Stinky!!!

Today I am figuring out how on earth to get the smell of shrimp out of my house! Neil and the boys insisted on having shrimp on their pizza last night so I cooked some up for them (I don't eat it). This morning the house STILL smells of shrimp! Not the nicest thing to wake up to let me tell ya! So I will be cleaning and burning candles I think today.
It's supposed to be a high of 24C today too, so maybe opening up the windows is a good idea as well!
Mark needs to work on the letter "Aa" today, so we will maybe do some finger painting to help along with that too.

Oh right the machines...

Not much to say here really, it took the worker guys 10 hours to finish their part of the yard, and now we need to still lay the irrigation lines and plant the grass, hopefully this week. But I think it looks way better than before! Don't you?

Boys will want to peek here today...

We have a bobcat and mini excavator coming in today to rip up the cement slabs in the backyard today and level out the yard so it's more 2 tiered. Hopefully it's only a 3 day job as it's coming with a hefty pricetag. But we really want nice grass next year. So if we can get the grass planted before snow falls then it cam germinate all winter, you get such beautiful lush grass this way.
And now that the bears I think are done in the yard, it's time to get it nice looking. We are still concerned about pine beetle taking out the 4 pine trees we have but I guess we'll see what happens...Ahhh and here they are! Be ready for pictures today!

Crafty things

I made some cards awhile ago but finally got a camera again....ummm Neil dropped my other one and broke it......soooo yes new camera, cards...right. Here we go...

Yes I know, it's just hitting fall but isn't he a cute snowman???

This was a new stampset from /www.stampinup.com and I just had to use it!! SO cute

Hmmm what else did I put together, oh yes a bella card...love da bella's!!! http://www.stampingbella.com/

Brrrr. fall is here!

I love fall, okay I love having 4 seasons! But this morning, I was not ready to be this chilly. After taking the boys to school in capris and flip flops, I came home and crawled back under the covers to warm up. I ended up changing into my warm pants, socks and a sweater. Fall is definatley upon us and Mother Nature is letting us know.
Mark and I are going to go in the back and rake up leaves and pine needles this afternoon and burn them I think if the wind slows down anyways. Our beautiful maple tree is changing colours right now too and it's just beautiful!
And to think that it's snowing up on the coquihalla connector! Brrrr.....

Was it supposed to be like this?

As a young girl, I always envisioned marrying my prince charming....I mean really who doesn't think that way. And I knew I would have daughters, I had to in order for me to have the tea parties, the doll playing, the frilly dresses.

Well it's funny isn't how things happen, I did get my prince charming, and I got 2 wonderful boys as well! Who have offered to have tea parties, but then a rather large monster truck comes for tea and crushes the cups like it would cars. Ah yes, God has a great sense of humor...one sense of humor that I am grateful for.

So we decide to get a cat, of course I needed a girl!! Sophie was wonderful, but Sophie ran away...silly kitty.

Sooo we went back to the SPCA and this time letting Quinn choose a kitty. My only requirement was that she had to be a SHE. Quinn had already thought up the name Daisy, and we were set! Off we go, well Quinn found the sweetest little orange fluffball, we had to have HER! The SPCA man came in and informed us that....yup you guessed it! She was infact a HE! So we came home with Duke (no Quinn has never watched the Dukes of Hazzard, I did find it funny that we had the names Daisy Duke though).

Thus....The Tales of an Outnumbered Mom!