Runaway

I think it was Sunday night, when Dad, Mallory and I decided to surprise Amber and show up at her doorstep Wednesday in Lethbridge.

Mallory found out her address, I found out if she had to work or not and asked my Gramma if she would keep the kids. The reason I did not take the kids is quite simple. It was a long drive and we were leaving Wednesday morning and coming back Thursday morning..so needless to say it was way too rushed of a trip to take the kids. You see, we found this out even more so when, what we thought was a 7-8 hour drive turned out to be a 9 1/2 hour drive. WOW!!!

Our butts, Our backs, Our eyes, Our arms..all sore from taking such a long trip...But you will hear no complaints, b/c the look on Amber's face when we opened her bedroom door made everything more than worth it!

Let me explain what happened. We should have been in Lethbridge about 7 pm (after leaving at about 9:45 AM), however...we thought our road said "detour" so we followed the detour...turns out it wasn't OUR road that detoured but one that connects to our road. So we took the scenic route and arrived in Lethbridge about 8 pm. I had map-quested her address and the directions took exactly to her house..no problems..well one problem, she wasn't home!!!

So we went and found a hotel room, called everyone and their dog trying to find out her friend's cell phone number and decided to go back to her house and check ( I had told her roomates to call me if she got home, but I wasn't sure they had long distance). Sure enough I saw her just going into her bedroom. we go up to the door and my cell rings (her roomates telling me she is home)..we had perfect timing. We walked into her room without knocking and yelled SURPRISE!!! I wish I would have had a camera b/c that moment was so precious. She was so excited to see us.

Here are some pics of all of us hanging out at the hotel room!
Amber, leaning against the wall while sitting on the bed (shortly before she almost fell through--not realizing that the bed was a quite a distance away from the wall! haha)

Dad, Amber and Mallory

Amber and I. I don't think that smile left her face the whole evening. We were so happy to have made her so happy.

Fall

Today was a not bad day, so after Jared and I went out on the quad to shoot some chickens we took some pics..more to come!

Dom, Bella and Paige. Both Dom and Paige wearing cute new outfits for the fall (not matching though). Paige's osk-kosh sweatsuit is my fave!! and all the Jeans they got are sSOO cute!

The four of us, not the greatest pic..but WOW look at the height difference between Jared and I! Note Dominic trying to tear Jared's eyes out haha! He was on my shoulders first but Paige wanted me, so we switched and Dom was scared...I would be too if I was that high up!

My little man..growing up so fast! He is the cutest boy ever! Between his beautiful blue eyes and his unruly hair--he will be a heartbreaker!

and then my little sweetheart! with her "pebbles hair-do" and her (if possible) even brighter blue eyes, she is my little sweetie!

Dominic got pre-occupied with a ladybug, but it turned out to be a good photo op!

We are preparing for fall, and trying to approach the cold weather with smiles! Planning for our first ever halloween party! I have lots of stuff planned and look forward to it!

Fall is definetly here!

Fall has definetly arrived! I took this pic earlier this week, and it barely has any of those leaves still on it.

These two pics of the kids are kinda old but I have no new ones. We are however going up to Regina for the Rider game and staying at the Delta so I'm sure I will get lots of cute pics (Dom is coming to the game with us) Paige gets to stay and go swimming at the hotel with Auntie.

Dom, down at the old boat launch, trying to be like daddy..only wearing gitchies b/c Daddy doesn't think ahead as well as mommy (if your going to the beach you might want swimming attire! haha).

Paige-ster running around with a Mega-bloks truck! Also a pic from a couple weeks ago. She is such a funny girl, she makes vroom'ing noises when playing with trucks, and roaring noises when playing with the little lions from "Noah's Ark", and then throws dolls out of her way. Poor girl is gonna be the one, that mommy has dressed all up girly in a skirt and she'll be out driving the quad in it or something. haha.

We got our fall cleaning finished!! Well I guess I still have the toy room to go through again. I have removed 3 boxes of toys and am determined to remove more before Christmas comes!

On Sunday night, my good friend Marcy, spur of the moment, asked me to go to the Rihanna/Akon concert with her in Saskatoon. I had no plans so said yes! I keep telling myself that I really haven't been to any concerts (I don't count Craven and Countryfest), but I guess I did go to Minot and see Martina McBride when I was young, and actually Our Lady Peace in Winnipeg a few years back.. But anyways, I was excited to go! And we had a lot of fun! Sorry no pics. Marcy took a disposable camera though, so when she gets those back I'll post some pics, if they turn out.

