More pictures for Jen

Grandpa Art and I think Dad said the baby is Melanie

Dad, Auntie Anne and Auntie Betty I think

Here's Auntie Brenda

Aunt Betty and Heather

Grandpa Art and Auntie Anne, must be her First Communion

If it weren't for bad luck...

Well as many people know last year I had my debit card copied and that was a huge fiasco! It was right before a long weekend and both Aaron and my debit cards had to be destroyed/replaced which isn't easy with banking hours and a full dayhome let me tell you! Whomever copied it spent my limit and then tried to withdraw the cash limit which flagged my account so CIBC froze everything. It sucked!

This morning Aaron discovered his credit card had charges on it which shouldn't have been there so he called Visa and sure enough his card's been duplicated, so once again, his card had to be destroyed and now he's Visa-less for a couple weeks until he gets a new one. The weird thing is that Aaron hasn't used his Visa in months so we're not sure how someone could have copied it?!

What a comedian Alex is!

Alex is going through a huge terrible two's phase right now but at the same time can be so funny! Aaron was late for dinner tonight so it was just me and the boys and Alex kept playing with his dinner so he got trouble a few times. And just as Mommy's about to lose it he shows me his latest masterpiece: an egg noodle wrapped perfectly around his finger on the same finger I've got a bandaid on and then he says look Mommy I've got owwie like you, kiss it better Mommy, kiss it, kiss it...it was pretty funny!  Alex certainly has good imagination!

On another note, houses in our neighbourhood are selling like crazy! One of the dayhome moms across the street from us sold her house the day after it was listed and she was asking $339,900! Her house is even smaller than ours.  Talking to another neighbour apparently she knows of three houses in our neighbourhood that have sold within 24 hours of being listed and sold for more than the asking price.  It's kind of tempting to sell and make some serious money but then I think about  how much we'd end up spending to buy or build a new house and that kind of kicks that idea right out of my mind!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here's a new technique I learned, you put Future floor wax in your waterpen and pick up pearlex and brush it on to highlight stuff like butterfly wings.

This is a card with the 'water' in the middle, it's actually hair gel with colour added to it and easy to do.  

The other technique we learned tonight is embossing wine glasses. I didn't realize you could do that but apparently you can, and it actually looks pretty cool.

So, Aaron and I celebrated Valentine's Day seperately, but after spending the day with a whole bunch of sugar-high tots I needed to get away! I'm sure we'll have a date night soon enough in lieu of tonight.  It looks like the Urgent Care doctor was right and Joey just had a cold in his eye, with the help of some drops his eyes are just about normal now, I think with a good night's sleep he'll be back to school tomorrow, just in time to have two days off for Teacher's Convention and then the holiday on Monday.  Looks like I'm staying put this weekend and Mom and Dad are going to drive down and the spend the weekend with us. Aaron has to work so we'll have to entertain ourselves during the day, if we actually get some snow I think Nannie and Papa would like to see the boys try out their toboggans.  Joey could out-toboggan any of us! It's got to be that endless supply of kid-energy, and poor Alex tries to keep up to big brother but his legs are still quite a bit shorter so he has to run twice as fast.

Happy Birthday Uncle Paul & Matt

Uncle Paul & Auntie Cheryl at Alex's birthday luau

Uncle Paul in the mustang

And yes I had to do a blast from the past picture!

Happy Birthday guys, it is a day early but I'm not sure if I'll get the chance tomorrow or not...better early than late right?

We're already planning next year's vacation!

Well, we didn't win the $7500, unfortunately the overly-excited lady in front of me won. Picture Julia Roberts at the polo game in Pretty Woman, that's how hyper this lady was.  So, we wandered thru the show anyways and picked out what we coulda, shoulda won and came across the houseboat, it was hard to miss though! We did the tour of the houseboat and took the brochure home and discovered that it looks like a good holiday for 2007or 2008.  The price isn't too bad either, only $3480 for mid-season which is mid-June to mid-July for & nights.  Apparently you have to book about 9 months in advance so I guess we'll be deciding in the fall if we're to go next summer. At least we'll have time to get the boys into swimming lessons.

We came home from the show to find Joey all pink and puffy around his eyes, so Mommy took him to the Urgent Care for a 4 hour visit. The doctor diagnosed Joey as having a cold in his eye which could be the onset to pinkeye. The doctor wouldn't give me a prescription because he doesn't have the virus...yet.  So it'll be another big long wait if he wakes up with crusty eyes tomorrow morning.  Hopefully the polysporin drops will make it all go away!  Then I had to phone all of the parents and forewarn them that Joey may or may not have pinkeye.  Just what they want to hear at 8 o'clock Sunday night...I hope Monday's better!

The last time we were in the Miramichi

It's been a while hasn't it?