Abigail had all her hair cut off today....she's gone for a short bob :)
4 days ago
Apr 20, 2008
white out :(
I can't see the end of the driveway any more and Lloyd is out driving :( He has gone into town to get Susie from her swimming party. I will be glad when he gets home. I will be glad when Chris gets home. I have vacuumed and watered all the plants and tidied round. Laurie has dusted everywhere downstairs and refilled al the bird feeders. Abby and Sam have been tidying away all the toys. But really we're just waiting for Lloyds truck to come up the driveway. I hate this weather. I ahte this weather in January - but even more at the end of April.
Lloyd says he can't even work from home tomorrow either as he has some meetings he has to attend :(
What a day :(
The weather is absolutely horrible. Lloyd doesn't think the school buses will run tomorrow! Imagine - a snow day in April! Late April!!! I guess I will have to check the news in the morning to see if the buses will run.
Lloyd is going to take my truck tomorrow for work and so Abigail will miss her second drama class. But the snow is piling up fast and they forecast even more over night tonight. It has been coming down heavy all day and it is blowing around so much! The roads were a real mess going into town. The plows are out working hard but it's just coming down too fast. we were in the mall for about 40 minutes but all our footsteps and tyre marks by our truck were totally covered by the time we got back to the truck.
Chris went to the water park at West Edmonton Mall today for a party. I hope they got there safely - I haven't heard anything so I assume so.
Lloyd and Abigail had hair appointments at lunch time, and Susannah is swimming with friends at a birthday party in town this afternoon, so we all went into town for that. As we only had three children with us (which seems such a small family to us) we went to Smittys for lunch. It means we won't have to cook dinner tonight now as no one wil be hungry!
I always have the same at Smittys and can never eat it all.
I order the 7 grain short stack of pancakes which is 3 pancakes. And I order the sugar free syrup. How many pancakes can you eat? I can only eat 1 1/2 pancakes on a good day. Most days I can only eat 1. Can anyone eat all three? They are huge!! Some days I can't even eat 1.
Now we are home and soon Lloyd has to head back into town to get Susie from her swimming party. Then Chris will get home around 6:30pm.
To be honest I will be very glad when 7pm is here - everyone will be home and safe and in the warm here again. The weather is nasty and the roads are just horrible.
If you are out on the roads in this weather over the next few days please PLEASE drive carefully. My dear friend Mandy lost her beautiful children and her partner in weather like this and I never want to see anyone go through an experience like that again.
Take care everyone.
Lloyd is going to take my truck tomorrow for work and so Abigail will miss her second drama class. But the snow is piling up fast and they forecast even more over night tonight. It has been coming down heavy all day and it is blowing around so much! The roads were a real mess going into town. The plows are out working hard but it's just coming down too fast. we were in the mall for about 40 minutes but all our footsteps and tyre marks by our truck were totally covered by the time we got back to the truck.
Chris went to the water park at West Edmonton Mall today for a party. I hope they got there safely - I haven't heard anything so I assume so.
Lloyd and Abigail had hair appointments at lunch time, and Susannah is swimming with friends at a birthday party in town this afternoon, so we all went into town for that. As we only had three children with us (which seems such a small family to us) we went to Smittys for lunch. It means we won't have to cook dinner tonight now as no one wil be hungry!
I always have the same at Smittys and can never eat it all.
I order the 7 grain short stack of pancakes which is 3 pancakes. And I order the sugar free syrup. How many pancakes can you eat? I can only eat 1 1/2 pancakes on a good day. Most days I can only eat 1. Can anyone eat all three? They are huge!! Some days I can't even eat 1.
Now we are home and soon Lloyd has to head back into town to get Susie from her swimming party. Then Chris will get home around 6:30pm.
To be honest I will be very glad when 7pm is here - everyone will be home and safe and in the warm here again. The weather is nasty and the roads are just horrible.
If you are out on the roads in this weather over the next few days please PLEASE drive carefully. My dear friend Mandy lost her beautiful children and her partner in weather like this and I never want to see anyone go through an experience like that again.
Take care everyone.
Best News Ever!!
Graham Norton is now on BBC Canada on Saturday nights!!!! Woohoo! He has always been on Out TV over here which is a Gay TV network that you have to subscribe to. I have sooooooo missed Graham Norton!!!! He was my favourite back home - I LOVED his shows. OMG they are soooo funny!!!
Last night I spent a whole hour laughing out loud watching him with Letitia Dean and Gabriel Byrne...and at the end he had The Backstreet Boys on. The whole show is full of bad language, sexual jokes and just rude stuff but it is so so so so funny. Graham Norton is so funny he really is and now I get to watch him each week again :)
They were taking the piss out of the Finnish sport of 'wife carrying' and they were also trying to figure out if it's true that you really do marry men who look like your Father.
