:: We're ready to go ::

:: Well, I think we are almost ready to head out on the Jet Plane tomorrow morning (bright & early). Thankfully we are headed to warmer weather, a pool & hopefully some really good mexican food :: :: Here's Jacob's suitcase - packed to the brim!!! ::
:: Here is ours - we just have throw in our bathroom stuff and then we will be good to go ::
:: And here is a picture of Jacob "helping" me with dinner the other night - what a goofy kid! ::
:: If you noticed all of our clothes are packed in zip-lock bags - I have been doing this for probably the last 10 years. I always roll my (now our) clothes and put them in zip-lock bags, it is the best way to pack - it's organized and very compact! So all we have to do tonight is finish the last minute things like putting the carry on together with all the baby stuff that is quite the task in itself and then at 7:30 pm I am heading out for a mani/pedi...which is well deserved after all of the packing, cleaning, organizing etc. I have done this week. So I will be sure to enjoy my alone time! ::

:: So have a great couple weeks and check for updates, we have a computer in the house we are staying in so I will probably update my blog every few days or so...FYI: Amanda, I ran into Kim the other day and found out that your MIL is on the same flight as us - so that should be fun! ::


:: Happy Spring Break Everyone ::

::: C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S :::

:: Congratulations is in order to my dearest friend Lisa and her fiance Mr. Reuben Kramer!!! ::

:: It all became official last night ~ Congratulations to the both of you...you deserve nothing but the best! ::

:: Can't wait for August 17th to make it really official ::

:: We love you guys!!! ::

:: Your Thoughts ::

Be honest here ladies...what are your thoughts on this idea:

Paul (my lovely, super sweet and very talented husband) would like to put laminate wood flooring throughout our upstairs bedroom. But since it is not advised that we put laminate on stairs we will have to do carpet up through the hall and stairs.

He thinks this will be fine. I don't. I hate the look, feeling, sound of laminate floors in bedrooms let alone the fact that I will buy area rugs for all of the bedrooms and basically cover up the laminate flooring...So I am asking for your opinion - Carpet in the bedrooms or laminate???

We are on a budget and we know that we can get the laminate for about a $1.50 less than the carpet...but I still don't think that justifies putting laminate in the bedrooms.

This is what we currently have in the house:

Family Room: Nasty pink very sun damaged and worn carpet (must be replaced asap)

Living Room/Dining Room: Newish neutral Burber carpet

Bedrooms: Newish Burber matching Living/dining rooms

Master Bedrooom: Not-so-nice Laminate flooring

Hallway & Stairs: Nasty pink - must go carpet

Our plan has been to replace the family room carpet with new underlay and carpet. Then throughout the kitchen, Dining & living rooms put laminate floors.

Take the newish burber carpet ripped up from the living/dining room and pull out the pink must go carpet from the hallway and stairs and for the time being (until we have more money to put into the carpets) we have the carpet installers put our remnant burber carpet in the stairs and hall, then at least the hallway, stairs and "kids" bedrooms all match. This will have to do until we have excess cash hanging around to put into the upstairs flooring.

Paul thinks it will be too much hassle taking all of the bedroom furniture out in a year or so to replace all of the flooring and that if we have the laminate we can do one bedroom at a time. This is not my idea of a fun time!?!?!?

So what are your thoughts...what would you do? Any other opinions or options would help in this great debate!

:: Palm Springs Weather ::

Palm Springs Weather Forecast

HOO HA - Look at that forcast...only 5 more sleeps and we'll be there enjoying that sunshine for all of ya!!!!

:: Our Blessing ::

:: the many faces of our jacob-bean ::

:: the other day jord came over and took some photo's of jacob with his new camera - i "heart" his camera - it's a beautiful piece of man made machinery! ::

:: C E L E B R A T E ::

:: Happy Anniversary Jordan & Amanda ::

:: Drop by her blog and give her a wish for her special day ::

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:: The Days of our Lives ::

:: We lead a pretty "every-day" sort of life...so I don't understand why life just seems to whip by! But here we are already in March - I love March, new flowers, fresh cut grass, still cold enough to wear a sweater but sunny enough to pull out the shades. So here is a few pictures of what we have been up to in the "days of our lives" ::

:: Last week Paul and I dropped our wee one off at his parents place in Poco and went for a date at the FROGSTONE GRILL - We had a great time just enjoying the company of eachother ::

:: We ran into our friends Michael & Coby (also our realtor) at the restaurant with their kids - It was great to chat with them for a bit before we enjoyed our dinner alone :::: A view of the restaurant from the lounge where we enjoyed some great live music ::

:: My bro and sister-in-law from Duncan were over a couple weekends ago to celebrate Jordan's & my Dad's birthdays and when they were over they gave us a beautiful card and amazing pink & cream roses as a congratulations on our new home - Thanks you guys, it was so sweet! ::

