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While I was blog hopping I found this: It is from this blog - My Soap Opera Life

On another blog I saw this (sorry I don't remember which one)

Kodak Picture Of The Day

Title: Burst

Photographer: Lisa Boulden
"This is a balloon at the moment of impact with a needle"

Quote

"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets." Abraham Lincoln

PICTURES

 Owen

Brittany Some of mom's grandchildren: Brittany, Amy, Megan, Amberley Matthew, Owen, John-Michael

Family Pictures

2004

Rain William James M.
2004

Ethan James H.
2003

My nephews Logan & Matthew with Owen & Amberley
Tiffany & Brittany

1999

Amberley, Brittany & Owen

1998

My Uncle Bill & my Dad (brother's)

1994

2009 - warning long post

This is my first post of 2009. I am glad to be bringing in a new year. I always think that when a new year starts, I can also start all over again. I don't usually make resolutions, because I am never able to keep them. But this year I feel like making a couple.
The first one and the most important is to get healthy and if I loose weight in the process that would be a bonus. So I plan on meal planning, limit my snacking and as you may or may not know I stopped drinking Pepsi at home and at work (I will order it at a restaurant). I bought a book "The Dinner Fix" by Sandi Richard of the "Fixing Dinner" Food Network program. She firmly believes in planning your meals, and cooking or chopping extra to use in another meal later in the week. I have enjoyed her program for awhile, now I plan on putting it into action. Also the book provides a complete grocery list for each meal for each week. The shopping lists are also on her website so you can print it out and take it to the store with you, just cross off the stuff you already have in your pantry.

The second one is to make my bank accounts healthy. I have always been an impulsive buyer, never saving for the items I wanted. So I am going to save before I buy. I also want to keep all my bills up to date. So this is my plan, I hope I can stick to both of them.
These are huge resolutions to keep, but can you imagine what my life will be like in Jan. 2010 if I stay on this path. I will be the little engine that could. I just have to stay positive in every situation.

I am thinking of joining For more information about it go here.
I don't take pictures everyday and I am not on my blog everyday, so this is going to be a challenge for me. It would be nice to have an entry everyday, to look over it in a years time and see what my life was like on a daily basis. I know the premise is to take a picture of your own everyday, but like I said I just don't take my camera out everyday so some days will have no picture.

Now for the January birthday's:

My momPerry - my son-in-lawRain - my grandsonSpeaking of grandson's Ethan's birthday was Dec. 28 and I didn't mention him in last month's birthday list. I know what a bad grandma. Sorry Ethan.I had a wonderful Christmas, it ended up being at Amberley's because of my cat's. My grandson Gavin has breathing difficulties after a few hours at my house. (I know I should get rid of them, but they need me) and also my brother is very allergic to them. So Amberley and Perry provided the house and I just brought all the food from my house to theirs. Everyone was there except for my niece Amy who is working in Spain right now. Missed you Amy. We played lots of games, a couple of new ones, one of the new ones was Seinfeld Scene It, it was fun but if you don't watch the show it's just a waste of time.I worked until 3:30 on New Years Eve, then I went to Chatham to A & P's place. Later my mom, and nephew Logan (my mom had him for a week) and later my sister came. We played a couple games of...you guessed it, Settlers. We were so into the game we almost forgot to watch for 12:00 and 2009. Needless to say I did not win.

Then on New Years Day which was my mom's birthday, we called the family that lives in Chatham and went to Kelsey's for lunch. It ended up being 10 of us and we had a nice meal and a great visit.























These 2 pictures are from Mike & Penny







Now back to everyday life and all that it can bring, just being positive.

