Scrap day!

So yesterday was the Okotoks Scrapbook Convention and what a great time we had! I am definitely attending again next year! Those ladies sure know how to throw a crop!

I managed to only get 6 layouts done - which was so pathetic on my part, but in my defense I had a lot of visiting to do and mix that in with constant laughter and you end up underachieving!

Here are 2 of the layouts I accomplished and a picture of the prize I won for "Best Photography Layout"! The layout I won for was "Splash"! Funny thing is that I never took this picture - so I will have to give my Mom's friend a pat on the back for allowing me to win in that category! Hilarious!

10 Random...Tuesday?!

So I think I should change these updates to my 10 Random ~ Tuesdays! I can't seem to get organized enough on Sunday to post! Any who here are 10 things that I learned this weekend:

1. My kids LOVE going to my Mom and Dad's - more than anywhere else! They know they get to do chores, name the new calves, play in the barn and get spoiled beyond belief!

2. I was even more excited than I knew to go to the Brier on Saturday morning! Loved watching the Hot Shot competition - LOVED it!

3. Realized that Kim can talk to any stranger and somehow get them to laugh - every time!

4. I saw first hand how a TV camera really adds 10 pounds (or more). There were a lot of skinny curlers and TV personalities we saw!

5. I really appreciate my driving skills after the horrible drive home on Saturday night!

6. I realized how much I want to go to the Roar of the Rings in December ~ I am SO sure that I will probably book a hotel room this week!

7. I miss spending time with my hubby. We have SO much fun together and had a wonderful time together at the Brier. We need more date nights!

8. As much as I love cooking it was sure nice not to have to worry about feeding people 6 times a day!

9. My parents are amazing - they are so wonderful with my kids and my kids adore them so much that I never had a single worry about them all weekend. I knew my kids were in the best hands.

10. Finally, as much as I loved being kid-less for 3 days I missed them tremendously!

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!