Sorry I haven't blogged in a couple of days, been kind of busy. Wasn't sure what I was going to write about today, then I remembered the "pamphlet". To the left you will see an Irving pamphlet that was distributed to various Irving customers. I know you can't see it very well, so I circled part of it, to show you where MY name is! That's right! My name is the contact for the Fredericton lube office. My name is in print. I know its no "riding down the side of a volcano on a donkey" but its still an accomplishment damn it! Anyway, just thought I would share that with you.

Um, lets see what else is going on around here exciting. Oh, I'm going to make hot dogs tonight for supper. I might even fry some onions. ( as you can see, not a lot happening) How can I compete with all the exciting things you are doing?? you have eaten cow intestines, rode a pony down a volcano, and not to mention learned to pee standing up. (I don't know how i feel about that one. "my wife stands up to pee") I'm just joking with you dear, I think its amazing what you are doing, and i want you to continue what you are doing.

Anyhow that's all for now

Love ya
Wes

shoveling shoveling shoveling

We woke up this morning to about 9 inces of snow. The kids got ready and went outside to play around in it and attempted to build snow forts. I decided that i should shovel the walk ways and clear the deck off. There was over a foot of snow on the deck because we had more snow earlier in the week. Tara even had vanilla out in it.

Tara made quit a nice snow fort over to the side of the drive way. Kailie decides she would build one too. She shoveled and shoveled and shoveled, finally had a nice big hole dug out of the snow bank at the end of our driveway by the house. Uncle Brian decides to come and clean up the drive way because it snowed over night and their was a bit of snow on the ground even after he plowed yesterday for us. After he is done plowing for us he gets out and we talk for a bit. Just small talk. like so how is Sue doing? We've seen her blog, boys lots of snow. etc, etc. So he backs out of the driveway and leaves. Kaile goes to play in her snow fort that she was worked so hard on , and realizes its been moved back about 15 feet!

Tara has her friend Jessica over today, she is staying the night. I picked her up this afternoon, and we went to Mactaquac sliding. Kailie only went down a couple of times. She went down with Jessica and they wiped out and kailie scraped her face now the hill. She is all good now though. not even a scratch.

I came home dropped of Tara a Jessica, and kailie and I went on a search for skates. She needs them for Monday. (I know , I thought we had a pair too) We have every size except for 5. went to both Salvation army stores, and called Jinglers, and looked int the phone book for places to buy used skates. Either they didn't have any or they were the wrong size. I posted online, and someone may be able to help me. I think I actually know "pickerel man".

Had wraps for supper tonight, and the girls just got done watching a movie. "Material Girls"

oh yea, i stopped in to see your mom and dad this morning and too see if they needed Any shoveling done.

love ya
Wes

Snow day #2

Well we had another snow day today! The kids were excited, but it was no surprise. It seems like the schools and a lot of the business pretty much planned the day before that they would be closed for the day. there wasn't that much snow on the ground this morning when we woke up, and they were only calling for 10 cm then change to rain. Its a good thing they closed schools though because I bet we got 8 to 10 inches of snow and no rain yet.

I may go to Mactaquac this weekend, if the snow stays. The kids have been bugging me to go outside with them. They were playing outside a good part of the day today, and came in soaked. They have been waiting for the snow and they love it.

Brian has been plowing the drive way. Thank you Brian. It was all plowed when I came home.

Your mom called me tonight, your dad decided to watch a DVD! She said that he watched the DVD for about 2 hours and now they can't get the TV back on. When she called me they had 4 remotes on the go. TV-DVD-Star choice and VCR. I went as far as i could on the phone with them. I told her that i would come out, but she said no, and that they would watch TV in the dining room, the roads aren't plowed yet. Besides Brian was going there for supper anyway, maybe he could figure it out for them,( codfish gravy YUCK).

Anyway, talk to ya later

Wednesday 1/2 day

Situ a morte, senais pas led Dilly bar que le faih! Tara tells me that she had a dream last night that she was at Crabbe mountain skiing, and the cafeteria lady said the above to her. She said that it mean "if you die its not the dilly bar that killed you". That kid! Anyway just thought I would tell you her dream. So now I don't know if she still wants to go skiing or not. I'm sure she will.

K had a 1/2 day today and T has tutoring after school, ( don't even ask why its after school) its Wednesday, ( well Thursday where you are).

American Idol was on last night for a 2 hour season primer and its on again tonight, I'll try not to cut you short tonight though. lol. You should see all the drama, its too funny. They are crying so hard because Simon didn't like them... well what did they expect? its Simon. I laugh at them so hard. ( do you get American idol over there? probably not eh?)

