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No more Mr. Nice Story.

Posted by on August 23, 2007 1 Comment

I am now overly angry. I wrote a nice story and had some pictures and it freaked out and erased it. AHHH!

Heres the recap cause Im not writing it again:

Em went mud bogging and we ended up staying at the lake an extra day

Congrats to Cara and Chad for finishing Cadet Camp

It was awesome to reconnect with Kayla and Chad after so long.

Hers the pics. Maybe if I have some patience later I’ll come fix this story, but maybe not!!! grr.

Court & Chad
Chad and me
the four
The four of us
Rainbows
There are like four rainbows in that pic.

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Time Passes.

Posted by on August 9, 2007 2 Comments

2 hours later she is fast asleep and here I am. Yay! After breaky Em and I went for a walk. We walked our Horse Lake Road to where my Mom works to drop something off. It was mostly an uphill walk, but every step counts right? When we got there my Mom was just heading out for lunch. Yay! I love to get treated to lunch. When I don’t make it I’m happy. So then I proceeded to do the most illegal thing with Emily we’ve done since Jaywalking almost every day. Emily got her first ride in the Safari. Beautiful car that is is. Its old so it doesn’t have seat belts in it. Technically its legal to drive without them because it didn’t come with them. I still think we would have gotten busted though cause I’m pretty sure they have bigger issues with babies riding without seat belts. For the record we were going to drive a distance of 3 blocks. I figure the speed limit is slow so I decided not to waste my moms whole lunch hour walking back. Wow I’m starting to sound worse and worse as a parent. Ok heres where the story gets interesting. What are the chances of meeting a cop in1 minutes drive time? Apparently better than I thought. There he is just sitting there waiting for us. It doesn’t help that we are driving the awesomest car driving by. Lucky for me I had chucked a book on the floor and Emily really wanted it. I let her crouch on the floor and read her book as we drove by. Great now I’m smuggling too. 10 seconds later we pull into the mall and head in for a bite to eat. Thus ending Emily’s first and probably last ride in the Safari (a car 50 years older than her). At least until we figure the whole seatbelt thing out.

I asked my Mom and she says I had a car seat in the safari when I was little(glorified ice cream bucket). I guess it was hooked up to a racing harness that was bolted into the frame. Yeah baby racing girl! Woohoo! There. Now Im done telling my “Im a regular bad parent story”. The funny thing is that my parents generation would have thought me silly to say things like that about driving in cars with kids. That used to be the norm. I’m lucky I was born late enough that they even had car seats(glorified ice cream buckets). Either way its cool that Emily got to ride in the Safari. My parents got married in it and so did Morgan and I. Who knows? 3 for 3? Maybe Em will too. That’d be sweet.

mk
Gorgeous Guy. Right Here.

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Expose(put the accent on the last e)

Posted by on August 7, 2007 Leave a Comment

Third World bathroom right in our country. Oh you are so lucky I did not have a camera with me. The place: Boston Bar. The Husky Station Bathroom! ICK! In Cuba you paid a dollar for a square of toilet paper, but even there the washrooms are nicer. I’ve used outhouses that haven’t even contained this smell. The Husky bathroom is an abomination! We decided to stop there because the gas station across the street makes you buy something to use it. Note: not such a big deal in light of the bathroom quality. If it hadn’t been for my baby wipes and purell in the car I was going to go across the street buy some stupid gum and rewash my hands. A lady took her little girl in there and I was trying to warn her.”Don’t do it.Is it really worth her life.” I’ll get over it. I might need shots, but I’ll get over it.

We had a great weekend in the Vancity. On Saturday we drove down and out trip was really good. Such a nice day and Em did good. Some of organs family from Calgary was out visiting too. I got to meet one of Morgans cousins for the first time. She and I hit it off right away. She has a little girl a bit younger than Emily and so they hit it off too. We left our kidlets with the grandmas and went the the finale of the celebration of light. I love fireworks.It was a great show. I felt like quite the tard though because I kept saying things like “Look Look.”  And “Did you see that. Wow”. Like as if they weren’t watching. Riiight. Geek award right here please.

