It snowed! I LOVE the snow! Here is Nick and Kayla out for a stroll.
But that wont stop Kayla from having fun at the park; I think it adds to it!
Monday, November 27, 2006
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The Storm
I thought I would share with you all what we were left with after the big storm. We were fortunate enough to not lose any power at all, as we never do. I think that our lines are underground as our back yard is on a main street. But I am pretty sure that the rest of our neighbourhood was out for at least 24 hours. I even know of a few people who's power didn't come back on until Saturday morning! They were all busy cleaning out their fridge and freezers and shopping to restock them...While we didn't lose power, we did lose a tree and our fence. Now our fence was in need of replacing anyways but at least it was standing up in panels.
We just spent a week of the summer trimming a bunch of branches off our two large trees in the back because Brian was worried that in a big storm they would come down and a couple of them could have come through the kitchen or bedroom windows. He wanted to take them down then but I kind of talked him out of it. I guess he got his wish afterall!
He is lucky it didn't take down our fence on the other side!!
....and this is what we are left with- a piece of plywood and a whole lot of chicken wire; so we can still let Jetta outside to pee. The broken fence panel is also gone now too and the right side of the trunk is cut down to the ground like the left side. It's all just chicken wire now too.
Well now we are adding a new fence on this side to our list of home renovations. I can't complain too much I guess as we have been talking about replacing that side for a couple of years now at least. Mother nature has ended our procrastinating!
Friday, November 03, 2006
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
My Cute and Scary Kiddies
Happy Halloween everyone! We had a fun day yesterday. Nick got to dress up and party at school and it was very cute seeing all his other classmates dressed up too! He came home from school with a bag full of candy and had half of it eaten before dinner. Every year we get together with Brian's family and do dinner and Halloween and Audrey's birthday. This year we went to Mike and Deb's house. It was a bit sad to have our house closed up for other trick or treaters, but next year we will decorate extra to make up for it. Nicholas dressed up as an Alien (I think he picked this just to torture me-I HATE aliens) but what a good mom I am to still let him be what he wants..and Kayla was a fuzzy purple Unicorn. She is really into anything to do with horses. She LOVES horsies.
Okay, I have tried twice to add the photos but it wont let me.....will try again soon.
Everything is the same around here pretty much. Yes, we are still renovating. The floor has yet to be laid upstairs because we are thinking of other things that we want done before that in order to not damage it once it's down. Work for me is VERY busy. We are in full Christmas mode and Christmas in a toy store is not a pretty site. I am working my limit of 3 nights per week until the holiday hours come in to effect and then I will probably work 4-5 nights. Brian is still working; He and Mike have set a price for their business' so now we wait. Still not so sure what we will do when he sells but I am sure we will work it out. We are good at just "flying by the seat of our pants".
Some sad news (for my family anyways) is that one of our little foster kittens got really sick and died this morning. She was the little runt, and my favorite. I had to force feed her the wet cat food (from a baby bottle) a couple of times because she looked like she was losing weight, but then she seemed to be getting better. The next day we found her in her basket almost gone. We rushed her up to the vet where she was treated. She seemed to be doing better the day after that and her prognosis was hopeful. But this morning she passed away. So sad. It was hardest for me when I told Nick and he cried and cried. I am not sure what was wrong with her, but they think maybe a defective liver.
Anyways, I don't think that I really have anything else to report at this time. I will try and blog a little more often to keep everyone up to date. Hope everyone is doing well...talk to you all soon.
Okay, I have tried twice to add the photos but it wont let me.....will try again soon.
Everything is the same around here pretty much. Yes, we are still renovating. The floor has yet to be laid upstairs because we are thinking of other things that we want done before that in order to not damage it once it's down. Work for me is VERY busy. We are in full Christmas mode and Christmas in a toy store is not a pretty site. I am working my limit of 3 nights per week until the holiday hours come in to effect and then I will probably work 4-5 nights. Brian is still working; He and Mike have set a price for their business' so now we wait. Still not so sure what we will do when he sells but I am sure we will work it out. We are good at just "flying by the seat of our pants".
Some sad news (for my family anyways) is that one of our little foster kittens got really sick and died this morning. She was the little runt, and my favorite. I had to force feed her the wet cat food (from a baby bottle) a couple of times because she looked like she was losing weight, but then she seemed to be getting better. The next day we found her in her basket almost gone. We rushed her up to the vet where she was treated. She seemed to be doing better the day after that and her prognosis was hopeful. But this morning she passed away. So sad. It was hardest for me when I told Nick and he cried and cried. I am not sure what was wrong with her, but they think maybe a defective liver.
Anyways, I don't think that I really have anything else to report at this time. I will try and blog a little more often to keep everyone up to date. Hope everyone is doing well...talk to you all soon.
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