It's still got a little more work to do with organizing the closet, but it's good so far!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
My Craft Room
It's still got a little more work to do with organizing the closet, but it's good so far!
Clear Lake Pictures
Here are a few (ok, several) pictures from our trip up to the lake. They're mostly from our golfing day on Sunday. Next time I must remember to give my camera to others and make them take pictures with me in them!
Our midnight walk down by the lake.
Alison, Linda, Dad, Jonathan, Me, Ryan
Cart Buddies - Ryan & Jonathan. They were nervous about golfing with Dad!
Alison's "golfing dance"
Dad teeing off on the 9th hole. It's one of 2 holes that you can see the lake on.
Alison putting on the most difficult green.
Jonathan teeing off.
Alison & Dad
Alison & Ryan
Jonathan & I
This is one of my favourite pictures of the day.
The sun setting as Linda chips in on the last hole.
Linda, Maggie and Alison chilling at the cabin.
Typical Ryan & Alison
Our midnight walk down by the lake.
Alison, Linda, Dad, Jonathan, Me, Ryan
Cart Buddies - Ryan & Jonathan. They were nervous about golfing with Dad!
Alison's "golfing dance"
Dad teeing off on the 9th hole. It's one of 2 holes that you can see the lake on.
Alison putting on the most difficult green.
Jonathan teeing off.
Alison & Dad
Alison & Ryan
Jonathan & I
This is one of my favourite pictures of the day.
The sun setting as Linda chips in on the last hole.
Linda, Maggie and Alison chilling at the cabin.
Typical Ryan & AlisonIt's August!
Yes, I have been a bad blogger, but I've been busy! Here's a quick update (and then I'll post some "fun stuff")
June was spent relaxing and getting into "summer mode". At the end of the month, Jonathan and I headed out to Calgary to visit my dad. It's a long, boring, boring drive (of at least 7 hours), but road trips are always a great time for us to just talk and relax. We spent 5 days out in Calgary, just hanging out on the deck, doing a little shopping, hitting up IKEA, taking in the new Transformers on the IMAX screen, eating my dad's amaaaaaazing cooking, and enjoying having no where to be! Hanging out with my dad is always a good time. He takes care of everyone, always making sure they've got everything they need, a drink in hand, and good food in their belly. He spoiled us with hand battered pickerel and home made french fries, steak neptune (fillets topped with crab, asparagus and hollendaise sauce) & baked potatoes, and more delicious barbequed yumminess. I really just want to spend like an entire week with my dad and just learn all of his cooking secrets! The only sad thing about our trip was that I did not once take out my camera! Ugh! Oh well.
July was just busy! I was getting into planning for gymnastics for both my own club and the provincial team; selecting and cutting music and coming up with creative ideas. We set up the awesome bookshelf we bought at Ikea, and turned out messy spare room into my craft room! It is absolutely the best thing ever and I have all the room I need to store all of my scrapbooking, stamping and PartyLite supplies and have them all right at my fingertips. My goal is to finish my scrapbook from our 2008 Europe trip by the end of August, so I spent many evenings and weekends working on my album. It's not quite half done, so I've still got lots to do! I'll try to take a picture of the room and post it.
Just this last weekend (a long weekend here) we headed out to Clear Lake, Manitoba in Riding Mountain National Park with Jonathan to stay at my dad's girl friend's cabin. We took off Friday after work, and came back last night. My sister and her boyfriend came out on Saturday night, so it was a real family weekend. I used to spend time up at the lake every summer, until my grandparents sold the cabin when I was about 12. Since then, I really haven't gone up there much. But now, my dad is looking to buy a cabin just outside the park (as Linda is looking to sell hers due to issues with her brother-in-law who co-owns the cabin), so I hope that'll mean many more summers spent up there! The town has some cool little shops, THE best cinnamon buns, and the atmosphere at the lake is just so relaxed. We spent the weekend just doing whatever we wanted! Walking around in town, hanging out and having drinks with my dad's friends, barbequing (of course!), and we even went golfing! My dad's an excellant golfer, so it's fun going with him and getting tips. He also took us out to the driving range for a lesson. It was just a great weekend, and I wished I could have stayed out there another whole week! We might head back out there for the September long weekend!
So there's a brief re-cap! I'll post some fun pictures later! At least on this weekend's trip I did have my camera out on Sunday!
