Happy 52nd Birthday to Nana!
Happy 21 Months to The Niece!

Day Two Hurts Soooo Much More!

Umm, Ouch x2. That's my story. Advil killed the pain yesterday. Advil AND Tylenol just took the edge off today. I am whining now...

And Matt...despite my insensitivity of yesterday, I'm feeling for you today! We are two people of a different colour...and not the nice brown colour that either of us had hoped for...a nice fire engine red colour that does not look good with chocolate!

Ouch!

Monday morning. I am painfully reminded that I am one of those human beings with a melanin deficiency...also known as Caucasian...nothing like having skin that resembles that of a boiled lobster and the accompanying burning sensation to take the edge off of a sweet weekend!

My Toes at the Beach

I had no hand in the building of this castle. My sister, however, was a lot more willing to get dirty today...which the kiddies appreciated ;-)

Low Tech Thermometer: It's Hot Out!

Left some crayons in the car...ooops!

Gardening: Something I'll Leave to My Mother

I yelled at her, assuming that she was rolling in something foul, turned out she was just loving her bone in the same way that she greets bear poop...

Prettiest Darn Sprinkler I Ever Did See

Plant Growing out of a Log

My Mother's Day Plant from Bennett...when he presented me with the seedling he had planted in a little styrofoam cup at school, I b-lined it for my mom's house, knowing that it would just die if I took it home...I have that effect on plants...turned out to be a good idea, as it is still alive! & has taken over the pot it was placed in...orange flowers below:

Helping out with the construction of Nana's new Veggie Garden

Ooops!

According to this site http://mingle2.com/blog-rating



I guess it is time to take it up a notch?

I took a lot of crappy pictures of nothing in particular today...so lolcats it is!

The opposite is true in my case...I am anything but pained when drinking (if you saw Canada day pics...no laughing you!) Damn if that isn't a great caption on this pic...Poor kitty...

Yep, more of that snappage... One of my Favorite Shots from the Weekend...

ARE WE PLAYING SOCCER...OR BOWLING, WHILST USING OUR CHILDREN AS BOWLING PINS?


SHAE & BEN

*No child was harmed in the making of this or any other pictures in this series...the little one is possibly a better soccer player than all the adults combined...seriously, I am not making this stuff up!

More Amateur Soccer Footage

*click on image to view album

pioneer

No Winner

*pic by S.B.

Why Not to Eat Corn on the Cob if you have Braces

Canada Day

Awesome weekend! Party Pics on Ben's facebook acct. Feeling happily exhausted! Good Times.

More amateur soccer footage to be posted later.

I Played Ameteur Sports Photographer Again...and by Ameteur, I just may be referring to the players...

Featuring: Matt, Ben, Shae, Bennett, The Niece! & Myself (although behind the camera, I was playing too)

Bennett, Shae & The Niece!

My Boy! Participating!

Mmmhmm!

This came in an e-mail titled, "FOR THE GIRLS"...all I could say is, "Mmmhmm!" Whatcha wanna guess they aren't really even firemen? But that makes little difference in the eye candy category...

No-Good-Reason Insanity

It's 4 a.m. and I am still awake. I have no good reason for being still awake. My day starts in three hours. I think that this might be a non-clinical definition of insanity. Not sleep deprivation induced insanity...that's what I will be suffering from tomorrow...but day-so-fully-packed-that-it-takes-me-all-night-to-wind-down-before-bed insanity. Perhaps this is a sign that I should take up drinking?

And yes, the grey cat has been staring at me for hours.

Transformers! & other not-so-interesting babble...

Transformers. A cartoon I watched as a kid, and loved! Toys I played with (& watched all my little friends collect) when I was my son's age. And now, Transformer paraphernalia is still aimed at my kids age group...a.k.a. the sunglasses he is currently wearing. So, why is the "movie" PG-13? I am, by no means, an *over protective parent...the kids favorite song is by Ozzy and he could not identify **Barney or Elmo or the vast majority of the other irritating children's characters if he tried, because he was, quite frankly, never exposed to them....'cause mama thought they were annoying and childish...heh. Anyways, he's finally at an age where I am brave enough to attempt to take him to the theatre (he was a late bloomer when it came to being interested in TV, or movies, beyond musical and short-attention-span Baby Einstein) and this delightful childhood memory, reincarnated, is already off the table. I highly doubt a five-year-old's attention would be held by a PG-13 movie, in any regard.

So, that's my afternoon pout. Boohoo.

On another note, for the second term, I find the new instructor much more entertaining and much less likely to cause one to wish they could fall asleep. I might actually enjoy these psychotically condensed and lengthy lectures without wishing I were elsewhere! See, it aint all pouting today ;-)

*Reasonably protective, YES. Car seats/Boosters, Bike Helmets, Swimming Lessons, etc. are NON-NEGOTIABLE...mandatory, in fact.

**He went through very short (& concentrated) Pocahontas, Finding Nemo, Winnie the Pooh, Dora & Diego, Shrek 2 & most lately, Charlotte's Web phases...these were characters I, the mom, could handle. Sad, I know. (He was not a fan of Cars, much to my surprise.) Personally, I'm missing the OLD Looney Tunes that I watched as a kid...you know the ones, 'Bugs Bunny & Friends' or 'The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show'...before all the "junior" characters were introduced. Am I the only one that feels this way?

Blink and it's gone...

Today is the first day of the second summer semester. Damn that went fast. At this rate, it will be frozen winter before I know it... and I'll once again be insanely jealous that my little sister lives in the Tropics! Sigh.

PUPPIES

The Niece! said that she was petting "PUPPIES"...
I would have to say, those are some ugly puppies!

THE CANADIAN FLAG FLYING HIGH OVER THE EVIL ARCHES...

Is it still considered junk food if you order your kid's h*ppy meal with apple slices in lieu of fries and chocolate milk in lieu of pop? Hell, we usually even opt for the little bag of graham crackers in lieu of the stupid plastic toy that is likely to get thrown out shortly after we get home...

This is me trying to justify fast food...sigh.