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This video was taken on Christmas eve at the annual Schembri Proteus christmas party. With the help of Russ Webb, Alexa was the funniest one at the party! This is the most adorable thing in the world!




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Tegan and Alexa Christmas eve

My baby Girl

Well everyone, I would like to introduce you to the newest member of my life! This beautiful little girl is my daughter Alexa Rae. She is the most wonderful Christmas gift from God. I was induced on Monday, December 18, 2006 at 1:00 in the afternoon and she was born on December 19, 2006 at 3:23 in the morning. I think she is the most perfect baby on the planet, I love her to bits and pieces already. She and I are both learning as we go, and it is going extremely well, although I am extremely sore and just a bit tired. She is spoiled already, and everyone is buying her baby's first Christmas ornaments. I have 3 already, haha, and I thought I wouldn't be able to buy one before Christmas! Thank you to everyone who has given me gifts, and to those who are just there supporting me! I love you all! And Alexa loves you all too!

My Pregnant Belly!

Well, I finally got some pictures of my belly! Yay! They are not as sexy as I hoped they would be, I look more fat than anything! hahaha

Here, Zoe kept wanting to touch my belly, and so we got Dante's hands in there too, and this is how it turned out! I think it is pretty cute!

This picture i was posing, yea, I am a horrible poser! hahaha Shows off the giantgantity off my belly though!

This I was trying to look sexy, and I think I pulled it off a bit. I dunno...tell me what you think!

Well now you all know what I look like! So tell me what you think it will be, and if you think I will last another 3 weeks!??

20 things that change when baby comes!

1. You look at your baby in the mirror instead of yourself.

2. You finally stop to smell the roses, because your baby is in your arms.

3. Where you once believed you were fearless, you now find yourself afraid.

4. You're less self-involved and more self-motivated.

5. The sacrifices you thought you made to have a child no longer seem like sacrifices.

6. You respect your body ... finally. (Hooray for baby-making!)

7. You have stronger opinions and are stronger willed.

8. You respect your parents and love them in a new way. (Hooray for grandparents!)

9. You find that your baby's pain feels much worse than your own.

10. You believe once again in the things you believed in as a child. (Hooray for the tooth fairy!)

11. You lose touch with the people in your life that you should have banished years ago.

12. Your heart breaks much more easily.

13. You think of your baby 234,836,178,976 times a day. In fact, you're so busy with this that you forget everything else.

14. Every day is a surprise.

15. Bodily functions are no longer repulsive. In fact, they please you. (Hooray for poop!)

16. You think before you speak.

17. You become a morning person. (Hooray for watching the sun rise!)

18. If you have a son, you no longer curse men. (Hooray for all men!)

19. If you have a daughter, you hope she won't endure your same heartaches.

20. Your love becomes limitless, a superhuman power.

Let it snow, let it snow! Wait...no....stop!!

The first snowfall of the season! And to think, yesterday it was blue sky and no sign of snow at 10 am, but by 10 pm, this is pretty much what it looked like! Waking up this morning was a big surprise! Winter is HERE!

Dante lost somewhere in that big pile of snow!

This is what everyone had to wake up to and scrape off before heading out for the day! Almost 3 feet of snow on their vehicles.

Mom plowing through some snow, trying to make a parking space because of the lack of a shovel!

Lets hope this snow is only temporary! It would suck to have more snow piled up on top of it throughout the entire winter! We are expecting 2 more feet tonight! Lets hope we don't get snowed in. That will be 5 feet of snow within 48 hours!

Road Trip!

These are some pictures of our (Jade, Daniel, Addison, Tegan, Me, and we picked Dillon up!) trip to Edmonton, for a wedding. We left at 3:00 am and arrived in Edmonton at 5:00pm. Long trip? YES!! One flat tire later, which we aquired at 4:00 in the morning just outside of Pouce Coupe, which is about 10 mins from Dawson, and a stop to pick up Uncle Dillon, we finally arrived, all grumpy and tired! What a trip! Just to see them cut the cake! hahaha







Addison giving some love to Tegan while we were stopped due to a flat tire, at approx. 6:30 in the morning! They were so good!

