Emily wants this colour in her room:

Love the orange here. Instead of pictures of flowers...I would do black and white photographs of family instead.

I think this would be nice in Emily's room. I will have to show her and see what she thinks!!

Love love love the orange in this kitchen!! The floors are awesome!!!

Decorating Ideas

I love the lime green walls in this picture. I would love to do this in the master bedroom!

update

I wanted to post some pictures from the last few months.

This was Emily's reaction to the new puppy we got her for Christmas!! Love it!!

This is my adorable nephew William!!

Noah got his ipod 4 for Christmas!!

Me and William!!

The three cousins together!! Emily and Noah love their cousin Will!!

Enjoying Life

I know I know...I am a terrible blogger. The sad thing is, I love reading new blog posts by other people but never update my own!

Things are good with us...we are loving being in the new house. I had a ton of fun decorating it for Christmas! It was nice to have room to spread things out and not feel so cramped!

The kids are good. Emily is dealing with a few challenges at school. She had to change schools when we moved and she does not really like the new school. It is tough to change in grade 10. Grade 9 I think would have been easier...clicks were being made and friendships started. now she is trying to break her way into these relationships. Hopefully it gets easier. She does have a few interested boys..but we are still sticking to the no dating until 16 rule!!

Noah is good...in grade 7 and doing pretty well. He is loving that his best friend lives down the street now.

Rob and I are doing well. I am still running my daycare....which I like a lot more in the new house!! Rob works for the federal gov't now. He likes it. I like that he is home for dinner every night now!! No more really long hours!

That is it for now...hopefully I will try to update more frequently!!!

Life is good!

We have been in our new house for 7 weeks now and I am loving it!!! It still feels really big compared to what we were living in but I am not complaining!!!! We love having the extra room! Running the daycare is so much better now that we have room to spread out a bit. I also like that I do not have toys in the main living space. So after they go home, I do not have to keep looking at toys!!

The kids love their new rooms. Noah had started unpacking his boxes while we were still unloading the truck!! He was very excited. Emily has even kept her room clean!! This is BIG!! She loves her new space...especially her window seat. She spends a lot of time there, reading, drawing or just dreaming!!

My favorite part of the whole house is the kitchen. I love cooking dinner and still being in the same room as everyone else!! I am still not a great cook...but at least I enjoy being in there now!!!

Emily is at camp right now. She is at Jackson's Point for 3 weeks. She was accepted into a program called Timothy 1. It is a mentor ship program geared for kids her age. They will learn all about working at camp...the various jobs up there as well as doing bible studies and prayer groups. It is a great opportunity for her!! I miss her tons but I know she is having fun. Right now she is on a 4 day canoeing trip...no showers or bathrooms for 4 days!!! I wonder how she dealt with that!?!

Noah is going to a swim camp next week. It is called Extreme H2O. They will be jumping off the tower of Terror, snorkeling, obstacle courses and an extreme field trip!! He is quite excited about it!! I am excited that he will be kept busy for a few days!!!

That's it for now!!

House

We have windows in now!!!! We are also going for our frame walk on Monday!! Things are moving along quite well!! Very excited!!

Been Awhile

Wow...it has been a long time since I last posted. Not even sure if anyone checks this out anymore!!!

Things are good with us. Very busy. We are trying to get our house ready to sell. We have a lot to do in the next few weeks. It is pretty stressful. Then we have to get it on the market and go through the selling process. That stresses me out too!!!

Our new house is coming a long really well. You can see from this picture that we have a roof with shingles. The house is wrapped and work is being done inside. We are just waiting for electrical to be done and then we will have our frame walk. I am excited. I love this house!!!!

We did have a bit of a hiccup...not with the house but with Emily's school. We were told when we bought that she would not have to switch schools so she started high school where she is now. When we started picking classes for grade 10 we found out that our new area has been rezoned and she has to switch schools. She was pretty upset at first. We went to an open house at the other school and discovered they have a wonderful drama program. Drama is pretty important to Emily so this helped with the change. She is dealing with it really well now!! Crisis averted!!!!

Anyway...will try and post more as we get closer to the move. I will post some pictures of our renovations as well.

New choices

We had our appointment on Friday to make all our new selections for the house. What a crazy time it has been with all of it. After a few e-mails to the manager we finally made some new selections. Here they are:

Emily really likes this funky floor so we decided to go with it!! I like it!! This is their shower tile, floor, cupboards and counter.

This is for the master ensuite. We upgraded to ceramic tile on the floor to match the tile around the tub. Just flows better that way!!

This is what we changed to on main floor to. I decided in the end that I really did love the light maple cupboards so that is what we went with. Rob almost had one of those "Your right" moments because this is what he has wanted all along!! We are not getting that hardwood at the bottom...it is to represent what colour the fireplace and the railings will be. The ceramic tile is for the front hall. The vinyl is the kitchen.

I LOVE what we ended up with. The change was actually better for us as we like the new choices much better!!!

Really?????

We got an e-mail today from our builder saying that they are changing cabinet companies. We have to pick everything again!!!!!!! They are going to pick out what they think is the best match to what we had picked...but if I don't like it, we have to pick again. We are a little stressed about it. We upgraded a few things like our railings and fireplace to match the cabinets. Hopefully with the new company they can do that too!!! Too stressful!!!!

