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Our Christmas Excursion

This is what it’s all about.

Christmas time spent with family and friends.

I must say, even though hubby didn’t get the holidays he had hoped for, it was still a nice time.

We ended up leaving on Christmas Eve to head for hubby’s parents house.  They had family coming for Christmas day supper (dinner for everyone else, 🙂 ) and where she threw her back out a week prior, we knew she wasn’t going to be able to do it with just the 2 of them there.  So we packed up half the presents, 3 suitcases, the dog and ourselves and headed off.

Yes, I had the iPad with us.  But it was more for Denise to use when she wanted to play with it.  I tweeted a couple of times, but not that often.  At least it took up less space then the laptop I usually take on excursions like this, 🙂

Well, Christmas morning came and we ate breakfast first.  I think Brett was a little confused with it all as he’s not used to opening up gifts anywhere but at home.  But he sat on the floor and I started passing them their gifts.

I brought out gifts from my parents, the in-laws, a couple of aunts, and a friend from the mainland.  They were all a hit.  Especially the dinosaur movies that we and a friend gave Brett.  He won’t watch them though, until Christmas is actually over and all the gifts are put away.

Denise got a camera this year.  She was always using ours, or the video camera (that takes both pictures and videos).  So we thought it was time to give her her own.  Only thing I misread was the fact that it takes 3 AAA batteries. not the double A’s.  So we figure we’ll have to get the rechargeable AAA package for her.  Though, I figure we’ll need lots of the small batteries as the camera sucks the life out of them fast, LOL.

I have to still set up her camera on the computer, so I figure I’ll get that done when things gets put away.  Which won’t be that long from now.  I tend to start putting things away even before the New Years ring in.  Definitely before Brett’s birthday.  The last thing to get put away is the tree.  Then I figure I’ll be re-arranging the living room again.

I’ll skip some time now and go straight to the preparing for the Christmas Day supper.  Dinner to some people, :).  Either way, it was 5:30pm when we all sat to eat.

And what a meal it was too.  Turkey, stuffing, veggies, gravy.  Yummmm.

It was a nice time.  Catching up with people we don’t see every day.

We even had hubby’s brother on skype to join in on the conversation. 🙂

I think it was about 7pm when we all started to clear out.  Hubby packed up the truck with the clothes and gifts.  Brett was constantly asking for “Nanny Williams house”.  So at least he knew that was where we were going next to stay the night.

We said our good-byes and headed for my parents house.

Well, we got there and the car was gone.  Although, I was calling dad’s cell and the house phone to let them know we were on the way.  Cell phones are great to have, though, it would be loads better if we can actually get service with them.

Oh well, I got out of the truck and surprisingly the door was unlocked for us.  I guess they figured we wouldn’t be too much longer.  So I went to the door to let hubby know to come on in.  Then I went in search for a phone book.

I figured there was 1 of 3 places they would be, Uncle Dean’s, Aunt Irene’s or my cousins place.  So I called my uncle’s place first.  They weren’t there.  So I called my aunt’s place and got a chuckle when I heard her answer the phone.  “You’ve got company.”  I couldn’t use my cell as the service is weird out there, so I had to use mom’s house phone.  She passed the phone to mom and then a few minutes after that, they were home too.

The kids seen they had stockings there too, so they were excited to see what they got in them.  Though, now I figure this will be a yearly tradition.  Taking turns between the in-laws house or my parents for Christmas.

While the kids settled into their beds, we sat around the kitchen table and had a yarn with some munchies.

Not long after that, we all went to bed.  We had a long day ahead of us.

Morning came and I didn’t want to get out of bed.  It was too comfy to leave.  But if I wanted to eat, I had to get up.

Aunt Irene popped up to see what mom and dad got.  Brett was either in the room or watching Discovery Channel.  That and Animal Planet are his 2 favorite channels to watch.  Denise was wherever we all were :).

They say time flies.  Well it sure did.  Especially after we had some lunch, which was leftover chicken from the day before.  Sadly I didn’t get many pictures.  However, between mom and Denise, there were quite a few taken that day. 🙂

Soon it was 2pm and time for us to head home again.  The kids still had gifts in here to open yet.  But besides that, where I was checking facebook and twitter on the iPad from time to time, I was given a message from a friend that there was some things left by the door for us.  That puzzled us.  Who could it be from and what was it?

I come to find out that it was some little oranges from our neighbour across the street who I usually try and do gardening for.  She’s such a sweet lady.

The only thing I should have done was to have heaters on in the house so we’d come back to a warm home.  *facepalm*.  I turned on the heater in the living room so it wouldn’t take so long to heat up.

Well we kept our jackets on and our slippers, while we waited for the house to warm up from the wood stove.  Of course, Denise was excited to see what the big gift was from my sister to her. 🙂

Well after a little while, the house was warmed enough that the kids could open the rest of the presents.  It was funny though.  After the kids got their last gift, Denise spoke up, “is that all?”  LOL.  Had to remind her that she opened half of them out to Nanny Ford’s house on Christmas Day.  🙂

Well the gift my sister gave Denise was a huge success.  It’s a Disney Princess arts & crafts set.  It’s all on Cinderella.  One of Denise’s favorite princesses.  But you can’t go wrong with the Monster High dolls. 🙂

Sorry I don’t have a picture right now to post with this blog, I’ll most likely have one to post via the iPad on twitter and facebook sometime today.

