It's that time of year

 

Here's a nice photo of Meagan in her new dress from Grandma Claudia. There is a nice one of both her and Caleb, I will post a little later.

Life is busy as usual around here. Meagan's birthday is on Friday. I can't believe she'll be 5 already!! She's quite excited. We have 3 kids Christmas parties in the next week, and Meagan's school Christmas concert. Grant just left for work up north. I hope it warms up a little for him. He doesn't even put a Winter coat on if it's -20. Just a hoody!!

That's about it for now!! Later

Trip to Montreal

 

 

 

 

WOW!! This month has gone by SO fast. I can't believe how busy I've been. And now the holidays. I can't wait to have a boring day! I am posting a few pictures of my recent trip to Montreal for one of my Aunty's Funeral. My mom, brother and I went for a quick trip. It was great to see everyone. I enjoyed having a day to hang out with my brother and cousin in Old Montreal. I can't remember the last time I just hung out with my brother, without kids to try to entertain. These pictures are taken with his camera. I should of went with a Nikon! He does a great job.


I did miss my kids so much. The weekend before we were in Red Deer, and now Grant has started working up North. So I'm a single parent again. I am going to be putting Caleb in a day home soon, so I can get do some volunteer work in Meagan's class, and do some subbing. It's times like this that I wish my Mom lived in Lac La Biche. She wishes she could see them more often, and be there to help me out. We do try to go to Bonnyville at least one weekend a month. I think I may be going there this weekend, so I can do my Christmas shopping in Cold Lake while she watches the kids. We're celebrating Christmas with my family on Dec 5th, as that's the only weekend my brother has off.

I've been trying to do an EXTENSIVE saftey program / manual for Grant so the big companies will allow him to work for them. I've put WAY too many hours into it, but it has to get done. And I've got some many projects I want to do through Heritage Makers, but that will have to wait. Besides Christmas cards, and calendars, I want to start creating a Story book about each set of Grandparents that I have (with is 5 sets), along with Grant's Grandparents. I also want to do a story book about my first Dad. I would love to have these done, to give to my kids one day. The other day, I calculated that I have 53, yes FIFTY THREE Aunts and Uncles, (with their spouses, that makes 106!!) Scary huh? Until later!!

Trick or Treating

 

 

 

 

We had a fun Halloween together. The kids went to the Library in the morning for a story and craft time, and then we went to town after their nap. Caleb was so cute, as he'd say "Treat Please". He was pretty shy, but he had fun. Meagan was so excited to go house to house.

This past week, I was the substitute teacher for the playschool, and I saw how many kids are home sick. So happy mine are still healthy! Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Pumpkin Carving

 

 

 

 

We had some friends over to do a Pumpkin Carving afternoon together. The kids helped a little bit, but they enjoyed playing more! So the mom's took over. Usually this is Grant's activity with the kids, he has some awesome talent at this task. Instead, he kept very busy with the Oilmen's Curling Bonspeil that he was organizing.

The kids were able to stay at my parents' place for 4 days, while I was taking an online course, and working on Grant's Health and Saftey manual. I also made his web site, so feel free to check out www.Therouxtrucking.com

The kids had a great time, and my parents were so happy to have them all to themselves. It's been a while since I took a few days to myself. Wish I could of done funner things with my freedom, like Scrapbook! I did become a Consultant for yet another company! I'm hooked on Heritage Maker, which is an online Digital Production site. I can now make calendars, cards, scrap pages, recipe books, deck of cards, and Wall mounted Canvas peices, just to name a few. And now I can teach others to do it too! Check out my website at www.heritagemakers.com/394301

Gotta go make supper!
Later

Fall days

 

 

 

 

Here's a few pictures from earlier. I wish we would have had nicer fall pictures, with Grant in them! I love fall! It's been a weird weekend, as my mom has the kids for 4 nights. I've been working on trying to get Grant's safety program finished, and I realized I can't get muchdone when I'm trying to entertain kids, make meals, clean up, etc... So this weekend, I think I've been working on the computer for over 30 hours! I had to do an online course. I was so happy to be able to do it from home, as usually you have to take a 2 day workshop. I also have to type up his saftey manual, which is now over 35 pages!
PLUS, I had a Heritage Maker workshop, to teach my friends how to do sigital scapbooking. Of course, I fell in love with this company, and now I'm a consultant! Check out my web page at www.heritagemakers.com/394301
And Grant and I are on our way to Edmonton to go to a Rascal Flats concert. Better go!!