my latest addiction

ebaY
Okay so I am so addicted to ebaY lately! I went on a month or so ago to check out webkinz. Why??? It's not like I collect webkinz or anything but I thought I would get the Choules kids each a webkinz. Well 13 webkinz later...but I got such good deals:)

Then there were the Christmas ornaments and Baby Einstein DVD's, which I already have 90% of...then the Baby Einstein books, sprinkles, and Precious Moments stuff...

Well now it's the magazine subscriptions! Who knew that ebaY had magazine subscriptions???

Let me share some of the deals I have got...

Parenting magazine $1.04/2 years

ESPN magazine $9.49/4 years

Tennis magazine $4.80/1 year

Scrapbooks Etc. magazine $6.25/1 year

Family Fun magazine $4.68/4 years
Family Fun magazine (gift) $8.98/3 years

and I am waiting to bid on...

Real Simple Magazine approx. $20.00/3 year subscription

Cooking with Paula Deen approx. $20.00/3 year subscription

Entertainment Weekly approx. $10.00/3 year subscription

Family Circle approx. $6.00/3 year subscription

Good Housekeeping approx. $5.00/3 year subscription

Martha Stewart Living approx. $18.00/3 year subscription

Isn't that sick? I already get quite a few magazines and just renewed a few more.

But look at those deals!!!!!!!!

HELP!!!

Amy

I have been planning this post for a few weeks now but wanted to get a few things together and make it a little more special. I wanted to do a post about one of my very best friends,
Amy Ferguson!
Amy is AWESOME!!!
She is the most thoughtful, compassionate person that I know! I don't know what I would have done without her these past few years. I am so lucky that she married an Arizona boy too:)
Let me tell you a few things that Amy has done for me...
(and this is just the last couple of years)
The day I found out I was pregnant, I received these beautiful daisies (my favorite)

Then she planned most of my shower and came up with such

cute ideas, like these water bottles.

When I had Caleb, she drove down from Holbrook by herself to

see our little bundle of joy.

She bought Caleb sooo much stuff...even before he was born she was buying books and things.

Amy and Eldon came down for Caleb's Blessing.

They helped take pictures...which Amy is the best at!

She took all the pictures of our wedding, which turned out awesome! Not only is Amy an amazing photographer but she is quite the scrapbooker. She is always coming up with such creative layouts. I introduced Amy to scrapbooking years ago but she has now become more the teacher than the student. We definitely help feed each other's addiction!

I love this picture of Amy and Caleb. It was taken this summer when Amy and Eldon came to Toronto. It's such a sweet picture of them looking out the hotel window at the construction across the street.

I have learned a lot from Amy...she is a great cook, scrapbooker, photographer, shopping companion, crafter, listener and FRIEND!

I have so much fun with her and

miss her tons!
What more can I say,

SHE IS AWESOME!!!

morning ritual

Today I thought that I would post our little morning ritual.

Usually Caleb gets up around 7am (some days I wish it were 7am) and if I am still really sleepy, I put on a Baby Einstein movie. That gives me another 20 minutes to wake up.

Then Caleb gets a diaper change,

(Yeah, not sure about the potty training thing right now)

I only started the potty training thing because my kid

takes off his diaper all the time!!!!

I will try again but not right now. I am in no hurry personally

but he seems to be taking an interest...we'll see.

Anyway we then come downstairs.

This week all Caleb has wanted for breakfast is an

orange and cookies.

I usually try to sneak a yogurt in there as well. If I have breakfast...on the rare occasion, which is so bad of me, I usually have granola. Then we get washed up and I check my email while Caleb

watches his 2 favorite shows,

Curious George and Sesame Street.

We then read books and play for a bit and get ready for our day. Often we listen to Caleb's playlist on itunes and have so much fun singing and dancing.

