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February 28 Camera Lost and FoundThe worst thing about losing a camera is not losing the camera but losing the pictures you have on the camera or the memory card. If you have lost or found a camera check out this site and the owner will hopefully be reunited with their camera but more importantly their pictures.
 September 22 The Great Lake Walk - What's so great about it?I attempted the Great Lake Walk last week. It was a wonderful experience and I would suggest everyone tries it once! I had a few goals for the walk:
So will I do the walk again? NEVER... at least that is what I was thinking during the tough parts of the walk and the few days after it. Now the memories of the pain are starting to fade and my mom mentioned she might do it next year so I will say maybe! I would definitely do long walks in the future, Shelagh for a 32 KM one along the galloping goose in Victoria - sounds like a snap So what would I do differently?
OK onto some pictures Karen's Krusaders
Front Row (L-R): Auntie Karen*, Me, Shelagh*, Helen Back Row (L-R): Angie, Steven*, Nicole*, Michelle* *They all completed the walk! Me and My Sister
Me Sneaking into a Picture
My Aunt, me and my sister
My sister and my aunt at the end! Where the Hell's the bell?
So what is so great about the great lake walk?
September 10 I will walk 500 miles...Well not all in one day of course :) I am going to try to do 35 miles in one day! Since Aaron has been born I have been training for an ultra marathon and now it is only 5 days away! It is called the Great Lake Walk - www.greatlakewalk.com, it is 56 km walk (or run if you are insane) around Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island - Lake Cowichan is not one of the "Great Lakes" but is is a great lake regardless. I spent a lot of time on the Lake - swimming, boating, camping and just having a wonderful time since I was kid and now I am going to be walking around it - crazy! I am fundraising for the Canadian Cancer Society because cancer sucks. My goal is to raise $5600 - $100 for each kilometer of the walk. I am getting close to my goal thanks in a huge part to my dad and my husband but am not quite there. If you would like to contribute please follow the instructions below. ----------- I have convinced Jeff to match the donations up to $1400 and then Microsoft will match Jeff’s donation. So if you donate $100 the Canadian Cancer Society will receive $300. Here are some suggested donations amounts, any amount can be donated of course:
July 26 You know your wedding party is very attractive when...
A. Your mom tells you how very attractive your wedding party is B. Your friends tell you how very attractive your wedding party is C. Your wedding party tells you how very attractive they all are D. You see pictures of you wedding party on the website for your wedding location! E. All of the above Well of course it is all of the above but take special note of D! Jeff and I got married on October 2, 2004 at Royal Road University (same place they filmed X-men)- Shelagh was my maid of honor, Scott was Jeff's best man, Kepmen was my friend on honor, and Angela was Jeff's friend of honor. Any who Jeff was talking to a friend on Facebook who is going to Royal Roads and Jeff mentioned he got married there and she said yeah I know I saw you on the website! Check it out here: and here: and here: and here:
July 20 My Son the blogger...Aaron is blogging a lot more than me these days. Check out the most recent post below. Quote Five Weeks and some fabulous firsts June 23 Aaron's first 9 days!Aaron did a great job talking about his first 9 days! Check it out :) Quote Hello World! June 17 Aaron Campbell Steinbok - The BirthThe birth experience really started on June 12. I was opening a great box of baby items from two very wise wonderful moms and co-workers – Stacia and Carmen. Along with the gifts they were answering some baby questions and providing advice (e.g. get the epidural). They mentioned that the baby will come when you stop working. Argh I thought – I don’t want to stop working until the baby arrives but I want the baby to come now, what to do…
On June 13th at lunch we went to my last pre baby doctors’ appointment, although I didn’t know it at the time. He checked me out and everything was fine – Jeff and I bombarded him with questions about how we could narrow down when Aaron would come – it was the same old answer - he couldn’t – it could be tonight or it could be two weeks after the due date. My doctor took out his cell phone and calculated that the baby could stay in me until July 10th and would I like to schedule an induction for that date. My eyes bugged out of my head – that is almost another month. I was really hoping it wouldn’t come to that so I declined. After lunch I checked at work what I had going on Thursday and Friday – absolutely nothing. I also had handed off all my areas so I had nothing I needed to do at work – I was just helping out where I could so I decided to “work from home” on Thursday and Friday.
Jeff and I had an relaxing evening and before we went to sleep we were playing some head to head Tetris DS – I recall I was kicking Jeff’s butt – although he is a better Tetris DS player then me there is the ability to provide handicaps so the games are even when you play people of different levels. Any who as we were playing my water broke!!!!
