Today was a busy day we headed into town for 9am ran around, my daughter worked picked up my other daughter form school by 10am she phoned already by 9am second day in a row I tell you, you've got to love teenage girls they can be just mean! so lets see what tomorrow brings. On our way home we were just by my little kids school and my youngest daughter phoned COOKIE DOUGH IS IN it was suppose to be in tomorrow the school had 1500 lbs of cookie dough delivered on a crate outside in the freezing temperatures we had to sort each order and get hold of each child's family. It was not really a big deal other that we were not dressed for it we froze. Earlier tonight I was so cold I could not get out at the arena I waited in the van . I am again waiting for children to arrive home then it is off to bed last night my oldest son middle daughter and I sat up until 12:30am talking we paid for it today 5 am comes real fast.

Here is my husband in his birthday picture he has been up since 1am, had a stressful morning stuck in the bush wrecked his new chains and his steps on his logging truck but he still humored us while we sang Happy Birthday. He was laughing so hard the camera would not work it was to dark my kids think only the candle lights will do while we sing.

Today was spent by cleaning, wrapping, sorting and I accomplished nothing. We had a birthday cake and gave presents to my husband so the kids enjoyed that and now the excitement continues to climb until December 25. It is amazing how fast the days are going by a shame really it seems so fast we can't enjoy them. Have a wonderful night I am off to wait for kids to get home from hockey.

Having a tantrum at the arena

Here is Miss Hyacinth having a tantrum because she wanted to go home but we were in a middle of a game. She sat like that for at least 20 minutes and didn't even know her dad took her picture.

Tis The Season

Tonight we decorated our tree it is funny how the camera made all the lights look different. Now we will have to see how long it holds up to the cats. We had quite Christmasy day I bought the kids candy cane doughnuts ( not too sure on that spelling), we had candy cane, hot chocolate and put up our tree. Have a good night.

It is very, very cold and I just can't seem to warm up and I can't get the pellet stove to light so if I can't figure it out the kids will have to sleep in the front in front of the wood stove. We have our Christmas tree set up in it's stand so we can decorate it tomorrow. The house is all decorated and quite Christamsy it would not win a contest or or anything but it is still fun.
I was laughing at the goats this morning shivering looking so cold and I told them how can you be cold in Mohair jackets they just looked at me like I was nuts. Well I am going to go work on my scarf.

Anyone for a game of tug a war . They stole a shoelace from my son's hockey bag and were both pulling on it.
Pretending to be sleeping but Mimzy gave them away

Today was an organizing day organize Christmas gifts, clean up desk, move animals around and go through paper work and realize I made a HUGE....!!! HUGE...!!!!! HUGE mistake in our bills I sent nearly 6 thousands dollars to the wrong fuel people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh Man was I sweating, felt sick, wanted to cry so tomorrow I will phone and explain why they did not get paid and we have a credit at another stupid things is we don't owe anything at the place I paid. I blame it on no time to think, no quiet time and too little of writing on the computer plus I just plain suck at book keeping ... oh man do I hate it. I hate it even more now as I try to fumble my way out of this one. Really no big deal if I had an extra 12000,oo laying around. Needless to say my husband was not overly thrilled but at least he didn't say too much.
Well I am off to read for a bit unstress and go to sleep. I hope if any of you make a mistake it is not as costly as mine.

PS if you go to the link at the side of my blog of our local paper and go to sports section and find where it says building up the miles that is my youngest son when he finishes this card I believe he is at 40 miles or so.

New Friend

We have a new friend in the house and at this moment his name is Blinky but names tend to get changed around here several times until one sticks. Mimzy is so happy to have someone his size to torment. They are very cute. George are bigger cat loves him too it his really good with him. George is an amazing cat pretty easy going, in fact he is so easy going he watches the mice go by and never bothers them.

Snow snow and more snow then rain rain and more rain it is over 24 hours since they have plowed our roads. Watching the bus try to get down the hill from they highway and then make the turn on the bridge made me age 10 years it was awful. I think they have forgotten us out here.
It took us hours to dig out the animals and gates as soon as it was day break we went out. I am absolutely knackered and my arms are sore. Isn't it funny when you write about the moment it just does not seem to be as dramatic as when you are dealing with it but just so you get it, it was bloody awful.
Have a safe evening keep dry and stay off the roads.

Cookie Exchange

There was all sorts of lovely cookies we came home with a great hall. The day was fun it snowed and snowed all day our roads were horrible my girls were far out of town and had a terrible trip home. Me well I went to the cookie exchange and my van was having huge issues we kept sliding then I spun out near the top of the ladies driveway not too bad I was going to slow up still I backed down then got stuck nothing to bad just could not get out so some poor man had to figure out how to two the van out no easy task and another man drove it up while he pulled. I made my mom get out and hold her cookies :)
Then my husband and dad came and I let my husband drive home our van just could not manage the snow today. Later my husband wanted to go and pick up our kids in town but he could not make it up the hill to the highway actually he could not get off the bridge so he backed up and went out to town the other way and said he went completely sideways up the hill. I think I should hibernate for the rest of winter.

Today we went to Kamloops the roads were not too bad but the wind was very cold. The kids had fun spent their money and I think the Christmas Spirit was creeping in. Tomorrow we have to be in town for 8am the girls go out of town for hockey plus we have hockey here. We hope to have time in the morning to find a tree and then it is cookie exchange time should be fun. Have a good weekend I am off to knit on my scarf.

Chocolate Night

I just got home from making chocolates with my mom we try to do it every year and we always feel sick from testing. I will post pictures later. We had a little trouble with the pink chocolate nothing too serious just a lot of smoke from the Microwave :) So now to hide them until we get a little bit closer to Christmas...yeah good luck... I have had to have a guard on my cookie exchange cookies I am not sure why they don't just bake some.
I am getting a little bit of spinning done but not a whole lot I am hoping for the meetings to settle down. Tomorrow we are off to go to my youngest son's hockey game and let the kids do some Christmas shopping and pick our tree, the n my husband will go pick it up and we will have to store it very carefully from dogs, goats etc until next week we usually put it up on or around my husbands birthday. We are finding it harder and harder to squeeze time in to find a tree so we cancelled a few games so we could go this weekend.
Well I have to go and try to stay awake until 11:30 until my daughter gets home from time keeping our neighbor has offered to bring her home as he refs the last game that she time keeps.

Tonight my oldest daughter and I went to her boyfriends moms house to learn how to make cards. It was a lot of fun and there is so many clever ideas. While we went for our visit my oldest son and and husband went to a meeting at the high school on different colleges offering "trades".
It is funny so much goes on in a day but really I have nothing to write about I think I am too tired to think so I will go get ready for bed.

If I have one more meeting it will be one too many, I have had a meeting or two a night to attend every night this week. Sometimes I think it is all a waste of time but oh well here I am in the midst of it knee deep. It is getting quite slippery out there tonight and it was snowing when I drove home tonight.
I won't write long as I am very tired and tomorrow is another busy day.

Baby Mimzy's first bath at our house and he really did not mind it.

Start of a full moon

The moon was just coming over the mountain it ended up being so bright and it arrived with some very cool weather.

Christmas Parade

Our town has a lovely Christmas Parade so many people come out to see it and so many floats participate in it. This year seemed a lot warmer than the last few years.

This is Hobo keeping warm in the new Hay shed he is a just year old now and it is kinda sad we think his hips are going or there is something else happening. He has made friends with the cat at the barn and they cuddle together.