hey all, been really busy lately with a flooded house due to a burst pipe if you can believe it. Everything is ruined of course, but I am sticking to my new way of looking at life and finding the good, (well , yes i had a moments breakdown...wouldnt you??) and i'm looking at the fresh start im going to have, as i was talking about redecorating at some point anyways. Finding the good. Finding the good. And I have made another decision-----I will never again say these words "what else in the world could possibly happen to me?" -----as those words came out of my mouth about 4 hours before. And now I know. However, I am actually laughing about it now, as there is not much else for me to do...and finding the comical side...and there is one. I even grabbed my camera and started taking pictures, of everything. My dad running around hair all mussed up in knee high rubber boots, victoria sitting on top of brookes toy car trying to get from place to place, and brooke in her rainboots thinking it was the most fantastic thing and that water fairy's must have come to the house and wasnt it nice to have rain puddles she can splash in? And, depending on the insurance settlement, maybe i can exchange my drowned computer for the mac I have been wanting. Lots of upsides to this, and thats what im stickin to.
hope everybody had a nice valentines day, and was able to share some love! be back soon!

Just a few pics of my girls over the weekend. I just realized that we live near some woods, (yes i know, not very observant, lol) and decided to take the girls on a nature hunt of sorts. They loved it and it was so much fun watching them trying to climb every tree, picking up the most common twig and being amazed by it. It was like snow, and trees, and twigs all seemed to look different to them because we were in the woods, lol! We spent the majority of our time there trying to hunt down the bunny whose tracks victoria found....and we found one, but he moved to quick for me to nab a photo :( I guess the term quick like a bunny definitley has some merit, hehehe.






Anyways I took tonnes of photos, and got so many good ones, I was thrilled. I even got to practice a bit of photography technique, so am keeping in line with my goal mentioned in my last post :)
Jess took Victoria ice skating again, and she is getting so much better! That time together is really helping them reconnect! It is really good to see.
Other than that, Victoria and I had an arts and crafts day. It was "hundreds day" at her school. That means for those that don't have that, that on the 100th day of school, each student brings in 100 objects with the same thing...example 100 pennies, or anyting that they want and they trade them to the other students. At the end of the day each child is hoping to have 100 different objects and none of what they came with. Victoria hasnt done very well with that the last couple years so we decided to get creative and make some rock pals. Doesnt sound real interesting, lol, i know, but we painted them with glitter and paint, and put little googly eyes on them, and they ended up looking very cute!

hundreds day ended up being delayed due to bad weather the day of, so I am excited to see how she does this year. Otherwise she is going to come home with 100 rocks, lol!
Anyways, that is all for me! Only other thing is that Jesse is in interviews with an amazing job opportunity, and has made it through almost all the stages of interviews. If he gets it it will mean an end to alot of our work difficulties, as I won't have to work so hard, and it won't matter financially if the centres are sold. Really sounds too good to be true, so i am trying not to get too excited, but am keeping my fingers crossed. Heres hopin :)