Christmas Parade

U-haul Day was also Parade Day in Charlottetown! (I know what you're thinking....could we not pack anything more into our weekend!)

Penelope and Cecilie had a ton of fun watching the parade from outside the Ocean 100 studio with Nana, Papa Cec. and Me.

Corey was in the parade on the Ocean 100 float (sorry, no pic)

And Ezabella was on the East Coast Cheerleaders Float! As you can probably tell, it was a very very cold night!

This is a picture of Penelope (with the help from her dad), giving her letter directly to Santa!
It's hard to believe, it's less then a month till the big day!

U-Haul Day

It's finally Moving Day --- also known as U-Haul Day
This was our 27 foot U-Haul....the biggest one they rent! We picked it up on Friday night, it certainly is a beast to drive!
Our entire apartment was full of boxes. It's hard to believe two people could have so much stuff!

But thanks to help from Mom, Dad, Steph, Jayne, Taylor, Disco Steve, Don Neily, and Gerard Murphy...we got it all packed into the U-Haul and the trunks of our cars!
Even our new antique piano got moved in! Can you see Corey putting plumbing pipes under the piano? It was way to heavy to lift, and the old wheels wouldn'r spin, so thanks to Dad's innovative thinking, we rolled it along the pipes through the house!

And so finally, all of our worldly possessions are in our new house!

Everything excelt us..... our new bedroom isn't finished yet, so for this week, Corey and I are crashing at my folks house. But hopefully by this time next week, North Wiltshire will be the place we lay our heads at night!

Please continue to keep us in your prayers, we still have alot to do!

Lights Across Canada

On Friday night we took a short break from the move, and took part in the annual Lights Across Canada Ceremony.

Mom and I always volunteer with the Parks and People and dress up and help hand out candles, serve cookies and hot chocolate. Here is my friend Linda, mom, me and mom's friend Karen.
Amanda and the girls came to visit us, and so did Corey and Dad.
Here is me dressed up to look like a woman in the 1870's. Ya gota love the bonnet!
Mom and I....aren't we cute! :)
and Mom and Karen. This was Karen's first time taking part in the Parks and People program. Karen is so much fun, and hopefully we'll see her back next year!

Surprises

So, here is a tip to any new home owners... be ready for surprises!

This is what we call the elephant room (can you see the ugly elephant border?)The original owners used this an a big office (we think they had a home based web business). Being that this is the biggest room upstairs, we've decided to convert it into our Master Bedroom

When it came time to take down the elephants, we found our first surprise...they elephants were hiding a piece of gyprock screwed on to cover A HOLE IN THE WALL!

SURPRISE!!!!
So our wonderful handy man Mike is going to have to re gyprock the wall properly

Surprise #2, as we continued to take down the elephants, we found this bright bright purplely coloured paint under the elephants.

We have to put at least 2 coats of primer on before we try to paint our future Almond Shell Master Bedroom.

This is certainly a learning experience full of surprises!

HOME OWNERS!

HOME OWNERS!

Welcome to our new home!

On Thursday, Nov 15th Corey and I recived the keys to our first house!

It's located on Darlington Road, about 15 to 20 minutes from Charlottetown in the community of North Wiltshire.

We even got a picture of the sign....it's official...it's SOLD!

Here is us using our keys at the back door!

This will be our living room with the wood insert..and below is the opposit wall - the sitting room with the fire place.

All of the bedrooms are upstairs, and we are currently doing some work on the converting the previous "Home business office" into our Master Bedroom.

This is my favorite room....the Sunporch!

All lined with windows and hardwood floors!

I'm so excited!

This Saturday is Moving Day! So please keep us in your prayers as we move...and pray for good weather!

Welcome to November!

Welcome to November!

Well, it’s been a few weeks since my last blog update, so I thought I’d fill you in on some of what Corey and I have been up to.

The biggest thing is that Corey and I are buying a house! Yes, you read it right, Corey and I are finally growing up and we are buying our own house!

The house doesn’t close until next week….so please keep us in your prayers as we work out all of the final details! It’s hard to believe that in 9 days we will be home owners! But there is still alot of stuff we need to do! As long as all goes well, I'll put up some photos of the house next week…so check back in!

October fell by so fast! Work for both of us has been very busy! October also brought Halloween! Corey went out with Ocean100 and did the Halloween Hunt! They had some great people participate (check out their www.ocean100.com website to see some pics).

I stayed home and gave out treats. We live in town, and last year we got over 70 kids…so this year I prepared for 80….but we only got like 38 kids, rather disappointing, and we have a ton of treats left over.

In that 38 there was a beautiful Princess (Taylor), Anne of Green Gables and her best friend Dianna Barry (Penelope and Ezabella) and a cute little bunny (Cecilie). But I was so excited to see them all, that I forgot to take any pictures….sorry….

Well, that’s it for now.
Check back in next week and I’ll post some pics of our new house!
Love yas all!
autumn