Project pictures!

Ok, I'm now at school and have a reliable internet connection so I can upload the pictures for the project I did for Marlys' baby room. All these pictures were done in photoshop! Hope you enjoy!
Ok, Well I partially lied. For some reason the Giraffe and the Elephant picture are downloading with REALLY funky colors...might be due to the fact that my computer at home currently has a bunch of viruses. Anything I take off of it might be affecting my files....maybe?? Anyways, the other two pictures look like this one only with different animals. I just printed them off and I'm going to put them in white shadow box frames for the baby room! Just wanted to show you guys!

Update oh update!

Whew! Life has been pretty crazy lately! School has been crashing down on me with project after project due. It also doesn't help that I'm feeling like I'm missing a project all the time. Kind of makes things a little bit stressful! But I was lucky enough to have a week off last week to get caught up on everything I could. Still lots to do, but I got most of the other stuff out of the way!

Our family has been doing pretty good. Dad has been away on meetings a lot to Calgary. He took on a big project at work and is going to be having a lot of meetings for the next little while. We just pray he'll be safe on the roads and get to spend at least 3 days a week at home. Mom has been quilting up a storm...and has in fact piqued my interest in quilting. She's made a few baby blankets, a couple of quilts, placemats, and cushions for the couch! She's been busy! I've also taken on the quilting bug and began sewing my own quilt! I've finished all the blocks so far and just need to get all the big strips sewn on now! Half way there!

Marlys is 35 week pregnant and looking fantastic! We are so excited for the little bundle that could be coming any week now. She's really tired, but hanging on. We get to go see them this coming weekend and I'm really excited. It's only been two weeks since we last saw them, but she's grown quite a bit in those two weeks! It's an exciting time! I've also taken on another project for their baby room! I'll put pictures up at the end. I'm quite excited about the way they've turned out!

I've also been not doing well with this HELP challenge! I'm a little (make that a lot!) disappointed that I've only lost one pound in a month and a half! I just can't seem to lose the weight! Regardless of the outcome though, I am becoming more and more content with my body regardless of it's size. I do feel a lot healthier and I have been going swimming regularly so it's been really nice. I've also grown a lot spiritually especially this last week! It has been incredible. For awhile I've known that I am very judgemental, even though I don't want to be. Thoughts just pop up into my head about people and I scold myself for it immediately afterwards. The first time in a long time, I went to school seeing people the way God sees them. I didn't have one judgemental thought and it was so great!! The best thing from that day was this one lady on the bus (she's handicapped) gave me the biggest smile when she saw me and just said "HI!" It made me feel so good and I just had this huge grin and said "Hello!" back. It was a great day! I've been learning so much and growing so much. If I haven't been losing physically, I have been gaining spiritually! :D

Our family also had another gathering for the men this past weekend which proved to be excellent. My grandparents go to a church with a man who was heavily involved in the occult but was thankfully saved through Jesus Christ and now his ministry is to go around warning other believers of the danger of so many things such as tai chi, pokemon, dreamcatchers etc. He left some interesting pamphlets behind for everyone that were very interesting to read. A lot of things I didn't realize that were dangerous to a believer but when you read about it is very apparent why it is so detrimental. Anyways, the men were just blown away and I think a lot of progress was made. One verse I found in the pamphlet about tai chi was really interesting, and I think also applies to the HELP challenge (bodily excercise is indeed very good for you, but what is more important is spiritual growth)

The verse is 1 Timothy 4:7-8 (KJV) "But refuse profane and old wives fables, and excercise theyself rather unto godliness. For bodily excercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come."

I'm not trying to justify not excercising because excercise is indeed necessary as our bodies are temples, but we really need to check whether that is our priority over our quiet time. Without our quiet time, physical excercise is useless.

That is the update of what has been happening in my life over the past few weeks! Now for some pictures!!

My beautiful sister with a sweet little bundle inside! 5 more weeks...maybe!

and I seem to be having issues uploading the pictures of the project for the baby room. I will save those for another day!

Happy Singles Awareness Day!

Happy Valentines day, Love day, and for us single people, happy singles awareness day :) I trust those of you who are not single had a good evening with your special somebody, and for those of you who are single, I trust you rented a chick flick, and ate some chocolate :)

I went out for supper with my parents. My dad wanted to treat my mom and I to a nice meal. We went to a fancy restaurant here in Morinville and had very good food, and very good conversation. My dad concluded the meal with saying "Thanks for being my Balentines!"