Look at this HomeGirl!

Tegan looking mighty upset, for some reason, musta been some bad milk! :P

Addison giving Auntie Smiles!

It was great fun, although, I don't think I would want to do it again!

Congrats! Kevin & Ewa Sparling Sept 30, 2006

Do Not Be Fooled

"Please Hear What I'm Not Saying"

Don't be fooled by me. Don't be fooled by the face I wear.

For I wear a thousands masks, masks that I'm afraid to take off and none of them is me.

Pretending is an art that is second nature with me, but don't be fooled.

For God's sake don't be fooled.

I give you the impression that I'm secure,

that all is sunny and unruffled with me, within as well as without,

that confidence is my name and coolness my game;

that the water's calm and I'm in command, and that I need no one.

But don't believe me. My surface may seem smooth but my surface is my mask,

ever-varying and ever-concealing.

Beneath lies no complacence. Beneath lies confusion and fear and aloneness.

But I hide this. I don't want anybody to know it.

I panic at the thought of my weakness and fear of being exposed.

That's why I frantically create a mask to hide behind,

a nonchalant sophisticated facade to help me pretend,

to shield me from the glance that knows. But such a glance is precisely my salvation.

My only hope and I know it.

That is, if it's followed by acceptance, if it's followed by love.

It's the only thing that can liberate me from myself,

from my own self- built prison walls, from the barriers I so painstakingly erect.

It's the only thing that will assure me of what I can't assure myself;

that I am worth something. But I don't tell you this.

I don't dare. I'm afraid to. I'm afraid your glance will not be followed by acceptance,

will not be followed by love.

I'm afraid you'll think less of me, that you'll laugh, and your laugh would kill me.

I'm afraid that deep down I'm nothing,

that I'm just no good, and that you will see this and reject me.

So I play my game, my desperate pretending game, with a facade of assurance without and a trembling child within.

So begins the glittering but empty parade of masks,

and my life becomes a front.

I idly chatter to you in the suave tones of surface talk.

I tell you everything that's really nothing, and nothing of what's everything,

of what's crying within me.

So when I'm going through my routine, do not be fooled by what I'm saying.

Please listen carefully and try to hear what I'm not saying,

and what I'd like to be able to say, what for survival I need to say,

but what I can't say.I don't like to hide.

I don't like to play superficial phony games.

I want to stop playing them.

I want to be genuine and spontaneous and me, but you've got to help me.

You've got to hold out your hand even when that's the last thing I seem to want.

Only you can wipe away from my eyes the blank stare of the breathing dead.

Only you can call me into aliveness.

Each time you're kind and gently and encouraging,

each time you try to understand because you really care,

my heart begins to grow wings, very small wings, very feeble wings, but wings!

With your power to touch me into feeling you can breathe life into me.

I want you to know that.
I want you to know how important you are to me,

how you can be a creator, a honest-to-God creator of the person that is me,

if you choose to.

You alone can break down the wall behind which I tremble,

you alone can remove my mask, you can alone can release me from my shadow-world of panic and uncertainty, from my lonely prison, if you choose to. Please choose to. Do not pass me by. It will not be easy for you.
A long conviction of worthlessness builds strong walls.

The nearer you approach to me, the blinder I may strike back.

It's irrational. I fight against the very thing that I cry out for.

But I am told that love is stronger than strong walls, and in this lies my hope.

Please try to beat down those walls with firm hands, but with gentle hands, for a child is very sensitive.
Who am I, you may wonder? I am someone you know very well.

For I am every man you meet and I am every woman you meet.
~ Charles C. Finn ~

Happy Thanksgiving

Today we had Thanksgiving, and the entire family is here! Jade brought the beautiful girls with her, and I just happened to get some beautiful pictures. Addison with her Uncle Dillon, and Tegan being held by grandma Jerrilyn!

Cherrio, or cherry OH!?

