We are moving!!!!

We have sold the house and we are moving!!! Not for a little while yet but we are moving and I am sooo excited to start house hunting. I really want to find a nice bungalow and renovate it to suit our needs and style. I cannot believe i will be quitting my teaching job that I have had for over 7 years now. It will be a little sad but exciting at the same time.
On another note my little Ruby got shots at the vet yesterday and boy oh boy she had a sore leg...the poor sweet girl!!!! She is much happier today. I hate seeing animals in pain it is truly heartbreaking:(
My husband is leaving to go to the Olympics on Monday for an entire month......crazy. I will miss him. My dad and i are going down to California next month so hopefully that should break up the long month a little!!! I am flying down for a photography workshop and the we are driving home together in his old hippie van. That is right over 3000 kilometers in an old van with my Dad!!!!! I am hoing to take some cool pics along the way!

Camera For SALE

I thought I would do a quick post to see if anyone is interested in buying my 7 month old Nikon D300 Camera. I am not letting go of it until the middle of February however I am looking to see if there is any interest out there.


D300 body only- $1200 obo
1. Nikkor 85mm 1.8 - $450
2. Nikkor 18-105mm- $340
3.Nikkor 5omm1.4 - $300

I am a bully

I bullied my way into this lovely ladies blog!!!!

Courtney is a really cool wedding planner from BC that I have actually never however I consider her a blog buddy. It is a crazy small world because my BFF is a make-up artist in Vancouver and I was telling her about Courtney and now they have hooked up and I am sooo happy. I am a bully b/c when Courtney featured Amanda on her blog I was upset( but just jokingly) that Amanda did not include my pics as an example of her work. Needless to say i was bugging both girls and now my face is on Courtney's blog. I should not be such a brat b/c Courtney has featured my wedding on her blog a few times...CLICK HERE to see!!!!
So I am a brat and a bully but it was all in good fun!!!!

Amanda the HI is for you!

Oh and that is a blackberry pick of my little Ruby in her new car seat. She has to have it because she thinks that it is cool to sit on my lap while I am driving and sometimes even thinks she should perch her front paws on the steering wheel to get a better view!!!!!

Decorating inspiration!

Our house is for sale and we are moving and my new obsession is looking at style blogs for decorating inspiration. Those of you that have been to my current home you know I went super dark with the walls and my kitchen cabinets are maple. Well....in the new house I want a WHITE kitchen and light walls!!!!!
I love reading a lot of blogs from the US and I find that although I love the style, most of it is not available to duplicate here in Canada.....we just do not have access to cool vintage pieces.....we do but not really.
Anyways my husband I are looking forward to getting a house that is much Cheaper than the one we are in now and we want to make it our own!!!

Balance

Well this morning I finally got my butt to the gym at 5:50 a.m. and i still had time for blog reading and a smoothie. I love the gym in the morning it is quite and there are no d-bag muscle freaks around. I need to get there waayyy more often at that hour.
Oh and our is now officially on the market...there is a for sale sign on the front lawn right now! I will not be moving until June but it is exciting to look at houses and get inspired for new decorating ideas. We are looking to downsize our house into a nice little bungalow.......for Cheap!!!!
Ok off to work.....by Amanda....nope NOTHING is NEW....NOTHING!!!!!!

Busy Week

It has been a busy week. Last week I attended two funerals, both for people that were WAY to young to pass away. I went back to the mountains where I lived for three years and it was truly beautiful....but I still love my flat home here in the prairies.
This week I was busy getting ready for my students photography show at a gallery downtown. My husband has been cleaning our house like a mad man trying to get it ready to sell. This task is challenging for me as I do not like cleaning and I have a hard time keeping things clean....ahhh I feel like I want to move out for a week while it is being shown so I don't mess it up!
Things are changing around here more than you know!!!

This weekend I am traveling to Canmore to attend a funeral. My cousin's fiance was tragically killed in an avalanche this week. They were due to get married in three months. It is sooo ironic because the day I found out was the exact day that I had re-looked at their wedding website and just RSVP'd that morning. This whole things makes me want to hold my significant other closer and make sure I show him often how much he means to me. Hahahah we laughed on our trip about our resolutions and I was telling him that it is my goal to be a better wife....clean, more, cook more, take care of him more....not always just about me!!! I am not allowed to post pictures of him online as he works for the federal government.....otherwise i would share is awesomeness with the world....but I guess i can just keep that to myself and enjoy!

2010

Well we are finally home!!!! Yeahh it was such an awesome trip but we are both soooo happy to be home as it was a LONG 2 weeks of living in random hotels and eating out all the time!!! I am so happy we went as it was truly an adventure and we both laughed alot......essentially just at each other's Southern Accents that we kept repeating over and over. My hubby has a gift for any accent....he can hear just a bit and then just run with it......it is sooo funny!
So 2010 it is now.....wow!!! I am not going to create a long list of resolutions b/c I like to keep those things to myself but I thought I would share a few.
1. I am GIVING up coffee. Yes it is true...it tates bad, gives me a stomach ache, makes me hungry and fat...I hate coffee!!!! Hence the picture of the lovely tea bags. I will drink green tea but NO coffee!!!!
2. Pic of the tree's is just lovely and not mine but it serves as a reminder that I want to take more pictures that are meaningful to me and not just for others all the time.
3. Interior Space pictures- since we are moving I want to be sure to make our new house really pretty and inspiring. The house that we are in now is just a little too big for us. This will be my first move as a mountie's wife and i am actually looking forward to the change.
4. My white camera arrived yesterday yeah!!!! Sorry ADD as it has nothing to do with 2010 resolutions.
5. Scale picture- just need to believe it and hope it inspires me to stop being a fat ass!
6.2010 this pic should have been at the top.
7. TEA is good for you and coffee is bad for me!!!!
8. No more no more no more
Finally the big thing that i struggle with everyday is brown or blond???? my hubby likes brown....and I think I do to but it is such a hard thing to commit to after being blond for soooo long!!!! Please let me know what you think!!!
Happy New year Everyone!!!!