It was Nanny and E.K.’s birthday party on Sunday. We had such a nice time with all the family out. Emily loves playing with her cousins. At one point there were four little kiddos in the pool. It was fun to watch/stop the hitting. Haha. By the end of the night the lot of them were so tired. Em slept really good. She didnt sleep in, but thats ok with me. We had church anyways.

I got a couple of good Ideas at Grandmas church. I’m hoping some of them will work out for this fall. Might find myself doing some paining again here real soon. I’ve already roped Auntie Go Go into helping me.  Em is waking up. I’ll try an attach some of the pics from the weekend on here later.

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On Location

Posted by on June 26, 2007 2 Comments

Im writing to you on location from the big city of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, North America, The World, The Universe, Chunk of Creation. We are spending the next couple of weeks down here with my in-laws. Its Moe’s birthday and we have some time to get away. It’s really nice. Morgan will have to go back up for work on friday, but he’ll come back down next week for another day or two. I’ll stay down over the weekend for the Party and fun fun.

So the last couple of weeks have been oh-so-crazy. With the Relay for Life and normal life to deal with I havent had much time to blog. So I’m trying to catch up.  Heres my favy story from the Relay.

While hanging out at the Relay with some friends, my “Extra Parents”(Mark and Shannon) came up to say hi. I noticed Shannon had a travel mug in her hand. She walked up to me and reached out to hand it to me. It smelled amazing. A London Fog!! I thought to my self.” Awe how sweet, they brought me a London Fog. How did they know that would be the perfect thing in this chilly weather.” Thats when Shannon(My extra Mom – I practically lived at her house in high school, I did chores!) Walked right passed me, and my hand hanging out like an idiot, and handed the mug of delicious hot London Fog to this Lady she hardly knows. I then proceeded to pull my hand back all awkwardly like I was sort of waving or something. Could I possibly be more awkward. Um no. After I cried, I got over it and now find it mildly funny. Ha Ha.

Well sounds like we are going out for Breaky so Id best go. *kiss kiss*

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It's Gonna Sparkle

Posted by on May 15, 2007 1 Comment

I’m getting so excited for Avalanche. Its this youth conference we go to in Kelowna. We leave Friday morning. I didn’t get to go last year. It was this whole “have a baby while leading a youth trip” thing that wasn’t so good. I turned out I had Emily like 6 weeks early so that was ok. anyways. I’m really excited to go this year. We have a huge group to take. Until last night we were short a guy chaperone and a van. Then this guy we know phoned with both. YAY!! I’m really sad that Morgan cant go because of work. It would have been so great. I hate it when you cant get holidays when you need them. Most of the jobs I had would let you have time off whenever you wanted it. Never paid time off, but who cares so long as you don’t miss something. Actually I remember missing Avalanche several years ago to work. Morgan and I worked at the same place and so only one of us could go. I drew the short straw. Haha.

So back to Heroes. Last nights episode was good. It ended good too. Now only 1 more episode till season finale. What to do what to do? hmmm enjoy the summer thats what I’ll do. I pretty much watch nothing now anyways. I never have time for T.V. ok. one more YAY! for Tivo. I think it needs its own category. Yep. I’ll have to add that.

I’m still going to town on my house. Its gonna sparkle…or at least look good. ooo I just remember I was gonna clean the fridge. I’ll have to get to that. We might go take pictures today with Leesh. I hope so. I need more pictures of me that actually look ok. I have this awful picture of me on a mouse pad. Well Its actually a good picture of my cousins and I, but I’ve lost so much weight that I think it looks yucky/not healthy. Its a good reminder for me of where I’ve come from.

People keep asking when I’m gonna get pregnant again. I don’t think people will ever run out of awkward questions to ask at social gatherings. At least I don’t get asked what I’m gonna do with the rest of my life anymore. I hated that one. My dad’s like, old :) and he still doesn’t know what he’s gonna do with the rest of his life. As for the answer of when I’ll get prego again…I need to get healthy first. I want to start a pregnancy at a good weight with better eating habits. I’m not into being sick for the whole thing and not being able to walk at all because of my S.I joint. I cant imagine doing that with Emily to take care of. So no, not for a while.

Thought I’d do a Gracie Montage!

Gracie 1Gracie 2Gracie 4Gracie 3

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It's Done!

