at my place on Saturday morning!! If you live in town and want to come by between 8:30 and 10:30, then send me an email, call me or pm me (my user name is Cate) on POTP to get my address. I have a TON of stuff I'm getting rid of (we're talking 9+ boxes). As of right now there is nothing over $7, with most of it between $1 and $3, and I'm not quite done going through my stuff or pricing.
Hope to see you here Saturday morning! And don't forget to watch the video in the post below. She's SO cute!!!!!!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Star Wars according to a 3 year old.
This is seriously my favourite video lately! She is so dang cute!!!!!!
Saturday, February 16, 2008
I'm home...
and SO tired!!! I've been sleeping a lot since I got home, trying to make up for what I didn't get when I was gone I guess. I suppose that's what happens when you have six women staying in a hotel room together. It was fun from the time I got dropped off at Tara's last Thursday until I got home this Thursday morning. Here's just kind of a mishmash of fun photos from the trip. Enjoy!! (and apparently iPhoto doesn't like me yet again...argh!!!)
My suitcase with the LAX tag on it. There's a little glare, but I know what it says. :)
Tara, Kim (Moreno) and I in California Adventure. This was the first time I'd met Kim and she had me laughing constantly!
Me and Colin's favourite, Pluto. He is adorable, isn't he? And I noticed that his ear is flipped up like Chloe's get (which drives me nuts and I always have to flip it down). And you can see my newest pink streaks in this photo. I LOVE the colour of them!
Me in my pink jammies getting the press release ready for the press room. We were punching and adding keychains to things late into Saturday night.
Me in my birthday hat from Sandra. Isn't it adorable (maybe not me in it, but the hat)? It totally reminds me of the unbirthday hat from Alice in Wonderland. I'm going to think that every time I see it now.
This is a blurry photo of the eight of us going on on Sunday night (my birthday). It's myself, Natalia, Kim, Holly, Sandra, Tara, Becky and Anna. Sandra and Anna ended up having to leave the Cheesecake Factory because Anna had a migraine, but we had a ton f fun before they left.
The very pretty table in the Pageframes booth. The stuff that the DT made was unbelievable!
And Colin and his friend Nigel picked a number from the posts on my last blog entry, and number 10 wins. That's karenmc. So I'll contact you to see what pattern you want.
My suitcase with the LAX tag on it. There's a little glare, but I know what it says. :)
Tara, Kim (Moreno) and I in California Adventure. This was the first time I'd met Kim and she had me laughing constantly!
Me and Colin's favourite, Pluto. He is adorable, isn't he? And I noticed that his ear is flipped up like Chloe's get (which drives me nuts and I always have to flip it down). And you can see my newest pink streaks in this photo. I LOVE the colour of them!
Me in my pink jammies getting the press release ready for the press room. We were punching and adding keychains to things late into Saturday night.
Me in my birthday hat from Sandra. Isn't it adorable (maybe not me in it, but the hat)? It totally reminds me of the unbirthday hat from Alice in Wonderland. I'm going to think that every time I see it now.
This is a blurry photo of the eight of us going on on Sunday night (my birthday). It's myself, Natalia, Kim, Holly, Sandra, Tara, Becky and Anna. Sandra and Anna ended up having to leave the Cheesecake Factory because Anna had a migraine, but we had a ton f fun before they left.
The very pretty table in the Pageframes booth. The stuff that the DT made was unbelievable!
And Colin and his friend Nigel picked a number from the posts on my last blog entry, and number 10 wins. That's karenmc. So I'll contact you to see what pattern you want.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Pageframes CHA sneak peek
Pageframes has some cool new products coming out!! Tara is releasing patterned shapes, albums and pages in the same material that you've grown to love, and a super cool thinner material (same thickness as the Hambly Heavy Overlays). I played with them (see the album) and cut it myself with my Tonic trimmer (and it cuts with scissors great also!!). These are going to be available in 12x12 sheets so you can cut it and make your own album or shapes. I cut the 12x12 sheet in half for the 6x12 album.
Tell me what you think and your name will be entered to win a heavy overlay of your choice.
Tell me what you think and your name will be entered to win a heavy overlay of your choice.
