Colourful Days

Weekend to End Women's Cancers 2011

I'm all signed up and September will come very quickly...

Easter with Friends and Family

The 2 hour window that the sun decided make a showing gave us just enough time for the kids to find 300 eggs in my parents backyard garden! This is the backyard before the chaos.

 

 
 

We even had a little hunt for the adults... a beer bottle hunt that is.

Tiara Worthy!

On June 18th a bunch of us are going to be at Relay for Life in Sarnia... I say doing instead of walking because last time there wasn't much walking just a whole lot of talking and sitting in our chairs inside the tent. But I thought I would come up with a logo for all the tiara worthy people participating!

TT of TT - Gerbers!

I've been inspired by Gerber Daisies! See some more of my newest stuff over here!

TT of TT - Post #27 - Bunkie

John and I have been talking about building a bunkie this summer at the property. We have been playing around with ideas on what it's going to look like and how big, how many beds, what colour.... And then I logged on to my facebook today, and this picture was the first thing in my news feed from Jen. I think that when Jen found this picture she totally found a treasure! This is exactly what I want at the property. This is where I want to sleep during the summer! And as long and you don't mind the crapness, all are welcome!

TT of TT - Easter and Heros - Post #24

Think this picture speaks for itself. We had a great time with Miss Julia this weekend.

And then we finished the weekend off with Hero Burgers...bitter sweet weekend for sure.

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It's still so unbelievable sometimes. I know that I'm not alone in that thought. I'm going shopping at lulu today.

TT of TT - Post #22 - Easter Plans with J.

I admit I'm kind of emotionally aloof sometimes (my father calls it emotionally constipated). So I know that I should have done more than I have in terms of keeping in touch with Julia and Dave since Tracy has passed. But I honestly have not known what to say or even how to start.

However, last week I had a reason to contact them. I'm going to make up for an Easter Egg Hunt of the past.

It was a year ago that I saw T and she wasn't doing great (but much better than the previous time we had seen her) but the three of them where in Sarnia and it was Easter time. We offered to take Julia with us to the Canatara Park Easter Egg hung and we were quickly taken up on the offer!

We picked up Julia in the morning (around 10am) and headed to the park just like the rest of Sarnia! The park was sprawling with people and kids and kids with lots of easter eggs already in their basket.... it was very clear after looking and searching and scavenging and searching some more that all the eggs had been found by the 10000 other kids there. At the sight of a glint of colour on the ground undere a picnik table the girls went running (Julia and Maya) and were so happy to get a hold of at least one egg. It was very apparrant that the eggs they had found where dropped eggs from the other kids easter baskets. I had to break it to them that there were not edible at all... but the two of them looked at each other and smiled. They looked at me and asked if they could still look for more? I replied with "Sure I guess as long as you don't eat them, maybe use them in a craft or something". The girls ran around like crazy looking for more dropped eggs and had all the excitement that an Easter Egg hunt is supposed to have.

This year Julia will be coming with us to Sarnia and hanging out with her grandparents but she will also be a guest at our family Easter Egg hunt! I promised that this time the treats will be edible!

 

TT of TT - Post #21 - Shoes Optional

It's March and I'm walking around with no socks on. I was grabbing lunch and all of a sudden, a thought put a smile on my face.

Tracy on her wedding day at the Riding Club coming out of the main house to get to her spot beside Dave with the lake behind her near sunset. As soon as I saw her come out almost dancing, I had a hunch. I waited until everything was over and John and I went to hug her... and I hiked up her dress a little to expose her shoeless feet.

TT of TT - Post #20 - Breakfast Duty

We always were given the breakfast duty when we spent time at the cottage with T and family. During one of the last times, John came up with a plan to make these and it was a total hit. T was still recovering at the time and her lack of appetite showed. She could only eat a little at a time. But she loved the food that was being served by Ray and John (the cooks for the weekend). She had a serving for breakfast but needed a little rest. After a little while, she came back into the kitchen and announced that she was hungry! John eagerly offered up another strawberry french toast serving. And so Princess T. was happy and full.