Okay, so I had to try it after Tam did it, right? Doesn't make a lot of sense, but I guess that's as much like a person's life as anything. :)

Opening Credits: On the Bound – Fiona Apple

Waking up: Girl Sailor – The Shins

Falling in Love: Salamandra – Sarah Harmer

Fight Song: Same Thing - Pete Yorn

Breaking Up: Swallowed in the Sea – Coldplay

Formal/Prom: On the Bound - Fiona Apple

Life: A Moth is Not a Butterfly – Hawksley Workman

Mental Breakdown: So Say I – The Shins

Driving: Hundred – The Fray

Flash Back: Looking After You – The Fray

Getting Back Together: How Deep in the Valley – Sarah Harmer

Wedding: I Know – Fiona Apple

Birth of a Child: Trouble - Coldplay

Final Battle: Over My Head – The Fray

End Credits: How to Save a Life – The Fray

Part 2.

So where did I leave off.. I think we were on the way to Auntie Debbie’s. We got to visit with Debbie and co. till they had to leave Monday morning, after which the pet care-taking commenced, as well as the sewing. As it’s already been over two weeks, most of the weekly details are missing in my mind. I remember that I didn’t kill the fish, the hamster only escaped once, and Tam and I shaved the dogs (and when I say shaved, I mean shaved). :D We drank lots of coffee, sewed lots of things, did some cleaning, and visited with all of our relatives.

I will now expound, although somewhat briefly, on the relative part, as it was a highlight. On Friday Uncle Jamie and Auntie Val had Tam and I over for dinner, we had a lot of good conversation, and good food, we got to see all of their kids, but for Judah who was with his choir in Ontario, and I even obtained some artwork from a couple of them. :) They also had us over for breakfast and dinner on the Lord’s day. Brad was back (he’s been boarding with them) as well, and so we spent the day well, in more talking, music, and a pleasant time all around.

On our last weekend there we had Uncle Danny, Vera and co. stop in (when we heard they were coming we knew it was time to stop sewing and start packing), and while Danny and some of the boys went to the Forestry Show, Auntie Vera, Tam, the little girls and I went shopping, big surprise huh? I think it’s only because the guys aren’t willing to shop, so someone has gotta do it. Thankfully we live through it better than most men. This is something that should make guys happier, they shouldn’t criticize women who shop, but be thankful they have something to wear often because of it. Have to think about that one more to myself, how nice would it be if someone else always found what I wanted to wear, and what would look good on me, and I never had to go through the tiring, hot, and stressful process? :D So as I was saying, we went shopping, and had a nice time of it, as shopping and multitasking, in the form of visiting, worked very well together.

After coming back for lunch Tam and Vera went out, while I stayed to keep an eye on the kids, and to make dinner. After popping some lasagna in the oven, and prepping a few other things, the kids and I took a pleasant walk/race/hop-skip-and-a-jump to two of the neighboring parks. Got to enjoy the feeling of gravel, and sand in my shoes, but helping Pearl on the slides, and Blossom and Joel on the bars made it well worthwhile. After the allotted space of time passed we had to return (yeah, another race) home to save the food from the oven. Danny and Vera left to a dinner, and Uncle Steven, Auntie Lovella, Bethany, and a friend of hers joined us for ours. Then Danny, Vera, and some of their friendly neighbors from Fort Nelson came back to spend the rest of the evening in conversation, and cake eating (it was Auntie Vera’s b-day).

Then after going to bed later than was good for any of us, after doing some scheming for next years family reunion, at about 5 or 6 am the sleepy homeowners returned to reclaim their home, Poodle-Pointers, fish, and Pie. They were so sleepy on their drive that tale has it, that they all fell asleep on the road, and drove right through the ditch and out again, while hardly waking up during the performance. They didn’t however reclaim their beds, as we all got up, and stayed up, except for Uncle Danny, who wouldn’t wake for love or money until he was well rested. :) We looked at pictures of Mexico, and felt very sleepy. Tam and I finished packing. For this part you must picture bags packed twice over, containing twice what they should normally hold, with one girl sitting on them, while the other is closing them and it'll be about right. We commenced with more talking , drinking of more coffee, and were on our roads to our two different destinations.