Monday, February 04, 2008
Saltspring
On Saturday Adam and I took the kids and went to Saltspring for the day. I think Saltspring Island is one of my favourite places ever. When you go there you can feel yourself relaxing. Adam's brother, Josh, lives there and had told Adam about a lake there that was frozen. So we decided to head over for the day and check it out. When we got there it was like a winter wonderland. Saltspring itself was green, like Victoria, but once we started driving up the mountain there was snow everywhere.
So we got to the lake and it was still frozen and covered in snow, so the guys used hockey sticks and boards to clean it off. After playing on a smaller section for three hours someone else showed up with shovels and they shoveled and played for another hour. It was just an awesome day!
Chloe trying to stay warm in Adam's bag. My mom knit her this sweater for her birthday this year.
Josh and the kids walking up the mountain after Josh and Adam both got their cars stuck on the way up. Then they rode those crazy carpets all the way back down to the cars when we left.
Colin spent the four hours at the lake playing with Bobby. He absolutely loved him! (and I had my camera on ISO 800 the whole time I was there, so the good ones are shot on automatic...this one obviously wasn't. Live and learn though, right?)
I love Chloe's tongue here!!
Adam and his brother playing hockey together.
So we got to the lake and it was still frozen and covered in snow, so the guys used hockey sticks and boards to clean it off. After playing on a smaller section for three hours someone else showed up with shovels and they shoveled and played for another hour. It was just an awesome day!
Chloe trying to stay warm in Adam's bag. My mom knit her this sweater for her birthday this year.
Josh and the kids walking up the mountain after Josh and Adam both got their cars stuck on the way up. Then they rode those crazy carpets all the way back down to the cars when we left.
Colin spent the four hours at the lake playing with Bobby. He absolutely loved him! (and I had my camera on ISO 800 the whole time I was there, so the good ones are shot on automatic...this one obviously wasn't. Live and learn though, right?)
I love Chloe's tongue here!!
Adam and his brother playing hockey together.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
More JUNO Love
I could watch this trailer 1000 times and not get bored of it. I think I'm going to go again this weekend. Even if I have to go by myself.
Oh, and seven more sleeps 'til CHA!!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Anyone Else But You
This just makes me happy.
Juno is my new favourite movie. If I could go to the theater every day until it's not in theaters anymore, then I probably would. Sigh...
Sunday, January 27, 2008
January 27th
I've been snapping photos, I just haven't been uploading them. :)
Poor Colin was sick all week with the flu. Last Monday (Jan 21st) he turned 14. We went out to dinner, even though I tried talking him out of it because I knew he was feeling lousy, to Montana's. He didn't really eat anything, but it was still a fun night.
Other than that we haven't been up to much. I really, really want to go see Juno, so I'm hoping to do that today. Colin is at his dad's, so today I've been snapping photos of Chloe (what else is new, right??). Even when he's around I've been snapping photos of her, because he always covers up his face. I'm trying to think of what I could
bribe him with to get him to go out and do a fun photo shoot with me.
I've been looking at new lenses for my camera, and am totally torn between two. The 55-250 IS ($349) and the 85mm/1.8 ($599). I went to the store yesterday and tried them both out, and i"m still just as torn as I was before I went to look at them.
iPhoto still hates me. I'm going to leave the photos like this for now because I don't have the energy to try to fix them (ie...I'm lazy).
Adam gave me this tin heart last year for Christmas. Chloe was sitting in one of her favourite spots on the back of the couch, an I thought this photo would be a cute one. I think she's a little too blurry though.
This is just her being cute. Dont' you love the colour of my living room walls? I' going to miss this colour when I move.
My favourite Starbucks drink. Passion Iced Tea Lemonade. Colin said he's going to have a Starbucks intervention and move me somewhere that doesn't have Starbucks. I said "good luck".
My cutie patootie nephew, Logan, with their new puppy, Lola. We went last night to get her. I get to babysit her today!
My dad took this one of me at Montana's on Colin's birthday, with my camera. It's a little blurry, but you get the idea.
Poor Colin was sick all week with the flu. Last Monday (Jan 21st) he turned 14. We went out to dinner, even though I tried talking him out of it because I knew he was feeling lousy, to Montana's. He didn't really eat anything, but it was still a fun night.
Other than that we haven't been up to much. I really, really want to go see Juno, so I'm hoping to do that today. Colin is at his dad's, so today I've been snapping photos of Chloe (what else is new, right??). Even when he's around I've been snapping photos of her, because he always covers up his face. I'm trying to think of what I could
bribe him with to get him to go out and do a fun photo shoot with me.