Posted by on May 6, 2007 1 Comment

Its done It’s done! We’ll at precisely 2:36am in the morning I turned off my computer monitor and headed to bed. The movie was finished. I’m pretty happy with it too. Believe it or not I’m actually excited to do more video editing. Especially now that I have some more knowledge of Premiere. I’m not sure, but prolly the best part about last night was playing on Jakes computer and making all kinds of stuff. I made a comic book at 1:30 in the morning. All that means is that I think is awesome and no one else will. Or at least they wont think its funny. I put it up at kaspers.ca so you can try your luck at my late night humor if you wish. I’m going to try and have the Video up today too. I have to format it different for Web though so it wont be so big.

Emily has had a super long nap today. YAY! that was perfect timing because after a late night last night I really need to have a nap too. She is going to be so hungry when she wakes up and I just realized that I have not eggs for a quick scram. Hmm. I’ll have to think of something else to make. I made quinoa (keen-wa) For her last night and she seemed to like it alright. She didn’t love it, but I can work with that. Her daddy’s spicy pasta brings joy to her teeny heart. I think thats all Em wants right now. She’s still content with power oatmeal in the Morning but need something more substantial than regular baby food the rest of the day. So now aside from a bottle of formula at bedtime we don’t buy any baby food. I had been buying it for when she goes to the sitters, but she hates the stuff and I don’t blame her. It’s bland and kinda yucky. So I’ll just have to get more creative with on the go meals. ooo Planning ahead

Speaking of planning ahead. I don’t know what night yet, but we are having meatloaf. I decided yesterday I seriously wanted meat loaf. I’m getting excited just thinking about it. Maybe Ill have my parents over. They like my meatloaf. Wow now I’m hungry.

Page 1 Teaser

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Let the Festivities Begin

Posted by on April 13, 2007 2 Comments

Tonight is Emily’s First birthday party. Tomorrow is her party for all her little friends, but tonight is for Family. Lots of the fam will be here. Sunday is her actual birthday, but we are super busy then too. I’m in the middle of making another cake. The first one turned out good, but the bottom ripped a bit so I’m making another one and trying a new method of pan greasing. I’ve finally settled on which cake I’m going to make, but I wont describe it Ill just take a picture when it done and you can see for yourself.

Man I have a headache today. I’ve realized there is a reason I get a headache every Friday. Morgan has to nap in the afternoon so he only makes decaf coffee. Its the stinking caffeine thats doing this to me. I didn’t think It really effected me, but obviously it does. I’m like an addict coming down off a high. well sort of, in some weird sort of way.

Ive been overwhelmed with all the stuff I needed to get done for this weekend. From Emily’s birthday to the youth service and everything in between. I’m feeling pretty good about it right now tho. I find that once things start to roll I’m not stressey any more I just go with it. Its weird for me to be stressey at all because I never used to be. I wonder what made the change over for me. hmm.

  • Well I might not get 8 minutes to write much in the next couple of day, but we’ll see. Check out this cake…

Crooked cake

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Gotta Get a Maid.

Posted by on April 9, 2007 1 Comment

It rain today. It seldom does that here. I really like it when it rains. Everything smells so fresh and clean. Its fun. I went for a long walk today and listened to my ipod. It was really relaxing, just walking in the rain.

So I got my act together and went to the gym. I did my weigh in and YAY I’m still down 4 pounds this month. It would have been more if it wasn’t for my psycho couple of weeks, but down is still down. It felt good to still be down. I was a bit worried. Maybe its good that I don’t have a scale at home. I’m hoping to get a digital one soon though. I hate the gyms scale is so inaccurate. Drives me crazy. Well so far being back on the health kick isn’t very fun, but at least I’m excited about it again. Makes it easier to work out and say no to left over easter chocolate.

My week is flying by and going no where all at the same time. It feels like Friday, but its Monday. I guess thats a good thing because I have lots to get done this week. We have a youth service on Sunday and a pie/servant auction to do too so there will be plenty to do to get things ready.

Looks like I’m going to get more time to work on my goal of organizing this week because My in-laws are coming for Emily’s birthday and we have to make a bedroom in the basement again. I’m looking forward to getting more done downstairs. It rarely sees me except to do laundry these days. I know I need a maid. Yeah gotta get me one of those. Haha

oh and I found some other old school pics.

LeLu and Cootie

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