Sunday, September 30, 2007

it's been a while...

I just haven't had the desire/time to update lately (sorry, Mom!). I've got a few things to share, first of all- I got an exciting email this morning!!! I've been submitting my scrapbook pages to different sites and magazines, etc for a few months now and I am finally going to get published! It is an online magazine called Ready, Set, Create! I sent in three layouts and and she loved them all and is going to use all three, possibly in two seperate issues. She also told me to send in some holiday work! I'm really excited and I just made this for my online galleries :)
I held a scrapbooking class at our house about two weeks ago and we had to keep the dog outside while everyone was here. Well, we have a creek behind our house and there are always critters coming into our yard. Our dog found one. A stinky one. She was sprayed by a skunk. I brought her in the house after the class, but I didn't notice it right away. While I cleaning up I started to smell it, but I didn't realise that it was coming from Desi! So, she stayed in her crate all night and in the morning I was a little sick so I couldn't smell. Perry came home and told me that the house stunk like a skunk, so we finally checked the dog and the back of her neck was sprayed. By the time we got a recipe to get rid of it (4c peroxide, 1/2c baking soda, couple drops dish washing det.) it was too late to do it, we didn't want her going to bed soaking wet. Even though I felt awful about it had to leave her outside for the night. The next morning we poured the stuff on her. Let it sit for 3 hrs, then rinsed it. She was so good about, but she was shivering like crazy. This is what she looked like after the peroxide was put on but before we rinsed it off:


This is what she normally looks like:

We also bought a hot tub last week! It's not installed yet, hopefully soon. I can't wait!!!

Thursday, September 13, 2007

first full day


Today Ethan goes to school for a full day with all the kids from his class. And he has to go tomorrow as well. He seems to love it so far, he's always excited to go. I will probably be taking Gavin to the drop-in daycare at the Y because I really need to finish painting the dining room, before the tape decides it wants to stick forever!
Gavin had a swimming lesson yesterday, he didn't want to listen to anything he was supposed to, except for jumping in and going under the water. Ethan has a lesson tonight.
On Monday, we started going to a play group. Most of the moms had babies and kind of stuck together. There were only a couple older kids. The boys seemed to enjoy it.
The weather has really cooled off, we are wearing housecoats right now!
I'm holding a scrapbooking class at our house this Monday night, so I'm prepping for that and trying to put kits together.
Perry is getting busy with the Walmart grand opening next week.
We are getting to together with some friends on the weekend to play some games. I'm really excited, I love playing games!
Not much else going on- I don't know if we could handle much else so that's a good thing!

Thursday, September 6, 2007

busy

What a busy week! We seem to have so much to do, and I am trying to paint the dining room on top of it. Ethan didn't tell us too much about his first day of school and did not let me get one good picture of him! He said some of the other kids had cookies and pudding for lunch. He got to play with the tools that he had seen and he used the bathroom. I think that was all he said! The teacher told me that he wanted to go outside, but it was too hot. He also told the teacher that he had a lot of fun. So, it seemed like a good day for him. Last night he had his first swimming lesson. He did really well, but we coud tell that he didn't trust the lifegaurds yet. He didn't want to go in without his life jacket. At the beginning of summer we had trouble getting him in a pool at all, so I guess it was pretty good that he'd go in with his life jacket on. He swam a few lengths, too! Gavin was a little terror for the whole thing, Perry had to leave the room with him.
Have a great weekend!

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

school!


I took Ethan to meet his teacher yesterday! He was so excited. We dropped Gavin off at the babysitters at 8:30 and then we went to the grocery store to pick up some juice boxes, then we went to Tim Horton's (a donut shop). He had some timbits (donut holes) and some chocolate milk. We only were at the school for about 10 min. He saw some tools that he really wanted to play with when we first walked in. At the end the teacher asked if he had any questions and all he said was, "can I play with those tools, now?"
Today is crazy! Perry usually has Wed. off, but because of the holiday had to work it. He got home at 9am and we left right away to go to Gavin's first swimming lesson. He is the oldest there and he has no fear so he is the most advanced. He is 2 1/2 yrs and most of the other kids are less than a year old, so he's not really in their 'category'. They don't have an in between lesson though. After Christmas, he'll be able to go into the next level and that should be more suited to him. Ethan starts lessons tomorrow. After swimming, we called Perry's friend Greame who invited us to go swimmming at his house. So we went over there for about an hour and a half. Then we were really rushed- we had to get Ethan home, fed and off to school in about 20 minutes! We made it just as the teacher was coming out to get the kids. I wish we would have been earlier, but that's the way it goes. We have to pick him up in about half an hour. I haven't gotten any good pictures yet, so hopefully we'll do that when we get him. When we get home, we are going to have an early supper and then he have to go get Ethan's speech checked. I'm not really worried about it now, but earlier this summer he was doing some wierd things with his words! They also asked us if we'd be willing to volunteer him for some trial testing of gross motor skills. Then bedtimes for the kiddies! And relaxing time for us!
This last picture is Ethan before going to meet his teacher, he was sooo excited!