getting to know all about you...

i haven't done one of these in a long time. my WSM (wicked step mother) sent it to me via email and i thought i would post it here. Fun!
1. What is your occupation right now? so many, but a mother first, and then jereme says i am in sales. i work at 2nd cup, for weight watchers and for my friends who are farming and selling at the farmers market. I also am some times a doula. A do-what you say? google it!
2. What color are your socks right now? dark green
3. What are you listening to right now? the kids playing in the backyard with squeels of delight.
4. What was the last thing that you ate? too many chocolate chunk cookies. cookies get me everytime. 5. Can you drive a stick shift? yes, and i do everyday!
6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? hmm, i think it was my mother.
7.Do you like the person who sent this to you? my WSM? Yes
8. How old are you today? 27yrs but i am so much more mature than that. :)
9. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV? ummm we don't have t.v, but i do like playoff hockey
10. What is your favorite drink? water is so good, and my treat is caramel corretto, iced or hot. and for booze, i like fruli beer.
11. Have you ever dyed your hair? used to all the time. but i have been o-natural for about 3 years now. and yes there is grey. 12. Favorite food? oh that is tricky. i am a foody. i love food. cin-buns get me though, as do cookies. i love a good salad and i enjoy good 'ol meat and potato dinners. Oh wait it is fries. i adore fries.
13. What is the last movie you watched? the hang over. inappropriate hillarity
14. Favorite day of the year? sigh, that is tough, i think it changes every year. i like easter though.
15. How do you vent anger? cry, yell, i am sad to say sometimes i get a little physical. mostly i cry.
16. What was your favorite toy as a child? my cabbage patch doll phoebe, who now belongs to skyli.
17. What is your favorite season? Autum, althoigh this has so far been a bit too chilly for my liking. but i love the sweaters, scarves and harvest.
18. Cherries or Blueberries? i can't choose. we went through tons of both each week this summer. market twice a week just for them sometimes.
19. Do you want your friends to e-mail you back? Yes, if i send them emails, but i don't plan to send this around.
20. Who is the most likely to respond? irrelevant
21. Who is least likely to respond? see bove
22. Living arrangements? In the 2nd cutest house in our neighborhood with my love jereme and our two kids and our dog.
23. When was the last time you cried? this afternoon. (i was angry)
24.. What is on the floor of your closet? bags of old clothes, a chair, a storage box, shoes, a basket of scarves and mykas bed. likely some of jeremes clothing too.
25. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending to? not sending it to her, but it is lindsey and/or bryn. friends since 13yrs ago.
26. What did you do last night? worked at 2nd cup, walked to og, gave timber nursies...
27. What are you most afraid of? Children dying, being hurt, mistreated, abused, abducted, wronged in any way.
28. Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers? Cheese would be great. i can't wait to have cheese. Timbers is allergic and till i finish nursing, i am off dairy. pat on the back for me.
29. Favorite dog breed? i like a lot of 'em and have a few tops but my #1 is a cocker spaniel. i'd love on in chocolate brown.
30. Favorite day of the week? i don't have one.
31. How many states have you lived in? None. I live in Canada
32. Diamonds or pearls? pearls. i love them.
33. What is your favorite flower? i like so many for different reasons. i will say sweet peas.

like momma said

Yesterday was a bad day. you know, nothing in particular, just a bunch of stuff pled up to make for a series of irritating events that make for a day one wishes not to repeat. the highlight of badness was when skylar threw a ball in the house. Inevitably that ball hit a special vase and it tumbled to the floor breaking in an irreparable fashion. You know the vase that we used at our wedding, the only one we kept. it is unique and used for long, tall flowers, like the sunflowers we buy every february to remember Hadessa, the baby we lost between Skylar and Timber. sure it is just a vase and it is a part of being a parent, but like my momma, and her momma, i myself have said, DO NOT TROUGH BALLS IN THE HOUSE! and in a response of irritation, i would like to point out that Jereme is responsible for letting the balls be thrown n the house. :p
Here are some photos from funner days spent this august.

