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!

More Please!

This shot melts my heart! I am so glad that I ran downstairs this night to grab the camera to capture a memory before it ends! My son is almost 3 and still has a bottle at bedtime - whatever! He is my baby and I don't care! When he needs a refill and he knows that we are in the livingroom he quietly sneaks his bottle with his little hand out the door. He never says anything he just waits there for someone take the bottle from his hand to refill it. Once it is refilled we can find him snuggled back in his bed waiting for it! Love him!

Aaahhh A Day of Scrapbooking!

Since "Cheese" was replaced yesterday, that left me nothing but time for myself today! Jack fortunately got a 10 disc set of Thomas videos that he has been watching on and off today, so that left me time to do what I want! So out came the trimmer and adhesive! I scrapped our family picture with Santa, and managed to finish a day timer for myself!

Loving these last 2 days with only one kid! Jack says he wants to stay at "Drannies" next - sounds good to me, just gotta make sure it is days when Mardi is at school!

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Dead Fish!

Ok 9 days exactly is what it took me to officially kill the hardiest fish available! Yep "Cheese" kicked the bucket! Thankfully it was Jack's fish and he didn't notice!

Mardi is staying at my parents' place for a couple of days so without her giving the fish constant attention, Jack seems to forget that they are here! So it was really easy to pack the deceased up and take him with us to the pet store to get another replacement for free! He never even clued in that I was picking out another one and taking him home!! He was too mesmerized with the puppies and kitties to care!

Now the new "Cheese" seems much more vibrant than the original! And I bought them lights for their aquariums today so they are in their bedrooms and they can be their nightlights now! Geez I hope I remember to feed them - now that they are off the kitchen table!!! I need Mardi here to remind me!!

Damn fish!!! Glad the kids love them! JD figured that I should have got a replacement "Goldie" while I was there - would save the trip in the future if my luck doesn't change!! Better give the in-laws directions to the pet store in case they need to replace any while we are gone for New Years!!!

We Just Got a Head Start!

So we as a family of four decided to do Christmas a little earlier this year! My hubby has to work during the holidays and he didn't want to miss the opening of stockings and the laziness of a Christmas Day, so Sunday night we put out cookies and milk for the big guy! And so Monday was our Christmas Day!

We had a wonderful day - kids were up by 6am - and we were down opening presents shortly after that! They were so excited to see they got all they asked for and more! Our gift to the kids this year were aquariums and fish for each of them! That was the hit!

Mardi named her fish "Goldie", even though it is a betta fish and is as red as can be!

Jack named his blue betta "Cheese"!

Love it!!!

Now to carry on with the rest of the week and split up the gift receiving by a few days! Looking forward to it! That is how you can stretch out the holidays - if the kids don't know what the calendar is you can get away with it! And good luck to all of you that get to cram it all in one or two days!

Merry Ho Ho!