June was spent relaxing and getting into "summer mode". At the end of the month, Jonathan and I headed out to Calgary to visit my dad. It's a long, boring, boring drive (of at least 7 hours), but road trips are always a great time for us to just talk and relax. We spent 5 days out in Calgary, just hanging out on the deck, doing a little shopping, hitting up IKEA, taking in the new Transformers on the IMAX screen, eating my dad's amaaaaaazing cooking, and enjoying having no where to be! Hanging out with my dad is always a good time. He takes care of everyone, always making sure they've got everything they need, a drink in hand, and good food in their belly. He spoiled us with hand battered pickerel and home made french fries, steak neptune (fillets topped with crab, asparagus and hollendaise sauce) & baked potatoes, and more delicious barbequed yumminess. I really just want to spend like an entire week with my dad and just learn all of his cooking secrets! The only sad thing about our trip was that I did not once take out my camera! Ugh! Oh well.
July was just busy! I was getting into planning for gymnastics for both my own club and the provincial team; selecting and cutting music and coming up with creative ideas. We set up the awesome bookshelf we bought at Ikea, and turned out messy spare room into my craft room! It is absolutely the best thing ever and I have all the room I need to store all of my scrapbooking, stamping and PartyLite supplies and have them all right at my fingertips. My goal is to finish my scrapbook from our 2008 Europe trip by the end of August, so I spent many evenings and weekends working on my album. It's not quite half done, so I've still got lots to do! I'll try to take a picture of the room and post it.
Just this last weekend (a long weekend here) we headed out to Clear Lake, Manitoba in Riding Mountain National Park with Jonathan to stay at my dad's girl friend's cabin. We took off Friday after work, and came back last night. My sister and her boyfriend came out on Saturday night, so it was a real family weekend. I used to spend time up at the lake every summer, until my grandparents sold the cabin when I was about 12. Since then, I really haven't gone up there much. But now, my dad is looking to buy a cabin just outside the park (as Linda is looking to sell hers due to issues with her brother-in-law who co-owns the cabin), so I hope that'll mean many more summers spent up there! The town has some cool little shops, THE best cinnamon buns, and the atmosphere at the lake is just so relaxed. We spent the weekend just doing whatever we wanted! Walking around in town, hanging out and having drinks with my dad's friends, barbequing (of course!), and we even went golfing! My dad's an excellant golfer, so it's fun going with him and getting tips. He also took us out to the driving range for a lesson. It was just a great weekend, and I wished I could have stayed out there another whole week! We might head back out there for the September long weekend!
So there's a brief re-cap! I'll post some fun pictures later! At least on this weekend's trip I did have my camera out on Sunday!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Stuck
Ever get that feeling that you're just stuck standing in one place? That no matter what you do the world keeps rushing past you and you're still there and nothing has changed, yet everyone and everything around you is joyfull and happy and ever-changing?
That's how I feel right now.
It's FINALLY spring-like weather here, the trees have little leaves on them, the grass is green, flowers are blossoming, friends and neighbours are doing their spring cleaning, garage sales are abundant, and everyone's gearing up for their annual summer vacations and trips to the cottage. And what am I doing? Grasping at what remains of this past season's gymnastics events, trying to tie up loose ends, attempting to ignore the dishelvement that is my house, and wondering if I can even afford the time and the money to take a decent vacation.
I'm well aware that I got myself into the business of running my own gymnastics club. And for the most part, it's a dream come true. I love the girls I work with, and the parents are really quite supportive of the work that I want to do with their children. But man! It takes a lot of work! The season has barely ended and I'm already looking 1 and 2 years ahead in my planning, just to keep my brain straight. Yet at the same time I have to be looking to the immediate future of the club and organizing registration packages for returning gymnasts and coming up with advertising opportunities to spread the word about the club. It's a daunting task. Sure, I'd be all over it if I didn't have a full-time job, plus my PartyLite business, plus the health issues I'm continually trying to overcome. I'm finding it hard to even find the time in a day to take 5 mintues to myself!
I know, I know, I'm not the only one who has a busy life. Sometimes I just feel like there's not enough of me to go around. It's a struggle. I feel like the only stick in the quicksand that everyone's trying to hang on to, and lemme tell you, I'm not that strong of a stick, and one of these days it's going to break.
So, here I sit at my desk at work, attempting to wrap my brain around a write-up on sustainable building design, while listening to potential music for gymnastics routines, doodling costume designs in my note book, and wondering if I really have the time to go to the gym after work before coming home to read through my PartyLite newsletter and tackle fall registration forms. Wish me luck!
That's how I feel right now.
It's FINALLY spring-like weather here, the trees have little leaves on them, the grass is green, flowers are blossoming, friends and neighbours are doing their spring cleaning, garage sales are abundant, and everyone's gearing up for their annual summer vacations and trips to the cottage. And what am I doing? Grasping at what remains of this past season's gymnastics events, trying to tie up loose ends, attempting to ignore the dishelvement that is my house, and wondering if I can even afford the time and the money to take a decent vacation.
