How many clicks?

This picture is amazing and memorable for 2 reasons..... this is Maddie's first resume' she ever made and..... it is the 36594th picture my camera has taken!

A few months ago, I found this cool little application that you install and it reads the total number of pictures that our Nikon camera has taken since we got it in 2007.

This was picture #36594. This means that since we got this camera we have averaged over 1000 pictures per month every month. Wow!

Coming soon are just 10 of our favourite shots over the past 3 years. Thanks Nikon!

Cloth Paper Scissors

I have never seen this magazine before, but After Starbucks with Lisa and Carolyn, we cruised the magazine aisle in Chapters. Carolyn picked this up and started flipping thru the pages, their were tons of kewl, unique Spooky ideas! I was intrigued.... so when it was time to leave Carolyn was heading to buy the book, and I had to have it, being the spooky one of the bunch, but in trying to do so, I foiled Carolyn's surprise! She was buying it for me! So, this is my happy picture for today! A new idea book :-) moi haha ty :-)

Scrapbooking

Well of course scrapbooking makes me happy that's obvious, but scrappin' with friends.... even better :-)


me and Carolyn having a showdown with cameras

Angela opened the store today for a staff crop, it was alot of fun!

my messy scrap area, and no, those cokes aren't mine, they are my fellow coke addicts - Carolyn

X files comics

Today we went to the Crossroads market again, not for food, but to visit our friendly neighborhood comic dude. He has every comic book you can imagine. We asked him if he had any X file comics and he handed us 8, which we promptly bought :-)

Breaky with my hubby

Weekends around here are usually pretty quiet. We would rather stay up really late than wake up early. But today we found ourselves both up at 9. We decided to take advantage of this and go for breakfast. Dean took me to a funky little place on 17th called Nellies. The food was fantastic and the surroundings were very entertaining. The walls were filled with old paraphernalia, old records, toys, kitchen gadgets, magazine ads. You name it, it was kewl, I even had a few items that were on the walls!

this was my yummy Ukranian (break the fast) breaky. It was yummy, you can't go wrong with perogies for breakfast!

Dean's plate was very pretty, "heuvos rancheros"

us in front of the restaurant

...that makes me happy

Back in February I was trying to take a 'picture a day' of something that makes me happy, and then I got sick.... and that great idea went out the window. So this morning, I asked Dean if he had anything to blog? and he didn't. I said " I don't know what to blog either?? oh no tradegy!!" Dean said, "why don't you do a picture a day again" I left the house saying " I will take a picture of the first thing that makes me happy today"... and I walked into work and there was Carolyn, my wonderful friend who I missed tons over the summer, and NEVER work with in the day! so.... that made me very "happy" and we had a wonderous day working together :-)

Grade 11

Today is the first day of grade 11.........11?? where has the time gone? my little Maddie is all grown up!

getting ready to go.... all ganster'd the theme for today....

the hunt for the perfect backpack was a tough one, but she found it, all her backpack specifications were met :-)

there she goes..... off to school ....

FLASH: It is NOT Katie or Geo's Birthday

So, me and Maddie are driving home and my phone tells us that there is a birthday today. I have Geo and Katie's phone numbers under the same name so we weren't sure who's birthday it would be? We didn't think that there was a birthday so soon after we left, but my phone can't be wrong. So I said to Maddie ( cause I'm driving ) we better phone over there.... Maddie says but how will we know who's birthday it is, I said "well say I hear there's a birthday today... " and if It's Geo's birthday and he answers then he'll say thankyou, and if it's Katie's he'll say "one sec I'll put Katie on" lol well!! Our plan backfired..... Maddie phoned and Katie answered, Maddie says the script, but I hear her say next, "George's birthday??" then "Katie's birthday??" now Maddie is scowling at me because I made her phone and it's nobodies birthday.... we were too early for Katies, it's at the end of Sept!! But better to have phoned, even when you think you're wrong, than to have missed it altogether!! So it's not their birthday, but it IS their UNBIRTHDAY!! so happy unbirthday to you both! and everyone else who's birthday isn't today!

What is that???

Ok dreamland, I don't usually blog dreams but this one was so kewl that I had to !!!! So I have this dream with a house that I have dreamt of before. Me, Dean and my Aunty Pat are walking up to the house, it's on a huge slope, ( easier for the grapevines to get water... blah blah blah, that was the other dream ) so anyways, we are walking and my Aunt is saying how every time her daughter walks by she is so excited to tell people that she knows who lives here, so chit chatting up the hill, we notice this huge cloud overhead, so we look up, and all of a sudden this massive chunk of ice? rock? we're not sure falls from it. It almost hit us, we all commented on this close call, and then little pieces of the same stuff were falling from it, and then bigger chunks started falling, so I yelled out for everyone to back up, out of the shadow of this huge thing. We are trying to get off my property but the slope makes it hard so we try and leap to the next yard, ( there is a big void between the 2 yards ) so Dean helps me and my Aunt, ( who is 82! ) over to the other yard by swinging us so we can hang onto a railing next door, then someone below helps us down, and Dean follows. ( I have to admit, watching my Aunty swinging on a railing was kinda amusing! ) so, we land on the sidewalk, and the wind slowly drifts the mass over to the road now, and then with a huge CRASH!! it falls to the road..... and we realize what it is..... it is..... the....

Titanic!!!!!!! so it never sunk, it was Burmuda triangled up into the air, and was frozen in time! So.... after dropping below the freezing atmosphere, it started to thaw.... now the people are getting off the boat one by one in awe!! Just as much awe as we had watching them! One woman in a wagon being pulled said, oh dear the gravity made us so heavy I can't walk, and my Aunty picked up this tiny little woman plopped her on her feet, and said you can walk here!!!

Then I woke up..... lol I like movie dreams! they are very entertaining! ( not to mention bizzare??)

Coffin One

Dean arrived home after 10pm last night. It was dark out, and since we were unloading coffins, it may have been a good thing that people couldn't quite make out what we were unloading! Dean texted before he left the Hat and said " Coffin One leaving Medicine Hat" and then of course upon arrival "Coffin One on final approach" it's a good thing he didn't get a ticket on the way home, it may have been hard to explain!


Coffin One arrives


removing the coffins from Coffin One...... moi hahaha