Wow, time is going by quite fast lately! I only have 97 days to go! My ticker is a bit behind schedule, i am 26 weeks and 1 day pregnant now. Yipee! The baby is getting big, and moving alot. Wakes me up at night with kicking and rollling fits. Jade says it only gets worse. I will put more pictures up soon, as people keep telling me I am huge, maybe they just don't realize I am getting fatter! Anyway, just thought I would update you all a bit about how I am doing. I am working, as a waitress, and going to college for my Social Service Worker Diploma. It is proving to be a bit more than I can handlle at the time though, so I think that I will probably stop school for a year after this semester, just because I want to have a bit of a life! lol Otherwise, I am doing good! For all you in and around TR, the View Point Bar and Grill is staying open this year. We will be open Wednesday through Sunday, our hours will be 10-2 and 4-11 each day, except for on Friday and Saturday's we will be open until 1 am. Please, if you are around here, come and help us stay open, otherwise we will be having to shut down! Well I am going to go, but I will blog yet again soon! Goodbye!

Here you all go! The first pictures of my baby! heeheehee! Isn't it beautiful, I can't wait til I get bigger. Then there will really be something to look at! I love it, he is moving so much!I am so excited!

Well, it has been a while since I last posted. But I guess it is time to post something, before I forget my login name and password!

Life has been good, and a bit stressful at times, but I am surviving. I have also decided that I am going to raise my child alone. The father is no longer a part of this. He just couldn't grow up, and I was sick of waiting and pushing him. I felt I was just pushing him further down the road I didn't want him to go. So, now I am facing this all by myself(with tonns of support though!) and am going to college to take my Social Work Diploma, so I have a career for myself and my child. I am also thinking of taking the Sherrifs course at the JI in Vancouver. But am not sure I want to spend nine weeks away from my baby while taking the course.

I am working as a waitress currently at the Golf Course. It's a good job, the tips are good, although I am having trouble staying on my feet for 8 hours a day lately. I am getting vericose veins, and the doctor said I should change my job or take it easy. Putting my feet up for 10 min every hour. Hahaa, I found that funny, how as a waitress am I supposed to do that?

This past week I went to spend two days with Daniel and Jade, helping them out. We fenced for one day, and went into Dawson the next. Only Jade, Addison and I though(went to Dawson). Jade had a doctors appt. and I went and watched Addison while she was in the clinic. I finally bought a camera as well! I am so ecstatic about it. It is a nice little camera, and it takes some pretty nice pictures. I don't need much though. Just a good enough camera to take pics of my baby and put them on the blog! Anyway, here are some pictures of Addison, seeing as she was my best and cutest model of the day!

The pictures were added on top, just so you know, that I am not trying to confuse you. Maybe I need to start off the blog with pictures?

Next I will add a picture of me and my ever growing belly!

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How your baby's growing: Your baby is no longer an embryo! Though she's barely the size of a kumquat — just an inch or so long, crown to bottom — and weighs less than a quarter of an ounce, she now has completed the most critical portion of her development. This is the beginning of the so-called fetal period, a time when the tissues and organs in her body rapidly grow and mature. Her vital organs — the liver, kidney, intestines, brain, and lungs — are now in place and starting to function (although they'll continue to develop throughout your pregnancy). Her liver continues to make blood cells, and the yolk sac, which previously supplied these cells, is no longer needed and begins to disappear. During the next three weeks, your baby's length will more than double to nearly 3 inches. Her head is proportionately smaller now than it was a few weeks ago, but it's still almost half the length of her entire body. Her forehead temporarily bulges with her developing brain and sits high on her head; it will later recede to give her a more human appearance. Each day, more minute details — including tiny fingernails, toenails, and peach-fuzz hair — start to appear on her body. Her fingers are now completely separated; her arms bend at the elbow and curve slightly; her hands are flexed at the wrist and meet over her heart; her legs are lengthening; and her feet may be long enough to meet in front of her body. She is busily swallowing amniotic fluid and kicking her legs. If you could take a peek at your baby this week, you'd be able to clearly see the outline of her spine through her parchment-thin skin. Spinal nerves are beginning to stretch out from her spinal cord. * Note: Experts say every baby develops differently — even in the womb. This developmental information is designed to give you a general idea of how your baby is growing. How your life's changing: Your uterus has doubled in size by now. Before you got pregnant, it was the size of a small pear. By this week, it's grown to the size of a grapefruit. At your next prenatal visit, you may be able to hear your baby's rapid heartbeat with the help of a Doppler, a hand-held soundwave stethoscope that your practitioner will pass over your belly. Many women say that the beating of their baby's tiny heart sounds like the thunder of galloping horses and hearing it for the first time is one of the greatest joys of the first trimester. Depending on your level of fitness, you can most likely participate in a wide range of activities during pregnancy. Swimming and walking are excellent choices for the whole nine months. Exercise promotes muscle tone, strength, and endurance — three qualities that can help you carry the weight you gain during pregnancy, prepare you for the physical stress of labor, and make it easier to get back into shape after your baby is born. (Unfortunately, there's no evidence that regular exercise shortens labor.)

