Five for Friday

1. Last Friday, Sage and I went to Winnipeg to take my mom to see

Cirque du Soleil Varekai for her birthday.

While I'd hoped to take a photo in front of a poster there, like 

Jonah and I did for Walking with Dinosaurs last fall, they didn't have any.

The show didn't allow flash photography and I hadn't brought 

my DSLR, which probably would have gotten me a few decent shots

of the performance, so I was left with just a couple of selfies:

Sage & I took the photo of ourselves after our brief (but fairly successful)
stop at the mall before we met my mom at the bus stop to take the bus
downtown to the MTS Centre.
The next two are on the bus and outside the MTS Centre where my mom got
a hot dog before the show.
Her face in these two photos kills me!
I think she thinks we're crazy -- LOL!
Thankfully, she smiled at the selfie in our amazing seats at Varekai.
I'm glad we could do something fun like this for her birthday!


2. Summer is officially here as Tuesday was our last day of school!

I've decided to do another Summer Pocket Album and take a photo every day to 

document our summer.

We took the kids to the beach that evening and I brought my camera along,

hoping for some good shots.

I got a couple of them goofing around....

But then my camera died.

I switched out the batteries for the rechargeables I'd brought along, but they were dead, too. 

The kids promised me that we would go back again...

3. We did return to the beach on Wednesday for the Canada Day Beach Blast,

where it was crazy crowded!

Jonah and Sage had so much fun playing in the water.

4. Austin decided to join me in my weight-loss efforts starting last Wednesday,

eating no-sugar, no deep-fried foods & no white flour.

I also downloaded a My Plate App to my phone, to track my calories.

I weighed myself yesterday and I've lost 3 lb. since last week, 

for a total of 8.  :)

5. Cameron's uncle passed away last week and we attended the funeral on Tuesday.

I didn't have any sympathy cards on hand, so I quickly made one before we left.

I was inspired by this week's The Card Concept #38 to make my card:

I thought the grey was well suited for a sympathy card:

I stamped the roses from Sweet & Sassy's Parisian Postcard stamp set

in Altenew's Warm Sunshine & Caramel Toffee, CTMH's Slate,

A Muse Studio's Slate and PTI's Soft Stone.

The sentiment is from PTI's Think Big Favourites series.

I borrowed an idea from Betsy Veldman and adhered my card front 

to a folded piece of Lemon Tart cardstock.

Thanks for looking!