March so far

I know that it has been FOREVER since I blogged. I've been really busy lately. I'll put them in posts according to the month!

At work, the project that I have been working on since my return from maternity leave, was implemented at the end of January. This project was re-doing the entire general ledger for all 13 stores so that they were consistent. A little background, which might be full of accounting jargon! Sorry! Before, as new stores were added, different GL's were created, making changes from the time before. This meant that none of the account numbers were the same, making consolidation very difficult. At the end, it was a matter of inputting numbers into a spreadsheet to get a consolidated financial statement, which was a very tedious, time consuming project every month. Especially for 13 stores! The implementation of the new GL went quite smoothly, surprisingly enough! A few minor things came up, but they only took a few mintues to a couple of hours to fix. Success!

Now that that project is completed, I will be taking on the books of one of the stores. Not sure which one, but that will be decided shortly.

Also, I just wrote my 18th exam for my CGA. It was actually a university course through Laurentian University. I am now starting my Auditing course. Once I'm done that (I'm taking the summer off), I only have 2 more CGA courses and 3 more University courses, AND I'M DONE!!! Hopefully only 2 more years and I'll be done this long, LONG, LLOONNGG journey that I decided to start in 2001!

We've also been really busy with birthday parties since the end of January. We ended up having. We were invited to 9 birthday parties in 8 weeks. 2 of those were Breana's parties, and we didn't make it to another one, but wow! I think all the girls in Breana's class all have their birthdays within 2 months of each other! That gets very tiring!

We signed Breana up to play baseball this spring. She said she would "try" it, but she was adamant that she didn't want to play soccer. I'm not sure what she has against soccer, but oh well! I'm not going to force her!

In the next couple of weeks, we are heading to Winnipeg with my mom for some retail therapy. Breana doesn't have school this Thursday and Friday due to parent/teacher interviews, so we are taking the opportunity to get a away for a couple of days. The only thing that would make it better would be if Terry would have been able to join us. Oh well, the first half of spring break, we are heading down to Minot to visit one of Terry's high school friends. We are going down with Scot, Kim, Declan, Cordelia, Dmitri, and Trevor, Lorry, and Hayden, so it should be a good time with great friends!

Here are some pictures from our hot dog roast at Oak Lake. A good time was had by all!

February 2009

We can't believe it, but Breana turned 6 in February. It seems like yesterday I was on bedrest waiting to have her! Time sure does fly!
Here are some pictures from Breana's family birthday party.




We went tobagganing the day of Breana's family birthday party. Here is Gary getting some air off of the jump at the little hill.


Here is the group of us that went tobagganing. Back row left to right: Uncle Abe, Auntie Kim, Uncle Gary, Preston, Auntie Angie, Daddy (Terry), Mommy (Becky). On the GT: Tyler, Seth. Standing: Mason. Front: Breana, Samantha, Andrea. Picture Taker: Auntie Denise


Here's one of Auntie Denise because she wasn't in the group picture!


Preston and Seth had a blast going down together. They had so much fun that day!


A cute one of Preston and Auntie Angie!


Breana had her school friends birthday party on the 21st. We had 7 screaming 6 year olds! Needless to say, Terry wore earplugs the entire time (3 hours is TOO long for a birthday party - won't do that again!)

Here are some of the girls dressing up using the tissue paper from the gifts.


Breana opening gifts.


Playing games.



Decorating cupcakes. They had a blast.



Here's Daddy!


Seth wearing Daddy's sweater.


Cheese!


Seth got some cute Emu's for Christmas. Here he is modelling them. He really likes them.


Seth was cranky one day and so sat on the couch watching a show with thim. It took him all of 2 minutes to fall asleep like this!

January 2009

Seth had a tantrum and didn't want to eat supper one night so he was put in a time out. When he gets upset, he wants his blankets and puppies...and I mean ALL of them. He wanted to have supper, but didn't want to let his stuff go, so he ate his supper on top of his blankets and puppies!


This is Seth's favorite position while watching TV in our bedroom. He always has to have the pillow to lie on!


We got into Breana's piggy bank one night to roll all the change. She was having a blast learning what all the coins were and how much they were worth.


Seth being cheesy while in the laundry hamper.


This is Seth's first time on the potty! He was so excited that he actually peed! He's gone a bunch more since then, but nothing consistent. Whenever you ask him if he needs to go, he goes and tries. It's so cute to see him try SO hard and only get a few dribbles! But hey, its a start. Maybe this will be one thing that he's early with!


We went tobagganing one Sunday afternoon while at Mom and Dad's. The kids had a blast. We also had a wiener roast. It was a nice afternoon. Here is Breana going down the hill.


Here is Seth and Papa getting ready to go. The calf sled is the best tobaggan of them all!


Seth found Daddy's helmet one day so he had fun trying it on and being silly.


Terry bought these PJ's for Seth for Christmas. They are Yamaha PJ's and they have the cutest butt ever!