I did it !

I was up early and out the house at 6.45 and I did it......I ran the feared 5.5 Km village loop....Woo Hoo me !!!
I did it at a slightly slower pace just because I just wanted to be able to do it so a minute and a half slower than my normal 5Km,so still not too bad in my book.
My shoulder wasn't as sore and I think if it had been feeling normal I could have manged the 6.5 route I have mapped out...........another day :)
The light rain actually felt quite nice and I completely lucked out because as I hit my driveway it started to come down in bucket fulls !

Anyway this post was to say the good luck messages from Fridays post must have worked !

So with this rainy day ahead I think I'll get the kids to watch a movie with Grandma,while I try and sneak off to scrap.......I am missing it :(
Fingers crossed,although I have a feeling it will be another week or so before I really get to scrap again !

The week went where ?

I really don't know :)

• Adam's graduation ceremony.
• Last day of school celebrations.
• A midweek day off for Stuart thanks to St. Jean Baptiste which we used as a celebration for Adam finishing Elementary school so we went to see 'UP' which I really enjoyed and then home for a BBQ.
• The start of swimming lessons.
• Soccer.
• Birthday parties/sleepovers.
• All the other stuff that needs to be done !

Tomorrow hopefully Mum and I are going to have a day to ourselves so we might venture back to our old shopping ground of Westmount/NDG.

I made this page a week or so ago.......

I've been running for 6 weeks now and I miss it if I go for longer than 2 days without a run.Although I've aggravated my shoulder again,somehow,which means I'm not able to run as far as it gets sore towards the end.I think I should really have a week of cycling to give it a rest but I just really like the feeling of running over cycling !
I'm addicted ,it's insane :)
I've knocked nearly 2 minutes off my initial 5km run and I can definitely feel a difference in my general fitness level,which was really my main goal although the added bonus of a perkier bum can't be smirked at :)

I've set myself 2 goals.
One is to run the Terry Fox 5KM our town holds in September.
Two,manage a 7.5KM loop of my town,which is very up and down,focusing on the ups on the way home since I live at the top of a hill!! by Thanksgiving.

I've decided that a lot of this running business is mental ! I am now up to 6.5 KM and adding a little extra every run.I have plotted out a smaller 5Km loop through the town but in my head that still seems further than the area I run now,maybe because at the moment I run so far then turn back on myself to come home......Anyway physically I should be able to do it,it's the long uphill run home that's scaring me ! So Monday I'm going to try it.....the worse that can happen is I have to walk it !

Have a good weekend and I'll try to be better blogger next week.

TGIF :)

I went on my first proper date with my husband to TGI Friday's so it always makes me laugh to myself when I write that ! I remember that night so well,I should write it down and do a page.

Busy,busy week but a good busy.Mum arrived safe and sound,although she always checks in so early that it always mean her luggage seems to make it last off the plane.....I had 2 tired boys desperate to stay up and greet her,at least school is all but done.

Ad had a sleepover at the school last night as part of the grade 6 graduation celebrations.I have no idea how it went since he wanted to stay at school for today(they had the option of having today off) I have a feeling I will have one tired boy tonight though,as the kids all seemed in high spirits when I dropped him off last night.

Not much else,still keeping on top of our photo a day challenges,it's fun.
Hoping the weather improves for this weekend since it would be nice to spend a lazy day outdoors for Fathers day.

I'll leave you with a new double page layout,made with the photo montage I posted from Victoria day weekend...



Hopefully I'll be back next week sometime to post something.

A midweek layout !

I started a couple of layouts last Friday,one of which was this one for the challenge on the American Crafts blog.It was to use a photo larger than 4x6 and I had just got this one back from being developed,perfect timing.......


Super simple one for my nature/garden album.Loved this picture which is why it's my blog header for the moment too.
Sorry about the glare and it doesn't seem to mater what I do I can never get limey greens or magenta pinks to photograph right.

Supplies: American Crafts: Paper,Spring and Summer(cucumber sandwiches) Teen(Honor roll) Moda Bella(reverse side of Timeless)
Rub-ons: Minimarks,spring and summer book 1,Garden Phrases and Spring promotion book.
Letter stickers: Minimarks,Henry and Hannah
Other:Bazzill cardstock

Hopefully back Friday with another layout from last weekend.

Oh dear......

....seems my little blog got neglected this week and it doesn't look like being given much attention over the next few weeks either because my Mum is coming to visit.
Arriving next Wednesday for 3 weeks,the boys are so excited,they are on countdown for that and the end of school( although I know some of that excitement is down to what goodies she will bring in her luggage ....all I can say is there better be a huge stock of English choccie because my stash is empty !)
I'm excited too.
We haven't seen her for 8 months,I think she's really going to notice changes with the boys.
So that means scrapping will be on the back burner for the coming weeks although I do hope to maybe get some done on Sunday,just maybe.See if I can make a teeny,tiny dent in the huge pile of photo's that are waiting,patiently.
The break may do me good too because I'm beginning to feel all my layouts are all looking the same !!

Maybe I'll have time to pop in with the odd photo or 2 or 3 and I still have my photo a day challenge to keep up with on the other blog......we're day 12 already !

Anyway since it's Friday that normally means I try and share a layout or two,maybe I'll still be able to do that as well,since I still have a few I haven't shared.