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8 WEEKS....YAY!!!!!

Today I am now 8 weeks Prego......Here is a little info for ya'll bout my baby and how it is growing, from babycenter.com.

How your baby's growing: Your baby is now 5/8 of an inch long, about the size of a kidney bean. She's constantly moving and shifting, although you won't be able to feel these womb wiggles for several weeks yet. Her embryonic tail is disappearing, and her eyelids practically cover her eyes. Still slightly webbed, her fingers and toes are growing longer. Her arms have lengthened, too, and her hands are now flexed at the wrist and meet over her heart. Her knee joints have formed, and her feet may be long enough to meet in front of her body. With her trunk straightening out, her head is more erect. Breathing tubes extend from her throat to the branches of her developing lungs. The nerve cells in her brain are also branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. Though you may be daydreaming about your baby as one gender or another, the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl.

And how bout a little info about how I am changing! hahaha

How your life's changing: You haven't gained much weight yet, but parts of you are certainly growing — like your breasts. You'll soon need bigger bras with better support than your old ones. You may notice your waistline expanding as well, forcing you to pack away your favorite jeans. Less obvious is the increase in your blood volume; by the end of your pregnancy, you'll have 40 to 50 percent more blood running through your veins to meet the demands of your baby. Your need for iron increases with your blood volume. Take your prenatal vitamins to make sure you're getting the extra iron you need so that you don't become anemic.

Feeling tired? Hormonal changes, in particular, can cause you to feel sluggish. And it's not uncommon to be having trouble getting a good night's sleep at this point, especially if you're uncomfortable at night or getting up to use the bathroom repeatedly. Frequent nausea and vomiting can certainly cost you energy, too. If you can, try to get between nine and ten hours of sleep at night, or take naps during the day.

Well, for all you that didn't know, know you know! Some of it is a bit descriptive, but nothing all us mature folk can't handle! I am so excited! I love getting this newletter telling me about my baby! There is even a picture attached. Although I am not sure how to put it on here so you are out of luck on seeing it! Talk to you all later!

It's been a while! Well, I went on Saturday to Edmonton to pick Mat up. That night, he told me he loved me, believe or not believe? lol Well he better love me. I am having his kid, so he is kinda stuck! lol Although he said even if I wasn't pregnant, he would still love me! Awwww!! The baby is giving me such pains, and is making me so sick during the day it isn't even funny! I think the only time I am comfortable is when I am sleeping.

Today, I got a phone call from Mat, he is on his way back out to camp, and he told me his mom was taken to the hospital today. She is not doing too well. She is quite sick, she is having problems with her heart, and we are very worried about her. I want her to live to see her grandchild. So if you could just pray for her, her name is Audrey! She has been such a big help with the whole pregnancy, and has helped Mat and I out since she found out.

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed
ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken,
probably more than once, and it's harder every time. You'll break
hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken.. You'll
fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old
one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll
eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too
much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds
you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back. So send
this to all of your friends in the next 5 minutes and a miracle will happen
tonight..

Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back
when you hang up on him, who will stay awake just to watch you sleep.
Wait for the guy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to
his friends. Wait for the one who is constantly reminding you of how
much he cares about you and how lucky he is to have you. Wait for the
one who turns to his friends and says, "..that's her.."

Woah!

Well, I recieved some shocking news earlier today. And I am not too sure whether to be excited or scared. Ok, well I guess I am both. Scared of my mother's wrath mostly though! But if you all haven't figured out what I am talking about yet, I am pregnant! Due at Christmas time, so it will be an exciting christmas for both me and the dad. He is pretty psyched, although it came as a shocker for the both of us. He wants to move down to Edmonton, so that he can keep working for his company and have me and the baby close, so he doesn't always have to come back up here to Tumbler. I think he is going to be a good dad, I think this is making him realize it is time to settle down and actually start taking care of someone else. He is being so amazing about it. And his mom is being really supportive as well. I told Jade and Dillon, but now it is time to face my mom. I know exactly what she is going to say, so I just want to get in there, tell her, and get out if I can. It is going to be hard, but she will get used to the idea sooner or later. Anyway, I have been sick and so tired the past 3 weeks, and now I know why, so I am going to hit the sack right now. So tired! See you all on the flip side!

Angel

I just thought I would introduce you all to my niece! She is a beautiful little girl, who is growing up wwwaaaayyy to fast! I took these pictures of her on easter, she was modelling her new easter dress for her great uncle, and I thought I would take some of her as well! She looked just like a little angel in the dress, and the way the light was coming through the curtains. She looks just like her mom! I love them both!

Sick....blah

It's been a bit since I have written my last blog, but I do have an excuse! I am so sick. I have been to the doctors 2 times, and he still doesn't know what is wrong with me. My friends nephew had whooping cough though, and I think I may have gotten it from him. Maybe bronchitus? I don't know, but this better either kill me or go away real quick, because it is getting so old!
ooh ooh, I got a new bed, finally no more sleeping on a uncomfortable couch. I'm so happy about it! It's a queen size, so I have a tonn of room to myself! But I am used to sleeping on the couch, and I don't think I moved out of the one corner last night. :D It was nice though. I had a great sleep! I feel like a princess in such a big bed! I need to get a frame for it now. Maybe a sleigh bed?? mmmm...so many choices! Time to spoil myself!
I can't believe how nice it has been here lately! Yesterday it was up to 24 degrees! T-shirt weather! Hopefully we have a beautiful summer. Last summer really sucked, it was cold all summer. May last year was the warmest month! But this year I can feel it in my skin, its gonna get warm! Soon we'll all be going to Nunavit for Winter vacation to get away from the cold down south! Hahaha! Well I guess I should get back to work, as much as I hate work, I guess it's the only way to make money to pay bills eh!??

Finally

Wow, I feel like I have actually accomplished something today! For not doing too much! Our MCC's for the electricians finally arrived today. We have been waiting for them for forever, and it feels like a weight has finally been lifted from me having them here safe and sound. Although no one comes into my office now! haha Ah well. More time to check stuff out on the net!

Watched King Kong last night, I must say I don't think I enjoyed it as much as I thought I would. Can't wait to see the Ressurection. I love Vampire movies. I hope it is as good as Underworld, and Interview with a Vampire! Well anyway, I am going to get back to work, I only have an hour left, and I still have a few cats to skin! Til next time!
Jael

First Timer!

Well, this is my first posting! So maybe I will just start with an update on me! I am finishing off my application for Bible School. I am going to go to Prairie this coming fall. I really need to change my life, and get out of Tumbler Ridge. For some reason, I always tend to find trouble. I wonder why I am always involved in stupid stuff. I need a change of pace, someone to hang out with that won't let me get into trouble. Maybe I just need to change my own life style. I know I do. So pray that God keeps his hand on me, and that I will keep on keeping on. My journey will be long and hard, so pray that I can follow God through thick and thin! Have a Happy Easter everyone! Until Next time!