Game Night

So here I sit actually I am waiting for the laundry to dry so that I can fold it and then back as I am heading down to visit Tammy in Calgary. You can always tell when I am pregnant because I want to cut my hair short. I am going to try and reframe from cutting it too short and I know that Tammy will not let me. Good times. I am taking Keagan and Rylan with me and they are going to have their hair cut and than I will take them to have their pictures taken at Superstore (in Calgary) as I have heard good things about their pictures. Crazy I know. It is always fun to get together with Tammy.
Jamie right now is playing Settlers with some friends. It is not really my kind of game, but they seem to have fun. I like to watch them which is more entertaining. Jamie has to work on Sat. so Darien gets to spend the day with Daddy at work while I am away. He is pretty excited and Jamie will try to make it as much fun as he can.
I will post the results of the hair cut after the weekend.

Coming Home

I am very blessed to have a supportive husband. I was talking to my mom on the phone yesterday and I asked if I could come home and visit during spring break at the end of March and she of course said yes and then while I was talking to her Jamie called so I shared the news with him and he thought that would be a great idea. The only problem is how do I get there with the three kids. My first thought was to drive but that is hard when you are on your own, but it can be done. But 10 min. after I got off the phone with my mom Jamie called me back to say that there was a seat sale on so he would drive out with me and then fly home on Mon. then fly back on Fri. and drive home with us. I am so excited. I just hope that the weather is good while I am there. So I will be coming home large.
Today was our work out day and for the past year we have been measuring ourselves to see where we are at and I discovered today that I have gain 4 inch. around my chest yes can you believe that. I was shocked to say the least but I am happy to say that the important parts to me (my but and thighs) have not changed to much.

Ice Rinks

Saturday was spent doing the usual running around and we got home, it was time to get to buiness building our backyard ice rink. All was going well and the kids where having fun jumping on the wood to press down the snow, until it was time to spray it down with water and of course the water would not come out it was frozen, we had even gone to the trouble of finding the hose and nozzle to do it. The kids where a little bit sad but then daddy had the great idea of going to the lake behind our house and clearing the snow off of there. They did a great job, but at this point the kids where getting cold so they came inside and Jamie continued to work which involved caring large water jugs full of water from our house to the lake to make it nice and smooth. After about 6 trips back and forth Jamie was done. Today will be the first day that they get to enjoy using it. It should be great and I know that is the first place that Darien is going to go. I will take some pictures and include them on this blog. The first pictures are the our attempt to make a rink in the back yard and the last ones of the real rink are on the lake behind our house. They had a great time.

Homesick

It doesn't happen very often that I feel homesick but this week is one of them. It is probably the hormones. It is funny how home will always be home not matter where you live. Don't get me wrong, I really do love living in Alberta but there is always home.

Today, I have managed to go through all of our toy boxes and sort out the toys. It seems like every so often we have to do that and put toys back with their original sets and take toys back to the basement as they seem to have worked their way upstairs. I think that our family project for tomorrow will be to go through the toys downstairs and get rid of some and then we are going to try and build an ice rink in our back yard. The boys have really enjoyed iceskating this year and it would be fun to just send them outside where I can see them. I will let you know how it goes.

Tonight I am heading to my friend Renea's as both of our husbands have to work, we will have dinner together and let the kids play. (They have 5 children) It is always nice to get together.

Scrapbooking

So now that the basement is finished I thought that I would organize my scrapbooking stuff. I now have an official area for it and one day when the bills have been paid down I am going to get some cupboards and a desk for it but for now I have a folding table but at least I have a space where I can work on it. So I went down there and organized a little bit but that was as far as I got the creative juices where not flowing. I always seem to do better when I have other people to do it with. I guess I need the motivation or the input from someone else to help.

I can't say that I have really missed the blood work that you have to get done when you are pregnant but we are back at that stage again. I have been putting it off for a couple of weeks now but I had to finally go and do it, oh what fun. That was a very exciting day but what can I say I just don't get out much with the kids when it is -26 all day. Maybe tomorrow will be better because we have to go grocery shopping Yipee!!!

New Years

I know that this is kind of going back in time but we had a wonderful New Years. This is the first year that we have actually gone out anywhere and left the kids at home. Our bestfriends the Robin and Renea invited us out because Robin is a DJ and had to work that night obviously as it is one of the busiest nights in the year. The night included a wonderful 5 course dinner, dancing, and then a room at a nice and fancy hotel with two beds so they invited us out for the whole night, how could we say no. It is always nice to get out and enjoy ourselves. My mom was here so we were able to go and not worry about the kids, plus it is nice to get dressed up for something fancy, and there were some pretty fancy dresses there (one that I would not be caught dead in but each to their own, just too much skin) but it was great. The next morning we went and had some breakfast and then tried to do a little bit of shopping but the stores where not open yet. Good times. Of course today we have not gone any where because of the blizzard warning that we have had here since 12:00 last night. From all the reports the roads are crazy so we have been cleaning up the basment and reorganizing after taking all the Christmas stuff back down. I hope that this weather doesn't stay too long but it is supposed to be cold for the few days. What can you say we live in the North and yes we do get used to it. (Just to explain the pictures. There is Renea and I, I am dancing with Robin because my husband seems to have forgotten how to dance except for slow dancing, and the other guy at the table with us is another friend and of course our lovely snow. But I just talked to my mom and she said that, she is getting a huge dump of snow right now too.)

Back to School

Well, I am happy to say that we all survived the holidays, and had a great time. We had a great time getting to know Tyler and Michelle's daughter that was adopted 18 years ago and now we are finally getting to know her and her wonderful family. She is very much like Jamie's bother Tyler, and we had a great time with her and her family christmas eve. Every Christmas eve we get together with our best friends the Marsden's who have five children. Yes, it can get a little bit loud but it is always a great time with lots of food and fun. We all open up PJ's christmas eve and take lots of pictures but I forgot our camera so I am waiting for them to email out some pictures. Of course Christmas day as always was exciting, our kids got way too many toys, in fact I just opened up and put together another toy today. But it was great to just get up and have the family here and see the look on their faces. We had a wonderful Christmas dinner and Jamie was able to stay home until 6:00 pm and then head to work so he got to enjoy the whole day. The kids have been good over Christmas break put I am glad that we are back into the routine of school again. I like to have a schedule and things planned out, Darien is alot like me that way. We are well on our way to having Rylan potty trained. He is doing so well. He has only had one accident today, but we are still trying to work on #2 as we have not caught him yet, he just decided that he wanted to go on the potty, it would be great if that could be done, but we will see.