Then they went to a local pub and got people in the pub to shout out a line from the movie The Usual Suspects to see if they could shout out this rude line without laughing (Because Gabriel Byrne said it took them ages to film it because all the actors kept laughing and then one of them kept farting). They even got this little old lady in the pub to shout out "Give me the f*cking keys you c*ck s*cker' - well, she did it!!!!! Without laughing!!!!!! This little old lady!!!! So funny!!! Letitia Dean from Eastenders did it too and apologised to her Mom for swearing so badly too!
If you get BBC Canada - check him out - well worth the $5 a month or whatever it is to get the channel :) I promise you will laugh out loud!!! :)
Anyway its a funny show and I am so happy its now ona channel that I actually get - because I was tempted to subscrbe to out tv just to get it :)
Last night I spent a whole hour laughing out loud watching him with Letitia Dean and Gabriel Byrne...and at the end he had The Backstreet Boys on. The whole show is full of bad language, sexual jokes and just rude stuff but it is so so so so funny. Graham Norton is so funny he really is and now I get to watch him each week again :)
They were taking the piss out of the Finnish sport of 'wife carrying' and they were also trying to figure out if it's true that you really do marry men who look like your Father.
Then they went to a local pub and got people in the pub to shout out a line from the movie The Usual Suspects to see if they could shout out this rude line without laughing (Because Gabriel Byrne said it took them ages to film it because all the actors kept laughing and then one of them kept farting). They even got this little old lady in the pub to shout out "Give me the f*cking keys you c*ck s*cker' - well, she did it!!!!! Without laughing!!!!!! This little old lady!!!! So funny!!! Letitia Dean from Eastenders did it too and apologised to her Mom for swearing so badly too!
If you get BBC Canada - check him out - well worth the $5 a month or whatever it is to get the channel :) I promise you will laugh out loud!!! :)
Anyway its a funny show and I am so happy its now ona channel that I actually get - because I was tempted to subscrbe to out tv just to get it :)
One last snowflake...
I snapped this one flake yesterday...it isn't very good because Lloyd was nagging me to get on with helping with ripping the carpet up and he didn't seem to care about the pretty snowflakes on the window that were calling to me and begging to have their picture taken......so here is the one I quickly snapped and it didn't come out very well and is horribly cropped ad just not very good at all...but anyway.....
Snow........again......
Aren't you all a little bored of snow pictures??????? I know I am!! This is the view from my window today. And they say there is a lot more on the way...At least 15cm on the way.....
Severe Weather Warning for our area:
Snowfall warning for: City of Edmonton-St. Albert-Sherwood Park
Issued at 4:17 AM MDT SUNDAY 20 APRIL 2008
SNOW WILL CONTINUE AND BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES BEGINNING OVERNIGHT TONIGHT.
AN INTENSE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CURRENTLY DEVELOPING OVER MONTANA IS FORECAST TO TRACK NORTHEAST SLOWLY TOWARDS SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN. THIS WEATHER SYSTEM WILL BRING SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL AND BLOWING SNOW WITH POOR VISIBILITIES TO PARTS OF NORTHERN ALBERTA FOR TODAY AND MONDAY. PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CONTINUE TODAY IN THE CAPITAL REGIONS, BARRHEAD, SLAVE LAKE AND FORT MCMURRAY REGIONS. SNOW WILL BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES BEGINNING OVERNIGHT TONIGHT AND PERSIST INTO MONDAY NIGHT. BY TUESDAY MORNING A TOTAL OF 20 TO 30 CENTIMETRES OF SNOW CAN BE EXPECTED. LLOYDMINSTER AND ST. PAUL REGIONS WILL BE THE HARDEST HIT WITH HEAVY SNOW DEVELOPING THIS MORNING AND PERSIST INTO MONDAY NIGHT. A TOTAL OF 40 TO 60 CENTIMETRES OF SNOW CAN BE EXPECTED BY TUESDAY MORNING. IN ADDITION AS THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES INTO SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN TONIGHT STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP ON THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE SYSTEM GENERATING BLIZZARD CONDITIONS IN OPEN AREAS. EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE LEDUC AND FORT SASKATCHEWAN WILL SEE WIDESPREAD POOR VISIBILITIES DUE TO BLOWING SNOW.
PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST PUBLIC FORECASTS FOR FURTHER DETAILS.
Apr 19, 2008
My bargain!
A lady on LP was selling a Leapster LMAX (or whatever it's called). It came with the charger and everything and 8 games and was $125. I figured this was a GREAT deal and thought I'd get it and put it away for Sam for Christmas! I met this lady and her lovely family when they cam to have their pictures take a couple of years ago and I knew it would have been well looked after. Lloyd drove round to get it from her. In the end we decided we'd let Sam have it now but it would be used as a treat for when we need him to be quiet - time like at the Doctors or at breakfast...when he needs to sit quietly! So far it has worked wonders and he LOVES it :) If e need Sam to be distracted for a little while then Sam will happily sit and play with his little Leapster learning toy and play a game or colour on it for a while. Here are a couple of pictures of him curled up with his sisters playing a game with them!
