Family Pictures...

This spring for Mark's job, his principal wanted him to put up pictures of his family ( I know shocking right, he didn't have any of us in his classroom) So we roped Randea into taking some pics for us. She did a great job, and Mark ended up switching jobs so he never used them, but I think i'm gonna do Christmas cards this year on the computer if I can figure it out and use them for that. We'll see how it goes, but in the meantime, here they are.

I ended up using them in the house in the bonus room in a collage of pictures, love the effect that it ended up as, I'll post pics later of it.

Boys Day Out

Mark took Kolby to the ice caves this year with a friend and his boys, and Kolby had a blast. So did Mark actually, it was in the kananaskis, and they went in july when it was nice and warm. They drove about an hour to get there, and then rode their bikes to get to the actual caves.

Kolby did pretty good but about half way there he had to leave his bike chained to a tree and Mark put him in the bike carrier. It would have been a good trip if some boneheads didn't find Kolby's bike off the trail and slash the tires and the seat. Really, who does that? Lame! Oh well, it was a sweet bike so I garage saled another bike and we replaced the seat and tires with the garage saled bikes tires and seat, and now it's as good as new. Love that Mark is handy enough to switch things like that over, even if it meant I had to start it just to get him to do it. Oh well they had a blast anyways, despite the bike issue. When they went in the caves, it was so cold that they had to wear winter jackets! Mark said Kolby was a real trooper!

Kolby still remembers the ice caves, and brings it up every once in awhile (mostly to rub it in Taylors face that he got to go and she didn't) But I'm glad that Mark spends time with the kids doing things like this, those are the things I remember as a kid doing with my dad (like all the swimming trips to the WL pool) man we had some good times! Mark is a pretty awesome dad!

Calgary Stampede

This year my parents came over from BC and we all went to the Calgary Stampede. It was really fun this year, the kids were able to go on rides without crying their eyes out, and they had a blast. They went on a bunch of rides and really enjoyed it. We all had a blast, besides getting separated several times, and wanting to scream with Tynen when he had a break down, it was great fun. But I must say, the stampede is definitely on of those things you do only every few years.

The kids wanted to show grandpa that they knew how to handle a tractor just like him, so the hopped on.


And that they could handle a horse. Just like grandpa...


Oh yeah, and they couldn't miss out on the big tank and the army man... I think Kolby was more interested in the gun than what they had to say, but whatever works...

2 years of First day of School

Alright, so I'm a bad blogger, but I did take some pictures of Taylor's first day of Kindergarten last year in Vulcan. She was so excited. She did full days Tuesday and Thursday and every other Friday, she loved it, her teacher Mrs. Miller was pretty good and Taylor loved her. Here she is in September 2008:

I'll have to post her first day of school later, it's on my phone, and actually, I do kinda suck, I think the pic is just of her getting on the bus, oh well, she looked adorable, as she always does. Kolby's first year of kindergarted was this year as well, he was very excited to be just like Taylor and go to the same school as her and everything, so that was fun. They both love school and have made lots of friends, they love their teachers and are doing great.

Welcome to the World Peyton Raya Fredriksen

April 29 2009 Peyton was born.

An absolute doll, and an angel baby, so thankful for her. She was born early in the morning and was pretty quick. I had gas and air, and almost wish I had a longer labor so that I could have stayed on it longer, oh well, I guess that is how it goes right.

Our friend Randea was awesome and watched our kids when we went in and helped us pick the middle name.

Love it!

We didn't know what we were having, but Taylor kindly informed us that if it wasn't a girl, she was sending it back (or maybe not so nicely in different words) Needless to say she was thrilled that we had another girl, and a redhead no less. The kids were so excited to meet Peyton, Randea brought them in in the morning and they wanted to hold and cuddle her. It was so adorable.

To this day the kids absolutely love her, and dote on her, she is like their doll, but she is starting to be on her own, and doesn't like to be carried around all the time, and I think that her personality is going to be one that will let them know. Bless the red hair!

LONG TIME!

Ok, well what can I say, I suck and this is long overdue, but let me get to the nitty gritty...
A little about what has happened in the last few... well almost a year.

We moved to okotoks, mark got a new job, we bought a new house and had a baby girl. Done, just kidding.

In January of this year, I felt like it was time to move ( I think it was cabin fever, but i'll never admit it to Mark) Don't ask me why, I was busier then ever doing hair in the salon, we had just finished reovating the house to where we liked it and things were starting to settle down, not so crazy busy. But I felt like we needed to so I started looking for a new house. Those of you that know me, know that I am kind of a deal junkie, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy and excited if I can get a steal of a deal, so I decided I was going to find a killer deal on a house and then see what we could do about getting it. So I went online (which is kind of an addiction I must say, I could probably spend hours on there doing absolutely nothing and then wondering where the time went haha) and one of my favorite pastimes online (sad to say) is searching kijiji (it's a buy and sell website) well, this time my pastime payed off. I found a house. The ad said "HOUSE FOR SALE OKOTOKS fast possession. Need to sell" It was a fantastic price. It had been posted the day before and I emailed him back. We talked and set up a time to view it. Before we went, I took Mark to do a driveby and he said, "I feel like this is our house", well that was the kicker for me, I was sold and I hadn't even seen it yet, I guess when it's right it's right. However, I insisted we do some groundwork and check out some of the other houses in that price range and found that they weren't even comparable. So we fell in love with the house on Kijiji. And took possession of it on my Birthday! What a great Birthday present. So now we live in a beautiful home, that I love and feel like we will be in for awhile. Here are some pics!

This is the Salon, Mark made sure I had my hobby right away so I wouldn't be "Crazy" as he puts it. (I'm sure it helps that I make money doing my hobby.

Kitchen - I love my kitchen, it has a walk in pantry with lots of storage!

This is the downstairs sitting room.

My Master Bath is one of my favorite places in the house.

This is the bonus room, Mark's favorite room.