A video from my son!!!

My son made me a flip note(for all of you not familiar with Nintendo DSI's it is a bunch of drawings put together to make little movies) So here is my skiing accident reenacted by my son....sorry about my mini van looking like a penis on wheels!!!!
enjoy

ouch!

This year I decided to take up snowboarding, I tried it a few times and just wasn't really enjoying it to much, so I thought I would try skiing!!! so today I decided to let my kids skip school this afternoon and go skiing!!! Here in BC it has been raining mostly all winter, we had a few snowfalls back in December, but it has been raining ever since. So when we arrived at the ski hill today (which hasn't had too much snow this year) it was snowing like crazy!!! We were all stoked to hit the slopes. My kiddies went off skiing while I took my first ski lesson. I rocked! I did everything right and was having a blast, didn't fall once!

So at the end of my lesson my instructor asked if I wanted to go to the top of the hill. I said "sure" because hey, I was unstoppable today!! Big Mistake. When I got to the top of the mountain and looked down my first thought was "Oh shit, what have I done". Not wanting to look like a wimp I headed down. I got going to fast and couldn't slow down, sure enough I felt myself falling. Now, when you fall on a snowboard you either fall backwards onto your tailbone(which I did my first lesson) Or you fall forward, using your wrists(which I did my second time) With skiing, well you can pretty much fall anyway. So I fell and landed on my elbow, yes my elbow, twisting my knee in the process. I got back up and skiied the rest of the way down the hill. When I got to the bottom I could feel a slight throbbing in my elbow and noticed I couldn't straighten it. I headed to the lodge, and while on my way up the stairs I noticed my fingers were tingling. not such a good sign. I saw the medic there, and he told me I had to get someone to come get me and drive me to the hospital. Um not going to happen. So he made me a sling for my arm and I drove myself to the hospital, a nice 30 min drive.
Once I got to the hospital and got my xrays done the dr told me that my elbow joint was swollen and he figures there is a small fracture there, but he has to xray it again in a week to wait for the swelling to go down. GREAT! Now I can't work, and I will probably miss out the rest of the season. Well at least I have time to catch up on everyones blogs.

Just so you feel extra sorry for me, it took me forever to type this because I can only use my one hand :(

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I am starting a new blog for my photography, come check it out. You can see my photos on the side bar on my flickr account!


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The Olympic Torch in our town

Ok so I know I said I wasn't going to be writing for awhile, but the Olympic Torch came through our city last night, which was pretty cool. so I thought I would share some photo's with you.


First we went downtown to watch the torch go by, we heard that at the cauldren lighting there was going to be around 10,000 people there so we decided to go downtown where it would be a little quieter.......





Here's the torch.......


And there goes the torch.....


So that was over pretty quick, alot of build up then it's done. So we decided to head up the hill to the University and go join in the celebration.





My kids and I with one of the torch runners






Here is Nancy Green passing off the torch to Mark Recchi

see you someday!

I am taking a break from blogger, I really haven't been writing to much lately, I haven't even picked up my camera in awhile. So I will return once I feel inspired to do so. I will continue to read all your blogs, and even if I don't comment, I am still reading them. Chow 4 Now!

Happy Birthday To my Beautiful daughter!!

My daughter's birthday is on Friday, but I am doing this post early because my awesome big brother is going to throw me a link on Friday. He has many more followers than I do, that way my daughter can get a WHOLE bunch of birthday wishes.


Happy 8th Birthday sweetheart!

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WTFriday!!!!!!!

Wow it's already time for another WTFriday!!!
I missed Random Tuesday thoughts this week, so I will give you some quick randomness before we get on with the 2nd addtion of WTFriday.

My sister-in-law finally had her baby on Dec 31st. Savannah came into the world weighing 10lbs, she is a beautiful little....well not so little girl.

My lovely daughter the other night was inside the house while the rest of the family was in the hot tub, so I threw a snowball at her through the window, then she yelled out the window "Screw you" So of course I look at my son, and ask him "Where did she here that?" to which he replied "I only said it once!

Peanut butter gets gum off your child's face

Today I snowboarded for the first time, I didn't do to bad, the hot Australian instructor didn't hurt either! Ayways I was doing alright til I crash landed HARD on my tailbone, now I am not feeling so great, I hope it goes away by Saturday so I can go out again.
And now I will share some pictures with you for WTFriday!




Belgian Blue Cattle



Gotta love translation!



Can you see the guy in the picture? No photo shopping this guy actually paints himself to blend in with his picture!




Another great translation




Ultra violet tatoos!!




And last but not least, a crazy wave pool in Toyko........to get a better feel for it check out the video below. Have a great weekend everyone!