So the Gibb family has some news.....Jayme has accepted a job offer in Edmonton.. so we are moving. It's a really great opportunity for him, he will be a Corod Training Specialist.. basically training guys how to do what he's been doing for 15 years. It's a mostly office job (M-F 9am-5pm) he'll have weekends off (great for Church). There might be some traveling, and in the years to come would be more international. With Jayme being at the head office in Edm. there will be lots more opportunities for career growth. I"m excited to live in a city with a Temple as well!
I am so not looking forward the selling the house process (keeping it clean, if anyone knows me, this will be a HUGE challenge.) I also hope it doesn't take along time to sell (like our Calgary house, uhg). Jayme starts March 14th.. so he will then travel back and forth. It will be hard to have him gone during the week, but I look at it as it's only 5 days..
We are looking at the south east area of Edm. and not ruling out Sherwood park, Beaumount, Leduc.. It will be exciting to look for a new house, though I do love my house right now!!
I'm really sad to leave my friends here, I take a while to establish good friendships.. and now i'm starting over again. I truly hope to keep in touch with all my friends here! And now they have a place to stay/visit while in Edmonton! I feel so settled here in Lloyd, and I love the size of it, no traffic etc. I love love love our Branch.. so many good people :( - not sure how I'll fair in a ward.. guess we'll see.
So this news is bitter-sweet. Very excited to be closer to family (only 2.5h to Calgary) - but sad to leave so many wonderful people :(
Monday, February 14, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Family Trip
So in December you can buy a gift certificate for the fantasy land Hotel for $149 and book a theme room with it (regular $300-$350) so I bought one this year and we went this past Mon+Tues. I've been quite excited to go! I had hopes it would just be a fun time with the kids and a fun bonding time. It was!
We left about 10am and got to the Hotel/mall about 12:15 and went swimming right away. It was nice because it was a Monday afternoon so not crazy busy. The water park is pretty big, they only had about 1/2 the slides working, and the special kid slide area was totally closed, but still fun. Keera and Jett did not like the waves at first. When the waves first started up, they both went running to the 'shore' away from the waves. It took alot of coaxing to get them even to sit at the very edge and feel the water/waves. Ella, well she is another story, she is our little fish. She loved it. Ella and Daddy and Ella and I went on a few slides. Her and I did this one, that was totally enclosed and quite twisty.. I was honestly kinda scared to do it, as it makes me a bit clausterphobic, but I was brave. I was also nervous for Ella as they would not let us go together, but she really wanted to go. So I went first and it was a bit freaky! I could not fully sit up (too tall) and I didn't want to lie down so I kinda did this weird half sit/half lie down thing. Ella did awsome and we did it again!
I did the big 'toilet' slide. A slide that spits u in to this big toilet type thing and then dumps you in to this deep pool. I probably looked crazy going on it as I go all disoriented and was flayling all over the place and went in to the water shoulders first.
Jayme went on some slides, dispite his broken foot, but did ok. He had fun frolicking with Ella in the waves. We had fun and had lots of smiles and laughs.
We had a very expensive snack there and finished up around 3:30 and then went to check in to our room. The kids were crazy excited to see the room, we had the African room. It was pretty cool. After that we took the kids to build-a-bear and they each built a bear. Then we went for dinner at "Jungle Jim's" which was very kid friendlyso that was fun. Their menu's were maskes and they got cool cups and even got to pick a 'prize' from the treasure chest. We went back to the room and hung out and settle the kids to bed. Keera and Jett were no problem. Miss Ella was another story. But eventually we all got to sleep - though we had to do a bit of bed shuffling, lol! (Ella in bed with me, Keera to the top bunk and Jay on the bottom bunk!)
It was an early morning of 6:15am .. so the kids played in the tub for a while- LOVE it!
We had a great (included) breakfast at the Euro Cafe- really a great buffet breakfast! The kids loved all the fruit and the mini-fruit loop cerels!
We then went to Toy's R Us to spend the gift cards the kids got from Uncle Wes at Christmas.
Jett got 2 big metal trucks, Thomas Train sleeping bag, and The Car's movie. Keera got a tinker bell blanket, strawberry shortcake case+ dolls and a tinker bell paint set. Ella got (big surprize here) 2 sparkly bigger bouncy balls, a pink zuzie pet and a tunnel thing for her zuzies. The kids also got a barbie movie and a scoobiedo movie. They spent the gift cards + their birday $$. They were happy campers.