I've been looking at new lenses for my camera, and am totally torn between two. The 55-250 IS ($349) and the 85mm/1.8 ($599). I went to the store yesterday and tried them both out, and i"m still just as torn as I was before I went to look at them.
iPhoto still hates me. I'm going to leave the photos like this for now because I don't have the energy to try to fix them (ie...I'm lazy).
Adam gave me this tin heart last year for Christmas. Chloe was sitting in one of her favourite spots on the back of the couch, an I thought this photo would be a cute one. I think she's a little too blurry though.
This is just her being cute. Dont' you love the colour of my living room walls? I' going to miss this colour when I move.
My favourite Starbucks drink. Passion Iced Tea Lemonade. Colin said he's going to have a Starbucks intervention and move me somewhere that doesn't have Starbucks. I said "good luck".
My cutie patootie nephew, Logan, with their new puppy, Lola. We went last night to get her. I get to babysit her today!
My dad took this one of me at Montana's on Colin's birthday, with my camera. It's a little blurry, but you get the idea.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Winged Thing...
This was a Poppy Project from Poppy Ink. I can never resist her stuff, especially when she has fabric in the kit. I started it at a crop in September (or was it this summer?) and finished it the next day, but never got around to uploading it. Isn't it beautiful?? I seriously just keep looking at it.
And just because I think it's cute...here's Else and Chloe.
And just because I think it's cute...here's Else and Chloe.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
More photos.
So, I've taken a photo a day, but I started using Aperture and I haven't been able to figure out how to upload from there. So tonight I dragged (is that a word...it sounds weird) all the photos back into iPhoto, which apparently likes me again! All these photos were taken today with my new 50mm/1.8 lens. Seriously, I love this lens!
This first photo is Adam's "commuting" bike. I got down low and took the photo. This photo feels like the "artsyist" photo I've ever taken I think, and I like it.
This one is Colin (with that crazy hair that won't do anything but stick up) on Adam's computer. He'll be 14 in just over a week, and won't let me take any photos of him. Although Adam told both the boys today that they really only have a right to complain if we're asking them to pose al the time, so hopefully that will work for a while. Since we both have new cameras, we've both been snapping photos of the kids constantly.
And this is Max. He's my parents Bichon. He's a little bigger than most Bichons (okay...a lot bigger...he's over 30 pounds) and he's not the cutest dog around, but this photo actually makes him look cute, so I like it.
And I have to figure out how to make the banner photo a little smaller, but I think she's so cute that it might stay that way for a while. I love her shiny lower lip and pompom white nose, and the way that her hair will not stay off her face. Even if I cut it, the stuff further back just falls forward.
This first photo is Adam's "commuting" bike. I got down low and took the photo. This photo feels like the "artsyist" photo I've ever taken I think, and I like it.
This one is Colin (with that crazy hair that won't do anything but stick up) on Adam's computer. He'll be 14 in just over a week, and won't let me take any photos of him. Although Adam told both the boys today that they really only have a right to complain if we're asking them to pose al the time, so hopefully that will work for a while. Since we both have new cameras, we've both been snapping photos of the kids constantly.
And this is Max. He's my parents Bichon. He's a little bigger than most Bichons (okay...a lot bigger...he's over 30 pounds) and he's not the cutest dog around, but this photo actually makes him look cute, so I like it.
And I have to figure out how to make the banner photo a little smaller, but I think she's so cute that it might stay that way for a while. I love her shiny lower lip and pompom white nose, and the way that her hair will not stay off her face. Even if I cut it, the stuff further back just falls forward.
Monday, January 07, 2008
It's windy out tonight!
I was just blog surfing and was looking at Emily's blog. Last year she did an art journal challenge on her blog, but by the time I found her blog she was more than halfway done and I just didn't jump in and start it. But she's doing another art journal this year, and each week (or two) she's going to give a word to inspire your page. This week's word is commit. So tomorrow I think I'm going to dig out the paint and paper and start my first art journal. This should be fun!!!
Aperture
A friend at work today told me about Aperture. So hopefully my problems with rotating photos is going to be fixed. Except that I can't figure out how to get the photos from Aperture to Blogger yet. So I think today's photo will have to be seen tomorrow (hopefully!).
