GARNETTE'S RAMBLES: October 2007

Masquerade party

The wings are made out of clear tape, wire and cellophane. The abdomen is fabric attached to a make shift vest and painted. The thorax is foam that was cut out, stitched around the sides and painted about 3 times. It was then attached to cloth that drapes and holds the wings. masquerade

You can see the red abdomen being the blood sack and the legs which are attached to Bryan's arms with fishing wire.

Bryan took mini strainers, cut off the handles and attached them to large clown glasses with black tape. The mask is 2 safety masks painted with a hose running through one of them. Bryan then took red ribbon and stuffed it up the end of the hose. Again you can see the funny little legs.

Reanna was Cleopatra...you foxy woman you.

Tonight Bryan went to a mascara party down town with our friend Reanna. Yesterday he called me from working telling me that he wanted to be a mosquito so between me,Bryan, and some of the shoppies at work we came up with a costume. We stayed up till 4am in the morning last night sewing and putting together the mosquito costume. We got home from Sanora's dance class/roaming around town and worked on it till Reanna came at 6 pm.

going out

I got 2 nights out recently, since we moved here I have gone out on my own a total of 2 times before. I went to the movies over the weekend and watches 30 days of night. Creepy movie that's for sure, one of the best vampire movies I've seen though. It was nice to get out, but poor Bryan. I guess she screamed the whole time I was gone until about 2 minutes before I opened the door.

With Sanora I was back at school when she was 2 weeks old, and with Sienna she's always with mommy. We kind of figure that there is such a drastic difference between Sanora and Sienna, their environments, surroundings, lifestyle etc... So the only way for her to get use to me being gone, is for me to be gone. I'm in Flamenco classes and now in drumming classes, so 2 days a weeks will help especially for me. Last night I went and played pool at the local pool hall and had a few drinks. It was nice and Sienna had dramatically improved since watching the movie on the weekend.

self injury and parent teacher interview

Well I have done it again, and injured myself. Today Tofino got ahold one of the really nice moccasins that my friend Lara got for Sienna. I was so mad I stomped my foot down hard and was surprised by pain. I haven't gone to doctor yet but I am willing to bet that it is a rupture of the Achilles tendon or it's a fracture....neither good. I looked it up on line and that's what it is leaning towards. So now I have the trouble of hobbling around on one foot after a 6 1/2 month old....hmmm well I have to say it's been interesting. Bryan is at a show tonight that a friend is staring in at the theater down the street. It's the same place that Sanora and I have our dance classes.

I haven't mentioned yet how the parent teacher interview went. Well I that Sanora is intelligent,and I wasn't worried about that. They do standard testing and got 95/100 and 42/50 on the other test. The only thing that she has to work on is her directions like centre and side of. The only bad thing she said about Sanora is her tendencies with "excuse me....excuse me.....excuse me...." and start rambling on, which we are very well aware of and was laughing with the teacher about it. I am very proud of Sanora, and how she has handled the bulling. They are very aware of the other girl and not surprised by her actions. Sanora has been great about handling it. I just decided to let it ride out, and just coach her and keep telling Sanora to ignore the girl and she's been doing great.

more random pics

If I would have thought about it more they would be in order.

I just like this photo even though it is blurry

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Stinky Lake/trail photos

The 4rth photo down is of what Sanora loves to do....play with the black goo that is in the lake. The lake is about 30-45 min in from the trail starting actross the street. It's a nice walk but I prefer the other trail at the end of the street because it's a bit longer and I like the scenery.

When I was unloading the photos from my camera to my computer, the batteries died in the camera. Unfortunately I was only able to get about 50 of the another 300 photos I have on my camera. Some of those are ones that haven't been erased yet though. They will be up soon.

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Thanksgiving pics

The first 3 pictures was on the friday of thanksgiving weekend, after a visit and walk with Sanora's friend/bully,lol. It was such a beautiful day both in beauty and in fun.

This is 2 days later on thanksgiving, quite the contrast wouldn't you say?

Sienna eith gets a bath in the sink or with Sanora. We do have a little bath tub but I find this easier.

school bus

Well life has been busy, or at least trying to. I am never bored, especially with Sienna crawling now. When I put her down it's like a race to something or somewhere, especially Tofinos food. Sanora by her demand started taking the bus to and from school. I didn't want her to come home on the bus, I wasn't ready for that. I love picking Sanora up from school, it's my parent interaction, I talk with her teacher every day, I have gotten to know her classmates and I love the walk with Sanora. Ah well I will have to do that another way. Tonight is Parent Teacher night, I am very interested to hear from her teacher. Well we are off on another trip to Stinky lake to have fun playing with the black goo.

snow fun/school fun

Lots of things lately. The day before yesterday was Sienna's first full-on crawling day, and oh my I am scared. She will be one to get into EVERYTHING! So as usual when there is snow there is snow ball fights, and there have been many of them. I have to say that Sanora is like night and day to how she was last year. I hit her right in the face with a snowball (by accident of course) and she just laughed. I volunteer at the school as the official scrapbooker, so I went in today and was at the school till noon. The kids sang songs for Sienna and I before I hoped over to the next room, it was so cute. I also know have a walking partner Corina, who snow shoes, taught kayaking as well as hunts. She showed me a good trail just beyond our house, a nice 1 1/2 hour walk and it's highly used by joggers and such so Bryan doesn't have a heart attack if I go on my own. When I got back from the school today I took Tofino out on the trail, I take him off the leash, so he gets a ton of exercise running back and forth. Sienna is growing so fast it takes my breath away.

thankgiving

We had 2 thanksgiving dinners this past weekend. We had a family one with just the family on Sunday. It was weird because it is the first this year not to have people over, even in tiny Grant street we had people over. It was nice, I asked Sanora what she was thankful for and she said dance lessons and our family, I though that was cute. I am thankful for my family, they are my everything.
On Monday night we went to friends David and Reanna's house for a moose roast, it was really good, done in a slow cooker. Early in the day I made bread, a good recipe that has no sugar or butter, but apple sauce, honey and molasses. Sanora didn't want to make it with me :(, so instead afterwords I sat down and played barbie and ponies.....oh what fun!