My little cutie pie......

Lethal.........

.......I don't know what they put in these but once I start eating them I just can NOT stop..............Mmmmmmmmmm

Dinner at Moxies....

After shopping we had an early dinner at Moxies...I had never been there before but really enjoyed it. Great choice of food - probably a little TOO much choice of food (which can be a BAD thing I think).....Lloyd wasn't keen on his curry..but everyone else enjoyed their food. Chris had the calamari salad. I had the crab and scallop cakes and also had the med bread and dips with it and it was YUMMY - two appetisers as an entree - delish! Laurie had some kind of noodles with shrimp I think.....

We only had to wait 10 minutes for a table - very good considering it was Family Day!

All in all it was a great day - fun and lovely to spend the day with all the kids - everyone was in great spirits and had fun at the mall! The only downside was that the dragon wasn't working as it was being serviced!!! fancy servicing the dragon on a holiday weekend!

Oh and the piccy of Lloyd above shows him colouring while he waits for his meal hahahaha :)

Build A Bear....

Today is Family Day here in Alberta. A Provincial holiday that allows families to spend the day together (hopefully) doing something fun together and drawing a little closer!

Unfortunately (or so we thought), our workmen were going to be demolishing what is left of our kitchen today, and so we had to vacate the premises for the day. So we couldn't stay at home and curl up with family movies and board games which is what my first choice would have been!

Instead, we decided the time had come for the children to go and spend the money they had received for Christmas and that they had earned recently. Our children don't get paid for their normal chores around the house but there are extra chores they do that they get paid for (ie the boys babysit and Susannah gets $10 a month for washing floors until the new floors are put down).

So we headed off to West Ed Mall for the day and they had fun choosing what to spend their money and gift cards on. The older three chose typical teen type things, gadgety things or clothes. Abigail chose a DS game and Sam chose a Playmobil car and then they both went to Build a Bear ad chose matching horses! Abigails is named Angelina and Sams is named Chestnut! It was fun watching them make and name them!

See..

........I just asked Lloyd again and he says 'just ask'

Men......no social skills ;)

Puzzles...

Other peoples lives puzzle me...especially when I'm not sure what is going on in them and when they just WON'T give me a straight answer or leave it MONTHS between replies. Sigh.....

I have a friend and he seems to be going through some 'issues' and I'm concerned for him.....I hope he's ok...and yes ok part of me is just plain nosy......because some of the changes in his life make a lot of sense to me. They were basically ones I told him to do last year! Anyway - two major things I suggested to him he has DONE....and this puzzles me considering I have not seen him for 20 years and didn't know him very well even then.

Anyway....with my obsessive personality I puzzle over things like this and so I have questions about a few things and yet he doesn't reply and just when I thought he would AGAIN...and I didn't get to ask the question I wanted to ask.......and Lloyd told me to JUST ASK HIM.....but I thought it would be nosy.....lol. See men are simple beings hahahahaha Lloyd says he would just say 'what happened to.......?' but Lloyd isn't that rude? and nosy?

He was traveling around NZ and Australia and then was in the US supposedly for a few weeks but today it says he has headed home - after just 3 days??????

Traveling the globe is fun but at some point you have to go home I guess ...and to what? Your real life is still there right? And then what?

But I doubt I will get a reply anyway...so yes I'm still waiting.

I'm sorry if none of this makes sense...I'm rambling more for me than anything thing else.....puzzles with no answers.

Happy Valentines Day...

I hope you're all having...or all had....a lovely Valentines day. Lloyd surprised me with this wonderful little card that he made himself while I was out for dinner on Thursday evening. He used my rubber stamps and stamped a bee, cut out a heart and even coloured in the bees :) He totally won me over with the thought he put into it :)

I love you Lloyd!

The cutest moose?

Tess just could NOT resist trying on the moose head ;)

Samantha turns 42...or DOES she??????

Last night I went out to help my friend Samantha celebrate her 42nd birthday. Tess came with me for the evening and it was great to catch up with her and see her again after so long! We ordered our drinks and we all had soft drinks except Samantha who had alcohol - and the server asked to see her ID!!!! She ID'ed her!!!!!! oh my gawd!!!!! At 42 she got ID'ed - and she was serious! Samantha was laughing and she didn't have any ID on her as Tracey was driving her home, so Tracey showed the server hers, and the server said no, she needed to see Samanthas!!! we were all in hysterics!!!! Sooooo jealous!!! We finally got them to believe she was 42 and the server apologised and said 'forget I mentioned it' and we were like 'no way - it's like the highlight of her year' hahahahaha!

Valentines...

Yesterday Sam had his Valentine party at Pre-K. He had to go dressed in red white or pink - so I put him in a red sweater and stuck heart stickers all over it! He took the treats for all his friends (the straws we had labelled) and there were bags lined up for them all and we had to put one for each in the bags. He also gave his teachers a little bouquet of Tulips each.

They had party food and decorated cookies, made the heart winged butterfly clips in the picture above and went to the indoor playground. They made necklaces too. He had a lot of fun at his first Valentine party! His treat bag was FULL when he came home :)

Kids can make atc's too (2)

These are the atc's that Abigail and Susannah have made for the second round of this swap. Abigails is on the left and Susannah's on the right. They love to get mail for themselves with all the stickers and goodies!

Sams Valentines...

These are the Valentine treats Sam is taking to give out at Pre-K tomorrow. They are straws with hearts on and I've tied a name and greeting to each one with red ribbon. Simple yes but I think they're cute. They'll have to do this year because I just don't have the time and energy to do anything more creative this year! Other years I've gone more over board but this year I just can't!

Birthday card....

A card I made for Samantha - she likes bright colours.....

My first whimsey jar.

Thank you Stacey :) Here it is - my very first whimsey jar! I painted it at Staceys house on Monday, added touches the last couple of days and finished it this morning.

Edited to add: Stacey I ended up doing dots of stickles around the pot to cover up the dots where the paint had peeled off BUT I actually love how it looks :) I had covered the lid in a thick layer of stickles that took all night to dry anyway so it coordinates with that anyway! Worked out well in the end thankfully - and then I had to use stickles around the neck to cover up the glass that was showing because I didn't paint high enough up the neck - but I guess its just a learning curve ;)

Wednesday

I am hoping for a quiet day at home, then an evening out with Lloyd before going to collect Susannah. Susie is going curling tonight - She's been invited to go curling with her friends family - it's 'Bring a friend to Curling' night and she has been invited for the last two years and wasn't able to make it so this is third time lucky!

Lloyd and I are going out tonight to get Abigails birthday gifts ready for Friday, and run a few errands that we need to do. I've been honoured to be asked to do something very special for a friend and so I want to go and get the supplies I need for that special project tonight. Lloyd has to go and collect his new filing cabinet - which means I get his old one - which isn't very old - it just isn't working for him (yay) - I soooo need this - I get to put all of Abigails homeschooling supplies in it and clear off the sideboard in my bedroom! No more clutter driving me crazy in my bedroom! I can feel organized in there at last!

I'm not sure we'll have time to eat out tonight - maybe at Timmy's...we'll see!

As for today, our school work is focusing around Valentines Day, and I also have a few cards to make - Monday was my friend Samanthas birthday, but we are celebrating with dinner out tomorrow night.

Sam and Abby are already at their books.....Denis and his other workman...and the electrician are already hard at work....I guess I really should get going. I've been awake since 4am though and I'm soooo tired now! blah!