My birthday present

For my birthday this year, my parents bought me a beautiful Autumn Blaze Maple tree . As you may recall we received one as a wedding gift, but it didn't make it very long. It was beautiful why it lasted, but alas, it died (I sure hope that isn't a sign). Anyway I took a couple of shots before the tree...After the tree, I will keep you updated on the progress over the coming year. It should be beautiful next year.

Good deals

Nothing makes me feel as good as when I score some great clothes. Who doesn't love a good deal, well me for one...I am always looking for cute clothes for the girls. Abby has recently hit a growth spurt and so now she is in need of warmer clothes. I love the children's place and was able to get all the items below (3 shirts, 2 pants, a pair of shoes and a jean jacket) all for $35 including shipping!! I have been waiting for a week for them to arrive, I was so excited tonight and so I just had to share!

Happy Thanksgiving

Yes, for all you Canadians out there, today is the big day to relax, sleep in late and enjoy a wonderful turkey dinner. However we do still get enjoy the turkey dinner. I got lucky marying a Canadian, I get in to the cool crowd. We got our first invite 5 years ago, right after Chris moved here and before we were even married, and here we are now, 2 kids and a few more years behind us. Back then we would go to someone's house for dinner (the Tromners) but this year there were so many of us as word has got out about this awsome tradition, that we had to use a facility. Lucky for us Alice works for a funeral home, and so we were able to use their center. Yes kinda wierd to have Thanksgiving dinner at a funeral home, but unless you knew that is what it was you would have had no idea. We all enjoyed the night, food and friends and Joan and Alice did an awsome job of putting it together. We sure are blessed to have friends like that!

Dogs, Dogs, Dogs

We went to my parents for conference today and Tori was just too cute chasing after the dogs all day. This kid loves dogs, I can't get over how much so love them. I just couldn't get the one of her hugging or laying on the dogs, she would move every time I got the camera, so these will have to do.

Why yes, that is a remote control in her hand...she loves the things, not sure why maybe she knows what kind of powers they hold??

Fire Safety

Every year, the fire station has a big open house and every year I say hey, that would be fun we should go and every year we miss it. Well finally this year we went. I have found with kids you go when you can and go early, which is just what we did. I couldn't believe all the stuff they had including give aways, breakfast and of course the most fun of all sitting in the fire truck!

Here are some pictures from the day...
Abby in the fire truck buckling up
Abby checking everything out, see the nice tie around her neck, that is as some of us call it a piece of scrap material. She wouldn't leave home until it was on as a "tie".Tori loved the pancake breakfast, in the background you can see the table to practice calling 911.

They gave all the kids these cute fire chief hats, Tori wasn't so sure about how fun this was.

The mind of a 2 year old

Tonight Abby was a handful. First she was "helping" me by giving Mary (her baby doll) a bath. However, the problem with that is that Mary doesn't do so well with water. So she spent the rest of the night drying out. Then she wanted to go get her plastic toy from outside in the backerd (back yard) so out she went. She was nice enough to bring that in, but wanted to go back out. So she did, then proceeded to stick through the screen a twig, thanks! Well thinking how much trouble can she get in, I headed back to the kitchen to finish dinner. A couple minutes later she calls me back to the door, where she stands in just a shirt. She had gone out fully clothed, but now just held her clothes. Then she proceeded to tell me that she had peed in the backerd and that she took her shoes off so they wouldn't get pee on them.
All I have to say is that I would expect that from a little boy, but not a little girl, guess that goes to show, you never know what your child is capable of.

New calling

So much for sitting around with idle time on my hands. I was called as the 1st counselor in the Primary. Nothing like going from the flame to the fire. Oh did I mention that I have a primary program to put together for the 21st and that there were some pieces and parts of the old one to use. Not to make matters worse, but we only have 2 weeks and really only 1 more church day before we go "live".
I spent Saturday writing the outline, Sunday running around getting parts for all the children and Monday night finishing it up. Well I am happy to say that finished that tonight and handed it to the Primary President to get final approval. I am hoping he gets it back quickly so we can get it handed out so kinds learn their parts.
On a kinder, gentler side, I am so excited for this calling, the challange alone will get a great learning experience. For example, we have 96 children and only 3 teachers left. We will see how it goes next week!!