unless otherwise credited, all photos courtesy of Darrin Robinson


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Friday, August 10, 2007

Happy Birthday

Tammy and Paul!
We celebrated Tammy's and Paul's Birthdays on the August 1st long weekend at the cottage! Our family knows that we always celebrate their birthdays on this weekend and this year it was better than ever!! Darrin and I went up and spent a couple days with my sister, Paul and mom:):) I headed up on Saturday and Darrin unfortunately couldn't make up until late Saturday night but he finally made it there and was able to unwind, relax
and celebrate with us!! Throughout the entire weekend we had many many laughs, lots of good food and lots of drinks!! I baked new goodies and the biggest hit was my chocolate chip cheese ball! I think we were all carbed-out by the
end of the weekend.








We brought the "kids" up with us too...Rio, Ashley, Roo, and Joey. Poor Roo...he doesn't like travelling much so it took him a couple days to recover..lol. Rio and the others absolutely loooooooooooooooooooooove the cottage and don't mind travelling one bit!!

Our cottage is my absolute favourite place to go to "get away" but unfortunately the past couple of years..we haven't gone up much.............but that will be changing as our priorities to take more time for ourselves is taking precedence. Life is too short to miss out on the things we love in life. We haven't seen my extended family since Christmas so there was a lot of catching up to do and visiting. It was nice. During one visit on Saturday night, my sister had to take Rio for a walk with us cause a couple nights before I wiped out down my stairs and dislocated my finger. At least I had lots of alcohol to get me through the pain..lol.. and a great sister willing to walk my crazy puppy!! I do have to go and get my finger looked at and have it straightened back out...ouch!! I'm not looking forward to that! Tuesday, at the store, my friends noticed I was favouring my finger and told me I have to go to the doc's....I'm not one to go to the doctors and my close friends and family know that---therefore they have to push (or give me a swift kick in the a$$) me go..lol. My workouts this past week have been a little uncomfortable and I had to skip doing my arms and shoulders as my finger was too sore to grip and lift any weight.
Here's one last pic from the weekend:
I was the photographer for this one!!!
Thank goodness I had a handsome model to make me look good!

FYI..STAY TUNED FOR EXCITING NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS REGARDING
EMERGE INC
and
THE EMERGE FAMILY!

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

ouch! your finger sounds painful.

Love the photograph of Darren. Good job! I can't wait to hear the exciting news.

Jeni

Lori-Ann said...

Thanks Jen!! I have a few more photos of Darrin that were taken that day too..i'll post them in the coming weeks:)

There is A LOT of exciting news and stuff happening in our life right now..and we are anxiously awaiting to let the world in on it all! But you'll have to wait a little longer as there are still some details that are being finalized:):):)

yes, my finger is kill'n me!! lol..

Thanks for the post:):)
LA:)

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday Paul and Tammy!

It lookd like you had a fun weekend.

Anonymous said...

good lord, does Darrin ever get fat?

Great picture LA!

Lori-Ann said...

That answer would be a great big NO! He's always shredded:)

Anonymous said...

Please don't keep us in suspense LA. What is the big news?

Sara

ps BTW your arms and shoulders are amazing! Sorry to hear about your finger.

Anonymous said...

cool pics!

Anonymous said...

Hi Lori-ann
Your treats look very tastey! How about the sharing the recipe for the chocolate chip cheese ball?

Anonymous said...

How does Darrin stay shredded all the time?

Anonymous said...

How's your finger LA?

Lori-Ann said...

my finger hurts! but i'm dealing with it...i'm going to get it looked at and hopefully fixed tomorrow (thursday)....ouch!!

Anonymous said...

So, when's the Emerge Studio finally opening? Are you still thinking about the Harvester Location? Can't wait. You should change the store name to reflect Darrin's Studio, like EMERGE NUTRITION would be perfect!

Good luck and can't wait!

Lori-Ann said...

Emerge is almost ready to announce some BIG THINGS that are happening....you'll have to be patient and keep check'n back for updates and all the news:):)

Harvester location? geesh...that was a passing thought months ago.as for "emerge nutrition"...hmm...i only told that to a select number of people..i wonder who the anonymous poster is??? but regardless...Darrin has bigger and better plans in the works...its very exciting:):)

Darrin has been working countless number of hours in preparation for the "launch" of the Emerge empire!

Thank you all for the support!! Its means alot to us:):)

Anonymous said...

Seems like someone is trying to spoil the surprise!

Lori-Ann said...

There is just alot of mis-information and rumours float'n around out there.

Its all good! The details will be announced soon.

LA:)

Anonymous said...

Hey Lori-Ann

Your cottage looks georgous!! What lake does it sit on? I'd wanna be up there all summer to if it was me!

Tami

Lori-Ann said...

Hey girl! Its on Lake Erie...the drive is only about 45minutes...and we don't have to sit in traffic all day cause its the opposite direction from Toronto. We've had the cottage in our family for my entire life and we absolutely LOVE it up there. You will have to come up sometime:):):)