Craziness

Ugh, so we have been back in Canada since July 13, 2011 it is now May 16, 2012 and we are still living from house to house, whether it is my mothers, Robin's aunts or anywhere else that will take us! I am getting crazy annoyed with all of it. We are currently waiting to hear back from the county of Leduc on the acreage we put a deposit on, I mean seriously, how long does it take to determine how big the acreage is going to be, for zoning, in the mean time I have a mare that is about to foal, and AQHA that is giving me stress over DNA of my mares mother. I am hoping that what I have for them will do, but we will see. Hopefully things will get moving so we can get this place all cleaned up, it is a disaster, lots of burning of old buildings, moving things, tearing down and building up. My hubby sure does like to pick the fixer up-ers :S

San Dee's Family Tree

San Dee Bar Leo (AQHA Pending) 1998 Palomino Jagabar Leona 1982 1959361 Palomino Jagabar Cash 1979 1504747 Buckskin Payroll Cash 1969 0710110 Bay Star Dan 1959 0118135 Sorrel Dan Burns 1950 Sorrel Dunnie M 1941 Dun Dora Leo 1959 0134099 Bay Leo Hancock 1949 Bay Winnehaha 1952 Bay Good Jagette 1962 0207079 Bay Good Bars 1954 0076557 Dun Three Bars (TB) 1940 Chesnut Linda Mujer 1945 Dun Jagette 1957 0089899 Bay Jaguar 1952 Bay Baby Girl Bunting 1951 Brown Fintry Leo Queen 1968 0554920 Chestnut Leo San Glascock 1960 0125560 Sorrel Leo San 1949 0020113 Sorrel Leo 1940 Sorrel San Sue Darks 1945 Sorrel Miss Glascock 1954 0055888 Sorrel Old Man 1935 Sorrel J Mare 66 1945 Sorrel   Leo Reed 1951 0030857 Sorrel Leo 1940 Sorrel Susie Hancock 1933 Bay Miss Texas Jazz 1950 0033645 Chestnut Texas Jazz 1941 Sorrel Governess N/A Pocos O Dell 1993 Ribbon Page 1972 0825427 Palomino Jay Page 1963 0281727 Buckskin Page Lee 1953 0041534 Dun J B King 1948 Bay   Zella Hep 1954 0051600 Bay Tuscon a 1945 Bay   Dear\'s Lady Dell 1960 0128563 Sorrel Poco Dell 1950 0033075 Bay Poco Bueno 1944 Brown Shady Dell 1946 Dun Dear\'s Lady 1954 0044935 Sorrel Bear Cat 1937 Bay N R Chipper 1946 Bay Annie O Dell 1980 1585773 Brown Pat E Roc 1973 0962172 Chesnut Clabber\'s Rocket 1963 0400309 Gray Rocket Bar (TB) 1951 Chesnut Clabber\'s Glory 1960 Roan Patty Flit Bar 1969 0633029 Black Red Lebar 1962 Bay Madam Flit Bar 1963 Bay Wimpydu Dell 1961 0155925 Bay Poco Dell 1950 0033075 Bay Poco Beuno 1944 Brown Shady Dell 1946 Dun Wimpydu 1958 0118714 Sorrel L\'Allegro 1951 Chesnut Utopia 1953 Sorrel

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10 Signs You Are in Mommy Burn Out Mode

My sister found this and its so cute, head over to 3 kids & a Break Down, Diary of a (mostly) Happy Housewife.

Jacinda added her own to the end, thought I would share :D

10 Signs You Are in Mommy Burn Out Mode

1. You secretly fantasize about being kidless

2. You consider a doctor’s appointment your “me” time

3. You feel empathy when you read about a mother who left her kid in the car while she partied at the bar

4. If you have to watch one more episode of Dora (or Thomas or Bob), you’re going to put a fork in your eye

5. When you’re daughter asks you to make (yet another) snack for her you burst into tears

6. When your husband asks how your day was you respond with, “How the "insert bad word here" do you think my day was?!”

7. An hour alone to browse the aisles in Costco sounds better than a week in Hawaii with the family

8. You pour your first glass of wine at noon...Or pull out the ice cream...

9. It’s been a week since you gave the toddler a bath

10. You feel like a complete failure

My OWN Additions

11. You wake up singing the theme song from Thomas the Tank Engine or Any song from one of the 72 Land Before Time episodes.

12. You just realized you haven't showered in 3 days. (I admit this has happened to me at least once!)

13. And when you do get to shower, you consider it a luxurious 10 minute "me" time.

14. The highlight of your day was the mail... even though you know you aren't expecting anything.

15. When you go to the bathroom, you do so with the intent of gettting a sweet 5 minutes to your whole self, (ok maybe even 1, you're not that picky)

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Mallie Skye Oliver

Introducing our newest member of our little family, little miss Mallie. She was born on March 2,2011 at 1:48 AM, weighing 7 lbs & 9 oz, nineteen and a half inches long. She is the joy of our life and is always making us smile. Life has been definitely different since she arrived, but in a good way. She is growing like a weed, we have our 6 week check up today with the child health nurse, but I can already tell she has gained weight and is getting longer. Not so little anymore, even though I wish she was.

