Girl's camp

A few months back I was called as Camp Director for YW's camp, and I was super hesitant about the whole thing, how could I leave Maija for 4 whole days!?!?! I prayed, thought about it, and then realized that Wyatt is a very intelligent, and capable man (did you guys see the last post? the guy is a genius!), anyway, with a big prayer in my heart, I left for camp, and it was GREAT! The girls were wonderful, the spirit was there, and the activities were, although tiring (the hike was SO long, and my pants were literally in pieces when I got back down the mountain), VERY fun, and more importantly, Maija, and Wyatt were A OK. Although, I have to admit, I was glad to know they missed me, that evening I got about 45 minutes worth of hugs from each of them! I love my little family!! I will post pictures soon.
Camp Impeesa ROCKED!

Drum Master

I really should have posted about this a long time ago. Wyatt has been working on a project for almost a year, on and off. But he is finally getting close to completing it.

When Wyatt and I got married he owned a set of drums, which he unfortunately had to get rid of since we moved into a condo, at that time he decided to purchase an electronic drum set, and was pretty happy with it, since it allowed him to play without getting us kicked out of our home ;) But then a few years later, in the typical Wyatt way, he decided "hey I should just build my own electronic drum set!" and so he has.

He has made the frame for his set, written the program that allows the set to actually work, design a circuit board for the electronic component of this project. Honestly my explanation of it won't even do it justice, so if any of you guys are interested, and will like to learn more, click here, and you can learn about the design, theory, schematics, and more regarding his Drum Master Brain. It honestly blows my mind!

Here is a picture of his set, I find it really impressive, this guy REALLY never ceases to amaze me!

Maija's Room

So we painted Maija's room about a year ago, but sadly it took us so long to paint it, that I was too scared to actually damage the walls, and put holes so that we could put pictures up..Yes I know sad! But finally after a while, and some encouragement from Wyatt, I decided that I needed a project, and Maija's room needed some color, so I went all out, and painted a mural on one of her walls...Here is a picture of me working on the mural.



Maija has Grandma days every Friday, so thanks to grandma, I was able to dedicate a good 8 hours to this project. Maija loves puppies, and lately is really into Spot books, so I thought it would be cool to do a picture that, she is really into, so here is the final mural.




This type of project is actually not as hard as I thought it would be, and it was great fun just painting away, so if anyone is looking to do a mural, and will like some help painting, please let me know, I really did have lots of fun doing it! and I have some left over paint. I used sample cans from Rona, so the whole project was only about $38 total, and it really brighten up Maija's room.


Maija wakes up, and falls asleep lately saying "Puppa" or puppy. I'm so please with it, mostly because the person that it was intended for really likes it! I got the Maija stamp of approval!
For the other wall, we decided to keep within the same theme (art, painting), and I used photographs taken by Wyatt, and a painting done by our very own resident artist MAIJA!! I really like how it has all turned out.



So finally after a year, Maija's room is done! Thanks Wyatt for all your help, and encouragement! I was really freaked about drawing on our nice clean wall, but looking back, I'm glad I did it!

Oil Paintings- Cardston Alberta Temple

So I finally finished, I still have to varnish the painting, and eventually frame it, but this is a quick preview of what the finished, unframed painting looks like. I'm very proud of it, as this is my first completely original work. Wyatt took the photo, so this is not a copy of someone else's painting.
Unfortunately you can't really see the details, for example the trees have a lot of green highlights that you can't see in the picture, but overall it does give a fair impression of the final work.

Officially in Nursery!!

My Baby is no longer a tiny baby, she is a TODDLER!! Maija turned 18 months old, and this Sunday was her first official full day of nursery! I am very thankful for that program! I hope Maija learns to love her church time. We were a little curious as to how she was doing, so we popped in a few times to check on her (well mostly Wyatt did), it looked as though nursery is going to be great for her! Here is a picture of Maija before church yesterday morning.

Gold Medal!!

I just wanted to send out a HUGE congratulations to Wyatt. He participated on his first Kickboxing/Karate competition today, and not only did he go against fighters that had much more experience, but he actually was awarded a gold medal, when he fought against them! Wyatt you never cease to amaze me!!! You Rock!!

Here is a picture of his first match, all of his opponents were yellow belts, Wyatt is a white belt since his training is in Kickboxing, and not Karate. He later on competed in the men's open match against a brown belt, which I thought was very brave of him, I was worried, those guys were total ninjas!

Installing a Husband

This totally made me laugh, have a great day everyone!

Dear Tech Support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0 .

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programmes, such as:
· Romance 9.5 and
· Personal Attention 6.5,
and then installed undesirable programmes such as :
· SKYSPORTS 5.0,
· Football 3.0 and
· Golf Clubs 4...1 ..

Also Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2. 6 simply crashes the system.

· Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.

What can I do?

Signed,
Desperate.


DEAR DESPERATE ,

First, keep in mind,
· Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while
· Husband 1.0 is an operating system.

Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme.html and try to download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update.
· If that application works as designed , Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewellery 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

However, remember, overuse of the above application n can cause Husband 1.0 to default toGrumpy Silence 2.5 , Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1 ..
· Please note that Beer 6. 1 is a very bad programme that will download the Farting and Snoring Loudly Beta.

Whatever you do, DO NOT under any circumstances install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.)

In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 -programme these are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0 .

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great programme, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend
· Cooking 3.0 and
· Hot Lingerie 7.7.

Good Luck!
Tech Support