Keeping busy....now lets try and finish some stuff...

I have been trying and trying to finish a very large canvas for my room, but it seems I never get around to it and when I finally did, I am still stumped on how to make the leaves on it. So instead of sitting and staring at it I put it aside and finished Preston's dinosaurs for his room. I've only wanted to finish them for about 2 months, but I finally sat down this afternoon and finished them. Now to get a piggy bank plug for the triceratops and then into his room they go they go...

So I started sewing...

and I've had a couple of friend ask to see my projects. So here's the first one I completed. It's a neck pillow for Preston just to get me started back into the "sewing of things". I've been playing around and sewed some mats for a mini album and also fixed Marc's velcro on his work gear. I'm so proud of my little "Suzy Homemaker" self LOL!

So we've been crazy busy out here again...

since the last time I posted I've been trying to get my scrapbook space organized and under control, running the house hold, taking baby photos for my sister, helping my mom with scrapbooking events at her store and preparing to open a scrapbook store of my own out here in Alameda. It's going to be a lot of work to start it up and I'm really going to have to push hard to get everything I need done before the ground freezes, but I think it's do-able : )

Preston, Lachlan and I go out twice a week to the Expressway Family Centre to play with the kiddies and meet other mothers with new babies as well. Preston really looks forward to going each time. When we drive up he says "trains?" as that's always the first toy he plays with.

On top of the daily busy-ness I have also started going to a sewing class. It was a blast and I have a list of things that I want to do so I'm going to learn as much as I can from Sandy Danziel, the wonderful lady volunteering her time to teach everyone.

We are going to have a super full house this weekend while the guys re-shingle the roof (even for a large house like this one). There's going to be people everywhere! I'm totally looking forward to it though as Preston will get to see all his cousins (hopefully) on Marc's side of the family.

And just a heads up for anyone in the Virden area on Friday September 25. Ceramic Corner is holding it's first monthly scrapbooking crop from 6 - 11 and I'll be there. Call and book your spot as space is limited.

~Alicia

Just playing...

So last week Preston had that opportunity to spend some time with his cousins in Baldur, Mb. And while the so called "cat" was away, Lachlan and I had a chance to play around and do a little mini photo shoot. Here are a couple of the photos we took. Enjoy!

Ok, so it's been a while again : ) This summer has been insane!!! We've been so busy running around doing this and that it's been non stop. And there's so much I still want to do / get done before summer ends. Anywho, thought I'd share a couple of pics from this past weekend...


Preston playing with the kitties at the farm. He loves cats and even though my parents seem to think one can come home with us I've said no a million times over. I don't want a cat in my house at all and either does Marc. I love the fact I can play with them at the farm and then leave them there LOL!


These kittens are perfect Preston size for mauling, hauling and playing with. They don't even seem to mind. Those kittens were hauled around the whole farm the whole weekend. He even hung out with them in their "house" which was Taz's old dog house. He can fit through the doggy door it was hilarious!


And of course being out on the farm I have to take a few pics of the yellow machinery that my dad keeps "collecting" LOL! For those of you who don't know we love our Minneappolis Moline tractors.

Enjoy!
Alicia

Our New Home...

Here's a couple of pics of our new home in Alameda.

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.