Our new place

Welcome to my photographic tour of our new

rental townhouse. We moved in on May 31st,

and we've been working hard to get it

all set up to call home.

The view from the street, love the little fence

and all the landscaping.

One of the first things I did after we moved in 

was get these two flower pots, I love having them

welcome people into our home.

The downstairs entry way. The only rooms down here 

are Jordyn's bedroom and a bathroom and the

entry for the garage.

The view as you walk up to the

second floor, the main living area.

The kitchen is the first thing you see when you come up.

I love the light maple cabinets and the floors. Oh and

the black appliances are nice too.

This is the other side of our large kitchen, meant to

have an eating area, but I got those two pantry units

to house all my scrapbooking supplies.

The small patio is off the kitchen and is big

enough for a table, chairs and the bbq

The kitchen counter has a overhang to put stools

but with the sink right there, it's kind of a weird spot

to have stools, so for now, I'm doing a loft style

photo gallery of the girls grad photos.

The walls were all painted these colors when we moved

in and I love them. My country style works so well

with this color scheme. This is the one side of the

dining room area.

This is the wall on the other side of the dining room. 

I have had that ladder for ages, but have always used

it for hanging quilts on, I love that I decided to hang

it on the wall, love how this looks.

The main floor view standing at the far wall of the 

living room.

The living room, I did a main wall of all my canvas

art collected into one space, love how it looks. And 

we are now using 3 red leather ottomans as our coffee

table with a big tray on it.

The wall that the staircase upstairs is on, The corner

fireplace is massive and awkward, so we used the

space for display and then all of our entertainment

components, DVD's etc. The big canvas is one

Tim picked out of NY City.

A closer look at the canvas wall and my punch 

of red with the ottomans. LOVE it!!!

Our bedroom is on the top floor along

with Amy's. I love doing a grouping of

photos like this gallery above our beds.

A little corner in our room that allowed

me to showcase lots of my framed

photographs of family.

The space between the door and washroom.

Love this ensuite bath. The color is actually more of

a terracotta color and I had so much fun decorating it

with a new color scheme of towels etc.

Thank you for taking my new home tour, I hope one day 

you can come for a visit for coffee or tea and a nice

long chat. 

My 44th birthday

My birthday started out with another treat by

Jordyn to Timmies for a donut and drink, then

she was off to do her own thing for the day. 

Amy was over in Victoria with Daniel, so it was

just Tim and I hanging out for the day.

Look who got a new iphone for her birthday,

yay me and thank you Tim for convincing me

to upgrade from my old iphone.

My favorite Starbucks barista Brianna wrote a

note on my frappe, and of course, my drink was

on the house.

Jason and Michelle joined us at Montana's for

dinner, and since they both made sure our waiter

knew it was my birthday I got to wear the antler's

while the wait staff sang happy birthday to me.

Mother's Day 2012

My day started with Jordyn taking me to Tim Horton's for

a donut and a french vanilla drink before she had to go to

work. Then Amy took me out to the Dublin Pub, which

was having a Mother's Day brunch and we enjoyed 

good food and each other's company.

This was my yummy brunch, Southern Comfort

french toast, so good.

Yup the posed annual Mother's day picture, lol!

The girls had the boys join us on the beach for my

special dinner, of a subway picnic. I love having my

Mother's day dinner on the beach, and last year the

weather didn't allow it, so I was so thankful for the

beautiful warm evening. 

The photos above are Jordyn and Jeff, and

Amy with Daniel, so glad the boys are joining

us on our special occasions, as we are all 

getting to know one another better and

becoming a part of each other's lives.

Good times today, being surrounded by those I love and

who love me back unconditionally. Thanks for a great

Mother's day dear family.

Mom's visit

Mom got here on the 16th of April and left on the 10th of May, so we had lots of time for catching up, talking, laughing, and some crying too. Love that we both wanted to take lots of photos to document her visit. These photos are in no real order, just uploaded them as they were in my digital file. 

  

Mom's visit was full of picture taking by both of us, so I've posted most of the ones that have her together with one of us or as a family. The last picture is one of both my mom and Tim's mom, and I don't think they've had their picture taken together since out wedding. I am happy that I not only had the chance to see my mom for the first time in over 7 years but that we got to spend so much quality time together and that I have so many wonderful photo memories as well.

Project Life Week 13

I am so thankful to be up to date on my Project Life,

and I must say, this is not as easy as one might

think to stay caught up on. Remember, while

we are documenting weeks, we are also living

in the moment as it happens, and sometimes

that real life stuff gets in the way of our documenting

and creativity and fun. I have been admiring the

Project Life albums and pages of many others,

thanks to many online blogs, and even on

Pinterest and most recently for me Instagram.

I also find that sometimes seeing how creative and

how awesome some have been making theirs, I feel

mine if just blah and mundane, but then I realize, that's

okay, it's not a competition, it's about what works

for each individual and for that point and time in

their lives...maybe as the months go by and I find

my Project Life voice, I will become more

creative, more relaxed, but for now, I am

enjoying using the journaling cards, the stickers,

everything that came with my kit, and I am okay

with that.....most times....lol...but then, aren't we

always just a bit harder on ourselves then others?

Above you can see the entire week in one photo,

minus the end of the month insert in which I have

been summerizing our lives and included some

keepsakes, I have included it in photo's below.

Here is the left hand side of my week, and it's mostly

photos, and some arrow stickers. One the photo of

Jordyn, which I got off of Instagram by the way, I

wrote of how her OCD has been affecting her lately.

It's written in white ink, so is much easier to see on the

actual photo then here on my blog. I also have a close

up of the journaling insert below if you want to read it.

The right hand side above is mostly photos from Tim's

birthday and then the one in the bottom corner I once

again took off of Jordyn's Instragram account. The fun

Love quote was one I downloaded off of Pinterest,

and the colors worked perfectly this week with my

orange insert theme.

The above photo, as well as the two below, are close ups

of all the journaling inserts I used this week. Easier to

read if you would like.

Here's the view of the full spread with the insert

showing the journalling side, I also used two of

my StampinUp stamps and Spiced Marmalade

Distress Ink from Tim Holtz so keep with the

orange theme.

The backside of the 6x6 insert is where

I put Tim's birthday cards for future browsing.

and here is a close up of our month

in review. Time did fly this past month.

Goodbye March, Hello April :)