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2009-08-16T19:57:00.002-03:00

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Week 16

2009-08-07T08:35:00.005-03:00

So I missed a week. Not much has changed in two weeks anyhow.
I had another visit with the Dr this week and it was uneventful, which I think is what you want when carrying your first child.
The bad news: I still haven't heard the baby's heart beat. This is due to the fact that my Dr doesn't have the proper equipment for hearing the heartbeat so early. She does tell me you can hear it with a stethoscope at 20 weeks. So next time we go in I will get to hear it!

Hopefully by that time I will have been in for my first ultrasound which she is in the process of scheduling for me now. This excites me to no end. Seeing as we haven't heard the heartbeat, are we really sure there's a baby there? (Well actually yes because I can't lie on my stomach anymore for the fact that it is hard and uncomfortable, and to top that off if I roll over on to my tummy when I am sleeping, I wake up immediately because I need to pee.)
Some other exciting things we did this time, was she measured the size of my belly. It measures 13" now and my uterus is sitting directly under my belly button. I have also gained about 4lbs since my first visit which means there is some major growing going on.
I have signed us up for our first class and that is where they will sign us up for our "actual" pre-natal classes. I have also been "assigned/referred" to a baby Dr whom I will see in the near future and if all is well I will only have to go back to him when I get to 36 weeks.
I cannot believe how fast this is all happening and before I know it there will be an actual baby here and that will be it, for life as we know it. What an exciting journey.

Week 14

2009-07-23T18:13:00.003-03:00

Baby is starting to show this week. I'm not completely happy with the way the photos are turning out, but B&W is always a good way to go when you don't like a photo.

I think we look a little more pregnant here because Stephen was taking the photos and I started to fool around a make faces, but it was cute so I went with it.
I still haven't felt anything or heard a heartbeat, I'm hoping perhaps the next Dr. visit which is in two more weeks. I'll keep you posted if I feel any rumblings!

Happy Birthday Brenty!!!

2009-07-20T22:08:00.002-03:00

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Week 13

2009-07-15T17:04:00.003-03:00

Did you know? I'm 13 weeks along now. I'll keep you posted!

This baby is a no show yet, but give him a couple more weeks.

Canada Day 2009

2009-07-04T21:43:00.003-03:00

We spent the afternoon out in Black Point somewhere.
We hiked out to a point off a little beach there, I can't
remember the name of the beach, but boy was it beautiful.

Here are some of our finds along the hike. I'm pretty sure
these places are making love, but we'll just leave them be.

The beach had to be shared with the seaguls, but we didn't mind.

Peek-a-boo... we're getting some practice in for childhood games.

Delicious! I have never tried a wild Strawberry, but boy was this yummy.
I only wished there were more.

The path was a little rocky, I was happy I wore my sneakers.

That's my man, I love him!
And one last, image, because I can't leave photoshop alone.

Here is the photo I took, and with a few PW actions, I turned it into this.

in l o v e

2009-06-18T18:58:00.002-03:00

http://www.kee-ka.com/Merchant2/sfnt.html

Rebekah is 1

2009-06-04T21:19:00.002-03:00

Happy Birthday Little One! You have the key to my heart!

today...

2009-04-25T07:30:00.003-03:00

I love the photoshop actions that PW has created. I use her seventies one on almost everything I do these days. All the images in the last few posts use that one including my banner.
Just a little inspiration for today that I found while reading my copy of "Love Life" by Kal

chuck

2009-04-18T10:54:00.003-03:00

I went shopping yesterday with Correen, I went to FootLocker for THESE!

I don't know what it was about them, but from the moment I saw them (three or four months ago) I knew I HAD to have them! They remind me of my childhood. I don't know if my memories are real or imaginary, but I THINK I had two pairs of them as a kid, and they were different colours and just for fun I used to mix them up and wear one of each. (Mom please correct me if I'm wrong, this may have been my imagination?)

But these cute little suckers are two colours in one and I am in love with them. I can't wait to wear them outside today on this beautiful sunny day!
So excited about my Chuck Taylors!

2009-04-10T20:02:00.000-03:00

I'll come up for air soon... I think this affair has gone on too long...

2009-03-21T00:00:00.003-03:00

so busy living life! lovin' the sunshine and the warmer weather... xo

where i come from

2009-03-01T06:50:00.002-04:00

These are the hands of many of the women whom I belong to. The oldest one belonging to my Great Aunt Maxine. I am named for my great aunt and Great she was.
An artist, my earliest memories are of her coming to my grandmothers house with her projector and closing the curtains in the living room to show us some of her latest work.
She is in her late nineties now. When this photo was taken she couldn't quite place me. Her daughter Brenda is directly to the right of her. She is the one who made this beautiful jewelery. Of course Aunt Maxine had no problem remembering who she was. Next to Brenda is my mother, then me, (I took the photo). My Auntie Beth is next to me and my Auntie Barb is on the opposite side of Aunt Maxine. This was the part that confused Aunt Mackie, you see, she new her brother Don had three girls (mom, Beth, Barb). But she couldn't get past the part where I fit in, I was not one of Don's children, but I was one of his grandchildren.
Shortly after this visit, my Aunt Brenda came to NS with a small package of things for me. I spent hours going through a Wolfville shopping bag filled with correspondence, sketches, notes, books and many other exciting things that belonged to my Aunt Maxine. I didn't know until the moment I received this bag of goodies that my Aunt had done a correspondence Design course. What a treat for me to not only share my name with this amazing woman, but to also share some of our academics.
The books I was provided with are filled with design ideas from the 30's and 40's. What an opportunity for me to look back and perhaps borrow some of these amazing ideas and be able to share them with the future!

