On to another week!

Well, another week is over and a new one begins! We had a thoroughly busy weekend, with youth on Friday, Laser Quest on Saturday and church on Sunday! We can never say we are bored. There is always something to do or get done!
Tyler and I have been helping out at youth on Fridays for a while now. We really enjoy those Friday nights with the teen! You never know how old you are until you chase around a bunch of teenagers who have a lot more energy than you do! We took on organizing a fundraiser! It's a Valentine's Dinner and Entertainment night! If you want tickets let me know.... Ha ha! The youth will be helping prepare the meal and serve the meal, and they will be the entertainment too! I have had so much fun, so far, planning for it! I just have a few more small details to take care of ( or make sure someone will take care of) and I think I will be able to enjoy decorating and planning!
Tyler is "helping" too. Well to the best of his ability....

Our boys, aside from growing, are learning a bunch of new things! Ethan pretends to hide himself, by covering his eyes, when we say " where's Ethan?". He thinks it's quite humorous! Zacharie plays that game with him too! Zacharie has started to learn to write the letters of the alphabet! My Grandma Braun bought him a phonics learning book, and in it you have to trace the letters that spell a word. So he was doing that, tracing "b" then "u" then "g", and he said "BUG!" He then did it again with "d" then "o" then "g" and said "DOG!" Now let me make it clear... we weren't helping him, and there were no pictures on the page to indicate what the letters spell!!! He's so smart!!!

I will get going now. Lots to do, as always!

Happy New Year!

Well a year has come and gone.... So much has happened since the beginning of last year! Christmas 2008 was especially exciting for us! We did our own Christmas Dinner, which I thought would be horribly complicated, but it wasn't! Both our boys were so excited for Christmas, they wanted to open presents pretty much the whole month! Christmas Eve was very exciting. Zacharie sang "Away in a Manger" at the Christmas Eve service at our church. It was very funny! He was so excited to sing, and then when he got up there, he was very quiet, until everyone clapped for him and then he clapped and laughed!
The boys are growing so fast! Everyone says it's time for another one!! Well we have heard your request, but we are not expecting any new addition any time soon! So please stop asking!! ( Ha ha)
But like I said our boys are getting big! Zacharie is almost 4, and is 43" tall, and is 44.5lbs! Ethan is 1 1/2, and is 33" tall and weighs 33lbs!
Zacharie has impecible speech for his age, he always has a "new" big word! Lately his new big word has been "proclaimation"! And he uses it in context too!
Ethan has just started to talk. It's so funny with him, he understands perfectly if we tell him to do something, and he can talk, he refuses to! His newest words are "tickle, achoo, and thanks". We are trying to get him to talk more, especially saying "please".
Tyler and I are doing well. We are currently looking for a new "home". We are hoping to purchase something, but with the market being the way it is, and with zero down-payment gone, we may have to rent for another year. We are praying that we will find something affordable really soon, as the house we are in, has massive issues and we would like to be moved out before spring thaw....
Tyler is still at Winroc, hauling drywall. It's amazing that they are still fairly busy.

We are very excited for this weekend, as we are taking our boys out to Dallas Valley for the church's annual Family Fun Day. We go tobogganing, on sleigh rides, and just have a blast!
Well, I think I will go finish cleaning my house...

What has happened.....

Well we have certainly had a busy couple of weeks. I ended up in the hospital on Sunday night with a massive gall bladder attack. They ( being the doctors) decided to do emergency gall bladder surgery to remove my gall bladder before it became infected. So I had that on Monday. I had to stay in the hospital and requested to go home on Tuesday. They wanted me to stay one more day, but allowed me to go home. Which I went to Weyburn to see my grandparents and my Uncle Dale, from Seattle. I was put on a "rest schedule" which basically means no lifting, bending or regular activity... So needless to say I couldn't take care of my boys. They went to a friend of ours, who was nice enough to watch them during the day while Tyler was at work. So I had a boring week.
My Uncle Jake passed away on Tuesday afternoon, and the funeral was planned for Saturday. So we headed to Saskatoon for the funeral. Spent the weekend there, we stayed at a hotel so that Zacharie could waterslide... which is good... he loves it!
This weekend looks like it will be equally as busy, with Tyler's Uncle Cory getting married. We are very excited for them. So we will be off again on Friday to head to Calgary for a wedding! I love weddings!


This is one of the flowers in the bouquet that the AFX Youth gave me, to "get well". Beautiful!

TWINS!!!

Okay, so now that you think I'm pregnant, and expecting twins, YOU ARE WRONG!!!
But good heading, huh??
So these are a couple pictures that I have come across, the one in the pink is me. And the one is the blue is my oldest son, Zacharie.
Now to settle the dispute. Everyone is always telling me that Zacharie looks like Tyler (his daddy).
I am here to put it to rest and state, he looks like me.
And here's the proof!!
Don't we look alike???