Since I am trying to live a healthy life now, I put some words into tivo and one of the shows it recorded for me is called "You Are What You Eat" just watch this show a couple of times and you will forever eat healthy. It is a British show and doesn't pussyfoot around things, she tells you exactly what's on her mind. Don't watch it if you like to eat, it will turn you off of your favourites.
I watched Rachel Rays "30 Minute Meals" the other day, she made a Chicken Parm Pizza, it looked delicious. So I printed the recipe and bought all the ingredients and made it. Owen kept saying "that's a pizza". Anyway it turned out well except I didn't like the texture of the pizza crust with the topping. So I took all the topping off of the crust and put it in a pan added some tomato sauce and mixed it in with whole wheat pasta and it was much better.
Well I hope you have a wonderful New Year.

Christmas Song & Christmas Memory

Owen and I went to Chatham to celebrate my sister's (Cathy) 50th birthday. We had a really nice time being together with the family. It was really nice to see 2 of my nieces. On Sat. night we went to Amberley & Perry's and played Settlers, I lost again. My brother and sister-in-law came to play the game also. Then Sunday after the party we went back to A & P for another game of Settlers, we were joined by one of their friends. I was like 2 points away from winning. Also sometime that weekend we played Boggle which I also lost. I know I loose a lot of these games, but I still love to play them. The only one that I ever seem to win is Trivia Pursuit.

I made a quick and tasty meal last night. I used one of those Glad steam bags. I cooked some rice, heated up some frozen vegetables put them in one of those bags and microwaved the bag. Topped it with soy sauce and ate. It was pretty good and very quick.

December's birthdays:

Dec. 6 Amy - my niece This picture is of Amy in Spain (she is there now until April)
Dec. 6 Megan - my niece

Dec. 8 Cathy - my sister Christmas Movie:
Tonight I watched "The Bells of St. Mary's" I really like this movie, the message is also a good one. It is about having faith, hope, dreams, never giving up and it shows how people can change other people's live's for the better

Christmas Memory
When my sister and I were growing up we would spend Christmas with my grandma & grandpa Weston. We had wonderful times and Santa was very generous to us, he gave us lot's of presents. Then later on my cousins and Aunt & Uncle would also come. And my great Aunt Iris would come from London (Ontario). Grandma would cook a beautiful dinner. Such good memories.


Christmas Song #7 - I just discovered this song "Christmas Canon" and this ochestra, what a wonderful song. I hope you like it.

Easter

Today is Easter Sunday, Christ is risen. Praise God

When I was a child so long ago Easter also meant new clothes, shoes, hats and maybe a purse and a pair of gloves (the nice feminine kind, at one point this was very fashionable to wear gloves whenever you went out of the house). For us it meant packing up the car and leaving our house in Michigan and travelling to Chatham, Ontario usually by ferry. Grandma and Grandpa would be there waiting for us to arrive. Grandma always greeted us with her long smooches. I don't ever remember going there for only a day trip, whenever we went their we stayed a couple of days. Then on Easter Sunday my aunt (mom's sister) and her family would come to grandmas and we had a lovely day. Somehow the Easter bunny always knew where we were and delivered some pretty awesome baskets. These were good times, with lots a wonderful memories.

This my dear grandpa with my sister Cathy, me, my cousin Bill in 1961. This is of my brothers Mike and Chris, not sure the year maybe 1970.

Now a days we usually have Easter dinner at my mom's but this year my brother and his wife are having it in their new home. Which is pretty great considering they just arrived home on Monday from a missions trip to Guatemala. Now that all of moms grandchildren are older we never know who is going to be there. As I write this I am not sure if Owen and I can go I am just getting over my cough/cold and my head is pounding. I will have to decide by noon, because if we do go it is an hours drive and I need to pack, because we would be staying overnight. And then we would able to play Settlers. Speaking of Settlers I asked my niece, Tiffany to pick up the original Settlers of Catan for me. So if she did get it (there is a game store close to where she lives in St. Catherine's) she will bring it today and then I will have my very own Settlers. A dream come true.....

I hope you all have a nice day and that all you dreams come true today.

Here are some pictures of our annual Easter football game from 2007.