Flickr Meme

1. Mice Parade – Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, 2. a fairy cake, 3. drilling, 4. Beautiful old lady from Darap(Sikkim) village, 5. Eddie Vedder with Kings of Leon 28 June 2007, 6. Orange Wine, 7. Enter, 8. Handmade chocolate cupcakes filled with blueberry cream and topped with dark chocolate ganache and some more of these absolutely delicious wild blueberries, 9. Cute Calf !, 10. Watching the fireworks, 11. You And I Fly A Ship Seeking The Warm Unending Sky, 12. Fire ! / Argentina

I've seen these collages of photos before...but NEVER knew how to make one until I was over at Green Style Mom and saw her Flickr Meme. What a great idea....I had fun exploring Flickr in a way I have never tried before.

I hope you try it out and let me know if you do it....so I can see YOUR Meme too!

Try it yourself with the Mosaic Maker

The concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name? Kristin
2. What is your favorite food? Cake
3. What high school did you go to? Mundelein High School
4. What is your favorite color? Red
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Eddie Vedder
6. Favorite drink? Sangria
7. Dream vacation? Sweden
8. Favorite dessert? Delicious Chocolate Cake
9. What you want to be when you grow up? A Mama
10. What do you love most in life? My Family
11. One Word to describe you? Seeking
12. Your flickr name? T&K Cannon

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

The Little Ones...and The Little Things that make us happy.

We just got home after being in the city for the night, babysitting our niece (3 1/2) & nephew (6 months) for the evening. Trevor ate some Thai food that uspet his stomach so he fell asleep early..same time as the kids actually..so I just stayed up and watched the video monitor OBSESSIVLEY, watching them breath. Along with the monitor watching I would go into our nephews room every 45 minutes and check to see if he was still breathing. Jeez. Is that what parenthood is like? 'Cause I was like. "SHIT! Did he just turn his head...wait! Can he breath in that postition?! Crap!" every 3 seconds. *Sigh* At least I can feel confident that I have the skills to do CPR with half my brain missing because it's been embedded in my DNA thru becoming and EMT and RN. But STILL...it was un-nerving. With that being said...I totally love watching them and would do it everyday if I could.

On our way home...I realized...WE'RE in the CITY...close to ARGO TEA, my favorite place on earth that I dream of while being forced to drink Starbucks out here in the 'burbs. So we went. I got an Earl Grey Vanilla Creme Latte. And this glorious item:

 

 

A tea infuser! Isn't it so pretty?!
I have a bunch of loose tea but no infuser, so I'm forced to make it in my french press. I know, I'm so TORTURED in this life. But...don't like the residual tea taste that is left behind in the screen of the press. Now I have my Tovolo Infuser. Joy.

On a weight loss note, I have not weighed myself today because I wasn't home this morning and I weigh myself on Sunday mornings on my scale, with no food (or Earl Grey Lattes) in my stomach (just my own 'ritual') So, I'll weigh myself tomorrow morning and let you know. However, I feel like I've stayed the same this week. I guess we'll see.

Hope you all are enjoying this weekend. We're experiancing a major thaw. It's wet and nasty out...so I'll be hibernating.

The View From My Front Door

Meet Sativa, our wise and lovely huskie.
She is loving this sunny day....laying in snow banks around the house & coming to the door every couple of hours for her favorite peanut butter dog treats.

 

Happy Valentines Day!

Hey all...I just got back from yoga..and I feel like my legs are going to fall off. We did nine million hours of balancing poses and I have very weak feet and ankles. Also, my left foot is recovering from a break a few months ago...so all the balancing ROCKED MY WORLD. After the intensity ceased, we started to wind down into shavasana (the finishing sequence of yoga practice that harmonises your energy as you lay still with your eyes closed and relax) Marlene, my teacher, asked us to please use this time to open our hearts to the world and let love pour out for all beings. I closed my eyes and took a few breaths into my heart and then began to picture this:



Yes, I am a child of the 80's. I literally was picturing myself as the Love Care Bear, with little hearts floating up out of my chest by the thousands, floating out through the windows into the streets and popping over peoples heads, giving them my love! It was a very entertaining way to end the class, me in my little world...with hearts and bears...spreading the love!

