An eclectic post

Here are Thing One and Thing Two in Banff, this is the only picture I have of them sitting down, haha. Lookie what Joseph made at school today. It's supposed to be apple pie - he's very proud nonetheless. I'm thinking that this treat may be saved for Daddy or Nannie & Papa tonight. I had to eat the currant buns from the last baking extravaganza at school...very...yeasty...
It kind of looks like an apple pie, right?
These are the possibilties for the basement carpet/lino. The carpet is much darker than what we have upstairs and the lino isn't a lot darker, just warmer colours. We're thinking that next year we'll replace the mainfloor and upstairs carpet with the same or close to the same colour as the basement. What we have now is so light that it needs to be cleaned constantly - especially with a dayhome and pets.

Happy Day to you Mom and Dad !

Happy Anniversary! Wishing the next 32 are as eventful and fun as these last 32 years.

Skating was a hit AND a miss

Thing One was born to skate and Thing Two was born to watch his bro skate.

We were early for skating, talked about it ALL DAY long to get the boys pumped up about it and Alex decided after he got his skates on that he didn't want to learn to skate. And instead of just talking about it, the drama king made a very loud, snotty, teary appearance. So, off went the helmet, and off went the skates. Then once Joseph hit the ice with Aaron there was a change of heart and Alex decided to give it a shot. So, on goes the helmet, on goes the skates and we hit the ice.

And then he fell. A lot.

So, once again, off goes the helmet, off go the skates and we just hung out.

What makes an unbearable moment slightly bearable is experiencing it with someone. It turns out that the boys cousin is in the same skating group so I got to chat with Janine and see the new babe, oh such sweetness!

Now I'm off to unwind from the whole skating fiasco with a Pumpkin Spice Latte, some leftover pumpkin pie and my Stampin Up catalogue so I can figure out what I'm buying at class tomorrow night.

GOBBLE GOBBLE

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE !

I hope everyone had a fabulous-o weekend spent with their friends and fam. I've had the pleasure of both!

Friday night was kicked off by the Couple's Bunco night at Debbie & Rod's and it was a hootin and hollerin good time. Poor Christine had the pleasure of driving 6 of us back and forth to Chestermere :o) Although Team Beck didn't win any prizes we still had a great time and indulged in some Bazooka Joe's (equal parts of Bailey's, Blue Curaco and Creme de Banana)

Saturday morning the boys and I hightailed it around the city to do some last minute errands before ...drum roll please...picking up my BF from high school! I hadn't seen April since my wedding - eight years ago. It's carazy how time flies but when we seen each other it was like just yesterday, know what I mean?

Saturday we took the boys to the Calgary Zoo and April snapped about 40 pics of the animals. She was impressed by the natural habitats and even got to see the baby elephant. (Yeah Calgary!) Saturday evening, April, Aaron and I headed to Jubilations to check out Greedy Rotten Scoundrels and yours truly was ON STAGE!!!! Woot woot!!! April was too, we got the pleasure of dancing with one of the actors around the hot tub while he was singing Rock Me Gently - I had to stop myself from singing along incase his mic picked it up - it wouldn't be pretty...

Sunday April, the boys and I went to Banff to take in the mountains...sigh...it was breathtaking as always. We spent 3 hours, that's right, 3 hours at the gondola. We rode up and then did the trail/steps up to the lookout and walked back, had lunch, went to the observation deck and then rode down again. After we did about 1 block of touristy shops and then headed back to the van. Thing One and Thing Two are not exactly "shoppers" so why torture them or us? Next we did a driving tour around Johnson Lake and Lake Minnewanka and then I did a quickie recap of the Lower and Upper Bankhead Trails.

In a phrase "about 200 pics oughta cover it".

Today we're relaxing and waiting for the turkey to be ready.

Stay tuned for the deets on the boys first skating lesson of 2007 - tomorrow evening -

Thing Two's got such personality!

Yes that is ABBA playing in the background. All the dayhome kiddies seem to like ABBA and it's a nice break from Crazy Frog and the MiniPops.

Yesterday was picture day at preschool for Alex and he spent all morning trying out different faces and poses. Gawd, that kid cracks me up!

I am SO not a salesperson!

Here's my salespitch:

this is Joey, isn't he cute? Joey is a Beaver. Beavers sell popcorn, therefore Joey sells popcorn. Please please please buy some popcorn so he can meet his goal and not have to go door-to-door.

Not so pretty, is it?

I am just not the type of person who can do that. Sure I've hosted a few in-home parties but I'm not pushy, honestly I don't care if you do or do not buy anything, I'm just happy that you came. For real!

In my opinion the socializing totally outweighs any freebies/perks that I receive. As a matter of fact, I usually use the hostess credit to buy the prizes for the next party. My GF bought 2 boxes of candles at the last shindig and spent $24 and won the Totally 80s Trivial Pursuit game which I bought for $20. So, it all seems to work out.

Until now.

Welcome to the world of being a Beaver Mama...and is $1000 seem realistic for a 5, almost 6 year old? I didn't think so but I have nothing to compare to. I'm obviously not a door to door fan either.

How many people dread hearing from your friends and family that so and so is selling ______, Whatdayasay? Will you help a kid out?

My ears are still ringing

from the concert last night. I'm actually surprised because Styx and Def Leppard didnt' seem to be super loud.
It was a great Sunday, I did Christmas card making at my girlfriend Christine's house with my friend Christina. We were on a pretty strict timeline and managed to finish everything with almost an hour to spare. Yep, we're stamping queens!
Then I had some time to hang out with Thing One and Thing Two before getting all gussied up for my girls night.
Andrea and I met Leanne and Marg in the lounge for a few pre-concert cocktails and I FINALLY got to see the pics taken at the Great Danes event last March. Wowsers! I was quite the party-girl that night! I think Andrea's going to join us for the next one!
I think this must have been the beginning of the feather boa craze. Marg came wearing one and then for Kathryn's stagette we all wore them and I'm currently collecting enough for Andrea's birthday party.
How can you not feel sexy while wearing one?
Anyhoo...
Styx played first. I am 29. I. Have. No. Idea. Who. Styx. Is. Or. Was. Or. What. They. Sing....so I was bopping around trying to keep up to my GFs, and totally people watching especially the girl on the floor who was given'er all throughout the Styx performance. And then when they announced Gowan as the pianist it got really quite as I yelled "Christine loves you Gowan" I think he may heard me too. Hee hee, Christine doesn't really love Gowan but Andrea was teasing her at Bunco Friday so I thought it was an appropriate comment at the time.
So, then it was time for Def Leppard. They were pretty rocking for old guys! I was pretty impressed. The music wasn't too loud and you could understand their singing so I could even sing along to a few songs. Pour Some Sugar On Me was probably the best song of the night.
Good times, good times!