Just another update....

One day left and then it will be March 1st. Can you ever remember having snow 3 days in a row at the end of February? (at the west coast anyways??) So strange. Then the sun will come out and it will be quite warm. Huh. I spent this past Sunday down in the USA with a friend shopping for the day. We had such a good time. I think I have found my new favorite store....ROSS; dress for less! I would say that it is equivalent to our Winners up her in the sense that it is sorted by clothing type and size, except nothing I tried on was over $10. I got 2 new dressier shirts and one was $6.95 and the other $8.99 USD. Got to love that! We also hit the Costco too! Just for fun. I like seeing the different selections and stuff to choose from. It would be safe to say that I will be going down again soon. Brian has been working at the Langley Packaging depot the past couple of weeks for Mike while he is spending some time at home with Deb and their beautiful new daughter Ava. So that I think is a nice change for Brian to be able to have a little variety from what he calls "being trapped in his Surrey store all day".

Ava at5 days old

We have 3 new little baby kittens that were born on Valentines day. They are all long hair black and white. Very adorable. Bessie, the mom was a stray, most likely abandoned, before being taken in by the shelter. She is a very sweet cat.

Tanya and Sam left today for Arizona to have a visit with my Mom and Dad. I'll admit, I'm a bit jealous...maybe one day I will go see them too. One more month and a bit and they will be back for the summer. I have started swimming about 3 nights/days a week for 1 hour each- Shhhh, don't tell my kids I go to the pool with out them (and its a good thing they can't read!) I spend the time doing laps and 5-10 minutes at the end relaxing in the hot tub. This is my idea of having some "me" time and getting exercise too! I feel like it has been a long winter [although I love the snow 80-) ] that has been spent with too much time in front of the T.V. with nothing really better to do, due to wet days and the sun going down much to early. I am about ready for summer now!

Welcome Baby Ava!

Debra and Mike welcomed their new baby girl Ava Marie in to the world on Saturday February 17th at 5:29 am. She weighed 6lbs, 12 oz. and was 20 1/2 in. long. Mom and Baby are doing very well and baby Ava is beautiful. Congratulations!

Feb. 12th, 2007: Happy Birthday Kayla!

Happy 3rd Birthday Kayla!

Extra, Extra

Okay so I got stuck on the photo part again ! Is it me? or is it this site? Anyone have any advise on posting pictures??

Here are some extra photos from the Monster Trucks!!

Nick and his Blue cotton candy. I think his entire body was blue by the time he was done!

I love this picture of Kayla! We actually had close seats (only 18 rows up from the floor) but I guess she felt she was missing something??

Whhewww!

Okay, where to start? It has been a while since I have actually posted something new. I have to say that I DID try to post a couple of times but kept getting frozen when I wanted to add in pictures..so frustrating. I have now switched over to the "new" blogger version so hopefully all will go smoothly in the future.

So what was it now that I wanted to post before?? Hmm...oh yes; Topic #1: Monster Trucks. On Saturday February 3rd we took the kids downtown to the Monster Jam. We didn't tell Nick where we were going, he just knew that we were going on the Sky Train (Yes!! this was the best news for him so far!! He has been begging for a train or bus ride- I guess he doesn't understand the blessing of owning your own car) and that we were going to need the ear plugs that we took a trip to Home Depot for earlier that day.

They loved the sky train. Nick had been on once before, but Kayla had never. They spent almost the entire way up on their knees looking out the window behind them. I thought for sure that Nick would hear something about the Monster Trucks from others on the train talking, that were also going to the same thing, but he didn't. I guess he was too excited about the ride. We arrived downtown a little early and got something to eat before walking over to B.C. Place. Nick had seen a little digital monster truck running on the big light board as we were climbing the stairs up to the stadium and he was like, " Mom, I just saw a monster truck on that board!" and I said, " Really? Hmm. that's odd" he still had no clue. Then we got inside....

It was so loud already and the trucks hadn't even come out yet! To make a long story shorter, they loved the show. There was little go cart races, motor-cross and of course, Monster Trucks! It was a great Family Adventure Night!