List 78: Things I Love About Canada

1. Freedom

2. The beauty!




3. How great Canadians are!

4. Prairies


5. The mountains


6. The ocean

Spiritual Sundays

Foto Friday: Our Year in Photos

Month 6 Week 3: Season

For the third week of each month we'll focus on details.

To know more about this project you can read my first post here.

This was last week's but it hadn't happened yet and it is important to my kids.... if you can't tell they were um.... excited :) HA!



Three things to mention:
1. I didn't tell them to hug. They just do that sort of thing.
2. I thought I had put on my 17-55 lens and instead put on my macro.... so instead if getting a shot of the sign of the school too I was just glad I got both of them in it :)
3. I HOPE this summer is filled with happiness and them getting along this well the whole time.

You can see all my other entries for this project here

Go check out Brooke's over here!

15 on the 15th

I haven't really felt like blogging lately. So I haven't been. I make no promises about the near future. We'll see :) I am instead choosing sleep lately. Yep. And sitting on the floor with my little boys.

But I did do my 15th on the 15th.


Here's a Friday at our house.

















If you want to see the other months they are here.

Foto Friday: Our Year in Photos

Month 6 Week 1: Best Friends

For the first week of each month we'll focus relationships.

My kids have been blessed with good friends wherever we have lived. Really we have been very blessed in our lives in that area! If you ask Lucy right now she'd still say Anise is her best friend even though Anise lives in Calgary for a year (although it's almost done - hooray!) and they rarely get to see each other right now.

PS I can't help laugh at this picture of these two cause they are trying to be serious... but these two laugh ALL day long when they are together. They have inside jokes and are seriously nutty together.

She also has a Raymond best friend named Hadley.



Alden also says KAden (Anise's brother).


Although I'd say his best friend is Kolton from down the street (I need a picture of them together!)
or Ben from his class.



Really overall I think Lucy and Alden are best friends. But whenever I say that they say "she (or he) can't be my best friend, she's (or he's) my sister (or brother)!"



Eli says its Dad. :)

or James Baldry. (and he always calls him "James Baldry" which cracks me up :)




You can see all my other entries for this project here

Go check out Brooke's over here!

List 73: The Best Things About Being Married

1. Being married to my best friend who gives me support in all areas of my life: emotionally, spiritually, financially, etc

2. I can talk to him and that it doesn't go anywhere else.

3. That he sees the best in me.

4. Having 4 kids together.

5. That he'll bring me home a chocolate bar or some treat from the store cause he loves me.

6. That dating is long over and not having other room mates! I think Single life was way harder!

7. That we are comfortable with each other.

8. Traveling together.

9. Private conversations and inside jokes.

10. How much he loves me and helps me to be a better person.

10 on Tuesday (on Wednesday)

1. When I spell Wednesday I always say in my mind while spelling "wed...nes...day" so I can spell it right.

2. Our basement carpet is fixed. Just need the drywall and the fireplace tile to be fixed.

3. We had tons of Steed family fun on the weekend. Hence the no posts for a few days.


4. We went to Heritage Park on Monday too. (Just pulled the kids out of school.)




5. Oliver needs his first hair cut. I am NOT one of those moms who is emotionally attached to hair. If it's long, I get it cut. End of story. :)

6. What a great challenge this is over here to play WITH your kids. I am thinking I need to do it too.

7. Holy rain last night.

8. I have a good idea for Father's day this year. Now I just have to get to it and get it ordered and done.

9. Eli's 4th birthday is coming up fast.

10. I finally ordered and pretty cool camera bag. Just waiting for it to get here :)

Foto Fridays: Our year in photos

Month 5 Week 5: Backyard

For the first week of each month we'll focus on rooms in the house.

To know more about this project you can read my first post here.


Well we just got a new tramp and that is easily the best thing our backyard has to offer. Especially since the rest of our yard is lame-o right now. Hopefully by the end of the summer we'll have more fun stuff (and a fence). Here's a photo dump of the joy of our backyard.











You can see all my other entries for this project here

Go check out Brooke's over here!