Snow, snow and more snow!

Man, did we get another dumping of snow! It started early yesterday and went all night and most of today as well. Not sure the exact measurements.....but it is alot. I don't mind it though.....I miss the huge snowfalls from back home in Sask. I especially love the way it makes the Christmas lights look....all soft and they have a warmer glow. I took some pics of the neighbors lights this morning and I am hoping to take a drive tomorrow night and get some more pics. It did get windy and blew around some today but not too bad. I think the snow will be around for quite a while this time around...we still have some from the last dumping before Christmas :)

Merry Christmas!

Man, did we get spoiled this year! Especially me :) My absolute favorite gift this year was my family ring....YES! It is gorgeous! The stones are (from left to right) Randi-Sapphire; Courtney-Aquamarine; Eric-Tanzanite(blue topaz); and Patrick-Sapphire.




I also got some awesome scrapbooking goodies and some clothes (sweater, jeans, pj's). Kip also gave me a pink and white John Deere t-shirt and a pink John Deere hoodie (he hid my ring in the pouch of the hoodie! ) He gave me a portable stereo for my scraproom too so now I have tunes in there ;) Of course there was the usual stocking stuffer items and some angel tree ornaments.

I bought Kip the electronic football game that he has been talking about for the last 14 years! We were looking through the Sears Wish Book and he saw it and got all excited. The funny part is that I have seen the game in the Wish Book a few times and I didn't know that was THE GAME....LOL. Man is it noisy! It vibrates and is made of tin so you can figure it out from there.

They also got the usual video games and accessories and DVD's. Kip also bought them a huge John Deere remote control tractor. Unfortunately we have had too much snow for them to take it outside and it is too big to use in the house. The boys also got a road hockey net and equipment so they were outside for about an hour playing on Christmas Day while I had a nap (nasty migrane hit just after lunch...ouch).

Santa also left some presents in Courtney's stocking so I will have to send them off to her...maybe he thought we were bringing her home for Christmas....I wish :( That would have been the ultimate gift for us. Oh well....she will be here next year!!

I will upload pics when I get my film developed...I didn't take any digital pics this year.

"Our" new car

My van is in desperate need of some TLC from a mechanic and Kip decided that it was time to get a different vehicle b/c he says the van is too big for us now anyway. So, we went out looking on Dec.16th before I went to work. We took a few vehicles for a test drive. I tried a couple of Montana's and even though they were vans, they didn't have much cargo space so they were ruled out rather quickly...and Kip doesn't want another van. We also tried a 2003 Sunfire and a 2000 Alero. Although I liked the look and handling of the Sunfire...it won't seat 5 passengers comfortably for a 14hr ride home to Saskatchewan. We took the Alero home for a couple of days and drove it out to Winfield to see how it handled on the highway. Kip decided that was the car we were getting although it wasn't my first choice. I think my biggest problem was going from a van to a small car....lol. Anyway, he drove the Alero for a few days and then decided that he wanted to drive his little "purple rocket" again (2000 Cirrus). So, now I have the "new" car and I am getting used to driving it. I handles really good in the snow so that is a bonus. It takes longer than I would like to adjust the power seating (I only have to adjust back and forth when I am using it but if Kip drives it then I have to adjust the height as well). I will miss my 6-disc changer but it has a single CD player so at least I still have my tunes. This is a pic although it really needs a wash....I call her "Rusty" but Kip doesn't like that....lol.

Eric's birthday

I'm a little behind with pics and updates but here we go!

Eric's birthday was Dec. 15th but we had his cake and family party on the 14th (I had to work the evening of the 15th). He got some cool presents and he loved his cake! He will have his big party with friends in Jan once the holidays are over and things have settled down with us and his friends. He will have his party at Planet Laser like Patrick did. Here are some pics from the 14th: