Thursday, February 21, 2008

Edmonton 2008

The trip of a life time. Not because of going to Edmonton, where it gets colder than the North Pole, but because it was the weekend that I met my birth parents for the first time. We had arranged to meet at the Moose Factory in a small private room upstairs for dinner on Friday night.

This picture was a self portrait of us ladies on our way to the restaurant.


And then our true feelings came out...



We got there about a half hour before everyone else did so we started messing around with the camera and taking some cute candid shots.



Then we heard them come up the stairs...
I love this picture. My mom and Mona finally getting to meet each other.

Mom had gone through all of our picture albums and taken out a few pictures of me growing up, copied them, and put an album together for Mona to keep. She loves it.

Bruce came a bit later because of a delay at work.


Mona, Sue, and Bruce.

Jenn and Mona brought beautiful flowers for Mom, Joanne and I. Here's Brian being his normal goofy self showing off the flowers that were given to me.

Jenn, Mona, Sue.



The older couple on the right side are Mona's parents, Fred and Helen.

The next night we went over to Bruce and Mona's place to meet Mona's sister Cheryl (in purple on the couch), her husband Larry (standing with his hand on his hip), and Mona's brother John (sitting on the couch looking at the album). Mona's two other brother's were not able to be there.


Then we went back to Bruce and Mona's one more evening to meet Mathew. Everyone said that we look the most alike.


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Friday, January 25, 2008

Toilet bowl bath

Yesterday, I received a text from Brian that said, "Kirby just inadvertently took a bath in the toilet." My first reaction was to giggle and then be grossed out. Fortunately, it was a clean toilet, but Brian still proceeded to wash Kirby off in the sink. By the time I got home from work, Kirby was still out of sorts. He was quiet and a bit of a pill...and I guess for good reason, he'd fallen into the toilet and then been held under tap water immediately after!
Sorry there are no pictures, but the imagination can do enough. :)

Friday, December 28, 2007

Vegas!

The first week of December found mom and I in Vegas! The weather wasn't hot but a lot nicer than the rain and cold in Seattle.



Our hotel pool...we were the only ones laying out in the sun. People must have thought us crazy.

See me in the reflection?

The amazing ceiling in the Belagio entrance, all hand blown glass.

The decor behind the check in counter.

Belagio atrium.


Chocolate fountain!!

mmmm....

Pastries of art.


Mom and Vi Brown in the Belagio shopping strip.

Caesars Palace


Ah, Paris

The Venitian water way.

The men and ladies running the gondolas would each have a turn singing as they came to this turn around spot in the water canal. It was beautiful.

Belagio.

We watched a water fountain show but it's so fast and amazing it's hard to take pictures!

I'm thinking a mom-daughter trip should be a yearly thing! It was a wonderful trip, relaxing and so fun. We saw one show while we were there, 'ICE' was a Russian troupe of ice skaters that did acrobatics and dancing on the ice stage. It was really good!!

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Thanksgiving 07....first one at our house!

This picture might have been a warning photo of disasters to come, but it actually turned out wonderful!... with lots of help from others, might I add.

SO ready to eat!
And dessert was just as wonderful.
Most of us went for a walk after dinner because of the amount of food we stuffed into ourselves.
Yummy memories.


Friday, November 2, 2007

Halloween fun times.

Kevin passed these pictures along on the family e-mail and I thought they were too cute to not share! This is Amanda (Wicked witch of the West) and Alayna (Dorothy).


Ewwww! Pumpkin guts....!

Just plain cuteness.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

A pumpkin of a time.

Yay for pumpkins! Tis the season to carve and get creative.
Last week we had about 20 people over to carve pumpkins. Everyone brought their own pumpkin and any carving tools they wanted and we set up and made a mess!




Some used patterns...
While others just went with what came to mind...

And there wasn't always enough table space...which seemed ok for some.












The final result was fantastic. Not one was the same.