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!

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!