Summer

Card I received in the mail today..

"Dear Samantha,

With many thanks I enclosed a cheque to cover the photos that you sent for me! It was very kind of you to take the responsibility to pay for them and send them! Blacks should know what a wonderful employee they have in you.

I tell my story of what you did to my family, and they all say it makes them feel good to know that there are such kind and caring people in the world too - one only hears about the bad, and not the good. So thank you! Wishing you and your family much happiness and good health.

Best, Susan O'Neill"

Today is for...

- laundry
- vacuuming
- dusting
- a few phone calls
- cleaning, cleaning, cleaning...

that's if I ever get out of my comfy bed.

Random

I sit here way past my bedtime in a 'I'm so tired but I'm on my second wind' kind of state. Thinking about just simple things like colors, smells, what I like and dislike and why, etc. Smelling and sipping on my passion tea...

I'd love to go on more but I know I'm tired and really need to try and get some rest.

Good night!

Happy New Year!

So yesterday we had finger food for supper and then a chocolate fondue for dessert. It tasted gooood. Then we went over to the Peet's house for the countdown. Best part = I got my New Years kiss with the most wonderful man ever. :)
Today though all I have been doing is sitting in bed watching the tv. Turk has been sick so I like being beside him just in case he needs something.

I've been thinking over what I want to do this new year. I know resolutions rarely actually get crossed of the list but I still want to make one. A few things I'd put on there would be: Take better care of my body, spend more time as a family, take part in an art class/apply to a school for art, and plan our wedding (which we'd like to have in summer of 2012).

What are yours?

Instant Mini

My first photo taken with my new Instant Mini. I LOVE it!
<3

Boxing Day

So Christmas has now come and gone. It was a great couple days with the family. Christmas Eve consisted of working then going to pick up Joan (Turk's mom) and coming home to Jen making supper. It was such a great supper. Everything she made was a new recipe that she has never made before. I ate potato and bacon soup, cheese and bacon pinwheels, and zesty spicy chicken. All of it was fabulous! Turk really liked the soup the most. Then we opened up stockings and wow was there a lot of gifts! Even the pets got their own stocking stuffers. lol The kids did get to open two stockings because one was from us and the other from their other Grandma from MB. After that was done we had a Wii competition. We played seven different games and in the finals it was between Bay and myself. We played golf and he won by seven strokes. It was great to spend time with the kids and have some friendly competition. We all ended up having a great time together and that's something that I hold dear.

On Christmas day we opened up presents, after waking Jen up at 10am. I could hardly sleep the night before. I was up at least 3 times during the night and had butterflies in my stomach. I was so excited for us to all open our gifts and since this is the first Christmas all living under the same roof. (Of course except for Brooklyn and Cassidy who are still back in MB with Pam and Danny) Opening presents lasted an hour and fifteen mins. Then we all kinda played with our new toys. After a little while Joan started to make supper and then we sat down and ate stuffing, gravy, turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, and veggies. After cleaning up the dishes we relaxed. Later on in the night we all ended up Skyping with Brooklyn and Cassidy. Our holiday was complete after hearing their giggles and seeing them, even if it over the computer.

Today I have slept all day, Turk went to work, Jen is in her room, and Bay has a friend over. I'm watching the World Jr game (on mute cause I could only find it on the french channel), eating a late lunch and listening to music on Turk's new iPig. I don't want to jabber on too much longer so I'm just gonna end with pics of the presents that I received this year. Only things missing from the photo are a bag of Mini eggs that I have already ate, a Menno cookbook and a Walmart gift card.