The Wedding..

Just a few picture to share from
Cathy's wedding. Darin's sister. It was a nice day. Cold outside but nice day for her in all. Congradulation's Cathy and Kevin!

Swimming anyone??

Today I thought that I would close my pool. THOUGHT. When I got outside I found that I was missing a ton of water. Then after further investigation, I found that we had a hole in the liner. Not fun. We had no time to wait and so off I went to get the repair kit and Darin threw the pump in the pool. If we waited any longer the liner would rip and then we would need a total new one.
That liner is only two years old. Regardless I was off to get my swim suit on. The pool was 60*. Yeah not fun. Rather nippy in fact.
After freezeing all my 2000 parts and two attempts, I got the leak stopped and we finished closing the pool. I would not recommend it to anyone!!

Tyson's bday pics....

Tyson's birthday pictures as promised I got them from Angie tonight!!

After Darin went the the Dr today, and ended up with 500.00 in new prescriptions (he's fine, just some changes) Dalton and I stopped by to pick them up!!

Enjoy...

P.A. Day already!!

Hard to believe that the kids have a PA day already. They just went back to school a few weeks ago. Am I seeing something wrong with this picture? So we decided to meet nanny and Poppa and Jesse at the pirate ship park so the kids could play. It was busy. The kids had a great time and wore themselves out running around. they wanted me to take a few pictures of them being silly. Doing what they do best so..... here they are.....

Tyson has more and more fun every time we go there. As he gets older he finds out more about how things work. This time it was the whale on a spring. He thought that was the greatest thing ever once he figured out how to rock himself back and forth. He has the baby one at home that plays music. So he though this one was great!

Tyson's first ride in the dump truck

Today was a weird day, I didn't have a babysitter and we had a staff meeting that wasn't scheduled all that long ago. So Tyson had to go to work with Dady for a couple of runs. About and hour or so. He had a great time he though going in the dump truck was the greatest thing ever!

He sat right up there. I though that he weould have a nap because he was tired but Darin said he was bright eyed and bushy tailed the entire time. He was so curious Darin said and happy to see the loaders which to him were "tractors", and squeeled in delight when they loaded them up. They were delivering to the air base and then Ty saw the air bus then all he said was "plane".

All his favorite things in one day how will we ever top that????

Finally a haircut and no screaming!!

No pics, sorry! I did have my camera and it was a memoral day! Tyson finally stood dtill and got his haircut! No screaming, crying, or kicking... amrk this one in the books!

And he looks so cute too!!

Sleeping beauties

I work 3- 11pm a lot it works out good for our family. I don't really like that shift but we do what we can. that way we don't need a sitter all that much. Tyson can still go to Nanny's when he needs to. This way they have some consistency!

Well tonight, Darin had the air conditioner on in our room and apparently the two boys though that it was too hot in their room so I came home to this on my bedroom floor! Both of them out cold! Don't they look comfy??

Bus buddy & Grade Two!

Today was the first day of school here. This is our next door neighbour Tanner. Dalton is his bus buddy. Dalton was so excited because he went from needing a bus buddy a few years ago to being a bus buddy this year. Means he is getting bigger and getting responsibilities! yay!

At Dalton's school, because there are so many kids in primary classes, I dunno. They gather all the kids in the gym and call out their names teacher by teacher then get taken to their prospective classes.

Dalton sat right down with Keaton in the gym this morning and said "I hope we are in the same class this year Keat!" He really missed Keaton last year. So when Ms. Koekman was finished reading off her list and Keaton was still sitting beside his they both looked at each other and said "YES"! Then Dalton looked at me and said and no Ms. Koekman. I went to school with Julie and she is really strict! So Dalton wasn't all that fond of her.

So Mrs. Rickaman called both their names and they were very happy about it. I was just happy because Dalton wasn't in the split 1/2 again. Solid grade 2 class. So off they headed to their class what they didn't know was that they were headed out to the portable. I haven't decided whether that is good or not I'll tell you on how sick Dalton gets this winter.

So here's to a good year and happy that my boy is getting back with his friends so he can enjoy school! I'm glad his friends mean that much to him!

John's last day

Today was Johnathan's last day to be with the kids. He had a great summer here and we had a great time too. So today to make things special we went to Kingston to the mini golf/ go cart/ movie/ amusement ride park. Then to Chucky Cheese. The boy's all of them had a great time. First they rode on the go carts. Their package included 6 laps but it wasn't busy so they both got 8.

Johnathan was big enough he got to ride alone.

But Dalton had to ride with me while John stayed with Tyson. He was laughing the whole time watching us kids play. He unfortunately wasn't big enough yet.

