Sick Kids!

Today is supposed to be Jack's 3rd birthday party, but 2 nights ago Mardi was up crying most of the night with an earache! So yesterday JD took her to the hospital to get looked at and get some drugs. Then Jack started coughing and getting warm so I did what was necessary and cancelled the party for today! Good thing as it is 9am and the party was set for 10am and the birthday boy is still sleeping ~ rough night for him!

So today I am going to do some cleaning, and laundry. What fun! When JD gets home from feeding the horses I am going to go for a walk! Needing some fresh air!!! He told me to go do something - I would love to but I am too tired! He got us a movie to watch tonight - looking forward to it! Hope the kids crash early so we can too!

Happy Saturday everyone!

Another Project Done!

Well after painting Jacks' bedroom I had an itch to do our ensuite! Actually truth be known I have several other rooms I would like to do!

So yesterday I ran down and got a quart of paint to do the bathroom - it is small enough to only need a quart!

After getting home from the city and getting supper done I tackled the next project. I started at 7pm and by 10:30pm I was finished for the night! Unbelieveable how long it took for such a small space! Then this morning I finished touch ups.

Here are the before and afters!!

My Weekend Accomplishment!

So this weekend I was planning on sitting on the couch and watching curling but I had a yearning to paint!!! Since Jack got new bedding for his birthday this week I have been wanting to spruce up his room! So on Thursday I went to the Benjamin Moore store and got the swatch book. It was like it was my birthday - I am in love with paint samples!!! After choosing 2 samples I downloaded their "personal color viewer"! LOVE IT!!! You upload pics of your rooms and change the paint color to whatever you choose! I had so much fun. Once my hubby got home I showed him the results on the computer, knowing he wasn't a huge fan of me painting I knew seeing the difference would change his mind! And it did!!

So Saturday I started and by Sunday afternoon the room was back together and ready to hang new pictures on the walls! Here are the before and afters! Now watch out ensuite - you are next!!!

Game is ON!

Ok my PBF Kim and her partner in crime Haley posted a list of 25 random things about themselves on facebook. I loved both of them! So in trying to keep up with them and Kim's peer pressure to do the same - here it is!

25 Random Things You May Not Know About Me!!
1. I secretly LOVE washing windows!
2. I am actually a red head.
3. I don't think I am going to return to the dental profession when I do go back to work.
4. I married my high school sweetheart.
5. I love Benjamin Moore paint samples.
6. I named my daughter after a lady I met while working in Vulcan.
7. My son is named after two grandfathers in my family that I personally never met.
8. I make my kids climb into our bed in the morning to watch cartoons with us.
9. I love that my husband has a job in which he gets 6 days off in a row to spend with us!
10. I am a blog whore.
11. I am a scraplifter.
12. I love watching mens curling - on TV or live!
13. I had the best new years ever this year!
14. My kids are literally my life.
15. I love to cook and bake!
16. I think I could build a house!
17. I want to raise my kids on a farm/ranch.
18. I look forward to getting local newspapers every week.
19. I am a facebook junkie!
20. I sometimes want a third child.
21. I want to go on a safari for my 50th birthday.
22. I would love to learn to play the fiddle - or at least get my kids lessons!
23. I love silver jewelery!
24. I have a little OCD when it comes to my house.
25. I do not iron my kids clothes as much as I used to.

He's 3 !!!

Wow 3 years have come and gone. Makes me a little sad *sniff*, my baby turned 3 years old yesterday. I do have things to look forward to with him being this age however! No more diapers or bottles! He really does have to grow up and we have to quit baby-ing him!

We had a wonderful day celebrating his birthday! He wanted "party hats" for his birthday so we ran to the trusty dollar store to pick some up. While the kids slept in the afternoon I washed down Jack's room and put on his new bedding. When he woke up he was so surprised with his "new bed". "My bed's awesome!" is all he kept saying. As soon as his Dad got home from work he took him directly from the door to his "new bed"!

We all had a great supper together and sang happy birthday 4 times to Jack. He made me re-light his candles that many times so he could sing the song to himself and blow them out! Love it!

Oh What to Do?!

Here is a picture of Mardi on her first day of preschool - 18 months ago! Now I am trying to decide if I enroll Jack for the fall or not?!

He has one of those lovely birthdays that confuses the issue! Having been born in January leaves the question : do I start him in school (kindergarten) when he is 4 or 5? It is ok to start him in Foothills School Division at the age of 4 because their "cut-off" date is February 15th, but if we are to move south the whole thing changes! If he was to go to school in Nanton or Stavely he has to turn 5 before December 31, which means he stays home another year with me! Which is fine however if we do move south I think I need to get back to work!!! Cost of building another home will make me!!

However I don't want him to go to preschool for 2 years. Just my personal opinion but I don't think kids need that extra year of school. Ahhh! Better sit my husband down and make some "future" plans!!!

More Layouts!

Here are two more layouts I got accomplished while watching curling!! By the way I assume everyone heard me hollering when my team FERBEY won!!!!!! What an awesome game!!!! Can not wait until the Brier!!!

Sorry this picture turned out so crappy - flash and lack of sunshine!!

Sweet Saturday!!

What a wonderful Saturday here~! Not only did I set up a scrapbooking table in the livingroom, but I placed it in front of the TV in order to watch curling! And to top that off the two teams competing were none other than Martin and FERBEY!!!! I remain a HUGE Ferbey fan even though their success has been taken over by team Martin in recent years! What could be better than watching John Morris on the ice as the same time as Dave Nedohin?? (I can hear you gagging CK!!)

So I managed to get 2 layouts finished (they were already 3/4 done!), and a new one hot off the press too! And to top that off I also broke my toe!! And I was nice enough to include that photo too! In all my excitement to start my 3 hour stint of scrappin and watching curling I ran right into the corner of our sectional! Did you not hear me??? Damn toes anyways!

Now I get to take up where I left off and watch team Ferbey yet again today!!! Hopefully I will get more layouts accomplished and break no more toes!

Happy New Year!

Happy 2009! We rang this one in with a bang! Our first holiday away from the kids - fantastic! Great friends, great times! We went with 9 others to Whitefish to ring in the new year! They went there to ski, we went their for the 2 double beds in our room, the chance to shop south of the border and the chance to SLEEP! Ok we didn't do so well on the sleep aspect, but to say the least we did get shut eye according to OUR schedule!

The in-laws moved in here to look after our kids. The kids had a fantastic time and so did their sitters. A great time was had by all! The travelling sucked - horrible roads both ways - worse on the way down there- but it is amazing what you are willing to endure when you don't have your kids in tow and when you are driving away from them!!! Sorry kids! We do love you!!

Now back to routine - holidays over! Happy 2009 everyone!