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Don't forget to enter your guess of how many lattes you think I'll drink this year!  Leave a comment here  before January 31st to enter.  Closest guess wins a coffee themed gift!  I'm keeping a running tally in the sidebar on the right, so take a look at my progress thus far, calculate, & enter!

Paper Lions

Here’s a fun little diddy by a band from PEI.  Hope you enjoy it!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!

Animal House

Every time we get the costume box out, Chancery wants to be the zebra. 

She gets really excited as she’s putting the costume on, & as soon as she’s ‘dressed’, she starts showing off her tail.

 

If she thinks someone might have missed the fact that she now has a tail, she says, “Look at my TAIL! … I have a TAIL!”

 

 

She’ll even show it off to Thanet, “I have a tail like YOU, Thanet!” But he doesn’t seem to be too impressed.

 

Not to be outdone, this guy likes to get in on the action too.  Alas, he has no tail.

Just Call Me “Grannie”

 
Asher was playing a game on his Leapster, & Asher kept ignoring Diego’s instructions.  I kept hearing, “Find the number seventy-seven!”

Diego: “Find the number seventy-seven!”

Diego: “Find the number seventy-seven!”

Finally I encouraged Asher, “Find the 77, Asher!”

To which he promptly replied, “That’s how old you are, right, Mummy?”

Seriously?  He thinks I’m seventy-seven?  I HOPE he was joking…

I Never Thought I’d See The Day…

Remember a few years ago when I told you I’d seen a woman walking down the side of the road with a tampon shoved in her nose?  Well, today as I was pulling out onto the main road, I noticed a couple on the sidewalk.  I probably would not have recognized that it was the same woman, except that she must have shared her penchant for feminine-products-placed-in-nasal-passages with her significant other, as HE was the one now sporting a tampax halfway up his nose!

 

I live in a strange city…

Con Artist

Chancery was in bed, & I had just finished putting Asher to bed, when I heard her say, “I want my pink blankie!”

 

I called back to her, “Your blankie is in your bed, right next to you.”

 

“No it’s not!” she replied.

 

I figured that maybe she had accidentally dropped it out of her bed, so I went in her room & turned on the light.  She was holding her blankie in her hand.

 

“Chancery,” I said, “You are HOLDING your blankie in your hand!”

 

“No I’m NOT!” she declared as she threw it onto the floor.  Then she followed it up with an immediate, “I need my pink blankie!”

 

She may LOOK innocent…

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 4.5 years

Chancery – 2 years

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Chancery: “Here we are again, Asher.”

 

Asher: “Another Sunday, another photo shoot.”

 

Chancery: “You know, every famous person has a few bad photos…”

 

Asher: “Does that mean that if we have a few bad photos, we’re famous?”

 

Chancery: “I think it does!”

Run & Tell That…

Antoine Dodson’s interview was funny enough, but now it’s been auto-tuned & made into a song…

(you can even make it your ringtone)
And you KNOW it’s a hit when there’s a Christmas version!

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Christmas Pics

Christmas cards have gone out, & as I was cleaning up my desk the other day, I saw a few of the pictures that didn’t make this year’s cut.  I thought I’d share them with my bloggy friends today…

 

 

This picture is the one that PChad picked, & ultimately went in the cards we sent out.  I was a bit surprised that this one ‘won’ since it was a bit unintentional.  The kids & I had gone for a walk with Travis & Katie, & once we got to the beach at the end of our walk, I just snapped a few pics & the kids thought it’d be funny to roll around in the sand a bit.

 

 

Don’t ask me why, but I rarely take an up & down photo.  This was a contender for awhile since both kids were looking at the camera, but it was taken out of the running due to the large post in the foreground.

 

 

This picture was the ‘ok, we need a picture for the Christmas cards’ picture.  We took it after camping with PChad’s parents in the Rockies this summer.  I think we ended up looking too far away…

 

 

This picture was my first pick, but didn’t make the cut since neither of the kids were looking.  It was taken after my parents had driven the kids & I to PChad’s parents’ house this summer, when we were reunited with PChad.

