Hey it’s 2008!
Monday, January 7th, 2008Happy New Year everyone! We had a very fun New Year’s Eve, we had our friends Stacey and Sheldon and their girls over for the night, stayed up till 4 am playing cards! Stacey collects wooden board games that she buys at the Butterdome Craft Sale in Edmonton every Christmas so she brought two with her. We played Rummoli until midnight, I had never played it before but it was fun. Then we switched to Sequence, the guys were all psyched to beat us (we play girls against guys) but after Stacey and I won 7 games in a row James said “I don’t want to play this anymore” LOL So we switched back to Rummoli and played until I was too exhausted to continue. The kids played games, played online with Webkins and watched movies all night.
In the morning the guys made brunch and we hung out all day, playing more games, then I made a big turkey dinner. YUMMY! Then I had leftovers for a turkey pot pie……
turkey sandwiches and a yummy turkey soup that Stacey whipped up for us on Friday. That’s what I missed from having Christmas dinner at my SIL’s, leftovers!
On the renovation front, James and I went to Ikea the weekend before NY’s to buy another cabinet for the kitchen, as well as the trim we were short on. We have decided to forego the desk area and put in the extra drawers! Now that we have decided that, I am looking forward to it. I need more drawers to put away tea towels and Tupperware! While we were there…… we bought a new bedroom! Frame, mattresses, night stands, bedding and curtains. We also picked up an area rug and some Markor pieces for the livingroom, a new TV stand, bookshelves, side tables and coffee table. We brought some home with us, but the majoity we had delivered, it arrived yesterday so we spent the day building our bed, hanging curtains etc. Once we get the room straightened out we’ll deside on a dresser. It was SO comfy to sleep on last night! And high off the ground! Our last bed was only knee high, this one is at my hip! James says we need a bench for the foot of the bed so he can sit to put on his socks in the morning lol We will work on building the rest of the livingroom pieces in the evenings this week, so far we have the TV stand, one side table and the coffee table built. It’s a nice big square one that we can play board games on with the kids, which was our main criteria. We found the coffee table and decided to do the rest of the livingroom to match!
We had a productive weekend, Rowan played his first soccer game of the year Saturday morning, James and I got our portrait’s taken Saturday afternoon by Tammy of Smiley Eyes Photography it was a lot of fun. James and I haven’t had a portrait of US taken since we got married almost 17 year ago! I’ll post the link to the proofs webpage when it’s ready. Keely has decided she doesn’t want to play soccer anymore, so we pulled her out of it. She is smaller than all the other kids and hasn’t played in a couple years, so she was finding it frustrating to keep up, so it stopped bing fun for her. I will probably sign her up for swimming lessons for something else to do.
Kids are back to school today! Ye haw! They were suffering from too much togetherness, they are excited about seeing their friends again. And James and I are back to the usual work week….. No more holiday’s. He went back Jan 2nd, but was taking one of the kids to work with him each day last week. My work will start new extended hours in a few weeks so I will eventually have to work a late Thurs/Fri and Saturday *sigh* I’m told it will only be every 7th week….. that I can live with I guess.
Busy busy reading….. I finished 3 of the 4 books I got for Christmas already! Bones to Ashes by Kathy Riechs, really enjoyed it 
Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts, first in a new trilogy, it’s about demons now I have to wait till May for the next installment! And A Highlander For Christmas by Sandy Blair, I will give it a because the story was fun to read, but the editing left a bit to be desired, there were parts I wasn’t sure what was going on. I am now reading High Noon by Nora Roberts, so far so good, but I’m only just started.