Today I met Adam at a camera store where he bought a Nikon D80 with a 55-200 zoom lens. The lens is so awesome! I have no idea at all what lens I want to get when I decide to get a lens. I want it to be by summertime probably though.
Hope everyone had a great Monday!!!
Today I met Adam at a camera store where he bought a Nikon D80 with a 55-200 zoom lens. The lens is so awesome! I have no idea at all what lens I want to get when I decide to get a lens. I want it to be by summertime probably though.
Hope everyone had a great Monday!!!
Sunday, January 06, 2008
January 6th
Last May I won a $1000 shopping spree at Heirloom Linens. I bought Colin a duvet and then gave him $200 to buy whatever he wanted (he picked a camouflage duvet cover and then two queen sized pillows and pillow cases to match his duvet cover and an alarm clock that moos). Then I bought some things...and didn't ever post them. So today my photo is my bed, and the patchwork quilt I bought with the money. And I happened to take the photo in the three minutes that the lazy mutt wasn't sleeping on it. Too bad, because she really spices up photos (but I guess you guys already know I think that *S*).
I took the photo the lengthwise instead of horizontal, so if it is still sideways then Blogger doesn't like me. *S*
I took the photo the lengthwise instead of horizontal, so if it is still sideways then Blogger doesn't like me. *S*
Saturday, January 05, 2008
January 4th
I've been taking my camera to work with me this year (2008). I've been noticing that since I've had my camera with me, I've seen so many things that would be great photos. We've had really blustery, stormy weather for the last few days (lots of wind warnings) and it's been really cloudy. Yesterday the wind blew the clouds away and the sun was out for a few minutes. I happened to be driving around the corner and saw this church lit up by the sun. You can't really tell how dark the clouds are behind it, but they are dark storm clouds, and I thought it was so cool to see the light shining on the church with the dark clouds behind it.
As a side note...I rotated this in iPhoto and it is still sideways, so until I can get Photoshop for my MacBook, I have no idea how to get it rotated and keep it that way. Sorry!! If anyone has any advice, feel free to share it! I'm still getting use to a Mac. *S*
As a side note...I rotated this in iPhoto and it is still sideways, so until I can get Photoshop for my MacBook, I have no idea how to get it rotated and keep it that way. Sorry!! If anyone has any advice, feel free to share it! I'm still getting use to a Mac. *S*
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Happy New Year!!
So, on Boxing Day Adam and I ventured out, early in the morning, to Future Shop. We set the alarm for 4am and were at Future Shop by 4:30. The doors were set to open at 6am, but we were lucky and they opened about 15 minutes before that. Adam went straight to the tv's to get himself a 42' Plasma flat screen while I went straight to the cameras where I was able to get a Canon Rebel XT for only $400! Those things went fast too!! If I hadn't asked the guy in line behind us where the camera section was in that particular store, I probably would have missed out on it. I totally love it and have been dragging it everywhere with me.
So now that I have a fancy new camera I plan on doing the photo a day for the year. I'll post a bunch of them here hopefully. For the first few days that I had the camera, Colin was at his dad's, so can you guess who my subject was?
(oops...sorry...I have to figure out how to rotate the photos)
Once he got home I managed to get a photo of him (I don't remember what I might have bribed him with to get one though!).
And I've picked a word for 2008 (Ali's blog) : SIMPLIFY.
Happy New Year to all! I'm off to watch Notting Hill. Sigh.
So now that I have a fancy new camera I plan on doing the photo a day for the year. I'll post a bunch of them here hopefully. For the first few days that I had the camera, Colin was at his dad's, so can you guess who my subject was?
(oops...sorry...I have to figure out how to rotate the photos)
Once he got home I managed to get a photo of him (I don't remember what I might have bribed him with to get one though!).
And I've picked a word for 2008 (Ali's blog) : SIMPLIFY.
Happy New Year to all! I'm off to watch Notting Hill. Sigh.
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Wow...
So much has happened since I posted last. I think the most exciting thing was spending a week in Penticton with Adam for Ironman. Last Sunday was the race, but the whole week was super inspiring. We arrived on Wednesday afternoon (after a stop at Precious Memories in Langley...even though Adam so wanted to get to Penticton he stopped for me *S*). Adam took full advantage of everything that was going on that week. On Thursday morning there was an underwear run, on Friday night there was a carbo load dinner and then an Ironman/Oldtimers NHL hockey game. There were people running and cycling everywhere you looked. On Sunday we were up by 4:30 and downtown by just after 5am. The race started at 7am and Adam wanted to finish the 3.8km swim, 180km bike and 42.2km run in about 12 hours. His time ended up being 11:08:12. It was totally amazing to see him pass by me while I was watching way before he kept expecting ot be passing by me. He had an amazing race! There were 2445 finishers and Adam came in 415 overall.
