Ten on Tuesday

1. I decided to give my massage room here at the house a bit of a make over. The color that it was, was a cranberry. Change was in order so I went with red. 'Lipstick Pencil' is the name of the color. And take it from me, RED SUCKS! The room is pretty tiny and I finished today and I had to use FOUR gallons of paint. Mark made the joke that my room is now smaller due to the inch of paint on the walls! The finished product should look good.

2. We had a big fire here in the Hat this past week. It happened to be a pub called the 'Dog House' and the bar Ezzies. When I first heard about it I thought the pub was out in Redcliff, they then added on the news that it was the entire building and that Ezzies was lost as well. This building just happened to be the view from my massage room at the Ridge. The horizon looks a little bit different now.....I have a better view! The building was 50 years old and they think the fire started up high, in between the ceiling and the roof.

3. Also speaking of news........it just gives me the heebie jeebies to hear about the Jeremy Stienke case going on right now in Calgary. The Richardson family was murdered 3 years ago this coming April. Listening to the news and hearing some of the details is awful. Makes you wonder what the heck was going on in those kids heads. Even more of a reason to have my kids stay little.

4. Speaking of my kids.......check out their shirts. I just couldn't resist.

(Dear Santa, I can explain everything)

They look like perfect little angels don't they? Their poor lips.......they keep licking them and get those sores under their mouths.

5. Carter went through his first pair of glasses last week. Him and another kid were running full tilt and crashed leading with their heads. Mark took him in on the weekend to see if the lady at Sears could fix them or not. NOT! So they ordered another pair. I'm a bit nervous as to what the three boys picked out. Mark tried calling me to get me there asap, but I was getting groceries and still had my phone on silent from the night before. I should be getting the call soon.

6. I think I sent this email to everyone I know but this one story is just too funny......

This had most of the state of Michigan laughing for 2 days and a very embarrassed female news anchor, who will, in the future, think before she speaks. What happens when you predict snow and then you don't get any? We had a female news anchor that, the day after it was supposed to have snowed but it didn't, turned to the weatherman and asked, "So Bob, where are those 8 inches you promised me last night?" Not only did he have to leave the set, but half the crew did too because of laughing so hard.

I laughed so hard at this, I had tears running down my face. That is some good stuff.

7. Logan stayed home from school last Friday. He woke up at 5:00am complaining that his tummy was sore and that he thought he needed to throw up. Turns out it was all a false alarm, but I didn't want to be that mom that sends her kid to school and then gets a phone call an hour later to go pick up my kid because he got sick all over the place. Later that afternoon, I looked on the calendar and saw that Logan was to get his first report card that day! Coincidentally, I remember that last year he was 'sick' the day he was to get his first report card as well. Little bugger. He did bring it home yesterday and he got a good report. I have an interview with his teacher tomorrow to get even more dirt on the dude.

8. Friday night I had my ladies night out. We all had tickets to see the play 'Footloose'. I was surprisingly impressed. The main character in the play looked like Kevin Bacon and the minister even looked like John Lithgo. (Laugh all you want...I have no idea how to spell his last name.) They only had one small glitch........10 minutes into the play the house lights came on and the lights to the stage didn't seem to work. Turns out they some how fried the main circuit breaker and none of the lights were working. Saturday night was the final performance and I heard they had to fly in a new one from the states. They somehow got some of the lights to work and the show continued on.

9. The Bacon Mushroom melt is back at Wendy's!!! I think I will be finding my lost 5 pounds!

10. My vote is for Lance Bass to win DWTS. I'll even put $5.00 down if anyone wants to bet?

10 on Tuesday!

I thought I would give this a whirl.......not promising that it will ever happen again!

1. Why are people putting up their Christmas stuff already? (Sorry erin!) IT isn't even December yet! I still have 36 days until Christmas.

2. I have been complaining about my weight gain for a few months now and never really did anything about it.....but continue eating. Last week I was at the day home picking up Carter. I was squatting down to help Carter with his shoes, and wouldn't you know it I blew the ass out of my pants!! If that isn't incentive, not sure what else it will take.

3. I hate the wind. Gusting up to 60 kms today.

4. This time of year is great to help out with your parenting skills. "If you don't smarten up, I'll be writing Santa a letter and let him know that you are being bad!" Works every time! I'm guessing I'll have at least 4 more years of it, love it!

5. A friend of mine is taking both her kids to Disneyland for their birthdays. Her and her husband have been keeping this secret from the kids for the past two months. This past weekend they had a little party with family and let the kids now. I was asked to make a Mickey Mouse cake for the occasion. Yesterday morning when I was dropping Logan off at school, Laura and her kids were also just getting to the school. I asked them how excited they were! I got big smiles and then the girl looked up at me a quietly said, 'Thanks for the cake!' To hear those few words just made my day.

6. Had a massage this morning. Really needing to have more of those.

7. We were having supper the other night and Logan & Carter were talking about their days at school. Logan talked about who he played with and some of the things they learnt. Carter soon follows up about a kid in his class, telling us that this boy is his new friend. He described him as the 'big fat kid with no mustache'. This boy is very big for his age. I golfed with his mom and she was saying that his growth stimulating hormone kicked into over drive at a very early age. This boy is only three years old and is 3x the size of Carter! I guess he looks like a grown up to Carter......and grown up boys should have a mustache. Things that come out of his mouth crack me up.

8. I also hate laundry.

9. Our new Walmart Supercentre has now opened. It is HUGE!! Mark keeps hearing that it is the largest store in Canada. It kinda gives me a weird vibe.....it seems dark in there. I also don't like the line ups. The people that are buying groceries really need to stay over on their side to pay for their groceries and leave the other check outs for regular shoppers.

10. Is it just me, or is time going by way too fast?!? Every time I make a cake, I get requests from the boys as to what they want for their birthdays. Carter told me that we wants Wall-e. Not sure why, he hasn't seen the movie and knows nothing about him. I then thought about it and Carter is going to be 5!!!! YIKES.

Showing off Jakzen

I noticed that I uploaded these photos from my camera and then never did anything with them! You can't laugh at the 'fogginess' of the first few pictures.......Nick realized that I had a greasy fingerprint on the lens of my camera. I just like to call it my 'smudging' technique, I totally meant to do that! Also Keri made some pictures, proud mama bear.

Keri of course dressed Jak up as a Jak' O Lantern! I stole this picture from her blog, couldn't help but show it off!

Halloween '08

Another Halloween came and gone.

Not sure why this picture never made it in the last post, I have been having technical difficulty with writing up blogs. Every year after the pumpkins get carved we have to put them in the bathroom and test them out.

Carter had his playschool party in the morning. This is the view I had from my rear view mirror!
Here is a bunch of the little guys.
Can you spot Carter?

After school we had to pretty much tie the boys down! They were so excited. Finally it was time to get dressed and hit the streets.

There was no walking from house to house, they ran!

We seemed to keep running into this group of trick or treaters that had a couple of dogs dressed up. Had to take a picture for the blog.

The boys got a pile of treats. Two large bowls full of chocolate and candy and then over 40 bags of chips. We will be eating candy until Christmas!