Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Christmas 2010






Santa brought Crystal a ballerina tutu that she asked for from every mall Santa we saw while in Kamloops. Good thing we found a Toys R Us that had them in bigger girls size. Sean worked really hard making Crystal a doll house. It wasn't quite finished, but we gave it to her anyway. That way she can decide what color the house should be painted. She is thinking of painting it yellow to match our house. I thought for sure she would have picked pink or purple. And of course Kinect arrived under our tree. Even though it was sold out all over. We were able to snap 1 up. Then only a few days before Christmas I was shopping with Kels at Walmart and they got a new shipment in. She was wondering why I wasn't buying it. Hee hee! We had a great Christmas and Sean spoiled me(:

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Have A Very Merry Christmas


With love from,
Sandi, Sean, Kelsey, Mike, Crystal & Diesel

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Icey Driveway

Apparantly our driveway was very slippery. I poked my head out the front door this morning to grab the newspaper and saw our truck at the bottom of the driveway. Sometime since I returned home after picking up Kelsey & Mike from their grandma's place the truck slid. It slid about 12 feet and luckily stopped at the very bottom of the driveway and was not on the road what so ever. Thankyou Lord! I certainly did not need to have to pay for damages if it slid into the neighbour's driveway or worse if it got hit by an on coming vehicle. If our truck had slid even 1 foot more it would have been on the road. That was my very first experience with slipping vehicles. Sean has now salted and sanded the driveway. I am so thankful nothing bad happened. I was the last to drive the truck and I'm sure I'd be teased about it for a long time if there was damages. When I told a co-worker this morning what happened he said it was most likely becasue the tires were warm and not to feel bad becasue it happens to lots of people every winter. Because it was in gear with the park brake on, once the slippery spot had been past it stopped. Go figure!

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Kamloops Shopping Trip. Success(:

Sean and I had a lovely weekend in Kamloops with Crystal & Mike. We arrived in Kamloops around lunch time on Saturday. My first stop was to The Mac Store to find out about finally fixing the lines on Kelsey's computer. They told me roughly how much it would cost to get it fixed. I was quite happy with what they told me because I thought for sure it would be way more considering it was an older Imac. Now I need to send it to them. I'm in no rush, so it probably won't happen until after Christmas. While we were in The Mac Store, we ran into some young adults we knew from Church. We looked around Sahalli Mall and then headed down town. That was an adventure trying to get around down town Kamloops. The Christmas shoppers were not the problem. THe problem was someone called in a bomb threat at one of the banks down town and the streets were all blocked off and the police we all over. We finally managed to get around them and head to our hotel. We chose and inexpensive hotel that had a pool and hot tub. We settled into our hotel and then headed out to do some Christmas shopping. I made Mike get a hair cut and we shopped at Walmart since their store has a way better selection than our store. However, shopping with the children presented some challenges, so we decided to go back later. We stopped at Toys R s and has great success there. By this time it is almost supper time. I made a few phone calls to see if any of our Kamloops friends were around. I got to talk to Lorraine and we made plans for lunch on Sunday. For supper we ate at Mr. Mike's. It brought back memories of when I used to work at Mr. Mikes in the puddle. They were the old style Mr. Mike's with The Megalicious Salad Bar. I ordered a Super Mushroom Burger and it was fabulous! Crystal had The Little Mike Burger and Sean & Mike had The Avalanche Burger (Also known as a Super Mushroom/Bacon Burger). The food was delicious. I even layered my pop like I used to do when I was a teenager. Orange pop with diet pepsi on top. Mike thoght I was crazy, but it reminded me of some great times from my past. After supper we went and bought chips & pop to enjoy while we watched a movie back at the hotel. It started to snow and I quite enjoyed watching the snow come down while I was sitting in the hot tub back at the hotel. We decided we were too tired to do any more shopping so after the movie we went to bed. We slept in until 8am. Wow! Had breakfast and checked out of the motel. Off to Walmart again to pick up some of the things we spotted the day before. We left the kids in the truck watching a movie and that worked out great because we were able to get the shopping done. After that we headed off to Aberdeen Mall to shop some more. We found Claires there and Crystal bought Kelsey's gift. It was getting close to lunch time so we headed over to meet Lorraine & John at Arby's. We had a nice visit with them over lunch and then headed to Costco. Costco wasn't as crazy as I thought it would be. I finally bought the shag rug we've wanted for the living room and of course my basics that I love..real baacon bits, antipesto, Sean's favorite socks and more. I didn't get a chance to do any shopping for Sean, but pretty much everything else is done. I'll be able to finish shopping for him this weekend as he gave me a lot of ideas when we were shopping in Kamloops. Now to wrap everything so I am not up til 3am on Christmas Eve(:

Friday, December 10, 2010

Annual Barton Christmas Party







We had a good time, just the girls. Hot dogs, apple cider and hot chocolate were yummy and free! Yay(: The best part was the horse drawn sleigh ride.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Counting Down til Christmas

The tree is up, the baking is complete, the groceries are bought. Now to finish shopping for the Christmas gifts. Only 2 weeks until Christmas and I haven't sent out 1 Christmas card. Usually I am all done my shopping and it's usually all wrapped up by now. This year has been different. A lot different. I am about 2 weeks behind and that makes sense because for 2 weeks in November I was working 2 jobs. That took a lot out of me. But now I am settling in quite nice in my new job. Work is not stressful at all, but I do find I get stressed during the Christmas rush. So with luck and a road trip to Kamloops this weekend that problem should be solved. I am also hoping that the Christmas Cards I ordered online show up soon. We are staying home for Christmas this year. I am looking forward to 2011. I am sure it is going to be a great year. Speaking of counting down to Christmas, we have 3 advent calendars and 3 chocolate advent calendars. Kels bought the 3 chocolate advent calenders for herself and Crystal & Mike. I never did get around to buying them. Kels said that they are never too old for those chocolate advents calendars. They count down o New Years day, so that's 32 chocolates. And since she bought them yesterday. They had some catching up to do. Oh and the chocolate advent calendars were on sale to boot. We might have to do some more baking because we've been into it a lot already(:
I don't think we will get the Christmas light put up outside. Too bad..........