Friday, September 14, 2007

routine, routine

everything is routine. it seems like i haven't been doing much lately other than surf the web, alot, probably too much! I have been scrapping too! i just can't post my pages yet because i made them for specific magazine calls and have to wait for the submission deadline to pass. I'm hoping something gets picked up, i've submitted 11 different pages.

a few weeks ago, my dad had a small surgical procedure to remove some tumors that were found in his bladder, we're still waiting for the results of the biopsy. My father-in-law is doing much better i went to visit him on wednesday. He started his physio therapy and Ergotherapy, he's learning to re-use and strenghten his arm and leg. He should be transfered to a rehab hospital this week.

My kids are amazing! Brady was so good at the hospital when we went to visit his Papi. And he's so sweet, he gives me the biggest kisses and hugs, it's great! He's talking more and more now and the things that come out of his mouth just make me laugh!
Charlie is gonna be an intellectual (well we had already determined that earlier on) but now he started doing this comptine they do at daycare (pik, pik pik tap, tap, tap, roule, roule, roule, cache, cache, cache COUCOU !) well he actually started doing the pik, pik motion in his hand and he's trying hard like hell to tap his hands and I swear when he was doing it yesterday i heard him say "Tah Tah" while trying to tap his hands. (i just don't remember Brady doing this at his age, but on the other hand Brady was doing other things that Charlie doesn't do yet) He's repeating a lot of sounds that we make like "Hi" and he says "maman" sometimes "papa" and he also likes to repeat movements and actions. For example when he's in his high chair he'll tap the table top, so i imitate him and do the same, so he taps again and i always imitate his exact action. He thinks it's so funny and he loves it!

Also he started eating solids, a while ago actually. oh and when i say solids i'm talking about adult food and not puree. about 4 weeks ago i started giving him toast, then slowly gave him soft veggies, then last week i gave him spaghetti. OMG!!! he LOVED it! He seems to prefer pieces of food than pureed food (do you blame him?!) Check him out!

Thursday, September 06, 2007

very late phone call

1h30 AM....phone rings. run downstairs to get it (because the phone in the bedroom has been misplaced) It's my brother-in-law calling to tell us that my father-in-law was just brought to the hospital, they think it might be a heart attack. Dave went to be with his mom and brother and i'm here at home, can't go back to sleep...

more news later.


3h00 AM Ok so i just got a call from hubby with an update. My Father-in-law had a small stroke. the docs say that everything else looks fine...for now. They'll see a stroke specialist tomorrow morning. so now Dave is driving my MIL back home and are gonna try to get a few hours of sleep before heading back to the hospital.

Boy when it rains it pours. Last week my dad got a small operation. A while back he started pissing blood, so he went to see a urologist. The did a cystoscopy and found tumors (now let's remember that doctor's use this term in reference to a mass) in his bladder. Last thursday he went in for a biopsy, they also found something funny on the prostate so took a piece of that too. We should get the results in about a month to know if they are cancerous.

Next week my parents-in-law were supposed to leave for Banff for their 40th wedding anniversary. A trip that my hubby and his brother had planned in the last 6 months. I guess all that will have to be cancelled or postponed. My FIL will have to do some physio, he has weakness on his right side. He got very lucky in his bad luck, it could've been a lot worse.

Ok i'm off to bed to try and get some sleep.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

check this out!



Ok so on Saturday my hubby and I bought ourselves a little treat. Our coffee machine (just a regular percolator) wasn't working very well and we had to change it soon. What you must know is that we're both big fans of Starbucks coffee, and at 5$ a pop it's getting quite expensive. so we bought ourselves this loverly gadget! Let me tell you it was money well spent, we've used it at least 2-3/day.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

new weekly challenge

I got the MM newsletter last week and checked out this weekly challenge that was started by 2007 MMMaster Crystal Jeffrey and i decided to join in. Here was the challenge: Ok for the background of your page I want you to use part of a magazine. Any part! Paste it on in any manner you choose. You can just cut a square from it, you can tear and layer it - just play around.

Next I want you to find an interesting object and make it into a stamp. Now don't play it safe - find something you would never normally use. Could be the bottom of a tic tac container, a piece of crumpled paper, a stick - just look at the world around you and see what you can find. You want to start training yourself to look at your surroundings in new ways. You might be surprised what you find. Stamp on your page using ink, paint, dirt...anything you want!

Last thing I want you to add is a word that sums up what this journal is all about for you today. This may change over time but think about what it means to you today. Add it to you page. If you feel you want to add more words you can or leave it as it.

