Old Love...New Love...

This is my baby has been for almost 3 years

Pretty much the love of my life right now, or it was until I stepped out on it and cheated on it with this...




I couldn't help it. I saw it and it was love at first site. So I have decided that it is time to sell my Jeep go back to a car. I know I am going to miss my sexy black Jeep and its heated leather seats, but I immediately fell in LOVE with the Jetta. I mean who wouldn't? Its beautiful, five speed, diesel, sunroof, ipod adapter, pretty much amazing, and drives like a dream. So I have officially posted my Jeep on Kijiji and am hoping for the best!

I will most likely cry a thousand tears when it does sell, but the Jetta just fits my life style so much better right now.

-kinsey

Slacker

I was thinking today that I haven't blogged for a really long time and realized I had some catching up to do. So things that have happened in the last couple of weeks....

Well 2 Saturdays ago now me and some friends decided to get out of town and go to Waterton which is one of my FAVORITE places on earth. I was all excited about it and suggested that we climb Bears Hump (which is not like me because I HATE climbing Bears Hump but I really wanted to see the view. The hike sucks but the view is totally worth it). Anyways so a few of us jumped in the Jeep and headed out there. Once we were there we went to Bears Hump first and off we were climbing. Well I had taken about 5 steps when all the sudden breathing was becoming an issue for me, so I stopped, turned around and went back to the Jeep to grab my inhaler. A couple months ago I got diagnosed with having Asthma. I didn't know that was something that showed up later in life but apparently it is. So I got back to the Jeep grabbed my inhaler took it and started back up the mountain. Well I got back to where everyone had stopped to wait for me and took about 10 steps this time and once again could not breath. I was not impressed. I mean I know I'm out of shape but come on I'm not that out of shape. So thanks to my new friend Asthma I was unable to climb bears hump and sent my friends on without me. So I went and sat at the lake and watched people which is one of my favorite things to do anyways. Some people are honestly so funny to watch. I had the pleasure of watching some oriental lady do some cung fu moves all around the lake. It was pretty entertaining.

Once all my friends were back from climbing bears hump we went and did the classic pictures by Cameron Falls and then we went and ate at Winners of Waterton. OH MY GOODNESS I know its just a hot dog but it was soooo good. Highly recommend going, its over by the Subway. It was really good. So once everyone was nice and full we headed off to Cameron Lake and hung out there for a bit. I was a little bit sad however because Red Rock Canyon which is by far my favorite place in Waterton is getting new washrooms or something up there so you aren't able to park up there and where you can park its like a 5 mile walk I swear just to get there. But we drove up there anyways. You can't go to Waterton and not go down that road. I don't know about anyone else but I love to drive down that road going really fast it feels like your on a roller coaster. There is one hill in particular that makes the road so enjoyable. In fact we may have gone over it turned around and done it again a few times. And last but not least we had a dance party on the side of the road in Waterton. "Tonights Gunna be a Good Night" came on, there is just no getting around it, you have to dance to that song, so we did and it was a blast.

So that night we had got tickets to go see John Schmidt (he's an amazing piano player for those of you who don't know who he is. I had no clue who he was before this). The concert was amazing. I loved every minute of it.

Well that was it for that week and then this past weekend we went to Thunder in The Valley. Im beginning to wonder if it is truly worth it anymore. I mean the fire works are amazing but its such a long drive especially at 11:30 at night when you still have to make it back to Lethbridge and it seemed like there were a ton more drunk people this year than normal. Anyways it was a good time. We got there a little bit early and hung out around the town for a bit. On the way back to the car however (which was like a 20 minute walk at least) I had to pee so bad and could no longer hold it, so being the girl that I am, and not being afraid to squat pee outside I did just that. I went behind the rail road tracks, made sure no one was coming and squatted. It was kinda funny though, just as I was pulling up my pants and doing up my belt a group of people with a flash light were walking my direction. I made it just in the lick of time. Things could have gotten a little bit awkward. So once we got home at 2:00am I was getting a ride back to my Jeep with Hunter who was on a motor bike. Let me tell you 2:00am on a motor bike flying down the West side hill is really cold. I was freezing! But it was worth it.

Well it been a good couple of weeks and Im going to try harder to write on this thing more. Stay tuned.

-kinsey

Better than Christmas

I'm a girl from a small town in Southern Alberta that is either loved or hated. There really isn't much in between. If your from this town you most likely have the same pride in it that I do, however if your not you probably hate it for one reason or another and you think that you are completely valid in your hatred towards it. However in this small little town there are a few things that we are good at doing, such things as...producing good sports teams, producing good fans for the sports teams, being well hated in both these areas, but I would say that the one thing that we are amazing at is celebrating July 1st. There is no better, or bigger day in Raymond Alberta Canada than July 1st. Its not only Canada day for us it is our "heritage" days as other towns call their celebration. And in fact I actually found out this year that there are some people who hate us for this as well. They think we "take over Canada day" like what..? I didn't really understand what this kid was talking about but apparently Raymond is a Canada day hog, I don't know. However people travel from all over the globe to come home for July 1st. If you were raised in Raymond there isn't much that can keep you away on this day.

To start this day of festivities out there is the legendary parade. Now to most people this parade seems a little lame, and well they aren't wrong in their observation of this, some years it is a better parade than others but well its tradition and not going is not an option. After that parade there are various activities going on around town, there's the famous Raymond Stampede home of the 1st stampede, Calgary lies when they claim to be the first. But I think that the one thing that makes this day so special to everyone is the time that they get to spend with their families. No matter where you look on July 1st in Raymond there are family reunions everywhere.