On our way ohome on Tuesday we all went to the PNE. We had spent the whole week in Penticton with some friends and had a great time. Chloe was so excited to see me when I came home. She's kind of been following me around like she thinks I'm going to leave again.
I'll update more later. School starts again on Tuesday and I'm really looking forward to having that time back (as much as I love moody 13 year olds *S*).
Have a great lond weekend!!
On our way ohome on Tuesday we all went to the PNE. We had spent the whole week in Penticton with some friends and had a great time. Chloe was so excited to see me when I came home. She's kind of been following me around like she thinks I'm going to leave again.
I'll update more later. School starts again on Tuesday and I'm really looking forward to having that time back (as much as I love moody 13 year olds *S*).
Have a great lond weekend!!
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Six more sleeps
That's all I have to wait until Harry Potter comes out. And this time when I'm leaving Costco with my book, I'm not going to flip to the back pages to find out what happens (yep...I did it last time and cried all the way home). Or at least I'm going to try my hardest not to do that.
Is anyone else getting it this weekend?
Is anyone else getting it this weekend?
Friday, July 06, 2007
It's 11:30, Friday night
and I have three more badges to sew on Colin's sash before I go to bed so I can get up at 5:30 tomorrow morning to help him get ready to leave for camp. The things mom's do, eh?
I'm watching the Live Earth concert on CTV and Missy Higgins is playing right now in Australia. I've been loving her music. She is absolutely amazing! You can tell that she's popular because everyone seems to know the words to her songs. It's neat to see what music is popular in each country too. I'll be curious to see who plays in the rest of the concerts tomorrow. I'm sure the British one will be great, although Al Gore is supposed to show up at the US one, so I'm sure that will be exciting too. How great to be able to pull something like this off to make people more aware of the earth and global warming!
Well, I guess my fingers have had a little break now. I should get back to sewing. Have a great weekend!!
I'm watching the Live Earth concert on CTV and Missy Higgins is playing right now in Australia. I've been loving her music. She is absolutely amazing! You can tell that she's popular because everyone seems to know the words to her songs. It's neat to see what music is popular in each country too. I'll be curious to see who plays in the rest of the concerts tomorrow. I'm sure the British one will be great, although Al Gore is supposed to show up at the US one, so I'm sure that will be exciting too. How great to be able to pull something like this off to make people more aware of the earth and global warming!
Well, I guess my fingers have had a little break now. I should get back to sewing. Have a great weekend!!
Monday, July 02, 2007
Hello!!!
I hope everyone had a great Canada Day! Colin was at his dad's and he called me last night to let me know that Titanic was on tv and we talked about how sad it was that Tracey and Allana don't live in Vancouver anymore because we used to always spend Canada Day with them. I'm sure they can't stay away from Vancouver long though!!
I was just looking for a photo of Adam doing his half iron triathlon a couple of weeks ago when I found this photo of me at work. I needed a photo for a class I was taking from Kah-Mei at the POTP retreat of myself at work. So that's the truck I drive. It's new and nice! I love it! It's big too!!
So here's Adam racing a couple of weeks ago. He wanted to qualify for the Ironman Canda race in Penticton in August. Here he is waiting for the swim to start. Swimming is his least favourite part of a triathlon, so he's always nervous right before the race starts.
After the swim he goes on the bike ride, which I can rarely get good photos of because they are in transition and out of transition and gone on their bikes before you know it and I'd rather cheer for him than try to get a great photo of that. So I didn't get a good photo...just a blurry one that I won't inflict on you. But here he is after his bike ride getting on his runners for the run.
The swim was about 2kms, the bike was 80kms adn the run was 20kms. Here he is after the first 10km of the run.
So when Adam crossed the finish line he was pretty sure he hadn't qualified for the Ironman. But the next night he got an email telling him they had a spot for him! So we're heading to Penticton in August for the Ironman! I'm SO dang excited!! My man is going to be in Ironman!!
Well, it's totally late and I have to be at work early tomorrow. Have a great week everyone!!
