25 random facts

I was going to post 365 today but I will wait till end of month.. but so far so good.

Heres something to entertain you.. I posted in on Facebook but i know some of you loathe it so this is for yah.

1. My middle name is Rickie.. not many people know that.
2. I had my license suspended for a month when I was 19 -- a bit to many speeding tickets
3. I have eaten raw caribou and dipped it in whale blubber -- it was wierd but when in rome.. or when in saluit...
4. I have 8 sisters and 8 brothers (that i know of) but I am a only child --- long story.......
5. I found my life twin.. you know when they say there someone out there just like you.. her name is tasha.. and she saved me from loneliness one summer.
6. I have a box of letters from friends in grade 8 in a old cooler in the basement...
7. I realllly hate doing dishes so much so that I bought my town house in Edmonton solely on the fact that it had a dishwasher..
8. I've twisted my ankle to the point where I had to go to emergency several times but have never ever broken it...
9. I've been to Amsterdamn, Germany, Berlin, France, London and Scotland, Bahamas, Mexico, MOst of West USA and Canada and lived in a town in northern Quebec where I got picked up by a skidoo to go to work and it was -30 in september.
10. I have 3 degrees Rec Admin, Sociology and Law. but nothing prepared me for motherhood lol.
11. I don't like mustard
12. I love pickles
13. I once gave someone CPR and they did not survive.
14. I love Nicholas Sparks books and cry every single time.
15. I read all the Harry Potters in a month
16. I read the entire chronicles of narnia in 3 days while my husband laid in a hospital bed
17. I miss my dad
18. I have a 10 year old placostomas fish that is probably 30 cm long and just wont die
19. I got kicked out of Art 10
20. I once cutoff a braid of a boy that had 2 braids in grade 5.
21. My first kiss was in grade 7
22. I will always help my family and friends out no matter the situation and usually give them advice whether they like it or not
23. I once lived in a 900 Square foot townhouse in Edmonton with 4 other ppl and one bathroom
24. I love to watch Little People Big World and if I was ever in Oregon again would go to their farm.
25. Someone is alive today because of me.
26. I belive in my culture, it makes sense to make and helps me through rough days and its been there with me on good days. Its the basis of who I am.

far from perfect but pretty darn fantastic anyway

Hello .. sorry i have been behind. Here are some latest pics of the girlys.. We have been busy sledding, building snowmans and alice started swimming lessons, which apparently she does not like. It must be the structure lol. So my life is not perfect and I don't pretend it to be.. its good and I love every moment. Its nice just to be happy with your everyday moments. Yeah there are days where I need a glass of wine to take the edge off lol.. or i just need a drive like yesterday boy that was a doozy.
It began with alice waking up before the rest of the world at 600am awesome, so we come down stairs and she has her milk and tree house and lala.. so far so good.. then i am dealing with my career via email with a bunch of meatballs seriously its like ppl try to make my life harder .. so i got over it abby woke up so i bring her down shes happy as pie and then i lay her on rug to changer her (usually i put a blanket or something down) but today i was like whatever what could go wrong really? So she pooped and then while i was taking her pamper off she wiggled and wiggled and smooshed yep smooshed her lovely green poop onto the nice cream carpet. How do you get mad at a 5 month old? You dont', you smile while your 2 year old is looking saying gross gross. So abby goes into jumper and i think oh wait we have a carpet cleaner so I get said carpet cleaner out and go to fill the water tank, but it was full from the last clean, full with dirty moldy SMELLY water... Greattttt. so i clean it out to the best of my ability with no bleach and then proceed to clean the carpet.. Carpet came clean but then my house smelled gross because the carpet cleaner smelled like barf because it was wasn't cleaned.. so i was fed up called wes he was like whoops.. oh well lol. and i went for a drive with the kids of course. oh and while i was getting carpet cleaner ready alice was trying to clean up poop with her socks.. greatttt lol. yeah so it was a great 1hr lol.. but isn't that the life of every mom?

My 365 project is good so far, I will upload tommorrow and maybe even post twice in one week wow wouldn't that be something. lol.. Well thanks for listening to my madness... hey life ain't perfect if it was then what would we laugh at and how would we have goals and dreams. Its the imperfections that create memories....