While I went to Saskatoon on Wednesday, Jared ended up having the day off, so him and my sister went out quadding while the kids hung out at my gramma's farm. This is one of the pics Mallory took at a farm yard south of town. I love it!

We are back to Regina again next weekend for another Rider game! the games are starting to get cold to sit at, man have I ever emphasized how much I don't care for winter?

ouch

On Thursday evening I started cardio bootcamp.

Today would definetly be Sunday and my legs are still SO sore that I can hardly move them, Marisa says it's b/c I have chicken legs and need to make some muscle. lol I think she could right! My legs definetly are in shock right now. I hope they recover by Tuesday's class!

Season finale of Big Brother : TUESDAY!!!!!

Season Premiere of Survivor: THURSDAY!!!

SATURDAY: Rider game in Regina!!! (have I ever stated how much I love having season tickets!)

This week is going to ROCK!!!

and then NEXT week...even more shows start premiering!! I'm such a TV Junkie, I can't help it.

Not much new in our household. Paige still not completely walking, but getting more confident at taking steps. Dom is rowdier than ever with his pup, Bella (in fact he got a bleeding lip yesterday b/c Bella wrestled him to the ground --not to worry, he is OK!).

Jared is working just as much as ever..and me, well I finally finished the last Harry Potter book and now do not know what I'm going to do. Read kid stories again, I suppose.

What's everyone's plans for Thanksgiving? It's coming up quickly! We are staying at home, having a small gathering. It should be fun! I love big meals..preparing them and eating them and laying on the couch afterwards..oh it's all so great!!

I better go put my roast in now, or it won't be cooked by suppertime!

A glimpse

Well our wedding pics came back. And I am so happy. Now to just pick the ones I want copies of!

If you have facebook, you can take a look there I've put the majority of them on there!

Looking at these pic's just makes me want to cry. I can't believe how fast the day went by. I look at the pic's and think..we should still be planning for the wedding, but no it's came and gone already!

It was the happiest day of my life. I find pictures just don't capture how exciting, beautiful and radiant everything about the day is. We had so much fun and just had a great time celebrating with everyone.

One month into married life, you may ask (as many others have) "so how's married life"? And my reply to this is so: It's just the same as before, except now we all have the same last name (Dominic had my last name). It's great, it's wonderful and I am so pleased and honored to call myself Jared's wife.

But if anyone has any tips on how to get a man to pick up after himself...please pass this info on to me!! (tee hee).

Brrr

Well we started this week off with Dominic going to playschool, which I may say he absolutely LOVED! He had such a good time, and is very excited to go back again on Monday.

I also went and picked my dad up from the airport in Minot and got some shopping done for the kids. I got Paige's halloween costume too! Can't tell you what it is, you'll just have to wait and see! My dad's plane was an hour late, so it was oh so fun hanging in the airport. Any of you that have been to Minot Airport know what I mean..b/c it is NOT very big and there is nothing to do or see.

This month is finally a little slower but not for longer...for I have TWO football games to go to (Sept 22nd and Sept 29th). So two weekends in a row. Then October is here, which means Thanksgiving the first weekend, and then we are off to Dauphin the second weekend, for Jared's parents anniversary.

Speaking of football, I wonder if the Riders are going to make it to the grey cup. It is in Toronto this year, and I so want to be there for it if they are!! I've never been to Toronto.

I can't believe how fast winter is approaching...before we know it, it's going to be Christmas time..and I haven't even thought about gifts or gift exchanges yet! I have put some thought into going down to Minot this year. I think that would be fun. I guess we'll see what's going on , on my Dad's side of the family because it doesn't sound like my mom's side is going to be doing anything.

In other exciting news, Marisa and I have started this bootcamp thing. So twice a week we go to Alameda and work out. I think it should be fun, and gets us out of the house doing something constructive. But I really need to get to curves still, I've been very very bad with that ever since the wedding.

ALSO I don't think that I've blogged that Paige took her first steps at the beginning of the week!! Seven steps she took right to me as I was sitting in the chair in the living room. Since then she will take a few steps, but still isn't completely walking. I know she is 15 months, but she is so petite that I just can't believe she is growing up so fast!!