Then they decides to go to the amusement rides. They rode so long on most of them that they got sick of it. Ever heard of such a thing? The rides lasted at least five minutes each. They got eight rides a piece.

They went on the scrambler twice, the big slide once, the spider 3 times, and the tilt a whirl twice. The spider was their favorite.

Dalton liked the big slide. He always does. Tyson would have liked that one too but we went and played in the water park instead while the boys went on the rides.

After the rides, they went to play their game of mini gold. that too came in their package. All for $20.00 each, I didn't think that that was bad at all. And they had tons of fun for the day.

Then by that time they were all starving! Or at least whining about it. So we headed over to Chucky Cheese. They choose a peperoni pizza and played a bunch of games. We got home about 5pm so I think it was a good last day.

We only had one problem all day.....

Chucky the mouse came in our row. Just our row and this was what happened!

Tyson absolutely freaked out. He hated that big Ol' mouse! So he didn't come anywhere near him after that, and trust me Tyson watched everywhere he went! The kids had fun though and we had a great summer. Thanks John!

Woo Hoo back to school Tuesday!

First ever sleep over....

Today was Dalton's first ever sleep over. He has slept over before when I have worked nights but never at a friends. It has been Nan's, Bev & Angie's, Grandma's, Scott & Colleen's, but this was a first.

He went to the Lightfoots. I worked 3-11pm and Leslie came over and picked him up. She didn't think he would stay. Keaton tried it last year and didn't. Not Dalton. He couldn't wait to go.

Leslie emailed me at 1200am to let me know he was great and that they had just went to bed after playing on the PS2 all evening.

Dalton loves to go to the Lightfoots. I am surprised though, they have a hot tub and he hasn't been in it yet! He was looking forward to going swimming tomorrow in their in ground pool! He likes Keaton's sister too. Chloe. He said she is very cute. I laughed because she likes Dalton too, she told Leslie that Dalton is kinder to her than her brother. She starts school this year too!

My little fella is growing up, hard to believe he is going to be 7!

Thanks Lightfoot family Dalton had a great time with you!

Ty just jammin'

Dalton is always leaving his Mp3 player out and Tyson is always happy to find it for him. Well today, it was on the counter and Tyson was happily listening to it before anybody found him with it! Standing there dancing on the chair, singing away, just like he was in his right mind!

Look at his face after I caught him at it! How can you be mad at a face like that??

Then I get sorry Mom.

Karen's birthday breakfast!

Today we went out for Breakfast to Cora's. It was Karen's birthday breakfast. We had a good time, girls only. Except Tyson. Dalton went to the trailer with Mom after Tyson's party for the rest of the weekend and daddy is sleeping while we went. The girls were happy to see him anyway. Karen's actually birthday is Tuesday I think.

We had too much to eat but it is always good there. Here is my little man behaving, for a sec. He was good and ate well. And played at the table with his tractors. Karen will probably kill me for posting this but well, wouldn't be the first time she wanted to do that I'm sure. That's what being friends is all about!

This is Karen in the burgundy shirt.She is the kindest person I think I know. She is great at her job and has a great heart with her friends. She doesn't mix words if she has a problem with you, if you have made her mad, or if she doesn't like you. She is good at praising people who deserve it and is genuinely a great person. I am glad she is my friend.

I think they all went to Bloomfield after breakfast but I had to work. So I didn't. A picture of Ethel, talking like always. Gotta love her. I do. I have a great bunch of friends.You know, I have a happy family, a great bunch of friends, I may not have a lot of money, but My life is full! Therefore I am rich.

Tyson's 2nd birthday!!

I'm typing this post in green because Tyson has been tractor crazy for a couple of months now. Doesn't help that we live beside a coop and they go by a hundred times a day!

So his second birthday was here and I decided to make him a couple of cakes, as always. We had the normal birthday crowd and BBQ. Everybody seemed to have a good time, I however found out later maybe that wasn't the case. But you know what it doesn't matter I had fun, Tyson had tons of fun and if you don't like the way things are done then stay home. Not a good attitude I know but I don't care. Not to mention apparently I am suppose to have mind reading skills I didn't know about. Oh well water under the bridge. I have learned though keep your darn mouth shut about anything because anything can be changed to suit someone else's purpose, hurt people feelings, stress relationships, and cause a rift that can never be totally repaired! So I'm not sure what will happen with Dalton's party yet but I think it may just be the kids and that's it. We'll see.

Anyway, enough babbling. I made him a hay field with a tractor on it, and a train station that actually worked. He loved them.

