HAPPY BIRTHDAY TINA!

Is this embarrassing or what?!? Now if only I can find the picture of us at Glenn's when handcuffs were a fashion accessory...what were you thinking?...although I think I was the one wearing the spiky choker...maybe we'll just leave that picture hidden away somewhere...well at least until there's a stagette or wedding...I'll embarrass myself for that!

I love my blog readers!

It's such a nice cozy feeling to see y'all checking up on me and my boys...

Anyways, Mike I can't believe that you can come visit the island but you have to pay to leave...well actually I can believe that...that's not exactly chump change either...I guess we'll be saving our $1600/it's great to be an albertan money for our trip...eventually though I'll get my front loading washer and Aaron will get his fancy gunsafe. I have warned him though that his $1500 gun safe will be on display in my living room where my $1500 leather couch could have been.

Thanks H for clearing up the cocaine business...I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it couldn't have been true! It just seems sooooooooo very wrong!

In my 90 seconds per minute day today I managed to whip up some holiday curtains for the dining room and organize our Christmas tree decorations. The big tree trimming will probably be this Sunday providing Aaron isn't hungover from Christmas Party #2, which is a formal, which means open bar, which usually means that Aaron's double fisting his drinks for most of the night...

Thanks for the holiday suggestions! We're booking our tickets this week...pretty exciting isn't it...

And when I mentioned clam digging to Aaron he actually said "you mean they're buried in the sand and you have to look for them, like with a shovel?"

He really needs to get out more!

But it really was cocaine!

Jeff and I both asked the doctor again and again if he really did say cocaine..so now I've done the research and have found out that it's used in the emergency rooms in hospitals frequently to stop nosebleeds or as a local anesthetic for cuts in children...I had no idea, and now I think I'll be more cautious of what goes on when I'm taking the kids to the ER. (not like it's very often, don't get me wrong)

But it's nice to see so many people read the blog!

Hi Steven!

Is there still a ferry that runs from NB to PEI?

Aaron's making a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE list of things he wants to do this summer and that's one of them but I'm not sure if they still have the ferry now that there's a bridge...any suggestions of things that Aaron must do while down East?

My sister...the drug user...Sorry H, can't keep this gem a secret!

So, here I was worried about the boys being too sick for Auntie Heather to handle, well it turns out that Heather was the one in need of medical attention last night!
We came home just before midnight last night from Christmas Party #1 to find Heather having a major nose bleed.This went on for three and a half hours. No lie! After the first thirty minutes I called the health line and they said to put pressure on her nose for 10 minutes at a time for up to three times and if that doesn't work then head to the hospital. After twenty five minutes we started towards the hospital in Black Diamond and after they watched her pinch her nose for thirty minutes straight they decided to pack her nose with some cocaine covered swabbies. Jeff and I weren't too sure if we heard the doctor right and I think we must have asked him two or three more times. You said cocaine right?!? So, on the upside the nose bleed finally stopped, on the downside Jeff was stuck making small talk for Heather for the following couple hours until she settled down! Ha Ha!
I think I got home from the hospital at 4 this morning and H probably passed out or maybe I should say came down from her high around 5...

Can kids plan when they'll be sick?

Tonight is the first of our three parties and of course Alex was throwing up last night and has slept his entire day away today. Joey's not as bad but has still done hardly anything. I'm starting to think that it's a conspiracy! Last year we were going to go to Las Vegas for Aaron's 30th and both boys got a really nasty virus. This weekend we had the boys' little "girlfriends" coming to town for a visit. Every time I go to the Tim Horton's drive thru in Mackenzie Lake they ask to go to Kacie's house, apparently that was a routine that they took note of, so now that the MacVince household has moved to Alix, Alberta the kids don't get to play once a week or so. Actually I think it's been more like four or five months since they've seen each other! Wow! Where does the time go? So, that's nixed for today and tomorrow is Brooklyn's birthday party so I have a feeling we'll be cancelling that one too. No need to infect everyone, especially since there will be lots of babies there! So, Auntie Heather is still babysitting for us tonight and has been prepared for the worst. As a bribe we're ordering pizza for her and I've already made all of her Christmas cards for her. Wish her luck!

Snow Day!

This is how Alex spent his day...he started off with 'the stacking of the cans', thankfully none of them landed on his toes!  And then we progressed to some fun in the snow. My kids are real snowbunnies!  I had to bribe Alex to come in for a snack after he'd been out for an hour.

Tonight was the last parent seminar at Joey's school, Auntie Heather came with me to check out the Crazy Lady and as Murphy's Law would have it, the mom wasn't there tonight.  Although H did get to meet Joey's O.T. and Speech T. who couldn't say enough great things about Joey and she got to check out his school and classroom.  It was pretty impressive I must say!

Then we hit Chinook Centre to get some more lined pants at Old Navy.  You gotta love that store, if you've never shopped there, you need to start.  We picked up some navy lined pants and 5 really cool/stylish long sleeved shirts for the boys and it was only $58.  You can't get that at Wal-Mart.  And we picked up a few more Christmas gifts and then called it a night.  We're having a lot of blowing snow and H still had to drive to Turner Valley.

Thank goodness it's Friday tomorrow! It's been a long week and I think we're decorating the house this weekend...I've got most of my games/prizes/food organized for this big Cookie Extravaganza...my plan was to host the first annual exchange and then we'll all take turns hosting but Mom kindly pointed out that it's called "The 1st Annual Beck Cookie Exchange" so it looks like I'm in it for the long haul.

Oh well, I thrive on chaos!