Would you laugh, cry or scream? I think I'd laugh...well I'm laughing now cuz they aren't my kids;)

Guess what Mom? We painted! I hope their Mom has a sense of humor.

I don't have to say anything else;)

You are a redneck if...

This brings back so many camp memories:)

"I'm My Own Grandpa"

"If thou canst read this, the damsel felleth off"

First Baby Photos!

Jessi posted these on her blog last week but I thought I'd share them here! These are the first ultrasound pictures of Paul and Jessi's baby!!!
This is the head and body!
That is the foot!
That's the hand!

Ooops

Jessi left a comment and reminded me that she isn't due March 3rd. It's March 1st... I just can't seem to remember that though =)

Aunt Essie:)

I am a horrible blogger...I haven't blogged for almost a month! But here is something that I have meant to post for that whole month!!!:
You may wonder why I am posting a picture of someone's stomach. That stomach belongs to my sister and my future niece or nephew is all snuggly inside! Yep, for those of you who didn't know, I am going to be an AUNT!!! (You must've been living on another planet to not know by now;)) Jessi is 17 weeks along!!! So that's my SUPER exciting news!!! Jessi has posted about it on her blog. Here's what a 17 week baby looks like:

I got that photo from google so if it looks way off let me know;)

I'm SO SUPER excited!!! Can't wait for the baby to come...Jessi is due March 3rdish:)

Eric &Carrie's Wedding

Wow, it's been almost a month since I last "blogged" Here are some pictures from Eric & Carrie's wedding last weekend. (August 12) There are more pictures on Jessi's Blog!

Kissy Kissy :)


Wedding Party


Sleepy Eric


Sisters:)


Girlfriends! :)


Aww... :-><-:

Spenny-boy the Cowboy is 17!!

I forgot to post anything for Spen's birthday...which was almost 2 weeks ago...I don't have any pictures of him from when he was little...but here are a couple that we took on Sunday I took the second one, he took the first one.

Squirrel Murderer & G2

I killed a squirrel:'( I was driving along and there was this squirrel in the middle of my lane and so I thought I'd just keep driving and if it were a smart squirrel he'd stay where he was. But no, he had to run under my back tire and get killed. That's how I know it was a "he" squirrel...He was slow in making up his mind and as a result he got squished:)

Ok, that was my story of the day. But something exciting! I have my G2!!! Yay! and I bought a steering wheel cover. It's a grayish purple-ish satin with black lace on top of it...I love it!

Prayer Request

My parents just recieved this from a man at our chaple. Please Pray

Dear Prayer Partners,

You may recall that I had previously asked for prayer for Sigurd Ericksson,
a friend of mine who with his wife attended the family bible hour with Dale
and I some months ago when Bill McRae was speaking on the Da Vinci code. At
that meeting, I felt Sigurd heard an excellent Gospel message and the clear
call of the Savior.

Sigurd's response afterwards was typical of his hard heart t/w God: "anyone
who believes throws their mind away."

Several weeks ago, doctors at McMaster University hospital discovered Sigurd
had a cancerous growth in the tube between the gall bladder and liver, next
to the liver: in an inoperable area.

Tonight after meeting we had a recorded call that the doctors have predicted
3-6 weeks for Sigurd to live.

Please pray that the Lord will give us an opportunity to visit him in
hospital (he is in much pain and sedated) and that the Lord will change his
hard heart that He may receive Christ at this 11th hour.

Thanks for your earnest prayers.

If anyone can give this request a wider circulation, I am sure the Lord
Himself will be honored by that.

With great concern,

Doug Stubbs

My Mum Is Coming Home!

My Mum is coming home today! I'm so excited!!! Her flight gets in at 8:40pm. I can't believe how fast six weeks have gone by. Anyways, I just thought I'd let anyone who reads this, if anyone does;), that I'm excited my Mum is coming home!

long needed update not at all in order;)

Ok, my sister left me a comment and pointed out that I am not working this week and I need to update my blog… So ...where do I start??? Umm…my cousin Mark got married the beginning of June and I went down to North Carolina for the wedding. I travelled with my Aunt Polly & Uncle Frank! It was a very fun trip and a really nice wedding! My Aunt Lois and Uncle Tom and my cousins Julie and Ben came up after the wedding and stayed here for a couple of weeks. (that’s Mark’s Mum, Dad and two youngest siblings) Umm… I worked all of June and everyday was pretty much the same. My Mum left on June 12 to go to Nigeria for 6 weeks and she’ll be back in 6 days! I miss her! I have been the only female in this house for too long!