I don't like computer games and the children rarely play on them - we put the playstation away for 6 months recently and to be honest I don't think it was missed - and in the summer it probably won't get touched! But this little Leapster was worth every penny - I'm glad we didn't pay full price for it but it was definitely a bargain and worth every penny as it's a great way to get my busy little boy to sit still for a little while when I need him to :)
Jasper......
Obviously NOT taken today....sigh.....seeing that we are in the midst of yet another bloody snow storm.......but taken a few days ago while we were all outside enjoying the gorgeous temperatures that we do occasionally get in the deep freeze we call Canada!
Abby the Chipmunk!!
www.munkidol.com/index.html?faceimageA=77698b00848l451347&EXTA=jpg&imgrA=0&imgsA=120&imgxA=61.4&imgyA=43.25&hsA=undefined
Check it out :)
Abby did this while I was ripping out carpet, and sent it to me :)
Check it out :)
Abby did this while I was ripping out carpet, and sent it to me :)
Snow
We woke up to snow.....and it looks as though we might wake up to snow for the next four days. I am so done with cold and snow. And all Lloyd has been muttering all day is "I bet its not snowing in Atlanta"!!! So today it's Atlanta! Why Atlanta I don't know....I guess because it's warm and sunny and there are plenty of IT jobs there and thats the place he's fixated on today ;)
Love you Lloyd.
Laurence is on his way to West Ed. Mall to go swimming. It's his friend Amelies birthday party. He'll be back late tonight. Tomorrow Chris is off to the same place for a party for his friends birthday. Susannah is invited to a pool party for her friends sister - different pool! It will depend on the weather for hers though as we have to drive her.....
Last night was fun - we went to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks at the community halls Family Movie Night. They are always so much fun. It's always free, and you take blankets and snuggle down and watch the movie on the big screen at the front. They sell popcorn and candy etc and its just really nice! Last night it was really busy! Susie was there with her friend but we didn't meet up with them until afterwards. Laurie, Abby and I snuggled up and enjoyed the movie and then afterwards went to find Susannah. I ran into a friend of mine - Lucy (Val, Lucy has Wednesdays off now and would LOVE to join us for breakfast!!!) who noticed my new hair colour (I've gone DARK lol....actually I love it too - I wanted a change so went dark brown - I am used to changing my hair colour a lot and hadn't changed it in ages)
We were home from movie night by 9pm so I still got to spend some of the evening with Lloyd :)
This morning we got up and headed out for some groceries and to Home Depot...then we headed to Carpet Superstore to pick the linoleum for the mudroom and main floor bathroom. We have terracotta tile right now which we hate and we want to put linoleum over the top to lighten up the rooms and make them easier to clean and more family-friendly.
Now we are home and plan to spend the rest of the day relaxing inside.....I am going to paint my hive which is sitting in the mudroom - Lloyd is going to change the light thats in there. We are going to remove the carpet in the bedroom.....I have some emails to send. It's -10c outside. BLOODY COLD :(
Love you Lloyd.
Laurence is on his way to West Ed. Mall to go swimming. It's his friend Amelies birthday party. He'll be back late tonight. Tomorrow Chris is off to the same place for a party for his friends birthday. Susannah is invited to a pool party for her friends sister - different pool! It will depend on the weather for hers though as we have to drive her.....
Last night was fun - we went to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks at the community halls Family Movie Night. They are always so much fun. It's always free, and you take blankets and snuggle down and watch the movie on the big screen at the front. They sell popcorn and candy etc and its just really nice! Last night it was really busy! Susie was there with her friend but we didn't meet up with them until afterwards. Laurie, Abby and I snuggled up and enjoyed the movie and then afterwards went to find Susannah. I ran into a friend of mine - Lucy (Val, Lucy has Wednesdays off now and would LOVE to join us for breakfast!!!) who noticed my new hair colour (I've gone DARK lol....actually I love it too - I wanted a change so went dark brown - I am used to changing my hair colour a lot and hadn't changed it in ages)
We were home from movie night by 9pm so I still got to spend some of the evening with Lloyd :)
This morning we got up and headed out for some groceries and to Home Depot...then we headed to Carpet Superstore to pick the linoleum for the mudroom and main floor bathroom. We have terracotta tile right now which we hate and we want to put linoleum over the top to lighten up the rooms and make them easier to clean and more family-friendly.
Now we are home and plan to spend the rest of the day relaxing inside.....I am going to paint my hive which is sitting in the mudroom - Lloyd is going to change the light thats in there. We are going to remove the carpet in the bedroom.....I have some emails to send. It's -10c outside. BLOODY COLD :(
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