Where's Kari? : a Self Portrait

So, as most of you know I have a weekly critique class where they give us a topic, we shoot something on that topic, and hand it in the following week to be critiqued by a teacher, or a guest photographer. This week's critique is self portrait. I usually don't like very many pictures of myself, because I actually feel really cheesy posing for pictures unless they're silly pictures, So I was trying to think of something that would really show my silly side, but couldn't come up with something, until for some reason, I thought of this: I was going to do me wearing a bunch of different shirts, and have the "Waldo" me sneaking off the side, but it didn't look quite right, So I settled for this one. Enjoy! Maybe catch up on a few of the good ol' books :)

Procedure...Done

I got my wisdom teeth removed yesterday! It went really well surprisingly. All the teeth came out relatively easy (except the sideways one, but that was expected) and I even laughed sometimes during the procedure! My dentist was leaning on the water hose and he kept spraying himself, so I laughed, and I had blood in my mouth, so because I was laughing, I accidentally spit some blood up close to the nurse, so she laughed. It was a good time haha. Afterwards she told me she never had a patient that laughed when they were pulling teeth. So at least I was able to keep some good moods about it :) So far recovery has been pretty good, except yesterday I fainted (That was scary) I barely ate anything yesterday so I was really hungry. Then I took a T-3 and went and had a hot bath...not so smart. After I got out of the bath, I went downstairs to hug my mom before going to bed, and I blacked out for a good thirty seconds. I couldn't see or hear anything, and I "woke" up slowly to my mom yelling at me seeing if I was ok I still couldn't hear her really and I was really dazed and didn't know what was going on. so she sat me on the couch and I threw up and could hear and was finally able to be coherent. It was definitely scary. My mom thought I was going to seizure. But today, I'm doing much better. A lot more sore and swollen then yesterday, and Logan requested a picture of my chipmunk face, so here it is. I just woke up when we took this picture, so bear with me :P

Not as swollen as I expected, but I'm taking ibuprofen. So that makes it easier!

Are You ready for some real pain?

I'm sure not! But I'm going to have to deal with it!

I went to the dentist yesterday to get my wisdom teeth looked at, because I keep biting my cheek. I went in there thinking that they're all going to be fine because my one came in perfectly straight with no pain or anything. BUT then we got the x-ray pictures back and oh boy. I have to get them removed in a week. That was quick! The one that came in straight is fine, but they're probably going to remove it anyways so it doesn't cause any future grief. One of them is still under the gums and is infected, the other one won't have enough room to come in...and the other one....is growing completely sideways into my other molars!!! My molar has a little dent in it from my wisdom tooth, and if the damage is too much, they'll have to take my molar out too! Yikes. They'll also have to break that wisdom tooth into a few pieces to get it out because it's still under the gum, and it's sideways. I'm also going to be awake for the whole thing....I think that's the worst part! Oh well, the sooner I get them out the sooner it'll go away. So here goes! Ready from some good pain, a fat face for a couple days, and lots of cheek bruising haha.

A Few Hawaii Pics...finally :)

So, I'm finally getting around to getting some of our pictures up (Sorry about the underline...I don't know why it's on) But here are only a few!!


Dad watching the "Dark Knight" at about 3 or 4 in the morning. we thought it was too funny that he chose to relax in a wheel chair :) In all fairness, he was "Charging his laptop."

Mom and Marlys, just shortly after we found out our last hope of getting out of Seattle was cancelled. So we decided to document our Christmas vacation in the airport just in case we never actually made it :)
Kyle Dad and Terry after hearing the bad news...for the fourth time.
The view from Mom,Dad and My room. A little stormy back in the hills that day.
The view from Marlys, Terry and Kyle's room (Just across the hall from us) That beach straight ahead is Waikiki beach, one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.


My cute sister videotaping the action on our first day exploring. This is Waikiki Beach.
The second or third day, we made our way to Pearl Harbor. This is the Battleship Missouri. This ship has quite the history. Wikipedia it or something sometime. The Japanese actually signed the surrender in World War 2 on this ship!
The plaque commemorating the surrender. It was soon after built into the deck of the ship.
And this is I think one of two recycle bins we saw in our entire trip in Hawaii. Surprisingly, you'd think they'd recycle their cans more. Marlys and I joked about writing "Don't" after "we" on the bin :)
This was my favorite place to visit. Lovely Hanauma bay. The snorkelling was great!
This is the coral reef that we got to go snorkelling in in Hanauma bay.
Kyle, Terry, Mom and Dad going snorkelling in Hanauma bay.
We went to an authentic Luau on Christmas day! It was great!
The roast pig coming out of the underground oven. SO delicious!
And the sunset on Christmas day :)