Behind Again!!

My intentions to blog daily are clearly falling behind! I'd like to say this will get better, but with a little boy on the move, time is precious around here!

Noah learned to crawl on Friday!! We couldn't be happier! He is a lot happier being able to move freely on his own and a lot less frustrated. Granted he would still prefer to walk over crawl, he can move about and that is big! Now he is working on pulling himself up on everything! Baby's really don't keep! 

Plans for Noah's party are in full swing! If you have me on Pinterest you would have likely guessed our theme to be Elmo! 

Another thing I have been working on is attempting to stop a 4-plex from going up in my back yard... Well not MY backyard, but on the lot behind us. I feel like I am back in the law library with all the research I'm doing, but the research is paying off and hopefully we can stop the application from going forward as it will cause a lot of parking issues, community safety, etc. We had a meeting Friday night with some neighbours and came up with a game plan. 

(It really is just a bad angle, but his smile was too big to not share... he has a neck I swear)

Saturday was spent tackling our to-do lists... Which I will update last months this week, as we are in February now! Crazy!! We cleaned out the mudroom, rearranged it and worked in finding homes for things that were suddenly homeless! It was an all day event! We got laundry done, sorting of bills and cleaned off the top of the fridge and the junk basket lol. All jobs that needed to be done! I also watched the movie Gone Girl - it was pretty good! I am an old school fan of Ben Affleck. The movie definitely didn't end the way I thought it was going to!

Sunday marked the end of our first round of the 21 day fix! I will also post about that this week! We couldn't be happier with the results!! We hung a mirror we had in the mudroom in the bathroom, hung a picture in the dining room, emptied the junk drawer and attempted to go out petitioning as a family, but that was short lived since of course we were getting a snow storm! So M brought Noah and the dogs home and I kept at it! 

When I got home I was surprised to see our new enjo products came in! We are pretty excited to start using them!! After Noah woke up from his nap we headed back out in the snow storm, but in a vehicle this time to head to the farm! Man did it ever come down while we were there! The roads were quite slick on our way home, but luckily it's not too far away!! 

And waking up this morning- we were dumped on! I haven't seen this much snow all at once in a long time! We are in operation dig out! The non-drifted sections are knee high and the drifted sections are thigh-high. Oh and it is still snowing!! Luckily my husband will be bringing over the plow from the farm to clear us out! 

Happy Monday friends!

What's Up Wednesday??

Another snowy day, it seems it is falling non-stop out there anymore. One perk to being stuck at home is not having to deal with it I suppose!

M took the girls for a super snowy walk last night and this is what they decided to do when they got home: 

I just love their snuggles. This pic reminds me of when G was a pup and used to lay on Lily!

 

 

 Lily also used to do this to Diamond!!

 

 

I just love the bond that pets create with each other! I love Grace and Lily get along soo well and

I love that these two are inseparable, they really do love each other!! Melts my heart!! 

 

I am officially finished my Christmas shopping, better late than never! The last few items should arrive by Christmas Eve!! Thank God for online shopping this year! I'm pretty sure 90% of my shopping was done online this year!! Now I just need to finish wrapping, but we have run out of tissue paper and most of the wrapable items are wrapped! We plan to go into town Friday evening to get our last minute groceries before Christmas and before the next storm hits - this one is calling for ice pellets... Fun times! 

We are just about done our Christmas baking! We have nuts and bolts to make and one other new recipe we are trying! Recipes should be up tomorrow! M made last nights batch of "M&M cookies" that we used smarties instead. He is definitely not a baker, but he tried. He is better at cooking and I am better at baking. Let's just say he smashed the cookies with a fork after as if they were peanut butter cookies, after reading that recipe stated not to flatten.... They still turned out alright! 

And finally today I will leave you with a picture of our Christmas card. I only printed two to try them out and really wasn't happy with the turn out. I refused to pay even more for more of them, so we decided not to send out any this year after all. Kind of sad I know, but the quality of the cards was poor. The backs of the cards weren't straight and didn't look any different from something I could print at home. But here is the general idea of them, 

Can you believe we will be celebrating Christmas in just a week from today?? 

Our last Christmas it's just M and I!!! 

Happy Wednesday friends!! 

A Real Post, I'd Rather Not post

This is the view I work up to:

 

There are two things wrong with this picture! 1. That is snow you see, luckily not a lot, but enough to be on the ground and trees. Yuck! 2. There are no window covers on my windows, not just this one either, in fact all do our window coverings are down! Why you ask? 

