Funny stuff on Ellen

So, I must confess that I love watching Ellen so much that I have it set to record on the PVR every day. I don't always have the time to sit down and watch every day so I often get caught up when I have a little "me" time in the evenings. Here is something from the show that made me laugh.out.loud.

Winter Weather

We have become accustomed to the frigid prairie weather since we moved to SK almost 4 years ago but this year it has been different. We did have our first snowfall, which never left, during the first week of November but that seems to be pretty normal around these parts. The extremely cold temperatures usually arrives in early December and lasts for a few months but that was not the case this year. We did have about 5 cold days in late November or early December where the windchill dropped to minus thirty-something but then we had mild winter weather after that. It was actually a pleasant surprise. Of course, I wasn't fooled into thinking that our entire winter would be that way. Old man winter has come out in full force this past week. I guess we should be thankful that we had decent winter weather up until this point but I will admit that I'm still cranky about the extreme cold and frigid windchill.

I'm not sure that I've ever been a big fan of winter and snow and all that junk. Well, maybe when I was much younger I did enjoy playing in the snow and I loved a good snowstorm in PEI. I think I might still enjoy winter somewhat if it didn't get any colder than lets say -5 degrees Celsius. I just checked the weather network and as of now we're sitting at -21 but it feels like -33 with the windchill. It is about 10 degrees warmer than yesterday but it's still horribly cold outside. I dread getting Cadence bundled up and having to go out into the cold to pick Cameron up from school in a little bit. I'm also not a fan of the cold because once it gets colder than about -15, I tend to break out in hives when I go out in the cold. The colder it is outside, the quicker the hives appear and the more abundant they are. It's definitely not a fashion statement to have you face covered in giant welts. Cory suggested that maybe I should just wear a balaclava all winter long...because that would be so much more attractive!

Anyway, it is winter in the prairies so it is cold but I don't have to like it. I just try to stay inside as much as possible. The long range forecast does look somewhat promising where it should warm up a little by this coming weekend...so I'm crossing my fingers and toes. For many years, I have been saying that I was meant to live in a warmer climate and I will continue to say this...maybe someday :)

Cadence loves to explore.

So, now that Cadence is on the move, we have to extra diligent to keep an eye on what she is up to. She can crawl and pull herself up to stand at things...she's actually been doing these things for about a month. She started with the army crawl where she would drag herself all over on her belly but she now has the strength to crawl on her hands and knees. It's also easy to see where she's been standing in the living room because she leaves drool marks all along the edge of the couch! She can be right beside you one minute and then gone the next. Usually, she's pretty quiet so you have to go room to room to find her but sometimes we here the little squeals or laughter coming from another room. She loves to go into Cameron's room and play with his stuffed animals but she usually then moves onto the toys...she seems to favor the Star Wars light sabre! The bathroom is also a favorite place for her to go...I should add, she is generally in the dark when she goes on her little explorations. The bathroom scale and garbage can are common attractions in the bathroom but she has taken an interest in the toilet, just as most babies do at some point. We've been trying to remember to close the lid on the toilet but sometimes we forget. Over the past few days, I have found Cadence in the bathroom standing at the toilet just about to dip her little fingers in the toilet water. GROSS! On the upside, she does enjoy getting her hands washed in the sink after her little toilet adventure. I guess it's a water thing...she also just loves the bathtub. As soon as I turn the water on her bath she gets so excited and kicks her feet like crazy. She loves splashing in the water with her little hands. We're so lucky to have children who love the water, I'm not sure what we'd do if we had kids who screamed when it was bath time. Oh, I almost forgot about the dog's bowls. It is quite entertaining to watch Cadence make a beeline for the dog's bowls. Luckily, the food bowl never has food left in it but she quite enjoys dumping th dog's water dish all over the floor!

Doggie Dentures - PEDIGREE® DENTASTIX® Commercial

I'm obviously a dog lover because I love the Pedigree commercials :)

I almost forgot!

I posted before Christmas about how I was trying to decide which pair of Uggs that I liked the most. Well, I finally made my decision so here are the ones that I decided on...I love them!

VEGAS BABY!!

This would be the continuation of my previous post, Company's Coming.

As I mentioned in my last post, we have been fortunate enough to be able to make quite a few trips to PEI since our big move to SK. However, lets face it, a trip to PEI isn't really a vacation for us. I mean we love where we come from and visiting family and friends but we always spend the majority of our time there going from place to place to see people. It also seems hard to divide our time evenly with each of our families and we always worry that one side may have gotten a little more time than the other...so in a nutshell, a trip to PEI can be a little stressful. So, we made the decision in 2010 to go to Orlando, FL and we had an amazing "real" vacation. You can read all about our Florida vacation is previous blogs from 2010.

