A few things to share...

Lets start off with a fresh new look for my Alexa, here she is looking ever so cute with some layers and bangs! She wanted to get bangs, and I figured why not, it's hair, and it will grow back! I'm hoping to go get a fresh new look this week, and to get rid of some grey hairs, blah...

I've taken up crocheting as a hobby, and all I can do is a few stitches and straight lines, I haven't tried anything else yet, these afghans took me a while to make, not the kids afghans, but the afghan I made for hubby and I, it is huge! But it was fun! Now I want to try to make something more fun, I'll keep you posted, reading crochet lingo is challenging!

For New Years eve we hung out at home, and Michael's mom has joined us for the last 7 years. So we played a game and watched t.v. and slowly took the kids to bed, no one made it past 11. I wanted to go to bed then too, but it was New years, you have to stay up till midnight. So we did, kissed, and hugged, watched a bit of tv and went to bed! Here is a picture of what we feasted on! YUMM-O

Emmalee turned 11 on New Years eve as well. We had fun filled day, we went for lunch, and to a movie, then it started to blizzard, just in time to get home and stay nice and warm. This is a card I made for Emmalee, part of it was made with my Christmas present, a cuttlebug, it is an embossing and die cut machine. I love it, I can't wait to make more projects! I also made that 2 yr calendar in the picture with my bind-it-all. I would have embellished the front more, but I kinda ran out of time, and you don't really look at the front anyway, right!

This past weekend, Cari, 2 of her kids, my mom, Noah and I went to visit my nanny is Theodore, at the care home she is staying in. It was so emotional. She is 10 years into Alzheimer's, and even though she can't speak straight sentences, just jibber jabber, she cried when my mom and her brother (nanny's oldest son) walked up to her in the dinning area. She loves children, and lightened up when she saw little Aubrie walking around, and she said Hi to me....And this picture was sooo touching, wow! Little Boedy, 1 month old, and my Nanny at 77.

Christmas is Over

I don't have alot to share, but I needed to update, cause I logged onto my site just now and I didn't realize what my last post was, and I don't want you all to have to look at my foot anymore.

Christmas was good to us all, of course. The kids were pretty happy to get their presents a day early, and I was happy to not have children waking up at 4 am on Christmas morning wanting to open presents. We opened presents on Christmas Eve morning. It was a fun day, hubby had the day off, so why not!! Then we could spend the whole day together, and not have to rush out the door to go to Christmas at the farm, which is what we usually do on Christmas morning. Doesn't give the kids much time to play with their stuff when we do that. We didn't tell them what we were doing (for obvious reasons), and they were pretty surprised.

It sure has been nice these last two weeks. Hubby has had a total of 9 days at home out of 14. It's been grand! I love having him here! Monday he's back to work, and I think that will be the day we get back to the books around here.

No new years resolutions made here, it's just something we've never gotten into. How bout you, any new years resolutions you'd like to share?

I didn't take many pictures over Christmas, I took more videos. If I find some worth sharing I will!!

Happy New Year, hope you have a wonderful 2009!!

It's not fractured after all!!!

HALLELUJAH!! I am soooo happy!! Don't know what the ER Dr was looking at, but the Orthopedic Dr I saw today said there was no fracture and that it is just a soft tissue injury!! I can walk on it, for now with the help of 1 crutch instead of two, and I have to wear this funky astronaut boot (aircast) for a week or so!! The other picture is of my foot on Tuesday after I took the tensor bandage off, you can kind of see how bruised my foot is on the right side of my foot. Two hours after this, the whole top of my foot was purple!!

This is one of the 5 bruises I got from the ER nurses on Friday when I went in. They were trying to give me IV in case I needed surgery (my thought, wait till the X-Ray comes back to give me an IV) Two different nurses tried, 2 times each, until the third one came and was successful (sort of) This is the lovely bruise I got after they took the IV out. Nice eh??

I'm sooo happy that I can do my baking and I can go out and finish some stocking stuff for hubby!! kinda hard to send him for his own gifts ;)

Have a Very Merry Christmas everyone, I know I will be!!!

I don't have time for this....

I broke a bone in my foot.....ya, 2 weeks before Christmas...I don't have time for this right now, you wanna know why? Well I'm going to tell you why, you may or may not care to know, but I feel like if I write it all down, maybe it won't seem so bad??

• I have tons of baking to do: crookies, chocolate covered pretzels, candied pecans, chocolate bark, carmel popcorn, cheeseball, sugar cookies
• I still have a few presents to buy: gift for my mom and dad, a few more things for the kids, stocking stuff for my husband and kids
• cleaning, laundry, Christmas cards, laundry, cleaning, everyday things you have to do when you have 4 kids, school
• Noah has one more hockey skills class and then his outdoor hockey starts this week, Emmalee has one more guitar lesson, Alexa and Breanna have a school trip on Tuesday

So, there it is...and I don't know if it has helped at all, writing it down. Maybe once I get a cast it will be easier?? Using crutches is really uncomfortable!!! I'm off to veg on the couch and watch some TV with the kids!! Cause that's all I can do...

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas

Well, around here it is. We have our tree up, bought it and set it up on the 7th, and decorated it that day as well!! I really like how it turned out this year! We decorated the house with a few other things, so it looks festive over here, mostly. Sorry, I don' t know how to flip pictures from this camera...

The kids had their Christmas play last night, it turned out really well. They all were in it, and they all did well with their parts. Emmalee was an angel, she had 18 lines she said. Noah was a priest, and he had 5 or 6 lines, Alexa was passerby and she had 1 line, and her and Breanna had a line towards the end with all the other angels and choir people.

We've had a few busy days with a school trip, outdoor hockey tryouts, and a earache thrown into the mix of it all. Things are winding down for the year shortly. The kids no longer have Wednesday nights, not till Jan 7th. Emmalee has one guitar lesson left, and Noah has one power skating/hockey skills class left, then he starts outdoor hockey, on Thursday the 18th or Friday the 19th. Breanna's soccer is done till January as well! We have one more school trip for the little girls, and a few other things on the agenda, and then it is Christmas. The kids are excited, of course. They used their own money this year to buy each other gifts, and it was a neat experience going shopping with them. They pretty much knew what they wanted to get each other. To see their excitement when they pulled out their own money to pay, it was something that will be stored in my memory bank for ever! They never even complained once!! Precious little hearts.

Houston, we have a baby!!!

And it's A BOY!!!!! Yeah!! He was born today, December 3rd at 10:12 am, and he weights 7lbs 5oz and is 20.5inches. His name is Boedy Gavin, and he is a cutie!!! It went well, my sister did amazing, and what a true blessing it was to be in that room when it was announced that he was a boy, wow, what emotion!! His mom and dad are thrilled!!! His big sisters adore him and so do his cousins!! That is the first boy in 8 yrs on my side of the family. It has been all girls for the past 7 yrs, 6 girls to be exact. And there is something about the letter A and B, we have 4 A's and 3 B's out of 11 grandchildren on my side.

Here is the proud mommy shortly after giving birth, isn't she beautiful!! She looks pretty good for just going through about 5 hrs of labour! Her water broke at 4am, and she was at the hospital about 5, and she was already 6cm, she got the epidural and reached 10cm in less than 3 hrs. About 3 good pushes and he was out!! The cord was wrapped around his neck pretty tightly, but he is doing well.

Here is the proud daddy and big sister!! Too precious for words!!

Yeah for babies!!!