Add anything else you want to your page so that you feel it is complete. It is your page that you are making just for you. There will be no one to judge it or tell you that you did it wrong. If it doesn't turn out the way you expected then that is ok. As you play around more you will relax and you pages will start to turn out as you want. Funny, but relaxing your creative rules sometimes take practice!


So here is what i made.

so i wanted just writting in the backround so i tore up some pieces of a magazine article. Then i wanted to have coffee stains on it, so i used my Starbucks coffee cup that i drank that day and some leftover coffee, unfortunately it faded a lot when it dried so we can't see it very much but hey it was a first try and i decided to leave it as is. That's what these exercise are all about right, trying new techniques.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

i'll be back with an update shortly but you have got to go visit this lady's blog, she's absolutely hilarious and i hope she writes a book someday!

she had this video on her blog and you can't help but laugh, i had tears in my eyes and nearly peed myself. Enjoy!


Friday, August 03, 2007

pics, pics and more pics...

ok so here are the pics of the mini-album i made to remember my trip to NB with the boys.




























































































and aren't my kids cute?!

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

in need of an update

Me thinks, i've let myself go! it's been a while since my last post...sorry to the few that actually come and read me. Last wednesday (the 25th) the girls (Sabee, MissKarine, JosieSensi) came over for a crop. I finished my little album in souvenir of my trip to NB with the boys. On friday i got the good visit from my high school friend Christina, she was driving through on her way to Ottawa, and i got to meet her beau Chris. He's seems like a real sweetie. Saturday Emilie went back home after a month long visit, it went by a lot faster than i thought. So Dave took Charlie with him and drove her to Drummondville where they met up with her mom. During which time i took Brady to the movies to go see Ratatouille. I think he needed this special time with me alone because he spent all of July having to fight for attention because there was one more kid than usual. He's slowly gotten a little better this week, he's listening a bit more. But he still pushes my buttons so bad! i swear i think he does it on purpose!!! On the scrapbooking side i've finished up my NB souvenir album (i entered it in a contest, they were supposed to annouce the winner yesterday but it hasn't been posted yet so who knows!?) then i did a layout for a DT submission, which i'm hoping i'll get but they'll be abboucing that one on Aug 15th so i can't show you my LO until then, and lastly i did a layout for a sscraplift challenge on SC, i think it turned out great! Once the challenge is finished (i think mid-Aug) i'll post my LO. I don't know if i can post it before. i'll be back tonight to post the pics of my mini-book.

Saturday, July 21, 2007

new page


ok so last night i was inspired and did this page on Brady. it turned out pretty much like i had envisioned in my head...isn't it great when that happens!!!

Rockin' girl blogger


Wow! j'viens de voir que Sabee
m'a aussi nominer pour une Rockin' girl Blogger.....Tu m'fais tout chaud au coeur!!! Merci!

moi je nomine:

Nika (Melanie): parce-que j'adore lire son blog et elle fait tellement des belles creations

IzzyB: une photographe qui est bourrer de talent, c'est incroyable!

JosieSensi: car j'adore lire son blog (elle fait ses mises a jour presque quotidienement!) et c'est une bonne chum pis une rockin' mama

Melane1976: une autre rockin' mama et scrapbookeuse extraordinaire

Sabee: une fille super sympatique et bourrer de talent

J'adore vous lire regulierement les filles!

i;ve been tagged!

Well i've been tagged by Sabee and i have to tell you 7 truths about myself. Ok here goes nothing:
1- I often lack confidence in myself (that's not a good thing, i really need to work on that)

2- I don't deal with stress that well. (usually when i start a new job, i'll end up crying in the bathroom at least once in the first week, it's just my way of dealing with things)

3- I'm a very emotional person (with a temper, sometimes i think i should take some anger management classes)

4- I love baking (my friend Michelle has refered to me as a Martha Stewart!) i don't think so...

5- I want the house to be clean and organized but can't seem to get it done. I've always been a little bit of a slob i guess you could say. Although i have gotten a lot better in the past years.

6- I love children's animated movies (Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Aladdin, the little Mermaid...)

7- I'm a huge Harry Potter fan, i own and read all the book anywhere between 3 - 6 times each and i own all the movies.

So i'm tagging....this is hard pretty much everybody i know has been tagged already...
Daniele, DouceCoralie, Claude (Imzadi), Caro

Thursday, July 19, 2007

yesterday's crop

So yesterday morning my and Charlie had a doctor's appointment. Can you believe he now weighs 16.7 lbs?! He's sitting up extreamly well for his age. Oh Shit! his vaccin appointment is in 10 min! gotta go!................................................OK i'm back. We were about 5 min late! He did that very well, whimpered a little but that was all. He's such a good baby this one!