Drive home was good, Kept them quiet with Cheeto's and the new movies.
We left about 10am and got to the Hotel/mall about 12:15 and went swimming right away. It was nice because it was a Monday afternoon so not crazy busy. The water park is pretty big, they only had about 1/2 the slides working, and the special kid slide area was totally closed, but still fun. Keera and Jett did not like the waves at first. When the waves first started up, they both went running to the 'shore' away from the waves. It took alot of coaxing to get them even to sit at the very edge and feel the water/waves. Ella, well she is another story, she is our little fish. She loved it. Ella and Daddy and Ella and I went on a few slides. Her and I did this one, that was totally enclosed and quite twisty.. I was honestly kinda scared to do it, as it makes me a bit clausterphobic, but I was brave. I was also nervous for Ella as they would not let us go together, but she really wanted to go. So I went first and it was a bit freaky! I could not fully sit up (too tall) and I didn't want to lie down so I kinda did this weird half sit/half lie down thing. Ella did awsome and we did it again!
I did the big 'toilet' slide. A slide that spits u in to this big toilet type thing and then dumps you in to this deep pool. I probably looked crazy going on it as I go all disoriented and was flayling all over the place and went in to the water shoulders first.
Jayme went on some slides, dispite his broken foot, but did ok. He had fun frolicking with Ella in the waves. We had fun and had lots of smiles and laughs.
We had a very expensive snack there and finished up around 3:30 and then went to check in to our room. The kids were crazy excited to see the room, we had the African room. It was pretty cool. After that we took the kids to build-a-bear and they each built a bear. Then we went for dinner at "Jungle Jim's" which was very kid friendlyso that was fun. Their menu's were maskes and they got cool cups and even got to pick a 'prize' from the treasure chest. We went back to the room and hung out and settle the kids to bed. Keera and Jett were no problem. Miss Ella was another story. But eventually we all got to sleep - though we had to do a bit of bed shuffling, lol! (Ella in bed with me, Keera to the top bunk and Jay on the bottom bunk!)
It was an early morning of 6:15am .. so the kids played in the tub for a while- LOVE it!
We had a great (included) breakfast at the Euro Cafe- really a great buffet breakfast! The kids loved all the fruit and the mini-fruit loop cerels!
We then went to Toy's R Us to spend the gift cards the kids got from Uncle Wes at Christmas.
Jett got 2 big metal trucks, Thomas Train sleeping bag, and The Car's movie. Keera got a tinker bell blanket, strawberry shortcake case+ dolls and a tinker bell paint set. Ella got (big surprize here) 2 sparkly bigger bouncy balls, a pink zuzie pet and a tunnel thing for her zuzies. The kids also got a barbie movie and a scoobiedo movie. They spent the gift cards + their birday $$. They were happy campers.
Drive home was good, Kept them quiet with Cheeto's and the new movies.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Happy Birthday Ella!!!
So another birthday in the Gibb household.. Miss Ella turned 6 today. It seems crazy how fast the time goes, but I think any Mother thinks that! She had fun opening her presents this morning, she got some swimming fins/wings/floatie and a bunnie zuzie pet, some books from her brother and sister and a t-shirt and new dress. She was also excited to open all her birthday cards -she was quite possesive of her money this year, lol.
Valentines!
So this is Ella's valentine for her school friends. Another copy-cat idea from my sil-KD (thanks!) took like 5min to make (thanks to picnik!) We found some cute valentine pencils with cute erasers on the ends to slide into her hand- looks so CUTE! She is quite excited to hand them out. They cost .60 cents each (could have been .0 cents each if I wanted to wait for 1h photo)
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Where's Ella?
Since Ella doesn't nap anymore, I try to get her to have 'quiet time' and watch a movie in our spare room. It's an old TV, with a VCR but works good most days to keep her quiet. This room is also my laundry/sorting room. If you keep up with me on Facebook, you know that I am NOT a fan of this chore. So currently this is what my laundry situation looks like. I had to laugh today as I pushed clothes away to make a tiny space for Ella to sit and watch her show, lol! I guess it's time I start folding, bleh.
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