Five Blondes » summer http://fiveblondes.com Five Sisters figuring out life Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:34:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Folk Festivals http://fiveblondes.com/summer/folk-festivals/ http://fiveblondes.com/summer/folk-festivals/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:19:48 +0000 Kate http://fiveblondes.com/?p=4505 We were raised on folk festivals in the summer. My 3 aunts on my dads side adore folk festivals and go to them all over Ontario and the states. Home County folk festival is our local favourite. We grew up going to it every year and volunteered there as well by selling ice cream. Last weekend we got to bring Hailey to her first folk festival. She was great all day and I think she enjoyed the music as well as the people.

Hailey with her great aunt.
with aunt Yaya

Playing with Harry
Playing with Harry

Trying to steal a sip
Stealing a sip

Can you spy the baby?
Can you spy the baby

Lau
Lau

Kisses for Harry
Kisses for Harry

Hailey and me
Hailey and me

I’m looking forward to next year when Hailey will be running all over the place and Mic’s baby will be here!

]]> http://fiveblondes.com/summer/folk-festivals/feed/ 6 My summer vacay plans (in case you were wondering.) http://fiveblondes.com/summer/my-summer-vacay-plans-in-case-you-were-wondering/ http://fiveblondes.com/summer/my-summer-vacay-plans-in-case-you-were-wondering/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:55:20 +0000 Micaela http://fiveblondes.com/?p=4317
  • Pretend I’m a full-time blogger and update my and Kent’s neglected blog every day (and this one from time to time, of course!)
  • Pretty-fy my apartment
  • Find the perfect couch
  • Take a summer course (boo, but I gotta)
  • Visit Katelyn and Hails lots and lots (and, you know, other people too.)
  • Take a sweet vacation with Kento (right now the plan is Cuba)
  • Be a bridesmaid in two weddings and a guest at a few more
  • Get a little bit of a job, maybe at a coffee shop
  • Help my landlord out at her drop in day care centre and tutor her cute kiddos
  • Play my guitar lots and lots
  • Get a DSLR and learn how to use it like a pro.
  • See lots of Blue Jays games.
  • Keep growing this baby
  • Go camping for a few days
  • Go to a folk festival

    • How about you? Feel free to add to my list too!

    ]]>     http://fiveblondes.com/summer/my-summer-vacay-plans-in-case-you-were-wondering/feed/ 5     My Lonely, Lonely Weekend. http://fiveblondes.com/leah/my-lonely-lonely-weekend/ http://fiveblondes.com/leah/my-lonely-lonely-weekend/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:59:48 +0000 Leah http://fiveblondes.com/?p=559 I love my job, they want me to come in Monday to Friday, 8:00am – 4:00pm and then go home and not think about work once. It’s great, really. Tim, on the other hand, sometimes has to work weekends at his beloved hotel. Not fun! Take this weekend, he just left for work at 8:30am and has to work tomorrow at the same time. So alas, my weekend will be spent all alone as my friends all have things going on. Wait did I just say friends? Maybe what I meant was FRIEND. Not that I am complaining, I am loving my life out here in the West. Today the plan is to get my hair done, then buy a small tube and plop my butt in it with a good book (read: The Time Traveller’s Wife – this is my fourth time reading it in Calgary alone) and travel down my favourite river.

    When I told Tim this plan, I said he should call in sick to work.

    “Tim, you should call in sick tomorrow and come tubing with me! Tell them you have … tuberculosis. No – tell them you have TUBE-erculosis. “

    Oh, how I crack myself up.  His parents (could I say my in-laws?) have been visiting all week. We went to a real small-town rodeo on Sunday, it was great. Pictures to come soon, after I get my hair cut. To me, getting my hair cut is actually WORSE than going to the dentist; I detest it. Even now as I am about to leave I am feeling a bit anxious and dreading it slightly. But I have my book, and my cell phone so that means I am ready to go and face the scissors.

    Hopefully something so fun and amazing will happen this lonely weekend that will make it the best weekend yet!

    ]]>     http://fiveblondes.com/leah/my-lonely-lonely-weekend/feed/ 8     Gone Fishin! http://fiveblondes.com/thoughts/gone-fishin/ http://fiveblondes.com/thoughts/gone-fishin/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:55:45 +0000 Micaela http://fiveblondes.com/?p=501 Kent and I both have every Tuesday off of work together and we always try to do something fun and interesting. Now that it’s summer, this usually involves going to the beach. Last week we met a fisherman at the beach and decided that this week we would go fishing too. Kent has loved fishing since he was young, and I learned what I know from him when we worked & lived at a summer resort two years ago. In fact, the day we started dating was the day that he taught me to fish and I caught one in the first two minutes (good way to impress a fishing guru, I definitely recommend it!) A few of our friends wanted to take pictures of me kissing the fish because this is what you are supposed to do the first time you catch a fish. So I did, but in all the excitement I got the fish hook stuck in my hair! I was so scared that it was going to get stuck in my head (fish hooks are scary scary objects) that I didn’t want to move, so Kent, always calm under pressure, got it out for me. Good way to impress a girl who is afraid she is going to puncture a hole in her skull! Here are some pictures of our day on the river, and see it was a successful day!

    My summer is continuing along splendidly, and I still have lots of things to look forward to and quite possibly blog about! Speaking of which… I am considering getting my own blog but I am not sure how it will work for the whole “five blondes” thing. I have always had my own blog (that I eventually grow tired of and delete!) and I just find that I am far more motivated to write in it and post pictures and love it when it’s my own. Maybe I could post the entries in both blogs or write special blogs for fiveblondes.com.

    Here is one last picture, Katelyn took it of me after we went for dinner at Kent’s restaurant on Saturday night. After that, I had my first “party” at my apartment! Okay, so it was very very very spur of the moment, and on a Saturday night in July, that means that not many people can make it, but I still had lots of fun and I hope everyone else did too. Note the Lauren Conrad braids I have been sporting (and loving) the last few weeks!

    ]]>     http://fiveblondes.com/thoughts/gone-fishin/feed/ 10     chiquitita tell me the truth… http://fiveblondes.com/review/chiquitita-tell-me-the-truth/ http://fiveblondes.com/review/chiquitita-tell-me-the-truth/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:35:45 +0000 Lauren http://fiveblondes.com/?p=506 Okay, the truth? Here goes:

    Mamma Mia is an amazing movie!!! Mom and I went last night and let me tell you- it was like one big party. We’ve seen the play in Toronto, but that was too long ago to remember, and I’m so glad they made a movie! From the set, to the actors to the costuming (ESPECIALLY the costuming- simply amazing!), this movie had me and mom going from laughing hysterically and singing to almost crying. I was pleasantly surprised by Amanda Seyfried’s performance though. I remember her from Mean Girls and Alpha Dog, and in those movies she was acting as kind of a (excuse my language), slut. haha. In this movie she was the cutest thing ever! You can probably see this from the picture though. Mom is a huge fan of Meryl Streep also, and said it was nice to see her in a happy, mom role, instead of a serious role, like in The Devil Wears Prada.

    If you are planning on going to see it, you HAVE to stay to watch the credits! They are HILARIOUS!

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