Since mum's coming I may as well show this one,I made back on NSD,part of my scrapping older pictures to build up Adam's album.Pretty simple page and it wasn't until I photographed it I realised it didn't actually have a title.....


...Oh well,the paper strip of smiles will do ! I can't believe how blond Ad is in these photo's.

So far it's looking like we may have a good weather weekend which would be a very good thing indeed because I need to get out and tidy up my garden.Adam has a baseball game Saturday and it would be great to watch in the warmth something we haven't done yet,I may even be able to get pictures !

Have a good weekend whatever you're up too.

After the weekend

We spent last weekend at our friends cottage.
We are very lucky that they let us use it when they aren't there and because of that we always like to make sure we help contribute in some way while we are there.
This time we spent most of Saturday in between doing other things like walking and fishing and taking 350 odd photo's(that would be me !) we burnt a whole pile of dead branches left over from last year and all the leaves I raked up from this year.
So it's neat and tidy down by the lake for them when they next go.

Not much else to say so I'll fill this post with photo's from the weekend.

This one's for Julie and Patti.......a dandelion :)


These are the ones,according to my boys,that grow into the giant seed heads like these

We saw a snake.......


He was about a meter long.

I spent this morning sorting through all the pictures and have already planned my layout to include these.........(should click bigger)


I can't believe my boys went in the lake.......it was warm in the afternoon but to me the lake was still on the cool side,toes in only.Not to them,they mainly paddled but Ad swam to the diving rock so he could claim he was the first to do it.

I took this one of the moon Saturday night,I was thinking of Julie's challenge for the next day which was 'reflection' and thinking if I stayed up until midnight something like this could be my shot......



........but after all the activities of the day I was too tired and called it a night.

Friday Stuff !

The end of another week,that's flown by,again.
Not a lot of very interesting stuff just general day to day happenings.

Still enjoying the running and made more progress this week :) I was all intent on going back and running my original 5KM route this morning to see if I was running it any faster but I completely forgot Ad had an appointment downtown this morning.So that idea will have to wait until next week.

Ad has finished all his ministry exams and feels quite confident about them which is good.He is definitely counting down the days left until the end of the school year,he loves school but I know he will be glad when this year is over.
No baseball this week for Ad but Ol got a soccer game in and it wasn't raining......yeah ! Took a ton of photo's but already edited them down and sorted out a layout......I am trying to keep on top of my photos this summer.

The photo a day challenge has been keeping me busy this week........it's fun though.

Good stuff planned for the weekend,hoping to get some relaxing family time and it starts with the schools annual family BBQ tonight,which is always fun.

A couple of new layouts,my first 2 for June.
I ended up making 8 layouts in May (including 3 older pages for Ad's younger years album) which brings my total to 42 for the year.May wasn't a very scrappy month for me.

I had this one sitting on my desk for a while,just couldn't find the right papers.Then the other afternoon I decided I just had to do and I finished it up really quick !


It's very loosely based on this sketch I did last year. ...it strayed as it went along.

This one is something I rarely do and when I do it's normally part of a challenge.It's a scrap lift of Nathalie's page I saw a week or so ago on her blog.I really liked her simple design but I also knew I had a similar picture and this was the nudge I needed to scrap it.


This was another quick page,love it when that happens which isn't too often !

Have a good weekend I'll be back Monday,as usual :)

A couple of cards

A while a ago I was making cards regularly,2 or 3 every month but not anymore.So when I saw the challenge on the American Crafts Blog last week,of using Thickers on a card I knew I wanted to do it.

So here's my birthday card......


American Crafts Supplies: Paper: Kids(playdate,Red Rover,freckles),Thickers: Giftbox(letters) and Vera(accents),Rub-ons: Minimarks Laurel.
Other supplies: cardstock:Bazzill

And because I'm lazy I copied it to make a fathers day card for my FIL also using American Crafts !


Why not :)

Monday

The weather forecast says no rain after tonight.............I hope so because I've had enough for the time being.
It needs to warm up too.
Yesterday Ad had a baseball game and I kid you not we were sat there with coats, blankets and umbrellas until it just got too unbearable and we moved the cars so we could watch from the warmth..........thankfully it only lasted 1 full inning before the game was cancelled.

Chippies out and about eating all the seeds from the helicopters that have landed on the deck...........
I also caught him eating the petals from my Busy Lizzie's,the photo is after the fact..........he'd eaten the evidence ! So far he's not found the parsley because last year he stripped it bare !

We took a trip Saturday to the Canadian Museum of Civilisation in Hull to see a couple of exhibitions they had going on.This one was the main reason for going and was interesting but I wish it had been bigger,fuller.Also this one,which was interesting,I always love seeing Egyptian relics.We haven't taken a trip to a museum for a while so it was a fun day.

Today being the 1st of June starts another month of a photo a day.
I'm doing this fun challenge with Patti again but also we've roped in Julie too.
Since Patti and I enjoyed our weekend challenges last time we thought we'd have a word/challenge for everyday this month...should be interesting !
So we've picked 10 each.....we don't know them until the night before because a certain someone thought they might be tempted to cheat if they knew them all in advance !!
So I'll be posting them on my other blog.

I'll leave you with a couple more shots of stuff in my garden........

Love these so much mainly because they seed like crazy and are just too pretty and this year they haven't been attacked by nasty ants like last year.....

The pink......

and

The white......

The purple.....

Still waiting for the red ones,which is weird as they were out in abundance at our friends cottage a few weeks ago. !