Guess who I met??

I went to Scrapfest yesterday and I met Ali Edwards!!! I was just besides myself with nervous excitement. I took her mini book class and it was just awesome! She talked to me a few times, signed my book and was sweet enough to take a picture with me. She was so sweet and easy to talk to. When she'd stop by your table, she'd crouch down and make eye contact and talk to YOU not looking around and seeing what else was going on. Her voice is a lot deeper than I expected but wow. She is just too cool and I had a great time yesterday. I had an awesome day scrapbooking, shopping and having fun with Donna, great conversations. So, so, so worth going.

Trying again...

Ok, I'm trying the newly resized pictures now. Today is a perfect play-on-the-computer-scrapbook-and-stay-warm kinda day. Ethan is off to school, Abby is watching Dora and I'm enjoying a wonderful, I've had too many cup of coffee. Definately thinking about making another pot. Gotta love these days off :) Planning on finishing up some scrapbook pages and doing a smattering of laundry, have a roast in my crock pot that totally makes supper a breeze tonight. Add salad, will eat!

I'm getting really excited about Scrapfest on Saturday, get to meet Ali Edwards (insert giddy smiley here) Yes, I admit I'm a great big dork. But you know what? I don't care ;)

On another note we've just got word that we should be getting high speed interet by the end of October. Can I hear an AMEN!!!??? (ok I've tried 3 times and it won't let me load the pictures...grrrrrrrr!)

Pumpkins and Ethan

Just wanted to share some of the fun pictures that I took of Ethan and our pumpkin haul! Ron had to put them in the back of the truck to bring them from the garden! We got 17 in total, just crazy! Had to fake a birthday picture of Ethan. I like to take a picture of the kids on their birthdays but never get a good fall picture for Ethan. So this year I faked it. Techniqually he isn't 8 yet but close enough :)

Ok tried like 3 times to load pictures and its not working :( sorry, trust me they are great. I'll have to figure out how to make them more pleasing to blogger.

New camera picture

Couldn't resist :)

Its HERE!

I got it, its in my hot little hands and I have to say, my hands are sore ;) Picked up my camera yesterday and set everything up, attached the lense (which was easier than I thought), put the memory card and batteries in and when at it. The camera is heavy, lots heavier than my old one. The reason my hands are sore is that I'm scared to loose my grip or drop it. Love love love the pictures it takes. Love the sound of a real shutter. So glad I got the Pentax with the stinking huge LCD monitor. Thrilled about the extra lenses. Can't believe how fast this baby focuses on a moving subject!!! Will post more later, off to work.

Weekend's Over

Whew! What a tiring weekend and its not going to stop yet. After not finishing up the pheasant project and having sick kids, Sunday was a relaxing day. The Club barbeque was pretty good, I got to take a bunch of great pictures. So Ron got to do what he liked and I did too :) I got some amazing pictures of some Australian Geese (have to check with Ron on the name of them). They were so cool, grey birds, pink legs, black feet and a lime green beak. Though they looked more like a New Zealand bird to me, I'll post pictures later. Very cool to get into the pens and get pictures without wire in the way. I even caught some swans fighting. I love this photography thing. 4 DAYS TILL I GET MY CAMERA!!! I'm so flippin' excited!!!! I bought new batteries, got my camera bag and a new memory card, I'm SET baby!

On a side note, I got a ton of great new clothes from a friend of mine and honestly have more clothes now than I've ever had, and they fit!!! Loving the new slimmer look.

Still working my way through my Star Trek Voyager series, now on the end of season 5. Going to have to start looking for Star Trek Deep Space 9. What else am I going to watch during my scrapping time? ;)

I put up my design team assignments for September up on Scrapper's Haven. Had so much fun with this set of products. I even made some scrapping home decor! Check it out at www.scrappershaven.ca under the gallery in my name.

That's all for now, have a great day!

Flippin' Dial up :(

Dial up is seriously going to be the death of me. I'm sure that I wait about 85% of the time waiting for something to either load or download. Soon this will all change.

I didn't get a chance to see Grandma yesterday because Abby had a cold and the last thing I want to do is expose her to Grandma who is recovering. So I will go today afterschool.

Almost done the pheasant project, will finish it up tonight. Can't tell you how much I want this silly thing done and overwith.

I made the most incredible healthy zuccini bread last night, only one loaf left already, very good. Yes, its GI Friendly ;)

Got my camera bag and memory card yesterday. I ordered a red backpack style bag that's big enough to fit the camera 2/3 extra lenses and a flash or another camera body. I figured that I'd rather have a bit more room at the begining then run out of space and have a buy a new one later. 6 more days!!!!!

Have a great day everyone!

So much...

This weekend, week and upcoming weekend has been and will be crazy. From starting work and camping at the trapline (too much fun) to work this week, a project that has to be done for Saturday, playschool stuff (somehow I ended up being president) and a scrapbooking day on Sunday. Whew!

The trapline was lots of fun, quading, getting dirty and lots of photo opportunities. I managed to get a bunch of Grandma and some in really cool b&w. I'm planning a mini book so I need to get more pictures of her. I also got some very cool photos of my dad. Usually he's the one behind the camera. Speaking of which my little Canon S1 IS did pretty well in the bush, I'm not giving it up when I get my new one. 8 DAYS!!!! Whoohoo! I'm very anxious to get my new camera, pins and needles here.

My Grandma is in for surgery this morning, if you could spare a prayer or two it would be greatly appreciated. She is having a masecotomy done (not sure of spelling) and its freaking day surgery!! Are you kidding me???? But because of her age they are keeping her overnight. This totally burns me, removing part of her body and DAY SURGERY?? Crazy world.

Off to get the kids up for school and head out for our day, hopefully leaving some pictures. :)

Gone until Sunday

Work has begun. It was pretty good all in all, definately a different pace from last year :) I got to go visit my grandma yesterday after school and we has such a nice visit. We laughed about skunks, talked about work, and discussed the possiblity of us having #3. She gave a bunch of recipes for zuccini, which I have by the truck loads, one of which was in FRENCH! She made me read it anyway and I could 8) shocker I know, it was for pea soup, incase you're wondering. After I left, my heart felt so good, we talked about the surgery and how she's coming to the trapline this weekend. She sounded so good, not at all like I've been expecting. In my head I had her all portrayed as being sickly and weak, and she's not. Boy am I glad.

That being said, I'm off to work, then heading out camping to the trapline for a few days. Ron's mom is staying with the kids and we are going to go up to the Athabasca River. I've never been there but have been told of the glory (insert eye rolly smilie here) So my camera is charged with extra batteries, memory card empty and ready to go. See you on Sunday!