My Mom and I went for a walk at Lunch time yesterday. It was so beautiful out. I made Emily walk as much as she would to wear her out. We walked all the way around Sepa Lake mudhole. *whoa, my keyboard switched into french on its own. odd ééé. * I`ll have to figure that out laker, but for now I guess I can`t use slashes and the apostrophe( which I just learned is a verb in french aswell) is weird too. Where was I… Ah the lake. The water is down so far that the 2 lakes don`t even come closr to connecting anymore. Its kinda sad. Speaking of lakes…I get to go Kayaking tomorrow!!

A friend from church is taking me! I think we`re going to Canim Lake. When I worked at Lake of the Trees, someone donated a Kayak, but I had to duct tape part of it and it just went in circles, so I don`t call that Kayaking. I even subscribed to a Kayaking magazine for a while. I wish I trusted myself enough to take my camera with me, but theres no way I`m taking it out with me. Morgan has this saying that goes something like `Courtenay can`t go near water without getting wet`. It`s true. I think I`m like a labrador that`s poorly trained. I just can`t help myself. My goal for tomorrow is to get my feet wet, but nothing else unless everyone gets wet. We`ll see how I do.

Its going to be a long day away from Avery and Emily. I`ve been away from Em before, but I`ve only left Aves for a couple hours at a time. Tomorrow I`ll be gone from 10 til dinner time, so most of the day. I`m sure Daddy and his girls will be just fine. I`m really happy to have a me day.

I used to do alot of crazy things and then I got married and had kids, and now I`m downright boring. A couple weeks ago a friend asked me what my hobbies were. I wan`t to say all my old hobbies: snowboarding, rock climbing, skateboarding(Im banned from skateboarding by MK, but thats another story), Mountain biking and all sorts of other crazy stuff, but I couldn`t say those things since I hadn`t done any of them in forever. So I ended up saying reading and blogging or something. I always said I would love to be one of those crazy skydiving grammas, but who knows, maybe I`ll end up one of those knitting gramas who enjoys bridge. So I`m excited to do one of the kind of fun things I used to do before I became boring.

The good thing is that I like boring. I`ve learned some really cool cooking and baking recipes. I`m learning to sew, so I can make reusable diaper wipes. I love blogging and practicing my writing. Maybe one day I`ll finish my short story. I love reading and getting into a good book. I`m enjoying learning to parent my girls and be a good Mom. I like hanging out with Morgan and a cup of coffee. Sometimes I do miss being spontanious and never going anywhere without my guitar, but I`ve replaced each of the things I loved to do with something that is of greater value. I could snowboard all winter on weekends, but I spend Sunday at church growing closer to the Lord, playing the drums and spending time with church family. I could rock climb all over this beautiful province (I still hope to climb some places), but I`d rather be helping Emily collect cool rocks in the yard. I could mountain bike all over the gorgeous Cariboo, but I`d rather be tickling Aves to get a smile or a coo out of her. I could be wild and crazy, but I think I`d rather be boring.

I run upstairs to punch some holes in this weeks recipes from Saving dinner. Then from downstairs I hear “Come downstairs Mom”. I head for the stairs and look down to find a completely nude toddler. She says to me “I go potty”. I’m like “ok we’ll go potty. Hope she didn’t pee on the floor”. Thats when I see them. Turds!!! Everywhere!!! AND one of them got stepped in and smooshed into the carped, and is now presumably being walked all over the living room on a size 5 foot. I guess I took to long coming back. So I took Em to the potty and cleaned her all up and shoved her in her high chair with some crayons while I dealt with…eww. Sooo anyways I shampooed the carpet today. Another step ahead of the Flylady routine. haha. I was only supposed to shine my sink, but I got all crazy and shampooed the carpet. Even though it was necessary I still count it as a point.

I hate potty training. Actually Em is really good at it already. She’s only pooped twice, but if I’m home all day she will only pee in the potty. It’s harder when she’s at a babysitters or something. She is too afraid to miss something, so she wont go. I bought her a potty book today. She loves that. And we got her Dora fruit snacks. Those are her candy treat. She’s never even seen Dora, but for some reason she is in love with her. Its weird. I’m not even sure she’ll ever get to watch Dora, but I’m ok with milking the “Dora” aspect of the treats for potty training. I figure she must have seen it once at someone else’s house or something. I cant even figure out how she knows who Dora is. She calls her Doy-ra.