So now it's off to bed, so the process of living can begin again, while continuing as it has. :)

Jode

PS Yeah, I'm tired now. :D

Yo, what's up my blog? Nothing, because I haven't been posting, oh soo sorry..although not really. Been pretty busy since I arrived home from Auntie Debbie's, although I admit I was pretty busy before that as well. I also admit that if you always let business get in the way of other things, the other things will never get done. Thus I'm here to blog, and I don't intend on being busy again until I'm done. :)

How did everything go? It went swimmingly. Tam came to PG, and we got to visit everyone, and we were also able to hear Calvin and Baillie recite at the Speech Festival. While listening/watching them and their competitors we multi-tasked. Nothing like quilting while relaxing to the sounds of poetry. :) The rest of the time was spent talk, laughing, and all the wonderful things that are so nice about having family around.

On Friday we packed everything up that we could possibly fit into our bags (I even brought my two sewing machines) and boarded the bus for Dawson. Upon arriving in Dawson we were picked up by my Uncle Tim, and taken to Grandma's for a very enjoyable pancake breakfast (as only Grandma can make ;) ) After visiting with Tim and Grandma, Tim's boys, Troy, Jordan, and Jeffrey were dropped off. Then Grandma took the boys, Tam, and myself to pick up Tommy who was going to spell Grandma for awhile with watching the boys. Then it was over to Sundae's to see her new baby girl Abigail.

Thus far it seems my trips to Auntie Debbie's are continually marked with occurrences that make them memorable. Last time it was some lady running into Clint's car with her truck, just before they were to pick me up at the station, and this time it was one of the boys locking Grandma's keys in her car. After a few attempts by various individuals armed with hangers, Debbie, and Deanna (my cousin Brett's fiancee, they came by to visit us at Sundae's) managed pull on the door, which although locked, was ajar. Brett then inserted the hanger through the crack, and click! Thankfully Grandma had already received a lift home from a friend of Sundae's, because not only did the ajar door aid in the success of unlocking the door, it also aided in the killing of the battery.

So from there we traded over to Debbie's Truck, and then it was off to Grand Prairie..which is where I will leave this as a "To be Continued" post, for it is now too late for both business, and recreation, unless that recreation is sleep.

TTFN

Yesterday welcomed into the world my new little niece Natalie Elise Dohms
Eight pounds one ounce
Born at 12:22 AM

And boy is she a doll. :)

More photos here

Well, I guess it's that time again, although it shall be brief. :) What have I been busy with? Most things spring. Need to get the gears going for spring cleaning. Already did the yard, but the nooks, crannies, and windows leave much to be desired. After that I'll need to turn my mind to the garden. Wanting to try this out this year, so..we'll see how that goes. Tam is coming at the end of this month (yaay!) and after a few days in Edmonton she'll come for a visit here and then come with me to house/dogsit for Auntie Debbie for a couple weeks. We're going to use the opportunity to visit some of our relative, and in the rest of the time allotted we'll sew, sew, sew. So that should be splendid. :) Trying various new things with the sewing, I'm not sure where I'm going to direct my next efforts, but I'm sure I'll figure it out as I go.

Yeah, brief. :D

Jode

Here's a video of Geneva I forgot to post the other week, although as a matter of fact it's a couple months old.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-2060328235528429353


This can't be that comfortable, yet we find her sleeping like that all the time, haha.

Just had to laugh. :)

Geneva singing:

Psalm 117
Pslam 131

Blaah

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54125

http://www.sermonaudio.com/new_details.asp?ID=23231

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/20/ngirls20.xml

"Hain endorses Hillary for president" Kinda funny, when I read the title of this article on Sermon Audio my mind's eye saw "Hain endorses Hitler for president" (I'm pretty sure too much computer use does something to a person :)). I Started to think to myself, "who is Hain, and what do his reminiscing have to do with the price of tea in China, or the presidency?", and "president for where, over who??" "Hitler would have been great as the president of the United States or somewhere, yeah just what America needs". At any rate, when none of this made sense I reread the title.."oohhh, Hillary, gottcha" but I guess she's just about as much what the US needs has Hitler would have been..

