Today's the day!

I'm getting more excited about my tattoo-ing tonight. I've forewarned the parents that I have a 6 o'clock appt downtown so of all days please don't be late today. I hardly ever have any late pickups but with Murphy's Law it would happen today!
So Aaron posed a good question : For a lower back tattoo, what kind of panties will I wear? Grannies for most coverage or thong to make me look hot? The tattoo will be right above the butt crack so I know the panties may be an issue. I even went out and bought new yoga pants for the special occasion, Aaron thought I could just undo my jeans and slide them down a bit but I'll be the one laying there on a lump of denim for an hour or two so I may as well be comfortable.
Stay tuned for pictures of the latest artwork...

A miscellaneous post

Here's Joseph singing "What's the Weather?" song  and totally acting up

Alex being Alex

Me and the boys in the fort

In the fort still...

Here's my first tattoo from ten years ago, it looks like it may almost need a bit more colour.

When the cat's away, the mice will play...

Isn't that the saying?
So, Aaron's gone out with some of his buddies from work so I've managed to feed, bath, and get my kids to bed singlehanded by 7 o'clock. I did volunteer to mow tonight (somedays I could just kick myself!) so I think I'll get the yard stuff done and then sit back and relax.
I picked out my tattoo design last night and was very impressed with the whole tattoo shop and Wallace the tattoo-ist. He's a down-homer from Bathhurst, small world isn't it! I decided to go for lower back so it can be easily concealed...belly shirts are totally out of the question since carrying my 2 boys around for 18 months in utero...although Aaron thinks it may be motivation for me to try and 'tone up' my jellybelly. I wasn't opposed to liposuction at all until he explained to me that even though they can suck out the fat you still need to tone or else you'll just have one big skin fold hanging out over my jeans. Not a pretty picture, I know!
Tomorrow night is Kalyna's spa party, I've been using the same skin regime for a few years now and I think I'm ready for a break. Usana is the name of the stuff we'll be sampling tomorrow night. Has anyone ever used the stuff before? Is it any good?
Friday night is my big tattoo night, well, not big like Aaron's (6 1/2 hours), but big like it's a big deal. Wallace figures it'll take maybe an hour to do it. While we were there he was starting to work on a girl (boy she was a flower, Mom!) and he did a few outlines and she needed a glass of water, bathroom break and then he took a cigarette break. If you can't handle the pain you really should think about getting something really small done instead of this big artsy flowery design she was going for. Not well planned out on her part! There's no pain like it though. Wallace also let it slip that he's designing a part two for Aaron. He's drawing up another dragon negative space design type tattoo for the rest of Aaron's lower leg. I secretly think Aaron's going to keep shaving his tattoo area when it's healed to show it off better. LOL!

I'll stop complaining about the playcentre now

Aaron's dragon is healing nicely!

The view of the boys playcentre from my bedroom (Please don't laugh at the grass! I feel like I need to post a picture of the front yard which is thick and looks great)

The playcenter from the ground view.

After giving up on the playcenter, we decided to get the gravel to put on the side of our house where we've been totally unsuccessful in getting grass to come in thick.  So we'd already loaded up the truck and trailer with the gravel when we get the call from the store manager saying he's tracked down a playcenter and would personally deliver it within the hour.  Oh my gawd! I didn't plan on doing that much physical labour in one weekend! But we did it.  Mom and Dad had gone to the Hat Saturday so when they came back Saturday night we had some dinner and then got started on it.  We worked until 10:15 last night and then it took us from about 8:30 to 3:30 today (with a 1/2 hour lunch break).  What a long day that was! Lucky for me it was Joseph's last swim class so I got an hour break.  I'm sure Aaron is wishing he could soak his body in a nice hot tub tonight...only what 2 weeks to go before he can do that? Tomorrow night we're heading down to the shop to see if I can decide on what/wear I want something done.  I'm pretty wishy washy still so I wouldn't be surprised if I come away empty handed. 

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Like father like son...

Papa

Joseph's Madagascar tattoo

Aaron's 'little' dragon tattoo

Joseph and Daddy's tattoo

Tattooing went well for Aaron 6 1/2 hours later....which left me to deal with Can Tire about the playcentre. Still no playcentre and apparently it's not even on the truck like I was told Wednesday. It' s a conspiracy I tell ya! After speaking to the manager today he said it'll be 1 to 2 weeks at the latest, so I've given him until 4PM tomorrow to give me his best offer so I'll keep it or else we'll be looking elsewhere. Conveniently our $1199 playcentre has just been listed in the flyer as 20% off so I'll be shooting for that plus a little extra off...after all it's me that has to keep explaining to Joseph where his swingpark is.

Still no play center...

The sega continues...
I phoned to confirm that the swingset did indeed arrive on the truck today as promised and it didn't. We ordered it May 1st so it's officially been 1 month and is now 2 weeks overdue so I spoke to the outdoor manager and he apologized profusely and said he'd try and locate one 1 in Calgary at a different location and have it transferred for us to the closeby location. When I suggested that last week it wasn't an option but apparently now it is. The store manager told the outdoor manager that he'll call me in the morning to confirm that he's found one for us. I'm hoping he will because Joseph's still carrying around his Home Depot brochure and telling everyone that Daddy's building him a swingpark (his word, not mine).
Auntie Kathryn and soon to be Uncle Jeff are headed over to Scotland on Tuesday for a few weeks so they're going to stop in to visit before they fly out. I'm sure the boys will be excited to see her...hopefully they don't try and soak her with their new water guns she bought them...although it would be a taste of her own medicine! LOL! Don't worry Kathryn, we wouldn't let you fly for 12 hours in wet clothes. It seems that we'll be seeing more and more of Kathryn now that there's a wedding to plan, dresses to buy, etc it'll be nice when they move to Cochrane!

Our playcenter should be here today...in theory...

After a long 1 month wait as opposed to the 7 to 10 day wait we were told, our play center should arrive. Thank goodness! Joseph has been talking non-stop about his swingpark that Daddy's building him and we've had to keep postponing it again and again. He's been carrying around the Home Depot create it yourself booklet of swing sets/forts for the last month and a bit. Every day he's picking out a new feature he'd like on his swing set...first it was a steering wheel, then it was a periscope, now it's a telescope. I'm sure we'll just keep adding to it every now and then. So, with a little bit of luck we'll have it mostly all assembled on Saturday and then have a BBQ with Mom and Dad. They'll be down on Friday night and they're headed off to the Hat to have a birthday lunch with Papa on Saturday. Tommorrow's tattoo day for Aaron, apparently the tattoo-ist thought Aaron wanted his entire leg done and had massively blown up his picture he'd brought in, so thankfully they caught the miscommunication before anything was permanent! LOL!
Even though we're not celebrating until JJ's home - HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOEYE! I'll wait for your birthday party to send out your card though.