Fave Pics from Le Trip

took me two or three days to get this one single long post ready to ... uh... post. lol it better be worth it!!!!! :D




mt robson i think, banff national (or provicial?) park, BC



scenes from a cute little stop alone the way.....


scenes from our stop at a rest stop when we overheated,
first storm of the trip on the way.....








tired, hot, and sleepin'.... we prayed for happy campers, and we got them!





one dandy huge 'dandylion'... but i don't think it is, HUGE!!!


me and momma sayin' the byes:


somewhere in jasper, i think:




'i dont believe you...'
giggle guts kevo

givin' mom lovey eyes:



just the sight of my bed (gracie's just borrowing it) in our tent brings back the smell of our little home away from home.... and the strong urge to hop in and cuddle!!!!




our little he-man bundled up on a cold day (dropped to only 6 degrees the night before!... after 42 degree heat, that's cold!)




helpin' mum with the dishies:
and the baby....
and she has a non-marking butt to boot!





'no, mummy'





our happy home away from home for a week!



jordon finding something at the beach...then getting ready for a dip....
at the beautiful lake a half hour from timmins where we camped ("the cache")


jojo found every hole in the sand and roamed like a mad-ma... er... baby!

glamour gal wearing my hairclip lol




freakiy cloud that looked tornadoesque outside timmins



feeding himself? with the mess he was after, that's arguable! lol


just love these clouds




pics from the cry 2 (and later, the light show) at parliament hill, july 15th 2006:







another stop where we did some hippy kid-bathing!













the glory of God peekin' thru?





beautiful clouds for only being a day or two after a tornado that did this:






"i'm too sleepy to get the lid off, mom....zzzz...."
a day with family in ottawa!







meanwhile, back in the jungle.....

"GGRROWWWWRRR.....i'm gonna get you!!!!!"

'eek, i'm scared''i better run away... sorry i knocked the chair in your path, mom'
"GGRRAAwwwerr.... i caught one!!!! MWHAHAHAHA..."
.........'....nah, too cute for dinner....'



camping, and still multitasking!

fireshots




a cold walk home from takin' a dip.....


















bath time.....









zzzzz.....




just cute shots....











purdy as a picture, eh? lol











my feet, in their usual passenger-seat position:









trying hard not to laugh







le clan in leduc







"what's mom doin'?"

fixing the door that wouldn't open.... and tearing it apart in the process:

i wanna help!me too!

uh, i think i'll pass.....



like mother like son!

like little brother, like son?






sign at a gas station!!!!


















































aw, hunny, don't cry!!!!

cheered up!


rocks for dinner!

then, goodnight!!!!!

i wish i didn't eat today....

....cuz i'm sick again. i haven't checked my emails lately, the last coupla days primarily becuase of that. and i have to admit my 'lack of irritability' that i had yesterday is wearing thin. [insert blue smiley here]

Wanted: a new home

Wanted to rent or rent-to-own: a mould free home. 1 or more bedrooms, washer/dryer, no mould/dampness/musty smell to speak of. needed asap. i am quiet, pay my rent on time, untidy but clean. and if it's truly mould free, i'll likely be there for a long while!!!! call me, please~!

Raspberries Up My Nose!!!!

well, so yesterday afternoon, evening, and all night i was sick as a dog..... at one point i was REALLY 'sick' iffn you know what i mean, and i wound up with raspberries up my nose!!!!! it was kinda cute, in that i'm-feeling-quasi-delirious-with-fever kinda way, to blow bits o' raspberry out of my nose for the next half hour!

and even though my body was achin' from layin' in my hard lumpy bed for 12 hours and then some, and feeling so nauseous like i was going to puke up 12 ice cream buckets instead of the half of one that i did, etc etc etc....... I DIDN'T GET IRRITABLE!!!!!!! ... in fact, i felt peaceful. to God be the glory there, fer sure!!!!!

i shot myself!!!!!! [aka. pics of me on the big trip]

i shot myself~!!! among others of course; and others shot me. on our trip my friend mickie's camera sure came in handy. here are a few random shots of me, by meself or by others!!!!

"bright light! bright light!"

i LOVE driving!!!!!!