I'm well aware that I got myself into the business of running my own gymnastics club. And for the most part, it's a dream come true. I love the girls I work with, and the parents are really quite supportive of the work that I want to do with their children. But man! It takes a lot of work! The season has barely ended and I'm already looking 1 and 2 years ahead in my planning, just to keep my brain straight. Yet at the same time I have to be looking to the immediate future of the club and organizing registration packages for returning gymnasts and coming up with advertising opportunities to spread the word about the club. It's a daunting task. Sure, I'd be all over it if I didn't have a full-time job, plus my PartyLite business, plus the health issues I'm continually trying to overcome. I'm finding it hard to even find the time in a day to take 5 mintues to myself!
I know, I know, I'm not the only one who has a busy life. Sometimes I just feel like there's not enough of me to go around. It's a struggle. I feel like the only stick in the quicksand that everyone's trying to hang on to, and lemme tell you, I'm not that strong of a stick, and one of these days it's going to break.
So, here I sit at my desk at work, attempting to wrap my brain around a write-up on sustainable building design, while listening to potential music for gymnastics routines, doodling costume designs in my note book, and wondering if I really have the time to go to the gym after work before coming home to read through my PartyLite newsletter and tackle fall registration forms. Wish me luck!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
What I know for sure
Jonathan and I have been doing a lot of thinking and talking about the future in recent weeks. We seem to have come to one of those "cross-roads" in life where staying on the path we're on right now isn't going to make us happy, but choosing a new one to follow is very intimidating! My BFF Brittany posted a "What I know for sure" on her blog, and it's inspired me to do the same.
- I want to have a house. A home. Not just a place we rent and put our things in and attempt to make it our own.
- One day we will have children. Although we both would like that to be sooner rather than in a few years from now, I know it would be the responsible and practical thing to wait.
- Life doesn't always go the way you planned.
- When life doesn't go the way you planned, change your plans.
- I love coaching and my gymnasts. It's one of those things that can make me angry and and frightened and totally excited at the same time.
- I am only just begining to understand my role in the tiny world around me. It is helping me to grow every day.
- I am totally overcome with emotion when I think about being one of the Provincial Team Coaches. What an amazing opportunity. I can't wait to REALLY get into it now that we have our team selected!
- I love ice cream. I think a stop at the Milky Way is in order today...
- I love my husband and I know that no matter what life brings our way, we're in it together.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Photography Class
Since January, I've been taking photography classes through a continuing education program at the local collage. It's been so great! I never really knew how to take "good" pictures before, and now I'm on my way to being a better photographer. I've uploaded some of my favoutites from the last couple months to a shutterfly site to share with everyone!
captivationbykendra.shutterfly.com
I had planned on putting up the best ones since January....but let's just say I've improved so much that I think my pictures from my first 3 months of classes just aren't very good! I may add them later just so you can see what I mean!
So this week I'm off to take pictures of a variety of mood lighting assignements: "Colour as the Subject", "Warm Tones" and "Cool Tones". Check back next week to see the results!
captivationbykendra.shutterfly.com
I had planned on putting up the best ones since January....but let's just say I've improved so much that I think my pictures from my first 3 months of classes just aren't very good! I may add them later just so you can see what I mean!
So this week I'm off to take pictures of a variety of mood lighting assignements: "Colour as the Subject", "Warm Tones" and "Cool Tones". Check back next week to see the results!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
My Blog!
I have never made a blog before, so bear with me!
I'm hoping this will be a place for me to just get my ideas out, maybe share some of my life goings-on, and of course, my creative endevours!
Recently, I've been taking some photography classes, so once I figure out the best way to post them, I'll share some of my favourites. They're nothing spectacular, but I'm pretty proud of what I've accomplished since I started in January! Next on my list of things to save up for is the camera I want. A Nikon D90. You may have seen the Ashton Kutcher commercial. Believe me, it has nothing to do with my reasoning for purchasing this camera. I just saw the commercial last night, and I've been coveting this camera since it came out in October. I'm also going to get this fabulous camera bag from Dakine. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to get it in the pattern that matches all of my other Dakine luggage, but it'll still be cool I'm sure. http://www.dakine.com/sport-packs/photo/mission-photo/
I'm hoping this will be a place for me to just get my ideas out, maybe share some of my life goings-on, and of course, my creative endevours!
Recently, I've been taking some photography classes, so once I figure out the best way to post them, I'll share some of my favourites. They're nothing spectacular, but I'm pretty proud of what I've accomplished since I started in January! Next on my list of things to save up for is the camera I want. A Nikon D90. You may have seen the Ashton Kutcher commercial. Believe me, it has nothing to do with my reasoning for purchasing this camera. I just saw the commercial last night, and I've been coveting this camera since it came out in October. I'm also going to get this fabulous camera bag from Dakine. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to get it in the pattern that matches all of my other Dakine luggage, but it'll still be cool I'm sure. http://www.dakine.com/sport-packs/photo/mission-photo/
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