OUTDOORS !

Here are some random shots of my front yard today... My new Sony camera came in the mail today so i am testing it out. I thought the sunset was really nice today. It was aroung -40 all day but the sun was shining and was a real treat. No more snow clouds today.

Melsha & Matt

August 2005

Tracey & John

June 2006

FOR MEL !!!

Here are some pictures of some of my friends weddings !!!!

Just to give you some ideas for yours. I love looking at wedding photos. So here you go. Enjoy !!!

Deana & Chad

September 2005

Vintage Memories !!!

Here we are at our best Kyla & Shannon !!!

I will never forget how we used to let her drive us around while we drank, she didn't have her license yet.

I will never forget getting her into Myrons, she was underage and we had to dodge friends of her mom all night.

I will never forget fighting with her over clothes.

I will never forget all the trouble that seemed to follow us around.

I will never forget Princess Kyla at the Buffett.

I will never forget the party at 18 Greenfield Ave, poor Gaylene, we only invited a few people like over 200 came.

Oh the memories....

LOL

Makennas 1st Christmas 2004

Oh Christmas Tree...

Congratulations !!!

It just occured to me i never posted anything on here about baby Morrisey. Pictured above is my cousin Kyla and her boyfriend Jason. They are expecting a bundle of joy on January 31, 2007.

They live on PEI and i am so super excited for them and can't wait to get home to see the bebe this spring.

The Weekend !!!

Pretty easy weekend around here, went ot the Santa clause Parade on Friday night. It was -36 so needless to say there was a pretty small turnout. It was quite chilly. It wasn't very long so we bared the temps... I did not take any pictures, too cold to take off my mitts.

Went out Saturday and did a little more shopping, nothing really spectacualar just odds and ends and some new leotards for Makenna. she will not keep socks on at all and with this coldi figure tights were the way to trick her. she seems to like them so thats great.

I got a phone call on saturday afternoond from Tracey's brother Curtis informing me that he was up here in Cold Lake, his buddy Ray's exgirlfriend had a baby last weekend so they were up to see the baby. Curtis wanted to know if i was gonna be home so he could come over for a visit.

I said sure, then i asked them where they were staying, they said they were getting a hotel. I of course told them to just come here for the night. So Curtis, Ray and Kat (the new girlfriend) all came over, I made supper and then we all hung out drinking some Corona's and watching Napolean Dynamite & Wedding Crashers till well past 1am.

Never saw much of Kenny he went ot work at 5am and never got home till 9.30pm !!!

Sunday was a quiet day didn't do much of anything at all, went ot the mall for a few minutes that was pretty much it....

Spent all day today cleaning my house and doing laundry !!!

Waiting for The Bachelor to come on. It's the season finale !!!!

GO SADIE GO !!!

Holy Snowy !!!

Well we sure are in the middle of being dumped on by mama nature... We are getting tonnes of snow, i can hardly see across the road and it's -28.... Nice !!!

Tomorrow night is our Santa Clause Parade, i wonder if they will cancel it due to the storm and temperatures ??? Who knows... I'll brave it anyways.

Well i have spent the whole week putting up trees and garlands and wreaths and wrapping presents. As well as putting up the inflatables in the front yard.

I went out last Saturday night and had a tonne of fun, we danced the night away at Legends... thanks Sharon for a fun night !!!

I feel so happy to be decorated, YEAH !!!

Last night was Laguna Beach !!! The Cabo episode, it was super good !

Tonight is Total TV Thursday...

1. ER

2. Grey's Anatomy

3. The OC

4. Ugly Betty

So there is my plan for the evening....

Other than that it's pretty quiet around here....

Oreo ... not the Angel !!!

My living room tree...

Charly our little angel...

Kenny & my brother Scott taking the Dune Buggy out for a rip...

Santa again ...

The Gang in the front yard... Mr. Polar Bear, SANTA, & Frosty the snowman.

Family rooom christmas tree...

Makennas own christmas tree..

My Beloved Smokey ...

SUPER SATURDAY !!!

What a crazy ass busy day i have had...

Got up and at em early this morning.... had some brekky.... and then we were out the door. First stop was the gas station to fill up on fuel and we even got a car wash.... boy we were nice and shiny !!!

Then we headed to Sobeys to load up on groceries they had a good flyer on too so no problem getting a cart full, then we stopped into M & M Meat Shop, I am so tired of thinking up meal ideas for supper. I thought i would let them help me out.... I always get stuff there just this time i got some new things we never try too. Then we ran to Zellers really quickly to gander at the christmas stuff....I left rather unimpressed.

See this year i am doing my tree in the family room, in silver, white , light blue, light purple, aqua and a little bit of light pink.... I have never done a tree with a theme before but every year i am drawn to the simplicity of those colors. So this year i am trying it out. I LOVE snowflakes, so this is my snowflake tree... any hoo i am on the hunt for a new tree skirt, but i havent really fallen in love with any yet... I guess i'll just keep looking.

We went home uloaded all the grub, put it all away, ate lunch, then we headed to Wal-Mart to stock up on more supplies....

