Not too much going on, keeping in touch with Anne about Mom's party. Took a look at plain and train fares, it will cost me the same to travel either way, so I think I will fly out of Toronto, land in Halifax and return the same. I can stay at Candice's on my trip there and back.
Me, Mom and our neighbour Val went to see Bride Wars Friday night, girls night out. It was funny and made for a good evening out. It's our break to avoid the winter blues when it gets too cold to do anything outside. We have an outdoor neighbourhood rink, I think it's about time to get those skates shappened and venture outside.
Catch you all later

For those of us still in blogland, I posted a few pictures of the wedding dress I started for Garry's sister but never got worn. It was made to fit a size 12-16 but can be altered to a size 10 if need be. I offered it to Melanie, if its not to her taste than I think it might be time to donate it somewhere. It is not doing anyone any good sitting in my sewing room, although it did come in handy when it came time to set up my dress dummy that I got for chirstmas. I am thinking of dressing it with all the creations I have made and keeping them in a album, you never know when I might try out for Project Runway. LOL

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.