From our family to all of yours, Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Years. Here hoping for good things in the New Years and health and happiness for all.

Of course we didn't have enough of our own snow, Garry is out doing the neighbours driveways as well. If it keeps him busy who am I to stop him

A view of the snow storm we are getting from my front door. I was going to take a picture of the house but I was not going out in this. Its too bad you cant actually see the snow falling. It definately looks like Christmas at my house.

Gee I wonder what Garry will be doing today.

This is the view from my bedroom window. We just got the snow cleared from the storm we got on Friday and here it comes again.

Sorry no pictures of us all dressed up for the theater. We had fun, the restaurant was nice they had prime rib and thats what most of us had. The play Naughty Robin Hood was really fun and naughty. We got home at 11pm but it was worth staying up late for.

I usually do my christmas decorations the first sunday in December. Steve, Sheila, Christopher and Amanda came to visit on the America Thanksgiving and they will not be coming for christmas and today is the first Sunday of Advent, so I put the decorations up. I also took my annual family christmas photo of the Hawes while they were here. Its snowing here now, so it really looks nice outside now with the decorations and the lights.

Looking forward to going to the Stirling Theater in two weeks. This years pantomine is Robin Hood, a romp through Sure Would forrest. Last year was Ponocio and when he told a lie, it wasnt his nose that grew. I think this is our fifth year. We go for supper at Platters across the road from the theater. This year there is 10 of us going so it should be a fun night. I have four extra tickets if anyone is interested in showing up and comming with us. Let me know before I sell them off. Two couples backed out this week, but I am not worried about selling the tickets because these shows are always sold out and I had to buy mine in June. No camera's allowed so I wont be able to post pics of the play, but I will take some of us all dressed up.

Hello out there for all of you still in Blog land, just checking in. Everyone here is good, mom and I will be going for our flu shots tomorrow. We had a little bid of snow, but nothing stayed on the ground . We did not get anything near what Barrie or Toronto got, it is like we are in a little bubble and everyone around us got hit and it missed us. I am sure we will get our share soon enough. That's all for now, not much else new except that Garry and I are going to be little willi's godparents, SWEET. Thanks Henry for thinking of us.

Candice and Sarah hogging the linelight

Spookies house on the street? Mine of course, I had a fog machine in the pot making smoke every time the kids came into the driveway

Al and Val

finally, pictures of our Octoberfest shananakins. The pictures speak for themselves

Sorry I have been away for awhile. Work has been insane and I havent made time to blog. I have pictures from our Octoberfest weekend but I seem to be having some trouble downloading the disk to my computer. Candice will take care of that for me when she comes home next weekend. Of course I have been busy sewing. I made candice a costume that looks like the one her favorite final fantasy character wears. And of cource, this year I will be Urserlas the Sea Witch. I found this lovely lime green satin that really, what else could I do with it. So next week when I wear it for holloween I will make sure I get pictures of both of us.

Well, it's been a few weeks. Here is what I have been up to. Took the last week of my vacations for this year. Spent 3 days cleaning the kitchen grout on the ceramic floors and celing them. They look like new. Got one of those H2O mops to keep it looking that way.
I spend 4 days in Toronto with Candice. We went to the \ROM and the Science Center, both were incrediable and I think I need to go again, I am sure there is stuff we missed or didnt spend enough time with the first time out.
My sinuses have been killing me. I cant wait for the first frost. The doctor gave me an antibiotic but it did not work so I will have to go back and get something else. He told me when you blow your nose if it clear snot there is nothing to worry about, but if its green, then thats an infection that can only be fought with and anitbiotics, but the one he gave me did not work so back to the drawing board.
Since I lost the ten pounds he told me to, my liver enzimes have come down, so now I have to stay away from fatty foods. Oh and yeah, I have to excersise more. Apparently getting up to turn the tv on and off is not considered excersise. Other than that everyone here is good. Mom will be coming home soon. It sounded like she had a good time and got to visit alot of people on her trip. Till next time

