Happy b-day Roxstanley!

Our old computer is fixed!!!Yay. We ordered a mother board off Ebay and the little sucker did the trick. Plus the memory we ordered for our computer works too, so now we have a way faster computer. It will probably mostly be my computer for school. I thought we lost alot of pictures too, but because it works again we only lost maybe 1 folder of pics. So Im super excited about that. AND Morgan and I don’t have to share computer time. Not the end of the world, but nice all the same. It’s good for 2 nerds 2 have 2 computers.

I’ve become addicted to POM Tea. I love it. Its quite light and refreshing. Its got loads of antioxidants in it too so it’s good for you. AND it’s only 60 calories, which is pretty good for juice. I save the glasses for Georgia because we have way too many cups already. I am currently sip sip sipping away while blogging twice in one day. Hooray for inspiration.

It was Roxy’s Birthday yesterday. Emily says “happy birthday you auntie roxy!” Its cute. She’s singing the song alot. We played a bit of a joke on my sister. We wanted to get her a new cell phone, but we couldn’t just get one because of th plan she is already on. so we made gift certificates for her. But instead of giving her those we gave her my old phone in it’s box. All the manuals we still wrapped in plastic and the cords were wrapped up all nice. We only used it for a couple months because it was so crappy. The reception sucked and it would echo while you talked. Basically she thought we had got her a new phone that was a piece of junk. It was really funny. she was like “Ohhh a phone!” She tried really hard to be excited about it, but we all ended up laughing at her. Way to be grateful for junk Roxy! Happy Birthday dude. Way to not be a teenager anymore! You’re doing great!

Psycho. Psycho. Psycho!

My blog has been getting neglected lately. Between a toddler, Facebook and learning French I’ve been a bad blogger. I got so mad at my computer that I stopped even using it for a bit. So now I feel like I have oodles to write and nothing at all at the same time. grr.

*Finally remembered the stupid bathtub plug! About time!*

I’ve been Quasimodo for the last 3 days. It’s been kinda funny.  I woke up on Friday unable to move my neck. It happened last Christmas for a few days too. Remember, Leah? It sucked so bad. I didn’t wait to see if it would just get better though this time. I downed the limit of Back pills and smelled mentholated  all day from a patch. I stood in hot water until my feet looked like lobsters. Finally by today I am mostly back to normal. My firsts night sleep was awful. I wish I new why my neck did that. Its not like when I sleep on it funny. That feels bad, but way different.  I look like a gibble. Which is a perfectly acceptable word to use thank you very much Morgan!

I making a roast beef for dinner tomorrow night. I’m all excited because I haven’t had roast beef for several months. I really like it. Crock pot style. Easy and Tasty. Morgan thinks all my crock pot meals taste the same, but I can’t complain. They are still better than eating toast for dinner.

Emily keeps dropping “F” bombs. I’m not sure what she is trying to say. Maybe fork or frog. I don’t know. Maybe she listens a little to closely to my neighbors when they get a little crazy.  She also told her baby sitter “My daddy’s a psycho! Psycho. Psycho. Psycho! ” Awesome hey. I guess I must say psycho. But she did learn like 5 new songs this week. and all of them old church songs I sang in Sunday school. Like “Jesus loves the little children” and “Rise and Shine and Give God the Glory” and “He’s got the whole world in his hands”. Her favorite is  “This little light of mine”.

I should go to bed. I have a couple of extra kids to look after tomorrow. Should be pretty interesting. or crazy. Whichever comes first. I can’t remember when they are coming, but I’m sure I’ll be sleepy. haha. Maybe I’ll work on my French for a bit then sleepy time.

Je ne suis pas grosse. Je suis mince. Wishful thinking!

More Cups

Firstly, Just as a side note to yesterday’s post. I decided to leave it in to prove how slow witted I can be. At 5:30 this morning Morgan got home and decided to share with me that after reading my blog he laughed at me. You’ll have to read it in context, but basically I wrote that my SIN number stood for Social Security Number. Aparently Im not quite quick enough to notice that Security in the middle of that would make my acronym SSN. Dumb, I know.

