I miss my blog...

...but the house needed a good cleaning before the guests were to see it. Actually, they might not have cared since they are both guys, but you never know. Either way it was nice to give a good scrubbing to everything, so different with out some huge baby belly in the way. The only thing is, I may not have that belly, but I sure have the baby and she was not letting me from her sight. Ariel must be a bit clingy this week, usually I go around the house and she is happy in the play yard or bouncy chair, but I guess she knew I had a deadline and decided she wanted me all the time. Silly little monkey. She is sleeping on her blanket next to me as I type. Hehe, cutie. Here she is in her new 'blueberry' hat I got at the bazaar. Just wanted everyone to know she is not just a strawberry lover, hee.

So I managed to be the BIGGEST IDIOT today. Seriously, I can't believe what I did and I thank the Lord it turned out ok, instead of how I saw it in my mind. Ok, here is the set up. I have been so freaked out about leaving my car keys in my car when I get the stroller out. I am almost certain I have a compulsive disorder at time with the way I constantly check things. I freaked out when I couldn't find my keys when out with Stella one day, lucky me I forgot to check one pocket on my coat, idiot! This time I did check all pockets. I left my keys in my car door.... here I am out with Ariel in the village and my poor car is sitting with the keys in the door. Ugh. So I start bolting back, I am trying to hold it together and praying that my car is still in fact here. Ariel is sleeping through this all too, otherwise she might have seen her mom totally lose it. I turn the corner.... there sits my car....with the keys in the door, right where I left them. Sigh. I figure that since its been my fear and that I finally did it, that it won't happen again. Ken says its better it happened here than in Surrey or Vancouver, I wouldn't have been as lucky. Maybe no one wanted my cute volvo 'tank'? Well I do, I love you tank, sorry I was a nut.

Not sure when I will be back on here, with the family visiting and all. I will give a run down of events as soon as I can. I do want to take this time to tell my wonderful friend Dianne that she will be missed in these parts but that we all wish her and Chris well on their new adventures in the next province over. We will try and visit as much as we can. Remember, some bunny loves you both! Wishing you a safe journey, and take some Twinkies if you get hungry. See you soon my friend!

Haha

Don't have time to write much right now so I'll post this from this mornings'The View'... just when you think they are talking about the Democrats....heheh

From giving to good grief!

So its only Tuesday and so far its been an interesting day. I will cover crazy entertainment stuff in a moment, but first, today was Irene's surgery, so prayers going out to her and the family. Keep them all in your hearts in the next few days and that we hopefully hear some good news.

Secondly, today Ariel had her first experience of giving back. I took her to help me with our 2 giving projects of the coming holiday season. First we filled a shoe box with toys, school supplies and hygiene stuff for the annual Samaritan's purse project. I am sure you have all seen these boxes at safeway, but if you haven't, here is the scoop. You take a box, fill it with the items listed and it will be sent to a little boy or girl on the other side of the world. Its rather a fun ministry project I have been doing for years, but I was excited to get Ariel involved. Sure she is barley 3 months, but this picture is the first of many I will take as we do this every year. Ariel is so blessed with the wonderful gifts she gets from family and friends, and I want her to know how important it is to give back to others. We also went shopping for a gift for one of the kids of the single mom group from church. We spent a long time picking something really nice, because you never know if this may be one of the few gifts they get at all. I ended up asking some moms at the store what was big with 10 year olds this year, and it made my final decision so much easier. Tonight we wrap it up and it will be ready to drop off this weekend.

Ok, thats was my news, now lets turn to Hollywood for some weird stuff. First off, as if we didn't know it was gonna happen eventually... BRITNEY SPEARS FILES FOR DIVORCE... ok, who had November 7th, 2006 as your guess, you win. I'm sorry to see any marriage end, but this had disaster written all over it from the beginning. Sigh. Needless to say, I found the funniest comment on the tabloid shows saying it was a shocker... your kidding right?

