What a weekend!

I'm almost glad that its Monday! We were so busy this weekend, moving furniture and rearranging stuff. I finally got my scrapbooking room under control. Looking in there I have way too much stuff! Time to ebay some surplus. Speaking of ebay, just scored some really great deals on jeans and star trek dvds. Very cool, especially since I've got a tv and dvd player in my scrapbooking room. This makes me so happy :) Now I can watch star trek and scrap my little heart out. My wonderful dh is heading to the city for work today so he's stopping by costco for me to get me new jeans, should be interesting. Once the kids are awake and functioning we are off to LLB to do errands and pick up groceries for a birthday party we are having for Ron. Mexican food, pinata, sugar free candies ole` ! I'm also hoping to get some pictures developed for my scrapbooking night on Wednesday so we'll see how much damage they can do there in town. It just takes way too long to upload them here in dial up land. So I'm off to get the offspring out of bed and dressed to begin the day...

I admit it

I totally have camera envy. Don't get me wrong, I love my little S1 IS but it so doesn't thrill me anymore. I get frustrated with the horrible low light capablities and the fact that I've missed some really great shots at times where I needed some speed. I want a new camera. I've already put the wheels in motion. Step 1. Buy Ron a really awesome table saw that will be all the saw he'll ever need. (This way I've paved the way for me getting an awesome camera) Step 2. Mention the drawbacks to my camera every few days/weeks. Step 3. As for a dslr for my 30th birthday.

The only problem is that step 3 isn't for a whole nother year! :( Wonder if I can win some money for a new camera? Hey its a thought ;)

Housework and all that stuff

You know I thought that with me being off this summer from work I'd have a clean, organized house. Apparently I'm not that kind of a person. Don't get me wrong I like a clean house but man, to get the gumption up to do it is another story. As I sit here and veg, I have a huge pile of laundry to put away, floors to sweep and mop, kitchen counters to clean and don't get me started on the basement. I really need some house elves I decided. Then I could watch TV, play with the kids and scrapbook without feeling guilty ;) But alas, I don't think its going to happen. Off I go to find something else to distract me from the mess...

Fun news!

I've been asked to be on a design team for a scrapbooking store! I've already created one of my first projects and need to do 2 more. Was planning on having some pictures developed at Costco but aparently my 577 pictures would take more than 1 hour :0 So I'll upload them at home. Please check out the website www.scrappershaven.ca its a great store with up-to-date scrapbooking supplies and great shipping prices. Love this place.

I've decided that...

New pretty jammies make me sleep better :) I took the kids to the city yesterday (had to pick up my modem) and I hit the jackpot at La Senza. Seriously good deals there. I'm currently sitting in my new comfy jammies feeling oh so pretty. Even with the bed head. We had a really great day yesterday. Hooked up with some amazing deals at The Children's Place, school clothes and such for the kids. I tried to find a dress for my cousin's reception at the end of August and I bombed there. Nothing that I tried fit, all too big. That was way too cool, yet not. So I bought a cute skirt and sandels that I can use. Went to costco and found cute cute Kenneth Cole jeans, looked at the size 8s and said no way are they going to fit me so I bought the 10s. I get home and the 10s are way too huge. Should have bought the 8s. Problem is that my Abby lost my reciept so I'll see if my sil wants them and I'll go get the 8s. It funny cause my mind still sees me as bigger than I am. I wonder how long that will take to change?

Whoohoo!!

I'm finally hooked up again!! This no net thing was a serious torture tactic for me. I got my new modem last night and installed it by myself, thank you very much. Took the cover off the tower and plugged the thing in all without the help of a man. Yay for me. I'm now sitting down to a couple of hours of serious catching up to do. Emails, ebay stuff and blogs await me.

So apartently I have an addiction...

During our last bit of a thunderstorm I was blessed with a shot to my computer. Sadly the modem didn't make it. I can't believe how lost I feel without my internet connection! Pretty sad. So my mornings on the net with a cup of coffee are being replaced with coffee and a Star Trek: TNG DVD (big score from ebay) I so need my net back. Thankfully I'm boring a few minutes at my bil's to check email and such. I'll keep everyone posted when I get a new modem.

Ahhh coffee in the morning...

Got to love the peace and quiet of an early morning. The best part is fresh coffee in the pot and kids still in bed. I'm so totally loving my kids getting older. Yes, I get misty eyed looking through their baby scrapbooks and ooing and ahhing over how much they've changed and grown, but there is something to be said for a little independance. This totally goes along with the balance thing I've been trying to achieve. It's so good to find a bit of me the person again, instead of me the mommy all the time. Those with young kids you know what I'm talking about.

This year marks an inportant stage in my life for many reasons, first of this the completion of our family. Its going to be the four of us and we are quite content with this. Second, is the weight loss thing. For those who didn't know I started a weight loss challange at work in September and it gave me such a boost that I've continued though the rest of the year. As I get closer to my goal (4 more pounds whoohoo!) I find myself thinking though the many excuses I told myself for being unhealthy and extremely overweight. Its funny how things that start out to be kind of selfish turn into a selfless process for those around me. Point in case, I didn't want to be fat anymore and now its turned into getting my family healthy and my kids having a healthy body image that will follow them into their teen years hopefully. I don't want my kids, especially Abby having to be that fat teenager. I know what that was like all to well and its not something that I want repeated.

So enough rambling on about food I need to go and refresh my coffee :)

Our newest rescue

I never would have dreamed that we'd have a kitty. My husband has never been what you'd call a cat lover... in fact he has refused all contact with any member of the feline family since he was a small boy. However, he came home from visiting his parents with our kids and heard this tiny mewing in the bushes by our house. After an hour of coaxing, he welcomed this new little kitty into our house. When I came home from scrapbooking, I was greated by "can we have a kitty, daddy says its okay?" So welcome to the family Maxi.

Ethan is the one who named her. Before we knew she was a girl, her name was Max. When we discovered her gender, she became Maxi. It seems to fit her seeing how she has a letter M for a marking on her forehead. So now Ron is her favorite and everytime you pick her up she is purring away. Surprisingly she is very affectionate for a cat dispite Abby trying to maul her ;)

In the begining...

there was nothing, now who'd a thought I'd have a blog? I've been going totally crazy reading other people's blogs and now decided to do one of my own. Yes I will give you credit Adrienne, you did get me thinking I could do this blog thing, thanks, by the way. I hope to just enjoy this space to talk without interuption. Something that doesn't happen too often with 2 kids.

Just to introduce myself a little, I'm a mom of 2 kids, Ethan (7) and Abby (4), wife to Ron and an avid scrapbooker. Definately will be elaborating more on that. I'm a self professed home body, shopaholic and Trekkie. What a combination.

I'm going to try and post fairly regularly and see where this goes. Enjoy.