I forgot to put on here last week that Emily told me her first dream. Well the first one I know of. Im sure she’s dreamed for her whole life, but last week is the first time she’s told me one. I got her up early for something last week. When I walked in her room she was still asleep, which doesnt usually happen. Usually she hears me open the door and tryes to stand up out of a dead sleep. Somewhat humourous, I might add. But this time she stayed asleep. I started to sing the good morning song and she sat upright and said “More cups”. She signed it too. She kept saying over and over and looking around her crib for “More cups”. She never goes to bed with a cup or even really has one before bed anymore. So it was really cool because she had no reason to think of cups. Its not even her breakfast, or I’d have just thought she was hungry. So there you have it. Emily dreams of cups. Probably ones with endless “Nook” (milk)in them.

Morgan and I are taking on a two week challenge. Well really we are down to one week. If week can make it two weeks without buying groceries, then the grocerie money goes towards our new computer. It’s kindof a fun challenge. We had to buy milk for Emily, but we arent buying anything but bare minimum for one more week. We have oodles of food in our house, but none of it is quick to prepare. AND none of it is Pizza, chinese, or well quick. So Im hoping to come up with some different recipies to use all the meat in our freezer and even some of the canned stuff. It’s all good, it will just take some creativity to make it work.  Im always up for a challenge.

or a dare.

Morgan didnt save the picture, but we did have a picture of me wearing a childrens cow head from a halloween costume in kamloops last week. Like they really thought I wouldnt do it. I have worn way weirder things. For sure. Don’t get me started. All of high school was weirder than that.

Lastly. Will someone remind me to buy a bathtub plug. Emily threw ours out without me knowing it and trying to plug the tub with a hairspray lid is getting annoying. Plus Em pulls it out. So please. I have to remember!!

Mashed Potatoe Queen

That is what I shall be referred to from now on! I just made the best Mash Taters ever. I whipped them all up. Light and fluffy with a touch of Garlic and a touch of my own secret ingredients. No not M&M’s. Those only go in pastas or shepherds pie. Try it you’ll see. When I finished I had to have some so bad that I liked the spatula and did a supreme job of cleaning out the bowl. They were like goodness!

Im going to have a hard time waiting until supper to dig into the rest of the Po Po To To’s. MMM!

Just felt I needed to share that.

Computer Smart Smart!

Hello everybody. This is me writing from me new computer!I took a week for the old one to finally die and then only a day to get the new one, but another week to finish setting this one up. So now we are good to go. I think I’m going through Blogdrol. Not being able to blog if I want to is strange.

Emily is waking up. I have like 10 more minutes, so I’d better type fast. In her crib she is saying Tapioca, hi bunny. and singing “Down by the Bay”. We only just taught her a couple of days ago and now she wants me to sing it all day long. ahhh. between that and reading “Whats wrong little pookie” I think I’m getting a repetitive strain brain disorder. haha.

I went for my second interview with the school funding program yesterday. It went really well. I have a few more things to figure out and then I can send in that application. I’m actually applying to the school now, but I cant find my stupid transcript. So now I have to wait until after the long weekend and then order one. I hope it comes fast. I don’t even need the paper copy, I just need to know my final grade twelve grades.

*Em is saying “hangerber” “Mommy up”. So Ill finish the rest of this later.

ok the morning wraps up with only one time out and a few kisses it betters. Tooth seven is finally in. It’s about time. last week was probably one of the worst weeks ever with Emily. She hurt so bad that she just freaked out all day. Morgan was working afternoons so The evil evenings were done solo or with a friend over. I apologize to a couple of different friends who endured that. Screaming and hitting are getting really old.  I keep telling myself I’d rather my 18 month old hit and scream than my four year old. I’m glad this batch of teething is over for a bit. I really couldn’t take much more of that. Although it is cute when Emily hits and says “sorry mommy no hit time out” and puts herself in timeout.

