Teachers...

I now have a new respect for all teachers. Yesterday Leanne and I went to Trinity Christian School to help Kelly with some stuff around her classroom. It wasn't hard work...but it was a lot of work. When I was in school I never realised how much work teachers actually do. No wonder it's said that teachers don't make enough money. It makes me feel like writing or calling all my teachers and letting them know just how much they are appreciated.
You're doing an amazing job Kelly. Your kids are lucky to have you as their teacher.

Hilarious Milk commercial

I saw this commercial years ago and have laughed about it since. I told many people about it and they had never seen it, so they thought I was crazy. Well...I found it on the internet and just had to share it with all of you. Enjoy!
Talk about incentive to drink milk...

Crazy Funny

Oh my goodness...this just makes me laugh everytime I watch it.
Enjoy everyone.

My Love Bug

Today I taught my little love bug how to say "I love you". He does actions with it and everything. It's oh so very cute. He points to his eye and says "I", then hugs himself and says "love"(athough it sounds more like ub) and points at me and says "you". Talk about melting my heart. He doesn't say much...but what he does say is pretty special.

People Suck!!!

OK. I know that not ALL people suck, but some people REALLY suck!!!
I got a phone call from Jon this morning at 7:30am. He wanted me to look up a phone number for him. Which isn't unusual, I'm often his human phone book. However, the number that he wanted was for his insurance guy. They arrived at work this morning to find the locks on their trailer cut open, the door wide open and a trail of some tools and such spilling out of the trailer. Needless to say, I have a page of tools that were stolen typed up (for the insurance company). To replace all these tools it's going to cost approx. $6000.00. People SUCK!!!
It wasn't that long ago that our truck was broken into as well. They couldn't get at the stereo because Jon installed it himself and he bolted it in from the back...haha. But they sure made a mess of our dash while trying. They also stole all our cd's (I hope they're listening to them...they're all christian ones), tools, bungee cords, canadian tire money :( (we had almost $100.00 of it), and some other random things. I say again...People Suck!!
Thank the Lord we had insurance. It's not going to completely cover everything, but it's certainly better than having none at all. Well, I've got some stuff to get done. I hope you all have a GREAT weekend.

Recipes

Ok. It's here at last. I'm sure there'll be some changes made to it in the near future, but feel free to check out the recipe blog. Recherche Cuisine If you don't know what that means...you'll have to check out the blog to find out :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

My little sister is turning 23 today!!!!!

Happy Birthday Kelly. I hope it's a good one.

Kelly,
When I posted this, Micah was sitting on my lap. He got a big grin on his face when he saw your picture, pointed at it, and said "Auntie" clear as a bell. So there you go...Happy Birthday from Micah too.

As kids see/hear it...

"Dear Lord," the preacher began with arms extended and a rapturous look on his upturned face, "without you we are but dust..." He would have continued, but at that moment one very obedient little girl (who was listening carefully) leaned over to her mother and asked quite audibly in her shrill little girl voice, "Mommy, WHAT is butt dust?"
Church was pretty much over at that point...

I got this in an e-mail and it made me laugh, I thought some of you might enjoy it as well. :)

Recipes....

Well, I have an idea (that's not really my own). Amanda and her friend Jen have a site dedicated to recipes called Amen Let's Eat I have had many people ask me for some of my recipes, so I thought it would be kinda fun to dedicate a blog to my recipes. Stephanie is going to do it with me. She has a lot of really good healthy recipes for all you health nuts...or wanna-be ones like me. Who think about it, and how you could benefit from it, but never actually do it. Unfortunately, all my good recipes are the exact opposite of what you probably should be eating.
Well, here's our dilemma. Neither of us are very creative. We'd like to have the name of the recipe blog be something creative and fun, but can't come up with anything on our own. PLEASE HELP!!! We'd like to know if you think this is a good idea, and if you can think of anything that we should call it. Your help will be GREATLY appreciated....let us know...

Delurk everyone...

Well, as I've been reading everyone's blogs I've come to realize that apparently it's "Delurking week". So, out of plain curiosity I'd like to know who all those out there that read my blog from time to time (even though it's not really all that entertaining) are. Even though the week is pretty much over, here it is...Delurk everyone. Let yourselves be known. :)

Attitude is everything...

