2010 Christmas Card

Christmas is officially less than one week away! Procrastination was a strong characteristic for me this festive season, so I am not exactly ready, so I better get my butt into high gear this week!

Last week however, I did manage to find sometime to complete our Christmas card (YAY), too bad I didn't leave enough time to mail them (Boo lol)... but I got creative and used social media to my advantage, and sent them out via Facebook and email (YAY me!).

We are staying local this Christmas. Christmas eve will be spent at my parents house with family, Christmas morning will be at our place, and then back over to my parents house for a big family dinner! :) I am looking forward to spending time with family and enjoying some much needed time off!

Loralai at 2.5 years old update

So Loralai is officially 2.5 years old, and man oh man over the last week she has definitely filled the stereotype of the terrible two's. Whining, screeching, not listening, temper tantrums.... she had been so great, when she just started to really understand and I could reason with her, the two's kicked in with vengeance.

Of course the above is just a Mommy frustration vent... there has been so many fun and proud moments for this Mommy lately as well, more so then those frustrating moments, but sometimes after a long day of frustration, it is hard to remember the good ones, even though the good outweigh the bad 5-1! Just look at this smile...

Loralai Fun Facts:

• Size 8 shoe
• 3T clothes (big in the waist but her legs and torso are so long)
  
• Knows all her simple shapes
• Finally knows her colours
• Her favourite toy(s) are still her two very special babies that she takes to bed with her every night.

So this past week has been eventful to say the least. Last Friday night we went to Todd's Gala (Christmas Party), Todd was the DJ so I brought our friend Jeff along as my date. We we were literrally around the corner from the hall and someone side swiped my truck, we were all going fairly slow so it cause very minimal damage to both vehicles, but it was still a heck of a way to begin the evening. Then while we were just about to sit down for dinner, Todd called me up to the front and let me know that my mom had called and said Loralai was throwing up :( So we decided to eat dinner since it was about to be served, and then call back to see how she was doing. Loralai was sleeping when we called back, so I enjoyed the evening as much as I could considering my mind was with Loralai an hour a way, but it was fun night!




Then on Tuesday I got the same flu as Loralai had on that Friday, then on Thursday when I was finally feeling a little better the carbon monoxide detector went off, so I called the fire department and they sent over a truck to check it out. They got a reading, and called the gas company to come for further inspection. I had a dentist appointment booked for that morning, so my parents came over and waited for the gas company for me. It turned out that it was a false alarm, but we did find out that we should be keeping our pipes clear of snow, they should let you know this when you buy a house! Thank goodness for alarms!

So I think that we had enough interesting days for the past week, so I am hoping that the next week leading up to Christmas is fairly uneventful...well we can only hope ;)

Message from Santa

Here is the link to Santa's video message to Loralai! :)

Our Christmas Video

This is our funny Christmas video! It takes a minute to upload...enjoy :)

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2010 Status

So as I was reading my many daily blogs that I follow, one of them had a post about an application that Facebook has called My Year in Status, and I knew I had to have one too!

Since our lives now are made up of social networks, we might as well embrace it! I am happy that the majority of my status changes are positive in nature, but I am going to try and make a New Year resolution and ensure that 2011 99% of them are positive. Positive thinking lead to positive outcomes!

Our Adventures!

So I have been a bad blogger lately, and well also a bad picture taker too! But regardless of the lack of photos and blogging, we have been up to some fun and interesting activities lately!

First: last week the Christmas train came through Midhurst and we were there! The train stops in cities and towns all over for donations to local food banks. It would have been a lot more fun had the train rolled through in the evening since it adorns lots of lights, but nevertheless Loralai loved seeing the train. She kept saying "I go on the train?", poor thing was a little disappointed that she was not able to ride on it.

There was a little concert that was put on; I do have to admit they could have used a more kid friendly band, and the Santa was a tad quirky, but no one seemed to mind too much.

This is by far my favourite picture in a while, even with the 'I want to watch the train, hurry up and take the picture Mommy' look Loralai is giving me! :)


Second: So I found a recipe to make home made ornaments and got super excited! I ran out and bought some Christmas cookie cutters that night, and the next morning Loralai and I mixed together the dough (flour, salt, and water), and cut out the shapes. I then put them into the oven for 2 hours so that they could harden. That afternoon I got the paint (lol I should have gotten more traditional Christmas colours), and we sat down together to paint. Well below is the only picture that she was actually cooperating and painting the ornaments, instead of trying to eat them! She kept saying :I eat the cookies?" I would have to explain that they were actually ornaments. I even got her a regular cookie thinking that maybe she would stop and just enjoy painting, but nope! I actually had to put the ornaments we made away, and we just painted on paper together instead! lol...well it is still a great activity but obviously a little too soon for Loralai to do, so I will try again next year!