Next is the strangest thing, and I have yet to come to a conclusion if this is a joke or not. This morning on the radio they were talking about Faith Hill's reaction to losing a CMA award last night to Carrie Underwood. They said to see it on 'You Tube' and I sprang out of bed to see it. Lol, yea I'm a total nut. Anyhoo, look for yourself, I posted the clip. Look at that reaction, she isn't happy. Now as of 5pm, she is saying oh it was a joke... um... kinda an odd joke if you ask me. Either way, I love Carrie Underwood, and frankly I have lost a bit of respect for Faith Hill, joke or not. She has gone and made a huge ass (of the donkey variety) of herself, and its her own fault. I guess this was the best time for blunder though, Britney sorta took the spotlight... or maybe she filed the papers today because Faith was the big story... either way, I'm glad I don't live in Hollywood.

What do you do when its raining cats and dogs?

We end up having dress up time with a photo shoot! Hehe. Here we see Ariel vs. the puffy red dress. She was actually having a ball with it because it made a crinkle noise when she moved. What a silly chicky. We ended up doing some poses for our American Thanksgiving greeting for the blog, but you will have to wait for the actual day to see the final version, but it turned out really cute.

Like my title said, its raining, big time! So much for doing the large list of things I had to do in the village today. I don't want to take Ariel out in this unless its totally necessary. Hoping tomorrow is a bit better and we can get out, but I won't hold my breath. We just might have to make the best of it since some things can't wait. Regardless, we are having a nice day inside, plus its almost tea time. Yay.

I also made a casserole for yesterday afternoon, so there is no rush tonight for dinner prep. Woot. I would have gotten some baking done today, but I forgot I was almost out of flour, oops. Better make a shopping list for the week.

Well, the princess is growing tired and should go down for a nap. Have a nice Monday, and here's hoping it isn't dumping rain where you are.

Bazaar time again!

Its official, only 50 days until Christmas!!! Yay. I am very excited as usual. What always marks in my books as the beginning of the countdown, is the Catholic Church's annual bazaar. This one was Ariel's first one, so it was extra special. We both got dressed up and went with Nana and Kitty. Of course it was totally pouring rain, like last year, but it was ok. Once your inside its all good. Saw lots of friends and was able to show off the princess, she didn't stay sleeping for long, she knows when she has an audience.

We hit the ornaments and knit stuff first. Got Ariel some more knit hats, even a blueberry one like her strawberry one. Hehe. Very cute.Ariel picked out a teddy bear ornament and I a cute elf like one I got a previous year, now that one has a friend. Found some new knit dishcloths and slippers. Since there were no pies this year, because of the fire all 300 were lost, they had an adopt a pie for $2 and low and behold I got a call later saying I won a gift basket prize from my adoption. Woot. On the way home I picked out a present for Ken's mom's birthday which is later this month. Need to get that in the mail this week.

We came home and chilled until dinner time. Ariel and I were invited to dinner at Aunty Fran's place so that Ariel could meet baby Abby. It was funny how they were watching each other. Abby is 2 weeks older than Ariel, but my little meatloaf is much larger than her. Hoping to get some pictures of them together later this weekend.

Came home again and my little angel is tuckered out. Ken is out at a faith and films group with Mike so we are on our own again. Tomorrow he is off again, this time to Seattle with Toby to see the 3D version of Nightmare before Christmas. Here's hoping the weather is good for them, unlike now as the rain is dumping again. I don't mind rain, its nice to snuggle down with my stitching, a cup of tea and my little girl. Life is good.

November... already?!

So the past few days have been somewhat of a blur. Halloween came and went, and we think Ariel enjoyed it. She went visiting to friends all over town, and we ended up getting invited in at several stops which did slow us down a bit and we missed seeing some people. It wasn't too cold and for once it didn't rain, so that made it that much more enjoyable. I was one of those kids that didn't like going out, and yet this seemed more fun with her. Funny how that is.

Halloween is a lot bigger than I remember. So many houses were decked out in pumpkins carved with such flare and creativity. Not to mention the decor in the yards. Wow. We got Ariel to pose with some of her church friends, it will be funny showing these to her when she is older. Here are some highlights:












Been busy the past day or so putting together a photo montage for a church friend. His father just passed away last week, and the funeral is tomorrow. Last night we got it all finished and then the stupid DVD burner was not working. ARGH! We tried several times with the same error coming up and finally just burnt a cd so we could transfer it to the laptop they were going to play it off of. He came this morning and thank heavens it worked perfectly. Needless to say the computer really needs a good overhaul, it is 5 years old and we really haven't had any problems until this year, except the drive crash of 2002. So we really have been really fortunate indeed.

Ariel is waking up and demanding to be fed. So bye for now!