Band Names and other things

OK... so anyone have any ideas for band names for Kirsten and cuz's?

Mushmouth?
Pablum?
Beat Relief?
Inner Ear?
Spare Oom?
Oomph?
Duck Itch?

C'mon gang. Let's hear some.

Well, Kristen, thanks for the pics. I can't wait to see more!! The lake seems perfecly awesome for swimming. The house looks big too!

We (Dad, Catherine and Arden) are going to the cottage with the Hernandez clan on Monday until Sunday. I will post some pics when we return for sure. It is a different place than before, but it is close to Sharbot Lake. It is actually close to a place called Arden, Ontario. How cool is that?!

It won't be the same without you, but hopefully the visit next summer can include the cottage time!!
Lots of Love from this end of things,
Dad

Life Now

Sooooo...uh...what's new here? Uh...OH! The other day when we were at the Sportmans Store (a cool little grocery-and-other-things shop), my mom and Kyle and I were waiting in the car while Bri ran in to get something. This car pulled up beside us and it's this old guy who's balding and wearing this fancy blue button up shirt with these black pants. We're like, yeah, whatever...but then he opens his door and there's this "Pussy Cat Dolls" tune BLASTING in his car. My mom looks at me and were trying really hard not to laugh because we didn't want to be rude. It was so hilarious!

Anyways...we still aren't sure what to call our band...I'm leaning towards Sides Of Pork (long story) or Ausage Sales (Another long story). Travis wants to call it The Richard Roberts Band...because then we can call it Dick Bob. No one else agrees with him...:D Varsol also sounds cool...Or Spleen...which only sounds good when Preston says it in this creepy British accent. See...when we drive to Build-A-Band which is a half-hour ride, we kind of just randomly name off things that we see. There are...A LOT of road signs so we've come up with a lot of things. We were acutally really leaning towards Anonomously Random but then decided against it. So Travis and Preston used to be Iron Pants Arens and then they joined a group and played fifties and sixties music (like the Beatles and stuff) and they were The Talonz. I met the band (except the singer) and they're all pretty nice. We've gone swimming with the bass player a few times. His name's Brendon. He's nice but he's really quiet.

Um...yeah...what else? Oh! Yesterday it was raining and sunny out at the same time...it was really weird. I tried to take some pictures but they're not on my computer yet and I can't tell if it worked or not. I'll have more pictures up later when I can download them to the computer. Uh...I guess that's all I have to say for now. I'll talk to you all later...keep posting!

-Kristen

Let's Try This Again

Picture #1: On the floating dock at the beach on the lake at the end of our street.

Picture #2: Coming out of the water while swimming a Riedman's Point, which is only about a ten minute drive around Blind Bay to Eagle Bay or something like that.

Picture #3: I'm trying something new with the guitar case that my dad bought me for my birthday last year. Note the 20+ year-old stickers from Catherine's old collection and the Bob and Georgina stickers.

Picture #4: Kyle is mesmerized by the television in our kitchen while my mom and Grandma commence cleaning in the master bedroom.

Picture #5: From the land of Spare Oom, I give you, the junk haven. This room will one day be the music/play room. For now, it is a storage room and room for jamming and other such practises.

More pictures to come!

Photographs From Chr's House 4

Well, there will be more pictures to come later. I have more now but for some reason, my compueter says that that part of the site is down right now. Anyways..enjoy what I've already got up and i'll post some more later. All for now!
-Kristen

Photographs From Chr's House 3

Picture#6: And the drum made it safely!
Picture #7: Our spacious backyard complete with jungle gym and picnic table.
Picture #8: Billy also made it safely...and my Daisy Rock is getting fixed as we speak.
Picture #9: The view out my bedroom window, which faces the street.
Picture #10: My back door and my book shelf, which is on the left of the front door.

Photographs From Chr's House 2

Hello! This is my new room! I'm going to have to do these pictures in several different posts to get you all the information needed to fully understand the shots. These are for the last five photos posted:
Picture #1: (A tad out of focus) My shelf and my award. That would be on the wall on the right when you walk into my room. Like the colours?
Picture #2: The left corner of my room when you walk in the door. Notice my swamp of boxes and the clutter in the closet!
Picture #3: I had to buy a new CD rack for all my CDs! That's beside my bed on the right wall again.
Picture #4: The wall to the left of my door when you walk in. That would be my dsk in a swamp of knick-knacks and my shelf of angels.
Picture #5: That's when you walk into my room through the back door. Yes...there are two doors to my room...but the back door stays locked most of the time. My bed still isn't totally put together...I don't have a headboard or anything yet. But that will happen sometime today or tomorrow.

