Rainy day fun

The kids got new umbrellas in their Easter baskets (like they need any more chocolate) So on the first of many rainy days they went out to play.

gotta love chocolate

Totally love Ethan's expression here. Would that I could eat chocolate without abandon.
The joys of being a kid and being able to eat the chocolate straight out of the box, no guilt.
Abby and her funny bendy bunnies that she got for Easter :)

And they're cleaning...

I knew it was too good to last. My kids have been getting along for the past 3 days. Today they are cleaning their rooms already. lol. My theory is if they have energy to fight they've got energy to clean. Big meany huh? I could be just grouchy cause of the canker sore (%&*#@ AGAIN!!) and a massive headache. But the fighting has got to stop before *I* lose it. Got to make a bunch of phone calls today (benefits and such) and we're supposed to go visit Grandma but we'll see. Hoping to go to Edmonton tomorrow to take the kids to galaxyland to play but we'll see. Depends on how the rest of the day goes.

early Easter pictures

More fishing pictures

A true fisherman. Sitting on the cooler with the food. Easy access.

I love this picture of Ron and Ethan.
The kids got bored and we told them they could walk to an island that was quite a ways away from where we were fishing. I think they took 3 breaks during the entire walk.

Notice the *huge* fish that Dad caught. I tell you its for the record books ;)

Speedy Gonzalas BABY!

At last at last! I've got high speed internet! I feel like I'm zipping around in a sports car instead of using the horse and buggy. Be forewarned that more pictures will be added and hopefully more frequently. Here are some from the last ice fishing trip the kids went on...

Time for a change

More to come later...but with spring on the way I felt there was a need for change.

Just weary

I am seriously so sick of butting heads with people. Between professional and personal I'm just tired. Seems like all I do lately is stuff for everyone else. Partly my fault for agreeing to do so much but its like its all accumulating too quickly. How do you motivate kids? What about teenagers? Anyone have any suggestions please pass them along.

Gorgeous weather!! Snow pics

This is such a typical Abby pose now a days. She insists that she's the queen, but I told her Mommy is the Empress and that the empress rules the queen. Lord help me when she's a teenager.
Ethan was showing off and balancing like the karate kid on the top of this huge pile of snow! You can't tell in the pictures but the pile is at least 10 ft. high.

Got him in mid-slide (showing off again for the little girls) :)

This is one of Abby's mid-slide jumps. The kids just had a blast playing outside.

All pictures are unedited and uncropped and I just loved how they turned out.

Gotta check this out!!

So loving this website and the gorgeous jewlery!! Hint hint for anyone wanting to get me a present ;)

Check out www.beadhivejewlery.com

weekly challenge at scrappershaven.ca

Challenge is to use frames or outlines. I did both with the journalling framing the layout and the flowers outlining the picture. The outlines were flower rubons layered on top of the flowers. Thanks for looking :)

Memories Wholesale event

Still recovering from crazy scrapbooking filled weekend. I got to spend 2 days in Edmonton at a Retailer's event taking classes with scrapbooking celebs. and loved every minute of it! Learned lots and got tons of free stuff. Loving the new product lines that are coming out. Some old favorites freshened up and some totally new stuff that I had never seen before!

Got to get my picture taken with a few celebs. Becky Higgins and the Design Team from Cloud 9, Amy and Nancy (who were too sweet for words!)

True Love

Here are some pictures that I took about a month ago of my brother and his wonderful wife. Two people that truly fit the defination of soulmates. I can't remember a time when Nichola wasn't a part of Matthew's life. This year they will celebrate their 6th wedding anniversary a couple of days after ours. Amazing how time flies. It seems like just the other day we were at Nicki's parent's place for her Graduation. Crazy.

I can take a hint

Just a quick post with some new scrap projects that I finished this weekend. Love anything maya road!

My beautiful girl

New lesson this morning...

Love scrapbooking. This hobby is seriously too cool.








