Saturday 06 September 2008: Sarah is going to bed...

Sarah says:

Had a nice day with two girlfriends. I love getting to know people better and better. It always feels good. I love female friends. I love so many of the women in my life. I am so thankful for them. I had a nice evening with my daughter. I love getting to know here better and better? It always feels good. I am so thankful for her.

In another topic -- what does one do when she HATES Sarah Palin and everything she stands for and knows people who support and believe in her. That's a hard one!

Good night! I'm tired.

Friday 05 September 2008: Heidi and Sarah look back three years for the last time this week as their 3 year anniversary week comes to an end!

There we are above today in 2008i It's the end of the week. We are ready for the weekend!
There we are above exactly a year ago today in 2007! This link will take you back.
The above photo is from two years ago today in 2006. Heidi was pregnant! I was in terrible pain and starving myself for my back operation. Go backwards in time via this link!
And there we are three years ago today in 2005 - the sun shined a lot more in Belgium back then!!! Here's a link to go back to that day!

Thursday 04 September! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOMSKE!!!! And Heidi and Sarah keep looking back this week as Face The Day is 3 years old!

There above you can see us today - 2008!
And there we are above exactly 1 year ago today in 2007! Click here to go back to that year!
And there we are exactly two years ago in 2006! Via this link you can see what was up with us that day!
And last but not least, there we are above exactly three years ago today in 2005! Via this link, you can go back in time to that day in our world!
There's Tomske above today on his 37th birthday and there he is below exactly one year ago today on his 36th birthday! Wonder what he's praying for?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOMSKE / MARV!!! HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY AND YEAR!!!

Wednesday 03 September 2008: Walk back in time with Heidi and Sarah today and this week as they celebrate three whole years of Face The Day!!!

Above photo is today - 2008! Trying to look like below photos a bit! There I am above exactly one year ago today on 03 September 2007! Via this link you can go back to that day and see what was up and what we were up to.
Above you can see Heidi and me exactly two years ago today in 2006. Heidi was pregnant and I was starving myself in preparation for my back operation. In pain! Check out that day via this link and go back in time with us. And last but not least, there above you can see us exactly 3 years ago today in 2005 - when Belgium was still sunny in September! Use this link to take a peak backwards to that day.

Wednesday 3 September 2008: Heidi sends out a message

Heidi says:

My message is one we can all use. It's what makes the world turn. Love.

Tuesday 02 September 2008: It's Flashback week at Heidi and Sarah Face The Day. Check out 4 years in a row! Heidi was absent each year except the 1st!

There I am today, 02 September 2008. Not exactly the same shot, but close enough! The lamp isn't hanging where it used to anymore since we painted that room. I had to hold it above my head to fake the above shot!
There I am above exactly one year ago today in 2007. This link will bring you back to that day...
The above photo is exactly 2 years ago today in 2006. This link will bring you there.
Above is a photo from exactly 3 years ago today in 2005. Below you can see Heidi exactly three years ago today in 2005. She didn't take a photo on this day the other years! Too bad! Via this link you'll see what we were up to 3 years ago today. I read that I had been to London - for my previous work - and returned with horrid back pain. I'm so glad those days of back pain are over!!!! When I see photos from back then, I can just see the pain in my eyes and remember it all too well. My back operation and this fake disc they put in my back have truly changed my life for the better! I remain forever thankful and knock on wood all the time!

Heidi says:

and above you can see how I look today! A bit darker and paler, but didn't change that much! phew! I still really love that picture from three years ago though! I look innocent and awake and happy and healthy there and I rememer that's the way I felt that day. I was happy with the sunshine and with my hair (why the hell did I cut it then???)

Oh, some news I didn't tell you yet!! I have inscribed into hairdressers' school! I am starting on 19/09, and will have class every friday night! The funny and nice thing is: my friend katrijn is joining me! Looking forward...

Monday 01 September 2008: So many things going on at Face The Day! Flash Back 1st of the month! Welcome Nancy! Sarah's kid's 1st day of 4th grade!

Heidi and Sarah are very, very HAPPY to welcome Nancy to Face The Day again and to their daily lives at their office where they all work together now as a great team!

Sarah says: Welcome to Flashback First of the Month at Face The Day With Heidi and Sarah! Not only is it flashback first of the month, but it's also flashback week at Face The Day! We'll try our best as we did last year to walk down the memory lanes of the last three years each day this week in honour of our three year birthday! We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

Above is my Marv and I one year ago today on 01 September 2007. Too bad Heidi wasn't in a photo that day! Via this link, you can see what was going on at Face The Day 1 year ago today!
There above you can see Heidi and me two years ago today on 01 September 2006. Via this link, you can read more about that day two years ago!
And above you can see us three years ago today on 01 September 2005! Click on this link to see more about that day three years ago today!!!!

