Coming Back to Life

This bush looked pretty dead after wind. It was really dry and brittle and then Ethan and I accidentally dropped a pile of wood on it! I thought that was the end of this and then wow! it got a few leaves and the other day blossomed these beautiful flowers.

Creative Crop

This is part of the June photo hunt and so far I have 5 out of the 20 shots that are needed. Looks like I know what I'm doing this weekend. One of the shots is "fountain" so if you know of one in Calgary, please let me know.

Caught in the Downpour

And quite seriously I was caught in this. i only had to get from the car to the front door but because it was such a beautiful warm sunny day I had on sandals. So running to the door was more like having little bowls on my feet that trapped that water and made it a very slippery run!

So after the intense downpour had essentially ended Korey got home to tell us that Calgary has a tornado warning. First, I thought those beautiful Rocky Mountains would protect us and really? A tornado warning? The tornado didn't come but the fear of it lived on through to Ethan's bedtime. A I get it. When I was 6 I took those statements to heart. Oh and on top of worrying about get whisked up in a tornado, he also was concerned about the flooding (in the south - not here- but it's all the same) and that he didn't have a life jacket. I mean, this is big stuff.

Okay, I just zipped away from my post to check the weather and it's going to be sunny in the morning (yay) and thundershowers in the afternoon. However, I promise a better picture tomorrow!

Room Palette

Morgan's redesigning her bedroom and after a lot of time with the wall paper books this is her palette. now we just need to get final exams over with and we can get going. (And a great report card would go along way for this project!) 

Garage Sale

The kids and I were coming home from Morgan's lacrosse game and drove by a sign for a garage sale. Morgan is working on changing up her room and is on the hunt for tea cups and saucers. I had some cash so we went for it! Morgan found a beautiful tea cup and saucer, Ethan go two sets of toys and I spotted these ice cube trays. So a few things about them, they are a beautiful blue, were in perfect shape and I am in desperate need of more ice cubes. $0.50 really well spent!

Super Soccer Saturday

Ethan and Noah had a lot of fun at the tournament, lots of fun on that obstacle course that's in the background. Tonight I spent quite a bit of time getting rid of that guy with the freezie - now I did this right before Ethan's bed time so there wasn't loads of concentration going into the edit. In the end, the guy is back and the photo is as is, minus some minor cropping

mmmm dinner!

Greg picked this up at the market. Gross! Really, it not my thing to have the whole fish in hte house. Ethan loved it though. We bbq'd this baby up and then a number of events happend...I put the eyes on Morgan's plate which she didn't love, the skin stuck to the foil but we fish tasted good and I forgot the fish carcass, head and all, on the grill and Farley ate it. Everything, skeleton, head and tin foil.

I spotted some bubble blowing supplies outside and thought if they still work (they have been sitting outside through all the seasons for, oh about, 2 years. I had the camera ready and was blowing bubbles trying to get a shot. It just wasn't working. But when I went inside to transfer the picutes this one came out. That's the reflection of my house on hte bubble. I was wowed!

Before and After

i headed off to a conference in Edmonton for a few days and I know you were all thrilled with the pics I the last time I was at a conference: my closet and toothbrush. So this time I took a number of pictures on Sunday (because it was so nice and I was having a great time with sun flare) and am posting them as the daily photo. A little bit of stretching the rules...

Here's Ethan with the lilac tree and the sun was right above and behind him. When I looked at the photo inside, there was too much sun and he was completely washed out. Morgan and I played around with the curves until be got it looking much better. And of course we wanted you to see just what the two of us can do!

Sun Flare

This is once again part of a photo hunt and I had no ideas what sun flare was. After I looked it up I thought "oh, I love that look". I literally learned what it was, grabbed the camera and headed outside. We've really only had 2 nice sunny days lately so I needed to get my shot sooner than later!

Brentwood Babes

The girls were getting ready for their second games after their win in the morning. Even stylish Korey made it in the photo. The girls played a great game after this but ended up losing. Morgan even got called for elbowing; a little bit of the lacrosse coming out in her. Then coach Dave was so mad at the ref for calling Morgan that he ended up earning himself a yellow card!

Monsieur Ethan

Ethan got some facial hair and tattoo's today afterschool.

The Grass is Always Greener...

In Calgary right now with the insane amount of rain we've been having. Really my lawn is so long because of all the rain we've been having and I'm looking forward to the forecasted sun this weekend.

Transportation

I'm once again entering the photo hunt for June and this one's filling 'transportation'.

Trip to the Military Museum

Well Hello There!

Finders Keepers

Ethan found a few flowers on the ground at the plant store. We brought them home and they each got their own glass. The picture turned out nice and since i had taken so many flower shots lately I thought I'd play with some editing.

Catching Ladybugs

Star Wars Party

Really? More Snow!

Camping in the Living Room

Rain, rain go away (and the snow too!)

"Follow your nose, it always knows"

Morgan and her breakfast of Fruit Loops

Welcome to the backyard

Well it took a lot of hard work but we did it (mostly Korey, I held boards and organized the furniture!) So here's a little sample of everything: we put the top deck on last year but just got the furniture to fit it this spring.  We then thought we'd simply move some rock around in the lower yard and that created a huge project. Korey replaced an old ugly lower deck with this beautiful cedar one (middle picture) and we added new gravel to the swing set area and fireplace. We also replaced the fire pit. Nice job...

Off to the Driving Range

Hello Mamma!

Every year a robin builds a nest on our eaves. This year she did it again and has been spending her days on the eggs.

Mosaic Time

Spring again!

The middle picture is my neighbors crab apple tree. I was trying to get pictures of 6 different blooms and it's limited in my yard. I have seen some really pretty blooms in other people yards but I'm just not brave enough to run up someone's lawn!

Cherry Tree

Welcome Spring

The lilacs are finally starting to bloom. we have about 4 lilac trees and I love to cut them and bring them into the house because they smell so wonderful.

Fun in the Sprinkler!

We're trying to seed the few (actually many) dead patches of grass from Mr. Farley. it was a pretty warm day so Ethan decided to go for it and run through the sprinkler. Brrr!

July Cover

Trip to the Plant Store

Window Cleaner

First Soccer Game

Go Kiddo!

Mother's Day Flowers

Korey and the Big Guns

Gift from Auntie Lori's Travels

Morgan's Lacrosse Game

We're expecting...

Just another mock add for a new location of anna's cupcakes.

Big Thanks!

A Bird's Eye Tour

Race Day

Night Before the Race