Our House!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, So here's our House!  I thought  I had a nice straight on view, but apparently I don't so this will  have to do for now.

Our New house the day we took possession

The rest of these are named for what they are. This is as the house is right now. Really the only thing we are going to change is the colour of the paint in the living room and girlify the girls teal bedroom some how, maybe even baby up the baby's room...we'll see.

Blue walls and blue carpet is a little boring.

I love the kitchen colours, and I have so much cupboard space! I'll probably buy some new hardware for the cupboards, and leave them the natural wood.

I love the colour in the master bedroom!  These pictures are kind of

dark, only the wall behind the bed is a dark olive, the other walls are
alight version.

I like the teal in the girls room, but somehow I need to girlify it, without making it prissy. Any ideas?
so that's pretty much it. When we get moved in I'll post pictures of our house with our stuff in it.

Santa Skeptic

Oh how my Kathryn makes me laugh! She is a thinker! This afternoon we went to Daniel's work Christmas party and after food and bowling, the children were gathered around the Christmas tree to sing Christmas carols so that Santa would come. Kathryn is already suspicious, she asks me "The real Santa mom? He lives at the North pole, how is he going to get here?" I tell her that he will come in his sleigh, she gives me her look that says she doesn't believe me. So the kids sing some carols and sure enough, HO HO HO here comes Santa shaking some jingle bells, Tansley is excited although she tells me she doesn't want to see Santa, Kathryn just looks but then does give in to a smile of anticipation when she realizes that Santa is going to hand out presents. He starts calling out names and giving each child a present and treat bag. When Tansley's name is called she is hesitant to go up, but I take her hand and lead her to Santa. She keeps her distance, just close enough to reach the present being offered her and then says thank you, to which Santa says "your welcome". Tansley's eyes light up and she says to me "Santa talks!", for some reason this had never occurred to her before and it was a pleasing revelation. Some time later Kathryn's name is called and she goes up and sits on Santa's knee and smiles for a picture and then says thank you for her present and that was that...for that moment. Later tonight, on our way to the Christmas devotional, Kathryn says to me, "Mom, I don't think that was the real Santa." I asked her why she thought that and she replied "his beard wasn't stuck to his face, he was just dressed up like Santa, and Santa lives at the North pole and there was no sleigh, and he just came while we were singing from that door." OK, she got me, she was right on all of it, what could I say? I said "your right" and then told her it was Santa's helper who came to visit the kids. Well that just opened up a whole new line of questioning. How did he know how to get here? Did Santa give him a map? Does Santa need a map? Santa's helpers are elves, why was he so big? Where does he live? Does Santa's helper have a sleigh too? and on and on and on......What kind of answers am I supposed to give her?  So I just say "I'm not sure." and "that's possible". However I know that those answers will not satisfy her for long. She figured out a solution for the "too big elf" dilemma, when the elf (Santa's helper) puts on the Santa clothes it makes him look big, and when he takes them off he gets small again. Sounds good to me. I'm pretty sure Kathryn will have this Santa thing figured out in no time, she thinks too much and usually comes up with the right answers.

New Adventures.

Life is exciting these days. For anyone that doesn't know, Daniel and I decided to make the biggest purchase of our lives. We looked and searched and prayed to know what, where, when and how make this purchase. And then one day we saw it online and we knew this was the one. It wasn't easy, in fact it was quite chaotic at first and very frustrating, for a brief moment we wondered if it was the right one. I t took about a month to finally get what we wanted. But we got it and we are thrilled. Some may say we are crazy, insane, out of our minds, but let them say it, we don't care. We admit that we are, but not for the same reasons.

Our new house is fabulous, it is gorgeous with new paint just the way I would have done it (accept in the Living Room, that will be changed). The flooring in only a few years old and looks fabulous. The basement is finished with a fabulous laundry/bathroom. I finally get to live in a house with TWO bathrooms!!! I have never had such luxury! Not only that but my kitchen has more cupboard space than I know what to do with, I'll actually be able to store everything in real cupboards!!! again I have never had such a luxury(in my married life). The yard is huge with plenty of room to make a garden space. We have an attached garage and and additional drive way in the back. The yard is lined with big beautiful trees and the house is surrounded by flower gardens. Oh yes and it is in Milk River and we take possession January 4th 2008.

I'll post pictures when my camera gets fixed.

Dissappearing posts...spooky

OK, So Daniel writes this brilliant post about our future PCPers and one of those brilliant PCPers found a way to delete the post by clicking and pressing various buttons. Genius, I know. So here is my very much less brilliant post.

Kathryn created her own design and then I helped her cut it out. She was so proud of it, It is even wearing glasses and sticking out it's tongue

Tansley drew her face on the pumpkin and then Daniel interpreted her beautiful drawing. Do you see the face? It's obvious how Daniel was able to bring out her creativity.

Mandy's

And this piece of work is my genius creation called "simple pumpkin", but hey it's cute. Unlike my husband, I need to draw the face on first and then follow the lines.

Daniel's

This piece of work of course belongs to Daniel. He is skilled. He says it is because the vision is in every part of his being....or something like that. He just picked up the knife and started cutting away, the second year in a row that he has been able to pull off this master piece...and likely not the last. What can I say, my husband is amazing, and when he reads my boring post, he'll shake his head.
So here is our family of pumpkins all lit up and shining for the world to see.

Cheesecake rip off.

