This one is SO overshot as is but one almost has to have it in their portfolio.
Would have been better with a tripod, but one thing at a time...

Surprise!

Ok so you know the story about my french doors, and you know how it was a surprise for Conrad and how I only managed to get half of it done before he got home. I'm thinking that may have been a good thing... Take a look at these....

This is a picture of the first door I did... before Conrad got home... you probably don't see much of the actual "frost" but I'm sure you'll see what my problem is...



This is the second door...



What the heck? Get my drift? Now I did everything the same way from how and with what I cleaned the doors right down to the product and application... So not happy to say the least! What the heck went wrong? Now I have to go and hunt the Rona guy down and.. well.. it won't be pretty. :) Imagine that was how the first door turned out! Conrad would have been so pleased! lol

Gottta feed the kids...

Well it's Sunday night, Conrad is back home and despite of my fears the weekend went by without much if any trouble at all. It feels uncanny for me to be saying this but each and every one of them was rather well behaved. Friday night I drove my older girls to and from youth and in between that my three muskateers and I went to the Forks for some ice cream and took in some of the live entertainment.

Saturday morning I made french toast and we had a great breakfast together. I picked up some items at the grocery store and then C, L, S and I went to a little carnival in our hood. We only stayed an hour but it beat last year when they shut the place down just as we got to the ponies. L cried and cried that day... So it truly was a joy to see her proudly galloping along. Maybe I'll get around to posting some pics... Then took H to drums, did some errands for grandmas, and met up with Shivvy for supper at Dennys. Kids eat free on Saturdays... although you wouldn't know it seeing as my kids were the only ones in the whole joint. Anyways... came home, threw the kids in the bath, and got my house ready for entertaining. Had some friend over and that was that. Sunday morning we did church, came home, oh... and the most impressive part of the weekend! Not only did I run the show on my own all weekend long, I managed to tackle a home improvement project to surprise Conrad with when he got back!

See one crazy day our family had a water fight. What's crazy about that? Well not too much except that we had it in side the house and not outdoors. So our upstairs bathroom had a set of frosted double doors. Well... to make the long story short my "frosted" doors were no longer frosted. They just looked nasty after that day and it was rather annoying.. more for Conrad then me living in a house full of girls and lacking that privacy so I decided that I was gonna fix it while he was gone and so I did. Well sort of. I'm half done, gotta get another can from Rona tomorrow and gosh darn it, it looks good if I do say so myself! I only killed about half of my brain cells just from all the toxic fumes and all but whatever!!!

Then we went to see a movie... Kungfu Panda.. it wasn't excellent or anything but not bad. It certainly had it's moments and if you like Jackie Chan movies this is kinda like the cartoon version of it.

Ok, seriously my brain is still hurting so I gotta sign off... another time...

LOL

Haha!!! That was so totally not right! Oh well...

Ahhh!!!!

Ok, looking back at those previous pics, there really not all that great. We'll have to redo that.

I should post my new stuff of H and some of our Yurt weekend like promised. In a minute...

Here is a tip for parents of younger ones that I've discovered. If you keep the music loud enough it will satisfy their need for noise and hence significantly reduce the amount of bickering going on. I wish I had learned this earlier on...

Back to school... honestly... last year I was SO ready for my older girls, and Conrad for that matter to go back. Not that I didn't enjoy their presence (for the most part anyway) but you know what they say, too much of a good thing and... Anyways. I just needed life to go back to some kind of routine. This year I'm not so keen on it. I feel like I hardly get to see H and M and with all the kids only getting older it seems that Conrad and I have more and more of those days where we are little more then two ships passing in the night. My head hurts when I think of all the things that we will be picking up again... house group starting tomorrow, GEMS for L, Squad 1.5 for S, Youth for M and H, hockey for Dad, hockey for S, Ladies group, drum lessons... AHHAHHH!!! Oh well... it's all good. I'm sure it will work out fine.

Cool thing is, I just ordered my camera bag. It's just the one I wanted. Tamrac Velocity 8X. Blue. You should google it. It's totally cool. I can fit my camera w. lens on, two extra lenses and a flash plus some other extras.Not that I have all that gear yet but with some patience... Urggg!!! I can not believe I have to wait 2-3 weeks to get my hands on it! Like I haven't waited enough. But I'm kinda impressed with myself that I still went for despite of the long wait. I guess when you want what you want you gatta do what you gotta do.

Ok so bout them pics... I'm fading kinda fast... You know it's time to go to bed when you find yourself starting blankly at the screen without moving a single muscle for minutes at a a time...

But tomorrow is a day off, yeah!

And the Yurt if I can track it down....







And last but not least, our Dessert Pizza... C, L, and S, and I made it. Pretty impressive if I do say so myself. Oh shute... I don't know where that's gonna end up but whatever, You'll figure it out.