We are having our thanksgiving dinner tonight. Im in charge of mashed potatoes and brussel sprouts! I have oodles of potatoes, but the brussels are harder to find. I think Em and I will have to go for a walk and see if we cant russel up some better ones. Save on had the smallest ones I’ve ever seen. Ever! I bought them anyways because We just cant do Thanksgiving without them. Em can say “happy giving” or “Happy Thanks”, but not the whole thing. We are working on it. Morgan is already trying to teach em to say “Merry Christmas”. She has “Happy New Year” down already thanks to Nanny and Grandpa.

I mashing I will go. A mashing I will go. High ho the dairy oh, a mashing I will go!!

Computer dumb dumb

I’m not particularly interested in blogging tonight. Working on my computer is turning out to be dumb. The video card stopped working, so picture trying to used the computer with drunk goggles on. Not impossible, but you don’t feel well afterwards. So today Morgan figured out how to use some program with our laptop which is next to obsolete, to make the extra monitor work through the laptop, on to the internet and log on to our computer. That long evil sentence to say that this is slow and annoying and I have to use a new keyboard and well actually I’m enjoying blogging.

My day was LONG! Emily has been teething this week. I think tooth 7 is just about through. The last two days have made me seriously consider taking out a don’t want ad in the paper. “Toddler. Free to a medium good home. o.b.o” Cause thats what she’s being medium good or best offer! She make her momma crazy.

I’ll admit it. I have an addiction. Smile Cookies are at Tim Hortons right now. WOW those are good. I currently don’t feel well from eating 1 too many. That makes the total 3. They’re big ok. come on Court…look away from the bag. don’t do it. you can beat this thing. Im not going to bed anytime soon, so we’ll see.

I have officially finished my first application to school. It only took me a week. I phoned in to make my next appointment with the counselor as instructed. I think the lady at the front desk remembered me cause she said”You finished it already”? I was like. “Um…yes.” I figured a week was average time not speedy gonzolas time. I mean I want to go to school so you’d think I’d want to take a short amount of time filling in the blanks on an application. I just lucked out with my interviews. I got a hold of everyone right away and they were really helpful. Anyway, I have an appointment on Friday. I’m hoping that will go well and I can move on to the next step in this process. I’m so excited already I can’t wait to start.

I made super duper awesome cheese in burgers. I love making burgers from scratch. They taste so much better and I know whats in them too. Nothing like having the cheese built right into your burger. Or as Emily would say:”Hangerber. yummy”.

Well I don’t think I have any pictures on the laptop so no looking looking today. Maybe when the vidcard shows up from Ebay. AHHH. I’m already lost without my CPU.

Jalapeno+mouth=Burninate!

My evening was stupendous. I thought it was going to majorly suck, but no way jose. I started this morning by getting my blood taken. For the record…not prego. I am just feeling good so we are getting some base level blood work done so the next time I get sick we will have something to compare it too. I had to wait an hour in the waiting room. That did suck. I was doing a fasting blood sugar test and well. grrrr I was hungry. Then I had a music practice which went pretty good. Im back in the band which is fun, but I don’t really have a specific instrument to play, so I just play whatever is missing. That makes it harder to practice thats for sure.

Then Morgan went to work, but Kipp and Georgia came over for a few and we had a nice visit. After they went home Em had a nice meltdown complete with hitting kicking screaming and a glasses smash. owch. Then Georgia phoned a few minutes later to say I should come over for dinner. hooray. Something to do while Morgan is gone and Em is a BUTT. So then We went to let Emmy play with Flynney for the evening. They did so good together. Em kept saying “Finney” and making Flynn follow her around. it was cute. There may have been an incident involving Ems head getting stuck in a door and Flynn pushing it closed, but aside from trying to decapitate his little girlfriend the evening was a success. We made Mexican food. Cream cheese stuffed jalapeños. HOT HOT. soo good, but so hot. I was downing Soy milk to de-burnify my mouth.It was awesome. Georgia gave the kiddys each a revel for desert. Mega bad idea to give em chocolate on a stick thats melting. It was pretty much everywhere, but Em loves her Auntie Go Go. We watched Napoleon for a bit and then I had to bring Em home to beddy by.

