Plenty of rain, but low on water?

That apparently is the case, strange isn't it. With the recent storms, our water supply has become dirty (thats the easy explanation). So the Greater Vancouver area (us) is on a boil water advisory. I am glad I got Ken to buy some bottled water last night, because by today, the shelves were bare. No coffee place could really sell unless their water was bottled or boiled first. Wow. Tim Hortons was closed today, wacky. Its getting better slowly the news reports were saying tonight. We could be better by the weekend, so here is hoping that is the case. I don't need to get sick, Ken is already.... again. Sigh.

Well, today was the shopping trip to Walmart. Its kinda a big deal since we have to drive a distance to get to one. The rain was still pounding, which never makes these trips as fun, but nothing was getting in my way of a good time. Ariel liked the store and I found some cute stocking stuffers and little gifts for the last people on my lists. Even got a birthday gift for the princess, yes I have several months but a deal is a deal.

So one of the neat finds today was a really cute casual christmas dress for Ariel. Its got the white fake fur trim with matching hat too! Also got some cute seasonal bibs. Whee. Speaking of bibs, I also got a huge pile of extra everyday bibs. My girl has the drool tap on full blast these days. Ick.

Came home and since I had a bottle of breastmilk thawed for the trip (in case she got hungry during the car ride) I gave it to her so not to waste it. Ariel then surprised me by grabbing hold of it. She needed help to tip it up a bit to get more milk, but she was in control pretty much. What a girl! Stella happened to be there and grabbed the top pic as proof.

Tonight, I got a lot of sewing done. I pretty much have all our christmas pjs done, they just need finishing on sleeves etc. They turned out to be really easy patterns, which is always nice. I also got Ariel's stocking underway. I need to get some trim to add along the edge before I unveil it, but here is a pic of the final cross stitch before it becomes a stocking.

Ken and Ariel are both sleeping... kinda nice to have a bit of time to myself. But I grow sleepy too, so it won't be long I am afraid. Its been an interesting week of rain, a water shortage and OJ Simpson's book "If I Did It"... I don't even know where to start on that one. Its just a sad story all around, and it really makes me sick to think about. It does have me flash back to social studies class, listening to the verdict on the radio and being stunned that he got off. Well, 11 years later and I still am stunned. Sigh.

Hope everyone has a good weekend...
-Ariel and I will be busy with some more bazaars tomorrow, whee
-Bob and Robyn are busy with their 3rd baby girl, Zoe Grace, born on the 14th(congrats again guys!)
-Dianne and Chris are planning next years Christmas decor on their new home (congrats to you too!)
-numerous other people are doing exciting stuff I am sure (congrats to you all, heh)
-finally, the TomKat gets married this weekend... um... is everyone else tired of this yet? After this weekend will start no doubt the 'is the marriage over' reports or 'is she pregnant again?' Which do you think it will be of these popular, annoying choices the media tends to stick to us.

Final touches

I was originally planning to go back to Stella's today to sew but Ken needed the car for work so I ended up changing my plans. Ariel and I had a lazy morning. While she napped I got the pj pants for Ken together, just need to do the elastic waist band, woot. Just as I was going to move to Ariel's pjs, she woke up so she ate and chatted with me. Then Ariel proceeded to barf down her clothes. Nice! When I had stripped her of the messy outfit, she suddenly got a case of the giggles. She couldn't stop laughing! It was so funny that I started laughing too. What a nutty girl.

We walked down to the safeway to drop off our shoebox donation project. I ened up picking up a nice soup and bread bowl for lunch, since it was such a cold day. Plus scored the new december issues of Parents and Martha Stewart, sweet! Ariel was pretty much asleep in the snuggly when we pasted the framing shop. The lady ran out to say my picture was complete. Yay.

I got it unwrapped at home and my excitement fell a bit. My cross stitch was way off center of the mats. Strange? Ugh. I was not happy but figured I would live with it, although I knew it would drive me nuts. As I went to hang it in Ariel's room, I noticed a thread or fuzzy thing stuck under the glass. That would TOTALLY drive me bonkers so I had to fix it, since there was now 2 things that weren't to my liking. I opened it up and re-centered it, I still can't get over how blind they were to how off it was. Geeze. Plus I removed the annoying fluffy under the glass. Compulsive, yes... and proud of it! So here hangs the final piece to my daughters room. I did the same one for Trudy's first son William 5 years ago. I can't believe he is 5 this week. Happy Birthday Will! Looks like we finalized our plans to meet up in Victoria over Christmas. Yay. Can't wait to finally meet Theron and Lucas. Lucky Ken always gets to see them on his trips out that way, boo!

Tomorrow is the shopping day with Nana and Stella, however, the word is the rain is coming back! Noooooooooooooooooo! Sigh, stay tuned for the outcome. Blah.

