Making Roads

Ethan's favorite thing to do in the snow..."Make Road".  He's able to do it when shoveling the driveway or playing in the yard.  He gets a little upset with me for messing up the roads on the driveway but he gets over it quickly.

Two big things finalized

Exciting day today as we were able to finalize two big things that have been on our list for the last month.

1)  We got Ethan enrolled in preschool starting next fall.  We've looked at several schools and our favorite had a later enrollment so we were hoping that if we didn't get in, there would still be openings at some of the other ones.  Wade was able to get our online registration submitted quickly last week (Ethan and I were at swimming lessons).  It was first come first serve so we thought we would probably get in and today we heard we got in the Tuesday/Thursday class.

2)  We were able to get our cabin booked for our summer vacation.  We are doing another vacation with the Hansen family in July.  We decided on South Dakota and we were able to find a 6 bedroom cabin that was still available for dates that worked for everyone. 

Finally a snowman

The snow has been slowly melting and we haven't had to shovel in a couple weeks so we have hope that spring might be coming soon although I'm sure it's not the end of snow yet.  Last night we got a couple inches of snow and it was finally wet enough to make a snowman.  The snow wouldn't roll so it's not the best looking snowman but it doesn't really matter.

Delivery Day

Friday was an exciting day around our house with two big deliveries.  Our fridge had been making noises since we moved in and had progressively gotten worse.  Our landlords were able to find a good deal on a fridge and it was delivered Friday.  We are now enjoying a nice quite fridge.

While Ethan was napping we got another delivery, a care package from Grandma Carol and Grandpa Charlie.

Visitors - Round 1 and Round 2

Yeah, I've been slacking a little on blogging....

Wade's parents came up for a long weekend a couple weeks ago.  I think everyone had a good time and I know Ethan was really excited to play with grandma and papa. The weather was nice for most of their visit and we showed them a few things around town...West Edmonton Mall, Old Strathcona Farmers Market, Wade's office, and the downtown area.  Thane was nice enough to babysit one night so Wade and I could go out to dinner.  We ate at a very cozy restaurant called Niche.  The food was great although the highlight was the dessert.  It was called Breaking Coffee Cup and it was a small cup made out of chocolate filled with chocolate mousse.  They covered the outside of the cup with caramel liquor and lit it on fire.  All 5 of us also had a wonderful dinner one night at Normand's.  Thane had requested a restaurant with wild game and Normand's delivered and we ate wild boar, bison, lamb, and caribou. 

The following weekend we had our second visitors.  Some friends from Calgary came for a weekend visit.  Ethan had played with Erik's toys when we passed through Calgary on our drive up here so now he got to repay the favor.  The boys had a good time playing and it was a nice relaxing weekend.

Let's Go RVing (or maybe just window shopping)

One thing Wade and I had discussed was that since our family was going from a combined 3 jobs down to 1 job, we should have time do some things we wouldn't normally be able to do.  The RV show seemed to fit into that category.  All 3 of us had fun checking out all the RVs.  Wade decided exactly what he wanted...he wants one with a gooseneck so he could also get a new truck to pull it, a shower tall enough for him, exterior door to the bathroom, and exterior sink/grill area.  Now we just need to win the lottery so we will have the money to buy it and also be able quit our jobs so we would have time to use it.  Ethan was excited to go to the "Barbie Show"  and it didn't disappoint.  He had a blast going in and out of the RVs.  He also enjoyed a monster truck bouncy house, Lightning McQueen, Tow Mater, and a balloon artist (a very impressive artist).

 

Oh My!

Last night Wade's boss invited us to a silent auction for his son's hockey team.  Their daughter babysat for Ethan again (this time we put Ethan to bed before we left so it went a little smoother).  We had a fun evening with some of Wade's coworkers, bidding on the auction items and we even won a couple small things.  Although we didn't have much interest in the raffles for signed hockey jersey's or hockey tickets, the huge "liquor basket" did catch our eye.  We purchased $20 worth of raffle tickets and then proceeded to tell everyone how we had an empty liquor cabinet since we didn't want to deal with bringing what we had across the border.  Wade saw them drawing in the corner and watched the guy calling the cell number.  He was holding his phone waiting for it to ring and it did!  The basket ended up having 13 bottles of wine, 1 large bottle of wine, 2 bottles of champagne, and a bottle each of rum, vodka, gin, and sambuca.  Needless to say our liquor cabinet is no longer empty and we better find some friends to invite over because Wade and I don't need to drink all this ourselves.