Happy Valentines Day everyone....I hope you see some of my Care Bear hearts during your day today!

Weigh In- Week 3

STARTING WEIGHT: 186.9

Current Weight: 183
Pounds lost this week: .9 lb
Pounds to Goal Weight (150): 33.1
Total Weight Loss: 3.9 lbs (12 ish sticks of butter)

I totally know this post is late. I did weigh myself on Sunday though...and you've just seen the results above. I lost .9lb...so almost one more! The great thing is that with The Best Life Diet slowly easing me into my "diet" and taking yoga classes...I've not even felt inconvienanced or pained by this process. Normally working out at the gym is something I enjoy for the first month or two...and then I start to hate it. I get bored (even though I am well versed at switching things up) and I get tired of being inside the gym 5 days a week for 2-3 hours.

I feel yoga is definitly a workout but I wanted to see if I had accurately assessed the amount of work I do in class, so I went to this page and calculated with my weight and the amount of time I am actively doing yoga and I found I burn 583 calories in one class! At 5 days per week that is a LOT of calorie burning! With that I am starting to see & feel changes in my body after one month of yoga (1 & 1/2 hours per day 4-6 days per week).
My "core" is stronger, my arms & legs are stronger and more toned..and I have more energy!
This last Sunday I went to the Level 2 class (most difficult at my studio), just figuring I could change things up if I needed the poses to be easier...but I loved it! There was 20 mintues of meditation in the begininng that really gave me a run for my money, mentally. All I wanted to do after about 8 minutes was jump up a hoot & holler like a little kid! There were also some more challenging poses that I don't typically get to work on in My Level 1-2 class. I actually held the crow pose for a few breaths...and normally I can only do this pose with my head on the ground, making me into a tripod!



Today I signed up for a second month of unlimited yoga and feel so excited for the physical and mental changes to come. The great thing about yoga is that I am not focused on my body and its flaws...I am focused on my spirit and the STRENGTH of my body. I feel better about my body now than I did when I was 30lbs lighter.

Tearing up the Joint & Joints.

Last weekend Husband & I went to Devils Head Ski Resort in Wisconsin. We met up with some good friends from the past, Graham & his wife Meghan. Graham and Husband grew up skiing together on the local ski hills in IL and WI, earning their stripes trying new tricks, taking big jumps, and breaking bones through grade school and high school. Trevor remembers landing his first "heli" at Alpine Valley in WI while skiing with Graham. Then they went off to college and Trevor trekked his way out to Durango, CO where he honed his skills and Graham made sure to get out on the mountain as well, so as not to get rusty. Needless to say, their notorious dare-devil pasts flaired up when they slipped on their gear. Getting these two thirty-somthings out on the mountain together last weekend was...PURE. INSANITY. I am not even beginning to exagerrate when I say that they both were ripping up the joint....landing helis...taking huge jumps and landing them....sometimes with a thud and a moan...but actually pulling off some serious s**t! As a wife...I must say it was rather HOT watching my husband display some mad skills on those ski's. It was a weekend to remember...a great weekend spent outdoors in the snow with friends. Classic.

Below you will find a photo I took in the hotel room after a full day of body wrenching entertainment. Husband could not move from that position for the rest of the night and for the next few days he supplemented his diet with many milligrams of Advil. Please forgive the profane hand gestures....he was little cantankerous.

 

A look into Nirvana

This Thursday I took a few pictures of my yoga studio to share with you. It's a small space on the second floor...with bright green walls, beautiful light, & warm floors. This space makes me feel quieted each time I enter. I am in love yoga. I hope yoga loves me too!

 

 

 

 

The only things is....this silly blog won't let me upload more pictures in this post! Grrrh. I guess I AM new at this...I'll figure it out for the next photo post. Hope you're having a great Saturday!