Oops I did it again

That's right. I've been so busy the last month and a half that my blogs have been forgotten about so I'm going to give a quick update now and hopefully within a week I'll have some pictures and stories to post : )

Now, let's see...

I took my two boys to Clear Lake June 21st to enjoy a day at the beach and then go to a Wedding reception for one of my good friends from high school Natalie. She got married on the east coast and her family held a reception in Manitoba. I had a blast! I won a bet I made like 10 years ago (Tracy is expecting twins and she said she would never have kids!) All it took was the right guy to come along : ) And then I was able to catch up with some other high school buddies as well so it was great.

We moved into our new house in Alameda, SK on the 26th of June and have been unpacking, re-arranging, and doing those little needed things to fix up our house (closet organizers, towel racks, door stoppers, blinds & drapes...you get the jist). I'm finally starting to get my scrap space organized as that was the last thing to work on other than my office. I have started scrapbooking again and I've missed it so much!

My high school reunion was on July 4th so I headed back out to Virden for that. It was lots of fun. Lachlan and I spent some time at the park in the afternoon, went to the high school tour (man has it changed!) and then we went for supper at the Legion and then I dropped Lachlan off with my parent before the social. It was great catching up with some old school pals and I even found out that there are quite a few in the Carnduff / Oxbow area which was neat.

Marc's parent were in town the week of July 5 - 12 to camp at the Alameda Dam. They ended up staying overnight one night during the week because of a thunderstorm warning. Man that wind was blowing hard. It was scary. It never seems to fail when they go camping, luckily they could come over, which Preston loved. And then on the weekend Marc and Preston went camping there with them so they could go fishing. Lachlan and I came to visit on Friday night and Saturday morning / early afternoon and then headed back home. Unfortuantely I have been having pains in my leg that made me opt out on the camping trip. It was just too painful to sit on a camping chair or even to attempt to sleep on an air mattress so I passed on the opportunity.

I know there are other things that we've done in that time as well, but there's just too much to remember so I'll leave it at that for now and I'll try to post some pictures soon of our new house and what we've been doing as soon as I can. As for right now, I'm going to enjoy the nice weather we've been having and take some more pictures of my busy life.

My favorite flower...

It's that time of year that my most favorite of flowers are in bloom. The sweet smell is so strong in this town. Everywhere you go it seems that every yard has them. That's right Lilacs. My favorite is the beautiful purple ones (which is so funny for those of you that know me because I am not a fan of the color purple). Here are a few photos of my fav flower that I thought I'd share with you all. Enjoy.

The game begins...

so we've put an offer in on a house and had a counter offer already, and have put another counter in to them. Now we're just waiting to hear back and see if we could possibly have a home by the end of the month.

Marc and I are both anxious and can't wait. We are so hoping to get this place. We just want to try and get back to a normal life again. I thought this renting thing would be fine, but we just want our own little slice of heaven. So keep your fingers crossed everyone.

Before heading off this weekend...

Yippee!!! I'm going home for the weekend! By home I mean Virden. I'll get to see my family which I haven't seen since Lachlan and I got out of the hospital. I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone. My sister's been working on her house and I can't wait to see what she's done.

Unfortunately Marc won't be able to come with me because he has to work on another rig (he's not too happy about that, but that's the way it works out here).

But I thought I'd share some photos of the beautiful apple blossoms in our yard. It's so neat. Our door we use to go outside is around back, but as soon as you step on the porch you can smell them. The tree is on the front of the house. It just smells like spring here.

Doin' a little laundry...

HA HA Get it? I had to run and pull a load of laundry out of the dryer and I brought Lachlan with me as he was a little fussy and I wanted him to stay quiet while Preston was down for his afternoon nap. It definitely made for a fun little everyday photo shoot...

Take some pictures ya'll

So I'm finally getting back into the swing of things and I've started taking more pictures again. I've missed playing around with my camera and snapping shots of daily life as well as special moments.

I've been trying my hand an some cute baby photos and thought I'd share a couple. These ones are with daddy. I've wanted to try doing these photos and since Marc was around on Sunday we finally did them. Hope you like them as much as I do... I know they are definitely going to make their way into a scrapbook somewhere.

Start getting inspired...

Hey All!
Happy Mom's Day to all the wonderful ladies out there. I hope you enjoy your day as much as I have. Lachlan's happily sleeping, eating, and playing on his mat while Preston is happy to play with all his new toys he got from his birthday party yesterday when Memere and Pepere Talbot, Tante Marilynne, Niomi, and Calum came for a visit for the day. Preston wasn't too happy when memere left, but he'll see them next weekend camping.

I've been organizing, cleaning, moving around stuff in my house to make some room for everything and everyone. Still have lots to do before I can say it's a success, but it's definitely a start. I'm also starting to finally get used to having two boys around with different schedules that I'm starting to get inspired to get back to scrapbooking and cooking!!! My scrapbooking is definitely a work in progress as everything I have is now finally in Oxbow, but it's in the garage, basement and my new very small scrapbook room. I'm still digging around looking for everything, but I am getting some projects done. Now that Lachlan is only waking up a couple of times during the night I am also wanting to cook more. The past month has been quick meals and kinda tacky : ( I hate not cooking meals from scratch. I really have a blast doing it. Now all I need is a very large kitchen attached to my scrapbooking room and we have the ideal start to my dream house LOL!

On top of all of that I am trying to get more practise with my photography as I would love to make a business out of it. I've been taking lots of baby photos of Lachlan and playing around with my camera. I'll have to post some of the pictures I've been taking lately.

Anywho, just thought I'd post an update for all you gals who still read my blog. Be sure to check out my scrapbooking blog too as I'll be posting within the next week.

~Alicia