The Keowns: Spring is sprung??

I am working on a new blog template, just need to find the time to finish it. But for the mean time, I have bigger pictures on my blog. I like it so much better.

Life is still busy here. We are so anxiously awaiting spring and today it is going to be +5. Melt snow melt!! Last week was so cold, January cold. It was hard to think it was March and winter feels neverending.

I have loads of pics I still need to go through. This past two weeks I have been doing lots of reading and practising on my on camera and post processing skills. I still have so much to learn. I have to stop looking at my pictures a year ago because I am my hardest critic. But it is always good to continue to learn because I know I can only get better and better. I just got two new big softboxes in the mail yesterday for my studio. I am thrilled about these since my shoot through umbrellas were so hard to work with. I also scored an amazing antique chair, with green velvet. I love it! I haven't used it in a shoot yet and can hardly wait.

Now for the kids, they have had birthday parties every weekend since January. Last weekend, Cassidy enjoyed a tea party at her friends party. She got to get all dressed up for it and was very excited to wear a dress I wore when I was a kid. I must say it was a bit snug so it will be the only chance she will have. Aidan enjoyed a sled ride up at birds hill park yesterday at a party.

Yes, our cat is still kicking around. She defiantly loves to play but is great with the kids. She lets them drag her around, dress her up and play baby with her.

We are done our income tax, which is a relief. Things went very well this year, we were worried about the house we had sold and being taxed on it. Thankfully the money we saved to pay them, we don't need to and still ended up with a great return, thanx to loads of write offs. We are planning to pay the kids tuition for next year so we don't have that big payment every month.

As well, NEW BASEMENT CARPET! Yes, the flowered red 70s carpet will be gone. We had talked about doing this when last week I noticed on the Home depot website that they had a $199 installation promo so I sent Steve in since we had looked at carpet a while back and we knew what we wanted. Tomorow, the carpet guy is coming to measure and hopefully in the next few weeks they will come and install. We will recarpet the entire basement, stairs and spare bedroom. The second sparebedroom is going to be my studio and we have special flooring plans for that, which I am SO excited about. Once the carpet is in we will start on that room.