Hello in blog land, I tried to email David and my account at hotmail would not let me send it to his email. The next time someone e-mail him, make sure he is ready our blogs and that way we can talk to him and not have to worry about downloading an entirely new account. Then again, maybe we are being sensored, I swear, there was nothing inappropriate in it.
And to Monica, yes I am sure your earliest memories of me is toting around a klennex box. Now its both Candice and I fighting over the klennex boxes. They are saying it has been the worst year to date for allergies in this area, even people who have never had problems before are now suffering from allery symtoms. I guess I will just have to wait it out. I start my last week of my vacation for this year. I get another 4 weeks on my anniversary date the end of January. I will be doing my fall cleaning, the furnace and air conditioning people are comming on Monday, I will get all my latest test results on Tuesday, flower beds on Wednesday, rest on Thursday, and visiting Candice on Friday and science center on Saturday and home again on Sunday and then back to work Monday. So I will be very busy next week.

I hate alergy season. Sick, sick, sick and did I mention sick. All week, sneezing, itchy watery eyes and all the ache and pains that come with it. I spend the afternoon in the pool. To He** with the pollen. My rose bushes that should be starting to die off for the fall now have three new loverly roses on them. My day lillies that have gone to seed are now reblooming. and while everything looks beautiful, my sinuses can do without. Oh well, a little sneezing for a great looking front yard, maybe the trade off is not that bad.

Mr sun, sun, Mr golden sun, please shine down on me. Yes finally a day of sunshine, I woke up with my sinuses acting up, they haven't bothered me in quite some time. I took a benadryl and it totally knocked me out, got up at 8, fell asleep on the couch at 10, Garry woke me up at 1 to see if I was going to spend any time in the pool. I went out and fell asleep in the sun, Candice woke me up at about 3.30, Yes I got sunburned, not bad though, came in and Garry went out and go chinese food for supper, fell asleep on the couch again around 6, woke up at 9.30 went to bed and didnt get up until 8 this morning with a headache that feels like a hangover. No more benadryl for me. and yes my sinuses are still bothering me. but i think i will let mother nature take its course today and make sure there are no more drugs in my system before i take anything else. it looks like it is going to be another nice day today, a little cloudy but very humid so i am ok with that, i can still enjoy the pool and this time i wont have to worry about burning an top of my burn.

more rain, more rain, more rain, and yeah more rain. More thunder and lightning, at least we are getting a good show out of this, and then of course the power outages, thank god for back up batteries. I am sure this weather will clear up one of these days.

I spend most of my vacation in the pool. Unfortunately it was more about cleaning out the algy from all the rain and less about just enjoying the pool. Just when it seems like th sun is going to come out and stay, we get more rain. I am sooooo sick of rain. we better some pool weather soon. I think I am having withdrawls.

A few birthday pictures for those of us who still use blogger to keep in touch. As you can see from one of the photo's it was a surprise party.

Best birthday gift ever, worse birthday gift ever. I got a DSL for my birthday and I am addicted and have been playing it since my birthday instead of blogging or updating facebook. sorry guys, between the pool and the game, I will be incognito all summer.

So much to do, so little time to do it in. At least with it raining all week I did not have to worry about watering my gardens, front and back. We went up North yesterday to celebrate Christopher's graduation, it rained earlier in the day then got sunny in the afternoon. Today we went clothes shopping for Candice for work. We founds some nice tops and a couple of nice summer dresses and sandles, so she is good for the rest of the summer. Next project is for me to make a dress for a wedding on the 2nd of August that Candice and I will be going to in Toronto. It is going to be a big Italian wedding, sound like alot of fun. I suck at getting around to answering e-mails so that's next on my list of things to do on a raining day when I cant hang out at the poolside. Like today.

mom's latest project. Betty what do you think.

First one to show up get it. LOL