Snow in May!

Well here are a few pictures to show you what us Calgarians woke up to this morning.

This pic is the view when I opened my front door:


And this pic is my poor lil tulip:


This is our little backyard:


And this is a pic taken from the neighbours lawn of our pretty tree in the front..doesn't look so pretty now!!

Spaghetti and stuff

Today I made the biggest and yummiest pot of spaghetti ever! It took almost two hours to get all the ingredients together. Oh my goodness it was the best spaghetti ever! LOL.

I spent the day with Jenny today and we watched more Annie of Green Gables well mostly she watched as I was making spaghetti and then painting doors and ya we still got some visiting in between. She was pretty content to relax on the couch anyways and even fell asleep for a few hours as she was sooo tired. She has been around a lot lately and has become a good friend of ours.

Anyway, after I dropped her off I came home and finished getting dinner ready and then my adorable hubby arrived home and soon Ron arrived. Dad came up and we all had the yummy dinner and then I headed out back to paint the trim on the back of the house while the boys were inside measuring doorways and such for the transition strips.

After Ron left and I finished painting I got Mark to show me how to use the pressure washer (ooh so complicated...not!!) anyways he showed me and then I washed the lower deck which took like forever to do. Tomorrow I will do the top deck and the garage so that I can paint the trim on the garage.

Then hopefully this long weekend we can get this deck stained and that will be two big projects out of the way. Then we have to tackle the biggest project of all which is to take out the disgraceful walkway and put in a new one. Whew talk about hard work! BUT it's also fun. I love doing home reno stuff and Mark is teaching me lots which is cool.

Anyway, it's like 1230 and I should try to get back to sleep again.

I hope everyone is well.

Happy Mother's Day

Sorry it's been sooo long since I wrote or even posted a few pictures. We have been super busy around here with house stuff. Lots to do and not a lot of time to do it in.

Today its cold out and it rained last night so we couldn't paint today which was too bad. But I will do it during the week this week so that we will be on schedule for the long weekend and can work on another project.

Anyways, it's Mother's Day and we didn't send out cards!! SORRY!! So I decided to dedicate a post to our Mom's.

First is Mom Coombs. This picture was taken after our wedding sometime. Mom is so sweet and loving and veerry special. And what a nice pic of her and her boy! We love you Mom Coombs!!!



Second is Mom Trapp (used to be Dickens) and she is looking particularly lovely in her work uniform. My Mom is strong and loving and beautiful!! We love you!!

My Birthday

Well - on Saturday I turned 27 years old! WOW! Had a very nice day, too. Marky-poo invited my sister and her boyfriend and Ron & Ed over.

We had a delicious steak dinner and a cake. MMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Afterwards we just hung out and played cards and goofed off. Was a fun night - thanks for sharing it with me guys!

Here are a few pictures from the evening. *hugs*

Scenery

Yep you guessed it...we went to the mountains again on Sunday! We went to the upper Kananaskis lake and had a hot dog roast and went for a nice walk along the lake and throughout the day the weather went from a beautiful sunny day to white-out conditions..it did this prolly 3-4 times throughout the day. We didn't mind at all! Just so nice to be away from the city!!

Pics from Sunday

Rocco and Sakima Posing for the Camera

So adorable!

Wildlife from Sunday

i know you can't see it very well but there is a moose in this last picture! all these pics were taken from the truck.

Saturday Afternoon

On Saturday I spent the afternoon with Ron at his shop working some pieces that are for a show room in a funeral home for the ends of quarter sections of caskets.

I hadn't ever done any sort of carpentry work before and I really enjoyed it. We didn't have to do too much though....it was MDF wood and I used the band saw to cut the corner off and then Ron would router the pieces and I would do the sanding.

Yep - I really enjoyed it and now am hoping that Ron and I can get started on a project that we'd talked about a long time ago...building Mark and I some nightstands for our room. That'll be so fun!!! I hope we can get started soon.

Friday Night

On Friday our friend Jenny came by and together we made Ron's special spaghetti dinner over at his place since he had all the special spices etc. When it was made and tasting oooh soooo good! we headed back to my place and found Ron and Mark already home from work.

We finished getting dinner ready...noodles and garlic bread...and called Dad and the five of us sat down to a wonderful dinner.

Then we had dessert which was a DELICIOUS cheesecake that Jenny had made. My goodness was it ever good! Way to go Jenny! Dad wants me to make sure I get the recipe for that one and I will for sure.

After dessert we cleaned up and settled in at the kitchen table for an evening of Skip-Bo. We had a really fun time telling stories and all that. We played about 4 games of it I believe. It was great fun.

Thanks Ron & Jenny for spending a fun evening with us!

And to Liz my highschool bud, sorry we didn't play a game with you guys when you were here this summer...we've never been into games etc. but are now starting to see just how much fun it can be...next time we see you (which may be sooner than you'd think *wink wink*) we'll have to play for sure!!