The Ring is here!!!

My hubby wanted to get me an anniversary band for our first anniversary, but he was not able to get one from the company the original ring came from in Courtney. He had talked to a local jeweller and they said they could possibly make one, but the price was outrageous. He started saving up the money for it, but I told him to forget it because I thought it was far too expensive to go that route. What was I thinking...diamonds are a girls best friend right??? So along came anniversary number two and he really wanted to get me the ring and by the end of January he had the money to get it. So, he decides he had better get an updated estimate of the cost, which took almost 2 weeks. Then he was hoping to have the ring by Valentine's day. No such luck. So his next goal was to have it by the time we went to Kamloops for our road trip this weekend. I thougt maybe it might come by my birthday on March 24th. Surprise!!! It came yesterday and the cost was $150 less than the 1st quote. It was still a lot of money for a ring, but I guess I am worth it. I have the 3 rings sodered together into 1 ring (which they did for us at no charge). I am very happy with it. My hubby bought me a white gold diamond necklace at Christmas, so now I just need the matching earings and I am all set. The part that amazes me the most is the fact that it still happened even though we are in the middle of costly reno's. I was willing to wait for the ring until our 5th anniversary in January 2010.

Update on the reno's

We have a pantry now. There is still lots to do in the kitchen. The pantry needs painted, counter tops need replaced, walls need painting. It's coming along nicely. Next stop is the living room. We don't have to do much in there other than paint and put up new moldings to match the rest of the house. We weren't going to start on the living room right away, but we ended up buying new furniture on the weekend, so we need to get it looking nice before the furniture arrives. That gives us about 4 weeks.

My daughter entered one of her poems in a contest (on line) and has made it to the finals. They mailed us to tell us that her poem would be published in a book of poetry, but I am not sure of the date this will happen. I will have to buy a bunch of copies to give out to family and friends. She is a very talented girl. I am very proud of her.

The before and After of my Bathroom floor

What a difference it makes when you update the floor. My hubby picked the color and it looks great because our bathroom is blue and yellow. What do you think?

He's a hard workin little man

This is my son helping my hubby last weekend at work. We bought all the supplies for the kitchen and my son was a big help. He looks like he could be a future Windsor employee. Too cute!

Pantry Door Picture

Here is the Pantry door and here is what we are wanting to hide...all the food on the open shelves...looks kind of tacky. That's why we are building a proper pantry.

No I wasn't on Vacation. I wish.

OOPPS!!! It has been an entire week since I last posted??? Where does all the time go. At work we are in are year end mode, so that has been my focus. There is not much new going on. My daughter is in PG at a Pathfinders Camp. I am sure they are having a great time. I don't know how she will survive 3 days with out her computer or i-pod. (She was not allowed to take them to camp, otherwise the kids all ignore eachother listening to their music etc.)
So the reno's are going slowly. My hubby still has 4 cupboards to put back up. I think on Sunday we will work a bit on making the pantry. The new pantry door is just leaned up against the wall and I am afraid it will fall over and break. Note:There is etched glass on the door that says pantry. Funny, like we didn't know it was the pantry. I guess it is there for the looks. It sure does look nice and I cannot wait to get it up. My hubby is working on his day off this week, so that will slow things down, but we will have an entire weekend off to be able to go visit our friends in Kamloops sometime in March. Yipeee!!!
We are putting in new flooring this weekend in the bathroom. I will post some before and after pictures. We are almost done the bathroom reno's. We just need to paint the bathtub white because avocado green just doesn't fit into our color scheme.
I hope everone has a great weekend!!!

The Great Magnetic Boat Race

I was so proud of my son today. He did a very good job on his science project display. His experiment is called The Great Magnetic Boat Race. It sure took a long time to write out all the information and he was frustrated at times, but it is done and he has time to spare. I think he will do well with his model and showing how it works. This assignment had to 100% done by the student.