Snow, Christmas Lights, An Engagement and Home Renovations!!!

Well it certainly feels like winter lately! So much snow and no chinooks to be had :( Today wasn't too bad cold wise, definately not like last week and our -40 with the wind chill.  We did get a fair amount of fresh fluffy snow today though, about 4 inches!

Molly is just loving the snow! I was watching her from the kitchen today and she was licking the snow off of the deck and trying to bite the snowflakes as they were falling!! So cute and so funny to watch. She always comes back in the house with snow covering her nose! :)

After playing outside she almost always comes back inside to curl up on the couch or the bench and have a nap. She felt so wet and cold when she came in yesterday so I covered her with a blanket and she slept like this for over an hour! I just love this dog sooo much <3

Josh finished putting up our Christmas lights yesterday. I just love this time of year because of the Christmas lights and music! I just can't wait for our whole family to be together again to celebrate the holidays! And to celebrate something even better.....MY SISTER JUST GOT ENGAGED!!!!!!!!!!! Love her soooo much and I totally love her fiance too, he's wonderful!! Ahhhhhh so much excitement and so much to plan!!! Yea can't wait to get started!

 So todays project has been on my list for a very long time. I have always felt that there was just not enough room in our closet. We that was easy enough to fix. I went to Totem and bought another closet shelf for my wonderful hubby to install!  This is what our closet looked like before....not nearly enough space, lots of unused space and disorganized.

Haha notice how you can't see any of hubby's clothes...well they are hiding behind the rest of mine on the left.  In addition to all the clothes hanging we had one basket of clean clothes and two baskets of dirty clothes!

So I cleaned out all our clothes to give us space to work.

And I piled the clothes on the spare bed. 4 of the 5 piles of clothes are mine. I make the excuse that I have to have work clothes and everyday clothes too! I think it works!!! :)

The whole installation only took about 40 minutes. And for a needed update I'd say that's pretty good!

And here is the finished product!!! I LOVE IT!!!! And yes, I did in fact organize my clothes by color!! :) It makes me happy. Seriously can't believe what a difference this makes, and I can actually remove my clothes when I want and they are not shoved in so tightly that they are wrinkling. And now I actually have room to put some of my purses and shoes which frees up some space in the hall closet!

Now we have room for towels and sheets, which considering we don't have a linen closet is very important!

What a great weekend!! We got some wonderful news and we got a lot done. We even got a fair bit of our Christmas shopping done. And for once Josh is done shopping before I am.  I better get on that! :)

Halloween Bash & Scrapbooking

Our Halloween party was so much fun this year!! We did a whole bunch of decorating again and Josh once again carved some wonderful pumpkins! (He is so good at that! And many other things) It is just too bad that we didn't have 2 more guests :( It just isn't the same without you 2 here!

Everyone’s costumes were so great, there were transformers, a French maid, a cowgirl, a rock star and a groupie, a fairy, a redneck, two hunters and of course us, we were dressed as Vikings.

We probably had about 75 kids come trick-or-treating on Sunday night, we still have some candy left but it is disappearing fast hehehe!! All in all a good weekend! :)

I have also done more scrapbooking!! Yeah for me! I actually feel like I am accomplishing something, that means that I am this much closer to finishing my first scrapbook! These are the pages from when we were at Stingray City Sandbar in Grand Cayman!

When we pulled up to Stingray City Sandbar on the Buccaneer

we could see a half a dozen other boats and at least 100 people

all standing waist deep in the stunning crystal clear blue waters.

We could clearly see the stingrays swimming around, darting

between people’s legs! Being in the water with those incredible

creatures is something to remember! Their skin was so soft

and how they had adapted to being around people and being

picked up was definitely something else. One day we will

go back to visit our stingray friends!

These are the pictures from our last night on the cruise! Our last supper and we had some proffessional photos taken! These are some of my favorite photos of the 3 of us!!