For my family July 1st is always celebrated with the best BBQ. Its one of my favorite and most looked forward to things of the year. Like every other year since before I was born we went and reserved our spot on the street to insure our spot at the parade, we had our BBQ at mom and dads, this year I succored a few friends to come out for the celebration and took a took them to the rodeo. They are from the city and had never seen an actual live rodeo. It was pretty fun to go to. For some reason no one brought a camera with them to the rodeo so there are actually no pictures to prove that this actually happened.

To end a celebration off right Raymond does fireworks. So of course I couldn't let my friends not have the full true Raymond experience and we hung out til it was time for the fire work show. I was pretty impressed with Raymond this year. They did a pretty decent display of fireworks. So to sum it up, July 1st was yet another successful day in Raymond. Can't wait til next year to do it all again.

Here are 4 of my FAVORITE boys in the entire world. Starting on the right is Brock and then Zane, then Paxton who looks like he is trying to get unstuck, and then Rhett. (Zane, Rhett and Brock are Kelly's kids, and Paxton is Alisha's. For those of you who are not familiar with my family they are my 2 sister's kids) I am a proud auntie of 4 amazing little boys. I have decided that I don't need a man in my life with these kidos around. I have 4 boys who have no choice but to love me what more could a girl want? This is the only picture that my sisters could get of their kids with Rhett actually not pulling his shirt over his head. He is kind of a strong willed child and did NOT want to sit on the couch for pictures.

Me and Paxton chillin waiting for the parade to start. (this is probably the only picture of me on July1st and it really isn't a good one)

A few days before July 1st I was off work for holidays and headed up to Sylvan Lake to visit my sister Kelly and the kids. While I was there we did a ton of stuff. I got to watch Zane play in his last soccer tournament of the season. Me and my sister made a bet to see who could lose 10 pound first and the loser buys the winner a shirt. Since we made this bet every morning that I was there she dragged my butt out of bed and tried to kill me by making me bike up the biggest hill in Sylvan Lake (she is worse than Jillian off biggest looser). The first day she got me up to go with I literally was chanting I HATE YOU (towards her) in my head as she is yelling down the hill at me (due to the fact that she made it up first) you can do it just count 1,2,1,2. So while she is yelling 1,2, to me I'm yelling back in my head I HATE YOU! By the time I got to the top I felt like I was going to die. I wanted to puke and get off my bike and tell her to come get me in the van. However, like I said before she is worse than Jillian and she made me ride all the way back to her house. The down hill was way worth it tough. But by the time I was done my visit up there I actually biked the hill 2 times in one morning. It was a pretty big accomplishment.

I came home to Raymond with her a few days before July 1st and I had promised my 2 oldest nephews that I would take them to go see "How to Train Your Dragon" It is such a cute movie I recommend it to everyone! They had both already seen it. Zane loved it again or so he told me and Rhett, well he fell asleep again like he did the first time. Poor little guy he was asking me half way through, "Auntie when can we go home? I want to go home now." So I bribed him and told him if he was good I would buy him a toy when we were done. And the next time I looked over he was asleep. After the movie we went to Boston Pizza with a few of my guy friends and I think I may have given Rhett 1 to many glasses of chocolate milk because when we were almost done he went crazy hyper. It was so funny. He is a hoot when he is hyper. I had to take him to the bathroom and the whole time he was singing to me. I got serenaded with the ABC's and twinkle twinkle little star, along with the other women in the bathroom. I don't know if they appreciated it as much as I did though.

On the way home from Lethbridge with the boys I had probably my favorite conversation with Rhett of my life! It went like this...

Rhett: Auntie look there's a sign

Me: Your right Rhett, what does the sign have on it?

Rhett: It has an R like my name

Me: It does have an R like your name.

Rhett: Yup H, E, T, T

Me: Wow Rhett your so smart! I didn't know you could spell your name.

Zane: My name is spelled Z, A, N, E,

Me: Yup that's how you spell it

Rhett: Zane how do you spell Brock?

Zane:B, R, O, C, K,

Rhett: Auntie how do you spell your name?

Me: My real name Rhett or auntie?

Rhett: Your real name

Me: K, I, N, S, E, Y, Rhett did you know that my real name is Kinsey, not just Auntie?

Rhett: (said with the cut test voice I have ever heard) Kinsey, hmm

This conversation carried on for a little while with Zane spelling various things for me, and then my favorite part of the conversation,

Me: Zane do you know how to spell Grandma?

Zane: Oh that's easy... G, R, A, M, pause....

Rhett: Zane space bar?

Me: Laughing under my breath at how cute this kid is

Zane: um...

Rhett: Zane...space bar?

It was SO cute and Zane realized he wasn't too sure how to spell Grandma and asked for some help. Sorry if this story was boring to read but it was one of my favorite memories of Rhett and I wanted to remember it.

-kinsey

it begins...

Where to start...? Well I'm sure there are going to be minimal to no people who read this blog but that's ok. I have decided to start my own blog to express my thoughts feelings and to share good times with anyone who wants to read. I have also decided that it is a fun way to keep a journal of the happenings in my life.

I am a girl who loves to read, laugh, lounge around and do nothing but veg and get hooked on ridiculous TV shows but most of all I lOVe to spend time with my closest frIenDs and FamIly. These are the people in my life who bring me the most joy and I LOVE them all to pieces.



I am also a girl who is proud of who she is and where she comes from. I am very grateful for my parents who have raised my to be a faithful follower of The Church of Jesus Christ and for my testimony of the gospel. It defines who I am and gives my the values that I have in my life. I would never want to be without it.


This blog is going to be one filled with funny stories, moments I want to remember, spiritual thoughts, and anything I feel like writing. I hope anyone that decides to follow my blog or happens to randomly stumble upon it enjoys the things that I have to share.

-kinsey