Happy Birthday, Breanna

My baby is 11 years old today. She's been busy organizing her own party for the past week. We've visited the dollar store where she filled a basket with treats for the goody bags, some festive leis for party guests to wear and props for the games she is planning. She has changed her mind about the menu half a dozen times, but I think we've finally settled on Honey/garlic Chicken with Carrot Rice. The camping trip has been cancelled because of poor weather and because the Captain is still 'under the weather', though he's back home. So she's having a sleepover at home.

Oh baby

Isn't this little fawn sweet. Rick was on the river a couple of days ago and while he waited for clients he took a stroll through the woods. He heard the crashing of a deer bounding away and a few seconds later he came across this little fawn. Curled up on the ground, trying to be invisible. Every couple minutes it would have to breath, but other than that Rick said it didn't move a muscle. He took a couple photos and then left it to wait for it's mothers return.
He always sees the neatest things when the rest of us aren't there.

Rick is still enjoying hospital food, humbling attire and all the indignities that come along with being poked and prodded by strangers.
This morning he thought they’d forgotten to give him breakfast when he lifted the lid on an empty plate. Then the muffin, which was sticking to the lid, fell and landed with a thunk on his tray. And it was a ‘thunk’. That muffin looked like it was more than a ‘day old’.
I hope he enjoyed the Tim Horton’s coffee I bought him because I think that was all the breakfast he got.
Still no sign of a discharge and it’s now Monday. The nurses are insisting he pee through a sieve so they can catch any stones he might pass. It’s a messy job! He tried to tell the nurse that he thought he may have passed the stone on the ambulance ride. The nurse told him, “Honey, if you’d passed a stone you wouldn’t think, you’d know.” Poor Rick. It sounds like there is more pain to come in the near future.
Breanna’s been busy making him popsicle stick and foam sticker frames with her photo in them all, for his bedside table. I'll have to take pictures of them later (when I find the recharger for my camera).
I made him a card with the scraps from my Basic Grey Wisteria layouts and my favourite heart border punch.

Scraptime

Breanna and I have a HUGE mess happening in the dining room. We pulled out all the dye inks and paints and got really messy. Here's one of the layouts I've finished. I started with Gold and Frost Glimmer Mist and a Maya Roads chipboard scroll as a mask ~ when I was done I used the now gold coloured scroll on the layout too. Then I pulled out an old toothbrush and green Making Memories paint and splattered it across the page.
My Sunshine girl...
Papers, brads, chipboard alpha and stickers are all Basic Grey Wisteria.
We took it in to the Scrapbook Store this afternoon and discovered it was end of year inventory counting time. I was asked to help out tomorrow. Not what I had planned for my free Sunday without the guys to take care of but, oh well, more free scrapbooking stuff.
I finished another quick layout for www.scrapcentral.ca's Scrappin' to the Oldies competition. A couple more of Tan's photos from 2007. I hope she likes it.
Breanna and I picked out the triangular lace Tim Holtz mask this afternoon and the pink Glimmer Mist too.

It's summer hols...

...for the kids at least. Duncan is happy 'cause he gets to keep his Xbox for the summer ~ he managed to raise his marks just a tad. Only 1 C, some C+'s and B's. And an A in PE.
Daniel got straight B's. So he's back on the honour roll. Good for him.
Breanna did awesome as always. She had a wonderful teacher this year. She's a little concerned about next year because she was told the French Immersion Grade 6 teacher is 'mean', but Breanna is a good student and gets along with everyone so I'm sure she has nothing to worry about.
Rick's off for a couple weeks as well.
Just me still has to rise and shine every morning and head off in to work.

Rick is taking the boys out camping on Williston Lake tomorrow, through till Monday. I hope the weather holds up for them. We are finally getting the rain our gardens so desperately need. The weekend looks like it might dry up, but will stay cool.
Breanna and I are planning on scrapbooking all weekend. I just picked up 117 photos from the developers. Breanna has had the camera at school for the last couple weeks and has been snapping away during all their fun activities like the karaoke contest she and Takisha organized, bowling, the water park and the Peace Island Park picnic yesterday.
I did a little scrapping last night. Finished another layout for Tan's album. The photos are from 2007 (I had tucked them safely away in my boot cubbyhole so they wouldn't get mushed in our suitcases when we were visiting that summer and then I forgot about them. I was cleaning my car a couple months ago and rediscovered this little hidey hole. The scrapping glue was toast ~ I guess it doesn't do well when frozen and thawed over a couple of winters. I was very glad to find my Kai scissors. I wondered where they had gone! And I found the packet of photos, unharmed by repeated freezing and thawing.)The papers, stickers, chipboard alpha and brads are Basic Grey 'Wisteria'.

On the river

I love seeing my kids getting along and having fun together. Like all siblings they have their "She's looking at me!" and "He's not allowed in my room!" moments. But they enjoy each others company at times too. Like this day on the river. This was just last weekend on the Peace River above Lynx Creek.

The papers, chipboard alpha and stickers are Basic Grey 'Wisteria'. I masked the word love with gold Glimmer Mist.

CHA is coming