weekly update

Well, Mari is done her 7 performances in 10 days....the one thing I didn't realize is that there is always tickets to buy for these performances, usually $5, but multiple that by 7 events times 2 ppl and it starts to add up. (probably about $100 in all)

Tenant moved out today, but we don't have anyone moving in...we sorta missed a young family, but only by a few hours....they had seen the place, loved it, we decided to offer it to them and they ended up taking another place they saw...oh well, gives us some time to paint a room or ??

We have almost come to the conclusion the girls are too big for their carseats...we are having troubles snapping Alisha in...it is SOOO tight. Funny enough, Mari had to use Alisha's seat and it was easier to snap her in....oh well, but the time our road trip happens, we might be fully in booster seats.

Mari was happy today as she finally outgrew her toddler helmet and we had to buy her one for 5 yr old (and beyond). She has a princess one now. No big surprises there.

We tried to have a date night tonight since we both have the day off, but we are running low on free babysitting and they have both spent quite a bit of time with the girls recently...perhaps next week. I ended up going to the Roxy theatre tonight and saw two movies. The Bucket list with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman and "The other Boleyn girl"....they were both pretty good and worth the $5 I spent seeing them both. Click on the links for more info on them.

That's about it...Restita finished her 8 of 9 nights stretch, so all is back to "normal".

Mari Choir performance

Here is a video of Mari in a choir....first just her Primary Choir, and then in amongst the merging of 6? choirs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAjRvwD_Y-w

It is about 10.5 minutes long, so grab some popcorn and enjoy.

tax time part 2

still haven't filed those pesky taxes...I should file soon as I am getting a refund.

then this came in my email this morning...haha

tax time

arggh...working through the taxes.....does anyone get the feeling that if they get a refund, they must be doing something wrong?

anywayz, Mari is out with Tita for a few hours. Restita is at a playdate with Alisha and the Ballinger boys...and I am doing taxes :-(

here is a link to cheer you up
http://www.procreo.jp/labo/flower_garden.swf click anywhere to begin :-)

Fun cousin day (again)

yet another successful cousin day.

Will and his girls came down and we met up for lunch, then we went to Beacon Hill Park and had an awesome suprise...ALL the girls got to bottle feed a small lamb !!

Here are some
photos from today

It is a start..

Would you believe we finally got around to diving into the carport stuff? only 7 months later...but it is a good start.

So far we have a vanload of stuff to give away to the Salvation Army...but it is not a easy as one thinks to do this....We called the SA nearest to us, they told us that we could drop things off at the warehouse on Quadra...great..we know where that was...except that it was shut down with a note where the new location is...we had to drive by again to get the address, and glad it was not too far away. We went to the new location and there are SA trucks around, but nobody to be seen...soooo, we called one the of SA stores again and they don't know what the hours are (being a new location and all)....argghh

**update - we went to the SA the next day and was able to give away the stuff and the guy was somewhat nice about it, so it all ended well

Well, there is always tomorrow.