La Bella Nocce

Neil and I attended a fundraiser for Quinn's school. It was a black tie dinner and dance and live auction. It was such a fabulous evening. My parents spent the night and watched the boys so Neil and I got a night at a local hotel! We had never been away from the boys and neither of us slept LOL. He suprised me with a family ring!!!! I will post pictures of it when it's made, I have a loner ring right now until i call the jeweller with the stone order I want.

Onto some photos!

Here is Neil and I at the hotel before going, I had my hair straightened and coloured before hand.

I also stitched something and had it framed for the auction, it went for $60 so I was quite happy with that!

Here is Neil and I at the actual event. There were 2 ladies who painted the entire gym to make it look like you were on a street in Italy! It was awesome!!!

Oh and I was bidding on a few things, and I ended up being the winning bidder on this nativity scene wall hanging. It's sitting to the left of the photo here of the boys

The quiet times...

Mark got this fabulous puzzle for his birthday! It's a Melissa & Doug puzzle, love their products, but especially their puzzles. Mark is just so interested in dinosaurs right now, so my sister found a great floor puzzle by them, and oh my he just loves it!
Quinn is getting this puzzle from my sister for his birthday, again it's M&D but it's the human body! He's going to love it!!

I'll add some photos of Quinn too, it was quite chilly out there this morning so I didn't get too many photos of him, and he didn't last too long out there either LOL He was up playing at his play house with our cat Duke, trying to stay out of the wind. Duke climbed up a tree and Quinn "rescued" him so he decided it was time to come in after that!

I am going to head back to my book, as the boys are playing so nicely together! I am currently reading Book 5 in the Redemption Series by Karen Kingsbury! LOVE these books!!!!!

Loving God this morning...

I mean I love God everyday. But I was so proud to be the Mom of Quinn and Mark this morning as they chose to turn off the TV and put on the new CD I bought.

It's such a fabulous CD and the kids are loving it too! It's been nice to watch them grow more and more to love Jesus! It's been really cool to watch Quinn teach Mark all about God, and here them talk bible stories!

Very happy now, that I came back to the church before we had children. This is the only way I would want to raise them!

It's our time to VOTE!

Yet again, we are headed to the polls! I swear we were just voting for our PM. Anyways, I think we are heading for another minority government. But I guess time will tell....although the polls are showing it that way right now.
Busy day for me today, I have to go up and vote! Then across the bridge to pick up a cross stitch i am having framed, pick up Neil's drill, go to Loaves and Fishes to pick up some books for a women's study I am starting this month.
It is chilly here today too, so I would rather just curl up with a blanket! Snow in the mountains too!
Have a great day!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

We are having out turkey dinner today. Yummmy! It's just the 4 of us though so thankfully I won't have to cook the bird all day long. I hope to make it to mass today, but Quinn and I seem to have caught Neil's cold.
Some things I am thankful for

~my family and their health
~our home
~my husband (yup he's family but I am doubly thankful for him)
~my wonderful friends
~God and his guidance!

What are you thankful for?

A Christmas gift all ready

We draw names on my Mom's side of the family at Christmas time. It's nice this way, I find. I still buy for my sister and parents, but with all the cousins and Aunts and Uncles...drawing names is easier.

So I am one to shop in advance, think in advance. I adore my Grandma, but will admit she's a bit hard to shop for. So as you can imagine this is who i got for Christmas this year. So I decided to stitch her something, and when I realized she didn't have a nativity scene....well it was an easy choice to make!

So this is Nativity Snowglobe by Bent Creek, all framed and ready now! My Dad is taking it down to her today for Christmas.

Brrrr risk of frost tonight!

Well my original plan today was to make chicken pot pies, apple pies, and corn chowder for the freezer. But now with the risk of frost looming in the air, plans have changed! I neeed to get the vegetable garden picked, cleaned out, top dressing added and turned over, then the fall rye planted. Then of course my darling husband wants me to dig the irrigation lines, ya know if I have time hahahahaha!
It's going to be a busy one for me! Hope yours is good too!

I know I don't have alot of blog followers...

But today there will be alot of women following me, and me following them. It's the CIBC Run for the Cure today! This is my second year participating in the run, although I walk....but it's a great cause I feel. I was upset with myself on the amount I raised compared to last year, but every bit counts!
Hopefully we stay dry today! The wind is blowing so I am bundling up!
Had a great date night out with my hubby last night, we went to Ric's Grill for dinner, he had Filet Mignon, and I had a half rack of lamb....we never ever splurge like this on dinners out so it was a nice treat. After that we went for coffee and dessert at The Cactus Club, where we had their dessert trio, which they burnt....so they had to make it a second time....and we didn't even get charged for it!
All in all a great evening! Although Neil has woken up with a nasty head cold this morning!
Have a blessed day!