Music Man Fundraiser

I attended our fundraiser for the production of our up coming musical last nite. It was a very nice turn out, and was very successful. We raised almost $5000 so far. It's a great start for the new theatre society we are. There was an AMAZING amount of things donated for the silent auction. I got a brand new 20" Samsung virtual flat screen TV for $96!! That was the only thing i bid on all nite. I wanted it so bad because the TV in our room bombed out on us. What a steal it was for 96 bucks! I dressed up in a costume that made me look about 250 pounds. I looked huge, but it was still fun and entertaining for our guests to see.

My mom's friend Leila was the big auction winner of the night. She got a Canucks jersey signed by the entire team, and two 17th row game tickets. It's going to be the ULTIMATE christmas present for her Canuck-Fan son.

There was a russian gypsie singer that came to perform for us all the way from Vancouver. His name was Raoul. There were many russians in the crowd that happily sang along with him. The CD's he brought to sell were a hit with our local Russian people.

All in all, it was a very nice evening for all that came.

Oh CRAP... no really, crap....

Just taking a break from CLEANING the smelliest disaster ever. Our old toilet downstairs decided it was time to break and flood the basement. The ENTIRE basement. The water was ankle deep and went from the toilet through the walls to the workshop, guest room and family room. Our whole house smelled like a sewer before we got the water cleaned up. I'm just taking a break from carpet cleaning, laundry, and organizing. I don't wanna do another thing, but I gotta get back to work now. This has forced us to get rid of a bunch of stuff we have been meaning to take to the dump and thrift store for a long time. WHAT A HEADACHE, WHAT A MESS...!

Oh my God it's DONE!

Well, 2 days worth of work, $150, and wow, wow, wow. What a nice room Annie has. It's absolutely adorable. And it's something that she won't grow out of for quite some time. Tinkerbell is the theme. We figure since Tinkerbell's been around for about 50 years, she's not going to go out of style for a long time yet. I'd like a Tinkerbell room too, but I think Steve wouldn't like that too much.

Today is the dreaded beginning

Annies room. WHAT A MESS!!!!!! I'm about to embark on hours of frustrating cleaning. Mayanne and I are going to put everything in one GIANT pile in the middle of the floor and sort. Garbage, Thrift Store or Keep piles. Then on Sunday, Steve and I will tear up the crappy carpet, move all the furniture and start painting. I will post the after pictures probably on Monday.

How I started my day....

Makenna got a really cute Disney Princess tea party set for her birthday. She absolutely loves it. Everyday we've been having tea parties. Not just her and I, but the whole family has been getting involved in this extraveganza. She's so adorable as she pours the tea and tries to hide her 'proud' smile while she does it. We have big people conversations and use all our manners. She's 4 and all grown up now. Oh what fun!

The Fantasticks

I've got sooooo many things to blog! I'm trying to treat this as a bit of a scrapbook type thing, so I want to have as many memories as possible in my blogger thing. Forgive me for talking about all the things in the past. A lot of the time I'll be blogging stuff about me. Hopefully all this "me" talk won't horribly bore the people who read this.

In the summer I was in another musical. The Fantasticks. It's one of Broadways longest running shows ever. There are only 8 people in the play, but it's incredibly entertaining. It was a lot of work, but worth it in the end. I ended up stressing out, as I do with most of the plays I've been in. This time though, I gave myself an ulcer. I'll be sure not to stress myself out that badly again.

Our wedding day...

We got married on March 25th, 2006. It was a super small, but perfect wedding. I still can't believe I'm Mrs. Burrows. So weird. We had 11 guests at our wedding. I originally wanted to invite everyone we know, but now looking back I'm very happy with the decision we made. The wedding was planned in 4 weeks. My dress was $9.99, my shoes were $9.99, my hair was $30 and my bouquet was $40. I made my veil for about $3. I was a VERY BUDGET BRIDE. However, I felt like I was worth a million bucks that day. The ceremony and dinner were at Golden Heights Restaurant. Such a pretty place.
I had no intentions of crying on my wedding day, but the second I started walking down the isle, the tears started flowing. Why do people cry at weddings? I just can't understand the emotions behind it. Even Steve had a hard time keeping the tears back. My 2 grammas, mom, dad, 2 best friends, and steve's gramma were all bawling. How could I not cry with all those other tearful faces looking at me? The kids were all very good that day. All 3 walked me down the isle with pride written all over thier faces. Mayanne and Makenna were my bridesmaids and JP was Steve's best man and ring bearer. So cute. I decided to have the kids walk me down the isle rather than my dad because dad's are supposed to give their daughters away. I kinda figured I gave myself away a long time ago to Steve (with dad's blessing of course), so having him walk me down the isle seemed to have no traditional meaning left behind it. I wanted the kids to be a huge part of the wedding process, and they were.
Anyway, it was a wonderful day. I'm so glad we took our relationship that extra step. I love what we've got, I cherish every moment we have together as a family. I'm so glad our closest family members and friends were there to share our special day.

Happy Birthday Makenna!

