One More Sleep!

So one more sleep until the Brier! I am taking my kids to my parents place tonight and dropping them off until Monday night! I asked for tickets for my birthday last year for this weekend - and it is finally here! I am so excited! I am going Saturday and Sunday with Kim and Monday I am spending the day with my hubby there! YAY! Then I plan on spending the rest of the week glued to the TV watching the rest! Gotta love mens curling!

10 Randoms Again!

Ok so once again I am late with my 10 randoms! Sunday was a long day of moving cattle, followed by a long evening of watching Brothers and Sisters ~ love that show!!

Then last night I was glued to the TV once again watching the Bachelor! Love it! A lot of people seem mad at the whole thing ~ I however find it more than amusing!!!

It has also been brought to my attention that some anonymous blogger is pissed at the winners of the contests for the Ladies Night Out at the Sheepriver Scrapbook Store on Saturday. So in honor of this wonderful coward I am posting my 11 layouts that I got accomplished that night in place of my 10 Randoms! These layouts allowed me to win the prize for "the most layouts done" ~ however I have no idea what the prize is!! Anyways all I have to say to this lady is don't hate the player hate the game....proof is in the layouts! I can't image that this person is so pissy after we had such a wonderful night! Haley sure knows how to throw a party! Thanks again Haley! Sheepriver Scrapbook Store ROCKS!!!

10 Randoms...

Here are 10 Things I wouldn't have gotten done if I had went to Pincher this weekend!

1. Got my daughter on the right medicine ~ finally!
2. Gone to the Stavely Bar for a few hours!!
3. Got the banking done and papers in order to buy the truck!
4. Cleaned out my Tahoe - damn kids and snacks!
5. Cleaned out the Jimmy - now officiallly for sale!!!
6. Watched some curling ~ even if it was "womens"!
7. Got Mt. Laundry conquered!
8. Cleaned both fish tanks ~ Cheese and Goldie are much happier!
9. Played the the snow in the back yard with my kids!
10. Although I didn't do any scrapbooking I did get a lot more sleep than my friends did!

Hope you had fun ~ even without me....!

The flowers prove it!!

So yesterday was a long day sitting in the ER! My daughter has been complaining on and off about a stomach ache for the last 4 days. So after I tried everything I knew to cure her I decided that we had better get her looked at.
I phoned her doctor - who seems to be on hiatus in Mexico until March - and the doctor covering for her isn't in until Thursday. So I waited another 2 hours to see if the symptoms really needed a trip to the ER. She let me know every 20 minutes that her tummy hurt. So off we went.
We have never had to wait over an hour in High River to get in. Maybe because my kids are ususally more apparently sick than she was yesterday. So needless to say we waited for 5 and 1/2 hours until we were called back. A little excessive I know but I had to wait, I was not taking her home just to have her cry through the night.
After all that we were seen for a whole 10 minutes and diagnosed with "gastritis"! And told to go home and give her tums?!!? While we were leaving the nurse ran out to say that she found white cells in her urine sample so they were going to send it to the lab!!!
Needless to say we are going to see her "covering" doctor tomorrow to see what the results are. Poor girl - she has been on Motrin all day today - and it is like clockwork ~ every 6 hours she complains of a tummy ache. Good thing tomorrow is only one Motrin dose away.....
So while I sat at the hospital with her her dad was having flowers picked up for me in Calgary! Sweetie- he said they were because I was the "best Mom in the world" , I just did what any mom would do, but I think he was just amazed that I would sit there for that long with a kid on my lap! When there is doubt in the future of my parenting skills I will still have the picture of the flowers to prove otherwise!!!!

10 Random Things...

In honor of Valentine's Day yesterday I am devoting my 10 Random Things to the man I love!

10 Random Things that I love about my Valentine!

1. I love that it was Valentines and he got me nothing, because I got him nothing - and everyone is ok with that!

2. I love how hard he works to provide for our family while I get to hold down the best job in the world - stay at home mom!

3. I love how he calls me 3-5 times a day just to chat!

4. I love how he always says "I love you" at the end of every phone call - even if he is sitting with a room full of his co-workers!

5. I love how amazing of a father he is - secretly I knew he would be!!

6. I love how he has never taken off his wedding ring!

7. I love how we are - always laughing and finding joy in everything..especially our kids.

8. I love how he cleans the house - almost as anal as me!

9. I love how he says "that there are only 4 people he needs to worry about and they all live under this roof"!

10. I love how amazingly strong he is - how he fought cancer and won! And how that difficult time made us both better people! He rocks!

School Valentines!

So this is what I sent with Mardi to school today for Valentines! She put together all her own cards - I just cut out the paper and hearts she was in charge of adhesive!!! Then last night we made cupcakes for everyone and she wrote all the kids names in the cards ~ a lot more stamina this year than her preschool year!

I got to volunteer at kindergarten this morning - and I had a blast! They had nothing planned for Valentines Day because the school is having a market place thing tomorrow, so I am glad we made cupcakes so the kids had a little treat!

The teachers raved over Mardi's valentines and loved the cupcakes too. She had a great day!

How I Spent My Day!

Unfortunately I had to make some sympathy cards today - sad because of the reason, but a great way to ignore household duties and sit in my scrapbook room for the majority of the day! I did have a little anxiety around 4pm - knowing that dishes weren't cleaned up and the hubby was due home in an hour! But other than that I had a great day making cards! It did however take me way to long to pump out only 3 cards. Oh well! Here is the result: