Mya is 5!

Mya had her party at Chuck E Cheese today and it was fantastic!  They really do know how to throw a birthday party in there.  Mya and her friends had a brilliant time and we can't wait to go back.

Our road trip

We took a fantastic trip last Saturday.  We drove over the border into the USA!  It wasn't quite as straight forward as I thought it would be, we had forms to fill in and loads of questions to answer.  All of the officials were lovely and once we'd had finger prints and photos taken we were sent on our way.

We weren't sure where we were going but we had our Tom Tom and a map and we ended up in Watertown, which is only about 30 minutes from the border.  It was quite funny because we use kilometers here but as soon as you cross the border it changes to mile per hour!  Watertown was quite a busy place and had a big mall that we loved!

Coming home was alot more straight forward.  All they did was check our Canadian Permanent Resident cards and send us on our way.  

It is so amazing that we can drive such a short distance and be in the States!  All very exciting and we will be going back to explore more.

                                        

                                    

Also, things seem to be progressing with our home purchase so all going well we will be moving by the end of April.  We are all so excited and looking forward to settling into our own home.  The pictures were taken a little while ago so we can now see grass instead of just snow!

The change

The weather is changing so much at the moment.  We have had rain instead of snow and we are beginning to see grass instead of just the white stuff.  The lake is also starting to thaw out.  I don't mind the winter but it is great seeing the change in the weather and everything starting to come back to life.

The pictures I took made me laugh, it is warm enough for the children to be outside without full winter gear but they are scooting about on the left over snow on the driveway!

Birthday time

I can't believe how fast time goes by.  Gracie turned 7 the other day and had her party last weekend at the cinema where we all enjoyed Yogi!  I must add that she had her ears pierced for her birthday and they look lovely - although both Gracie and I nearly passed out when they did the piercing!

She also came home with $15 for winning the Frost fest coloring in competition!  Well done Gracie.  I wish some of her winning luck would rub off on me, still no luck on the lottery.

A snow day

We woke up this morning to alot of snow and visibility was very bad so no school for the girls and no work for Mick either.  It isn't particularly cold (about -22 with the wind chill) but we sure have a huge amount of snow and its still snowing!  Everything is so efficient here that things will probably be back to normal tomorrow and it does look so very pretty.

One big adventure

Well we really are living the "great Canadian adventure".  It was around -26 today.  We dripped the kitchen tap last night so that the water pipe wouldn't freeze.  The water seemed to be running fine so we turned the drip off and went out for a couple of hours.  When we returned we found that we only had a tiny trickle of water and then it stopped.  We called the caretaker who came over and tried to sort our frozen pipe out but it is still frozen.  Our bottled water supplies are running low with drinking, cooking and washing ourselves so Mick and I have resorted to thawing the snow out so we can flush the toilets.  The microwave and cooker have never seen so much action.  We are still smiling and we did chose to live out in the country.....

This evenings adventure has been almost as funny as our last night in our little cottage at the end of October.  One of the children (mentioning no names) filled the toilet up so much and then flushed it.  The poor toilet was unable to cope and overflowed!  Mick had to crawl round on his hands and knees moping the floor with a towel - I made sure it was his (he he he).

Our first winter here

Winter is definitely upon us.  It was -30 here yesterday!  We have had several inches of snow in the last week and everything looks so pretty covered with the white blanket.  

We are all enjoying the snow but I am sure we will all be glad to see the back of it when Spring arrives.  Although it is cold and wintry we also get so much sunshine and that makes it all worth it - don't miss the soggy damp dreary days one bit.

The children had to have an indoor recess yesterday morning at school but they were allowed to play outside in the afternoon.  I think the rule is if it gets colder than -20 they have to stay in!

I am cast and crutch free and it is great to be able to get back to normal slowly.