"It's Almost Canada Day" Barbecue...

With good friends in from out of town, Canada Day coming up, one of the said good friend's birthday, and never knowing when to trust Calgary weather, we hosted a barbecue at our place yesterday...




Thanks for coming everybody!

~Karl & Dayna

Weekly Awards

I call them weekly awards... a friend/colleague/fellow blogger of mine calls this kind of post "the junk drawer": kind of odds and ends piling together in a single post. We've had a busy week and have a couple more busy ones coming, so I suspect you may have a series coming.

Comic of the Week:
Holiday of the Week: Father's Day. It wasn't as bad as I anticipated, being the first one after my dad died. It was great to focus on Karl's new role as dad, and we had friends in town with a three year old girl, so that was cute too. Us gals made the guys waffles for breakfast before church, and I got Karl a dad-sized shirt that says "V 1.0" on it and a baby sized shirt that says "V 2.0" ... computer guy humour. No pics until Baby Chu gets to be the model! That night we went for a barbecue at my Step-Dad (of nearly 15 years) and Mom's house, so it was great to celebrate with them too, because Trent means a lot to me.

Visitors of the Week: Our good friends the Schafers; Rich was the best man at our wedding and Melanie was one of my bridesmaids. Sophie was just barely "along for the ride" at that time in mommy's tummy!Martha Stewart of the Week: Jane Kruger! I went for a visit to pick up some of her amazing Stampin' Up! cards, and she had this gorgeous Dahlia in one of her pots:

"No Kidding?!" moment of the Week: Finding out that the biggest brand of "duct" tape is actually "DUCK" tape. My husband is a genius.

"I Know a Celebrity" of the Week: My brother-in-law! An author! Check it out on Amazon


Baffled-but-won't-ask-out-loud of the Week: Handicapped urinal? But I know what you're asking out loud, the answer is Karl took the picture :)

Last but not least...
Baby Chu Update of the Week! I am officially at the 10 week countdown... Baby Chu is kicking up a storm and already waking me up for early morning feedings... usually at 4:30am. Overall, things are still going great... Here are two belly shots from a couple of weeks ago (bad hair day) at church serving communion with Karl:














Funny enough, the shirt is not even maternity... I am pretty lucky with the acceptable style right now! Baby-doll shirts and LONG t-shirts. Perfect!

Happy Birthday Honey!

GO AWAY!!!

I came across this web site, and its colour is screaming, "Please go away, or I am gonna hurt your eyes!"

Update...

We went for a little drive today to see if we could find the house that was hit by lightning... the news photo looked like the area right across from our house. We didn't have to drive far! It turns out it is just around the bend from our house, but at an angle that we couldn't see from our windows so we missed all the action last night. I'm pretty glad we didn't get too much action! Here's a photo I took earlier tonight...

crazy storm

We had some crazy thunder, lightning and flooding in Calgary last night. I took some videos, but they don't really do it justice. At lunch today I told my friend Stacey that we didn't have the usual volume from the frogs in the pond across the street from us and she said, "you know it's bad when the frogs are drowning!"

Here are some other photos... one of a house that got struck by lightning in my neighbourhood (Tuscany) just across the way from us... I could smell smoke and Karl was checking our basement to see if something had shorted out down there... but it wasn't us!

(I didn't take these photos they were emailed to me, I am unsure of the original source...)


Lightning in Tuscany:



























Flooding on Glenmore:


Other flooding:


I can see how the first car got into the depths, conceivable not knowing just how deep the water was... It does kind of make me wonder why the others followed...

Anyway, the forecast is for sun tomorrow! Hopefully sunny for Karl's 35th birthday on Saturday :) Banff here we come!

Ah, nothing like the downpour of a thunderstorm after a few hot days (I know you BC folks may beg to differ, but we like it). Karl finished mowing the lawn merely minutes before it started raining... perfect timing.

Yesterday I did a bit of garage sale-ing and got a new jogging stroller. Not that I'm a jogger... but it will be good for walks on the paths around our place. I am also looking at what to get by way of our 'real stroller' ... from online reviews it looks like looking for light but sturdy is the way to go... plus parent cupholders and lots of parcel storage? It seems like some of these reviewers are asking a lot though... The dilemma for me is whether to go with a double/tandem right away, or wait until we actually have 2 kids...

Here's our $40 steal (the closest rendition I could find, too lazy to take a pic myself!) the best part being that the seat adjusts so that the baby can face you too):
At the same garage sale, I picked up an infant bathing tub with a fabric-holder-insert thing, a pile of receiving blankets and hooded towels, and a couple of books. Where on earth are we going to put everything? By the time Baby Chu arrives, his room will be overflowing!

Making supper now, maybe more later :)