We had lot's of fun at the Royal Lepage Skate Day.

The hot chocolate was delicious, the skating was bruise free, always a bonus for me!

Glad to see everyone out there, thanks for coming!!

I had a chance to make it down to the Whoville setup Downtown Belleville. What a great a time, we walked around, checked out all the trees and vendors, did a little video and headed out for the rest of our day.

This Team Tara had the chance to be in the Santa Claus Parade! Every kids dream. We took one of the Beetles and covered it with lights and decoration, ready to have a blast!

Here's the photos and a short video of the actual parade.  We had lot's of fun seeing all the kids, and we know there must be few arms sore from all the punch buggy punches we witnessed.  Thanks to everyone who cheered at the little Christmas Bug as it went by.  We'll definitely see you next year.

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So my husband thought it was time to move ahead with technology.

We usually stay well ahead of the curve, we've always had PDA,s, blackberries and now iPhones but today he moved us into the realm of tablets.

Our new iPad is to be used to help ours buyers look at homes as we move from one listing to another and help sellers understand how and what we do. I'm really looking forward to using it!

Anyone else out there have an Ipad? What do you use it for?

Well, it's that time again folks. Yep, the boats are coming out of the water for another long cooollldd winter.

We spent today lifting my parents boat out of the water and then pulling my boat, and by mine I of course mean Tom's and my boat. All went well. Harbour 25, which is the old Morch Marine, did a great job and Hasting Crane kept them safe as they flew through the air.

All that's left now is a little winterizing and the boat will be safely tucked away for the winter.

Here's a little video of the adventure.

Anyone else out there getting ready for your boat pull?

This yeas we made a new milestone with Team Tara. We received the Award of Excellence for 2009, the honour is given to those REALTORS® who reached Gold level 5 out of 7 years.

Yep, that means we achieved Gold or Higher the last 5 out of 7 years. I know what you're what you're thinking, "What does mean?".

Well it means we sell a lot of real estate for a lot of people, and it means we love to do it, and we've been doing it a long time consistently.

We also plan to keep doing it well long into the future.

Oh and before I forget we also achieved Gold this year too.

Tara received the Director's Plaque for her services volunteering on the Quinte and District Real Estate Board.  This is Tara's last year a Director

Tara has spend the last few years working on the board to help move the real estate industry in a positive direction.  No doubt she will continue to volunteer on other committees.

As you can see in the photo, she was pretty excited to be recognized as Jeff Nelles, Manager of Royal Lepage ProAlliance presented the Plaque!

This is Tara's second plaque and both or proudly displayed in her office.

Great Job Tara!

Last week I had the chance to visit the beautiful city of Toronto for a few days.

I traveled up with my husband and we stayed at the Intercontinental attached to the Toronto Convention Centre. Our purpose was to attend a two convention for Real Estate Agents, focusing on customer care, our industry and the importance of keeping contact.  The Conference was called Turning Point and had 1200 attendees.  You can see Brian's post about it here.

Brian Buffini and Joe Niego were funny and sincere, Brian is an Irish immigrant and that Irish accent seemed to come into play every time he told a story about his family. Making half the stories twice as funny. He had a talent of making sure a point was understood despite his use of humour.

All in all we had a great time, learned a ton and enjoyed visit to the big city.

Tara Lyons was a guest on the Classic Hits 95.5 morning show with Mark Philbin and Kathleen Rankine.  Tara was talking about the Wendy's Belleville Salad day fund raiser for the upcoming "End Breast Cancer Walk".  Belleville's local Wendy's was donating $2.00 for every dinner salad sold for the day to team "Firmly Supported"

If you wish to donate or support Tara and Team Firmly Supported simply visit their website(www.firmlysupported.ca) and make a donation!

You can also listen to the interview InterviewSaladDay.

Every year the Real Estate Agents at Royal Lepage ProAlliance our invited by Mark Rashotte Owner/Broker to attend a Bluejays game.  It's a great time and allows us to relax a little from the 24/7 business of Real Estate.

Here's some photo's form the game!