getting the creative juices flowing...

dee, andrea and i had a great friday nite scrappin... i was able to get 2 complete pages done! yay! been a long time since i scrapped two pages in one nite, but these were pretty easy pages anyways... i love getting pages done!

i still have to journal on this page, but dee got this awesome white embossing powder, and we had fun with that tryin to get it to work, turned out awesome!

dee and andrea

finally finished my first scrap page in forever!! kris, my wonderful friend who got me addicted to scrappin.. this is for you!! lol

i'm soooo jealous....

scrappy scrappy

this is my official starting pic.... i'm back!
dee and i are both working on trip albums...i'm working on my first page
i might be done in a couple of years. i'll keep everyone posted on my progress!

this is why i'm scrappin with dee: this is the page she finished tonight... it's on her blog too, :)
sooooo gooood!!

spring break!

although i don't qualify for spring break anymore ... :( there was alot of excitement around our house the past weekend as george was getting ready to fly to california to visit jenny and andy with her brother, bry... it was a super nice weekend, although dee and i had boredom issues on saturday... i don't really want to relive that day... :)

"which way to the muscle beach??"
i heard this all weekend long, in an arnold schwartzenneger (sp?) voice
i'm soooo jealous! i wanted to go back with them!

solid effort....

last nite the mcadam boys were defending their provincial title for basketball, but as things sometimes go... they lost. it was a pretty good game with lots of support from everyone in town.. i don't think there was anyone left here!! ;) anyway, grand manan beat them by about 20 points, and they were all really disappointed because they had beaten them 3 times this year... i give them an A for effort anyways!

just to break tradition

here is my official post to break the cycle of weekend blogging. yes, it's 9:25 on thursday nite. :)

the weekend blogger

i've noticed lately that i'm only posting on the weekends! i'm very sorry, but that's when the funnest things happen, but i'll try to be a little bit better at posting more often. this past week went really good (aside from a few rough days but i don't want to talk about those) and this weekend i did do quite a few things. adam and i hung out friday nite, caught some vball at unb which was awesome.. saturday didn't really do too much, went to calais in the afternoon with scott and dee (had lunch at "wikipedia" (hahah dee) and then went to a dance here in big ole mcadam on saturday nite.. the dance kinda sucked.. the band just wasn't very good.

dancin queens... cheryl and me

sunday nite we had a supper at the church.. all the men cooked chinese for everyone.. kind of a late valentine's day thing.. it was delicious!!

oopsy...

well.. i guess all the busyness of my exciting life (ha!) is catching up and the bloggin has just fell by the wayside. (hahah.. wayside.. funny word) anyways.. there's not much new to catch up on.. still workin away (doin both jobs now).. my new job is good.. it's hard to learn, but once i catch on to everything i think it'll be ok.
i did want to share a poem that i got from a book we're doing called basic christianity for our sunday night small group. it kinda spoke to me and i just felt like sharing it with everyone...

your call is clear, cold centuries across;
you bid me to follow you, and take up my cross,
and daily lose myself, myself deny,
and stern against myself shout "crucify".

my stubborn nature rises to rebel
against your call. proud choruses of hell
unite to magnify my restless hate
of servitude, lest i capitulate.

the world, to see my cross, would pause and jeer
i have no choice, but still to persevere
to save myself - and follow you from afar,
more slow than magi - for i have no star.

and yet you call me still. your cross
eclipses mine, transforms the bitter loss
i thought that i would suffer if i came
to you - into immeasurable gain.

i kneel before you, jesus, crucified,
my cross is shouldered and my self denied;
i'll follow daily, closely, not refuse
for love of you and man myself to lose.

phew! what a week

well, i'm back at home now and started my new job last monday and between that and getting caught up on sleep and readjusting to nb time, i'm now finally able to post the last couple of days of my trip. things went ok getting back, just a few delays and some missing pilots, but other than that i got home on time and started my new job! i just finished my first week, and i have a bit of info overload, but i think it'll be ok. the people in my class are really friendly and we all get along great, and our trainers are awesome! anyways, here is what i did last friday and saturday on my last two days in LA!