Art Canvas ( i love therefor i...)

2009-02-22T19:19:00.007-04:00

For those of you in bookclub I warn you this is the beginning of my homework, forgive me if you see it before the date, however I couldn't wait to post. There are tons of photos so bear with me!
Here step by step I show you my creative process.

Usually I begin with the 'stuff'. Here is a creative kit provided by Two Much Fun at the barn, as I have been chosen as one of this months designers!

After I compile the stuff, I look through books and mags to find some inspiration for my layout. This one was easy I didn't even have to open the book.

I chose each of my words for the 9 blocks on the layout and I wanted this to be real. "i love therefore i... " as you can see I have used black stickers to make this word and inked the edges of the paper with black. There was so much pink and red I needed a contrasting colour.

This block was created with a sticker from Making Memories and I covered the whole square with the sticker and cropped it to fit the size I was looking for. I also inked the edges on this one with red.

This was created with these cute little tags (provided in the kit). Inked the edges of the paper with black and used a 7 Gypsies stamp in the b/g and stapled the Love tag to the paper. Edges of tag are inked in pink.

Again I inked the edges of this paper with pink and the tag with black. I also included a piece of ribbon in the b/g of the tag, again stapled to the paper.

Here I cut my paper flower to fit in the corner of the square and stuck one of the buttons (provided in the kit) directly to the flower. The edges of this one were inked in pink and black.

Here I sanded the edges of the paper to get the white look, and used the stickers to spell out the word desire. I loved these little stickers, they are so cute I want to use them on everything else I make until they are gone!

Instead of using a word in every block I decided to use a photo that symbolized love to me. It's a wedding photo of myself and my husband, one of the only kissing ones that looks natural. I cropped it down to size and then sanded the edges (I find if you ink photos they sometimes take too long to dry and I wanted to get this together and on the wall).

Pink and red were used to ink the edges of these two pieces. And to tie all of the tags together I again stapled this one to the block.

This "flirt" tab was part of another kit I had lying around and to get rid of the tabs (that connect it to the sheet it comes on) I sanded down all of the edges. So cute eh? I also used another piece of ribbon on this block.

Here is the front of the canvas I put a brad through the back with wire attached so it could be hung easily on the wall, I did this first because I knew I would be covering the front of the canvas and there was no fear of seeing it on the finished piece.

Here is the back of the canvas with the wire attached and you can see both brads measured so the canvas would hang evenly.

Here is the very bottom piece of paper on the canvas inked in black because of the contrast against the pink edge of canvas.

I used acrylic paints (red and white) as well as some white water colour to create the paint for the canvas, I wanted it to be soft so I used the water colour paint and lots of water to keep it thin.

Here is how much of the canvas I painted, I didn't need too much paint as I said I kept it pretty watery.

I used glue stick to adhere the background piece to the canvas (no word yet on how well it holds, will update if it doesn't work).

Regular photo tape to adhear the rest of the paper to paper, it is still my favorite adhesive.

The title is created using the cute little doodle bug letters/shapes included in the kit. I wasn't sure how I was going to like them but they seem to adhear really well, so far, so good!

I used a strip of the tickets in the kit to run along the bottom of the canvas, just for a little dimension, and I really loved the words on them, thought it would look groovy.

The final piece, I found a spot for it right away hanging in the bedroom, what better place for all the things I love!

29

2009-02-07T10:00:00.006-04:00

(here some photos for you to see finally!)
For my 29th I had my eyes tested for the first time in 20 years.
(Yes I was 9 the last time I had my eyes tested.) It was conclusive, I needed specs.

Instead of doing what everyone told me to do: Get your prescription and go somewhere else to get your glasses. If you go somewhere else they will be a little cheaper and you can probably get a 2 for 1 deal.

I did the opposite. I stayed for an extra hour, at the opticians, choose some rims and ordered my specs then and there. I am in love with them! They suite me, don't you think?!

hmmm.... I would have a picture for you, if: I wasn't sitting at my computer, squinting at the screen as I type this! (my glasses are on my desk at work)

I am now wishing, as many of you can imagine! I should have gone somewhere else, gotten a cheaper pair, and maybe... have gotten a 2 for 1 deal. At least then I would be able to see what I was doing right now...

2009-02-02T18:55:00.002-04:00

THIS is what I did yesterday! Ok well that's not me, and I wasn't doing any giant jumps like this but my dad did take me snowmobiling yesterday. It is the first time I have ever driven my own, or gone on a trip. What a blast, I highly recommend everyone try this (Myleta, I should have listened). My need for speed grew as I slowly got used to using the machine that was twice the size of myself. You should have seen me dressed in my dads hunting snow pants and 18 million layers of clothes. I wish there were pics but that just didn't happen, by the time we were dressed it was time to go. A big THANK YOU to Blake (my dad) and Alex (my 'little' bro) and of course my husband for "making" me go. I had the BEST time!