I read this on a blog that I ventured onto through a friends blog. I thought it was really good and wanted to share it with all of you.

Attitude

There once was a woman who woke up one morning,
Looked in the mirror,
And noticed she had only three hairs on her head.
Well," she said, "I think I'll braid my hair today."
So she did And She Had A Wonderful Day.

The next day she woke up,
Looked in the mirror
And saw that she had only two hairs on her head.
"H-M-M," she said,
"I think I'll part my hair down the middle today."
So she did And She Had A Grand Day.

The next day she woke up,
Looked in the mirror and noticed that she had only one hair on her head.
"Well," she said,
"today I'm going to wear my hair in a pony tail."
So she did And She Had A Fun, Fun Day.

The next day she woke up,
Looked in the mirror and noticed that there wasn't a single hair on her head.
"YEA!" she exclaimed,
"I don't have to fix my hair today!"

Attitude is everything.

"Take Home Chef"

Tonight I went with my Mom and Kelly to a Women's Ministry event at the First Alliance Church in Calgary. It was pretty good. They did a kinda spoof of the TLC's "Take Home Chef". A chef (I forget his name) prepared a 4 course meal in front of us and then was auctioned off at the end. If your bid won he'd come to your house and prepare a meal for 2. Pretty cool. All the money from the bid is going to the Mustard Seed (A Shelter here in Calgary). I would have loved to have this Chef come to my house and prepare a meal for Jon and I...however the bidding went WAY beyond my budget for a meal. It went for......insert drum roll in your imagination as you read this.......Prepare your heart for this one......$1000.00. Crazy I know. But great as well. What a great donation for the mustard seed. Well, I'm off to bed. I have a rip roaring head ache. I'm a HUGE baby when it comes to getting head aches. I can actually count on one hand the amount of times that I've had a head ache. Which is why I'm such a big baby. I forget how much they hurt and just want to crawl into a comfy dark quiet hole and sleep the pounding, stabbing, acheyness away. I'm off to tend to my wounds...

Canadian Tire Money

Canadian Tire Money rocks! Just from using our Canadian Tire mastercard and buying gas at the Canadian Tire Gas bar we have $318.20 saved up!!! Crazy! We will soon have a big stainless steel barbeque bought all with Canadian Tire money. We've also bought 2 sets of 2 way radio's, a dvd player, rollerblades, Jon's big tool chest, the motormaster eliminator battery pack and tons of random things with Canadian tire money. All you people who throw Canadian tire money out when you get it, and laughed at us for saving it (Jennifer)...whose laughing now!!!

Happy New Year!

Well for all the stuff we've been up to lately. I have absolutely no pictures to post. We had a fun New Years. We went to a friends house and had fondue (oil, cheese, broth and white and dark chocolate to follow). It was really good. There were quite a few people there. Pretty much all we did was eat, visit and play games. Jon and I brought the kids along because we had already ditched them 2 nights in a row to go snowboarding (which I'm still hurting from). I didn't want to leave them with family or a sitter again, so they tagged along. Surprisingly enough, they stayed awake for the whole thing. I was prepared to put them to bed if they started to break down but they were completely content the whole evening/night. We didn't get home until 2am (yikes!), so they crashed as soon as their heads hit their pillows. We all had a great time.
I just got home from my parents house. We had a New Years dinner at their house with my Grandparents because they've been out of town since Dec. 20th or something. We ate a great feast and then again, played games. As you can tell, my family is big into the games. Well, I think I'm going to crash. I still haven't gotten caught up on my sleep from our day of snowboarding. Jon and I went snowboarding on Saturday with his Dad, brother, friend Ryan, My mom and my sister. It was a lot of fun, but all the preperation stuff was sort of last minute. We didn't end up getting to bed until 1:30am (Jon wasn't in bed until 2:30) and then getting up at 5:30am. Talk about being tired. Then to have New Years after that. I have a lot of sleep to catch up on. :) I hope you all had a GREAT Christmas and New Years.