good indeed

Goodness I love this! This is the winner of Good's "Take a Picture of Someone Doing Something Good" photo contest. I would've voted for this pic 1000 times.

anniversary vacation

So we're fresh back from our anniversary vacation! This year obviously we had some travel restrictions what with me being 100 months pregnant and all so we decided to lay relatively low. A friend of Marc's offered us his cabin in Southampton for a few days (for free!!) and it was just what the doctor (and my poor swollen feet) ordered. When in doubt about how far you can push your pregnant belly, always opt for a few days of sitting on a gorgeous beach I say!

Took a ferry cruise around Georgian Bay - this is the famous "flower pot" on the aptly named Flower Pot Island.

This is Georgian Bay just being gorgeous.

I mean honestly, Ontario's got the best stuff...

...like shipwrecks under 2 metres of water!

The beach in Southampton that was about 20 seconds from our door.

Me and the belly at about 7 months.

Pretty flowers.

Our beach's sunsets. Crazy beautiful.

With light like this, how could we not take sparkly pictures of each other?

This was a weirdly hazy evening -- gave everything this fuzzy look.

Our teeny tiny slice of heaven in the trees.

Our annual contribution to our "us kissing in fun places" photo file.

Lake Huron rocky beaches.

How we spent the entire day - picnic, blanket, beach, perfection!

Getting some sun on the bambina -- she loved it and wiggled away the afternoon.

The beach houses with the dunes and sand going right up to their doors. Heaven...

The sunsets were insane. We took about 1000 pictures.

That's the Chantry Bay lighthouse. It's also a bird sanctuary.

All in all, a pretty lovely few days. A quick escape together was just what was needed before the fall when things will take a turn for the crazy!!!

today is my birthday....

...and in three and a half months it'll be her birthday.

happy monday

Dogs = awesome. Dogs sleeping on donkeys = awesomest.

sadie the sled-puller

This past winter Marc did an amazing job teaching Sadie how to pull a sled!! Here's some shots of her in action pulling my niece Emily and pulling Kaili's son Milo. She's so cute when she's pulling - like she's got a little job to do and it's time to be very serious....

sxsw 2010

So SXSW 2010 has come and gone and so here's a bit of a photographic review of the whole thing. It was a really fun year but I did find that my heart just wasn't in it as epicly as it was when we went in 2008. But early spring in Austin is still quite a nice break from early spring in Northern Ontario, I'll tell you that much!!

Drove 25 miles outside of Austin to the Salt Lick BBQ - voted to be one of the top 10 best BBQ's in North America. It was so worth the drive.

I took this picture to show you how big my brisket sammich was in comparison to my can of Dr. Pepper. It was almost the same height. I ate about 1/8 of this beast.

Austin also has a cupcake truck. Pretty genius idea on a chilly Austin day even though the cupcakes are $3!

I was REALLY excited to see Big Star perform at SXSW but unfortunately singer Alex Chilton died on the first day of the conference. They did a memorial panel for him with a couple founding members of the legendary band. It was very moving.

Cheap Trick played. How can you not go and see Cheap Trick????

The SXSW guitar show. I took this picture just for all my boys back home.

Neko Case and Kelly Hogan singing backup for Jakob Dylan. As per usual they were perfection. Jakob Dylan? Meh....

One day we got to take a boatcruise sponsored by SOCAN. Yay for boatcruises on warm sunny days!!

My travel-mates Dennis and Mike along with one of our industry partners.

There were about 20 dogs playing at this dog park - my heart melted.

6th street in downtown Austin.

The Cheap Trick panel. I went and listened to lots of road stories...

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings at Stubbs - a highlight show for me.

Amelia Curran at the Six Shooter Records party. I love her so....

This is all the stuff I poured out of my delegate bag. Holy paper wastage...

That's about it for now -- it feels like it was 20 years ago so apologies if I've missed something important and super cool!!!