Bragging Rights

Over and over, I am amazed by the incredible creativity around me!  Once again, Roxi outdid herself (with Thomas' help) creating Ana's 6th birthday cake.  Ana wanted the birthday party to be 'Tangled' after the movie so this is the amazing cake...

AMAZING!

AND...
today Alison competed in Vancouver at the AHA in the New Talent category for hair stylists, at the Vancouver Convention Centre.  She was one of about 18 competing.  Being there was witnessing true works of art!

  Nerves...let's get the show on the road already!                                                                          

The competitor's had only 45 minutes to take their model from wet hair to completion.

The hair colouring was done a day or two before.                                                                                

                    Steady hands = perfection                                                                                

                   The judges deliberated...                                                                                   

         ...and the winners were announced.                                                                                     

 Christina did such an awesome job as her model!                                                                                 

Though she didn't win, she found out later that she tied for 4th!!                                                                               

Alison, we are so proud of you!  Grandma would be so very proud!                                                                                   

I always love reading maps...so on one of my recent jaunts to MCC, I dug thru the basket of maps they have and I found these beauties...

Don't you just love the names of English towns...

The old style graphics were such fun...

I found an old map of the city of Rome but I have a feeling not much has changed for a very long time...

 OK, maybe a few things...

April Fool's...please

I feel like the rain and cold in the Fraser Valley will never end this year even though my daffodils have been blooming for a week or so already...and then, I wake up just now to this sight...

Yes, that is real snow falling and sticking to our bbq and railing!
Here is where you see people golfing in January, mowing their lawn in February and starting to work on their gardens in March!  But I don't know if I've ever seen snow in April!