Mookie May Chehy

2009-01-26T18:38:00.004-04:00

This is Mookie May. She was our Christmas present to each other last year. She has grown quite a bit since we brought her home. When we first got her she couldn't even get into her litter box without help. We had to make stairs out of books for her.

This is Miss May after her first bath, she fell in when I was taking a bath the first week we had her. She still loves the bathtub but preferably when there is nothing in it, and she can lick the tap.

She does love to lounge with her dad, I heard she curled up under the covers all day with him today, because he was so sick last night he had to stay home today.

One thing she loves is to get into our reusable grocery bags, this could keep her busy for hours.

She would die of dehydration if we put her water in anything other then a clear glass something. This was her first water dish, however after she knocked it off of the window sill (yes that's where her water lives, not on the floor like normal pets) we traded it in for a mason jar, which seems to be much sturdier.

Mookie is just over a year old now, and she likes to keep us guessing. You don't get far in the mornings with her under your feet begging for breakfast. She does make the cutest noises!

2009-01-17T19:31:00.002-04:00

I just finished making a 60th birthday scrapbook for a friend of mines' father. It was so great to pull out all my stuff and put this amazing book together. Here are a few pictures of the book.

We'll work from the back because that's how I loaded the pictures in... duh
The back page can be left empty or because it's his 60th maybe a nice photo of him on his birthday.

The page layouts were very simple as I didn't know how many photos or pages there were going to be. I was so excited with all of the little collage/journaling blocks in the book.

Most of the pages looked like this, they are pockets for some of the letters the girls had friends of their fathers write for the book.

It was great to get back into the creative mind set. Tomorrow is going to be a day filled with some craftiness as I get ready to visit with my peeps on Monday.

2009-01-16T22:36:00.000-04:00

what's been keeping me busy. more to follow...

Christmas

2009-01-06T17:56:00.009-04:00

Well Christmas this year was something else. I thought I was going to hate it. I thought it would be the worst Christmas ever. It wasn't what I thought at all. No it wasn't normal, and no it wasn't something I want to experience every year, but I didn't hate it, and it wasn't the worst ever. That is our place on Christmas morning.

This is our cat Mookie. She lived under the tree and this is where we found her Christmas morning. So we opened our gifts at our apartment, no pics of that as I was too excited about my wii fit to take any photos and then we had to leave right away so we could make it to Katie and Jeff's place before the kids started opening their gifts.

And who can argue with this, how cute is this baby. My niece she didn't even know what was going on, but she's so cute it doesn't matter.

And my nephew Ryan, he's five and what fun he was tearing through his many gifts having such a great time showing everyone what he got.

And this, the final picture from Christmas, it wasn't so bad not being at my mom's place for the opening gifts anyway.

When we did finally finish up at Katie's place we had a delicious breakfast and headed out to the valley to spend the rest of our Christmas. Once we arrived there is was time to open more gifts and if that wasn't enough, Ria and her crew arrived shortly after and it was another gift opening extravagazna. I would love to share some photos with you but as I said the above is the final picture as the camera did make it to the car, however did NOT make it into the house. (I have to make sure I "fit" photography in a little better). Dinner at moms was fantastic, the turkey was the best we've had that anyone can remember. I would love to tell you more, but as I got a little tipsy this year (everyone has a turn) I can't quite recall the deets.

All in all this Christmas didn't SUCK, but I it isn't something I'm ready to get used to!

Turkey

2009-01-04T22:13:00.006-04:00

My first turkey dinner. I've made chicken before, but this is the first time I have attempted turkey and let me tell you 20lbs is BIG!

Stephen invited the "boys" over for dinner and what a blast.

They always make me feel like I'm the best cook in the universe.

We have plenty of leftovers.

I'm going to attempt soup tomorrow, who knows what that will bring. It was a perfect end to my 5 days off. Hopefully it will give me some extra energy to start the week off with a bang!

Fit

2009-01-03T21:21:00.000-04:00

So here it goes. This is the beginning of the end. Today I visited Amy's new blog, she and I have been on the same team for a while, not having a blog and low and behold she has begun one. Therefore I felt it must be time for me as well. We do this fun little thing every year, we choose a word and we take that word and we try to live by it for the year. I have chosen my word "Fit" partly because I got the Wii Fit for Christmas (I almost got two as my husband and my father wanted to give me one). And partly because I've been thinking about what that word means to me. There are many days lately that I haven't felt "fit" and there is only one way to take care of that, and it's to work hard towards a goal of being more "fit" and to do that I must "fit" some changes into my life. Some other things I've been thinking about is the lack of time I have made to be creative. I would like to "fit" more of that into my life. There are many other reasons to choose this word, it's short... it's fun... it's cute... but really it's because of the fun fabulous toy I have in my living room that I can play with everyday and I can't wait to see me get FIT! No pics today but we'll see what I can do about that for my next post!