Blustery Day

Winnie the Pooh had it right, its pretty nasty outside today. Ariel is keeping warm and basically just hanging out with me as usual. We went to Stella's to sew our christmas pjs, hehe. We are gonna be sooooooooooooo cute! I got everything cut out and the shirt to Ken's set pretty much finished. Woot. I may try and do more tonight, but I am feeling a bit tired.

Ariel is sleeping at the moment, which is always nice at this time of night. She tends not to be in the best mood at the dinner hour these days. Ken is home, Bible study was called off tonight. It will be nice to spend some time with him, since he is so busy these days.

Not much else to say today, except I feel tired, but I already said that. So I guess thats it. Bye

3 months!

I think Ariel is in as much shock as am I. My baby is growing so fast, sniff.
As much as I miss how small she was, I love her new babbling and wide smiles.
Her eyes sparkle when she sees me, knowing I am her mommy.
All these new developments are so wonderful,
and I can't wait to see what is to come.
Happy 3 months old my little angel.

Just to reflect, here she is only a few hours old, and now look at her, hee. Wow!

Its raining today, so unless it stops, I don't think we will be going out today. Frankly, I think we both need a quiet day at home after all the excitement of the long weekend. Ariel got her 3 month old card today in the mail from Aunty Kara, awe! I read it to her, she loves to listen then tack on her own 2 cents. I think she said, "Yay, thank you Aunty Kara! I love my card, getting mail is fun!" You may wonder how I got all that from ooooooooooooohhhh..... errrERRRerrrrr.... aaaaaeeeehhhhhhhhh.... eeehh... eehhhh, I guess I speak baby. Hehe. Anyhoo,I think I will start wrapping some Christmas gifts that I got for people at the Circle Craft, whee.

No internet makes Jay go crazy!

Its one thing to say I will be too busy to post over the long weekend, however, its another to not have a choice in the matter. Needless to say sometime Friday night our internet started acting up yet again and by the morning was dead... or at least not working. I called the help line and got some poor kid who wasn't expecting some crazy woman to come down on him. No, I wasn't mean to him, but I was firm and asked for the supervisor mailbox so I could leave a message. I basically stated the issue, that its been going on since JUNE, and that I want a discount and my service back that I have received the past 5 years. Got a call this morning, didn't expect that with a holiday and all, but someone came and by noonish things were fixed and I have someone going to contact me about a discount, YAY. I guess its good to be fair but firm, sometimes I am too much of a softy.

Ok, sit in for one long blog, lots to say as I have missed far too much of resent happenings. First off, had Ken's family in this weekend. They arrived Thursday night after flying into Seattle and driving up. During the drive up, they missed a turn and ended up at the Silvercity Riverport. Oops. We had to go rescue them and ended up having dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory. Yum. Ariel slept.

Next day, met them for breakfast at the Town and Country Inn. As everyone got their food, mine was just being placed down for me and then SPLAT. It flipped off the plate onto the table, just missing my lap. The poor waitress looked mortified, and frankly landing on the table is better than my lap or the baby right? I smiled to help her chill and needless to say my breaky was free. Ariel wasn't sure about what happened, but as long as I stay calm, she tends to as well.
Had a salmon dinner at Dad and Rita's that night. The rain continued to fall that night, it was pretty gross.

Saturday was Rememberance Day. Took Ariel in the snuggly to watch the parade and ceremony in the Park. It was nice the rain stayed away long enough, as later it was back full force. Ariel slept, well, for most of it. She did like the bagpipes.

Later we drove down to Canada Place to go to the Circle Craft. It was soooooo busy, not like when I went last year with Katie and Beth. Maybe because it was a weeekend? But I seem to recall thats when we went last year too. Strange. Ariel Slept.

Sunday was church, and an awesome celtic song. Love that stuff, as if no one knew that already, hee. Had lunch at Nana's and then I made dinner later that night. We say goodbye to our guests. It was a nice weekend indeed.

Today was sooooooooooooo crazy but soooooooooooooo much fun! Today was the long awaited pedicure party! Jo and her sisters, Jamie and Julie, came to my place and we all got our toes done by Nav! Awesome as usual! I made a table full of goodies, here is the before and after pic of the food. Heheh.



Here is crazy Aunty Jo giving Ariel her first Latte! It was great to hang out with a bunch of girls after a house full of guys all weekend. Getting a chance to relax wasn't that bad either. What was so crazy was the fact the internet guy was coming and going all day fixing the problem with our service. Finally I can say its fixed I believe for the long run, they found the issue off somewhere, so it wasn't anything on our end. Plus, looks like my complaint is getting us a refund, WOOT!

Ken is home, Ariel is babbling and the internet is running, life is good!

Dang

Just got home from dinner with Ken's family and we drove past the London Drugs mall area and the dang Christmas lights are up.... good grief. I would find it a good argument to have my tree put up but we still have Remembrance Day and American Thanksgiving to go through. Just thought I'd mention that. Heh.