Third: So in our area there has been a really bad snow storm circulating, and up until this morning it had seemed to get all around but fortunately miss us...well that was until this morning when we woke up to this:

So after finding out that I did not have to go to work for the 3rd day in a row (yay lol) because the Base had been shut down, and Daddy shoveling the drive way which took him close to 3 hours. we decided that we needed some Christmas spirit to lift our drowning in snow funk, so we went out and got our Christmas tree!

So although we do like going to the tree farm to participate in all the activities they have, the trees are expensive and out of our price range, so we went to a local nursery to look for a tree instead. In the end we actually went to Rona and purchased our tree since the price was better for the size of tree we wanted, but Loralai had a ball running around in all the trees at the nursery!


So the snow has hardly stopped all day today, so we headed back out there and shoveled once again. Loralai was helping us shovel until she noticed her Dora umbrella! I wish that I could have had an umbrella held over my head to keep the snow from getting me all cold and wet! What a smart cookie I have! :)

New additions to our home!

I am excited about these next few items that we brought into our house over the last week that I wanted to share them with you!

First is Loralai's new bed and vanity!

We have to give a special thanks to my cousin Lissa for very kindly handing down her daughter's bed and vanity to Loralai! Loralai absolutely loves the vanity and the bed is just perfect! I am going to add a couple of hooks on the wall and get her some play clothes and jewelry. Finally she has a real bed as opposed to just a mattress on the floor! It makes a huge difference for Mommy and Daddy trying to get out of her bed quietly every night after we put her to bed (I know we are bad laying down with her until she falls asleep!). The vanity (since it has seen it's way through two small cousins) might need a little TLC eventually with a sanding and some paint, but the fact that Loralai is only 2 and still a little hard on things, the vanity is perfect just as is!

This addition is my new best friend! I love my new Blackberry Torch :)

I really thought about getting the Iphone 4, but honestly I loved my last Blackberry, and was not sure if I could really let go of my BBM (Blackberry Messenger) and the keyboard, so I knew that the Torch was the only way to go for me! :)

Happy Halloween!

What does a skelton order at a resturant? Spare ribs

What happened to the guy who didn't pay his exorcist? He was repossessed

What does Tweety Bird say on Halloween? Twick or Tweet

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We had such a fun Halloween! We painted the pumpkins in the morning and trick or treated around the neighbourhood that night! Loralai was too shy to actually say trick or treat at anyone's door (even though we practiced and she became so good at saying it), so Mommy took that task and Loralai just casually stuck out her bag lol. We probably went to about 15 houses in total and most of them were to people we know on our street or on Grandma and Papa's street. So Loralai probably got about a half a bag full of candy, and believe me that is more then plenty for a 2 year old (and her parents that seem to be gravitated to the bag as well)!

In the first picture we have the Daddy, Mommy, and Baby pumpkins. The Daddy pumpkin is the one we actually grew in our backyard! How great did it turn out? We are proud :)

I am not really into carving the pumpkins, maybe because it just seems to be time consuming and is super messy. Plus although Loralai can participate, most of the carving tasks need to be completed by an adult, so at least with painting she can go to creative town, plus she just thought that painting a pumpkin was the best thing!! In the last picture I asked her what she was painting and she made this scary face lol.

Is this not the cutest duck you have ever seen? We think so :)

Florida Vacation.

So we are back from Florida and we had a great time! The weather was so beautiful the entire week, so when it started to SNOW for the first time this fall/winter season here at home, it made me long to go back and bask in the sunshine!

For this post I wanted to try writing from a different perceptive rather then just my own; my fellow blog Mommy Jenny from Belly Diaries sometimes blogs from the perspective of her son Preston, who happens to be exactly 2 days older then Loralai, and it is such a fun little read! So thank you Jenny for the inspiration :)

Please note that this post will be rather long.

So here is our Florida vacation from Loralai's perspective:

Vacation Bound!

Loralai, Grandma Brenda (my mom), and I are going to Florida this week! Loralai is going to meet her Grandma Maggie (hubby's mom) for the 2nd time since she was 8 months old. We will update and upload pictures when we get back :)

Have a great week everyone!