As for me and hubby, we got some clothes, gun cleaning set, and a few other things.  I think our favorite (I know it’s mine) is the Keurig single cup coffee maker we got from my parents.  It came with sample K-cups.  I guess to see which ones we like the best.  I couldn’t wait to get it registered.  Though, had to call my parents to find out the date of purchase.  The rest I was able to fill out.

By doing so, I was sent a thank you email for registering the new machine, and given a code to buy two 24 pack K-cups and get two others for free.  However, I think we’ll have these samples gone before we get our order, 😀 .

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to read about our holidays.  I hope you will keep coming back to see what’s in store for 2013.

Until next time,

K.

Expect the Unexpected

You know when it comes to Brett, I should realize that he’s going to make “leaps and bounds” as my husband continues to tell me.  And this summer is a testament to that.   From camp to now, he’s always surprising me.  And to the point that i find myself having a tear roll down my face.

Case in point, take last night for instance.  We were invited to a wedding of a co-worker of my husband, and we were a little concerned with the fact that he can’t keep quiet when you need him to.  When we got inside the church, we sat in the very back row.  Quick access to the door if he got too loud.  But he found something to keep his mind preoccupied.

But he was awesome.  There were no need to leave in the middle of it.  In fact it was the fastest ceremony we’ve ever been too.  We found out why at the reception.  There was supposed to have been a reading.  Apparently, the minister forgot that part, lol.  Oh well, it was still a beautiful ceremony.  I didn’t bother with the camera cause it takes crap pictures in the lighting they use.

Anyway, the service was over at 2:30 and the reception wasn’t until 7.  So we had a few hours to kill.  We met up with another co-worker of hubby’s and brought the 3 of them back here.  We each had a hot beverage, watched a bit of TV and chatted a bit.  

Time was getting close for us to head off again.  I was getting hungry and it was good that there was a Tim Horton’s right next to where the reception was being held.  We found a place to park and headed to timmies.

As we made the corner, the fire station had 3 of their big doors opened.  Showing off the trucks.  So I mentioned to everyone there, “I wonder if I can get a picture of Brett with the fire truck?”  Paul (my hubby) said, “Let’s ask.”  The rest of our party went on to Tims.  One of them asked me what we wanted.  So I gave her our very small order and they headed off.

Brett sitting on the front of the fire truck.

Paul and I, along with Brett walked up towards the station.  By this time, there was a uniformed gentleman there.  So we asked him if it would be ok.  He said “sure” so I had Brett sit on the front of the truck.  Mind you the only thing we had for taking pictures was my cell phone.  We didn’t bother to take the camera.  Though in retrospect, we should have.  Considering what happened during the dance, I’m kicking myself now.

I’m adding in pictures as I go along that’s I’m emailing myself from my cell.  The tables were set up and decorated so beautifully.  There was even a candy table.  Yes, you read right.  A table full of candy that you can take what you want.  See, I wish I had thought of that when I got married, I would have had a chocolate table, lol.  And NUTS. LOL.

Very beautifully decorated with white covered chairs with light and dark green ribbons.
CANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!

But anyway, I’ll skip to the dance.  Well by the time this started up, Brett was getting tired.  Even asked me if I was getting tired?  Which meant that he was tired and wanted to go.  But we didn’t want to leave quite yet.  He’s done so well with the whole experience that we wanted to see if we could get him up on the dance floor.  Well, we didn’t get him up there for 1 dance, but he got up and danced for 5 songs!!

The first one was with me, but he wasn’t too sure about the dancing bit.  He’s never really gotten into it.  But I think with the lights going, he was getting a little mesmerized with that.  This was the part of the whole wedding part that I wish we had brought the freaking camera.  When it came to the last dance (well for us anyway), Paul had to ask a friend to take a picture of Brett dancing a slow dance with a friends daughter.

The song was “When I See You Smile by Bad English”.  It was requested by Paul for me.  He started to sing it to me while we were dancing.  I started to cry, but it wasn’t for the fact that he was singing it to me, ( which was nice ), it was mainly because Brett took his hands and put it on the girls waist.  I showed him where to put his hands, mainly because he had them at his sides.  Or was trying to hold her hands while dancing.  But he caught on to the idea and put his hands back on her hips on his own.  That’s when I bawled.

Paul ran over to our table and asked one of the women there to get a picture.  And she did.  I’m waiting for it to pop up on facebook. 🙂

Anyway, with the song over, I was wiping my eyes as we walked off the dance floor.  Another co-worker (who was also in the bridal party) walked over to Paul and told him that he almost cried seeing that too.  Apparently “almost” means he did.  Goes to show how much of an impact something so simple as dancing can have on people when they see someone with special needs doing it for the first time.

So on that note, I want to thank you for reading my tears of happiness.  Until next time.

K.