I went to Guelph Bible Camp the first week of July to watch the director’s children and some of their staff’s kids. I had so much fun there! But I don’t feel like writing it all out at the moment… maybe later

I did something I have never done before...I failed my drivers test yesterday. I had a horrible woman test me. She was in a bad mood and I was really nervous at the beginning so I did a couple of things that I have NEVER done before right at the beginning and so she failed me. Now I have to wait 10 days before I can take another test. Oh well, I just hope that I have my licence before August so I can go to Ohio!!! (I’ll come somehow Jessi, even if I don’t have my licence)
Last Saturday my Dad, Caleb and I went and saw Pirates 2! SO SO SO good! If you haven’t seen it you should! And if you’ve already seen it…go again! I loved it! I want to see it again! Anyways, Caleb is having a friend over and I am in the middle of making Pizza! And I just realized that I don’t know if we have sauce for on the pizza…I wonder if Salsa would workJ I’ll think up something!
(Is that a good update Jessi;D)

My first car!!!

I have a car!!! I will officailly own it today after I pay for it! :) It is a white 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra and it has a blue interior. Here's what it looks like only mines white...this is just a picture I found on the web. I'll take a picture of mine soon!!!

"You have sprinkles on your toes"

Yesterday while I was at work I was playing "Superheros" with one of the boys I watch. He told me I had to have bare feet like he did. I told him I did have bare feet and he said "No you don't, you have sprinkles on them. I asked him where the sprinkles were and he said "There on your toes." He was talking about my nail polish;) It was cute:)

No more princes left... :'(

I think I have killed my Prince Charming...well, my second one:( About three years ago, Jessi ran over a frog. I think that was my first prince. Last night I was driving home and I popped a frog, I heard him pop when I ran over him!!! It was so gross I slowed down to 50km on a 80km road. Eww Eww Eww...it still grosses me out! I have killed my prince:( What are the chaces of there being a third??? ;)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CALEBINA!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CALEBINA!!!




Today Caleb is 14 and so I thought I'd post some pictures of him. This one is my absolute favorite. Jessica and I used to dress him up in dresses, do his make-up and call him "Calebina" It was fun! In this picture he is about 6yrs.

Caleb looking angelic...

Caleb performing in our yard!

No more school!!! :)

I finished school on Wednesday and I am so glad! No more torturous assignments! I also got the job I wanted and I start on Monday! It’s going to be a bit crazy because I’m going to a Ladies Conference for the weekend; I get home Sunday afternoon and then I have to work on Monday and I still haven’t finished unpacking from school! I’m working for someone who does shift work so I have every Friday off and I don’t always work in the mornings. Anyways, I'm off now to pack for the weekend!

"Will you marry me?"

Last night as I was studying psychology and listening to country songs a VERY random thought popped into my head. When a guy says "Will you marry me?" I think it is very UN-romantic. It reminds me of someone saying "will you pass the salt?" On top of being unromantic it's also very unoriginal. Millions of other guys have used that same phrase. Millions of women have answered "yes" to that very unromantic question. Why do guys bother spending their time planning up romantic ways to propose and then ask in such an unromantic way? Ok, so it's not as bad as a guy saying "Marry me" I think that's just rude;) But I would think they could be a little more original in their asking.
I had a great proposal idea last night but alas, I cannot remember it. If any of you have original and romantic ideas of propsing I'd love to hear them! Maybe some guys will read this post and pick up some ideas ;)

Mmm...

I can just imagine the fun I'd have eating this! Oh, I wish!!!

I see a light at the end of this dark tunnel known as school!