Leaving you with a favorite layout from Scrapper's Haven:

I'm Natasha Borishnikoff, Cat G B

Seriously. What else is a cat for other than to have fun with?

Its been a long time

Everything has just been crazy busy this last while. Between family and obligations time is almost not existant. I've finally finished up some scrapbooking layouts for my design team assignment this month. Funny how some layouts come so easily and others just take forever and drive you crazy. I redid one layout 3 times just cause it bugged me. Done, finally. Whew.

Seriously procrastinating about my braille course. Finally sat down yesterday and got half of the next lesson done. Its all coming together now.

Got some new digital photography books in (bought @ chapters online) and am loving them. Learning more and more about my camera. My photography course starts February 7 so I'm really excited about this.

Totally sore and moving slow-mo today. My yoga-pilates class is great but apparently I have muscles that have never been used up in till now. :0 pain. This is good though, got to get into better shape. Muffin body is not good. Ok, need to stretch and move or else pain is worse. Chiao!

Lazy and sick

So I've been either too lazy or too sick to post for the last few weeks. Between Christmas holidays and starting back at school, it just hasn't happened. So here's some updates:

Had my computer overhauled by my wonderful brother (thanks Mashy!) and now have been busy reloading all my programs and software. Dial up takes forever to download stuff. 12 hours for Norton!! :( Downside, my scanner is still boycotting me. This royally sucks because I need it to load my design team stuff.

I'm getting a bit behind in my braille course for a few reasons. I was sick and so didn't feel like it. I'm still waiting on the manual, got to remember to reorder that. Plus I have to download some software to finish lessons 6-27. This takes us back to the dial up saga.

Starting the new year has proven to be quite booked up already. February is so not an option anymore. Between teaching a mini book class and getting to go to a very cool scrapbooking manufactoring convention for two day (I get to meet Becky Higgins!!!) and a few board meetings thrown in...I'm swamped.

Starting a digital camera course here in LLB, has homework and everything. Really looking forward to that. Plus I'm starting an exercise class called "butts and guts". *GOT* to get moving again. Need to firm up some of this flab ;)

Can't believe its 2007 already. It seems that the older I get the faster time goes. Good grief I'm going to be 30 this year. Yes, 30. For the first time. I told Ron that he better have something good planned ;)

Also can't get over how old my kids are, Ethan is going to be 9 and in Grade 4. When that happened I have no idea. My little baby will be 5 and in kindergarten. Just crazy. It seems just like yesterday that Ron and I started dating and poof! 9 years later here we are, 2 kids and a mortgage. Life is funny. I always envisioned myself living in a city in a cool loft apartment working in some office, maybe married by now but never expecting kids and life on an acreage. But you know I love it. Would not trade my life for anything.

On that thought, I'm off to do some of my course.......maybe ;)

Last Day of work

Thank goodness, I'm just wiped. I've got so many errands to run after school today, let alone all the prep for tomorrow that I need to do. Tonight is the kids' Christmas concert and we have to be there early. That is totally ok so then when they are getting ready I plan to take a few test shots with my camera just to make sure I've got the right settings. Hoping for some very cool shots.

Thursday is the kids' last day of school, so parties and goodies are being sent. Had to rush around and find a last minute santa for playschool cause the orignal had to bow out. Then Abby and I are heading into LLB to see Daddy and bring some treats to work for him and his crew.

Still waiting on 3 gifts (2 are coming this week and 1 will be late but its all okay) need to wrap a few more, clean the house, make some goodies all in a couple of days. The craziness of Christmas abounds.

Just leaving with some pictures of a mini Christmas album I made for Scrappershaven. I think this will stay with my decorations and come out only at Christmas.

Some new pictures

Yes, its been a long while. But you try loading pictures on dial up ;)

A week or so ago the kids and I went outside for some much needed fresh air. After the weeks of way too cold weather they sure had fun playing in the snow.

Hoping to be able to post some more picture soon. 3 more days of school before Christmas break. Whoohoo!