No I am not Nesting ; )

I have been going crazy cleaning and organizing my house this week. I took down all the christmas stuff.
So along with that I decided to declutter and rearrange.
I just did the kids rooms today.
James has his LARGE geotrax room set up. I have drawn the train on the wall above it. After nap today I am going to get it painted. I will take a pic when it is done.

Ariannas room is little people world crossed with princess. She has 6 sets in her room LOL including 2 castles. I got her some storage bins and cleaned it up a little. Once day I would like to get her a captains bed so she can have a table underneath it for toys. But for now this will do. I may just get a simple drawing on her wall and paint it. Her large mural is half way done on the board downstairs. there is no way I will get it done for a very long time. And I want her to have something better then just the princess peel n stick decal things. (good ol dollarama)

My house is so clean it looks kinda bare LOL
We need to decorate better and get some nice art. Have to keep my eyes open.

I am on day 2 of my "diet" ya ya, new years resolution. Mostly I need to up my intake of water. I am terrible at drinking it.
So I bought one of those 8 glass jugs from walmart (2.2 litres) and am going to get it done daily. I am peeing ALL day. I hate that part.
I think drinking just the water will help!
I also increased my bran/fiber.
No bad foods so far.
It was hard letting the kids eat McD's while I had an all bran bar! haha
I have many reasons to want to lose they last pounds. I want to be a hot mama in my bridesmaids dress sept. 1.
Vegas in July.

I know being is school will be GREAT. I can take my water with me. And cant be tempted to snack.

Anyways, I hope I can stay on track.

I love my new Kitchenaid! I have made banana bread once and brownies. I have bananas ready to go today again. Brandons loves it, and now that its so easy to do...how can I not?

It is almost holiday time for brandon! He wil be off for close to 3 weeks. It will be nice. Hopefully he is able to handle all the relaxing!

Well I better get to the bathrooms while James is napping and Arianna is having quiet time in her room.
Pat is coming for dinner. Yummy BBQ chicken with Tony Roma BBQ sauce. cant wait!

Andrea

Potty Training

James has a fear of the toilet. And we do not have a potty.
Arianna didnt like the potty. She would only go using a potty seat on the toilet, so we have 2 of those!
James has yet to go pee. He gets scared and says he is all done!

SOOOo I ordered this for him today. It will be here in a couple weeks and then we will get started. I am hoping to have him on his way (if not done) by the end of Feb. It would be one less this to worry about while in school.

I think he will like this! lol
And it will get good use...future kiddies.
Wish us luck.

Happy New Year!

All the best in 2007 !
We had a nice new years. Stayed home and had a friend and her boyfriend over. We ordered pizza and played Cranium. It was sooo much fun!
Highlights were: brandon doing a sylvester stallone impression, the guys doing tai chi, simons lack of animal drawing (couldnt even draw a bunny!). melissa acting out an escalator, and me humming whats love got to do with it.

I love this game and cant wait to play again!!! I have some pictures...LOL will post those when I get a chance!!!
Of course I am oh so tired today.

We are heading over to my parents for the day. Mike is leaving to go back home to calgary tonight. boo hoo. It was so nice to have him here. the kids love him!
we will all miss him. I hope he moves back home again soon.

I hope you all had a wonderful new years!
Talk to you soon
Andrea

Christmas Pics

Back to normal!

If has been busy since Christmas!
I am glad it is over. Part of me even wants to take down the tree and all the decorations. I am in a cleaning and organzing mode!
I got rid of one garbage bag of toys to donate and packed another one away for storage.

I think I am in the mode because of the amount of stuff we got for christmas!!! ACK!
I have not even opened most of the kids new toys. they got spoiled.
This has to be the last year for it!!! Soon enough Arianna will start to expect so much.
We are very thankful for what we got. The kids got great toys that will help keep the occupied when I need to study.
It is nice to replace the babyish toys with toys they can use there imaginations with.

We had a great Christmas at my parents. Had some people over Christmas eve. Lots of food and drinks! Stayed up til 2 am as the adults opened their presents.
The kids got up around 8 am to open theres.
they LOVED it. I think they liked the opening part more then seeing what was inside. hehe.
It was great to have everyone there.
I will not even try to list what they got. I dont want people to really know how spoiled they got LOL.

The kids are still sick a bit with colds as am I. Just seems to keep hanging on.
Brandon avoided it all...lucky him!

Today when I went to costco to exchange some things (smaller sizes :) ) James threw up in the store! ICK. It wasnt much but I have NO idea why he did....I hope it passes and was a one time thing.

