DEAL OF THE YEAR

My brother has bought his first house and is moving out in May!!!! So now he is on the hunt for furniture, and all that household stuff that you need!!

Jamie and my brother went to an auction sale on Sunday. The auction sale was put on by Moose Mountain Auction Company. From what I understand is they have some kind of contract with Sears to get "their merchandise" and then resell it at auctions.. I have attended one of these auctions.. some really good deals but you have to watch..

They sell furinture, toys, appliances, beds everything that Sears have expect for clothes.

Well my brother landed up not buying a thing at this sale but Jamie came home with what I would call the deal of the year....

At the end of the auction they had theses "mystery boxes". One board was sticking out of the end of the box and Jamie saw it and it matched our "wood" colour that we have in our house.. Jamie bid on these mystery boxes and won. He choose this "box" and came home...

It took Jamie about an hour to assemble this box and this is what we got!! Oh I might add he only paid $25.00!!! plus tax!!



He got the 5 shelf one!!

I am not sure where we are going to put it but for now it is in the middle of the living room!!

Have a good night!!

Lana Lee Ferguson

Pictures

Some more pictures from today!!!

Pictures

The kids and I went outside today to take some pictures..







I am so proud of them.. just because during the year I ask them to sit, look, walk, hold and pose for pictures. They are so willing to do all this for mom!! Without whining or complaining!! It might help though that I offer them a treat afterwards too!! lol

Lana Lee Ferguson

Charlotte's Web

We are going to Charlotte's Web tomorrow. The kids are just pumped to see this in a theatre production. Just over the border into Manitoba there is a small town called Binscarth. They have a very successful "Vagabond Theatre" Company. Each year they put on kid's play and this year it is Charlotte's Web. The kids asked if there was going to be a REAL pig on stage or a person playing the pig... I said we will have to wait and see.

I wil leave you with the link for this little town's theatre group!!!

http://www.binscarthmb.com/vagabond/schedule.htm

During the summer they hold a theatre camp... which I hope that the kids will be able to go into!!

Have a good weekend everyone!!

Lana Lee

Pictou

Hello Everyone!!

As some of you know that Jamie is from Pictou, Nova Scotia. This weekend Jamie's cousin Cathy gave him this website address. Someone in the town of Pictou has put a web cam on up on a power pole or building and faced it down mainstreet Pictou. Jamie, myself and the kids have been watching the website to see if we can recognize anyone!!

Jamie has seen of vehicles and people who he knows!!

The kids want Nanny Lynn to go and wave in front of the camera so they can see her!!! How about Nanny Lynn???? Are you camera shy???

I will leave you with the link ....

http://www.gopictou.ca/webcam.html

Lana Lee Ferguson

Happy Easter Everyone!!

I just got a phone call from Jamie and the kids...Surafel is all excited because he got a new bike yesterday.... He has out grown his last bike so we promised that this year he would get a new bike. He said that he got a blue bike where the brakes are on the handles just like mom and dad's!! He picked out a mountain bike.

Jamie was saying that the bike is a little big but at the rate Surafel is growing it won't be long before it will fit him.

Elshadai was excited because the Easter Bunny came to Calgary for them.. She liked the new game that they got(Operation), socks and not too much chocolate. lol

I will post pictures of the kids and their new Easter Gifts once they get home!!

Lana Lee Ferguson

No Doors or Doors

In January Jamie and I finally decided to paint our cupboards...our walls are Mocha Brown and we decided to paint our cupboards "chocolate". Surafel and Elshadia thought that it was great that we wanted the cupboards the same colour as them!!! But here is our problem now.. Jamie and I both agree we want to put our "bottom" doors back on to hide our pots and pans. But we can't decide whether or not to put our "Upper" doors back on. We have not had the upper doors on now for two months.. just to try. The very top doors are not going back on because we are going to display our African treasures up there and a couple plants.

So I am asking for your help what do you think??? Doors or No Doors.. We have until Tuesday to decide!!!

Thanks
I will leave you again with pictures of our Kitchen with no DOORS!!






Lana Lee Ferguson

Music For Young Children

Surafel and Elshadai are in the Music for Young Children program. They take their classes in a small neighboring town of Stockholm.

In this program we go to class once a week and then it is expected that the kids practice up to 5 times during the week.

The kids learn their different notes by learning the animals on Critter Avenue for example:
C - Creepy Crawler Critter C
D - Dinosauer
E - Elegant Edith
F - Fireman Fred
G - Grumpy Groundhog
A - Amy Anteater
B - Becky

Then they learn quarter notes are called hops, half notes are turtles, etc.
Each week we learn something new!!

At Christmas time the kids were expected to play two pieces for their Christmas Concert!!!
I think we have about 4 classes left and then we are done for the summer.... The program is 4 years long. I still can't believe how much they have learned over the year. After Christmas we started to learn the notes in Bass Clef. And now they are learning to play songs that have notes in the Treble Clef and Bass Clef. I will leave you with some pictures from their Christmas Concert.

Lana Lee Ferguson

Update- Easter Weekend

Hello,

If there is anyone left out holding on to see if I update this blog.... Here I am!!

Well Jamie and the kids are off to Calgary to see Jamie's brother (David and his family) and spend the whole weekend with them. I have stayed behind to study for my last two exams....My final school exam that is on May 8 and my national exam on July 9th!!!

We have had a busy winter and can't wait for spring to happen!! For the first time in January we took the kids to the Science Centre and IMAX Theatre!!

We also took the kids to tubing in Manitoba one weekend..

We have tried to spend as much time outside this winter with the kids.. my mom and dad bought them a "skating rink" for our baackyard.. which they just loved!!!

The kids are growing fast.. we have them in Youth Group and in the Music for Young Children program. The Music program is once a week for 34 weeks.. we are nearing the end.

The kids have informed us that they want to be in baseball this year instead of soccer...I am not sure where this come from but I guess we are going into baseball!!!

Well that is all for now!!

Talk to you soon

Lana Lee Ferguson