

Emily’s playing in the sink – Yay my dirty kitchen.

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Bags for Zaza

Posted by on June 3, 2008 7 Comments

Ahh how I love summer. Today was pretty stinking crazy at work, but I loved every minute of it. Especially my lunch break tank war with Coco. Have you played Wii tanks? Its fun. I went to the after school club again today. I love hanging out with all the kids there. They make me laugh so hard. There’s like 40, 10-12 year olds just hanging out. I played soccer for a while with them and then we made a human pyramid. I’m still sore from being at the bottom of a falling tower. They showed me how to do a cart wheel too, which is really funny because now that I’m 25, a cart wheel isn’t all that useful anymore. Why couldn’t I have been able to do that in elementary school when things like that were important. I ask you why?

A sister of a friend of mine is selling handmade bags to raise money for her sister-in-law who is adopt a child from Columbia. They have affectionately called the girl Zaza until they actually meet her. I have a big soft spot in my heart for adopting kids. I’d love to adopt a kid from another country. Ooh should probably not have told Morgan that in a blog. hmm. I don’t know if that’s something we would ever do, but I totally support anyone who adopts kids. I think that’s really really cool. So anyways. Jennie has actually been a friend of mine for alot of years because I was her baby sisters best friend back in the good old days and we are still good friends even now. Jennie makes these awesome bags and I’d describe them, but you should just go and look because they are awesome and you should buy one. I put my name on a cool one named after the book “The Highlander’s last song” by George Macdonald.  I think it was claimed before me, but I’m holding out hope of getting it. They are an awesome price for a sweet bag too. So anyways go there and buy a bag for Zaza.

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