Happy Thanksgiving!

It is Thanksgiving out on the rainy west coast and it is a perfect time for your son to play in a Soccer Tournament! Oh but he had fun, played goal and made some saves so he was happy.

Here is a card I made at my SU Demo's house on Friday night. The pumpkin is stamped on watercolour paper and coloured in using my aquapainter. Fun to use it. Little bit of masking on the pumpkins. I am pretty pleased with the end result.

Happy Thanksgiving To All!

She Shoots...she scores!!

Yep..the ball has dropped and the season is on. Both of my kiddies are playing this year and it is "K's" first year ever, so needless to say she was very excited when she got her jersey. We had soccer both days this weekend plus team photos for each. Busy busy. The boys play on Saturdays. We travelled to Maple Ridge for "B's" game. They did not win but heck it was their first game as a team and they are still "gelling" together! We lucked out with the weather as it was to rain both days. "B's" legs were bothering him again. I have made an appointment with a phsyiotherapist to get him checked out. So we will see what it up there. He has a great coach and his teammates seem really neat. He is enjoying it again after a year off.

"K's" game was today. The girls play on Sundays and was at 10:00am. She was a little nervous but held up great. She is going to be a great player, I can feel it. She just has to figure out how to run and kick the ball at the same time. She has 6 other girls on her team and at this age 5, they play 3 from each team at a time. So they all don't get worn out I suppose. She loved the half-time...you get a snack!

She did really great and scored a goal. At first ref called it foul but they ended up letting it go, so we take that at a goal. She was excited but more disappointed they did not win. Gonna have to work on that. I kept telling her that it is about having fun but she is stuck on the "win" thing.

After the game, we went home, had some lunch and then off to La Senza Girl. "K's" favourite store in the mall. Hey.. I had to reward for the goal!

It's That Time Again....The Canucks have taken the ice!

I could smell the popcorn, taste the pretzels and hear the cheers of the crowd. It's Hockey Time Again in Vancouver!

I was at the opening exhibition game last night with our beloved Vancouver Canucks and the Stanley Cup Champs....the Ducks! My employer has season tickets :-) and often shares with the employees. My HR co-worker won them in a raffle so she took me! They are awesome seats and should be at $95.00 a ticket! Nice and close to the ice. Even though the Canucks lost in over-time, it is was a great night. Did I mention that parking is $17.00!

It is great getting back into the game. I am surrounded by Canuck fans at work, so I have no choice to like them. I am a hockey fan however, being from Toronto. My beloved Borje Salming will always be my number #1 hockey favourite!

The talk has already started at work. Who is at training camp, who won't make the cut. Who makes too much money. Who needs to be traded and this is just after the 1st exhibition game. Heck it doesn't even count! Ahhh but that is true fan support isn't it?

Look Mom....anything missing???

So we are all in the car, heading to the big city, gifts all wrapped, drive thru burgers being munched when "K" says...hey I lost my tooth! Being the scrapbooking Mom I am...I had my trusty G7 camera with me and snapped away.

We were off to visit a girlfriend who has just brought home her twin baby girls. They were acutally born in June but being so preemie, they had to stay in the hospital until about 10 days ago. Darling babes that is for sure. They are getting bigger and currently weigh about 6lbs, 9oz. I kept thinking that the Love Cat is this weight!

While I hold one of these precious twins in my arms, I think......Ahh..those days so long ago for me. I was remembering back to the powdery fresh smell of my babies, snuggling content little ones, so peaceful and happy and then I gave my head a shake! Yikes, those 3 am feedings, what seemed like contstant diaper changes, more feeding, crying cranky moments.

Oh....but it was all worth it! I hand the twin babe back to her Mom and I steal a peek at my baby now 5 1/2 itching for Grade 1 to start, now one less front tooth, faux blue vest in all looking so grown up!

Soon she'll be singing the front teeth for Christmas song. I can hear it now!!!!

ATC's

I love these little pieces of art. Quick and easy to make and so many possibilities. Mary Engelbreit - one of my absolute fav's. Here are tonight's little creations.

Back to Work

Yep..the summer holidays are over, but I am well rested and refreshed. Bring on the employee issues...I am ready! :-)

I have vowed to create at least a couple of projects a week. Gotta stay creative and besides with all the supplies I own for stamping and scrapbooking, I should be just churning out the stuff!! If my husband only knew what exactly is in my craft room I would probably be divorced or made to sell something for a mortage payment! Oh well, thank goodness he enjoys looking thru the scrapbooks. Oh yeah...guess I better create some more pages in them or he is gonna start with the questions!!

These are cards I quickly whipped up. I am sending the "Happy For You" card off to a friend who's twin baby girls are FINALLY coming home from the hospital. I just love the Daisy D Girlfriend papers. The two little mini cards are just made from some Basic Grey scraps. I am really loving lime it seems these days.

I am off to create!

Our Seattle Adventure

So I am on a week's holiday from work. Whoo Hoo!

We decided to venture on down to Seattle for a couple of days to see the Woodland Zoo http://www.zoo.org/ What a zoo! The kids loved it and then we were off to the Aquarium as well. http://www.seattleaquarium.org/ I loved the open air part of the Aquarium. Right down at the waterfront and it was so interactive. The kids could touch all sorts of little sea creatures. Truly neat. I would totally recomend it to everyone.

Pike's Market was cool and had something for everyone. The market is celebrating it's 100 year anniversary by placing 100 decorated pigs around the city. http://www.pigsonparade.org/ The kids had a blast searching for all the pigs we could find.

The weather was super, warm and sunny and we even managed time to shop at the outlets stores just north of Seattle on our way home. B was very happy. They have a DC outlet store. Need I say more....he is the proud owner of 2 more shirts and now a couple pairs of socks. Oh yes, and a Quicksilver store too. More shirts to be purchased!