Two Great Pics

My niece Saibry and I.
Saibry's "face"....she was trying to fit into daddy's shoes.

Alphabet Photography - What a Concept

www.alphabetphotography.com

I have come to purchase from this website for Christmas presents this year. It really is the coolest idea. This company is based out of Ontario Canada. Each letter of the alphabet is a photo from different places outside, inside, everywhere. Think of a tall step ladder....picture looking at it from its side....the shape it makes is the letter "A". A car tire can be the letter "O", and so on. These pictures are sepia tones and they are 4" x 6" in size. Each picture is $5.00 each and a gorgeous frame can also be purchased as well.

My first creation was the word "GRANDPA". Here's the link to the word I have chosen: Grandpa. http://www.alphabetphotography.com/create_a_word.aspx?w=grandpa (the pictures I chose may not be exactly as shown)

Obviously I will be giving it to my grandpa for Christmas but instead of purchasing a frame through the company, I custom designed one through Michael's. It helped to have a 55% off coupon as well. The final product will be gorgeous and hopefully I remember to take a picture of this picture before sending it off.

I hope he appreciates the fine detail in this treasure from his first granddaughter!

A plug for my sister's small business

My sister, Caitlin, has a small business called Simply Favours. Below is the link to her website.

If you're planning a wedding and you're in the need of the "small" details of a wedding/reception, visit this site.

Details that she specializes in are: garters, unity candles, sand ceremony sand/vases, purses, jewelry, table numbers and holders, serving ware, pillows and baskets, guest books and pens, cake toppers, flute glasses, and more great items.
http://simplyfavours.com/

To be lucky or not to be lucky....

At work today it was announced throughou the whole health authority that an employee in Burns Lake won the $9,900+ lottery. An employee, who contributes to the lottery each pay period, has the chance of winning this lottery each pay day. One ticket of $5.00 is automatically taken off the paycheque, but up to 4 tickets can be put into the draw per pay period. That's all I contribute...$5.00. Anyways, the person that won the lottery hasn't even been working for this health authority for a year yet!! There are so many employees who have been here most of their life, but still haven't won.

When myself and other co-workers found out who won, our mouths dropped! First because someone in BL had won it and second because of how long this person had been working here.

I wonder what they will do with the money? I wonder what I would do with that money? Wonder if I will ever know?? Duh duh duhhhhh....

I am a Proud Auntie

Since becoming an auntie in 2005 when my middle sister got married and acquired 2 step-daughters, the need/want to spoil them happened. Unfortunately because those 2 girls lived w/their mother, their visits to see their dad and my sister were only on the wknds. They were always registered in some sort of sport, activity, club etc so their wknds were jammed full.

Now in 2009, their schedules have decreased and I have hung out with the two older girls on occassion. For Christmas, they both went to Hawaii so when they finally got their pics developed I helped them scrapbook them. That was fun!

In 2008 I became an auntie again. Saibry, my niece, was born and has grown up to be a super sweet and funny girl. Since I've been around her since birth, I've been more involved in her life. I live 2.5 hours away but when I'm in town I try to play with her as much as possible. (Below she is enjoying yogurt.) In July 2009, my first nephew was born. Corbin James was 11.5 lbs!! He's still a newborn so his personality hasn't shone through yet....give it 4-5 months perhaps. Below I'm holding him 3 days after he was born.
She's such a goof! She put her legs up on her own....perfect photo opportunity I thought!
This past wknd, my dad met his first grandson for the first time.
His new little bear is almost the same size as him!!

My Zipline trip in Whistler

My Surrey buddy, Tracy and I drove to Whistler on July 28th to ride the ziplines. What a great adventure, once again. My first time was in Sept 07 with a different girlfriend. The weather forcast was for 34 celsius but would feel like 42 celsius!! The drive took about 3 hours instead of the usual 2 from Surrey. There was still construction on the Sea to Sky hwy. The weather was scorching hot!! Once we got up to the first zipline, we were in the trees and it was quite a bit cooler.

Below is a pic of us before going on the 4th line which was the longest at 2200 ft long and with a drop of 160 ft at the beginning. I took a video of my ride on that line too.One of the suspension bridges we crossed. Below is Tracy on the 5th line called the Freestyle Line. We were allowed to go upside down. At first for the 4 lines I was so sure I was gonna go upside down as I didn't in 2007 but when I got to this line I became a chicken! Tracy did it though so kudos for her bravery!! I did eventually attempt going upside down but couldn't get my legs completely in the air and around the strap.

Once we got down into the Whistler village, Tracy and my mouth's were parched!! No exagerration either!! We walked very quickly to Second Cup for smoothies and water!! That was EXACTLY what we needed. The weather did end up feeling like 42 degrees and by the time we got back to the car to drive back to Surrey we were exhausted and very, very heated up!! Cheers to another successful bucket list item!! Below is a pic of the group we went with. The guide on the far left is Jeremy from Australia and the other guide on the right is Wolter from Alberta. Four of the girls were from Georgia, one from LA, one from Seattle and then Tracy and I from BC.