It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!

Today feels like it should be Monday…..I’m sure glad it’s not!!! It being Tuesday means that I only have 2 days of work left this week!!! And then only 4 days of work next week and then it’s CHRISTMAS!! OMG when did Christmas get here?? I guess I better get a move on and finish my shopping, wrapping, baking and card making!! Last weekend we went to my Christmas party and had a great time! Limos to and from home, a great dinner at Ricky's and drinks and hanging out at my bosses house!

I had a busy weekend planned for us this past weekend….but then Friday morning happened. I was walking to work from my car and I slipped on a patch of ice :( I didn’t fall down but I kinda flailed my arms and neck and back and ended up twisting my neck and shoulders funny. Oh it hurt so much. I took some pain killers when I finally got into work and just waited to see if they helped any. By lunch time I wasn’t feeling any better so I left work and went to the walk in clinic after lunch. The doctor said I pulled the muscle pretty badly and he gave me a prescription for anti inflammatorys and muscle relaxants. So Friday night ended up being a write off, we rented Inception and cozied up on the couch, which was good cuz the drugs made me really sleepy. Saturday morning I went for my spa day and I’m so glad I had booked it! I had a massage and the lady said that I was really tense and knotted up so she let me use their infrared sauna for half an hour! That was bliss! Then I had a pedicure and a manicure! So nice to be pampered for the day! My neck is still pretty stiff and sore, hopefully time and drugs will help it feel better!

Saturday night we had Josh’s Christmas party. We got all dressed up and headed to the Lodge for dinner, drinks and entertainment by the Chevelles. It was a great night despite my hurting neck. Sunday morning we went to my parents house for brunch and to visit with Jocelyn! Her and Jared made it home late Saturday night! So happy they are home. Christmas is going to be so great this year!

 Yesterday was such an awesome, busy day!! Me, my mom and my sister’s friend Jamie took Jocelyn out wedding dress shopping!!! Oh how much I love doing that :) (too bad Jossy is really the last person for a while that I get to do that stuff with) We started our day at 11:00 at Bella Fiore, we picked out about 10 dresses for her to try on and we sat there with our cameras in hand!! She is so beautiful and everything she tried on looked great on her! Of course she can only have one dress…..and that dress is going to be a big secret until next summer, but I can share a few of the ‘not so much’ pile!!

We then went for lunch at O Sho’s…..ummmmm so good, glad I wasn’t trying on dresses cuz I was so full!! We then went to Once Upon a Bride and since we had a good idea of what we were looking for we only picked 5 dresses for her to model. After trying on the first 4 she took one look at the fifth and said she wasn’t even trying it on. Funny how having a deadline really makes you narrow it down fast. She has 2 dresses in mind, but I’m sure I know which one she will pick (and I LOVE it!!!) Seriously so happy for her and I know that her wedding will be beautiful!!

I'm super happy that we decorated last week for 2 reasons: 1 being that I don't think that I could possibly find the time with how busy things have been and 2 becuase I get to enjoy the decorations for that much longer!! Love this time of year (except the cold and snow, well I like the snow when I'm inside and warm and it looks pretty!!) I love how our tree turned out this year! And we already have presents under it!! And I've been working on our Christmas cards too, almost all done!

Looking forward to the rest of this week. Only 2 more days of work. Wednesday I’m taking some jewelry over to my friends house for her and a couple of friends to look at. Friday I have the day off and I think I am going to try to finish my shopping, spend some more time with Jossy and Mom and try and get a few more of the little things crossed off my list. Hopefully my plans actually come through!!

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!