I rocked the drums last night! I played with my Dads high school guitar class for their concert. It was like three hours. It was so much fun. I was so impressed with how good some of those punks are getting. When my high school guitar class played anything they only picked notes on nylon string guitars and pretty much just played Louie Louie. These kids were awesome. I was a bit nervous because most of the songs I had never even heard except yesterday when I looked them up on Youtube. I hadn’t played any of them before. The drums for Kryptonite by Three Doors Down is pretty tough to just go on stage and play for your first time, but It went pretty good. I kept losing my monitor, which was frustrating, but still ok. I have the theme song from Grey’s Anatomy stuck in my head. They did such an awesome job of it. We even played on song I had never heard before. It’s easier to do that with church songs than regular rock, but I’m glad it worked out good. I wore Roxy’s big Flying V earrings just for dramatic effect. I’m trying to get the video off my camera, but the last time I did it crashed my computer, so we’ll see how it goes.

Ok so seriously awesome movie…Stardust! I loved it. I think I can safely compare it to the league of such greats as Princess Bride and The emperors new groove. It ruled. If you haven’t seen it, you should. It’s a classic. I’m going to buy it next chance I get, otherwise It’ll cost me a small fortune renting it over and over and over. Its the story of a Young man who heads across a wall into another world to search for a fallen star to bring back a piece for the girl he loves. His journey is amazing. He runs into what’s left of 7 princes also seeing the star. Witches, Pirates, and even a goat turned into a man. How could that not be awesome. I want to tell you the whole story, but I don’t want to ruin it for you. And for the record: Robert De Niro is my hero!

I’m most of the way through my school application. Here’s hoping that all goes well. I’ve been reading alot about the Speech Language Pathologist Assistant program and I find is crazy interesting. I’m hoping to start as soon as possible, but we’ll see. I’ve already missed the deadline for October, but if things go smooth , I could make it in for November. I don’t think I’d start until January otherwise. December is always so crazy. Cant believe I’m planning into December. I think I will do well with online schooling. I’m pretty good at self motivating. I’ll have to use my time better, but at this point I can do what I need to when I need to.

Roxy is moving home today!! I’m all excited. That kid can make me laugh…seriously. She starts her new jorb on the weekend. I think it will be neat for her to be around Emily more, because Em loves her “Auntie Roxy Pirate YAARRR!” so much. I have her picture on our fridge. Emily waves and says goo morning to it. Its cute. Its amazing how her little mind works.

We have a 24 hour worship thing on Saturday – Sunday. I’m looking forward to it. I was supposed to play for alot of it, but I think I’m only play a few hours now. I don’t think I could have lasted that long. haha. oops that reminds me I need to phone my babysitter and confirm stuff.

I put all my Loon like pix up on my Facebook. It just uploads better than WordPress and has unlimited space. Then I dont have to shrink the pics either. Here is a couple though for you.

Out on the Lake

Last year we took the same picture, but Emily was only a couple months old.

Emily riding her rocking Harley with Bubba

I got called middle aged. Can someone help me with the knife in my back please.

Emily ate dirt and then…yep you guessed it…pooped dirt.

Emily choked on Timmys and Georgia rescued her.

Then she chucked her very full sippy cup which exploded in Timmys

Emily said the “F” word about a hundred times today trying to say “Walk”.

I cant remember them, but several times Morgan and I had word communication problems, which pretty much means one of us hears something absolutely ridiculous that the other person didn’t say.

Those are just some examples of my typical day. Not even counting our adventures in the supermarket. Again…I need to write a book about the weird things that happen to me. There could be a whole chapter on grocery stores.

I learned some new songs today. I’ve been trying to find some new things to play at youth. I found a bunch of good stuff. I burned L’chyim some stuff to try. I practiced a bunch of the new songs and I really like them. I’ve been playing my guitar so much lately. I love it. I’ve been learning alot and just having alot of fun. I’ve been playing my electric the most. Im turning into the noodle kid. The one that never shuts up. noodle noodle noodle. Its ok tho cause I wear my head phones.

I’m in the middle of a good book, so I’m gonna go read it and stay up late waiting for Morgan to get home again. I hate going to bed when he is still at work. It’s only till midnight tonight tho. So thats nice.