Videos of the kiddos

No big story but just shows you how great the cat is with Haylei. she is soooo cute!!

Keenan found one of my old CD's.....

My little Dancing Queen.

Great Pics of Great Kids

I took the kids to the park last week. The kids loved it and I got some good shots too.




This one is called "Giant Keenan gets hungry!!"

Lets hope we don't see Haylei with too many more poles....

Check out how Maria does the girls' hair. It looks soooo cool.

Such a max relax cat. She stayed in there for 5 minutes after Keenan left her.

You just KNOW she did something wrong...

I FOUND YOU!!!!

Where is she???

So the other night as I am going up the stairs to bed....

I look up and see that Haylei's door is open...

I check her bed....

Not there?? I see that Keenan's door is wide open, maybe she is in there.....

Nope. He is in there somewhere but she isn't with him.

So I go into my room and what do I find???

Little Miss had decided that my bed was better, got up there (its a little high) and SPRAWLED across it. She remembered her blanket and teddies of course.

Another time this is what I found on my way up to bed......

As you can see we are having a few difficulties getting Haylei used to to a "big" bed.

Nana's Five

Here is the photo that my mommy asked for from the Thanksgiving weekend. The only picture that she specifically asked for was one of her five grand-babies. Here it is mom. Not the greatest but they are all together and looking in the same direction. It's not at me, mind you, but it IS in the same direction.

Just some pics

I have always been a photo freak. Not knowing anything about actual photography just enjoying having tonnes of pictures to save all those moments. I have always been like that.



But lately I want to DO more with them. I have been trying to learn about some things by reading my sister Angella's Blog , she does "Foto Fridays" trying to explain some camera settings and stuff. She has a really cool camera though, my little digital doesn't have all the settings and stuff that she talks about on her blog. :(



But after the weekend and seeing my sister, Dayna and brother Chad with their new digitals and what they can do has me REALLY thinking that I need a new camera. I really like the SLR that Angella has but the digital the other two had looked kinda cool too. And obviously there is going to be a price difference but I don't know which way to go. Anybody got any ideas? Anybody got a extra SLR kicking around that they want to send my way ?



No? Had to ask.



I have been playing with my camera a bit but mostly been playing in Picasa, which doesn't really let you do too much. But here are a couple that I have played with.

Basically all I did was play with some colours and cropping.

The Mum song

Someone posted this on my fun wall on Facebook and I just gotta share this with everyone. This lady is amazing!! And I LOVE the song.

Crankiness over...onto Thanksgiving!!!!

After reading that last post I have to say that I guess I have been a "little" on the cranky side....maybe...just slightly.

I will admit that I MAY be feeling a little overwhelmed lately with basically playing the single parent type role for the last year. I was just venting and without having too many ADULTS to talk to you may have got the brunt of it. I will keep posting, as sporadically as I do.

With that I want to post a couple pics from this weekend at the Moran Family Thanksgiving Reunion....or whatever you want to call it. We just called it a miracle!!

You see, if you can remember from previous posts, (I would link them here but I am not the blog experts as my sisters Dayna and Angella) my family is usually rather spread out. My oldest brother Chris just recently moved from Ontario to Alberta with his family. My other older bro Mark lives with our dad in Vancouver. My oldest sister Michelle and her family live in Ontario still. My older sister Angella and her family are in Summerland BC. Me and mine here in Victoria. Little sis Dayna is now living in Vancouver on her OWN!! "Little" brother Lance is living with Angella in Summerland and the two youngest Chad and Courtney are living with their mom is Gibson's BC.

Through out our lives most of us have been too spread out to make family get togethers happen too often. The last time we all got together was waaaaaaay back in 1990 at my oldest brother's wedding. There were seven of us at his wedding, but there was only seven of us at the time. The two little ones weren't even a thought yet. Since then has been nine of us I think the most that have been under one roof was at my wedding and that was 7 out of 9.

Ok, now I am starting to ramble. I can try to clear things up for you but even I get confused in this family!!

Back to this weekend...with most of us in BC this year and Chris only over in Alberta this was the best chance that we had to ALL get together for once. Michelle and her son came out from Ontario which was the BEST part!!!!! With mostly everyone there (the only ones that couldn't make it was James, Michelle's hubby Grieg and Chris' daughter Paige) it made for a busy, crazy, hectic and amazing weekend. So much family in one room was amazing. The food and everything was awesome. My father and his common law wife Gail did a great job with the entire weekend and all of the planning. I couldn't take enough pictures, I was snap happy!! I only wish my camera could have held more pics.

Speaking of pics here are a few. Like I said it was a great family bonding weekend. On Sat most of us went to the Vancouver Aquarium and that was cool. Then on Sunday we all went to Crash Crawly's (kinda like Chucky Cheese...but BETTER). We all had soooo much fun!

I will try to do this in order so that it may finally put somethings in perspective.

Chris

Mark and Dad

Michelle and her son Nic

Angella and I

Ummmm, apparently I didn't take any of just Dayna....sorry Dayna. You know what it was??? My camera couldn't take all that beauty!! LOL!!!

Lance

Chad

Courtney

And the beatings....I mean bonding begins.

Even Haylei wanted in...

Mark's daughter Justine, Dad and Cat (Chris' wife)

The four youngest Moran's...aka "The kidless"

Michelle's family...The Raycrafts...minus Grieg

Angella's family...The Dykstras

I should also have Mark with his daughter Justine and Chris's family but I must have been chasing or dealing with one of my kids in some way or another and missed those ones :(

Nic and Keenan...they don't look related do they ?? LOL!!

There are lots more pics and I have posted them on flicker (so mom...click here)
I only hope that it doesn't take us all another 17 years before we all get together again. I call it next... 2012 Thanksgiving at MY HOUSE!!!! Don't know where that will be yet but chances are Ontario so start saving!!!!!

Gail...I may need some organising advice. LOL!!!

To post or not to post.

I am trying to figure out if I should bother to keep posting. I mean seriously if you look at my comments, it is rare that one is ever left. I am thinking of cutting this thing off and just emailing the pics to the one or two people I know actually give a shit.



Mom, if you are reading this I will email the pics to you and walk you through it if needed. I may even start getting them developed and send them to you. There is a new idea!!