I LOVE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!!!

I really do, I love it, Wayne sure doesn't seem to appreciate my love of it as much though...hehe.. I know, I know it's not even close to Christmas yet but I wanted to get as much Christmas shopping done early as I possibly could so that it wasn't a mad dash the day before we left for Alberta.

So why do I love Christmas shopping:
1. I love going to the stores and seeing all the Christmas decorations, I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE decorating for Christmas and could set up my tree tomorrow if Wayne would allow it. I would LOVE to put all the pretty lights up on our house, but this year we are waiting till after Christmas and buying them at half the price, I know we are thrifty.

2. I love the feeling of Christmas. I love that people seem happier (it's probably because they are spending money, funny, people in January seem so cranky they must have gotten their credit card bills..tehe).

3. I LOVE Christmas music. Seriously, I play it ALL year long. Some of Nathan's favorite songs are Christmas carols, especially Jingle Bells. Some of the most Beautiful songs are Christmas songs, Oh Holy Night is my favorite.

4. I love trying to think of the "perfect" gift, this sometimes is also my nemesis because I really do try to get the "perfect" gift. I am ABSOLUTELY okay with getting a gift card as a gift for myself because I am quite picky, but I would prefer not getting one for others. I envision Christmas morning the person I bought for is given my gift, a glorious light surrounds them as they open the gift, their face is shocked and them beaming, they slow-motion run across the room and embrace me in their arms... okay, I am exagerating but I really do love it when I get the perfect gift for someone I love.

So as of now I am done shopping for all the kids (except Nathan) and now get to shop for the adults, and I am hoping to be done before December 1st. Wish me luck.

I LOVE MY NEW WARD!!!

Seriously, I really do love Waneskawin ward!!! Not that I didn't love Wildwood Ward because I did/do and I love sooooo many people from that ward and so when I was getting ready to move into this new ward I was a little worried. I am such an outgoing person and I love meeting new people and moving to new places and doing new things but it's still a little unnerving to do all these things. But I have to say that I really do love the new ward. I probably knew about a quarter of the people that live in this ward since I have lived in Saskatoon for almost 9 years. The people, especially the women, have really made me feel so welcome, I feel like it's my home ward. I love just the feeling that this ward has, I haven't been in it for so long but everyone seems to be friends/get along. Anyways, I really do love my new ward.

The joys of being an owner of the house

So we have been finding just stupid, stupid things that the previous owners of this house have done. Not a big deal usually just dumb stuff that's easily fixed. Well the shower downstairs has been leaking. Wayne tried to seal it up with caulking, it still seemed to be leaking, so I went over it again and did it "properly"...hehehe... I don't know if it has been fixed because Wayne hasn't checked where it was leaking (I don't know where it leaks from). Anyways, we noticed a little bit of mold under one of the baseboards, I pulled off another baseboard today and it looks like the water has been leaking behind the drywall and we might have a BIG problem on our hands. We have decided that we are going to stop pulling off stuff because if it is Stachybotrys Chartarum (a type of toxic black mold which is VERY dangerous) we don't want to get it airborne. So we are probably going to have to hire people to come in and check and see what type of mold it is which can be SOOO expensive.

I have NEVER been more worried in my life. I am very scared about our health right now because if it is the dangerous mold then we need to get it taken care of now and as safely as we possibly can. From everything that we have read and studied about this mold as long as we don't bother it right now we should be fine but as soon as we start moving stuff that's when we could be getting into trouble. So until we get someone in here we will no longer be using the downstairs bathroom.

Anyways, enough with my rant... send your prayers because we are REALLY hoping thatthe mold isn't all throughout our bathroom and that it will be a relatively easy fix. If you have any advice or know someone that does this type of stuff, please let me know because we know noone.

Hmmm... what was I doing?

I saw this on another girl's blog and since I haven't written on here FOREVER I figured it might be fun to do.

What I was doing 10 years ago: Well I was in my final year of highschool, I was probably thinking of some way to skip out of school with Lindsay Bevans (yes, I was REALLY bad). I was working at Subway, which I actually really liked because one of my best friends Jen Layton worked there as well and we had SOOOO much fun together. I was on the dance team, it was kind of like cheerleaders but we didn't cheer, we danced. It was SOOOOOOOO much fun. We practiced hard, shook our booties like crazy and just had tons of fun just doing something I LOVE, dancing!!! Hmmm... I wonder if there is still a video out there of us dancing? 10 years ago my only concern was who I had a crush on, how my hair looked (oh wait, I still care about that..hehe), where we were going to hang out on the weekend, and just having fun..... Ohhhh the good old days... even though it was so fun being young, I would NEVER want to go back to that stage of life.

What I was doing 5 years ago: I had just moved back from NY, I had spent the summer boating with my family and friends, hanging out with the YSA kids, working at GAP, and just having fun. Almost 5 years ago to the day, Wayne and I had our first "magical" date... seriously, we hit it off instantly, I never would have thought that the guy that took me to supper and would put his utensils down to listen to me talk was going to be my husband of now 4 years... oh, btw, he doesn't put his utensils down anymore. :) 5 years ago, I was enjoying those firsts with Wayne, first time we saw eachother, first time we held hands, first time he opened the door for me, first time we danced under the stars on top of a hill out in the middle of nowhere,, first time we kissed, first time we made out...hehe... I think I need to go kiss my husband for a sec. ;)

What I was doing 1 year ago: I was doing pretty much what I am doing now, being a mom. I was driving a big 72 passenger bus here in the city, which was actually quite fun. In a couple weeks a year ago, I was late for my run in the morning, Karalee was over watching Nathan that morning and I ran out the door, jumped off my stairs, landed wrong on the rocks and broke a big chunk of bone off of my ankle... arrgggg... it hurt soooo bad.

What was I doing yesterday: I went to my first Super Saturday and made some AWESOME crafts, and met some really cool girls from my new ward. I really LOVE my new ward, the people seem so friendly.

Well that was fun trying to think back over the last 10 years, man time goes SOOO fast.