Jeudi Treize #8 (Thursday Thirteen)

 

Thirteen Reasons I’m excited for Christmas already Emily can already say Merry Christmas I love Happy Birthday-ing Jesus. I think I might make him a cake this year. I love baking at Christmas time. Hooray for my kitchenaid mixer I have a small band made out of little ornament animals and things with instruments. I add to it whenever I can. We bought tree awesome Christmas albums last year and I’m finally ready to listen to them again. Reliant K, Barenaked ladies, Diana Krall. Veggie Tales 8 Polish Christmas Dishes song!! I like sending out Christmas cards. People in the stores(not applicable to retail employees…seriously) act alot nicer. Emily is going to love Christmas so much more now that she is older. This puts decorations at risk, but I think I can hang alot of stuff. My advent calendar rules! Spending time with family is super fun. Sometimes strange(have you met my family??), but awesome none the less. Looking for all my Christmas decoration boxes in the basement mean my basement gets a bit cleaner. I already know what I’m getting Morgan. He’s hardest for me to find something for. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! http://pluckymama.wordpress.com/ http://palofmine.wordpress.com/

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I was tagged for a meme, makes for an easy blog day.

The basic facts:
Who is your significant other? Morgan

How long have you been together? 4 years

Dating/Engaged/Married? Married

How old is your S.O.? 25

What’s his/her middle name? Alexander

Who eats more? Me

Who says “I love you” first? Him

Who weighs more? Sooo me

Who sings better? Def him. Angel boy

Who’s older? MK

Who’s smarter? Him. This is starting to make me seem stooopid

Whose temper is worse? two words “inanimate objects”

Who does the laundry? Me again

Who does the dishes? our dishwasher

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Morgan

Whose feet are bigger? Him

Whose hair is longer? Mine.

Who’s better with the computer? He does all the networky boring stuff. I do the graghicy fun stuff. Teamwork!

Who mows the lawn? Some old guy

Who pays the bills? West Fraser

Who cooks dinner? Both

Who drives when you are together? Him. Old school I know.

Who pays when you go out to dinner? doesn’t matter, same account. Morgan says” I think you should start chipping in” really loudly for the waitress to hear though.

Who’s the most stubborn? Me. Morgan says in my family saying don’t be stubborn is like saying don’t breathe. But I think he is pretty stubborn too.

Whose parents do you see more? We live in the same town as my parents. so obviously…

Who named your dog? If we had a dog I’d name it

Who kisses who first? either

Who asked who out? He just grabbed my hand. no questions no answers.

Who’s more sensitive? Me.

Who’s taller? Him

Who has more friends? I don’t know let me check his facebook….

Who has more siblings? Me between the two of us there is one.

Who wears the pants in the relationship? We are kinda old school so he does, but I’m not partial to skirts so technically we both do.

Tag : Coco is it.

Your mom goes to college

Emily’s mom goes to college! I jumped the last hoop! No more poodley Courtenay. I start December 1st. Morgan let me get some school supplies at staples yesterday to celebrate. And I found a cool French Vocab list and dictionary there too. So now I am good to go.

Morgan was teaching Emily to sing O Canada this morning. She sang “O Canada, our home and nakey land”. It was so funny. Either that or she sings “O Canada Mommy!!!”. We’ve been teaching her the provinces too. Her best is Manitoba. She like saying “Alberta-ta-ta-ta”. Just like her daddy she turns everything into a song.

Last week Emily was at Nathan and Danielle’s for a couple hours and she learned something mommy probably wouldn’t have taught her until she was older. Danielle let her walk around with their digital camera. She would stop and look at the screen and take a picture and then look for something else to snapshot. Danielle said most of the pictures turned out really well. SOO cool. I want to get her that kids camera you can chuck down stairs without recking it. I think it’d be really cool to see from her perspective what shots she’d take.

We are going on a mission trip to kamloops in a couple weeks. I dug through our toques and hats and jackets and found lots to give away. Next comes my closet. I’m taking pop cans in today and tomorrow Georgia and I and the kidlets are going to go get some sox and mitts and stuff to donate for the trip. I really love when we get to go and help people out. If you live in huncity or near it and you have extra stuff to give away you could let me know and I could even come get it to take to kamloops when we go.

Off I go to the bottle depot. Courtenay the Student!

MILK

I took Emily groceries shopping last night. She was being her usual friendly self and saying hello to everyone we came in contact with. It was really cute. I said “Are you being nice, Emily”. So then the very next person down the aisle is a Stock guy with on of those electronic stocking devices. Emily pipes up, in all friendliness “BE NICE”! He was like “Oh..Hi”. It was really funny. She’s been killing us with her comedic timing lately. Her most common one is switching Uncle for Auntie. “Auntie Nathan” is one of her favorites. Or she puts them both together and it becomes “Hunky Nathan”. Nathan doesn’t mind that one as much.

Tonight we met up with some friends to take the kidlets bowling. I was thinking Emily was a bit to young…and I was right. after about 30 seconds of realizing she wasn’t going to get in trouble for throwing the ball she had had enough. She kept saying all done and wandering off. It was pretty cute though. I think she is a better bowler than I am. Ga.

We went to Nathan and Danielle’s for dinner. Yay pizza. AND spinach salad, I might add. AND sweet potato fries too. mmm. Emily favorite meal is pizza. So she enjoyed that. Emily kept calling Nathan “Auntie Santa”. OH and I just remembered. Emily learned to say MILK! no more nuk or nilk. MILK MILK MILK! yay. It was a weird one because she could say lots of other M words, but it always came out with an N. Her R’s are getting alot better too. Still not as good at L, but we are working on it.

We got our picture in the paper again this week. It was for dressing up like pirates for last week . Emily was super cute in her piratey suit. I borrowed this pic from Coco at Walking in the Light.

Happy b-day Roxstanley!

Our old computer is fixed!!!Yay. We ordered a mother board off Ebay and the little sucker did the trick. Plus the memory we ordered for our computer works too, so now we have a way faster computer. It will probably mostly be my computer for school. I thought we lost alot of pictures too, but because it works again we only lost maybe 1 folder of pics. So Im super excited about that. AND Morgan and I don’t have to share computer time. Not the end of the world, but nice all the same. It’s good for 2 nerds 2 have 2 computers.

I’ve become addicted to POM Tea. I love it. Its quite light and refreshing. Its got loads of antioxidants in it too so it’s good for you. AND it’s only 60 calories, which is pretty good for juice. I save the glasses for Georgia because we have way too many cups already. I am currently sip sip sipping away while blogging twice in one day. Hooray for inspiration.

It was Roxy’s Birthday yesterday. Emily says “happy birthday you auntie roxy!” Its cute. She’s singing the song alot. We played a bit of a joke on my sister. We wanted to get her a new cell phone, but we couldn’t just get one because of th plan she is already on. so we made gift certificates for her. But instead of giving her those we gave her my old phone in it’s box. All the manuals we still wrapped in plastic and the cords were wrapped up all nice. We only used it for a couple months because it was so crappy. The reception sucked and it would echo while you talked. Basically she thought we had got her a new phone that was a piece of junk. It was really funny. she was like “Ohhh a phone!” She tried really hard to be excited about it, but we all ended up laughing at her. Way to be grateful for junk Roxy! Happy Birthday dude. Way to not be a teenager anymore! You’re doing great!