LINK

here's the facebook link to all the photos. They're pretty cute, check em out.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=576567&id=772160580&l=2c04c9defc

Family Photos

This is my favorite of all!


Ok, you all know my kids are insane! They run, never walk, and faster than anything we could hope to keep up with. They never stop, they're always moving, and jumping, and going. It's great, and we love it, and it's so much fun, but when it comes to taking pictures, especially with someone who is completely unprepared as to the crazyness of our family, it's definatly not an easy thing. Which is why it's crazy of us to even think about trying to get family photos done. However, we did. I mentioned it in a past post, but we finally now have all the photos from that day. I'm posting some of my favorites. We went with Vicki Pallan, who was really nice, however for our personal needs and crazy kids a little under experiance imo. We have a session booked in January with a different photographer, hopfully she'll be able to get more of the four of us. I look at our photos of the four of us, and I can physiclaly see us fighting those strong willed little ones. If anyone has any suggestions as to what we can try for better results next time I'm all ears. But for now, here are the best ones from this try.

Happy Birthday Jamie!!

So tomorrow, December 1, is my wonderful husbands 24th birthday. He made me promise that I wouldn't post on Facebook, and also that I wouldn't do anything on his birthday like a blog post. BUUTTT he failed to include the days before or after his birthday :)

I just want to take this time, really, to celebrate him. He is an amazing young man. He works hard, he plays hard, he's just all in and 100% amazing. He is sweet, and caring, and so funny!! James always makes me laugh, and smile. He can cook, he can dance, he can run and jump and play with our toddlers and have more fun than they do. He's a good friend, my best friend. He lets me talk as much as I want, sometimes, and takes me for drives when I beg just to get out of the house. He lets me pick the movie on date nights, and encourages that I get desert. Not to mention he can make the best ones ever. I dont even know how I'm going to surprise him with a treat tomorrow as his would be 100% better than anything I can come up with.

I love this man. He is amazing and wonderful. Thankyou Jamie for spending the past 5 years with me, and giving me your forever.

A great Idea!

For a sweet holiday idea, check out magicsanta.ca. You can make a very personalized card for anyone that you love. It's a great site, and the video is fantastically done, and very magical and christamsy. Our kids loved it! Thanks James for the idea :)

I did it!!!

Yesterday, November 24, 2010 at 12:30 pm, I did it!! I finsihed my 50 000 words for Nanowrimo. I honestly can't believe that I actually did it. I never finish these sorts of things, and so this time it feels almost sureal. Things get in the way, time runs out, life moves on. But not this time. I wrote the minimum of 1667 or more everyday, averaging about 2000+ words/day, and I did it. Early even!!! I am so excited. The novel itself is not finished yet, by far. I still have more writting to do, and then of course revision, and then more revision, and then editing, and then another revision, before I might even consider it being "finished". But I feel great about this, one huge giant step in the right direction.




I was asked by someone if I would recommend Nanowrimo to anyone trying to acomplish a similar task. And I would have to say, absolutely. Free yourselvs!! Give way to a month of literary writting abandon, feel free to suck!! Forget PERFECT and just write. There were 100s of times where I would say I don't really like this part, or it's not flowing here like I want. But instead of going back and trying to fix it, to make it PERFECT, like I always do, I just plugged on ahead. That's the idea, forget the mistakes, forget the junk writting, just get the word count done. All of that will still be there in the end. I promise :) And also, forget the nasty pile of dirty dishes, and the toys on the floor, and the crumbs that everywhere, and the laundry that needs folding. It's just one month. If you can't honestly give those things up, then be prepared to be staying up late. There are days where the minimum word count is hard to get. Where it feels like pulling teeth every single word that you type. And sitting here, thinking about everything else, is not going to help. Doing everything else certainly won't. Nanowrimo is about a month of forgetting everything and writting. Of course, I have kids, so I can't forget EVERTHYING!! But we bought some Grilled Cheezes from M&M meats, 1 minute grilled cheese in the microwave, you know, things like that. There are ways to make life easy with little planning and little effort. But now that I'm done I really have no excuse to leave those grose dishes and not sweep the floor. But then again I just wrote 50 000 words. So I'm feeling pretty darn great about that :)

November!

November photos are up :)

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=15819313&l=b431ef6117&id=772160580

Snow Day!!

Winter has come early!!! By about 2 months. It's Nov 20 and we have snow!! And I really mean snow. Not those fake fluffy rain flurries that fall but never stick. We have actual, real, crunchable, throwable, play-in-able snow. So I packed up the kids, layers and all, and treked out to the park. We even took our our tobogan, which proved to not be so great on the small little hill we had at our disposal. But we had fun. I pulled the kids on it through the snow. David made lots of snow angels. The snow wasn't great for packing, so we couldn't make a snowman, but we made a snow mountain. And then the kids squashed it. Highlight of the day! lol These are great kids :) We had so much fun. And now, I'm tuckered right out. They're still good to go, but then they didn't have to push a buggy, two kids, all their gear, and a tobogan to and from the park.



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