Overall I think I did ok with the holiday eating...didnt gain any pounds hehe.
I am back on my healthy eating. Just need to get to the gym.
I didnt get to today, due to the puking.
But I think I am burning some calories with the crazy cleaning!

I want to mention how spoiled I got from Brandon. It was super nice of him. Besides my CC, he got my the super duper kitchenaid HD professional mixer in black (already nicely displayed on my counter..you can see it here http://www.lnt.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1917054&cp=1331607.1331947.1969028&parentPage=family

AND a diamond tennis bracelet!! It is super nice...looks like x's 0's
I got a bunch of stuff from my secret santa (which was my mom)
It was a great Christmas.

Now on to the new year. Which is making me more nervous about starting school!!!!
I need to start looking for a dayhome for the kids. I saw a couple of signs around the neighbourhood. I will have to give them a call and see what they have open. I also want to give the kids a trial day. so make sure they will like it.

I will upload the pictures now.
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.
Andrea

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas!
We are of to my parents for a few days.

sniff

I have been battling a sinus cold now for a few days.
It seems to be getting better, hopefully by tomorrow night I will have my appetite back.
I had one sleepless night from a sinus headache....ugh.

I finished the last of my stocking stuffers. All presents are wrapped. So I am good to go!
We will be staying at my parents place christmas eve and christmas night.
Christmas eve we have all the family over and a couple close friends. Lots of yummy appetizers. Adults will open presents late that night.
In the morning the kiddies get their turn. We will have a couple spoiled kids by the end of it I am sure. My mom likes to shop :)

Christmas day we will have the big turkey dinner. I am cooking it this year.
I am looking forward to tomorrow!

Today I have my Almond Roca bars to make and my turtle temptations fudge.
The kids made iced sugar cookies yesterday with uncle natchy(mikey). Natchy is what they called him when they couldnt say mikey...and it just stuck.

I will upload pictures of the camera, so I have room for christmas. Should get a chance to post them later.

I want to wish you all a very merry christmas and a healthy, happy new year.
I really hope we can see some of you distance relatives soon. Or feel free to come visit here ok!!! We miss you!

I hope Santa is good to you all!
All my love

Andrea

So we have a carbon monoxide detector downstairs by the furnace that we got installed with the alarm..so it is monitored.
Yesterday Brandon was downstairs with the kids and decided to check it out.He saw a button on it the said "test" he figured it was similar to a smoke detector where you can test it to see if the battery still works...so he presses it.it sets of the alarm.I am upstairs so I immediately turn the alarm off.
The alarm company calls a couple mins later and asks if we are ok.Brandon tells them yes..he was just testing LOL
So they tell him they automatically dispatch the fire department! LOL They said they would call and cancel that....So I am upstairs about 10 mins later in my bathroom and I think I hear a large truck outside...I look out the window and its a firetruck!!!
they come to the door, tanks on and everything!Brandon tells them what happened, and they said they knew it was called of, but came anyways to really make sure all was ok.
It was so funny.
brandon was so embarrassed.
Brandon told me they probably still came to see if it was a "desperate housewife" in trouble hehe
Did I mention they were young and hot?
I said oh darn you just had to be here Brandon. If you werent I could have told them I wasnt feeling well and needed oxygen LOL....or better yet
Mouth to mouth....hahahahah
It was priceless.

Sore throat

ACK Just in time for christmas.
Of course!
I had felt a cold coming on a few days ago, so I started fighting it. Just when I felt fine, it brews over night!!!!
I hope it is short lived I dont want to be sick for christmas...or worse have the kids be!

James had his last swimming lesson of the session. He got a little report card. It was great.
When he is 2.5 and a bit taller, he can go in the 3-5 class. he is a great swimmer.
Arianna has her last class on sunday. I am not sure if she will pass. She has a short attention span sometimes. AND this was her first by herself class. She made need another round. She still is a good swimmer.

Brandon has the day off today! yay!
Not sure what we will do since I feel crappy.
He gave me the best christmas present yesterday. Lets just say it involves my credit card (used for business mostly)
I was stressed about it, going back to school and all. Now I feel awesome thanks to him. The slate is clean ;) I have never been more happy with things!!!
He can take back all my other presents! ;) lol....It was the nicest thing he has done for me in awhile.

I think the tea kettle has finised boiling. time to go scald my throat! Have a good day!

(oh yes I have made this blog semi-private. It is NOT listed in the blog listings. So no more strangers...I didnt make it fully private as I know some of you dont have accounts. So less worry )