Photographs From Chr's House 1

HELLOOOOO!!!

Hello! It is I, Kristen! I did it! I did it all by myself! I hooked up the computer and the internet without any help! Bri's at work and my mom was putting Kyle down for a nap. I did it! Go me! So...news in BC? Well...we heard this morning that last night, when my cousins and my aunt and uncle were at a barbeque, Darby broke her nose in three places. They were all swimming and another boy jumped off the dock just as she was coming up and didn't see her and well...that's how she ended up. It really sucks. They're probably setting her nose as we speak. Hopefully, she will feel well enough to come to Build-A-Band tonight! What else is new? Oh...to answer youur question, Jess...it's EXTREMELY hot here. And we don't have air conditioning. We sweat all day long and then go to bed feeling like crap. It kind of sucks...but that's partially why we do swimming every day. On Sunday night, we had a huge storm. Apparently, it was a major storm for the BC interior although we felt it wasn't very abnormal because it was fairly typical in Ontario. It was raining and thundering but the big deal was the lightning. There was a flash of sheet lightning every thirty seconds. It was crazy! There were helicopters circling non-stop on Monday checking every place that lightning hit so that they could check if there were any forest fires started. But now it's back to being dry and hot.

What else....hmmm... well...we went to Vernen yesterday which is about twenty minutes past Salmon Arm, which is about half an hour away from us. So yeah. We went to a few stores. It's got a few malls so we went to the Bay and to Claires and I got this cool Fender wristband. I also got three new CDs: Train, Default and Lifehouse. I have to add them to my iPod. What else...um.. Jess and Sam! My hotmail won't let me email you guys at your rogers addresses. I have no idea why. I emailed you at your hotmail addresses instead. Check it out if you can. I just sent you my address and phone number. Hm...I think that's all I have to say for now. I guess I'll talk to you all soon! Keep posting!

-Kristen

Greetings From British Columbia

Hello everyone! I am here in BC at my cousin's house. My internet will not be hooked up until the middle of this week. Perhaps Wednesday or Thursday. I've been swimming every day and it's fun! BOB GOT MARRIED AND IS NOW ON TOUR WITH BOB AND THE BOBETTES! WHOO HOO! If anyone has a name for our band...email it to us...for you see, we are in a bit of a predicament. We need a name for our band that we are currently "building" in BUILD A BAND!!! It's so much fun! Travis is on the drums, Preston is on the keyboards, Darby is on bass (which she just picked up and is quite good at already) and guess what I play? Oh... and I'm singing too. Anyways...there's this cool guy, Ryan that is teaching us how to play together (and he can fix my guitar) and we are playing a Relient K song (the pink tux song) and my song (#2) and a Hootie & The Blowfish song ("Hold My Hand"). I think we might be doing another couple of songs but I'm not sure yet. After we're all practised out, we can probably play at the Fall Fair.
Oh! And my room is bright blue and bright yellow. My cousin says it looks like blockbuster...whoo hoo. Now I can rent movies from my own room! (Not really...I wish.) But anyways... my stuff is here and somewhat unpacked although my room is a it of a swamp.
I SAW PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 2! It's really good! You all know the obsession Agnieszka and I have with Johnny Depp. AGNIESZKA... when you get back from Poland...email me and we will discuss it...tell me if you saw it or not! la dee dah! mm...Johnny Depp.
I miss everyone out there. It's kind of weird to say that I might never see some of those people again. Some people...I don't think I'll miss...like Brandon S......(Jenna...I'm surprised at you). But others...I already miss quite a bit...like all those I don't completely hate. anyways... I have duck itch right now (little parasties that borrow into your skin thinking you're a duck and then they die and begin to rot and cause an extremely itchy red lump for about 24 hours). Duck itch sucks.
Well...I have to be off now. I'll talk to you more later this week. Good bye for now. I miss you all (and thank you father for the necklace and father and Catherine for the letters that I have read numerous times). Farewell my feathered friends (actually, that is a lie because Richard is the original feathered friend)....but nonetheless, you are all my friends. Goodbye.
-Kristen :D

Kristen's Computer is in a trailer somewhere in the Praries

Just a reminder that Kristen's computer won't even arrive in BC until the 13th of July. So, unless she can get online before that she won't be posting until sometime after that date.

