my creations

I finally finished making the cushions to go with the furniture and the home made curtains. So here are the pictures of my made-over living room. Oh and the other picture is of chloe with her piano playing at the talent show. I have been keeping myself very busy. Tabitha has had her hearing test and I am happy to report her hearing is just fine. Still don't know what's happening with the job situation. appearantly they like to drag things out as long as possible so it might be a while before we know about the "promotion" if it happens or not.

Life's Embarrassing Moments....

So before I get into the embarrassing moment sega, I am very excited to report that I have new living room furniture!! I've been happily sewing away making new curtains and cushions, and when I am finished I will be posting the pictures of the end product!! OK, now too the embarrassing bit... On sunday we had the High Counsel visit, and he was giving a talk on the importance of being reverant during sacrament meeting and coming spiritually prepared. Well, he just finished talking about how irreverent cell phones were when my cell phone started ringing!!! I frantically tried to find it and turn it off, but my bag had so many pockets...so I ended up exiting as quickly as possible. 99% of the time I either don't bring it or make sure its turned off, but the one time that I forget.....and the person who was calling? responding to an add i placed on kijiji to get rid of some extra rocks!! the few people who actually know my cell phone number would never call me on sunday, they all know better, talk about timing!!!! Quite a few people snickering at that one let me tell you!!!! I seriously wouldn't mind moving up north now...

pictures

I know these pictures are pretty similar to the ones on facebook but I promised I'd post them so here they are. Since I'm on here I had a great mother's day. At church the teachers recorded what the kids liked about their moms on a little keepsake momento. I laughed when I read Amber's, she said she likes my feet!!!! I got some very very cute homemade things from the girls this year and chloe kept freaking out if I even tried to go in the kitchen~! she has banned me from doing any work today~~!!! The talks at church were very very good today too. Chloe made sure I had breakfast in bed and lots of love and cuddles. Daddy has been keeping up with the dishes and changing all of Tabitha's diapers :) The youth speaker today was the daughter of the counsellor who assigns the talks...usually in our ward there is a tradition of good naturedly poking fun at the one in charge of assigning talks and trying to avoid him. Well since she was his daughter it was too funny when she got up and said she tried to avoid brother caulbeck, but it didn't work out so well!! She had some interesting information on how mother's day started and that the person who started it actually wished she hadn't and got arrested for protesting the commercilization of mothers day. She felt that cards were a lazy way and that heart felt letters were better. it was cute because she said I'm glad that this lady started mothers day, even though she got arrested for it later!!! I'm still patiently (or atleast making an effort at patience anyway) waiting for my seeds to start sprouting. I still feel like I"m just watering piles of dirt...but hopefully soon I'll see little suprises pop up through the soil Atleast my peas and spinach are doing very very well, and my corn too. I don't mean to write such long posts, but somehow I get carried away.....

A Quick Update pictures will follow on sunday, and a video clip if i can figure out how!

Wow, I've been outside more often then in, but today its raining so I'm trying to catch up a bit on stuff! Chloe has achievement girls and we have to leave in a bit but I can atleast do the writing portion for now, and sometime between now and sunday I will add the pictures and videos. When matthew went to Toronto, the hotel that the conference was at had valet parking,..and since he was driving his POS 1995 NEON that has paint chipping off everywhere, he was pretty embarrassed. They all had to wait for their cars at the end of the conference and he was hoping he would be the last one so nobody would notice but they pulled it up behind a wall and asked who owned the white neon so he was saved! He says he plans on having a different car next time!!! Also, his elevator got stuck after eating a big meal at the restaurant and he was stuck in there for over an hour..they had the fire department there and everything. He says it got pretty hot in there, but his main concern was trying not to break wind since he had just eaten such a big meal LOL!!!!Chloe did a little line dance performance at her school all decked out in cowboy clothes and I have a video, if I can figure out how to download it on here. Amber has gotten her first birthday party invitation!! I've been outside digging, shovelling, weeding, planting, watering etc. I bought myself a wheelbarrel and the second time it was used the valve broke off the tire tube!! Well, of course i couldn't find the receipt, so I hoped for the best and took the tube back to the store hoping to replace it. The clerk said i needed to bring the whole tire...so i sighed and left and came back the next day with the whole tire. well this time it was a different clerk, who told me I had to bring the whole damn wheelbarrel!! GRRRRRR so, I went back got it and then got a different clerk who said that they could have just replaced the tube !!!@$#@#$@#$@#$@#$@#%#$%# She apologized for all the trouble I went through and told me there are a lot of knew people in her department. This all happened at RONA incase you are wondering where I had all this trouble. Matthew informed me just before the weekend that he applied for a job in northern ontario. Appearantly if he got it we would have to move to Sudbury. I originally though Missassauga, but nope, sudbury...anyway he decided that he will turn down the job even if he actually got it, because it would be hard to sell the house in this economy and moving is never easy or convienient for a host of reasons. Oh and my last little bit of news, I Have blossoms on my apple tree~!!!!!!!! I'm so so so so so excited about that!!!ok, i'm done now, but I promise some pictures before the end of the week!!!!