Project 365

So I have started my project 365... 365 days in our lives... I will take pictures of me, the girls, wes, stuff, and ppl in our lives. I will make a scrapbook album out of it somehow digitally once I figure out Adobe or find a easier program. But I still will do my regular scrapbooking of course. I wanted to buy a Becky Higgins project 365 kit but they are allll sold out and they haven't decided if they are making more so I will at least start the pics and the details..I figure if i post here once a week in addition to my regular posts it will make it easier.

Jan 8 - Alice's watching her favorite show and dancing "In the Night Garden"

Jan 9 -Alice finds Mr. Potatoe Head glasses and wears them alllll day long

Jan10 - Abby is 5 months old.. wow time flies

Jan11 -Kokum comes to visit..alice running crazy while abby soaks up some kokum time..

Jan12 - a relaxing day at home and alice crusing her bike in the kitchen.

Jan13-Abby lol.. just thought it was the funniest pic of the day

Jan14 - Abby sleeping with her favorite sleep toy.. musical seahorse.. i just love how peaceful she looks.

Jan 15 - Scrapbooking day wohoo

Jan 16 - We went to out and alice tried on these glasses and pretty much kept them on alll day and everyday since then lol

Jan17 - we finally built a snowmap thats what alice calls them.

I find while taking pics everyday i can't take just one, nope i probably end up taking about 20 per day lol.. so its nice cause I have some really good pics of the girls and us.

ps.. who reads my blog from leftbridge and stoney plain lol.. take care everyone and hope your enjoying the awesome weather

Goals 2009

So everyone has there new years resolutions/goals etc. I made some goals for myself.. If I achieve them fantastic but if not I won't be beating myself up about it.. lol. But I think if I create goals, I have to create a way to accomplish them or else I probably won't ever get them done or started nonetheless.

1. My 365 project..there are a few of these ideas floating around.. I know a friend of mine takes pics everyday of her 2 kids.. I am going to sorta do the same thing but I will take pictures of everything in my life for 365 days.. I am sure the majority will be alice and abby but I can't forget about wes, the animals and everything else that encompasses my life. I saw a perfect scrapbook kit that would help but its sold out so i found a variety of variations.. I will make one post weekly of my weekly pics and journaling and hope hope hope I stick with it for one year. I have already started and once I find a good kit I will start my layout..maybe I will do a digital ooohhhhhh

2. Take better pictures.... so I want to be a better photographer and I got a new flash for my camera and I have lots of new ideas.. so I put the word out I want to get better and ppl can pay me 50 buckeroos and I will change their life lol... or just take their pics for 1 hr lol.

3. I want to be better organized.. i bought a shelf from ikea and watch alot of homemade simple soo thats about all i got so far for this goal lol..

4. I want to be healthier.. yeah everyone has this goal.. i know.. so I enrolled in step areobics class on weds.. should be entertaining for everyone involved lol.. Oh I also enrolled alice in swimming

5. I want alice to eat more fruit.. sooo i made banana bread today and hope she eats it.. now if I can only figure out how to make everything into cookies i would be set.. spinich chocolate chip cookies anyone lol

6. I want to enjoy the relationships I have .... friendship is a two way street and sometimes some people in our lives forget that and we get left with all the work.. so my goals is to stop trying so hard for people who won't try so hard for me.. is that mean.. not really.. just honest

7. Enjoy my 30's ... so never thought I would say this.. but I look forward to growing old watching my kids grow up.. I had my time .. oh yes I did lol.. now I can enjoy attempting to raise two responsible citizens.

8. Give my career a jump start.. soo I hopefully will become a laywer soon lol.. and after maternity leave I will go back to work.. time TBA lol. So I wrote a letter to SCN stating I would love to continue and gave them my expected rate of pay.. we will see how that goes

9. hmmm I can't think of any more goals.. right now.. the first few were my main.. the rest I accomplish is just an added bonus.

a gingerbread house died today

Alice and Nico made a gingerbread house.. it was a wonderful thing, even more wonderful when they figured out you could eat the candy. But what is the purpose of a gingerbread house... we build it and let it sit and it gets hard and then we throw it away. Today i finally broke down and threw out the house. Pretty much every year we make one and put it out for display and then toss it after it gets hard lol. It if fun to make and bond while we make the house but alice doesn't really eat candy.. she did however lick a few choice pieces before she put them on the house lol. So next year i will still buy a gingerbread house make it and nibble on the candy before it gets hard and then set it out on the table and contemplate this whole thought again.