I'll post some pictures of the party when I get them. Angie took tons of them but she didn't load them on my computer and the girl is never home to get them. And if she emailed them too me, because I have dial up it would take days to load them all! So once I can track the girl down I will post some!

Finding a babysitter!

Finding a babysitter this fall for the kids was not fun! Everybody that I found pretty much wanted enough money that it wouldn't be worth working!

I need someone some nights after 6pm and people just don't do that. And if they do it costs you a mint.The one woman wouldn't get my kids until 230 for Ty and 410 pm for Dalton and if they were picked up by 7pm including supper it was 40.00 are you kidding me?

Any way, I got one of the girls from work. He son Miles is 17. He is in his last year of high school and they live around the corner. he is watching the boys in the afternoon after 230pm thank goodness high school gets out early now.

So if I work 3- 11pm it works out great. Fortunately most of the girls at work hate that shift. Woo hoo for me! And if I work 12-8pm fortunately, Miles can get Dalton but Tyson goes to Nan's. Thank goodness for Nan!!

Mom likes it too because she gets to spend time with Tyson alone. She can be a bit closer to him, she is much closer with the other kids. She doesn't get to spend too much time with him like that. She had all the other kids full time but with her back and Dad getting to be a bigger handful, part time for him is enough. He loves to go there. And I think Dad likes to have him, and Mom but I know she finds him a handful compared to the other boys. He is nothing like them! NOTHING!

So I'm glad that it all worked out finally but it was worrying me for a bit there. If I have to give 1/2 my paycheck away I might just as well stay home! I would love that but with Darin laid off in the winter I'm not sure how we would make out!

Big Brother's and Big Sister's Rib Fest!!

I've been a little behind on my posts I know. My niece reminds me all the time since she checks. Sorry Leah I will try to be more prompt. It's not like I have two kids, a dog a cat, a husband, a house and a full time job to take care of. Never mind just trying to be a good Mom!! Hahaha. Auntie know just get with it right??

Any way, I'll make up with a few update on what we did the rest of the summer and how it went. On August 17Th we went to the zwick's park for the "Rib Fest", it was a good cause but I can't say that I would go again and waste another $60.00. that is how I felt. It was good but not that good. We had lots to eat but at $5.00 for a glass of lemonade that was made from concentrate seemed a little steep! it was for a good reason so that is how I keep justifying it!

So we went with Terry, Steph, Nick and Evelyn Steph's Mom.

We had fun. We got there just before it was too busy. We were leery about going because we though it was going to rain. And it did. We ate and the kids played at the combat camp for about 1/2 hour then it started. So we wandered on home.

Dalton was so funny. They got to play at the combat camp that the soldiers from Trenton had set up. Dalton actually asked one of them.." hey do you know my friend Shawn, he jumps out of planes there?" We laughed until I thought I would die. I said do you realize how many people work at Trenton airbase named Shawn, Dalton? The gentleman though the was funny too!

I loved the deep fried battered onions though. Only problem is my waistline doesn't. They were so good!! I'm glad they aren't something we can get around here! I might be more tempted.

Here is Dalton on the combat course. By the time the boys were done they both had green stained knees!! From the grass!

They had fun though so that is all that matters!

Momma got a new van!!

Well My husband though that I needed a new van. I'm not sure why fully but no matter I like it.

He had the idea to get a new one a few weeks ago but I am cheap and was happy with my old one. One less payment with him getting laid off in the winter. He had other plans though.

It is fully loaded. It only had 62000kms and it's a 2002. It has four doors and that is what I love the best. That and the bucket seats for the kids! He looked around and the bought it. I didn't even drive it.

That's Darin!

I LOVE MY NEW VAN!

Mini golfing....

I promised Dalton that we would go mini golfing before I went back to work. he loves mini golf. I'm not sure why but he does. So today we went. I am into the second week of my holidays and time is going quick so I thought we had better get it done!

We played a double game. Mini then the monster golf. He had a great time and about two minutes after we got in the van it started to pour!! Of course Dalton won.

He got a hole in one and we so proud of himself. I laughed at his reaction.

Something so small can make such a great time! It's hard to believe that he is growing up so quickly. My big boy now!

Pretty soon this little fella will be two. I can't believe that either!He had fun too, he just ran around chasing the ball!

I'll have to try to get them out golfing again before school starts they love it!

Boat Races

Today we got up and packed a bag for the kiddies and headed back to dry lake. I know just what they call it contradiction of terms or not. We went to the boat races. The boys enjoyed them and when the boats were not racing the kids could swim in the lake. Waiting for the next race.
The boys just doing their thing. Watching the boats. Dalton though that these boats were really cool. In general we had a pretty good day.