Now I’m just relaxing and enjoying the silence. I have a book to read or a new T.V. series to watch so I’m gonna take er easy. gnight moon.(its supposed to turn blood red at 2 am tonight. trying to decide if I should get up.hmm)

The Rule of getting Wet.

Today we took our friends Nathan and Danielle to our quaint little restaurant Nanna’s and Poppa’s. I thoroughly enjoyed my lunch and Em wasn’t overly bad. This has become a crappy phase. The whole “NO NO NO NO NO” thing is getting old. Even if she wants something she says no. It like having to use reverse psychology constantly. Today she grabbed Morgans arm while he was turning on the ipod dock. She knows she isn’t supposed to touch it, so she grabbed his arm firmly and said “NO HANDS!”. Soo cute. We had her infant development lady come and watch her play this week. Its neat because you get to see where she is at for her age. Because she is a preemie they keep checking on her. This weeks conclusion:?? Emily is ahead in everything!! Yay! We were pretty sure she is ahead in her speech, but figured she’d be behind in her motor skills or something, but nope. The only thing is that with her being ahead we hit the 2 year old stage much faster I guess. The Lady warned me about that. Im sooo excited.

We decided to go for a walk around Sepa lake today and dragged our Nathan and Danielle with us. It was a gorgeous day. We walked around to the bridge and found it closed for repairs. They have redone all the 108 lake trail bridges. Soo nice. Anyways. We decided to keep on walking maybe to the beach or something. Halfway to the beach Emily decided she was walking and that was final. She walked a long ways. She even stopped to pick up some dried up bear poop much to her mommy’s “EW. Gross!!!” factor. At the beach we stopped for a swing. It was so nice so we kept talking and walking. Half way between the beach and my parents house Em did her business and so we took a detour to steal diapers from my parents house. By that point it was too far to go back the other way so we kept right on walking. I used to ride my bike around the lake all the time, but I haven’t for years so it was really nice to be out there again.

We have this funny thing that says “Pretty much any time Courtenay is near water she will get wet. It doesn’t even matter what time of year it is”. If you know me for very long you will find out that is true. I figured I was doing good by avoiding the lake and not even walking on the beach. WRONG. We got back to Sepa lake and as we were walking around it to where we parked we noticed it was getting really cloudy. Then it started to mist us. It felt nice because we had just done a 6 or 7K walk. But then is went rapidly from spitting at us to raining to pouring, to dumping and by the time we made it into the parking lot hailing! how crazy is that. It was a gorgeous day. I guess its my fault for not just tripping and falling in the lake. Sorry guys for getting you all wet. Haha.

Emily and the Winner

Sooo tired. Caaan’t sleep. grr. I should be napping right now while Emily is sleeping, but I cant. I just stared at my ceiling for a while then gave up. We went to a friends house for a campfire last night and stayed up too late, but that was ok. Then when I got home I couldn’t fall asleep. I think I dozed off at like 4:30 or something. At least the campfire was super relaxing. The last couple of weeks have been go go go go, so it was nice to just chill out and enjoy the night. Yay hooray for being able to get a babysitter last minute.

So I go in to wake Emily up this morning because she is going to go with me to staff meeting. Bye the time I got there she was already awake. Standing there in her crib with NO clothes on. Diaper gonzo! not good not good! panic! This is gonna be gross. I guess this was just a warning for next time. No messes to clean up. YAY! She must have only taken the diapey off in the few minutes before I got her or we would have had issues. I thought she had managed to get all her clothes off, but I guess the sitter put her down in just a diaper cause there wasn’t a sleeper to be found. Whew. Takes me back. Apparently my parents called me Houdini baby and had to pin my sleepers on backwards to keep me in them. Please no baby finger painting! NOOOO!