Fall

Some updates on us:

*our foundation is in. We are very excited to see some progress instead of an empty field!!

*Emily joined the swim team and seems to be doing well.

*she is also trying out for the cheer leading squad.

*Noah joined the junior band at school...but doesn't really like it.

*Rob is starting a new job on Monday. It is with the federal govt. This means no more overtime or over night working for him YAY!!! We are excited to get his time back!!!

*I have done about 50% of my Christmas shopping. I did most of that on line!

*Emily turns 14 in 6 days. I cannot believe that I have a 14 year old!!

*I am excited to meet Christina and Steve's baby soon!!

*I need to start packing and painting this house!

Final Choices

We had our appointment yesterday and this is what we decided on.
This is the kitchen cupboards, counter, vinyl floor, carpet, railings and front hall tile.


This is the master ensuite.

This is the kids bathroom.

Now we just need it to be built!!! They did tell us that they expect foundation to be in in the next 3 weeks!! So exciting!! We asked also about closing dates and they are right on track for us to be in on time!!!!

Think we have it

I think we have made our final choices. I think!! I am still not convinced about the ceramic tile that goes in the front hall (shown on the left under the railings). We might have to go back in today and look at that again. Our appointment is Wednesday to tell them our choices. I honestly want this part over with so that we can just enjoy the rest of the process!

can't decide

I thought I had made my mind up and had picked the colour of the cabinets in the first picture...but I have always really liked the colour in the second picture. I don't want to regret the decision...this is something that is not easy to change later!
Which do you like?

choices for the new house

Rob and I have been going to the design center almost every Sunday to start picking the things for our new house. We have our first appointment tomorrow. This is our structure appointment. We get to pick things like railings, fireplace, doors and windows, hood fan options, home theater packages, and many many more!! We are going with mostly standard things but still have a few choices to make. We will have to sit down tonight and finalize that!
We should have another appointment in 2 weeks. This will be for picking kitchen and bathrooms cupboards, floors, counters etc. Here are a few pics pf the choices we made. Let me know what you think!



This is the kids bathroom:
This is our bathroom:

This is for the main floor. The ceramic tile on the left is for the front foyer and powder room. The carpet is for the whole house (minus bathrooms, kitchen and laundry room). We will put in hard wood floors at a later date. The vinyl is for the kitchen and those are the kitchen cupboards and counters.

We had originally picked chocolate brown for the cupboards but as you can see we have gone the opposite direction and picked a light maple cupboard. This is more Rob and my style.

I am getting very excited to see my house. We have a paved road now and foundations should be going in within the month. They are right on schedule which we are glad about!! Only 9 months to go!!!!

2 graduations and a birthday

Noah's birthday was this past Saturday. I cannot believe my baby is 11. Where has the time gone? He told me on his birthday that he will always be my little boy...it was cute!! He did not want a big party this year but choose to go go-carting with some friends of ours...Steve and Christina and their boys Josh and Jonah. It was Christina's birthday too. It was fun!!



This is Noah on his birthday...he has new glasses here too!

Noah graduated grade 5 this year and is off to middle school in the fall. This is him the day of the ceremony. He is pretty nervous about the new school, but I think he will do really well!!!

Emily graduated grade 8 the same week. I cannot believe she will be in high school in the fall!!! SCARY!!!! This is her and Rob when we took her out for a celebration lunch after her ceremony.

This is her getting her certificate. She looked very lovely!!!!!

been awhile

I am a terrible blogger. I never remember to update it...but love reading other people's updates. Anyway, here are a few things going on on with us.

*1 year from today we get our new house. I CAN"T WAIT!!!!!!

*we are going up to Lac L'Achigan this weekend to help fix some cabins. I have no experience with this....hope I can help!!!

*I need a new bike. I am riding Rob's old one that is so rusty it squeaked all through our bike ride on Sunday...very embarrassing!

*Noah is going to turn 11 next month...I feel really old!

*Emily's grade 8 graduation is coming soon. We went a bought her a really pretty dress. We are also hosting a grad party for her here...20 13/14 year olds will be here!!

*Emily is going to Toronto for her grade 8 trip next Wednesday.

*Noah's hockey team...the Pittsburg Penguins are going to the finals again...I wonder if they can pull it off this year?

*I am so happy for our friends Steve and Christina who are having a baby!!! I can't wait to meet him or her!!

*I am glad it is not me having another baby!! :)

*I have not planted a thing in my garden yet

That's all I can think of for now!!

saying good-bye

Our church has decided to move to a different location. We are moving to a area highly populated with young families. Our hope is that we can grow our church family. We were struggling in the location we were in. Today was a day for "Celebrating Woodroffe". There were pics set up from the past 40 years and it was fun to look back. We had a praise service this afternoon to celebrate all that went on at Woodroffe over the years. We had a lot of fun. I am a little sad today because this is the church where I grew up and where we were married. There are a lot of great memories in this building. But we were reminded today that the church is not the building but about the people in it!! We need to remember this next week when we start our journey in a school for the next few years. I am thankful for all the memories that I have and look forward to all the memories we are going to make!!!!