Did I tell you that Debbie is supposed to drop some more real estate info out to me?
I spoke to someone today, that thinks we could put one up for about 130. I don't know though.

Anyhow. that's all for now. Oh yea, we go to your moms for supper tonight. I pick T up from tutoring after work and then go to your moms. Are you going to call this week?

love ya
Wes

Winter in NB.

Today
Flurries ending near noon then a mix of sun and cloud. Wind becoming northwest 30 km/h this afternoon. Temperature falling to minus 14 this afternoon. Cold wind chill minus 25.
Tonight
Clearing early this evening. Wind northwest 30 km/h. Low minus 22. Cold wind chill minus 33.
Wednesday
Sunny. Wind northwest 30 km/h becoming light late in the day. High minus 18. Extreme wind chill minus 35

Holly Crap, -35, you are lucky to be where you are. The above is the front page of The Daily Gleaner

So, remember I bought Tara new winter boots? So she takes out the garbage this morning, wades thorough the snow up to her ankles and comes back in the house. I look down and what is she waring? Her old sneaker!! She said "I can't ware those to school".. Oh the price to being cool.

Kids tells me this morning that i don't make a very good "mother". Oh my dear you are certainly being missed.

anyway, that's all on the home front for now.

Love ya
Wes

Shopping Shopping Shopping

So last night we decide to go shopping for boots. I go up to the Regent mall, and the plan is to first go to walmart to price check and then walk all the way down to Sears and check out all the stores in between for the good deals, ( you know how cheap I am). So we go to walmart and check out the boots there, not a bad selection, and all around 30 to 50 dollars. I leave walmart and stop at Fairweater just to see if their are any deals for me. Tara says omg, this place is really expensive. she saw a 100.00 jacket. I tell her that its not expensive Tara, that's ok for a jacket. We then move onto the "Garage", same thing, she goes on to tell me how expensive everything is..( i think to myself, what have we done, She souldn't be so concerned about price at her age). She doesn't even really look around at any of the cloths. But of course Kailie doesn't mind. she wants everything.( did i metion i felt like i was waking into a jr, high sock hop in that store) I finally convince Tara to pick out a sweater at "Bluenotes". We walk all the way down to Sears and back almost to walmart and the mall closes. We still don't have any boots.(I think you are going to have to take the girls shopping, i'm not very good at it)

I get in the Van and tell Tara that we will have to come back tomorrow. I also told her that if she likes any shirts or pants to let me know. she said " i have pant and shirts and i don't want to spend all your money on clothes. ( Good god Susan what have we done). I told her, not to worry about our money, the only money she need to worry about is hers. I told her that we always have money set aside for things we need and that we are never out even if we say we are. I think I got through to her. Maybe she is just as cheap as me!

Anyway, We went back to town today and got a pair of boots right where we started, Walmart" also picked up kailie a sweater at sears.

Tara went to Ashleighs tonight to babysit Emma and her friend. Called me about 1 hour in, because they were freaked out. they could hear footsteps upstairs. they were calling from the closet. ( 2-12 year girls and 2-5 year old girls all in one closet with a portable phone). Tara is almost in tears saying that they hear someone upstairs, walking across the floor. " please come dad please". so i get Kailie in the van and away we go. I get there and they also had Jillians parents there. We think that is was just the cats jumping around up stairs and the kids freaked themselves out.(talk about your cat burglars) Anyway, they are home safe now.

That's all for now.

Love ya
Wes

back on schedule.

Everything went smooth this morning, I didn't even set my alarm last night (by mistake of course) and I still got up at 6:45am. The girls both got up on time and it all went pretty good.

I decided not to make coffee this morning. They were saying on the news last night that Tea is supposed to be really good for you, but only if you don't drink milk with it. So I'm going to give that a try for a while. ( well for this morning anyway) I had green tea, and it wasn't bad. I put it in a clear blue cup though, and it made it look yellow like pee. Oh well.

Tonight is cleaning night, aren't you glad your not hear? Oh, I almost forgot to tell you that I finally caught up with the laundry. the only dirty cloths in our house right now are the ones we are wearing! I will be throwing lots of socks out. I have about 30 socks that have no mates, I gotta take the last few out of the dryer and see if they match up to any of the odd balls. then the rest are history. OMG I'm boring, I'm actually boring myself right now.

I'll give your mom and dad the rest of your posts, they seem to enjoy them. I'm going there for super tonight. Tara was supposed to find out about tutoring today. she claims that she can just do tutoring at lunch instead of after school. She was supposed to look into it. Anyway nothing new on the home front.

love ya
Wes