We went to the garlic festival on the weekend. It was pretty fun. Morgan cached in one of his triple dog dares to get me to eat a spicy clove of garlic. It was ok at first cause I like garlic, but after a sec my mouth was on fire!!!! Then I didn’t feel so good. My stomach was like “You jerk!”. so We went to another concession and got some delicious ribbettes and a big bottle of water for me to down. I think I probably still smell like garlic 2 days later. healthy though. I tried a garlic Jelly Bean. It was good. Maybe not my snack of choice, but good none the less.

We took Emily to see the Llamas. LLAMA FACE!!(sorry couldn’t help myself – Emperors new groove – See it!) She loves them. There was this “winner” standing out side the petting cage smoking with serious 80’s Ray bans. I was talking to the petting zoo guy about the pictures they offer. I said “could she get her picture taken with a sheep or something”. About then the “winner” pipes up.”Thats a llama!”. I was like “um duh. I meant the sheep over there. The one that looks like a sheep”. Ok I didn’t say that, but I wanted too. I wanted to be like”Actually it’s an alpaca, Mr. Winner”.

He then gets his little girl who is about 4 or 5 to come out and they walk away with him blowing smoke all around her. I cant really handle that. They know stuff now that they didn’t years ago. Nobody thought second hand smoke was bad before, but it IS! I so wanted to be like “Um Mr. Winner. Your damaging your daughters lungs and I hope she sues you when she gets older!”. Sorry. I just get frustrated by people whose habits effect kids. Its dumb. It should be considered child abuse to smoke in your car with the windows up and kids or babies in the car. It would be if you put any other kind of smoke or gas in there for them to breathe. Done ranting. Sorry

Heres a couple of pictures of Em and the Alpaca/sheep/llama/elephant.

Melissa and Holly with Me and Emmy.

Emily and Holly.

ON

I think they are through! Well at least one of Emily’s top teeth is through. What a whiny crappy thing to have to go through just so you can chew stuff. Haha. My little toddler is sleeping away her blues while her teeth come in. She has practically slept all day for the last two and slept most of the night. She gets all whiny at about 6:30 am, but manages to sleep still. Lucky for mommy. I slept better last night so thats good. I’ve felt like quite the insomniac for the last two weeks. I really haven’t slept well at all.

I have a really tough decision to make. I’m kind of nervous about it too. I need to get a hair cut. If I don’t I’m going to look like a snow beast. Im thinking of going for shoulder length and thinning the crap out of it. It will probably look like a shih tzu(see*) got murdered on the floor of the salon, but I think it will be worth it. It’ll be nicer for the rest of the summer. I think the thing I’m most worried about is how lazy I am to do my hair. I think I need to make a pact with myself to not wear bandannas ever again. (except when dressing up. All good pirates need bandannas) . I’m also pretty worried because if you read yesterdays blog Roxy got her hair cut and well it turned into a mullet. I’ve already told Morgan that if I get mullet-ed I’m shaving my head. No ifs ands or butts. Next week Morgan works afternoons so I think Ill book a chop chop.

I am officially ON. We aren’t going anywhere for the next little while and my house is free of crappola food so I am ON. I’ll admit I am having a lack of interest to going to the gym, but I can actually go next week so I’m going to go. I’ve decided this very minute that if I go to the gym 5 days next week I’m going to get a present! Maybe an album from itunes or something. Yeah! Wish me luck or wish me determination or something.

I’m going to go do laundry.

Heres a hair cut I really want.

(*)ok so Leah and I went to see the fish guy at the pet store. Remember the guy with the puberty voice. And we wanted to buy some fish, but we went to look at the puppies. While we were looking the fish guy comes up and says those are “shizzoo multipoos, very adorable. I don’t like to say the shhh part” (include voice cracking for effect and realism). Ok so after we picked ourselves off the floor and died laughing extremely discretely so as not to offend we got our fish. Leah Fish and Courtenay fish to take with us to college because we would miss each other. End of odd story…

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