FLEAS! 

Yup, luckily not a lot, but you don't need a lot to freak out! I'm sure I've gone overboard, but better safe than sorry. How did I find out? Insert back story:

My Dad moved back down home, got his own place and all, which meant that all of his stuff in my shop can go to his new place. He brings his dog over all the time, this was no different. Then he went moose hunting and sure enough my sister volunteered to watch the dog. About 3 days later she found a ton of fleas on her. So she went all crazy in her house, bathed Gypsy 3 times, and sure enough all was to be fine. 

Yesterday I was at my sisters house photographing her jewelry and her dog kept itching, so I told her to check him and sure enough, she found a flea. Her dogs are treated with flea stuff regularly, but still managed to have fleas. She called my Dad over to bath her dogs and cat with flea treatment. Sure enough he went. I packed up, headed home and then checked my pets and sure enough, I found one on Gracie, and one on Lux. None on Jazz, Lily or Binx. But if one has them, they all have them in my eyes, as they are always cuddling, sharing beds, etc. So I called my Dad, told him how not impressed. I was and then got straight to work. 

M came home from work to a frantic pregnant clean freak, coming up with a master plan of how we were going to deal with this. We used the bathrooms as holding areas for the pets. Dogs in my bathroom, cats in M's. Then started a contamination room - aka laundry room to hold all of the potentially contaminated linens. We had a quick dinner, and then cleaned our house top to bottom, took all bedding, curtains, pillows, washable rugs, clothes and put them into the contamination room to be washed. Sure enough I have a heck of a lot of laundry to do, which was also started last night. My house is spotless for the most part. Everything was vacuumed, floors washed, I'm sure you get the picture. 

We bathed Lily first and sure enough we still didn't find any fleas. Poor M was stuck bashing everyone because I couldn't come into contact with the shampoo being pregnant. So I dried the dogs with these handy dandy gloves on! Better safe than sorry! 

Gracie was up next, still rather simple to bath, the dogs usually are. While I was drying Gracie, Binx was up next. She is soo easy to bath thank goodness! She's just laid back and purring. But I found a few more fleas on Gracie while drying her off! luckily they were dead but I couldn't get them off with my gloves on, so M came over to help and sure enough Binx is just wandering around the bathroom. We finished drying Gracie, finished bathing Binx and moved on to Jazz. You would have thought we were skinning her alive, she was soo upset with having a bath. I dried her while Lux was up next, he was a brat. Let's just say the baby won't be the first one to go to the bathroom in the tub! Poor M! And poor Lux!
 

We put all the towels in the wash, then shut both bathrooms at 11:30pm, made the bed, cleaned ourselves, emptied the vacuums and garbages and sure enough it was past midnight by the time we came to bed. 

Needless to say we were beat! 

So I have 3 rooms left to be cleaned, 2 of which will be done today - both bathrooms and the laundry room once everything is washed! 

The good news is my house is spotless. My animals are clean, but man that was a whole ton of work! I'm sure those without animals - if they made it this far in the post are not only disgusted, but wondering why someone would have an animal. But those who do have animals know this is a possibility and yes it does in deed suck. 

But my answer to those without pets would be, these animals are my fur-children, my babies, and they are part of our family. And although this evening really sucked, I would do it all over again, even with a baby on the way or even here. There is a bond between pets and humans, one that only pet owners understand. 

Snowmageddon

So that Albert clipper is still clippin'. I think I am still waiting for the Texas low... although rumor has it they have collided and there is no "low".

 

That snow is coming down out there and I am not even sure when it is supposed to stop!

I can't technically complain too much because we have not had snow fall like this in forever!!

 

What I will complain about is the driving conditions... it is almost as if the snow plowers have forgotten what a "real" snow fall can do.

 

The snow started last night of course when we went to Toronto to pick up M's parents from the airport. The drive there was dicey as in super crappy... the drive home wasn't bad once we got out of Toronto!

 

Overnight it came down...
 

 

This morning... I called into work because I was not willing to make the commute. I tried and it took me 30 minutes instead of 10 just to get to the highway! It is supposed to take me 30 minutes to get to work! I get it the weather is bad - it will take longer and I can handle a bad drive... but the fact that it is supposed to continue and the wind is supposed to pick up, it just wasn't worth it.
 

 

 

So I am home with two very happy dogs!!

 

 

This weekend I WILL be packing... and hopefully have the status of packed! Any packing tips?!

 

 Hope everyone has a great weekend!