Red Velvet Cupcakes

I wanted to make a yummy treat and I was craving red velvet cupcakes, so I found the recipe and made them, but I never ate any of them! Robin took them to work to share with his fellow employees, they seemed to love them, which was good that they didn't go to waste, but I took a picture of them when I was done, they sure did look yummy!

3D Sidewalk Art at Belmont Forum

Now that we have high speed internet, well at least more high speed than normal, I can upload pictures faster. These are some I had taken at the Belmont Forum, which is our little mall. These are of the art of Kurt Wenner, 3D sidewalk artist. This was before the christmas season, so it was going along with the holiday cheer. Check out some of his other art at www.kurtwenner.com he has done some work for the Calgary Stampede, as well as some work in Vancouver. Very talented artist.

Kurt Wenner is a Master Artist and Master Architect famous for inventing three-dimensional pastel drawings. Also known as: 3D Street Painting, 3D Pavement Art, 3D Chalk Art, or 3D Sidewalk Art, they are a form of anamorphic art. Anamorphism is usually considered a form of Illusion or Trompe loeil, but is really the logical mathematical continuation of Perspective.

Once known as Madonnari, Street Painters, Pavement artists, Chalk Artists, and Sidewalk Artists have designed impermanent or Ephemeral Art for centuries. Currently, Kurt Wenner is writing a Street Painting History, explaining how sidewalk art and pavement art transformed itself into a spectacular medium, popular in Advertising, Publicity and numerous Street Painting Festivals.

A Madonnaro or chalk artist in Italy may be a Strassenmaler in Germany, a Sidewalk Artist in the United States, or a Pavement Artist in Britain, but street painting and pavement art have been transformed beyond recognition. While studying classical architecture and perspective, Kurt Wenner applied the principles of classical drawing and classical design to the sidewalk, completely transforming the art form.

Masterpieces in Chalk was the National Geographic documentary that established 3D Street Painting as a new art form, but only after 15 years could other artists (with the aid of computer programs) replicate the illusions. Today, artists like Julian Beever, Manfred Stader, Edgar Muller and numerous artists create 3 Dimensional Pastel Drawings, sometimes original and often emulating Kurt Wenner early works.

In fact, 3D Pavement Artists, 3D Sidewalk Artists, and 3D Chalk artists can all trace the roots of their work back to the street art of Rome in 1982, where Kurt Wenner transformed the complex geometry of Classical Italian Architecture into a new form of Popular Art. Whether they are called Street Paintings, Chalk Paintings, Sidewalk Paintings or pavement art, if they have a three-dimensional illusion they can be traced back to Kurt Wenner pastel drawings.

In addition to creating 3D Street Painting for Publicity and Advertising, Kurt Wenner designs Villas and Residential Architecture. He also creates lavish Interior design and classically inspired Product Design

AMY

So my cousin Amy recently had some photos done for her mom, and she asked me to edit them, so it has been keeping me busy at least, they are great photos! Here are some of the befores & then the after I edited the photos... I miss taking photos of people, theres only so much scenery I can handle!

Before

After

Before

After

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November... Summer??

It makes no sense to me that its summer here, I may sound crazy but I miss the cold & snow, I suppose its part of who I am... also considering I am 24 week preggo, plus 30 C weather hasn't been very fun. Apparently we haven't even gotten into our summer yet, it is hot when it is plus 40 C... o joy! Part of me wants to come home just to have the snow, and christmas the way it should be. I suppose I could try an Australian christmas, but I think I have convinced myself that I won't like it, and that it won't be the same as home. Wish me luck... and hopefully next year we will be home for christmas or at least living on the north american continent, maybe not but here's hoping!

Perth Royal Show 2010

Last week I had the opportunity to go to the Perth Royal Show, it is like a carnival, or perhaps like the Calgary Stampede (without the rodeo & chuck wagon racing), fairly fun, they have the agricultural aspect, with all the different breeds of cows, horses, sheep & dogs.


The kids were pretty excited about the Holstein calf they got to pet. They had some sheep herding competition as well, which I have never seen, only seen the dogs work the cows out in the fields, so it was fun to see that and sure did remind me of Linda & Doug back home.

