Updated Cottage Pics

So My parents have been VERY busy working up a sweat along with my B-I-L Jimmy to get our cottage up to snuff for the upcoming season, our first with the cottage! I have been told my little sister Marj has a handle on the John Deere and does a fine job mowing! Feel a little guilty having them work so hard, hopefully next year will not be as demanding.

This is the first picture I have seen with the tide high..this is proof positive we are on the Fundy. I am anxious to get there for our summer holidays, two and a half weeks will go by too fast!
The new deck is completed and ready for use...looking great! I think I will owe a big lobster dinner to everyone that loaned a helping hand! Thanks So Much!

CHILLAXING!!!

Finished this page today, and really like how it turned out.
Pictures taken last year on one of our camping trips just outside of Wainright.
Taylor and Alex are comfortable in each other's space. They
can have a good time just hanging out or when plans start to take
on a bigger purpose.
Love Taylor's choice of friends!

Microblogging

Okay...any of you who are friends with me on Facebook, you will notice an increase in my daily activity over the next few weeks! SORRY!!! I am taking this fun online scrapbooking class called: Everyone Can Write A Little. The gist of the class is to use Facebook and/or Twitter to write down the random thoughts that cross our mind or to note the little misc. happens of the day. So it is used as a means of remembering all these little thoughts to then use in my scrapbooks. I'm thinking this will work really well so bear with me if some things just seem really random. They may not have meaning to you...but they sure do to me! I'll show the end results when I'm done! Check out more fun classes at Big Picture Scrapbooking.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Who doesn't like a great chocolate chip cookie? Doesn't matter what your age, this ranks high on the list of comfort foods. A friend and co-worker made these cookies for us and happily shared her recipe! Taylor loved them..as did Bill and I, sadly they didn't stick around too long!
:-(
so I though I'd share this recipe, just in case you may be looking for a new?? version of an old stand by!

1 1/4 cups sugar
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
1 1/2 cups margarine or butter
2 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
4 1/4 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1-2 12oz pkg. chocolate chips

BAKE @ 375 FOR 8-10 MINS. YIELDS ABOUT 6 DOZEN COOKIES! ENJOY!

Halifax Fire

Thought I'd share these pictures with every one. They were taken by a friend of my cousin's from Dartmouth looking across the harbour to Halifax. Taken just a couple of nights ago, from what I have heard 8 homes were lost, but fortunately no lives were lost. The wild fire forced over 1200 people to evacuate their homes!

The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!!!!

You can hum the title to the well know Christmas Carol, but for me today was the start of the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.
You may ask why today?
Well for starters our lawn has been aerated, power raked, edged, mowed and looking great...
but the icing on the cake is....
when the STREET SWEEPER comes to town.
You know spring has officially reached Alberta when
your streets, or in our case the cul-de-sac, is cleared of gravel and dirt
collected over the long, cold winter!
Now we'll have the want to keep the yard and house looking great again. Keeping up with the "Jones" so to speak and having our neighbourhood look fresh again!
If we could only get our one neighbour to move his written off vehicles (can you say DUMP?) life would be peachy! Sadly he's a good neighbour, so it's a tough battle to approach!

HaPpY sPrInG eVeRyOnE!