The Perfect Man -Review

A month or so ago, PChad & I attended a wedding & had 5 hours to kill b/w the ceremony & the reception.  Since we had a babysitter at our house, we couldn’t go back to pick up our books, so we headed to the local bookstore to buy a few magazines before we headed to Starbucks.  The only magazines that I could find that I was interested in were around the $11 mark, so I thought that I might as well look for a book, since I was sure I could find one for about the same price.

I’m a bargain shopper, & I always want to get the most for my money, so I looked for a good thick book, so I wouldn’t run out of things to read.  One of the things I look for when I’m in a hurry, is a book that is priced in British Pounds.  I figure that if the book is good enough to be imported, it has to be pretty good.  I found “The Perfect Man” by Sheila O’Flanagan, & it fit all the above criteria, so I bought it.

The main character of the book is a lawyer turned author, who wrote a book called “The Perfect Man”.  She ends up taking a job to be the keynote speaker on a Valentine’s cruise, & brings her sister along as her personal assistant.  Since she is the author of a romance book, everyone seems to think she is a total romantic, which couldn’t be further from the truth.  Both she & her sister have be unlucky in love.  The story begins as the sisters board the ship, & meet other guests, bringing more characters into the story.  As the story unfolds, we find that many of the characters have troubled pasts, leading them to be cautious about love & letting others get close to them.

Even though this is a romance novel, I was pleased to discover that the 1 or 2 brief love scenes were very tastefully done, & they did not detract from the rest of the story in any way.

This book has seen me through the 5 hour wedding wait, a flight to Alberta, 90 minutes of being abandoned in a ski lodge, a flight back to PEI, & all the moments between.  At 600 pages, I never had to worry about finishing the book, until last week.  At the end I really, really wanted to find out what happens, so I wanted to finish it, but I also wasn’t ready to be done the book, since it was such a good story, but finish it I did, & if the rest of Sheila O’Flanagan’s books are 1/2 as good, I think I may have found a new favourite author!

Sunday Pictures: Wedding Edition

I didn’t get a chance to post these last week, but I thought they were too good to not to share

 

Asher – 4.5 years

Chancery – 2 years

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Asher: “Auntie Amber is getting married today, Chancery.”

 

Chancery: “I know, and I am sooooo excited, because we get to have LOTS of pictures of us today!”

 

Asher: “Do you think we should practice our smiles then, Chancery?”

 

Chancery: “What a great idea, Asher!”

The Purpose of Christmas Trees

We spent the last 2 weeks in Alberta with PChad’s family celebrating Christmas & a wedding.  Since the wedding was at Grandma’s house, she didn’t set up a Christmas tree this year.  Asher was a bit put out when he realized there wasn’t a tree.  He was not shy about conveying his feelings to Grandma about it either…

 

“Grandma,” he said, “you need to have presents under a Christmas tree, so that you remember God’s gift that he gave to us!”

 

I know he was partly concerned that if there was no tree there’d be no presents, but at least he knew that present weren’t the main focus of Christmas!

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 4.5 years

Chancery – 2 years

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Chancery: “It’s been a long week of travelling, & I’m tired.”

 

Asher: “Hey, that’s a pretty good idea!  I’m going to have a rest too!”

 

Chancery: “Did you want me to read that book for you, Asher?”

 

Asher: “No thanks, Chancery, besides, you don’t even know how to read!”

 

Chancery: “I’m really good at faking it though!”

Titanic… Puget Sound Style

This is a brilliant spoof of Titanic, done with a definite Puget Sound flair.  If you’ve listened to any radio ads in the past ten years, & you’re from the Pacific NW, you’ll recognize at least one overplayed radio spot, not to mention a few movies!  It’s a rather long video, but I recommend that you watch at least the first 6 minutes.

 

TACOMA from Nathan Lee on Vimeo.

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

2010 Latte Winner Announced, & 2011 Contest!

After a year of latte enjoyment, the official count for 2010 is a mere 197!  I was shocked that it was so low, but I think my waistline thanks me for holding back a bit!  The winner was Mianna, with a guess of 243.  Most of the other guesses were around double what my actual consumption was.  So, I'll be sending a coffee themed prize to Mianna (just send me a private message with your mailing info) next week!

I'll be counting the number of lattes again this year (I've already had TWO!).  If you want to have a chance at winning the prize next year, just leave a comment on this post with your guess before the end of January!  You can watch the counter on the top right of my blog!