Life is Sweet: Jan 20, 2008

Jan 20, 2008

Here are the new piccies we bought, hung up in the front room. We've been looking for pictures we like for AGES....and have had bare walls for so long....the crown molding still isn't done (reno people are finishing that for us when they are here in Summer) finally we found some pictures we liked to go above the book cases and I'm really pleased with them.

I have to say that I HATE those shows where a family go away and come back and find their home has been redecorated - urgh especially 'theme' rooms......I just think its so impersonal and I would hate someone else to choose my decor and my ornaments and pictures for me......

I love that our home is slowly being decorated and filled our way. That we wait until we find things we love....that we don't go to one store and just get everything there....we look around...we wait.....we fill our home with things we love...things that mean something to us.

I picked the picture at the bottom because it reminds me of the sunset pictures I take - the same tree line...the same low sunlight below the line of cloud...the snow dusting the filed and roof top. It just reminds me of home.

Anyway, I'm glad we waited until we found pictures we love. We still have so many bare walls in the house waiting for pictures. I keep meaning to have some of my photographs blown up and framed.....I want to hang those here too. We decided that this year we will focus more on looking for paintings for our home.

When the door in the study is closed off we will have more wall space in there for bookcases and then I can move many of my books out of these glass book cases and they will look a little less cluttered and crowded ;)

Wings of a dove.....

I took this with my cell on Friday - a piccy of Sam with the dove he fell in love with...he spent ages talking to it through the glass.

Sunday....Sunny day...

Its so sunny out today.....it kind of fools you into thinking its warm out there - but its not...its BLOODY FREEZING!!!! lol!

This morning was a slow start - typical Sunday. Lloyd called his Granddad to say hi - he does that every couple of weeks. Sam and Abby had a bath....we pottered about upstairs watching a powerboat show which meant we ended up talking about how we want to move South to somewhere warm. I want to go to Florida....we were looking at vacation homes there last night - houses there complete with pool are still so cheap....Lloyd is keen on Phoenix but I said I would still prefer Florida...just somewhere to escape to when its an ice box up here!

Enough of that!

Ok so this morning was lovely and lazy...then we headed into town to Costco to pick up some dog food...the pictures we liked the other day were still there, so we got two of them....and right now Lloyd is behind me hanging them on the wall in the sitting room :)

After Costco we ran to pick Laurie up from his friends house and then ran to the mall so Lloyd could run in and grab a hat to use on the tractor. We saw Val in the parking lot and when she came out of the mall she came over and said hi :) and we waved like crazy to J who was in their van :) It was nice to see you Val - lets hope we can get together for brekky this week!

Got home and not long after we got bacxk, Chris arrived home from his weekend in Vermillion - their hotel had a swimming pool, so he had fun there and enjoyed the ice hockey too!

Now I am waiting for Lloyd to finish hanging the pictures...I'm going to cook a roast dinner a little later.....

Chris is away next Saturday for a basketball tournament he's playing in, in Vegreville.....so next weekend may be a little 'different' too...as we haven't planned things really......dinner out probably Friday night but home on Saturday for our Anniversary...not sure what I want to do on my birthday on Sunday....I think the Muttart is still open so maybe there...maybe the museum.....maybe just brunch out.....or maybe we will head to Ice on Whyte on the Sunday to see the fire breathers or whatever they are having to do the big 'melt'.......

I have to organise Susannahs birthday party too....she doesn't want to have it until February though.....

Apart from that, laundry, vacuuming and generally pottering about - fairly typical weeknd 'stuff'.....

Lost dodo...

This is when Sam lost his dodo (soother) in Its a Small World....when he watches this now he either laughs or cries and says he wants his dodo (he hasn't had a dodo for a year now lol.