Here's some Opera House pics!

Aaron took this one, I think it's a Harley though...that would only make sense?!

The "Heart of the Ocean" Titanic jewel and nudie pic of Rose

An Alien from the Alien movie

Mitch in the cage

Les and her Grog

So, I was perusing my friend Nat's blogs and seen she had some new links so I was checking them out and came across Julie's blog which was entitled something about 3 more days in Chatham or something like that - so I was totally excited about coming across someone from the Miramichi and commented about our holiday and how cool the Opera House. A hidden gem in the Miramichi. Well, the joke was actually on me and Julie was moving from Chatham, Ontario....haha...so I had to post a couple pics from the Opera House to show what the heck I was babbling about.

Enjoy Julie!

These 3 words will save you some money....

SKIP MIAMI VICE !!!

What a huge disappointment that movie was, we (Aaron, Leanne and I) didn't even stay until the very end. The story line was weak, there was no kick-ass 80s music, even the sex scenes were lame! Aaron got to pick the movie and he totally regrets it, he said it's probably not even worth the five bucks to rent it.
The rest of our evening was great! The three of us went to to check out the showhomes in the neighbourhood, ouch, they're not giving them away! And then we headed to The Keg for dinner and to look through our photo album of our trip. For those who didn't actually see Hunter in action and carressing the chandelier than apparently he's pretty hot.
So, Auntie Brenda wants to know about the bus...well...apparently it started off as Mom's idea to have the kindergarten rope tow where you all grab hold of the rope so you don't get lost and then it was JJ's job to purchase the rope and tie all the hand-holds onto and put it into action. "The Bus" debuted at April's Stagette when we all stumbled over to Jake's (?) for drinks and karaoke...Sweet Caroline never sounded so good, right Ladies?!...and then the guys crashed our party and we took the bus back to the hotel. The next night we headed to the Opera House for some grogs and to watch Mitch dance in the cage and we took the bus over. We also got pulled over by the Miramichi police while "riding the bus" to the bar. Aunt Bee has pictures of that but we haven't seen them yet. The bus was coat checked at the bar and ready and waiting for us to take it back to the hotel. So there you have it, the story of "The Bus".

Here's the bus!

The last weekend of August...where did the summer go?

At least there's still one more long weekend before Joseph goes back to school. The bus phoned this evening to give us his pick up/drop off times for this year and it's better than last years! 7:20 pick up and 12:25 drop off. Last year it was 7 :00 pick up and 12:35 drop off. So it looks like Joseph won't have to get up until 6:45, yeah for him! I don't know about you guys but 6:30 just seems a little too early for a 4 year old to me. Although for a long time he'd get up at 6 on his own, although that was totally his doing, I would have been happier if he'd slept until 7 especially on the weekends!
We've already decided to go to Morinville for the long weekend. We're going to have a very busy fall and aren't sure when we'll get a chance to go. Aaron works 3 weekends in a row in September and then is taking his CPR/Standard First Aid on the next weekend. And come October the boys will be in their skating/swimming lessons.
I actually discovered tonight that the Family Leisure Center across from Southcentre Mall offers an annual family pass for $615! That includes the wavepool/waterslide, drop in fitness/deep water classes, skating/adult shinny hockey and the fitness room and indoor track. So, it looks like we'll be switching leisure centers to this one which is actually closer for us too! The center we have been going to is $650/year per adult and I think the kids were a couple hundred each as well. Ouch! That's a lot of money we just about wasted!

Bunco Bunco Bunco...

Can you guess what I did last night? Yep! It was Bunco night at Christina's. We ended up being 1 person short so we had to play with a ghost player. It was pretty weird, and I kept referring to the ghost as a "he" and everyone else called it a "she". I suppose the ghost should have been a girl if they were in our group...anyways it was another fun night. I didn't win any prizes but had a good time anyhow. I brought Andrea with us to sub and she had a great time and is going to sub for Shannon for September's game.For those who haven't tried it yet, Bunco is addicting!

Mom and Dad stopped by this morning to drop off Alex's birthday gift. Once again I think they got the coolest present...well the wet suits were pretty cool too and so were the Cars cars and the fire engine scooter...okay Nannie and Papa picked the coolest bedroom accessories! They bought Alex 4 framed pictures for his bedroom wall, Toy Story, A Bug's Life (with a rhino beetle just like Papa's tattoo), Monsters Inc and Shrek 2. Alex was totally excited about them so I'm sure Aaron will be putting them up before Ultimate Fighting tonight.

I almost missed Stampin' Night!

That's never happened before but I'd completely forgotten about stamping class until about an hour before it was time to go. Usually I've gone through the catalogue a few times and got my order together and planned an easy dinner/cleanup. No such luck last night so everything was a bit of a rush but I made it.
It actually turned out to be 3 really time consuming techinques so it was a later night than usual. I came home to discover the boys went to bed 5 minutes after I left so Aaron had a quiet night to himself.

Tonight we took the boys to the Leisure Center for some wave pool/waterslide time and had a lot of fun. Joseph has quite a few sets of goggles/face masks and is totally interested in swimming under water. I'm not as comfortable with it as he is because sometimes he seems to have been under forever! He also tried out his new wetsuit from his cool cousin Lucie! He loved it! Lucie always picks out the best stuff for my boys!

I've got our bedroom just about decorated how I like it, I think we'll have to get shorter curtains and replace our wedding picture frame with something a bit more rich toned, it's currently silver. I'll get the candle holder soon too. Aaron laughed at Dad's girlie jewellry box but won't he be surprised when he finds one on his dresser this weekend. Haha! I've also got some family history stuff to copy for Mom and send a big thank you card to my Auntie Bebe for sending some pictures to me via Mom. There's an awesome wedding picture from my Nannie and Papa's wedding! Can't wait to show everyone!

Thank goodness it's almost the weekend and it's almost time for school to start! Joseph's just about counting the down the days, as am I! We've also got the boys signed up for skating lessons this fall. And are thinking about the next swimming classes for Joseph and starting Alex on swimming. Why not jump in with both feet?!?

Gotcha Auntie Arlene!

Troy and Uncle Fidele par-taking in the time old Beck tradition of drinking...I'm really not sure what it is that they drink...scotch? Auntie Arlene will know!

Troy and Nicki cutting the cake

Cindy and Dan

Aaron and I -I think I have one self portrait from every outing -is that weird?

Here are a few pictures from the latest Beck wedding, Troy and Nicki got married in St. Thomas a couple months ago and had a celebration here on Saturday.  We got to watch their wedding video and it was beautiful, there was no wind so you could hear them really good and the waves in  the background...sigh...for one of our anniversaries we have to go somewhere tropical!

Plans for the next Beck reunion are now underway.  Uncle Dennis and Auntie Debbie are hosting a camping holiday reunion on the August long weekend of 2007.  Now that the boys are experienced travellers with flying we'll now put them to the test of the long haul drive to Manitoba! Good luck boys, just be thankful that you can watch movies, Heather and I were never so lucky!