family visit

We have been very lucky to have family visiting the past couple weeks that we have net seen in almost 7 years. My Aunt Uncle and Nanny have rented a cottage just up the raod from us and on the weekend my other Uncle and his family came for the weekend. Those were the visitors we knew about. I was more then excited when my Mom called to say that Cousin and his friend had shown up to surprise everyone. I screamed, I cried and I jumped for joy.

Needless to say the boys had a few very late nights as we were all up visiting.

Here are a few pictures from the weekend. Hopefully it won't be another 7 years before we all can get together again.

My Cousin John

John's Friend Noel

Uncle Kerry and his family

Nanny and her children

I am missing pictures of my cousin Tammy and her husband Mark. They cam on sunday for a visit too.

Still Here

Wow, I can't believe it has been so long since I last posted. I have been pretty busy with the boys on summer break. The past couple days I have finally been able to get back to my hobbies a bit. I have been playing with my PSE program and some actions I have downloaded from a great site called CoffeeShop. I still have loads to learn but I need to print out some instuctions for some of the actions. Here are a few I did.

Color Select

Color pop

New Scraproom

Finally after years of scrapping I have my own room to set up and organize. It has a wall of shelves with a spot to put my desk. There isn't much for lighting so I have to make do with a couple small lights for now but will eventually find a permanent fixture for in here. My new room is even big enough to have my sewing machine out and still have a desk to put my laptop on. I have not done much in the way of creating in here yet but things are ALMOST done with the unpacking and reorganizing and I am getting the itch to take a day off and scrap. Here are a few pictures, sorry they aren't great but I am still learning how to take pictures in the new ALL WOOD house. This room also has a lot of doors leading into it so that is making it tricky too.

I plan on replacing the photo boxes soso they match and I want to find a better way to store my patterned paper. I am getting a magazine table to put the printer on from Canadian Tire.

I have a narrow shelf to put above the back of the desk to raise these colorful bottles onto. I just need to get Kevin to put the shelves up. One will have to be cut and I thinking of painting them. That will get these off my work space but still have them easy to reach.

I moved my IKEA curtain wire from the old house and now have it directly above my desk. Keeping things in site and more likely to be used too.

Christmas in June

Wow, it has been a long time since I have updated this blog. We are finally all moved in. I gave a little teaser about a gift my parents gave us after moving in here and now I can post a couple pictures of an amazing gift that I can't figure out exactly WHO it was meant for. Kevin to actually cut the grass or Gavin who is a COMPLETE John Deere fan.

Getting There

Slowly but surely we are getting all moved in. I have so much to say and pictures to post but it is going to have to wait. If I sit and get started on that I will end up sitting here for 3-4 hours and that is time I need for unpacking.

I will post our "Christmas in June" picture soon.

Green Monster

It seems we picked up a green monster while shopping the other day. I was told he wouldn't stick around long so I made sure to get a picture of him while he was still here. Though he may look vicious, he was actually quite tame and lovable. I hope he comes back to visit again some day.

Wow, busy, busy, busy here

It has been quite a while since my last check in. Things have been crazy around here with packing, family reunions, birthdays and family outings. Owen had his 7th birthday and he was spoiled rotten. We took him to the drive-in to see Night at the Museum 2 and Wolverine, Mom took us to see the movie UP, he got a new "HUMMER" bike from his parents(aren't we good!!) and his brother gave him a Sonic game for the WII.

It took a bit to get him riding his bike this year. Kevin and I couldn't even get him to do more then sit on his new bike. Luckily he has a very charming and persuasive Papa who got him moving while Kevin and I made dinner.