It's the first day of school for my daughter today! She starts the 4th grade!! Look at her there above this morning. She was very ready to start her day!
Above you can see my daughter last year in 2007 on the first day of the third grade. It's so great to be able to track her growth this way! Above you can see her on her first day of the 2nd grade - 2006! I couldn't find the original photo so I took a photo of a printout I had made. Not great quality - but I least I have every year now!
Above is the first day of school picture I found of her for the 1st grade - so in 2005.

And there above I put this particular photo because as of today, my daughter will receive a small weekly allowance. It means she'll have to learn about and be more responsible about money and it means she'll have fewer excuses in terms of helping around the house from now on. She has no choice! It's a big day for this little-big 9 year old! As you can imagine, she's really excited about getting an allowance each week from now on. She'll have to save some that she can't touch. She can use the rest for saving up for things she wants if she wants....

Sunday 31 August 2008: Sarah goes for a bike ride with her family on this beautiful sunny day and has a once-a-month headache coming in...

Sarah says:
The bike ride from Kortrijk to Vichte and back was short and sweet and sunny and fun even though my inner thighs itch and hurt a bit all at the same time. I guess I have to build up hard skin there orsomething or at least get a new gel bike seat or something. My arse hurts. My daughter's arse hurts. We are the pleasantly hurting arse family right now!

What hurts more though is my cramps and my head. I'm telling you, I am starting to go through some big hormonal change. My monthly visits get worse and worse. I don't feel right! I'll be going to the doctor soon and getting blood tests to check my hormones. I hate the "what's-happening-to-me" feeling! I need answers. All week and still I have alos had gland pain in my throat - very light pain but annoying evertime I swallow - and I never have that! And then there's the sweating! What is happening to me???

Anyway - I'm quote sure it's nothing serious. But I want to check and will shortly!

Tomorrow is a big day! My kid starts the 4th grade. My husband starts a new job! Heidi and I will welcome a third person to our office! The 1st of September - new bginnings! Woo Hoo!

My Post Secret pick of the week is very obvious of course - about Facebook. All these sights that put you in touch with so many people is the hazy world of the internet, chatting and back and forth emails - well I am sure these things can lead to a whole lot of trouble indeed!!! No doubt in my mind that old flames easily rekindle and a lot of behind the back stuff goes on. Be careful out there folks! By the way - when I saved this Post Secret it was called "Marksfault" for some reason so I guess there is some guy out there on Facebook named mark who is flirting with his high school girlfriend and hopes to hook up with her again, while also hoping his wife doesn't find out! It's all way too easy these days. We live in weird world. The internet has made it even weirder. All the rules have changed it seems. At those moments you do kind of long for the past when things and people were all a little less available...

Saturday 30 August 2008: The Fata Morgana show came to Kortrijk and Sarah and her kid went to see it out and Heidi had her own fashion day!

Heidi says: fashion day for Heidi and Katrijn! Wout made nice designs for businesswomen and Katrijn, Merel and me were his photomodels for one day. We had make-up done, and later on posed in front of a digital lens, melting by flashlamps. I think I might post some results later. Wout will hang some large pictures at a big sale next weekend. I hope it will look ok.

Sarah says:

My daughter and I got dressed up to be one of the 10,000 people in Kortrijk to try to get Kortrijk its 5 stars to suceed in the tasks presented by the Belgian show Fata Morgana. We went into the city for a couple of hours to see what was going on. The sun was shining so bright today and there were thousands of people in the city to watch the program get recorded. We left early because it was all a bit too much and not totally our thing but it was fun to take part and it's always fun to play dress-up! By the time we left, I think Kortrijk had succeeded in two tasks and had therefore received two stars. There was still a cake to be revealed that would feed 10,000 people and the 10,000 glasses of champagne that had to be given out and something about an art exhibit. I assume Kortrijk has gotten all 5 stars by now because it's almost 10pm. We'll see tomorrow when they show it all on TV. I don't really like this show. Never have. But we live in Kortrijk and it is a GREAT place to live and we felt like being there and supporting it all. It was nice for our kid to see. It was very hot though and man did our feet hurt due to bad shoes. I wore my wedding shoes from more than 12 years ago! I guess my feet aren't what they used to be! Although it looks like a wedding dress, the dress in the above photos isn't. It's also more than 10 years old and I'm happy to say that it still fits fine!

