Busy Busy

Well here I am again I am just waiting to get my counter tops and my new tub and bath surround. We should have that by the weekend, and we are having a couple people over to help us with that. Wes and I might start my fence tonight and work on that for the next couple days after work. Hopefully everything goes well. I want to get as much done before Brandon's birthday that way most of it if not all of it will be done by the time my sister and my brothers girlfriend come up next month. With all the help we have it shouldn't take us long. After we get the fence in the front took down I have a few trees to plant and I want to make a flower bed I probaly can't plant any flowers in it this year by the time I get everything done but at least I will have it ready for next spring and I can plant flowers in it then. I am excited about all of this. I can hardly wait until it is done. I think the worst part of it all is going to be painting the fence. I don't mind painting in my house because I have airconditioning and what not but I hate painting outside especially fences. It wouldn't be so bad if I just had a small fence to paint but I don't so it will take me a while, but I will have help so maybe it won't be that bad.
Other than all that there isn't a whole lot new here. Mander was here for a bit Monday and showed me all her pics she took of her trip. I went out and bought the birthday invitations and decorations for Brandon's birthday we are going to do a Car's theme. He likes his cars and trucks so when we were at the store the other day and seen that they had a whole bunch of stuff from the Cars movie we decided it would be a good idea. Also on the weekend I am going to take my dog into the groomer and get his hair trimed and everything. His hair is getting long again and it is pretty hot up here. But I am going to go and do some house stuff here and hopefuly get this all done quickly. Talk to you guys later.

Wow What A Busy Week

Wow I can't beleive how busy this week was. First we ripped out the carpet in that back hallways and Brandon's toy room and then the floor under that really needed to be cleaned, it was pretty gross. All that took a couple of days, well the cleaning part of it anyways. On Thursday I was going to go to Rona and by tile but Brandon fell asleep in the car and I didn't want to wake him up, he looked like he was having too good a sleep to be disturbed so I just drove around until he woke up and by the time he woke up it was time to pick Wes up from work and after that I completly forgot about the tile. So I went to Rona Friday morning and picked the tile I wanted and came home and started the long, long, boring, repetitiveness of laying it. That took me until about 10 last night to finally finish, I didn't think it was going to take me that long to do, it never took me and my step brother that long to do my living room, but I guess I did have to do it by myself. Today I have to put all of the base boards back on and put everything back in there. Hopefully that won't take long. I have to go through all of Brandon's toys again because the last time I did it, I left the don't play with boxes in the toy room and they are all mixed up again, oh well no big deal, it's my own fault for leaving them there in the first place right. lol.
After I get the back done today I have to clean my house and put laundry away. A friend of mine said she wanted to come over today but I think I am going to just tell her that I am too busy today and maybe we can do something tomorrow. Today also is when Wes's long stretch starts at the work, he will be there pretty much every day until sometime in Septmeber, because everyone else is taking turns going on vacation and he is the only one stuck there until then. It wouldn't be such a big deal if he got paid hourly, but he is on salary so they can work him until he's dead and still pay him the same thing.
Oh yea I also had to go and buy a new lawn mower yesterday because Wes and my brother tired to fix it and well, it couldn't be futher from fixed.....lol. A friend of mine knows how to fix small engines and crap like that and asked if he could buy it from me....I told him no, I am not going to sell him something I know doesn't work. I told him that if he thought he could fix it he could come over and pick it up, I was just going to throw it in the trash anyways.
This week I think I am going to start doing my fence, the sooner I get that done the sooner I get that done, the sooner I can plant the tree I bought and go get the ones from my friends house. After I get my fence all fixed and put the way I want it I am going to paint it.....wooop de do. I hate painting, especially fences. But at least I will get a good tan outta the deal.
And my final and biggest news of this whole blog is.............Mander comes home tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She said she is going to stop by Monday and visit and give little man his present. I am so glad she is coming home....I was getting lonely yesterday when I was putting my tile down because usually she comes over and visits alot and these last couple weeks have been pretty boring with the exception of last weekend when Trevor was up here but even that wasn't the same without Mander. But I am sure your eyes are burning from reading so much so I will let you be now....lol