I was just looking for a photo of Adam doing his half iron triathlon a couple of weeks ago when I found this photo of me at work. I needed a photo for a class I was taking from Kah-Mei at the POTP retreat of myself at work. So that's the truck I drive. It's new and nice! I love it! It's big too!!
So here's Adam racing a couple of weeks ago. He wanted to qualify for the Ironman Canda race in Penticton in August. Here he is waiting for the swim to start. Swimming is his least favourite part of a triathlon, so he's always nervous right before the race starts.
After the swim he goes on the bike ride, which I can rarely get good photos of because they are in transition and out of transition and gone on their bikes before you know it and I'd rather cheer for him than try to get a great photo of that. So I didn't get a good photo...just a blurry one that I won't inflict on you. But here he is after his bike ride getting on his runners for the run.
The swim was about 2kms, the bike was 80kms adn the run was 20kms. Here he is after the first 10km of the run.
So when Adam crossed the finish line he was pretty sure he hadn't qualified for the Ironman. But the next night he got an email telling him they had a spot for him! So we're heading to Penticton in August for the Ironman! I'm SO dang excited!! My man is going to be in Ironman!!Well, it's totally late and I have to be at work early tomorrow. Have a great week everyone!!
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Lots to catch up on!
Okay...wow...it's been a while since I've posted. Let's see what I've been up to in the last month.
I went to the Pick of the Patch retreat. It was so much fun! It's great to get together with friends that you don't get to see often. I got to meet Angelo. He is SO CUTE!!!!!! Like, seriously! So smiley. It was cute, when Jenn's husband, Jim, came to pick him up so she could scrap the night away, Angelo just stared at him smiling. I thought that was adorable! Shannon and Danielle shared a room with Julia and I (we spent the whole weekend scrapping and playing together). We had great ambitions of getting up early to run and scrap, but when you don't make it to bed before 2am, it doesn't quite work out that way. *S* I took some amazing classes! Yolanda Robinson is amazing (she designs for Fontwerks)! I would take another class with her in a second! I'll make sure I take photos of the cute felt book we made and post it soon. I also took a class from Kah-Mei from Fontwerks. I love her new rub-ons!!!! She is so sweet and uber talented! I was totally blown away with all the techniques that she used in the class. Everyone I show the book to is in awe too! And then the super crazy talented Tracy Kyle. I didn't finish all the layouts, but that was a fun class too. I pretty much won back in prizes what I paid for the classes too, which was a total bonus!
I promise that I'll post photos of the stuff I got (really Jenn...I promise!), but I won a $1000 shopping spree at a great linen and bath store in Victoria, Heirloom Linens. I received a phone call while I was sorting my mail on a Monday morning and the guy from the station asked if I would hold and talk to him on the air for a minute. I really didn't think anything of it, because it's a talk radio station. When he came back on he said that when I had called a few weeks earlier I had been entered into a draw for a prize, and I had won a really great one. It was kind of exciting, and a great way to start a Monday morning off!
Oh, and I'm the June guest designer over at POTP. I had fun with the kit. There's a super cute Maya Road scalloped mini book that came with it too, but I made my own mini book with the cardstock in the kit.
Next Sunday is the New Balance Half Iron triathlon here in Victoria. Adam is racing it and trying to qualify for a spot in Ironman Canada in Penticton this year. I'm sure he can do it and I'm so dang excited to go to Ironman! We were talking about it with some friends the other day. It's going to be awesome!!
Here's a layout I made at Karen's crop last weekend. It was a fun day! I think this has become one of my favourite layouts! I love those MM glitter stickers!
And I'm still running. I'm so glad I signed up for Heidi's BPS class just because it gave me the boost I needed to start. I've enjoyed it more than I thought.
Oh, ya. And poor Colin broke his collar bone almost three weeks ago. It was the holiday Monday in May and he was out skateboarding with a friend and fell off his skateboard. He got up crying and walked over to his friend and told him that he thought he had broken a bone. His friend walked him home, which I thought was really nice. When Colin walked into the house (I actually heard the dogs upstairs barking and had opened the door to see if Colin was home and heard him crying as he walked up the side of the house) he told me that he fell off his skateboard and had a bunch of road rash. I don't remember him saying that he thought he broke a bone, but when I helped him take his t-shirt off he winced and I could tell right away that he had a broken collar bone. So we were at the hospital probably 20 minutes after it happened. He was wearing a helmet though, SO i'm really happy about that! A week later I washed his sling and shrunk it (silly mom!) and we had to go back to the hospital to get him a new one. The nurse there recognized me and remembered Adam and his accident last summer (she said she felt really bad putting the two slings on him). Pretty funny that my two guys have both broken their collar bones now. Everyone at work says it'll be my turn next summer. I hope not!! He's doing really well now and you can hardly tell that he broke it. He just can't carry a back pack on it yet, or climb up his bunk bed.
