Can You Guess???

While walking down the street, checking out the booths, my girls both came running up to me....MOM! You won't believe who is here!
Kendal didn't believe them, so we went and checked....sure enough....

Can you tell me who this is??

Cathedral Arts Festival....

This Saturday, Kendal, the kids and I all went to the Cathedral Arts Festival. We go every year, and love it.....
It is a great place to just sit and watch all the people.....and there are ALWAYS some pretty interesting people in that part of Regina.....not to mention....HELLO!!!!! It's an ART festival people....so you are going to get some interesting characters....
Not to mention the diversity of dance, entertainment, theater, art and buskers...
The festival runs from 10 am to 5pm every year, and they close off a good portion of 13th ave for it.
It was probably the nicest weather we have had for the festival since I can remember....It was about 23 degrees and breezy- never too hot or too cold. (Last year it poured rain, the year before that it was cold, and the year before that way too hot...) I can not BELIEVE how many people turned up for it though. It seemed to me to be the biggest arts festival Regina has seen for a long time. There were actually far too many people, and cars were parked for blocks and blocks....and no parking. We however were fortunate, and were able to get parking right by the blockade...no walking. There were also more booths then normal too....For the first time, Kendal and I actually didn't get to see everything...

We stayed and listened to this band play for a while. They were pretty good for country...(I am not a fan) PLUS the lead guy had a guitar like my old one which was stolen in the break-in, and so I was interested....This was the Craven Music Festival end...The other end had some rock bands playing, but I wasn't very impressed with the one we heard...He sucked actually.

Enjoying our first few minutes of the festival....My kids managed to catch me with my eyes closed...yet another wonderful pic of me...

Sites and Sounds of Cathedral..

Here are just some of the pictures I took which capture some of the sites you can see at the Cathedral Arts festival.

EVERYBODY comes out to the festival...

Cathedral Clothesline Day!
On Friday, all the residents of the Cathedral District, took part in Cathedral Clothesline day....
The concept was to string up a piece of rope, and decide what items you wanted to use to tell your story, by hanging them on a clothesline.

Tomorrow, I will post some more of our day at the Cathedral Arts festival...Here are some hints for what will be coming up...our fav ice cream place...some video footage of fire jugglers...and the girls met someone famous and had their picture taken with them! Stay tuned......

Cathedral Arts Festival!

Wow! As Louise pointed out, I am really slowing down on the posting...
I will try to do better, I promise, especially as my parents are finally hooked up to internet now, so dad...make sure to check our websites at least a couple of times a week....
You never know what you will find out....LOL!

Anyways, todays plan is to go to the Cathedral Arts Festival with our girls, and Jeremy. Krystal and Talon are even meeting up with us there later....
We went last night to the kids part of it. It was the first time we went to the Friday night. Talon and Kendal's parents went with us, and we all enjoyed it, but it will definately be better next year when the boys are bigger....
It was very cool though...we forgot our camera, so we don't have any pics to post, but they had a parade, and some performers including some fire jugglers...very cool. We saw them last year too. They will be there again today, so we will try to get some pictures. They also had a bunch of dancers...(including some fire dancers) and then they showed movies all night on a big screen set up in the middle of the park. We didn't stay for the movies though, as Jeremy decided he had enough and it was quite cold.
We got home around 10.30....

If you want to see what is going on at the Arts festival click on this link....
http://www.cathedralartsfestival.ca/

Avonhurst Choir

A couple of Sundays ago we went to the Mission to sing to the residents and attenders there...Recently, the mission has expanded and combined forces with souls harbor and went from just the soup kitchen to having a residence for both men and women, a new church building, and a chapel...



http://www.reginarescuemission.org/

I have been thinking alot about old times lately.... I guess that happens when you lose someone you love.... As many of you already know, our best friend Jeremy Nelson recently passed away after a long struggle with leukemia on May 4th/2006 at 4PM..... He died the way he lived....walking in faith..... He was at home surrounded by family and a few close friends, and was still making people laugh and praising God right up to the time when he became unconcious... What a testimony... I can only hope that when my time comes someday, I can face it with the same remarkable bravery and strength of character.... Things have been a little difficult on the friend front the last couple of years... Shortly after we moved here, our friend Mike Lawry passed away. A couple of years previous after I had sang somewhere, he had said to me that when he died he wanted me to come and sing at his funeral.....I got mad at him for being morbid, but then two years later.....we were off to Williams Lake for his funeral. Last year our friend Josh Wolbers died of a heart attack at age 30......We couldn't go to the funeral and that was hard. Mike Young, a local pastor we cared about also died of leukemia.... and since we moved to Regina, there has also been people here.... It has made me think alot. I now try to spend as much time as possible with my family and friends...and to heck with things like housework...(and you should see my house somedays.... I have never been good at letting people know how i feel, but i am working on that.... The truth is that none of us know how long we have here...and we could be gone tomorrow... The Bible says our lives are but a shadow.... and I don't want the people I care about to not know how I feel....or leave things unsaid. I am also profoundly thankful that I will see the people who have gone on ahead of me again someday.... Jeremy my friend, We love you and miss you..... Kendal, Robyn and girls....

More Mosaic-Metis Dancers

One day recently, Kendal and I went to hang out at the Farmers Market. We like to go there in the summer, and watch all the people hang out, and the buskers play their instruments. This was the first out door farmers market this year though, and so there wasn't much going on. We did buy some spices, which I haven't tried yet, but there was no fresh produce yet, as it is far to early in the year.

When we were done cruising around, we went for breakfast at Copper Kettle. I like to go in
there, because you can still see the people on the street, and it is a nice enviroment.




I had the spinach omlette, which was pretty good, and Kendal had bacon and eggs....

We did find this kind of funny though...It is supposed to be a classy restaurant, so we were kind of thinking...they might want to take off the Dollarama sticker off of the glasses before they use them....
After we were done our breakfast, we walked down to the mall and hung out there for a while. They were having performances by some of the cultural groups who will be at Mosaic....Jeremy really got into it...he was yelling at one set of dancers....

Windy City

The wind has been insane around Saskatchewan this year! In fact, this is what happened to our back yard fence during the last windstorm....I guess we are going to have to let the landlords know, as Taco and Gizmo would probably love the opportunity to explore their backyard...
The whole fence is actually down and leaning against the back of the shed....
We have apparently already had tornado watches this year too....I hope the wind cuts soon though...It is hard to go for a walk in the park with Jeremy in 80MPH winds.

My friend Naomi with Jeremy!

My friend Kim...(Clue Game...)