Gonna Be A Busy Week

Well all in all my weekend was pretty good. Trevor got here at 3 Friday afternoon, and we hung out and played cards until Wes got off work. Trevor hasn't seen Brandon ever so little man was kinda shy about him being here for the first couple hours, but after that he was fine with him. It was nice that we got to spend some time together with him, Wes and him used to be really good friends so for him to be here this weekend was nice for Wes. The two of them got to talk about lots of stuff and I think Wes liked having him here to talk about "guy" stuff. Origianlly we were all going to go out for dinner but decided to stay home in the end. After Brandon went to bed we played my gamecube, and Wes and I realized that it is possible for someone to suck more at Mario cart than him. By the time we all got to bed it was 3 am.
Saturday Trevor got a phone call and had a family emergency so he had to go home sooner than expected, but he called when he got home and from what we understand everything is going to be ok. For his sake I hope so, he has had enough emotional strain I don't think that more of that would be good for him. Saturday night we still had our BBQ. Half way through it started to rain, so I have a little bit of a cold cause everyone else was too chicken to go out in the rain and check on dinner, oh well someone had to do it right.
Yesterday for the most part Wes and I just relaxed and did a whole lot of nothing. Just before dinner a friend called and wanted to know if her and her boyfriend could come over because there was a misunderstanding about games night. I thought they were going to call and she thought I was going to call her. So they came over last night and we played a couple games and visited until about 1130. So considering how late we stayed up Friday and Saturday it was an early night.
I'm not sure how much time I am going to have to blog this week because we are taking all the carpet out of the back hallways and Brandon's toy room so we can get the floor ready to be tiled, and after we get all that done I think Wes is going to get the fenced moved so when someone comes here they have to come into the yard to get to my door, instead of walk beside the fence. After he gets that done we are going to paint it and instead of having my front yard blocked off with a fence we are going to take the fence completly out of there so just the back yard is fenced off and then when thats done we are going to landscape the front, put a couple trees there and make a flower bed so next year I have some where to plant my flowers. I think when everything is done it is going to look good.
But I have to run, little man is up so I have to get him some breakfast. Talk to you guys later.

Not Sure What to Call This One

Well tommorrow my weekend starts, I guess if you wanna get technical it started about three hours ago.
A friend I haven't seen in a long time is coming up here this weekend to visit. I haven't seen him in about 2 year and I kind of have mixed feelings about the whole thing. I'm glad that he is coming up because we used to be good friends and at the same time I don't want him to come here because we never really said good-bye on good terms the last time we seen each other. But that's a story for another time. I am anxious to see him, I mean I have the whole butterflies in my stomach thing and at the same time, I have this gut wrenching feeling that he shouldn't be coming here for more than one reason.
So I think my weekend is going to be hectic. Trevor will be here sometime tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night I am making chicken parmasean for dinner and we are having a couple more friends over. Hopefully everything turns out good.
Saturday we are having a BBQ with a few more people and after the BBQ a couple of my other friends are coming over for games night. We started this a few weeks ago and they come over and we play a game of 'seen it' then we play another game, we usually play games and visit until the wee hours of the morning. It's fun. I think our other game for tomorrow is going to be monopoly. I am the queen of that game but apparently Erica is pretty good, so we will have to see if I still get to keep my crown after tommorrow night. lol.
And sunday I think all we are going to do is relax and hang out. hopefully . (keeping my fingers crossed)
but I really should get some sleep. talk to you guys later.

By the way, I talked to Mander today and she is doing good. I guess last night her and her boyfriend went to a sushi place in Edmonton, from what I hear it was alright. I am going to have to take her word on that cause I hate fish as it is let alone raw fish. But hey if she wants to eat that crap that is totaly up to her.I feel sorry for her stomach though...lol

Ok I mean it this time, I am really going to bed.
C

Great News!!!

Well I talked to a few people about how my son has been acting and they all told me the same thing...he is more than likely getting his two year molars. So that is good, at least all this will pass right...eventually. lol....But on to the point of my blog today.

Ok so I have this aunt in my life right, but not only is she my aunty, she is my best friend. She has been there for me for so much from giving me a place to crash when I had no where else to go, to sticking up for me when my ex's girlfriend wanted to kick my ass, to when her friend thought i had a fling going on with her man years ago,(don't ask why personally I think he's nasty I guess thats just the way her friend was at the time ironicly we are good friends now),she was also there for me when I found out I was pregnant with my son and there was no one else around,(long story for another time), and she was also there in the delivery room with me she was the first one to see my little mans face. Anyways you get the point I love Wendy like and Aunt and a best friend which is why I am so incredibly happy for her at this point in her life.

You see her and my uncle have been trying to have another baby for like 7 years and the doctors kept telling her you can't have any more kids your too fat pretty much... They had tried so many different things and eventually she just gave up and decided it would happen when it happened. Well I was checking my Yahoo mail last night, something I dont do much since Lance invited me to gmail, and there was this message from her with no subject so I opened it up and low and behold....she's finally pregnant!!!!!! Isn't that great? you have no idea how happy for her I am. She deserves this more than anyone I know, she loves her son so much and now that they have a second one on the way after all this time and heartbreak, I'm sure that they will love and cherish this new baby to no end.

But I just wanted to share my good news with everybody. As kind of a life lesson to everyone, no matter how bad you think life is because it's not going your way buck up when you are least expecting it everything will work out for the best, and this situation proves that good things happen to good people.
Talk to you guys later.

My Weekend

Well, this weekend the weather was super crapy. It rained all day yesterday and today, and it is supposed to rain more tommorow. I hope that the weather is better down south for Mander's camping trip, or maybe I don't...then she will come home sooner. No just kidding, she deserves this trip, she has been looking forward to it for a long time.