"oh my gosh, mom, you should see the bugs on the front of the van!!!!!"

cheering up the little princess cutie pie~!

look really hard: yup, my face is in there: long exposure taken at night
under the neon 'lights' at a closed gas station:

this is how we brush our teeth, brush our teeth....
and this is how we look in the mornin'!!!

go-karting under the light of God's glory, way kewl:

it was my first time doing something like that, what fun!

la belle in blue? sportin' some allergy shiners:

i love mirrors:

you called?

i caught me a pun'kin~!!!!!

can anyone say, "too stinkin' hot!"? lol

when unable to wake up lynard, sic the baby on her:

what a lovely way to wake up!!!! :D

i love shots of my eyes ~ windows to the soul? nope, just allergy shiners:

singing to myself:

did anybody know we went all the way to kandahar?
lol ~ kandahar, somewhere in canada, that is!!!!!

in all my pigtailed glory:

campin' happy!

camera fritzed, and a few b&w's were the result, this being only one of them:

at the cry in ottawa, july 15 ~ with my cousin Christine ~ miss ya, hun~!!!!

worship is serious business, don'cha know?

it's a bird~! it's a plane~! no, it's the sun spectacular!!!!

one crazy big dandy of a dandylion~!

the happy hippie crusaders eating din din along the side of the highway!

[there was no stinkin' rest stop to be found, but it resulted in
pretty much my favorite pic from the whole trip, i think!]

moi, le camper happie:

i feel homeless

why? cuz i need to find a new home purdy quick i think. main quality i require in my new home: a decided lack of mould. since coming home from my trip i feel like i'm sick. i slept an extra few hours this afternoon. i'm so tired. headaches, chest tightness, etc.... becuase i'm allergic to mould. and somehow, over the last couple of years, it's crept up in my house without me smelling it. landlord has no vapour barrior between us and the ground, so that makes for a damp house.

i know now from my trip what is more 'normal' for me: i had more energy most of the time, unless the heat and humidity was way up there; or unless i had used my puffer; or unless i was drowning in poisonous air in someone's perfumed presence or home.

sigh.

a deep, air hungry sigh.

Hope, Life & Joy Unspeakable: The Lion

Hope, Life & Joy Unspeakable: The Lion

alls i can say is like, WOW. beautiful, brother.

yoo hoo!!!!! honey, i'm home!!!!!!!

lol, i'm home, after all this time, i'm bloggin' again on my usual blogville. but please do continue to check out mine and my friend's travel blog, as we will continue putting memories and revelations and reflections etc on it. yay!!!!!! [clap clap clap] lol.

i was eating a nectarine tonight, and it has funny white spots in it.... is that normal? it's on the nubbly flesh of the nectarine, around the pit..... icky. i see white on food, i think mold.... or insect eggs. yuck.

speaking of home.... i may have to move. i was FINE on my trip, very little trouble with my asthma comparably, but after one night of sleeping in my own home i woke up with a horrible headache, sinus-style, a tight chest, and fatigue. yuck. when i walked in my front door after a month of being away, i could smell must. yuck. problem is, i live in a relatively damp area, so it's a common issue around here. it's not humid really, just lots and lots of rain. it's not like LA or some places on the lakes in ontario, where it's by ocean and there's so much humidity, mold smells are all over the place, in public places, outdoors, etc. not just in badly build homes, lol. the dampness here is more ground moisture than air moisture i think.... anyways, it would never turn 32 degree weather into 42 on the humidex~!!!!!!! never, no way, i seriously doubt it.

anyways, so i may have to move my home. and what's my current dream? or dare i say vision? to 'homestead' in a kind of way. have a camper or a yurt on a little peice of land in the boonies. build me a little cordwood house, a little studio.... a 'carport/roof' type thing i can park the camper under, and have a 'deck' of sorts on the gravel under the roof ...... heck even a firepit, and/or storage for the firewood for my handy dandy high-efficiency [ie, non-polluting] woodstove...... i'd even be ok with an outhouse/sani-dump type set up, i pottied in outhouses and garage stations all the last month, some of them nasty as can be, and i tell ya, i survived. i need to keep my life small and simple. dramatically so, i think. i flourish in such an environment.... but in a home full of 'stuff'.... i suffocate. and not just spiritually/mentally, either, also literally: dust + mildew + asthma = suffocation. so hopefully "home" will one day have a bit more of an outdoorsy, camping/hippie/pioneer gal type feel to it.


but y'know, home is where the heart is.... and God is the only one in control of where my heart is!!!!!

C'mon Ride the Train with Daily Dancer!

i love this song, and his dancin' is jus' skookum!!!!! whoo hoo, Daily Dancer!!!!

Speakin' in Faith!

An elderly gentleman passed his granddaughter's room one night and overheard her repeating the alphabet in an oddly reverent way.

"What on earth are you up to?" he asked.

"I'm saying my prayers," explained the little girl.

"But I can't think of exactly the right words tonight, so I'm just saying all the letters. God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking."

i love this... this is like speaking prophetically or in tongues... we just have to trust that God puts the words together.... no, KNOW that God puts the words together!!!! walking in faith, speakin' in faith. i love it!