So as i was saying, we had a doc appt yesterday morning then off to Josie's house for her weekly crop with the girlz! (Sabee, Melane, Amelie and MissKarine) I had so much fun, too bad i had to leave so early. I got lucky on the way back though; i took the Mercier bridge and everybody knows that it's the lights, once you get across, that slow you down. I told myself red lights don't exist. And guess what?! i got 1 out of 12 lights that was red. Pretty good eh?

Anyways, i don't know how i feel about the page i did. I mean now i like it, it's nice but i still feel like there's something missing. I have to stop comparing myself to others because it hinders my creativity. I felt intimidated yesterday with all those talented girls and i just couldn't get anything out. the creativity wasn't coming. I do however want to thank Sabee for guiding me in the right direction on using my stripe of pp with the butterfly ribbon and for giving me the jewel crown to cover up the water droplets that fell on my picture. I also want to thank Karine for giving me the flowers and the clear buttons, it was very generous of you. Melane, you're always such a nice girl and fun to chat with i enjoyed sitting next to you and Loick is so cute and full of life (and i mean that in a good way!) Amelie, i can 't wait to see your page completly finished, when i left it was already looking amazing. and Josie, thank you for you generosity and hospitality. The food and the company were great, can't wait to crop with you next week!

i took a picture of the layout so that you could see the stix2 foil (it doesn't show up very well on a scan, i really do love this product)

pics of the zoo














ok so here we go again, i hope they can load this time. As you can see i had more fun taking pics of the animals than the kids!

Saturday, July 14, 2007

last creation


i did this one yesterday afternoon. DH was so nice he took Brady and Emilie out for a couple of hours so i could get some scrapping done. Thanks D! the scan is a little sucky, the colors are much more vibrant IRL and on top of the page there is also a white stripe of paint that i sanded off the pp. TFL!

Thursday, July 12, 2007

bla, bla, bla...

Ok, so last time i came to chit chat i told you that my car was declared a total loss by the insurance company. So when i came back from my mom's i sent all the papers and waited to know how much they would give me for the car. So here we are driving up to l'Annonciation to a friend's chalet last tuesday when i finally get the call from the ins. What they are gonna give me is enough to cover what was left on my car loan and i'll be able to put a cash down on a new one. While we were at the chalet we had some bad temperature (rain) so we couldn't go swimming in the lake or play outside so we took a drive to Mont-Tremblant. We happened to drive by the KIA dealer and decided to stop and see. Well I bought a CAR. The service was really great, they had everything financial done in a couple of hours and then all that was left was getting the car at the dealers. the next day when we drove back home we stopped by the KIA and picked up the car. Everything was done in approx 28hrs, and the people there were really great! I guess you are all wondering what I bought??? Well for practical purposes we needed something a little bigger because when Emilie is here whe was pretty much squished between 2 car seats. So i got the Rondo EX Premium 7 passenger. It's great because when she's not there i can just put down the last row of seats and have a decent sized trunk and when she's there i just put down 1 seat and still have room for the strollers. I got it in charcoal and it's already dirty!!!! ARGHHHH!!!!

On tuesday we went to the Granby ZOO, it was very hot and humid but we had lots of fun anyways. I got some great animal shots with my zoom lens. And i'd really love to load a picture but the system keeps giving me an error. I'll post it later.

Oh yeah ! Charlie is now sitting on his own. OK so he still falls over but he can stay sitting for a good 10-15 min at a time!

Sunday, July 08, 2007

last layouts





ok so finally, here are the layouts i did at my mom's house a couple of weeks ago. they are all done with the new Love Elsie paper collection. i have submitted a few to some mags and i'm really hoping to get published this year. i think my pages are getting better and better every time. ok so i'm trying to make myself feel good, but i also told myself that i'd try and keep a positive outlook on everything from now on!

finallement,


j'ai pu faire un peu de scrap. C'a fait 2 ou 3 semaines que je voulais faire le challenge du nouveau blog freestyle Quebec. Alors voici, c'etait un layout 6 x12. et pour une fois je l'ai fait en francais.

Sunday, July 01, 2007

haircuts






So the boys went for haircuts on friday morning. Let's just say they were both due. Charlie's only 5 months and i didn't want to cut his hair, but i must say i really didn't have a choice, strangers were starting to tell me how beautiful my "daughter" was. see for yourselves. Now he really looks like a boy, and i'm still not used to the new look. I find Brady's hair is also a little too short but it will grow out fast enough. Oh ya! and can you believe he's only 5 months and sitting in that little car with no one holding on to him?! i did have to steady him after a while but he sat by himself most of the time.

this is fun!

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

i'm back





ok so we got back on sunday night, my hubby drove down on friday to pick us up. Here are a few pics taken during the trip.