Arrived safely...

Hi y'all.

I spoke to Kristen today. She called me by cel as their home phone is not in yet. She arrived safely. She was speaking at a pleasantly excited pace. The house seems to be nice and large with a cathedral ceiling in the living room, I believe. Her room is a little bigger than in Brampton. She has gone swimming and checked out the two beaches already. Andd then there is some cool band thing on Wednesday's she will have to explain to you all.
The image is from a tunnel of mirrors at The Ontario Science Centre.
-- Dad

Kristen has left the building...

Here is a picture we took in our backyard on Monday (Kristen, Arden, Catherine and myself). It is now Thursday. Kristen has left. Kristen's grandmother, Gram, and us saw her off at the airport. It was very tough to see her go. Looking forward to hearing from her and see her posts for sure, but their computer won't arrive for a few days and I believe she is staying at her cousins for a few days. She loves seeing them, so I imagine it will all seem like a vacation for a few days anyway.

So Kristen, we are thinking about you very much and hope you arrive with wide open eyes and have a great adventure.

We love you,
Dad and gang

Oh My Gosh

Wow...So it's Tuesday, July 4th....GAH! The truck arrived at our house this morning at 9 and left at 3ish. Everything is all packed up and on its way to BC as we speak. It's weird to have a totally empty house. All that's left are our suitcases, two cats and a dog. It's really bizarre. The men that were loading our truck were really nice and you could tell that they could be trusted to keep all of our stuff safe. Bri's dad came over around lunch time. Bri's brother and his wife also came. It was so weird to have our stuff being moved by other people. I wanted to help but everything was already in the garage ready to be put onto the truck and whatever wasn't there was toooo heavy for me to lift. So, tomorrow morning at around five, I'll be getting up. We have to leave for the airport at 6:30 and then the plane leaves at 9:05. It's going to be hectic, getting all the animals on the plane and whatnot. Anyways...I'm on Bri's parents' computer right now. I guess I have to go now...Bri and my mom went back to get the suitcases from our house. Anyways...I guess I'll write a bit more in a few weeks when our computer is set up and we have internet once again. All for now!
-Kristen

Farewell

So, Thursday was the last real day of school for me...ever. It was an extremely eventful day, starting with...graduating. Wow. I can't believe it's over. Everyone was all dressed up and then we walked in and got our diplomas and stuff and then they gave out the awards. After not getting any of the first five, I was a bit confused since Primi mentioned that I was getting one. But then, Primi stood up to give out the art award. And I got it! I'm still in shock, three days later. It's so surreal to have won the award that I wanted more than anything else. Anyways, after the last awards were handed out, Pugliese made his speech and then Primi's little "down-to-earth" talk. Both teachers got standing ovations from their classes! What else? Um...when the whole thing was over, I met up with Agnieszka and both of us just started crying uncontrolably. I don't even know if I know why! It was a weird feeling. We were happy and sad and nervous and scared and excited...all at the same time. Then, it was time for pictures. There are so many! And Agnieszka's brother just took some random pictures of us crying :P. It was fun. After a while, we left for the bus to go the restaurant. The food was pretty good. Then the dance came. It was uneventful until the end when the slow songs came on. But you can find out what happened with that for yourself. Then we realized that it wa the last song and the tears started coming. Honestly, I didn't stop crying for about two hours. It's one thing when you're going to see all these people again in highschool but it's another thing when you know your probably never going to see most of them EVER again because you're moving across the country. It's a scary feeling. I know I'll see my good friends again but I may never see Richard or Arin or Travis or any of my not-super-best-friends again. I miss those peope the most because I know I won't see them again. But people like Agnieszka and Michaela, I know I'll see them in November and talk to them all the time. It's tough.
Anyways...I guess I better go now. I have some more packing to do before tomorrow. I'm headed to the science centre. Bye for now!
-Kristen