Above and below you can see a bit of the sphere. Lots of balloons. Too bad for the birds who choke on them and for the trees they get stuck in - but hey - I don't need to be the party pooper! Yet still -- doesn't that seem like a really easy tradition to just stop doing to help the environment a little?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FILIP AND BEVIN AND YUCATAN!!!!!!

IT'S FACE THE DAY WITH HEIDI AND SARAH'S THREE YEAR BIRTHDAY!!!!!! TAKE A LOOK AT THE LAST 4 YEARS IN A ROW!!!! MY HOW WE CHANGED!!! FUN!! FUN!! FUN!

There we are today, 29 August 2008 looking fresh and alive!
And there we are last year on 30 August 2007 looking shirt-haired and not that great! Use this link to check back to what was happening a year ago with us.
And there we are above two years ago on 30 August 2006 looking pregnant (heidi) and fat (me). Via this link you can see more about that day two years ago in our lives!
And there we are on our first day of this particular blog, 30 August 2005 right after our other one that we had started in April 2005 got hacked and disappeared! We looked younger but we both think we look as good or even better today! Via this link you can see exactly where and how Face The Day with Heidi and Sarah began 3 full years ago in 2005!!! Now we can have flashbacks that will include 4 photos from the consecutive years every time! Even if this blog stops or changes, we promise to at least take a photo every end of August for as long as we can!

Friday 29 August 2008: It's Marv's last day at his job of the last 14 years! Time to say so long and move on...

Sarah says:
Marv's last day of the job he's had for the last 14 years!!!! Goodbye job, goodbye car, hello next job... Monday a new life begins for Marv and for me and our daughter. We are all very excited for Marv's future!
By the way, in the above photo I really look like I'm almost 40, which I am so no problem with that - it's just interesting to see how a face really does start to change as you get older. The youthfulness is going away a bit and the adult is taking its place...
Heidi says: It's clean-up-day! I clean up my face, dye my hair and eyebrows and eyelashes. Need to be fresh for tomorrow! You'll see why...

Thursday 28 August 2008: Sarah....

Sarah says:
No comment! Took only one photo and that was it! If I had another I would have used it instead but alas....

Tuesday 26 August and Wednesday 27 August 2008: Sarah can't skip a day on Face so here are two days - one looking sharp and one as a sweaty beast!!!!

Sarah says about today's photo above - 27 August:
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?????!!!!! I sweat like a beast lately. I always have been a bit sweaty but I seriously swear I am going through early, early menopause!!! I have said it before recently and I need to go get some blood tests and see where my freaking hormones are at. I swear I get hot-flashes and I just feel weird lately. It's either hormonal or something else but it's something! I hate sweating so much. It feels bad. It looks bad! It messes up clothes! I need a solution fast! Any suggestions? It's not just the under arm sweating anymore. It's now my head getting all warm fo two minute flashes! Arghhhh! I hate it!

Next to that, all is well! I had a quick visit to Paris today for just a few hours for a meeting and tonight I will happily watch Project Runway season 4 while my husband is out at his goodbye party for his work of the last 14 years. And in just three days my daughter will be home! I can't wait!

The photo above is from yesterday the 26th of August. I didn't have time to post it. I took it around 11:3 pm last night when I got home from a baby shower. The baby shower wasn't that far from where my daughter's camp is. When I passed near it, my heart actually hurt - seriously - it hurt badly!

Wednesday 27 August 2008: Heidi needs...

Heidi says: new haircolour, new skin, new nose, new belly. yaaaaaawn.

FATA MORGANA IN KORTRIJK

1. Laat 10.000 honden in galakledij een Fata Morgana jubileumlied blaffen.
2. Maak een patattesla van 5 verdiepingen voor het hele publiek.
3. Vul de put van K in Kortrijk met champagne
4. Als kunstminnende stad moeten jullie er ook in slagen om een openlucht expositie van 5 jaar gebouwen platgooien op poten te zetten. Van elk gebouw moeten jullie een levensgrote maquette maken, die dan vervolgens met bulldozers platgereden moet worden.
5. Laat een vlam vertrekken in Eisden naar Kortrijk om ieder gebouw in Kortrijk in brand te steken op zaterdag - vergezeld door minstens 200 Kortrijkse sleutelfiguren - die in ground zero feestelijk onthaald worden.