Smiling faces! So happy to gather together for one last wonderful supper after enjoying another amazingday in the sun and surrounded by lots of water! 09/09/05

Well that is all for now. I desperately need some sleep after what felt like only 30 seconds of sleep last night before my alarm rang this morning. Good Night!



Where does the time go??

Life has a funny way of getting out of hand, time slips away, you get involved in this project and that event and meeting with different people and then all of a sudden you stop to take a breath and 4 months have flown by.  How does that happen?? Here is a rundown of the last 4 crazy months!

At the end of May me and Josh decided very spontaneously that we needed to get away. We settled on Las Vegas from June 18 to 24 since neither of us had been in a very long time! We were super excited. When ever we have planned trips in the past there has always been a long period of waiting between booking the trip and going on the trip. Not this time, it was so nice to book the trip and still be excited for the trip by the time we were ready to go! Vegas was awesome!!! We would go back in a heartbeat. So many things to do and see and so much pavement to walk. OMG we probably walked like 40 or so miles just walking up and down the strip and to the different places we went.
 

We did some shopping, a fair amount of drinking, we sunned ourselves by the pools and ate lots of food!!

We went to two shows, Cirque du Soleil Eau which was fantastic by the way, so amazing the stage set up and the performers, LOVED IT! We also went to Criss Angel which was incredible, he never ceases to amaze me, still can’t figure out how he does it all! 

We went on a night time helicopter flight over the strip, what a view, I knew that Vegas was the city of lights, but just didn’t realize how many lights.  

I also surprised Josh with indoor skydiving. Seriously one of the best things we did while we were down there! And we would definitely do it again! I know he really wants to go skydiving for real, but I’m still not sure about it. It might be something to add to our bucket lists.

All in all definitely worth the money and we really enjoyed ourselves.

We were in 3 weddings between the end of July to the middle of September and attended one more wedding in between the others.

Mike and Sarah’s wedding

Holly and Nick’s wedding

Justin and Julie’s wedding

Keane and Sarah’s wedding

Also filling up the months of July, August and September were many bridal showers, shopping trips, bachelor and bachelorette parties, rehearsal dinners, nights with friends and family and when the occasional nice day came around we were outside working in the yard and playing with Molly! My beautiful sister and her boyfriend had to once again leave for the school year, back to Wyoming. I miss her terribly and can’t wait for Christmas to be here fast!!!

Molly is now a year and a half old and still full of energy. She really is a wonderful dog, makes our lives that much more interesting!! Love her to pieces <3

Josh has finally been able to hand in his application for the Lethbridge Police, so now all we can do is wait for that phone call with our fingers crossed. So nerve wracking and yet so exciting if everything works out how we hope!!

We are now coming up on Halloween and we are having another party! So excited for this. Although we just decided yesterday what we are being so now I have to get out my sewing machine and madly sew them together! Next weekend we are going to get out all the decorations and get out some recipes for some ghoulish food.

We have also recently decided that we don’t want to stay in Coaldale forever and that someday, sooner than later, the house we are in now will be too small and we want to be closer to our families so we are looking at moving back into Lethbridge in the next year or so. What that means now is that long list of ‘Honey Dos’ has to start being finished. We are well on our way though, the garage only has 3 small items left on the list and then it can officially be deemed complete! The major task this winter is framing, wiring, plumbing, dry walling and painting the basement. Hopefully when it comes time to sell that will help immensely. Haha so our ‘Honey Do’ list just got a whole lot longer. Right now we are in the ‘prep for winter’ mode. Just hoping that winter decides to stay away for as long as possible.

In amongst all of that I have managed to do some creating. I have made many cards for weddings, new babies, birthdays and anniversaries. Also this last week I finally had time to do some scrapbooking. Only a two page layout but I’m so happy. I also have another two page layout about half done. I’m so close to finishing this album that I just want to get the last couple of pages done so I can finally say ‘yup I finished my first scrapbook :)’

Well there you have it. Really not sure where all that time went. It is now starting to get cold, and there is not nearly enough sunshine, but maybe if I blink I might be able to skip winter all together. What do you think, will it work??