The relay race before the fireworks sure was interesting, completely different than what we have ever done at home. The horses were dressed up in the team colors with rope lights, they just carried the flags. The two teams had to perform different tasks, from sheep herding (one of the dogs must have gotten excited because he ran away back to where I think his actual owner was, maybe he was nervous from all the people and excitement going on), two teams had the yearling calves and had to race each other around a pole, pulling these calves as they go, they chopped wood, and unloaded and loaded hay into their so called trucks (utes). If one team got one task done before the other, the horses would race around the arena, while the music was the theme from the Man from Snowy River (an Australian movie)

Zoo-Groovin

What a surprise! Robin had a three day weekend! So on Saturday we got the house cleaned, bought groceries, Sunday was church in the morning and we ran away early to go play at the beach, it was a bit windy but the ocean smelled so good! Monday, we spent the entire day walking the Perth Zoo, a very nice zoo, but I think that the Calgary Zoo is better put together and a bit bigger. My silly blog is being weird and not letting me upload photos, so I will try to later

Nothing New

Well, it has been fairly quiet, not much going on, just lots of walking. I do love my new craft cutter I got, the SD Silhouette by quickutz. I have been in the making of christmas count down cubes, I need to take some photos and post my crafts and such on here, I always seem to forget though. So I am going to work on them and when I am done I will post them! Happy blogging everyone!

Nothing Much New

Well there really hasn't been anything new going on this side of the world, walking and taking photos of the birds, trees & plants. Still wanting to go to the zoo soon, or to a park with the kangaroos. Robin has been working, and that is about it for him, he may have to go offshore on sunday night, and he isn't sure for how long, so I could be by myself for a few days to a few weeks, hopefully it is only a few days.

Head Cold In July

Well, the rain has finally stopped!! Thank goodness, I was starting to get cabin fever. I gave a talk on sunday in church which went very well. Robin was at home sick with the stomache flu, so I drove to church all by myself. Which was kinda scary because I got comfortable and forgot what side of the road I should drive on when I had to turn, so I waited until I saw someone coming on the road I had to turn on. I unfortunately I also got a head cold, going on day 3 now, so I have been keeping up on my vitamin C, drinking lots of water & getting lots of sleep. Here are some winter photos of Australia, the birds were very fun to visit, until some naughty kids along and chased them away and teased the black swans, which was a stupid thing to do, luckily no one got bitten, but after they left I didn't have any birds to visit or take photos of, so I went home.

These are some cute little local girls feeding the birds, which they are not suppose to unless its worms or snails, but they are giving them bread which gives the birds stomache aches.

The beautiful black swan of Western Australia, I have seen a few of these at different places in the city.

Rain, Rain, Rain & More Rain

Well it has been raining & thunderstorming for two days, so I haven't been able to get out of the house because I do not have a umbrella or a rain jacket, and when it rains here it down pours, no light drizzles. I went and bought a second hand sewing machine, its a Singer Futura 1000. Silly me forgot to buy scissors & pins, I bought a pattern, fabric & thread, so I am hoping the rain will let up enough to let me walk to Belmont Forum or enough for me too find a fabric store.

Trying to sleep with all this rain is a trying task, there is no insulation in the houses so we can hear everything going on outside, it sounds like there is wind all around you and that the rain will actually get in the house. So I grabbed my iphone and loaded music on it that helped me fall alseep at home when Robin wasn't there, it was nice because I couldn't hear the storm happening outside. I will take some photos of my sewing machine and the weather and post them later.

Dinner Is a Success!!!

So my made up recipe was a success with the hubby last night, which was good, now I need to think of what to make for tonight! I also want to make some cupcakes, so I guess I should go buy a cupcake pan & forms. Yesterday I was brave again and took the bus to Morley, another suburb in Perth, I found a store I looked up on the internet before I came over, Galaxy beads, so I am excited to start making jewellery again, It will give me something to do!! Right now I need to get to the Belmont Forum so I can buy what I need today. Here are some more photos from our park that is 5 houses away from us.

Cold Outside???

Well, things have been great here so far, its getting apparently "colder", the low at nights is -1 celsius and highs during the day has been anywhere from +15 - +20 celsius, the ladies at church think that I am crazy that I wear no stockings, and a short sleaved shirt. I have had to learn about public transportation! I have never had to take a bus before, so it was very scary, but exciting at the same time. I took the bus downtown to the Every Womens Expo, which was pretty fun, it was a good way to learn about what the city has to offer.

Other than that I have been at home, trying to think of things to make for dinner, but I have been running out of ideas!

Australia.... Lots To Do & See

Well, I finally made it to Australia to be with my husband, and I haven't had time to stop and blog, now that my husband is back to work I have time to stop and blog away! I have been here for two weeks now, and we have been to two beaches, first one was Cottesloe beach.

The second one was Scarborough Beach which was lovely, the surfers were out doing their stuff, both Robin & I would love to learn how to surf!

Robin was such a sweet heart, we took me to a surpise picnic to Kings Park, which is a lovely park that was dedicated to those who lost their lives to the Japanese, they have also have made it into bontanic garden. Many different plants & trees there, as well as different brids.