Daniel and I just went to eat at the Cheesecake Cafe for his brother, Ryan's, birthday. We enjoyed a great meal and conversation, but then when the waitress asked if we would like dessert, Daniel said no thanx before I could even say anything and the waitress left. She came back with the bill, and as we walked to the front to pay and get change, I asked "Are you sure we can't have cheesecake?". And do you know what he said to me? He said "Have a cookie dear." HAVE A COOKIE?! A little itty bitty cookie they put out for people to eat while they wait for their table?! He then walked out the door and left me there stunned in disbelief. Who, just who in their right mind, eats and the Cheesecake Cafe and then leaves with out having cheesecake for dessert? I never have and I never plan to do it again. What a rip off!

Kids and naps

How does one conquer the taking naps to not taking naps transition? Here's my dilemma. Tansley has been soooo miserable the past few days, so on Monday I decide that she needs to have a nap, and even with said nap, she is fairly cranky when she wakes up (I know she's 2, I get it). But since then I have being paying for that nap. she wakes up earlier in the morning (I'm talking 5:30am or earlier) and doesn't go back to sleep until 6:30am or later, the rest of the morning she is a monster, by 2pm she is exhausted and wants to take a nap. and the cycle starts again. This morning she was up a 3am and in my bed...not sleeping and neither was I. Finally at 5am when Kymberly woke up to be nursed, Tansley went to her own bed only to get up with Kathryn just after 6am. No need to explain that she has be grumpy most of the day. So again at 2pm she wants a nap....it's 5:45pm and she is still sleeping (she has a cold today too, that might add to it). Not only is Tansley sleeping but so is Kathryn. At 4pm Kathryn got herself all worked up about spelling words that she went into a hysteric crying fit and went to her room, and I ignored her, knowing that she was going to fall asleep but not really caring because I just wanted her to stop with the hysterics so I could enjoy some non-hysteric-yelling-grumpy time to myself. Once Kathryn is a sleep, it is BAD news to wake her up when she is not ready to wake up, so I let her sleep, and I continue to let Tansley sleep. Bad ideas I know, but sometimes one just doesn't have the energy or gumph to even care...and so it is with me today. Will I pay for it? Undoubtedly. In all likelihood they will be up untill who knows when tonight, and be up at 6am or earlier in the morning and our Friday will be another napping or napless adventure.

Chaos in Organization

Today I went out to Walmart and invested in 12 rubbermaid bins so that we could store our toys in a more organized fashion. I received my CTB cheque today, this is how I planned to buy said bins but for some reason Daniel put it in his pocket. I dropped him off at work and the preceded to Walmart, found the bins that were needed and headed to the check out. When it came time to pay I realized that I had forgot to cash the cheque and then realized that my dear darling Daniel had that cheque in his pocket and I knew that there was absolutely no money in the bank. So I kindly ask the cashier to suspend the transaction while I use the phone at customer service to call Daniel and have him transfer some money into our account via the online banking. Kymberly is screaming, Tansley refuses to come and stand with me and Kathryn insists that she has to go to the bathroom right now! Mean while I am on hold waiting for Daniel to answer the phone at work, he must be busy. Finally he picks up, and then laughs at me because I made it all the way to the check out with out realizing that I didn't have the cheque, but why did he have it in the first place? Twenty minutes and 50 cents for the candy machines later, the money finally shows up in the account. Lets get out of here! The girls were very excited with the idea of organizing the toys...until we get home and it's time to start organizing. First we went through the house and collected all the toys and then we started sorting. Kathryn is easily distracted and talks on endlessly about usually nothing, I keep trying to keep her on task, but two toys later and she's wandering again. Tansley is such a help, just as you get on bin full of toys, she takes out 5 or 6 and wonders off with them, scattering what we just collected all over the house again. It's the end of the day. The kids are asleep in bed and my living room looks worse now than it did this morning....oh well, I guess we'll tackle it again tomorrow.

Chaos is such fun

OK so now I've started a blog, I find that suddenly I have nothing to say. Life has been busy with digging, cleaning and storing my carrots, sewing a wedding dress, cresting jerseys for Bert and Mac's, running off to Winnipeg for a weekend, trying to entertain children, and of course all the regular duties in keeping house...which unfortunately I often neglect when I have so many other fun things to do. Daniel and I have also started house shopping and what an adventure that is, looking for houses in all sorts of interesting places. We thought we found the house that we wanted, but then all sorts of chaos erupted. We still love the house, location, and price. But right now we are just waiting to see if the chaos lets up before we do anything. In the mean time we keep looking and dreaming, hoping that we'll be guided some how to the house that is just right for us. It's fun and scary and frustrating and exciting all at the same time. Trust me, when we know, the rest of you will know, but until then, don't ask questions, I don't have answers.

My first blog

OK, so I've been out of the world of internet for years and years, and finally I have a computer that works and I'm hooked up to the world! There is so much to do. So much to see. So many places to go. Never enough time to do it all. Just when I think I might have a few minutes to get caught up with it all, Kathryn comes and wants to play on the computer, and asks if I'm done every 30 seconds, or Tansley starts climbing the kitchen shelves, or poops on the kitchen floor, or smears vaseline all over, or Kymberly starts to cry because she needs me to nurse her or just to bounce her. But it is now 11pm and all is quiet...for now, so I'm taking a moment to start my own blog, yes I'm blogging for the very first time. This is kinda fun.