Summer in Pictures

It seems like overnight the weather has turned for the worst, it's cold, I wore a jacket and a hat the other day, and now it's September and I guess summer is officially over.  I took two mini trips this summer; one to the cottage with the famjam and one to visit my parents in BC.

Our family cottage is my happy place, unfortunately during that trip I had a concussion so I couldn't do a lot other than sit on the dock (on the warm days) and read in short bursts.

A month later I travelled to BC to hang out with my parents and luckily I was recovered from the concussion at that point so I was able to go on a fun hike with the mom and the sister; there's nothing like those BC forests.

The Summer ended on a high when me and the roomies roadtripped down to Edmonton to see Taylor Swift in concert!  I won't go into too much detail but it was incredible, I could post a full review if anyone wanted because I have SO MANY THOUGHTS about Taylor Swift.

March in Pictures

The season ended! It's over! Which means I have a little bit more time for some other things ... like catching up on school work (seriously I'm so behind it's a huge problem).  I did take some time to do some fun things too though and I took a few pictures.

Nice shot of my skates on the way home from a practice in Richmond, aren't they pretty?

The minute my competition ended I bought myself a pizza (ok my dad bought it) and I ate it before I even left the arena

First fun activity of the offseason going to see Divergent and taking a picture with the muppets

Let loose a little with some fellow skaters 

Went snowboarding for the first time in almost 5 years! So much fun

Pretty fun end to the season so far and I'm actually really excited for some of the posts I have planned for the next few weeks, see you then ;) 

December in Pictures

Happy New Years everybody! A deeper more articulate post about the past year and the year to come might come later but until then here's the past month in pictures. 

It got real cold in Calgary

Like frozen eyelashes cold

Fun times with friends before going home for Christmas (and going home forever for one of us)

Calgary's kind of pretty I guess

Bit of a change in weather from Calgary to Vancouver

All settled in to watch Doctor Who with my dad because that's what we do when we're together

Our Christmas tree this year, after gifts

Which brings us to New Year's Eve!

Christmas Decorating! (Part One)

Today's post was supposed to be "November in Pictures" but with competing and school the only pictures I took this month were a selfie and a picture of a box of holiday Rice Krispies.

Since it's December 1st today me and the roomies decorated our condo for the holidays before we all go our separate ways (one of us to FISU games next week, the rest of us home to our families soon after).  It's hard being in Calgary sometimes, being away from family and friends, especially around holidays like Christmas or Thanksgiving so this year our Black Friday shopping consisted of decorations to make our place more home-y.  If you're away from home, stressed about exams, and feeling a little lonely a few little things can make everything better (well almost everything).

We bought a teeny tiny Christmas tree and some cheap ornaments at Target

A short string of lights and some seasonal foliage in a vase, ooh so fancy

Splurging on a nice smelling candle can make even the dingiest dorm room feel warm and cozy (also great when studying)

We also have one fancy wreath from HomeSense because we're classy like that

And with just a few cheap festive things that were (mostly) on sale we were able to Christmas-fy our little town house so obviously we had to have a little holiday photoshoot.

Aw look how much we love each other

Gazing at Herb the lovely picture we were gifted when we moved in

Christmas card worthy

The most adorable picture ever taken, we should probably have this framed

October in Pictures

There's not a lot going on in the skating world for me to tell you about so I decided to make a quick post using the pictures from my iPhone to keep the blog going.

Technically from last month but a lovely birthday surprise from my roommates

My mother became very concerned for my wellbeing, if this was 2009 I would be inconsolable

I got some fancy new skates that only made my feet bleed for a couple weeks

I decided last minute to go to a Halloween party and had to get a last minute costume

I was a scarecrow.  Here's me with a couple Lost Boys

Annd it snowed ... looks pretty but not fun for biking to the oval in