Merry Christmas!

I will probably will be away from the computer for awhile (spending time with family).  Wanted to wish anyone who reads this a very safe and Merry Christmas filled with love ones.

A Busy Weekend

We had the kids (our niece and nephew) over for a sleepover Saturday and Sunday night.  We had a wonderful time, we were very busy (we are not used to that kind of busy).  Murray and Terry worked on the flooring in the basement (thanks for all your help Terry and Jeanette for helping around the house).  A musical evening a the church, thank you for the invitation Granma and Papa.  Oh and Happy Belated Birthday to my brother-in-law Jason.  You know we love you!  Here are a few pictures to sum up our weekend.

Such a cute face!

The men hard at work

I love this picture, what angels!

Only one more sleep until my sister and her boyfriend come for Christmas...I am so excited!
Happy Monday.

Poll Results

Unofficial Plebiscite
Results by Percentage:

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  NO - Approximately 85 per cent




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  YES - Approximately 15 per cent

Voter
turnout was approximately 23 per cent.

Just in case you were wondering.

Light Monday Humor

I was dropping by a few of the blogs I frequent and came across this on Lowell and Julie's blog.

From Reader's Digest

Some famous Christmas carols, as heard by kids:

"On the first day of Christmas, my tulip gave to me..."
"He's making a list, chicken and rice..."
"Noel, Noel, Barney's the king of Israel..."
"In the meadow we can build a snowman, and pretend that he is sparse and brown..."
"Oh, what fun it is to ride with one horse, soap and hey..."

Then I realized that I don't really know the words to one of the carols

'In the meadow we can build a snowman,'...Then what?

Please leave a comment if you can help me out.

Put up the Christmas lights yesterday.  What was suppose to be a quick job took us all day.  We were outside 7 hours and made frequent trips to the hardware store. 

Lesson Learned:  Do not by cheap lights from Walmart, when only half of the string will light up you will spend hours trying to fix it, get fed up, and end up buying different lights at the Hardware store.

Oh well, we had a lot of fun and got lots of fresh air. Here is a picture of Murray PRETENDING he is falling off the ladder while putting up the lights.

Happy Monday Everyone!

'In the meadow we can build a snowman,... that is going to bug me all day

Proposed Recreation Facility In Leduc County...

If you are a resident of Leduc County please read the following:
(Warning: If you are not this post will bore you).

Leduc County , in partnership with the City of Leduc, is planning to build a new regional recreation and fitness centre.  On December 14, 2006 Leduc County residents will vote in a plebiscite to decide if this recreation centre will be built.

Things that will be included in the purposed recreation facility:

• Twin indoor arenas



• Leisure indoor skating rink



• Twin multipurpose field houses for activities such as soccer, basketball, volleyball and lawn bowling.



• Fitness and wellness facilities for workouts



• Leisure aquatic centre including child's play area, hot tub, saunas, and steam rooms



• Indoor jogging and walking track



• Children's play rooms and party rooms, meeting rooms, and food and beverage services



• Retail space for lease to private sector businesses such as food services, skate sharpening, physiotherapy, etc.

A final location for this facility has not yet been identified but both the County and City and Leduc agree that a site along the Nisku-Leduc corridor, near the city of Leduc/Leduc County boundary is the preferred location.

I agree that our County needs a recreational facility to support the population growth in our area and increasing demands for recreation, fitness and wellness.  The region currently has no large indoor soccer facility, no large indoor gymnasium facility outside of the school system, and the current indoor ice surfaces are increasingly stressed to meet community needs.  In many instances, County and regional families are forced to drive to other communities to participate in these recreation activities.

If you are interested in more information please check out http://www.leduc-county.com/.

If you are a resident of Leduc County please take the time to vote on December 14th!

A Confession...

I am a Christmas Freak!!!

I can't even control myself.  On Sunday night we put up our Christmas decorations (yes that means the sanding is done but I will get to that). Murray will tell you how stupid giddy I was about it all.  Truly I am 25 going on 3 when it comes to Christmas.  We are 5 days into December and already Murray says he is sick of the one Christmas CD I have because I keep playing it over and over.  Maybe I should ask Santa for some variety in the Christmas music department.  Anyone have a good suggestion?

My friend Krista posted about the perfect Christmas tree.  I have to tell you that is what I was aiming for this year, thought I might  even achieve it seeing as though we do not have children.  We do however have 2 cats.  Apparently, they love Christmas just as much as I do because of all the shinny decorations they can play with.  Every night we go to bed the tree looks nice, when we wake up the poor tree looks like it has been through a war.  It may sound crazy but I think this is kind of funny .  For the month of December I put the decorations on the tree and the cats take them right back off.

Too Funny.  Have a good day.

A Sad Day...

Well not really sad but...

Murray and I decided it was time to take down the wedding photos.  After Rory's Baptism Sandra took some really great family pics of Murray's side of the family.  Unfortunately, to make room for the new pics we had to take down some of the older pics (like our wedding photos).  Although we framed our very favorite one and still have that one up.  I guess it just means that we are no longer newly weds.  Hence the sad day.  On the bright side the new photos do look good on the wall.  Thanks Sandra!

Here is our favorite wedding photo (another Sandra pic)

Not sure if you can see this all that well but I love this pic it is just so us.

Have a good weekend.