Busy Busy Busy

Our holiday weekend was a bit intense to say the least!

Starting with the 1st of August. We drove to Edmonton, did some running around for Peter. Stopped in at my parents. Visited for a couple hours with my Parents, Grandparents and Curtis. Then we went to Brent and Lena's, where we were staying for the night. Ate some birthday cake...YUMMY... I LOVE ice cream cake!!! (Brent's Birthday!!). LOVE seeing Brent and Lena...we always seem to have amazing talks about God!!

Saturday us girls went to the mall and then we all went to Heritage days!!! So fun! We all kinda broke off into smaller groups. Grace, Joy, Kaden and I went off and had some pretty good food. We shared tickets and meals...very good way of doing it so you can taste more of the many different foods!! We were there for about 5hrs. The weather was great and the company was even greater!! We went back to Brent and Lena's. The boys watched a movie and us girls ... lets just say we had a very amusing chat about Peanut Parfait hee hee...good laughs!! Thanks Lena!!

Sunday we went to Central...man I miss that place sometimes. Didn't really get a chance to see anyone though...next time I'm sure. We said goodbye to Brent and the Schienbeins and headed off to Millennium Place with Jason to hang with the Peter's fam. Love that pool...so great for kids. Kaden had lots of fun! After that we grabbed din and headed to a park to visit more with family. Then we stayed over at Jason and Lindsay's, great to visit with them as well!!

Holiday Monday was spent visiting with family again at DJ and Jeaninne's place. We had crepes which I have never had...very tasty!! Peter and DJ welded a bit at 3 and we left around 4:30/5:00 and cruised back for a dinner with friends..Dan and Kim who were very understanding of us being like 2hrs late. They BBQ a good Salmon. Very delicious meal!!

Then Tuesday was Joy's Birthday at my place so I had to set up for that and make some cupcakes...yummy! Her birthday was great!!! Lots of fun!! Whew so that was our weekend...busy but very fun!

I LOVE AUGUST!!!

It is the month I got married 4 years ago and my birthday!! So in celebration....Any animal card purchases made in August will include two extra cards!! YEAH AUGUST!!!! F or more details check out the shop!! http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5764354&show_panel=true

*Etsy* Love*

I want to thank everyone who purchased and checked out my shop on the sale days!! My first sale went great! Lots of encouraging words! I am loving making cards and stuff for the shop! I'm hoping in the next couple of months i will be sewing some things and maybe a few paintings!!! Hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

ETSY SALE

Well I decided to make this sale a 3 day sale!!! So the Last day of the sale is going to be July 16th...so if you have checked out the deals...do soo now :). Hope everyone's weekend was a bit better then ours!

Peter is getting pretty bored sitting on the couch and is getting pretty antsy. Kaden's behavior sure does change when Peter's around. The routine is pretty much the same but Kaden hasn't been listening very good. Hopefully he will get used to Peter being around and he will settle down.

Broken bones

Well we went into the city to get some more work done on Peter's truck and again the propane injection is not working..UGHH. Hopefully soon! Peter and Brian went dirt biking on saturday and Peter broke his collar bone...AGAIN...for the 4th time...so he is going to be on the couch healing for the next 4-6 weeks...UGHHH. I feel bad and Peter is the kind of person that doesn't like to sit around so I am sure he will find something to do. I prob will have to buy some more truck mags!

Well My store is officially having it's first sale and I decided to put everything up for sale!!!!! So go check it out!!!

Sale -- July 14th

Monday July 14th certain items in my Etsy shop are going to be on sale!!! So be sure to check out my shop!! Treelove26.etsy.com

It has taken awhile for Kaden and I to get back into a routine and for me to catch up on house work! But soon I hope to be working on some more items for the shop and maybe busting out the sewing machine and trying a few things!!!

Road Trip To Cali in 11 days

Well our trip didn't start out the way we had hoped. Peter had just got propane injection in his truck to help with the soaring gas prices when we found out that it didn't work. Peter had to take it into the shop before we left. We assumed it wouldn't take long but of course it took 2 full days for them to find out what the problem was. They couldn't figure it out and charged us for the time they took to look at it when it was the manufactures fault....500 dollars. They wanted to take a look at it another day but we said no and started our trip!

We drove from Edmonton around 5pm till about 11pm and slept in BC. Woke up, left around 9 and drove till about 11 again and slept in Oregan. Kaden did soooo awesome with all the driving we did. I was soo surprised and thankful that God heard my prayers!!

Thursday we drove to Portland and quickly realized how difficult it is to drive in a big city with a big truck and trailer so we decided to skip Portland and we kept on driving to Newport, Oregan. Newport was beautiful with the Ocean on one side and the docks/marina at the other side. The ocean was great cold but great. Kaden LOVES water so he had a blast!! We stayed in Newport for about a day and a half. Went to the Wax museum, Ripley's believe it or not and an underground aquarium...these place were definitely not worth the 43.80...I much rather spent that time at the beach..oh well we had to be tourists! We met an older woman that was sooo cute and sweet!! We went bike riding with Kaden and could here a voice saying "isn't that precious" and she came out of her trailer and had to see Kaden. We talked to her a bit and asked us if we were teaching Kaden about Jesus and she was sooo excited to know that we were Christians. She was telling us that she was praying and writing about us in her journal. She even baked us some bread! To think that someone in the next campsite could be praying for your family is soo inspiring and encouraging!!!

From Newport we took off to the Redwoods (Saturday)...very beautiful trees...sooo huge! God's creation is awesome! So creative! The end of Saturday we drove just outside San Fransisco and slept. Sunday..we were in San Fransisco and we saw the Golden Gate Bridge! Again the city was to difficult to drive through so we kept going till we got to Santa Barbara, California!! Another Beautiful place to be! We stayed there for two days! Shopped, rode our bikes on the designated bike lane..so cool!, hung out at the beach and got to see some dolphins swim by!

Tuesday we drove to LA. Took about 4 hours just to find a campsite. Found one on Long beach had to pay 65 bucks..ridiculous but all we could find. Then we drove back to check out all the tourist stuff. We didn't have a map so this was difficult and ended up having to miss the Chinese theatre and no chance to walk around. We did get to see the Hollywood sign and Rodeo Drive. Crazy how many lanes they need in LA there were 14 lanes altogether!!

Wednesday we drove to San Diego and went to the zoo! It wasn't has great has i had thought it to be. Maybe because Kaden didn't really understand that there were animals to look at or maybe because he couldn't get close to them. The petting zoo was the highlight for me because Kaden had the most fun there. He always had to bend over to see there faces when he was talking to them so cute! After we were done that we drove just outside Las Vegas. Peter was really hoping that we could drive through Las Vegas when it was dark so I could see the lights but it was getting to late. It would have been 2 in the morning by the time we would have got there. We didn't want Kaden to stay up that late.

Thursday we made our long trip back! Drove to Great falls and shopped on Saturday morning and was in Cold Lake by 11. It was a good experience but i probably wouldn't do it again. I would just fly next time!