finally

i finally figured out how to put music on here lol.. a real variety lol.

Busy bee weekends

So we had our usual busy weekend.. seems like all our weekends are busy, weekend warriors. lol. Saturday I went to a baby sale and got some good deals, i bought alice an elmo for 2$ it sings the song "Shout" over and over and over again. I now know why it was being sold lol. Then we flew to Hobbema for miss Lakinias 4th bday. She wasn't into having her picture taken a bit shy.

We had babies everywhere.. here is a pic of the new lightning babies left to right is Summer Lightning, Dominik Desjarlias, and Abby lol. the girls are only 8 days apart and Dom is about 2 months older . but much heavier lol

After the dinner we went swimming, my uncle rented out the pool for all 10 of us lol.. only about 10 went swimming and we pretty much stayed in the baby pool. alice the meatball had fun.

Then Sunday I took family photos of 3 wonderful family friends. I will post them in my picasa web albums after i work on them. I don't exactly want to be a photograher, after all i got the whole law thing going on lol. i just love taking pictures for people, i think its my hobby and a wonderful hobby it is. If i get good maybe i will actually charge money but for now i just want to get experience so i can get better and maybe some day i will be as good as some of my photography friends.. We all want to be good at something and being a good photographer is on my bucket list lol. Then after all the photoshoots I went to hobbema, to help out at the poker tournament.

Our family is having weekly poker tournments to raise money for my dads one year anniversay tea dance. We also raise money for the Walk for cancer our family particiaptes in every June and we also want to have a special in Honour of my dad at the next samson powwow. overall busy and fun weekend.. and today i get half day off from work so i can go enjoy the beautiful weather and hopefully take alice to the park...life is good.

So I got a new haircut.. Its the shortest I ever had it.. now i have to style it lol. my hair was driving me crazy and i needed a change, i was wearing way to many ponytails. but i like it, its my professional cut.. maybe alice and her crazy hair need a cut lol.

life as we know it

So in the past 3 days i have heard of 3 ppl being diagnosed with terminal cancer.. wow. Life is getting shorter and shorter. One of the people is my friends mother, i hit the floor when she told me because all i could think of was how hard this will be for her and how i didn't want her to go through that kind of loss. But it seems we are all getting older, with growing up comes consequences.. the realization that as we get older so do our parents and at some point we may face the day my friend faced yesterday or the day I faced a year ago.. is that morbid to think about. yes but no. Life is precious. We grow up always thinking our parents will be there for the rest of our lives and I never really thought about my parents not being there. Would I have appreciated them more when i was a teenager if i had that thought? All we can do I can do is continue to live each day with joy and passion and enjoy the people that come into my life.

family photos

The wonderful photos of my family and abby were taken by my friend Jaimey.. her photoblog is on the sidebar.

So i begin..

Finally I have time to update this blog.. which i apparently started 8 months ago lol.. so i decided I should start blogging about our lil family. it also gives me a place to rant and rave and show you all the wonderful things we do.

Life so far, we now live in Leduc, a nice lil yellow house with a soon to be yard. Its the perfect house for us. messy but perfect. I work in Hobbema finishing my articling year under Sasakamoose Law Office, Wes works for Graham construction (currently on pat leave), alice goes to daycare and abby is beginning her life as a baby.

Abigail (Abby) was born August 10, 2008. Alice loves her and loves being a big sister. Abby loves to talk and stare deeply into your eyes and loves her swing. Alice loves to be silly, dance, jump and run. Her passions lately are reading books or rather having us read to her.

Life is good we are getting ready for October and with that comes many things. Wes going back to work, I go to toronto for a week and my late dads one year anniversary and of course Halloween.

Hopefully I can post daily or at least weekly.. enjoy reading