i am a hypocrite

Yep I am. I can no longer deny it. I, the woman who saves spiders and other bug life from human hierarchy. The same woman who rescued a mouse from the milner cabin on the august long weekend, has a house full of mouse traps baited and ready to slaughter. i feel bittersweet about this. We have thus far taken two mouse lives. Which leads me to my second hypocritical confession, the whole i am woman, hear me roar image, also fake. Sure i know i could get by with out man folk, well , minus the whole needing them to create more life, and i am not saying that i don't love men oh i do. But i claim to be a strong woman who can do anything He can do. But when it comes down to it, not so much. I could have emptied the traps, had i really needed to. And since jereme was off hiking a mountain all weekend, one would think that i needed to. But that is not the case when you have fine man friend folk who will drive over on a sunday morning, before even eating their breakfast to take care of the nasty-nasty for you. Thanks Zapf! Although, today i sucked up my ovaries and set the new traps. Go me! Here are some photos from the weekend not so long ago where i helped rescue the little vermin. have i mentioned the lovliness of the cabin before? LOVELY!!!

yucky--icky-yuck-yuck-yuck!

Eghhh, we have a mouse in house. well unlikely just to be one. this is a surprise since we have avoided them for so long. But, Jereme saw one the other day and Myka, our dog, is currently in a mad search looking for one in every nook and cranny around here, And i can hear it. I hate that sound. I hate every whole thing about them. there little bodies and tails. gives me shivers, therefor i have to end this computer time with no real good for anything post and go up to bed, b/c the experience is giving me the creeps. And to my knowledge, w do not have them upstairs.

july~part*2

YAY! the photo's are posted. But is just my computer or do they appear a little pixleish? So the adventures of july started for us the 2nd weekend when we went to the wild mountain music festival in hinton. It was the cutest little misic fest. We saw lots of good music up close and personal. And there was lots of dancing room for the kids. We camped out in the nearby field and had very friendly "nieeeegh"bours. (see the horses) This weekend had some hot days and started our month of music and searching for nearby water to cool ourselves. This brought on an impromptu trip from hinton into Jasper. Where skylar found a big piece of driftwood that she was determined to use for surfing. The kids and spent a few days with mel and brandon preparing for the wedding and they are conveniently located in sylvan lake so that was fun. And then there is us at the calgary folkfest along the bow river. we made several cool-off trips. Timber did some boldering and skylar went for a tip. We did more dancing, tarping, and more cooling off.eventually the family crashed on the big blue tarp. And we ended the month the same as we always end July, with Jeremes birthday party. bye bye july. stay tuned for august long at laurens family cabin oasis.

july~part*1

All right here goes another attempt to post our july adventures. the first one went askew. I will put the photos here and then post seperate the words. That seems to be where i go wrong, trying to combine the two.

alive, breathing, loving...

we do still exsist. we have upgraded to a new and lovely computer and have such been able to unload the camera.
what to share with you??? so much and so little has occured all at the same time. i guess the least i can sahre is that we are all well, enjoying each other and the life we are creating. our world is filled u with activities of all sorts. Kayaking, working, trips, camps, friends, home things...
i will condense the photo's to the following and attempt to stay more up to date as the future plays out. and apparently i don't quite get this photo thing, these are displayed newest to oldest and i can not turn the sideways ones so i guess turn your head.

Here is me and the kids at the childrens festival in may.
We also took a trip to the calgary zoo in may.
Here are the kids looking at the hippo's.
This photo of skylar and i is at her schools mothers day tea.
We did music with Hadlee.
Nikki got married and we, the bridesmaids, threw her a kickin' shower with pampered chef.
Easter came,
and so did spring.
We had New Years with the Davies, here is Jer with his little brothers.
A picture of Jer and the kids at christmas.
And Skyli with her gingerbread house.










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