Well, I'm watching Blue Crush and scrapping, so I'm off to do that. I hope everyone is enjoying the start of summer!
I went to the Pick of the Patch retreat. It was so much fun! It's great to get together with friends that you don't get to see often. I got to meet Angelo. He is SO CUTE!!!!!! Like, seriously! So smiley. It was cute, when Jenn's husband, Jim, came to pick him up so she could scrap the night away, Angelo just stared at him smiling. I thought that was adorable! Shannon and Danielle shared a room with Julia and I (we spent the whole weekend scrapping and playing together). We had great ambitions of getting up early to run and scrap, but when you don't make it to bed before 2am, it doesn't quite work out that way. *S* I took some amazing classes! Yolanda Robinson is amazing (she designs for Fontwerks)! I would take another class with her in a second! I'll make sure I take photos of the cute felt book we made and post it soon. I also took a class from Kah-Mei from Fontwerks. I love her new rub-ons!!!! She is so sweet and uber talented! I was totally blown away with all the techniques that she used in the class. Everyone I show the book to is in awe too! And then the super crazy talented Tracy Kyle. I didn't finish all the layouts, but that was a fun class too. I pretty much won back in prizes what I paid for the classes too, which was a total bonus!
I promise that I'll post photos of the stuff I got (really Jenn...I promise!), but I won a $1000 shopping spree at a great linen and bath store in Victoria, Heirloom Linens. I received a phone call while I was sorting my mail on a Monday morning and the guy from the station asked if I would hold and talk to him on the air for a minute. I really didn't think anything of it, because it's a talk radio station. When he came back on he said that when I had called a few weeks earlier I had been entered into a draw for a prize, and I had won a really great one. It was kind of exciting, and a great way to start a Monday morning off!
Oh, and I'm the June guest designer over at POTP. I had fun with the kit. There's a super cute Maya Road scalloped mini book that came with it too, but I made my own mini book with the cardstock in the kit.
Next Sunday is the New Balance Half Iron triathlon here in Victoria. Adam is racing it and trying to qualify for a spot in Ironman Canada in Penticton this year. I'm sure he can do it and I'm so dang excited to go to Ironman! We were talking about it with some friends the other day. It's going to be awesome!!
Here's a layout I made at Karen's crop last weekend. It was a fun day! I think this has become one of my favourite layouts! I love those MM glitter stickers!
And I'm still running. I'm so glad I signed up for Heidi's BPS class just because it gave me the boost I needed to start. I've enjoyed it more than I thought.
Oh, ya. And poor Colin broke his collar bone almost three weeks ago. It was the holiday Monday in May and he was out skateboarding with a friend and fell off his skateboard. He got up crying and walked over to his friend and told him that he thought he had broken a bone. His friend walked him home, which I thought was really nice. When Colin walked into the house (I actually heard the dogs upstairs barking and had opened the door to see if Colin was home and heard him crying as he walked up the side of the house) he told me that he fell off his skateboard and had a bunch of road rash. I don't remember him saying that he thought he broke a bone, but when I helped him take his t-shirt off he winced and I could tell right away that he had a broken collar bone. So we were at the hospital probably 20 minutes after it happened. He was wearing a helmet though, SO i'm really happy about that! A week later I washed his sling and shrunk it (silly mom!) and we had to go back to the hospital to get him a new one. The nurse there recognized me and remembered Adam and his accident last summer (she said she felt really bad putting the two slings on him). Pretty funny that my two guys have both broken their collar bones now. Everyone at work says it'll be my turn next summer. I hope not!! He's doing really well now and you can hardly tell that he broke it. He just can't carry a back pack on it yet, or climb up his bunk bed.
Well, I'm watching Blue Crush and scrapping, so I'm off to do that. I hope everyone is enjoying the start of summer!
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