I am finally done two tests! I had my Curriculum Development and Guidance test today. I really did not like those classes and couldn't be happier to see them done! Although I do unfortunately have Curriculum Development next semester but no more Guidance! Ever! No more listening to someone tell us we can't say "no" to children and that we have to ignore some bad behaviours because it will give them low self esteem if we address them. None of us liked that class...I wonder why they bother to teach it. Oh well, I never have to put up with it again!
Tomorrow morning I have my Psychology test. I am looking forward to that one! I really liked Psych. I had a great teacher who made it all very interesting. And it helps that the tests are all multiple choice! On Wednesday I have my very last test of the semester in Child Development! It was also a very interesting subject. This test will be on adolescence to mid-teens. Shouldn't be too hard, it's mostly multiple choice with three VERY short essay questions. Anyways, I'm sure you all enjoyed reading about my tests;) I have to go so I can study.

"I should be sleeping,'stead of keeping these late hours, I've been keeping"

Yawn, it's late...I should be studying or sleeping but instead I am blogging! I need to come up with a way to do all three together...;)
I just thought I'd let ya'll know that I have a job interview tomorrow afternoon! It's a nanny job for a 4 1/2 year old and 17 month old. Both are boys! =0 They are actually the same ages as the boys I watched last summer so I think I'm qualified;) The job would be four days a week from the end of April until the end of August. I just thought I'd post that joyous bit of news! I must get to sleep now!

NO MORE CLASSES!

I am so excited! I am done classes for this semester!!! I had my last one today and instead of it being 3 hours, we only had class for 1 1/2 hours! So nice! Next week I have four tests...not so excited about those. I think I'll enjoy the psychology test though; 100 mulitple choice questions... chances are I'll pass :-D Well, I have to go do some studying and other wonderful things like that. I just thought I'd share my excitement with all of you wonderful people who read my blog!

Jessi came up!

I had such an enjoyable Easter Holiday! Last Wednesday Jessi came up as a surprise. She had told us that she'd be up on Thursday but she drove up a day early to surprise us all. Paul couldn't come because of work. I had a great time just talking to her and hanging out! Just like we used to! It was so fun! She had come up for the Easter conference, which was really good!
On Thursday we went shopping, and on Friday and Saturday we were at the Easter Conference. The speakers, Joe Mikhael and Mike Atwood, were really good and they both have such a passion for God. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to them. I helped in the nursery on Friday and so I got to watch Joe Mikhael's daughter. She is SO cute!
So yeah, that's basically my weekend, hanging out with family and friends, going to the conference, and meeting new friends=)
There are some great pictures of the weekend on Jessi's blog

Time wasting movie clips! Wonderful way to spend a two hour lunch break!

Some great movie clips I just found:
Master Juggler
Dancing Pilot
Trampoline Hang
Supermarket Groovin'
Car Soccer
Mistakes on Ice
Speed Skating
Crazy Jumps

Eagle Cam

This is a very cool website! It's live feed from an Eagles nest with two eggs in it! CAMERA

Adventures of two students in Oshawa!

Today Michelle and I wanted to go for a walk. So we did. We were walking down Simcoe and we saw this LOVELY house. The McLaughlin House. Of course Michelle and I couldn't pass it without going in to explore the grounds. Yes, you usually need to book a tour, but we decided to give ourselves a self guided tour and so we decided we didn't have to pay;) So we wandered all over the place. The website has some wonderful pictures to look at. It was so pretty there that we didn't want to leave. It doesn't look quite as nice as in the pictures because they don't have all the flowers or water yet. So after wandering around the whole place, we decided to leave. Only we didn't want to go out the front gate in case someone saw us...So, we wandered around the chain-link fence at the back looking for a way out. There was a pile of leaves and tree branches composting right beside the fence that we were going to climb up and then jump over the fence. But when we got up there we decided we would probably hurt ourselves if we jumped over. So Michelle, being the smart girl she is, discovered that we could crawl under the gate in the fence! So we did...only after crawling out from under the fence we discovered that there were signs posted all over the place that said the property was under video surveillance =O So then we spent the next 10 minutes of our walk discussing how to explain ourselves if we were caught...Michelle's idea was to claim ignorance to the signs being there. Which is true, we didn't see them til after we left. But nothing happened...and you better not report us! ;)