:: I'm going on a plane ride...every day for the last few weeks I have been trying to do at least one thing to get us closer to Palm Springs. But since we are leaving in 5 days, I really need to get on the packing! So I'm sure you can guess what I will be doing this afternoon! ::
:: In between everything else we are trying to nail down what renovations we are going to do on the new place, how much they are going to cost and in what order we will be doing them! This does not bring out the best in Paul and I as we have very different visions of what NEEDS to be done and what we want to be done. Eventually we will agree and it will get done. Thus far we have agreed to the laminate flooring and carpet ~ Now if we could just agree on the spaces they should go!!! Here are the samples of our carpet and laminate ::
:: Full of sick - Jacob and I have both been suffering from colds and a touch of the stomache flu but hopefully we have recovered and are on the up-swing ::

:: Extra Extra Read all about it! ::

Hello All --

Sorry I haven’t been around these parts for a little while, we have been so busy with my brothers 30th Birthday and all of this house stuff – It has been quite overwhelming!

But we have some great news – It appears that we have sold our townhouse!!! We had an offer come in late last night for $2000.00 under our asking price….we countered back and settled at $1400.00 below asking. WE had quite the communication lesson to learn (between Paul and I) which didn’t make the experience such a great one, but all in all we are very pleased with the sale price and the closing dates. We have learned an invaluable lesson in communication – that we hopefully won’t have to learn again as it wasn’t fun!

So there is our HAPPY news!

On another note, today is Kristin’s birthday and I went out and spent the afternoon at her place making gift tags and cards. It was such a great way to spend the afternoon celebrating with her. It was also great to see Bonnie again and meet friends from blog land.

I will take a few shots of the items I made today and post them, just after I finish wrapping my Daddy’s birthday gifts----

:: It's Ours ::

:: Well we signed the papers on the new house today – So it is officially ours! We are so thankful for the deal we got on it and for all of the steps that have brought us to this point ::

:: We had three showings today at our townhouse and we have two more booked for tomorrow – Please continue to pray that our place sells quickly as close to $300,000.00 as possible! We have faith that it will sell in the right time to the right owner. Here is our spec sheet ::

:: Since we are in the mood of selling items we put my (our) car up for sale on buy-sell.com on Friday night and we had a guy call 4 times this week to try and get a time that worked for both of us so that he could check out the car for his little sister (what a great bro eh!?!?) ::

:: Here is my little baby all polished up and ready to go to a great home ::

:: Paul worked on her for about 2 hours and then I went down and joined him for about an hour to finish buffing the polish off of her. That buffing is really hard work!!! ::

:: Jacob and I are off to the doctors tomorrow to have a routine check up and we will probably be crashing at my parents in the afternoon since I can’t go home due to showings :) ::

:: Hope everyone is doing well - the blog world has been quite sparse these days!!!! ::

:: What's New ::

Well we had a very full weekend of house hunting (yes, still) well maybe I should call it comparison shopping, The Vancouver Bridal Trends Show (for a secret someone who is soon to be legal), family meals and lots of visiting with friends from Ontario, and celebrating a 30th Birthday ~ More on all of these below:

So the house saga continues…we had it inspected on Saturday (which thankfully I was away for) and there were a few surprises that we hadn’t noticed when we first walked through the house. Nothing too major though. Nothing in my opinion that would hinder us from purchasing the house, however my Dad would beg to differ. Over many cups of tea and many late nights we have come to the conclusion that the house is “worth it” – the extra fix-ups and time will be well invested in this home and the location of it.

So as of tonight we have secured the deal and we will be delivering the down payment tomorrow and everything will be final by tomorrow @ 11:00 pm. We are getting so excited – there is lots of work to do but it will be so much fun to see our décor thoughts come to life!

We have 4, yes, I said 4 showings tomorrow…I am trying to stay very optimistic that nothing may come of these 4 showings but seeing as our place was just listed last night on the realtor MLS – I think we have a pretty good response. So if you think of us please pray for the sale of this home as it would take a mighty large burden off of our shoulders. I have to say though, through this whole house situation Paul and I have been able to stand back and have faith that God will provide and he has yet to let us down, so we know we just have to continue to have faith and he will see us through! God is SO good!!!

For the last week friends of ours Chris & Sarah have been visiting from Ontario, we have had great times with them over a few different venues – White Spot one day (for Mr. Legendary aka Chris), then my parents dinner table the next day for my brother’s 30th Birthday Party – Here are the pic’s from Jordan’s birthday:

:: Birthday Boy and Lindsey ::

:: Our fabby meal of roast beef and the fixin's :: :: the famous icecream cake - can't beat that! ::
:: We got Jord a subscription to a magazine of his choice but since I didn't have anything to give him I gave him these Chrysler slate coasters, however he thought they were quite cool! ::
:: Spring Daffodil's - I love spring! :::: This is Chris and his lovely bride Sarah, it was great to see you Chris and meet you Sarah. I was glad that we were able to visit as much as we did - you will have to come back soon! ::
:: I think that is about it -- Please if you remember us or run through my blog pray about everyone that walks through our house tomorrow and pray that it sells quick and maybe a bit above asking, that would just be the cherry on top :) ::

:: I will update you with any news as soon as we have it! ::