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
(Isa 3:12)

Been working on Tam and my Scarlet Stitch website this last week. Manda took pictures of our new boys stuff, so that called for an addition to the site which ended up being almost a complete overhaul on it, and every time I thought I was just about done there were more things to tweaked, change, or rearrange. But I think I can now..almost safely say I'm done. In other news I was having a lot of problems with Sitebuilder, or I thought it was Sitebuilder's fault. I would publish my site, everything would be looking right, and then I would come back and check, or republish and random texts would be missing. It could be a missing half a paragraph, a title, or clothing care instructions. It would garble some, and it seemed nothing was safe but the imagines and navigation bars. Following my first reaction, of thinking I must have deleted whatever by accident, the occasions multiplied until I knew it wasn't me unless I was losing my mind, and deleting things in my sleep. After replacing, and replacing, I figured I should call Yahoo before the problem was the cause of my mind loss, rather than caused by it. So I called them twice, the first suggestions fixed naughta, but the second time the lady suggested the cause may be my firewall, as it appeared to her to be rearranging the pages. I repaired, and republished with it off..so we'll see. Next step, the sling page..but I'm going to put that off for later as I'd like to take a sanity break from the computer and do some sewing instead. When I need a sanity break from my sewing machine, I know what my next computer project will be.

Well, there's a little update, and now that I'm done lunch it's off to my space heater heated room (this basement is always freezing. :D ).

Jody

2Co 1:3-4 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; (4) Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Well, what do you know? I thought I had posted all of the pictures I hijacked from Auntie Debbie (scanned, didn't really steal them), but low-and-behold I missed a bunch, oops. While I'm at it, a happy birthday to my cousin Clint who is..old, haha. How old you ask? Well, I admit, my memory isn't as good as it use to be, and it never was that good. I'm thinking he's 18..don't hurt me if I'm wrong. And if you feel insulted, just think, I half the time I can't even remember how old I am. :D

At any rate, have a good one,

Jode
My cousin Clint with his younger sisters Jess and Chail
Clint and his early attempted at hockey

Clint and myself (the fashion victim on the right)

Dor pulling Clint, Tam pushing him, and me tailing them.
Once again, Dor, Clint, and I.
Tam and Clint.
Dor and I tackling my cousin Ian, who apparently had something Dor wanted badly, although I'm not sure what it is.
Dor and I who loved to flip bikes upside down to spin the wheels, second best thing to ridding them, which we didn't master for a couple more years.

My dad, me, Manda, and my Uncle Tim, this was taken at the time of my Auntie Debbie's wedding. I remember not liking the fact one bit that she was getting married. I felt an injustice that some guy had the nerve of stealing my aunt from me. :)

Tammy in the orangy red skirt, with Manda standing on her left.

Clearly Doralynne, can see a lot of Amos in this picture imo. :)

My cousin Jason and my Uncle Tim.

My parents, Dor, and myself (and a minister, although I don't remember his name, or anything else about him)
Mwah.

Me and my pop, also taken at Auntie Debbie's wedding.

Me at Auntie Debbie's.
Tammy and her Schipperkes, and my aunt's cat.

My cousin Tiffany



My mom (although I think everyone could have guessed as much. :) )

Tammy and one of my mom's goats.

Me

Dor and my nose. :)

A horse and myself, I don't remember its name.


Manda

My cousin Jessica and myself.

Dor

Belinda

Me and my banana seat bike, my first bike in fact.


My grandpa on my mom's side.


Tammy

My cousin Tyrell.

My cousin Millo.

Uncle Dave.

My cousin Dallas.

My cousin Zander.

Dor and myself, at the dreaded Mining Claim.