Well I can't really think of anything interesting to talk about, Brandon is really craby I'm not sure what's up with him, maybe he is getting some new teeth in or something. Oh well, it happens right. I am not going to take him to the hospital to see a dr until he gets really really bad, becuase the last time I took him in they told me "the dr is going for supper bring him back in the morning" I was so mad!!! He had a really high fever, he wasn't sleeping or eating and barley drinking, and they tell me that the dr is going for supper and to bring little man back in the morning. so up thiers, I will drive the hour to The Fort and take him there. The dr.'s are supposed to be better there.

hmmm....What else can I tell you...Oh I finally took my car in this morning to get the windshield replaced. I figured I better get it done before I got pulled over and got a ticket for that. It was pretty reasonably priced too I paid $240.00 and the other place in town that I called wanted like $470.00 for the same windshield, so needless to say I took it to the other place. For those of you who don't remember what happened to my car, I was driving home from down south and I got a really big through my windshield. It really sucked, I was so mad. I'm just glad it got fixed....ya for my car...lol.

But that's all for now. Talk to you guys later.

North Of 60

Well, I finally got to go further north than the airport.....And yes it is possible to go further north than that....LOL. It was a long drive to the Twin Falls Gorge Territorial Park, well I guess not that long but let me tell you, when there is nothing but trees to look at it seems like a very long drive. Any ways on to the point of my blog tonight. I GOT TO SEE REAL LIVE WATER FALLS!!!! It was great. We went to see two of them, the first one we went to, which is actually the second one on the road but Wes drove by it, was called Louise Falls. It was very pretty as the pictures will show.
We walked down to the look point and took a couple of pictures there and then originally we were going to walk from there to the first fall but we found a second look out point and it had many many stairs...it took us like 15 minutes to walk down this darn hill with all the stairs and it took longer to walk back up, so needless to say I was to tierd after that to walk the 3km to the next fall and the 3 km back if you know what I mean.
These two pictures are of Louise fall taken at different angles obviously. The only thing that disappointed me about the whole trip is as you can see the water was very dirty.
The name of the second fall was Alexandra, as you will see from the pictures it was much bogger than the Louise Fall. I almost seen someone jump off the rail and plummet to what I am sure would be a slow and painful death as your body pegged from cliff to cliff ect. But anyways on to happy thoughts.
This is My favorite Picture I took of the Alexandra Fall. I had to take it three times, as my brother kept putting his fat head in front of my camera. It is not a very good one to show the height of the fall but I like it because I think that the trees accent the falls beautifully. You can see in the back that that the cliffs are very steep, the only difference between that side and the one we were on is that the side we were on had little cliffs, and by little I mean very little.
This Picture below I think was the best one to illustrate the height of this particular fall. Once again I was a little disappointed that the water was yellow, I always pictured falls with blue water and what not, but hey what can you expect right? I was told that the water was yellow like that because of all the spring run off.
I hope you all will enjoy seeing these pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.....But before you go getting all excited that you don't have to read anymore.....I'm not done yet......LOL. I have so much more to write about my trip....Now earlier I wrote that I have never been further north than our airport....Well I should have said I haven't been further north of our airport to sight see. Ten years ago I went up tp Faro, which is in the northern part of Yukon Territory. That was very beautiful country up there... And I have been in the North West Territories too, well actually truth be told, I was at the Yellowknife airport. So this trip was exciting for me because I got to see some of the N.W.T, when my plane landed briefly in Yellowknife, all I got to see was well the outside of the airport, all we were there for was to pick up a couple of passengers, so we were unable to get off the plane. ohhhh, I forget where I was going with that.
As you noticed the title to my blog tonight is "North Of 60" I have called it that because when you get to the Alberta/NWT border you have reached the 60th parallel. They have this park there that is called The 60th Parallel Territorial Park, at this park they have a little tourist information center and when you go in they have this big stuffed polar bear and they give you this certificate to show that you have been north of 60. I thought it was cool, nobody ever gave me a certificate for going somewhere before....LOL.
Now on the way up there, I got to see the coolest sign ever..........Now who can tell me where Santa's reindeer go to drink????? Wait for it...Have you made your guess???? Ok look...... Talk to all you guys later!!!! Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did. And for the Record that is a REAL SIGN.

Ooops....LOL

Ok down below where I typed 11:oo pm it was supposed to say 10:50 pm I was looking at the clock on my computer and got confused.....lol that right there should tell you how my not so wonderful weekend was.
C

Daylight At Night

So I know that a few of you are doubtfull that I am telling you the truth about how much darkness we actually get up here...way, way, way up here, So I took a few pictures and I am going to post them so you can all see what it is like here in the summer. Now I took these picture at 10:45 p.m tonight. It gets light in the morning around 3 am if we are lucky, usually that is pretty late for the sun to be coming out.
By the time it gets dark enough that you don't need to cover your window with something very dark......oh wait it doesn't get that dark up here in the summer. lol. anyway to get Little Man to bed before midnightish we had to put tin foil and then a dark blanket on his window so he could tell that its night time and what not......this trick comes in handy if you want to get this little, important thing called sleep. before we put that on his window he would be up every couple hours and wanting to play, and let my tell you at 4 am when all you want to do is go to bed
that's just not cool....lol. Talk to you guys later!!!