Friday: jen and i made a 2 hour drive south to go to tijuana, mexico! this was my first experience in mexico, and i must say.. big time culture shock! first of all, we parked in the US and then walked over to tijuana... there wasn't much for customs.. just a couple of barred gates and in you went. there was a guard sitting in the middle of the gates, but he was just reading a newspaper and didn't even look up as we walked by.. hmmm.. tight security!! hahah... then after we got over there we walked a little ways to get to downtown... there were people trying to sell you stuff everywhere... it was kinda dirty and gross and you just felt bad for them.. they would say anything to get you to come in to their shop to buy something..one guy yelled over to us "hey senioritas.. u come in, i rip u off less" hahah... u could barter for prices and really beat them down to a very low price... there were shops set up all along a ped way that you had to walk across to get to downtown eatin my true mexican taco... so afraid i was gonna get sick, but i didn't...

Saturday:

we met a couple of andy and jenny's friends who had driven over from phoenix the night before for a youth event.. we met them at IHOP in burbank for breakfast and visited with them for a couple of hours... this was my last day in cali, and we were close so we took andy to hollywood to show him around, then we drove up through the hills to look around. this was also the only day that it rained while i was there, so i'm gonna say it made it a little easier to leave, but don't really believe it!! ;)

andy, jenny, amy, josh

they don't call it the golden state for nothin...

huntington beach

huntington beach is only about 15 minutes from where jen lives.. it's best known for surfing... there was a few surfers out when we were there, so it was cool to watch them go!

jen buildin sandcastles.. she started out making a octopus, but at the end, it looked more like a sun :)

the pier in the background has little shops along it and a restaurant at the end.. when we walked out there there were porpoises swimming by.. i didn't get very good pics of them cause they were too far away

nothin like loungin around... :)

the last couple of days we've just been doing a little shopping around irvine and orange... yesterday we didn't really do much, just hung out by the pool and tanned.. mmmm, it was really nice here yesterday 80 degrees in the afternoon...

this is a kumquat tree, jen says they're pretty sour

dee: this was a wicked scrapbook store... :)

i made supper for andy and jen.. mmm steak and pasta salad. while jen and i were out bbqing we met some people that live in the buildings around us. one couple was from scotland, and the other couple was from england.. we broke the ice well with them by having a little trouble lighting the bbq and resulting in a bit of a fireball... anwyays, they were super nice and gave us some homemade salsa and chips.. mmmm, so good.

after supper we played a little tennis on the courts by the pool..

more hollywood

jen and i were driving by on rodeo drive and we seen a camera crew all set up, so we stopped and walked to it (thinking we were gonna see someone famous) but they were just shooting a commercial for propel fitness water (but there wasn't any big names).. it was still cool none the less, and they had the whole side of the street shut down, and everyone that you can see on that side were all staged. one guy pulled a roll of paper towel out of his shopping bag! haha

rodeo drive.. most of the shops you can even go in unless you have an appointment.. there's security guards everywhere, or british bobbies guarding the doors.

there's actually a second level to rodeo drive that you can just walk up.. there's big name shops up there like chanel, and versace.

after we left rodeo drive, we went to find some movie star houses!! shocker that i would do that, i know.. (suzanne, this one's for you... guess who's house this is!! ) ;)
i mean, all you can really see is gates and bushes, but it's still cool none the less.. we also went to jay leno's house...
and then courtney cox and david arquette's house...

hollywood

monday we got up early to go get in line for tickets to jay leno... we had to be at nbc studios in burbank for 8, and we wanted to make sure that we got tickets, so we left here at 6:00 and got in line for 7. (it's an hour drive from jen's) tickets to the show are free, but they give out way more tickets than the studio can hold... we wanted to make sure that we got in, so this guy in line in front of us, we were talking with him and you're allowed to get 2 tickets each, so he asked us if we were each getting two and we said no, so we got him our extra tickets. in exchange, he was going over to get in the line for the show right after he got tickets (he was gonna just wait allllll daaaayyyy...) cause even if you got tickets, it doesn't even necessarily mean you're gonna get in to the studio. he took our phone number and promised to call us if the line started to get big. so we left there and went to hollywood to tour around there.

Grauman's Chinese Theatre (hollywood blvd)... alot of movie premiere's take place here

out front of Grauman's on the cement are famous footprints and hand prints.. had to get jim carrey's.. canadian!

the Kodak Theatre (hollywood blvd) where awards shows like the oscars takes place

stars on hollywood blvd.. i looked for brad's star, but i couldn't find it :)