Off for the weekend!

We are off to Grande Prairie today to visit some of our dear friends! I am so excited, I will finally be able to hold and cuddle Tanaya! She is hardly a baby anymore! Jasmine and Damian are growing up so much that I am sure it will shock me! Can't wait to see Michelle of course!! Tonight we are going to stay with Gord and Shauna and the kids and then will head to Beaverlodge in the morning! Brian bought a new truck this week so we are gonna try it out. He even took part of monday off to drive home so Michelle and I could get in more coffee time together! Isn't he sweet?! Will post pics of our adventure on monday as soon as we are home! Hope you all have a great weekend!

Good Morning!

I hope everyone had a great weekend! I know I did. After reading my post the other day I realised just how busy I have been. I have given my notice at the after school program to spend more time at home with my family and on my other 2 jobs. I am still going to work until the end of February in order for them to find someone else. Saturday Brian and I went to town to test drive a truck and came home with a puppy!!!
I have been wanting this puppy for weeks now and she is finally mine. Our house has now grown by 8 hermit crabs and a puppy all in the last month! I guess I should be all good to go now. I have been feeling like I needed something else lately and Ginger is just the ticket. Being home more will definitely be good for that. The kids LOVE her and she is so smart. She can already fetch and we have only had one accident in the house so far. I am going to town today or tomorrow to buy her a sweater though. She has such short hair she freezes outside.
Yesterday I downloaded a virus into my laptop so my computer work is taking a bit longer today. I am hoping to get a bunch of pics of my scrapbooking stuff taken and loaded on here this week though. Talk to you all agian soon!
HUGS!!

Bad Blogger!

With all the craziness around me I did not realize it had been so long since I updated my own blog. January has been the busiest month I have had so far with very few days off. I have been working on my Level 1 childcare course as well as my 3 jobs. I will update more on my crazy life later, but I wanted to share a card I did this morning. I am loving the new Magnolia stamps and can't wait to play more. To see more of what I have been doing and working on lately please see the Pages In Time blog. Talk to you again soon!

Whew! The holidays are over!

Wow! What a couple of weeks it has been. Christmas concerts, birthdays, Christmas and New Years coming. I am exhuasted with all the excitement that has been going on in our lives.
Austin's birthday was fabulous with a household full of friends, family and food. He got spoiled wrotten as usual and loved it. On his actual birthday we almost couldn't get him to sleep because he was so excited he was going to be 5 finally! That night I was in the middle of cooking his bday cake when my oven blew up. 2 days before Christmas!! I might also mention, Christmas was being held at our house! The birthday was saved though, I had a banana cake in the freezer so we put candles on it and had that.
Our oven did not get fixed in time for Christmas and the part is so stinkin expensive it's crazy! This week hopefully they can get it in and we can cook normally again. Dear friends of ours went to Saskatchewan for Christmas and let us use their oven for cooking our turkey. Thank you Justin and Anna for saving our holiday feast!!
Christmas day was perfect! Hailee got up at 3am and waited til 5:30 to come upstairs. I was awake so we waited til 6 to wake up Dad and Austin. Hailee got a beautiful doll house and Austin got a train table so they were pretty pumped. The family was great, the food was better and by 6pm I was ready for bed.
I of course got spoiled as well with a tripod for my camera, jammas, scrap stuff, a hand knit sweater, a purse, jewellery, perfume and so much more.
I was supposed to babysit for New Year's eve but got cancelled on, so now Brian, the kids and I are going to stay home, order in and play the wii. New Year's day we are going to go to Mom and Dad's for Chinese food. I hope everyone else is having as great a holiday as me!
HUGS!!!

Pictures on my kids!

Here are a couple pics to tide you over. Austin and Hailee had a country themed Christmas concert this year so they got all dolled up cowboy style. Aren't they cute?!
The other one is of Austin in front of his super cool Lightning McQueen birthday cake Lisa made him. Thanks Lisa! You are a total doll! I will try and get some more on here later.

Hello friends!

I have missed you all so! Things have been awful around here lately and I just haven't had the time to post. I have taken on a 3rd job, yes I said 3rd, joined and quit Jenny Craig because it made me sick and started smoking again. It has been a year and a half and I broke. Not to worry though, I am gonna jump right back on the wagon as soon as I get through the rush of Christmas. The road to hell is paved with bad decisions isn't it?
All the Christmas shopping is done and the house is decorated. Groceries are bought and Austins birthday has been celebrated. I am looking so forward to the Christmas break and thank goodness it is here as of tomorrow. We have all even been sick already so hopefully Christmas is safe.
Things are moving right along as far as the store and new DT go and I can't wait to have my first month end meeting with the girls. I am very excited to see all of their new work. I have been scrapbooking up a storm at home, finishing of gifts, making calendars and working on stuff for the store.
I hope you are all fine and well. I will try and get some photos uploaded on here tomorrow with pics of the kids and what I've been working on. Talk to you all real soon!
Big Hugs!
Stace

Well it is almost Christmas time. I have been so busy lately and there has been so much going on in my life. I have recently taken on another day a week at the after school program, our Dt will be announced later today, there has been crops and work at the store. Stuff to do never slows down at home and then to top it all off I was in an accident last weekened and wrecked my new car.
Thankfully the kids and I were all okay as we got side swiped by a tour bus last weekend in Stettler. I cried as I tried to tell the police my story and let me tell you, the lady officer was none to friendly. That sorta peeved me off as it was the bus driver's fault and my car was the only one wrecked. Then the next day I find out that this is the second accident that bus has been in in less than a week! Now I am just waiting for an insurance adjuster to come and check the damages on my car. The brother in law doesn't think the damage will be too bad. I just hope that the bus driver has to pay for my damage in the end. So in the mean time I am back to driving the Lincoln. Oh yay!
The crop was last weekend and even though it was a smaller group than normal it was perfect. I got 8 layouts and 4 cards done and even got to play with my new slice machine.
Tuesday Brian was off work so he and I cleaned out the livingroom upstairs, moved a bunch of furniture steamed carpets and rearranged both livingrooms. Brian also completely gunged the kitchen for me and scrubbed the floors. I got all the laundry caught up and bathrooms scrubbed. It was awesome.
The new DT for the store has been chosen and this term I will not be on the DT. Katie and I have decided to not be team members but to actually spend more time training and helping the girls as well as more time testing new tools and such. I am pretty excited. I am still running the team though.
My Christmas shopping is almost done with a few things left to buy Austin and I still have to do Brian but other than that I am done. I hope everyone else is doing well. I have to run and cook lunch and then off to hole up in my scraproom for the rest of the day! Ciao!!;)