We were also recently plagued with a Trojan horse virus on our computer. We still aren't sure exactly where it came from, but it was a "backdoor " trojan (meaning that it works behind the scenes). Anyways Norton Antivirus couldn't delete it, kept saying "access denied to this file" and so on. Finally we got a program that deleted it. I was always like oh I won't get any viruses I have antivirus, but we did. So here's a warning to all of you that may think the same way!

And in a tiny side note (because I don't like talking about it), the Riders lost on Sunday to Winnipeg. No need to say the score...just know it was BAD!!! That's ok, we're still #1 in the CFL and we'll bounce back!

I have to apologize for the pictures. They aren't the greatest quality, as Jared has my camera in his truck (he always seems to steal it and never bring it back inside. These are taken as still images on the camcorder, so not the best.

My brother, Lance, Me and the kids watching the Rider game on Sunday

Dominic ready to head out the door on his first day of play school!

Did I mention that today is really really unbearably cold??? BBRRRRR!! Winter is coming! Last night I dreamed we had snow already!! We still have to have a year end barbeque!!

Til next time, my fellow bloggers!

Eight

8 THINGS

Jayden tagged me into doing this..so here goes:

Here are eight things you DONT know about me:

1)I don't mean to copy you Jayden, but I too am a VERY addictive person. I am addicted to facebook, internet in general, I tend to be the "ok just one more" girl when out for a drink.

2)As much as I am a city girl (I hate bugs, bees, wasps, etc and LOVE shopping and eating at NICE restaurants) I am very much a farm girl too. I can't wait til we own a farm, and I can have a huge garden, do lots of landscaping, mow lots of grass and be able to enjoy the outdoors (minus the bugs,bees and wasps).

3)I am deathly afraid of heights. Here are some examples...if you go into some provincial parks (for us it was the national park in Manitoba), they have these towers you can go up, and they overlook all the trees. Well I did make it to the top, very uneasily. I could only stay up there a couple of minutes and was almost hyperventelating I was so scared and on the way down my legs were so shaky I thought I was going to fall off. Another example, when I was younger I went to Buffalo Days in Regina and they had the drop of doom and really it's not THAT big of a drop..but on the drop my butt left the seat , I seriously thought I was going to die, I couldn't breathe and even though others went back on the ride...I vowed never to do it again! haha.

4)I hate winter. Absolutely HATE it. I hate having to bundle up, and now bundle the kids up too, just to go downtown quickly. I do like going ski-doo'ing, but how often does that happen? not very. I get so down in the winter b/c it's so hard to do anything!! plus I HATE winter driving.

5)I LOVE football, mostly just the cfl, and more specifically mostly just the Riders. But it is the one sport that can be on tv and no matter who's playing I can get into it (if I want to, haha)

6)I am becoming more and more like my mom. And by that I mean..I'm starting to become a neat freak. I don't think my house will ever be as tidy as my mom's...but it definetly bugs me when my house is a mess. So with 2 kids and a husband (that is exhausted by the time he gets home from a 14 hour shift), I am definetly finding it hard to keep my house tidy.

7)I love to swim. not just swim...like laps I love swimming laps. I haven't done it in SSOOO long and I so miss it. I wish I would've got into competitive swimming when I was younger..oh well

8)I played with barbies until I was about 14 years old. hahahaha, what ??!!! they were fun!!

I tag Erika.

Muffy Family

Well we've been kept pretty busy the past week. We finally got our empty boxes from the wedding gifts taken out to the dump (too bad the dog had already chewed most of them up!!). Still didn't get our garage organized, but we did enjoy the weekend!

We spent friday night around the fire in the backyard. And didn't do a whole lot Saturday.

Sunday Jared and I were off to the Rider game bright and early (9 am). Then we didn't make it back home until almost 9 that night. We were there nice and early and got to check out the Rider store..which I am now a BIG fan of!! Stuff is so cheap!!!

Monday we had the Logue's over for a nice chicken supper and went out to their farm afterwards. Where we shot some guns..but mostly the guys did that, and Marisa and I played Bocce ball (which is now a new fave of mine).

I am super lazy today and not wanting to blog, plus my kids are done their baths and ready for bed so I should jet for now!

Busy this week with Oilwives meeting tomorrow night and then playschool meeting the next night! Playschool starts on the 10th (that's MONDAY!!!!!!) What??? my little baby boy is growing up!!