Geez, my baby girl is 4 already. Shes growing up way too fast. Like all parents seem to say, "it was yesterday when she way born". I remember it so clearly. I decided to go for a walk on November 18th with the other 2 kids. 1/2 way through my walk I started thinking "geez, I'm gonna get diarrhea". My stomach was killing me, so I walked to steve's work and asked to use the bathroom. No poop, just really bad tummy cramps. I was in total denial of being in labour and just told steve to finish his day at work. When he got home my stomach cramping was now coming in waves, and believe it or not, I was STILL in denial. It was MY THIRD CHILD, and I refused to believe I was in labour. So dumb. Well around 7 pm I said, "alright I'm in labour, lets go to the hospital". So we went, the nurse said I was in labour for sure, but was not yet dialated, so I went home. I only lasted until about 9:30 pm at home and I told Steve I HAD to go back. The pain got pretty intense. Well, I was dialated to around 5 cm's which was good enough for them to keep me at the hospital. ALL NIGHT LONG I had horrible contractions every 3 minutes or so. Poor poor Steve. He was exhausted from working all day, and fell asleep in between each contraction (so did i). Dr. Sebastian broke my water at around 7am (I was so mad at him because I knew it'd make the pain way worse), and at 8 am on November 19th 2002, out came Makenna!! It was a epidural free delivery, the best way to go I'd say. The 1st two kids were epidural deliveries, and it just made it way to hard to push. My body literally heaved Makenna out.
Anyway, HAPPY 4th BIRTHDAY MAKENNA! We love you so much.

Makenna's new room

I really wish I had taken a before and after picture of Makennas room. I'm kicking myself for not doing that!

For the kids birthdays (nov 19, dec 8 and dec 11) they are getting room makeovers. Makennas room was 1st, and she was TOTALLY THRILLED! All week she's been handing out hugs and kisses to Steve and I to say thank you for her new room. For Mayanne and JP's rooms, i'll do a before and after shot of each. For now, here's pics of Makennas new room that she is sooooo proud of.

Family Vacation

We went on family vacation at the end of August, and it was SOOOOO much fun! The 1st really cool thing we saw was the huge truck in Sparwood BC. The kids were totally thrilled and took tons of pictures on their disposable cameras. Steve of course didn't obey the rules and just had to climb up on one of the giant tires for a photo. Our next stop was Frank Slide. I cannot believe how unpredictable and powerful mother nature can be! The kids weren't overly thrilled with that stop, but Steve and I found it to be rather interesting. After that it was on to Drumheller! Wooooo, that was so much fun. We stayed at a really nice campground. The bathrooms were clean, there were showers and a heated pool. All for $26 a nite, I was very happy! We spent 2 days in Drumheller and went to The Royal Tyrell Museum, Reptile World, Mini Golfed, saw the worlds biggest dinosaur and the kids got to go on a suspension bridge for the 1st time. Makenna was terrified of the bridge. Know what's funny? She was terrified of the bridge, but was the 1st to volunteer to hold a giant snake at reptile world! I don't get it.

After our super fun time in drumheller, we were on to Edmonton. West Edmonton mall was soooooooooo much fun! Well, the whole trip was fun, but West Ed was definitely the highlight. EXPENSIVE, but great. We spent 10 hours at galaxyland. I went on the mindbender all by myself over and over again. Steve is a chicken, he wouldn't go on. Mayanne loved the swing ride, JP loved the kids rollercoaster (actually pretty big for a kids one), and Makenna of course wouldn't get off the carousel (she LOVES horses). The next day we went back to West Ed Mall and went mini golfing again and then hit the waterpark. The waterpark was fun, however I don't think i'd take the kids again until they're almost teenagers. The Waterpark accomodates little little kids and big big kids. The in between kids don't really have much to do there. Also, they don't allow life jackets in the wave pool, and no life jackets on the slides. Seems ridiculous to me. LIFE jacket, seems pretty important. I just don't understand the logic behind that rule.

Anyway, after swimming we were off to make our way to Mica Dam (Revelstoke area). It was a bit of a last minute decision, but the whole trip was made of last minute decisions. We didn't go with a schedule. It was a "lets go and see where we end up" trip. My dad works at Mica Dam and had been asking us for years and years if we'd come see it. So, we said "hell why not?" LET'S GO! Making our way there was tiresome. It was an "are we there yet? are we there yet?" type of adventure. But, we had fun. It took us a day and a half to get there. We had originally intended on driving from Edmonton to ummm... not sure. I forget. Anyway, when we got to the place we were intending on staying the nite at, we realized that town was WAY out of our price league. So we drove and drove and drove into the dark night until we got to Golden. We stayed in a nice hotel there (not to pricey though) and got on the road to revelstoke 1st thing in the morning. When we arrived in Revelstoke we decided to take a little tour of the town. It's really really nice there. We went to the Railway Museum which was really neat.

We got to Mica Dam finally and let me tell you I was in awe. What a beautiful place to live. My dad works there with about 50 or so other people. It's a camp type setting. My dad is SPOILED there. There's really nothing to do there (in the middle of nowhere), but the silence and beauty of the overall atmosphere is priceless. We loved it and will definitely go back to visit again.

We stopped at the Enchanted Forest just outside of Sicamous on the way home. It was so cute. Steve was exhausted though, so he slept in the car while the kids and I made our way through the forest. We loved it. All of our favorite storey book characters were there!

Anyway, our vacation was great! I would have posted ALL our pictures, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do a proper layout on the blogger thing. I'm still new at it. Hopefully I'll figure it out and have a nice looking blog sometime.

I'm jumping on the blog bandwagon

Okay, so I'm just about to go to work, but I thought I'd try to do something on here for the 1st time. Let's see if it works!