We had the bag packed for about a month but of course when it was time to go Jeff ran around packing two other bags and of course grabbed his laptop – to send the birth announcement. Jeff drove slowly to the hospital – it was nice to head in in the middle of the night since there was no traffic. We arrive around 1am and got settled in and I had yet to have any contractions but shortly after they started and they quickly got stronger. Jeff was really great during the contraction experience except for one thing – I hate broccoli and he had grabbed some raw veggies and was eating raw broccoli during one of my stronger contractions I was not happy with him about that one. I played some more Tetris, read a bit and had a Jacuzzi bath. The contractions kept getting stronger and closer together. I was going in with the idea that I would only get the epidural if I “needed” it (even though I think everyone I knew told me I should get the epidural). It was getting pretty tough and there was still a long ways to go so I knew it was only going to get tougher – so I decided to get the epidural at around 430am. Once I had it the pain of the contractions were gone and I went from 4cm dilated to 9cm within an hour!! The only semi scary thing that happened was Aaron’s heart rate was dropping during my really strong contractions – it kept returning to normal after though so the nurses weren’t really concerned but of course it still concerned Jeff and I.
I was ready to push at 7am-ish, however my doctor hadn’t shown up yet so we waited and started pushing at 7:45am. Pushing is really hard work, a complete body work out for sure, the nurse and Jeff were really helpful during this period of time. Then at 8:57am Aaron Campbell Steinbok arrived. It was such a great feeling to hold him in my arms – things I noticed right away he is sooo small, he has hair and lots of it, and his finger nails are so long! I am really happy with the birth experience, I would definitely do it again and plan on doing so once more J Afterwards there was pain in the obvious area (which is improving fast) the surprising thing was how sore my arms were – it was like I did 1000s of pushups and curl ups. However, the pain just melts away when looking at and thinking about Aaron.
I believe Aaron is going to blog about his first few days soon. Check it out here. June 11 Belly ShotsHere are some pictures of me with and without a belly! Before – I was 2 weeks pregnant and weighted in at 130lbs Don’t worry my lulu lemons were not injured in the after shots – I wore them for the pictures only.
April 23 Black and White PromsI was reading this article on CNN about how a high school had their first "integrated prom" and felt like I was reading a news article from the 1960s.I take this as a reminder about how naive I still am about the world... My neighbor was a finalist on the Apprentice...Jeff and I were fast forwarding through "The Apprentice" last night and something caught our eye. Our Neighborhood!
James one of the finalist lives very close to us.
You can check it out here:
http://www.nbc.com/Video/rewind/full_episodes/apprentice.shtml Select Part 4 – Woodbridge (our neighborhood) shot is at 1:45 left. Now you may recall a couple of months ago my hairdresser was on American Idol. Things usually happen in 3s I wonder what is next... April 06 You know you should have just stayed at work when...So Jeff and I were ditching work a bit early today (330pm), good thing no one from work reads this blog
 We were going to pick up some art at FedEx that we purchased when we were in Hawaii - down in Sammamish area and then head to Green Lake to do some laps. Eat dinner someplace cool and then pick my parents up when then arrive via the Clipper.Well no such luck..
Bad luck = car died
Good luck = we were super close to the Microsoft Sammamish Campus
Bad luck= we both have our laptops so we are back online again while we wait for the tow truck
Jeff did an excellent job pushing the car through a couple of intersections while I had to use my great arm strength since the power steering of course wasn't working.
The story is below again in IM format. I wish we had a blog this conversation in Messenger.
 Aaron says: Nicole says: our car died Nicole says: we were picking up something from fedex and it just will not go Nicole says: luckily we are close to microsoft so we are waiting in a lobby with air conditioning and internet Aaron says: do you need a lift? Nicole says: nope we are covered thanks for asking though Aaron says: you know.....can't you take a shuttle? Nicole says: we are getting towed back to bellevue and we have a ride lined up when we get there Nicole says: yes we could but our car will not fit into the shuttle Aaron says: HA! funny. Nicole says:  Nicole says: the funny thing is we both left early to pick this thing up and then go have some fun in the sun and now we are basically back at work, lol Aaron says: that is ironic. Aaron says: or just unfortunate. Aaron says: I'm going home now since my car will start Nicole says: yep well have a great weekend UPDATE : Towing company just called they will be here in a 10-15 minutes
March 28 Things I likeToday I have enjoyed the following things:
The sound and speed of typing Data Short meetings Long meetings that are productive Sun Chocolate Milk
March 12 Management TipsI have been a program manager at Microsoft for over 3 years now. To celebrate I have added a new blog category - Management Tips. I will post management tips as I think of them, which is usually when someone does some I either really like or unforuntaley dislike - don't worry I will not include names or real examples for the dislike ones at least....
March 04 Talking about Back from HawaiiJeff does a post about our Hawaii trip. It was awesome :) Quote Back from Hawaii February 09 1st baby video postedNicole's SpaceNicole, Nicole and More Nicole |
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