Florida for Thanksgiving!

Here we are at the airport.  After 1 1/2 hours of sleep for me, and none for Trevor, don't we look excited?!!!  Trevor worked until 1am so we could leave, and I just got back from driving the kids down to Stirling and taking Levi for stiches and then driving back.  We were ready for a holiday!

Here are Gary and Alisha.  They were so nice and agreed to come with us on our holiday!

We rented a convertible for the week!  Us ladies tried this with less than glamorous results, so I will be keeping those pictures to myself!

Aren't we happy?  We aren't even sweating yet!

 We did a lot of hot-tubbing and swimming.  It was the only way we could stay sane in the HOT 95 degreee weather.

 

Here we are at the Medieval times dinner theater.  Dressed up like royalty so that we could eat our food with our fingers.  Way too much meat.  The men loved it.  They gave us a half a grilled chicken and a slab of ribs with a bowl of soup and a chunk of potatoes and we went at it!

Trevor got eaten by Jaws at Universal studios...

We were attacked by a T Rex...

And the guys did a little butt grabbing :D

Here we are posing with a random stranger at the MUMMY ride!

My first time in the ocean!

Fort Lauderdale  at night.  We drove here down the coastline from Orlando and checked out all the HUGE houses.  This is taken from a fishing pier out in the ocean.  Very stinky and fishy, but great for pictures!

Butt grab photo...

We drove to the Everglades and took an airboat tour to see the gators.  

Here's our gator.  Isn't he cute?  About a 9 footer.

Trevor with a baby gator.

Then it's off to the cruise and the Bahamas!

 

Cruisin'

And crazy...

 

 

Our tiny Cabin...

Some cool jelly fish in an aquarium in Nassau.

A night of fondue. Yummy chocolate.

Eating Greek on a patio on the coast for thanksgiving!

And back to Calgary!  Thanks for a great trip guys!

Potty training!!!!

Who's a Big Girl Now?  It's going great.  No nasty poo messes yet, and only a few wet ones.

Harlee likes to flush and say "bye-bye poo!"

Here's an update.  While napping yesturday, harlee went potty and decided to flush the ENTIRE roll of paper.  Ten towels later and much elbow grease and the toilet it usable again.  Where are husbands when you really need them????

The new House...again :P

 

Here is my house.  The walls are up, the shingles are on, the wiring and plumbing and heating ducts are all finished.  We had our fist inspection this week, and insulation should be done today with drywalling ordered to commence on Monday.

The back of the house.  The back roof isn't shingled yet, but will be soon.

Yup, more house again...

This is my future kitchen.  The island is where the funny little wall is, and the sink is in the corner under the two windows.  The stove and microwave go under the little cutout square in the wall and the fridge is along the wall on the right.

This is the nook for our kitchen table.

Here are Gary, Adam and Trevor.  Smiling now that all the work here is done.  Adam hates this house because it has too many walls.

My lovely stairs.  What more can you say about that?

This is the bathtub in the master bedroom that I HATE.  I thought it was going to be one of those triangular shaped tubs.  this is really a very small tub.  I'm going to do some whining and see if I can get it changed out this week. :(

I love my house! And this is a rather slimming picture...

Our trip so far!

Here is a link to some pics of the kids at Auntie's house!  Thanks Lace!http://youre-young-youll-get-over-it.blogspot.com/2009/10/day-three.html#comment-form

So this is just a quickie to let you know how we are doing.  So far we have had one child with two sets of stiches.  Pictures to come!  Levi bashed his head on a wall just before I left for calgary on Wednesday night, and off to the hospital we went to get him fixed up.  Three stiches and not a peep out of him.  He is amazing.  I was delayed getting home to calgary so I got about 1.5 hours of sleep before heading off to the airport at 4 am.  We did make it though.  with only a few mnor mishaps.  Gary and Alisha who are traveling with us didn't have the hotel adress and almost didn't make it to the plane!  We called them, though and it all turned out okay. 
We spent the first day flying.  Very boring and cramped.  We had to go around an enormous thurnder storm, and it delayed our flight by 15 minutes, so we were late to the Houston aiport.  We then had about ten minutes to pee and get food, before boarding the flight to Orlando.  Great fun.  We flew over the ocean and followed the coastline.  My first sight of the ocean! 
After finding our rental, we went to the hotel in our Convertable!!!!  A mazda Prius for any who want to know, and ate and swam in the cold outdoor pool before crashing for the night. We saw a few lizards, warmed ourselves in the night air, and didn't get enought sleep!

Day two is today.  We shopped a lot, didn't buy much, and then went to Medievil Times for dinner theater.  Tonnes of fun.  Then called to check on  the kids.  Poor little Levi has three more stiches today!  The poor guy fell and split open his lip and had to get put back together again.  :(  I feel bad that I wasn't there for him, but he was a trooper and took it without tears.  In his prayers tonight he prayed that he would be able to talk and smile tomorrow.  My poor little boy.  We are hoping that we will have no more incidents until after we get home, so pray for us!!!!

We are off to Universal Studios tomorrow, and then staying for the scare night!  I'll let you know how it is!

The house has walls!

So here are some more pictures of our house!  I know that I'm obsessed, but I am just so excited!

Here we are with a floor on!

This is Trevor's brother Gary and his other employee, Adam.

Can you bend over like that?

Here are some of our first walls!  And the pond we will soon get to enjoy!

My hot hubby! Don't you love hot construction workers?

I showed up with the kids and they helped out for a few minutes.  This is Peter helping dad Tyvek with the hammer tacker.

Building more walls.

Main floor is done, minus the garage.

 Having a drink at the end of the day... it was plus 35!

Happy...Un-birthday?

So I accidentally broke a little boys heart in September when I served cupcakes instead of a cake at his birthday.  So, to make amends I promised to make him a cake later.  That later was two days ago.  This little person never forgets.  So we baked a cake.  And because it really isn't anyone's birthday, all the kids got to decorate! 

Levi started out with a handful of sprinkles and then went to town with the icing bag.

Alex came next.  This is very serious work!

Harlee got in there next.  Isn't our cake beautiful?

And finally Peter applied his artistic elements.

What a work of A R T

We sang "happy unbirthday" to everyone.

We are so Proud!!!!