WAL-MART WAS A ZOO !!!

It was CRAZY !!!

We however had no problem filling yet another cart, there were hardly enough checkouts open.... you all know same old story...

As many of you may already know we are faced with a huge shortage of workers for all the different sectors of employment... They say that our Wal-Mart is short 80 staff. Every where you go there are signs up saying "NOW HIRING". Even Tim Hortons is paying $10 per hour, but the great lure of the Oil Patch is greater.

We came home unloaded yet again and then i started my cleaning spree, i dusted, cleaned bathrooms, vaccumed, scrubbed floor, did laundry.....I was like a machine !!! BOY IT FEELS GREAT !!!

Now i am making supper, so i should run and finish that task !!!

Hope you all have a great night !!!

View from my house...winter has definatly arrived in Alberta !!!

Virgin Blogger

Okay i am asking for some help...and anyone who knows me probably knows it's pretty random when i will actually ask. It's not that i don't often need it, i am slightly on the stubborn side...

I am hoping that either Petra or Mel will respond or even better both of you !!! Yeah !!!

Okay here goes...

I have a few simple blog related questions...

1. I want to add myspace Video Code to my site but i don't know where you insert the code...??? HELP ME !!! I know nothing about code at ALL !!!

2. How do you add all the little titles for the links on the left hand side of your blog ??? Do you guys even understand the Question.....I think i am confusing myself...YIKES !!!

3. How do you post a link to some thing without the www. showing.... do you know what i mean?

Okay i have few more but thats a good start.... I hope someone outthere in blog land can help me....

Email me at shannonandkenny@hotmail.com


I would totally appreciate any help.

FUN IN THE SNOW !!!

We have been spending lots of time outside playing this week despite the chilly tempuratures. Makenna loves the snow and it's great to be able to have the dogs out playing and the can't really get dirty. That goes for Makenna too...

I love it !!!

MIA...

Gosh i am finding it hard to keep up with this, okay well really it's only been a week but still...

I have been speanding a lot of time at home this week kinda going through my christmas stuff seeing what i want new and so on... last saturday i went and bought a new prelit tree... YEAH !!!

I am super excited... I have always wanted one... Last year we purchased our first artifical tree... and i just found it so easy to take care of that i vowed that next year i would buy an even better one a great big prelit.

I am putting up 3 trees in side and 1 outside on my porch... Christmas is all about christmas trees...LOL Just kidding but they are beautiful to look at. I am doing all i can to not put mine up till the end of next week...

We did get our lights up outside the house, but we havent turned them on yet. We still have all those inflatables to put out in out yard too... I starting making my garlands and i may even start wrapping some of the presents i have....

November 24th is the night of out Santa Clause Parade, so thats traditionally when people up here start turning on the lights. But there are some sillys who have them on already.

I am glad we live in the country on a few acres. If i was in a subdivision i would be in full competion mode.... Christmas decorating is gone crazy up here, my brother had switched to all LED but i am still a fan of the old lights with the more bright glow.

We have had a pretty quiet week around here, I am waitinh for OPRAH to come on cause she has the cast of Greys Anatomy on today !!! I am super excited.

Seeing how as i have been home a lot more this week, i really need to make a list of items we need at the store. I know we are almost out of TP and the cesar dressing is all gone. Okay off to tally up that list.

Go check out this site it is pretty cool http://www.whychristmas.com/

Makenna's Fav Place To Play !!!

 

Little Missy Munn !!!

 

Having some Brekky !!!

 

This has been around but is always worth reading again....!

Recently I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said, "I love you and I wish you enough".

The daughter replied, "Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom". They kissed and the daughter left.

The mother walked over to the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see she wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on her privacy but she welcomed me in by asking, "Did you ever say good-bye to so meone knowing it would be forever?".

Yes, I have," I replied. "Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?". "I am old and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is - the next trip back will be for my funeral," she said.

"When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, 'I wish you enough'. May I ask what that means?". She began to smile. "That's a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone".

She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail and she smiled even more. When we said , 'I wish you enough', we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them". Then turning toward me, she shared the following as if she were reciting it from memory.

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.

I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.

I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

She then began to cry and walked away.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them but then an entire life to forget them.

TAKE TIME TO LIVE.....To all my friends and loved ones, I WISH YOU ENOUGH

Long time gone....

Gosh i am behind a week....

Where has it gone ???

Well my mom has gone back to PEI... BOO HOO !!! There were lots of tears shed yesterday morning at the airport...

We went down to the city on Monday afternoon, to Tracey & Johns. We went out ot supper at Chilis....It was yummy !!! Then we all hung out and watched the Country Music Awards that night.

Kenny, Makenna & I took Mom to the airport yesterday around 6.30am.... we watched her go through security then we went back to Tracey's...

We spentthe day at the West Edmonton mall, then had lunch at East Side Marios... We went ot Ikea, Costco, Toys R Us, and so on....

We loaded up on stuff and the nwe went to Pizza Delight for supper !!!! SO FRIGGIN GOOD !!! We even ordered more to take home...

We never arrived back here in Cold Lake till 9.30pm... needless to say we were tired...