Now, with all that being said, it has been almost 7 years since Cory and I had a vacation with just the two of us. I mean, we've had the chance to get away for a night or two by ourselves when we are visiting in PEI but again, that's just not the same as a vacation. So, after some discussions we decided that with Jerome and Shirley coming to visit for 2 weeks, that it would be a great opportunity for us to go on a little vacation and they can stay with Cameron and Cadence. They were more than happy to do this for us so we began our search on what to do and where to go.

Obviously, the title of this blog post tells you that we decided on Las Vegas. We have never been there (well, I was there when I was 3 but that doesn't count) and it's somewhere we wouldn't go with our children. We are super excited about this trip. We'll be going for 4 nights and we have a long list of things we want to do while we're there but I'm sure we won't have time for everything (so, we'll just have to go back again when we get the chance). Many of our friends have been to Las Vegas and everyone says that we'll love it. There's just so much to see and do there! We're staying at Tropicana which is an older hotel but it has recently be renovated. The hotel has been getting great reviews from travelers so I'm sure we won't be disappointed. We got a great deal on hotel and flights too! It's pretty much all I've been able to think about since we booked the trip last week. I think it's definitely a much needed, long overdue vacation for Cory and I. Don't worry, I'll take lots of pictures and tell you all about when we get back.

Company's Coming :)

Sometimes it gets a lonely here in little ole Sturgis, SK. I mean we have some really great friends and keep pretty busy but we do miss our family and friends from back home. We were pretty lucky during our first year in SK because my mom was able to come to visit us a few times so that helped during the transition period. We've been fortunate enough to have a number of visitors in the almost 4 years since we moved here and we've had the opportunity to go to PEI at least once each year.

So, in just 4 weeks from now Cory's parents, Jerome and Shirley, are coming to visit us for a couple of weeks. This will be there second visit to Sturgis and it will be so nice to have them here. We haven't told Cameron that they are coming yet though. He kind of gets the I-can-hardly-waits to put it mildly when he finds out that someone is coming to visit or if we happen to be going somewhere ourselves. For example, we told him in April of 2010 that we were taking him to Disney World in October of 2010 and then we had to talk about it almost every.single.day. The question of, "How much longer until we go see Mickey?" was asked almost daily in our house! Another example is from last year when my mom told Cameron that she was coming to visit for his birthday...she told him in January and his birthday is in June. So, of course he asked almost every.single.day. when Nannie would be here. Needless to say, we've learned our lesson and we prefer to surprise him now :) I think he'll be super surprised and very happy to see his Nannie and Grampie because he often tells us how much he misses his family from PEI.

To be continued...

Wow! We've been busy!

Despite many attempts to blog over the past few weeks, I just didn't seem to have the time. Well, that's not completely true...there were times when I did have the opportunity to sit down at the computer and type away but when those times finally arrived, I chose to relax on the beloved couch.

People keep asking us how our Christmas was and I keep saying that it was quiet but it was actually pretty busy for us. Cory was fortunate enough to have a week off over the Christmas holidays again this year so we took the opportunity to get out and do some things as a family. I'll try to summarize the happenings over the holidays for you as best as I can. We had a few trips into Yorkton to do various things such as grocery shopping for our Christmas dinner and snacks, we went to see Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked at the movie theatre (Cadence's first time to the theatre), we went out for Chinese food with some great friends, we drove to Bredenbury to see the Christmas lights, Cory curled in a bonspiel, we went skating, and we visited with friends. I'm sure there might be more but that's what I can recall.

Cory was back to work before the New Year but was working day shifts so we got to ring in the New Year together. We're not much for partying on New Year's Eve though so we had a pretty quiet night at home with just a few friends. We actually crawled into bed just before midnight. Do you think this could be a sign that we getting older? No, I'm sure we were just tired from our busy lives :)

All in all, it was a great holiday. Cameron and Cadence did well with the gifts they received from Santa and others. Cory and I decided not to exchange gifts but our parents did give us a few things so we had some gifts to open too. It was just great to be able to spend the holidays together as a family and it was extra special having our newest addition with us this year.

I think that pretty much sums up everything. It may not sound too exciting but we definitely enjoyed ourselves.