Top 5/Low 5

Well we are home now!! We had a great time on our trip. Everywhere we went we were treated so well. So thanks to all who housed us, fed us and made us GO BANANAS three times. Hee-hee.

Here are the Top 5 things about the vacation...now I know my husband is gonna get home, read this and come up with better stuff. So I reserve the right to re-blog later...

1. Meeting my two sweet first-cousins-once-removed-in-law. Those are two GORGEOUS little girls let me tell you and they have parents who are doing a super job. I can't wait to see more of them as they grow up!!!!
2. Seeing my kids having SOOOOOOOOOOO much fun with Auntie and Uncle!!!
3. Food - I have met my salad match. I had the BEST mango salad on this trip made by my little sister! She outdid me, I must confess in the salad department. I need the recipe by the way. And then the calamari and the greek salad were incredible too! And the Easter dinner we got treated to...really the food on this trip was great. Well except for Low point #4.
4. Experiencing the mountains again. We are tiny.
5. My new belt.

Here are the Low 5, you know the things that rather sucked...again I reserve the right to re-blog.

1. Having to leave...for real the second time.
2. How tragically dirty my winter white pants got on the way home. It was really awful. By the way, someone tell me if it is time to put away the winter white cords and pull out the summer white pants. (Someone who is in the know about these things please, Mark, you have no idea--don't answer).
3. Lugging around the luggage for 3 children and 2 adults for 10 days. Mr. Herniated Post-surgery couldn't lift anything over 25 pounds. So the luggage was out for him.
4. The "chicken parmesan" sandwich that SOMEONE microwaved and ate from a truck stop. Even though SOMEONE's wife told him it would make him ill. It made him ill. Nasty, nasty little sandwich that one.
5. The headache-flu. Man it's a bad one.


AND, AND, AND...let me also take the time to say that although his birth is a high point on my list the last week, the fact that I wasn't there was a low point. So let me officially welcome my NEWEST cousin once removed into our world. He is a beautiful baby boy and his Mama (my cousin) is sooo proud of him. I can't wait to meet you little man!!!!!

Excitement in the van.

We needed a little excitement on the way home due to the cries and moans of "I miss Uncle and Auntie" and "This show is more fun with Auntie" and "Un-cle", you see? So we got our excitement in the form of not one, not two, not even three but FIVE black bears outside of Jasper. It was incredible really. The first two were these, a mother and a cub.


The cub was ADORABLE! He put on quite a show by jumping into the creek and climbing a tree. You can sure see why people get in trouble around bears! They look so cuddly.

Then a few minutes later we saw another one on the side of the road. And awhile after that there was one RIGHT outside the van (if you look close you can see the black on the side of the picture, that is the passenger side mirror). I could have actually reached out and TOUCHED this guy at first. And none of them were at ALL frightened by us, which is kinda sad b/c they should have a healthy fear, no?

Going, Going, GONE!

So we decided to take a little trip to see my dearest little sister and her hubby in BC! And apparently from there we are headed to Oregon (or OOOOO-Oak-la-hom-ah) to visit a cattle feed farm. Doesn't that just sound like a facinating adventure???

The BC part will be great. And I just KNOW that I am gonna have the BEST coffee twice daily from some sort of great mug. The kind of mug you can put your whole hand into the handle, not a teamug where you have to have your pinky finger sticking way up! But I digress...

So I am now in the cleaning and packing adventure. IS it just me or does everyone change the sheets and clean the house so that you come home to tidy????

And we'll stop in Jasper on the way through and I get to have the BEST Greek salad and calamari!!!! Mmmmmmm.....

Okay, better get back atter.

Kid Room -- Volume Three

And finally, the butterfly/flower room of my eldest!

Pretend there are blinds on the windows, mkay? And there are actually a whole bunch of butteflies flying from the roof of her bed too. That's not so much in the picture...

Kid Rooms - Volume Two

This is the boy room (obviously) done in red/white/grey (obviously).


The pictures on the wall are black and white shots of my dad's rig when he used to work construction.

Kids Rooms - Volume One

So I am almost done with the kids rooms. They still need things like closet doors and appropriate window coverings. There have been many people asking me to send pictures but this seems a whole lot easier! So without further ado, here is kid room number one...


Obviously, a Tinkerbell/Star theme room done in mauve, green and white.