Wednesday

Well, it's Wednesday, hump day. Mid-week.
Well our computer is not willing or capable of being fixed so it looks as though we will have to get a new one. I am so sick of having to shop to buy something that we kinda need.
I have been using our mini lap-top. It works fine, but I can't sync it with our printer to print anything. How frustrating!!
Nothing too much is new, just looking forward to Thanksgiving. I need to get some pictures of the boys and put them on here. Maybe something new and exciting will happen this week. Maybe we'll win the lottery!! But then we'd have to buy a ticket wouldn't we....

Fall.... crunching leaves, cold weather, warm fireplace.

Okay so I'm really bad at this.
So much has happened in the last few months. We lost our car in a car accident. Bought the van of our dreams. I went to Vegas in August for a vacation with my girlfriends. It was awesome, I spent the whole time shopping!! If you can't find it in Vegas, it doesn't exist!! LOL!!
I am actually looking forward to this fall. It is such a beautiful season. I love scarecrows and pumpkins, and halloween!! Zacharie is already talking about trick-or-treating. So I think the boys are going to be pirates. I am so excited. This year's christmas and thanksgiving and holidays, I love them all!!
So I have started to decorate the house with fall and thanksgiving things.... I even have a little turkey! It's a Partylite one too!! So cute!!
My plans for this fall are to enjoy my boys. They are so adorable!! Ethan even has a little stubborn attitude!! He is hilarious. And you add Zacharie and I laugh all the time!!!
I will attempt to make this more regular than it is. See ya next time!!

Ethan's First Birthday Party

Okay so Ethan is one now! We had his party this last Sunday. We invited lots of people, and had kids playing on the slip 'n slide and in our mini water park. Wow! Outdoors is a much better idea than inside!
Ethan doesn't like grass so he basically hung out on the deck. He enjoyed opening his presents and eating cake! He made such a mess....
The cake was made by my mom and me. It almost looked too good to cut up and eat!
I know Ethan won't remember his birthday, as most kids who are one don't... but I hope he really enjoyed it!

Our day at the mini-fair

So there was a fair at Vic Square Mall, and we decided to take Zacharie to it. We really didn't think that he would even go on one ride!! But he did. He went on the Merry-go-round first. When it started to speed up he wanted off!! My mom convinced him to "Look for Papa (my dad)", and so he did and then he started to really enjoy it.
The next ride was the mini roller-car. And he would have to go on by himself... but he did!! He pick the Spiderman car! Naturally Tyler was very pleased!
He went on a few more rides after that, including the motorcycles, boats and airplanes. After that my mom wanted to take him on the Ferris wheel. And he loved it!! We know he's not afraid of heights now!! It was a fun evening. Ethan enjoyed it too, just watching all the lights and rides. He was excited that he got to see where he was going in the stroller!
Then Zacharie saw that there was a fishing pond (with plastic motorized fish...) that you can fish and pick your prize! Well at first he walked up to the pond and just picked up one of the fish! He wanted to take it home. But they told him he'd have to fish with a fishing rod to get a prize! So he did. He caught a fish and as soon as he did it started fighting it! It was really cool. So he got to pick his prize and picked a big blow-up Nemo fish.

Feed the birds...

Well, I am not good at keeping up on this. But I figured I would tell you about my wonderful long weekend with the boys.
Well we wanted to go away this weekend, but really couldn't get out stuff together, so we decided to not hang out with any one and just have some genuine family time.
To start the weekend off, Tyler, amazingly, got off work some-what early!! It was awesome! We spent Friday night watching Toy Story with Zacharie, and he loved it!!
Saturday we spent lots of time out side, even though the wind wanted to challenge us, but we prevailed!! And ended the evening off with a fire pit, as the wind finally gave up!
Sunday was so relaxing! We lounged around!! Slept in ( yes, we didn't go to church.....) and then watched movies!!!
Today I took Tyler driving downtown, as he has his drivers appointment on May 30th!! ( pray that he passes!!) Then we went shopping a bit and as you can see in the picture, we took Zacharie to feed the geese at Wascana Park.
It was so funny, Zacharie kept shrieking!! But it didn't scare the geese!!!
It was lots of fun.

WOW!! It's been a while!

Well, we all thought spring was here until it snowed....
Anyway, so much has happened in the last few weeks. First of all I got promoted to Team leader with Partylite and earned the leader retreat this last weekend, where it snowed....lots!!
The boys had doctors appointments this last week. They are both healthy!! Zacharie weighs 44lbs!! Ethan weighs 24lbs!!! They are growing so fast. Zacharie had to have blood work done (as routine) and he did so good!!
When I was gone this weekend, they missed me, and that's good. Well for me it is. I decided that I am not going back to work and that I am going to contiue teaching piano, and doing Partylite. I want nothing more than to be with my boys, and Tyler makes enough that we can survive on, anything that I bring in is extra!! And because Partylite is going so well, I have decided that I would far rather do that than have someone dictate to me when I can or can not have a day or weekend off. I hope that my family will continue to support me.
I am looking forward to the next few weeks, they are a bit more relaxing than the past months have been. So if any one is up for coffee, I am readily available!!