Trip To Edmonton

Sarah and I made a trip to Edmonton this weekend to go shopping with my mom and Shelley who had come up on the bus with the youth group. My mom had booked Sarah and I a hotel room at the Mayfield Inn. It was an enormous room with a king size bed and huge jaccuzi tub! We took pictures to rub it in our husbands faces...especially the fact that we didn't have to watch any sports!! It was a great weekend and it was so nice to see our friends, even if it was only for a short visit. And of course, it was nice to shop for stuff that had nothing to do with house renovations :)

Thankfulness

Sorry this post is a little overdue :)

Thanksgiving was great this year. My family came up to Alberta, well those that don't already live here! We spent Friday and Saturday in Lloyd and then headed back to Bonnyville for Sunday and Monday. It was amazing having company in our house, and putting our newly renovated kitchen to good use. There is so much to be thankful for!

My sisters and I showing off the yummy turkey my mom made.

The boys doing what boys do at best...eat and sleep:)

Just Joking :)

Jason, Darcie and Jackson couldn't make it to AB this year. So Shelley made this sign...

We miss you guys!

Brad and Sarah brought their dog Hudson and Emmett was very excited to have a friend to play with. Hudson giving Emmett some kisses.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Another eventful weekend in our lives has passed…
Friday night we headed to Cold lake to finally buy our sink!! $360.00 later, we hopped back into the car and headed to McDonald’s for a quick, cheap supper :) On our way, we drove past Boston Pizza and Josh pulled in saying he wanted pizza instead. I didn’t mind... I always love to eat out with Josh so I went along thinking nothing was different. We get into Boston Pizza and I find out my friends had planned a surprise birthday dinner for me! I’m usually pretty good at guessing surprises, but they totally got me on this one! Since I didn’t know about it, I had left my camera at home so I don’t have any pictures to show… But it was lots so fun!
Then Saturday was spent renovating our house. We got so much accomplished and now I finally have a sink!! HALLELUIAH!! I never thought I would be so happy to do dishes :)
Also most of the kitchen is now finished…we still don’t have backsplash yet, so I’ll wait till we have that to show you pictures. But here is my fancy new shiny sink…

I know, it's just a sink, but when you haven't had one for a few months you really appreciate these things :)
John also came over for the day and helped renovate. Here he is putting our tile in by our front door. It looks so good!

Then on Sunday Brad and Sarah arrived to stay the night before moving into their new home in Lloydminster!! I was so happy to see them, and see Sarah's growing belly. We enjoyed a nice relaxing evening and then headed on Lloyd on Monday to help them move in.

Sarah unpacking her kitchen

The Boys taking a rest after unloading all the boxes

Now we're busy finishing off the rest of the house for when Brad, Sarah, Shelley, and my parents come for Thanksgiving. Can't wait!