Unplanned work day

Well, kind of a weird day today.

I just came of nights, working until 6am on Sunday, so I felt a bit tired today and took a nap after I dropped the kids off for school. When I woke up, I noticed I missed a call from work....uh oh

I reluctantly called back and they told me there was a scheduling mix-up and wondered if I wanted to come in today (right now) and have Friday off. Having just woke up, I was a bit groggy and said no.....but then I remembered I wanted Friday off so I can enjoy "tourist in your own hometown" will Will, so I went to work.

My shift was 10:30 - 9. but I didn't get there until 11:30, but my supervisor told me not to worry about the hour....YEAH !!

Look at how tall my kids are now !!

Fun cousin day

Just wanted to post about the fun day we had yesterday.

The North Island Chambers came down to visit the South Island Chambers. They arrived shortly after 2pm and we went to the Undersea Gardens. It had a discounted rate because there was no diver show (off season right now)....what they didn't tell us is that there weren't as many fish to see (or they were hiding)...oh well.

After that, we walked over to Fisherman's wharf (15 min walk with the kids) to see some houseboats. While we were there, the harbour ferry showed up and for $10 for each family, we took the ferry back to downtown Victoria.

From there, we met at FutureShop. William needed to buy a $10 cable, and ended up buying a wallmount for his LCD TV...haha, it is hard to go into FutureShop and spend less than $100 !!

After FutureShop we had dinner @ Swiss Chalet and we both headed home from there.

That's about it

math troubles

We finally found Mari's weakness in school....MATH.

She isn't doing too bad, but she doesn't like it. But sometimes she does 'accidental math', which essentially doing math without realizing it. IE, I bought some paper the other day, and there was 30 pages in the package, but I need more pages, so I bought two. Mari says, "so you bought 60 sheets"....."accidental math" :-)

You know she is trying to avoid math when she asks Restita "if I am just a reader at a library, do I need math" :-)

Kids :-)

Well, one more nightshift and then I am done this set and only 2 more to go (at the end of the week)

Happy Valentines day

The girls made a video for all to see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8zSp-ifcyo

Enjoy

not much new

Didn't have much success selling the van last weekend...perhaps this week will be better.

Alisha is getting here 5 yr old shot tomorrow...it should be a fun time for everyone :-)
She told Mari that she is not going to wake up tomorrow so that she doesn't have to get her shot....haha

Lola and Gerry arrived back from the Philippines last week...they seemed have a good time.
Gerry is going to help me with Alisha tomorrow as Restita is working tonight and Tito is her favourite person :-)

that's about it

Old van

Wish me luck today...we have possibly two viewings of the old van...hope it sells as we just got the right-side power mirror fixed to make it easier to sell. (it has been broken for 6+ months, but doesn't look good when selling).

Posted some photos

Took some photos of the van and the girls today. check them out at
http://public.fotki.com/carl/2008/feb2008/

Toothfairy is coming

Mari finally lost another tooth today...AT CHURCH !!

I'll have to post a photo here soon...it is one of the top front teeth so it should be easy to photograph :-)

Alisha is jealous...she wants her teeth to fall out. She evens wants me to punch her face so they come out...silly girl.

Find me a rock

Well, it is that time of my schedule where I go hide under a rock.

Actually, it is not going to be too bad this round. One of the guys is taking a "few" of my shifts, so I'll probably only end up with 1 week of nights.

I work 4:30pm - 3am on Friday night (Sat morn)....then I work Sunday 8:30pm - 6am (Mon morning)...then I am off for a few days and do some more nights.

But at least we have a nice van :-)

Finally !!!

We (I) finally decided on a van....and I found the exact year, model, features (DVD, stow and go seating, lots of power options) from a private seller for $1000 less AND I saved on one of the taxes !!!

Good deal all around....and yes, it is Navy blue pictured below !!

I am pretty excited about this and can't wait to show everyone !!

here are the two colors
of vans.

Still looking

We are still looking for a van....one of the 2006's e saw last week is still for sale....but then again, it has been on the lot for 90 days...sounds like bargaining power to me :-)

they say it is "on sale" for $19000, from $24000....but it isn't worth $24000...who are they kidding? 2007's are worth $24000 (used).

I think we narrowed our choice down to a 2006 Grand Caravan...should we get Navy blue or light blue? hmmm.