Nick & Nicole Plus 4: July 2010

This past Saturday, along with my Mom and Sister, I took my eldest to her first real concert. Lilith Fair. Madison will be 11 on August 4th, so I figure what a better way to celebrate her birthday then one of the biggest concert festivals.

I went to Lilith in 1998, the second year it ran. It was huge, and changed the way I listened to music. Though, I do remember being EXTREMLY hung over the entire day, it was still fun, and I loved every minute.

I was so excited for Mady to experience it. To listen to music she's never heard before, and appreciate live music, by some of the country's BEST women performers.

To my dismay, like 3 or 4 major performers dropped out of Toronto Stop. One being Kelly Clarkson, one of Mady's main reasons for going. This left me with the Lights being the only one she's probably heard off.

THEN, we hear it's calling for rain. Lots of it. The one day the weather network didn't disapoint was Saturday. It freaking poured rain from 2 until god knows when but close to 8pm. We had a couple little breaks of no rain, more like a mist.

Needless to say, soaking wet, with pruned fingers, we still had fun. Not as much as some people in the lawns mind you, though Madison is not old enough to drink lol

I'm not sure she quite appreciated the banjo and fiddle playing of the Courtyard Hounds like I did, though she thought it was cool to see 2/3rds of the Dixie Chicks.

She did recognize one Chantal Kreviazuk song, but wasn't as engrossed as I was. (Chantal is one of my faves)

Her favourite of course was Lights, who was surprisingly good. Rather than be annoyed by her songs on the radio, I'm now actually impressed by her.

Madison wanted to go after Lights, (before Sarah to my dismay) we made her stay so we could listen to at least 2 or 3 Mary J Blidge and wow, did she perform. When she started singing "Real Love" the crowd went mental, as did I, and Mady just looked confused. Poor child. Music education I guess right?

Anywho - Here are some pics I managed to get from the day, on the iphone, as I was not about to bring a camera with me in the rain.

after lunch is when it started raining, though it didnt stop us from 'eating beaver' as my mom called it. Beavertails that is. Mothers can be so embarassing.

Look it's chantal. Oh wait, the iphone sucks for zoom

it also sucks at night time photos....

meet my daughter....

Monday, July 26, 2010

Week from Hell....

Saturday, July 24, 2010

I so lied. My next post was going to be another wedding. One it's not. Because I haven't had time this week to breath, let alone think of something clever and whitty to share with those pics. They will come next week.

Monday -Wednesday were probably the worst couple days I've had in a long time at work (like my full time regular paycheque work). I fixed up Timetables till I was blue in the face, and then fixed them up some more. For two campuses.

Fun. Not.

I now need glasses, because I'm squinting at the screen. The analytical part of by brain was done in, so to top that off, Monda and Tuesday night I had to use the creative side and do photoshoots. Monday night was a really fun Mat shoot, and Tuesday were twins.

Lets just say I was a mess by Wednesday. When I left work that day, I was way too frazzled to look at a computer, so I picked up Nevaeh, then when Nick got off work we decided to hit the drive-in.

That night I had changed my facebook status to "taking a night off from computers, camera, editing, its been that kind of day". I never said anything about iphones, and I caved, and took this cute pic of Nevaeh going down the crazy, probably unsafe drive-in slide.

Anywho, Thurday night Tanya and I got our hair done by the fantabulous Jennifer Lockerbie. I don't have pics. But trust in the fact that it looks good.

This brings us to Friday. I had to finish up Timetable stuff, leave work, go grocery shopping, get the kids, get nick, take them to the beach and go home and get ready for the next day.

You see, I'm taking Madison to her first ever concert today. Lilith Fair!! We're going with my mom and sis, for a dual mom/mady birthday present. Madisons turning 11, my mom? She's turning, umm....29 again. For the 22nd time?

But I had forgotten that Mimi has soccer, and it's her turn to bring snacks, so I also had to organize that last night.

I love my life.

So, here are some pics from our 1 hour of 'fun time' last night, before I had a million things to do.

She was excited apparently