So yesterday we had some bad news....Lloyd has to go to Toronto to work :( It should be seen as good news as when he was called into a meeting with two Directors, we were both worried he was being let go.....
To say I'm pissed off is an understatement!!! But then Lloyd isn't too happy either - and at least Jeffs wife Kendra is probably also pissed off as Jeff is going too......this makes me feel a little better lol!
Lloyd leaves on Thursday I think...or was it Wednesday? I can't remember.
Last night I took part in an online crop at scrappers haven.....it was really good fun! Cori and Tess from LP came and joined us too :)
I won the first challenge - we had to scraplift a layout by another scrapbooker on the website. I created a two page layout about my Mom and Abigail at the park - and I won a RAK - so this means I will get something sent to me in the mail - very exciting :)
It was so much fun at this crop - people were chatting and scrapbooking for hours and posting pictures of their work and then we had to take a picture of ourselves at that moment and post the picture on the site :)
We had no food in the house yesterday because we haven't been shopping in ages, so we all got in the car and headed into town - we planned to go to Pizza Hut for dinner but they were closing!!!!! Friday night at 8pm and they were closing!!! Even for take out! So we tried Boston Pizza and the wait for a table was too long, so then we headed to DQ. Had dinner there and then headed home so I could rejoin the crop!
We got home and could smell gas really strong at the end of our road, so we called Atco and they sent someone out straight away....we could see the flashing lights from their truck from our house so we kept checking if they were still working down there - when I went to sleep at 12:30 they were still there but by 2am they were gone. there is no gas smell this morning so I guess they solved the problem!
This morning I helped Lloyd outside - we picked up all the garbage that had blown about from the old barn, we burnt more wood and I helped the children pack away all of the summer toys into the workshop ready for winter. Val and her family came over..Lloyd got to meet them at long last!!! Lloyd helped her husband and Son load up the trailer with the metal roofing sheets. They said hi to Charlie and we all had coffee....we walked around one of the trails up by Marys land....
After lunch Lloyd and I went to Michaels and got some things I needed for making Christmas cards. One of the girls at SH has created some amazing cards using acetate and stamping on them with white ink - so it gave me the idea of doing the same but with snowflakes on them....I think acetate and acrylic is my latest craze - I bought some acrylic sheets on Thursday to make mini albums from - I started my first one this afternoon!
Then we went to Costco to get the groceries (stopping off for coffee on the way of course)
This afternoon I went for a walk around here and took pictures of the Fall colours etc...I will blog those in a bit.
Tonight we are baking some potatoes in the ashes of the fire outside...then I think I will scrapbook for a while and then Lloyd and I are having a Greys Anatomy marathon - we want to get through series 3 so we can watch series 4 when it airs.....last night we saw the episode where Dennys Dad gives the cheque to Izzy.....it was good :) so far I'm enjoying series 3 :)
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