Caleb's Playlist

"A" You're Adorable
Shake Your Sillies Out
Skinnamarink
Brush Your Teeth
Elmo's Song
If You're Happy and You Know It
Head, and Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
I Don't Want to Live on the Moon
Old MacDonald
Wheels on the Bus

It's nothing exciting but that is what we do.

Have a good day!!! It's Friday!!!

shoes, snow, Santa and Dora

This is my handsome boy all dressed up sporting his new
hair gel. I tried to get a full length picture of him but it's so hard to get pictures of him these days as he is sooooo busy! He's always on the go!
I bought him these new shoes, which I think are so stinking cute. He loves them. Everytime I put them on him, he goes to the tile and starts dancing and stomping his feet. He's worn robeez most of the summer so he loves the sound of the hard rubber soles. Today it snowed so hard...nothing on the ground but looked like a storm was coming in for sure. Caleb loved it! There were three words that he has repeated a million times today....SNOW!!! SANTA!!! and DORA!!!

He yelled sNoW everytime we were outside, which was plenty of times as we were running errands all morning. He is totally obsessed with Santa. With the Christmas season approaching there are plenty of Santa's everywhere!! Then there is Dora! He watched Dora the Explorer ONE TIME! He's a funny kid! Anyway, here's his new Santa I bought last week. It's appropriately a Canadian Santa....you press his foot and he plays the hockey theme. HEY!!!

Well goodnight all! It's now time to watch me some Grey's Anatomy:)

ode to Sondra

This is one of my very best friends, Sondra!

Today is her birthday so I thought I would do a little blog about her.

Sondra and I met almost 5 years ago. I started babysitting for her. What started as a six week babysitting job has turned into many years of babysitting and a lifelong friendship!

We are more than friends with the Choules, we are like family!

Sondra is the type of friend that you can really depend on and trust. She is always there and I could not tell you what I would do without her love and support.

I totally look up to her and enjoy her sense of humor, wisdom and sensibility. We have laughed...and cried...and laughed some more! You know those type of friends that just "get it" and you get them...that is what it is like with her. We don't need to say the words...we just know what each other is thinking:) Sondra is so talented and smart...definitely someone that I look up to and admire. She is a great mom to three amazing kids that I simply adore!
I don't know what I would do without Sondra in my life...it's been a crazy year not being able to just call anytime or go out to lunch or stop by for a visit. I have missed her but she has helped make it a little easier by the emails and the wonderful visit in September:) It was awesome seeing her!!! She always thinks to send me scrapbook stuff and collect things that she knows that I just NEED to have! Thank you for the box of stuff...page kits, new adhesive gun, ideas, paper, etc.

YOU ROCK! YOU ARE THE BEST! I LOVE YA!!!
I hope that you had an absolutely wonderful bIrtHdaY!!

hAppY haLLoWeEn

Okay what a difference tRicK or TreAtiNg in Canada instead of Arizona!
After about 15 houses (a full bag of candy too) we heading home.
It was POURING RAIN! I am still soaking wet!
Caleb had a great time! He tried to go into everyone's house.
He loved all the new friends he made:)
He was laughing hysterically and he says "trick or treat" so darn cute!
Here are some pics of our hAlloWeeN festivities.

The pic of Caleb and I is so blurry but I promised Gene that I would get a pic of the two of us together...this is the best I can do:)
Well hope you all had a great hAlloWeEn and don't forget to brush your teeth!!!

carving pumpkins

All I can say is...What was I thinking? I thought that it would be so fun to have a little FHE with Caleb and carve some pumpkins...

that was my first mistake...hehe

He cried most of the time!!! He is obsessed with pumpkins, (and Santa) right now and he doesn't have the patience to let me touch or even look at his pumpkins. He just wanted to hold and play with the pumpkins and when I took the little one to cut the circle on top, he got pretty hysterical! I gave it to him and showed him how to scoop the stuff out but he just kept putting it back in. He loved it once it was done...now it's a kitty pumpkin!

Well here are the pics, ENJOY!