I'm still here

Sorry for not posting in so long!! I've been so busy and everytime I sit down at the computer, something comes up and I put off writing a post even longer.

I had an awesome Christmas, but it went by way too quickly. I took tons of pictures with my new camera and will try to post those very soon. Tonight is our annual steak and lobster supper and then Matt and I are going to my friend Candace's place for the evening, so it should be a really good time!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!!

We have a theme...

Yesterday at skating we decided on a theme and I think it's going to be really cool! Our theme this year is going to be The Summer and Winter Olympics. One of the skaters had suggested that and so we started to see how many ideas we could come up with for that theme and we actually came up with quite a few right on the spot. If any of you have ideas for this theme, let me know. I also want to thank Rachelle for all the awesome theme ideas that she gave me in my last post!! We'll have to keep those in mind for next year!!

In other news... I got my camera yesterday!!! WOOHOO!! It felt like Christmas opening that box. haha Now I just need things or people to take pictures of!

I need your opinions and ideas

I know there are a lot of creative people out there in the blogger land and now is when I need you all.
We had a skating meeting yesterday and started talking about our annual carnival. I got nominated to be the coach on the committee. Now is when we begin our planning process and I'm actually really excited yet pretty nervous about it all.
Here is where you guys come in. We need theme ideas. We've gotten a few from the older skaters, but we need more so that we have a bunch to choose from. Also, we need to decide whether we want to have a carnival or an ice show. What's the difference? A carnival is based around a theme, but doesn't have a story line. For example, one year we did colors. One group was yellow and skated to yellow submarine and another group was purple and skated to purple people eater. An ice show is still based around a theme but it's more of a story and all flows together.
Please please please let me know of any ideas and opinions that you have! Thanks!

All done Christmas shopping!!

That's right I am offically all done Christmas shopping!! It feels so good to be done. I'm in the process of making a gift, but I don't have to buy anything else. haha

Saturday I headed to the city with my parents to go shopping. Not only did I buy Christmas presents, I also bought some stuff for myself. I bought 2 pairs of dress pants and two sweaters. Everything was on sale so I got some really good deals! I also bought a back brace. The lady that was helping me said it wasn't going to help me while skating but I'm going to prove her wrong. I wore it to go sledding yesterday and I had NO pain!!! It was amazing. I'm going to test it out while skating today. Below is a picture of the brace that I got (mine doesn't have the shorts attached to it).

Speaking of sledding, I had a blast yesterday afternoon!! We were in the ditch just a little ways from his house and my arm was burning and felt like it was on fire, so I stopped my sled and waited for Matt to notice I wasn't driving anymore. He came back to me and asked what was up. We realized that the electric visor on his helmet wasn't working and that's why the cord was so hot (the cord runs from the helmet, down your arm and plugs into the sled). We then drove back to his place and did a swap of visors and then were off again. The snow is still VERY powdery and it was really bumpy so that's how I know my brace was working! I got some pretty good air on some of the bumps and almost fell off twice! haha That's what makes it interesting though and I can't wait to go again!! Hopefully my helmet will come soon too. Hope you all had a good weekend!

Weird template and weekend plans

So, today when I went to my blog, I noticed that my template was different. Up until now, it's had snowflakes and now it has santa. I haven't touched my template recently so I'm not sure how it got changed. It's almost a bit creepy!! I tried to copy in the code for the snowflake template, but it just comes up as santa. I have no idea what's going on. haha

I have a sort of busy weekend planned but I'm really looking forward to it. Since my parents aren't home tonight, I'm going to finish decorating the tree and put up some other decorations around the house.

Tomorrow I don't have skating, so I'm going to the city with my parents to finish Christmas shopping. I'm pretty much done, but just need a few things that you can't get here. While we're in the city, I'm also getting a back brace. My back is just not getting better no matter what I do. I tried a back brace a couple months ago, but I couldn't even breathe while wearing it, so I'm going to get a decent one now. Hopefully that will help my back from twisting so much when I fall at skating. In the evening, Matt and my brother have a hockey game, so I'll be going to that as well.

Sunday after church, Matt and I are going sledding!!! I'm SO excited. Hopefully the snow will be a little bit harder by Sunday so that it isn't all powder... then I won't get stuck so easily!

Hope you all have a great weekend!!

Just for fun

Nothing new going on in my life, so I figured I would do a post like I saw on Drea's blog awhile ago.

Type in the answer to these questions... and the 1st GOOGLE IMAGE it shows you post. (if the 1st photos are disturbing, just use the 1st clean photo)

Age At My Next Birthday: 20


Place I'd Like To Travel: Hawaii


Favorite Place: Arena


Favorite Object: Graf Figure Skates


Favorite Food: Cottage Cheese Perogies


Favorite Color: Pink


Nickname: I don't really have a nickname, so I'm just gonna skip that one

Birthplace: Winkler