Looks like House Staging - At least I think so.

As our Pampered Chef party draws near (tomorrow!!!) we have been what I call "re-invigorating) our home. Focus is on the kitchen of course but the entire main floor is in on the act. Here are some pics from today's finishing touches.

Supervisor lil'A is on the job. Sitting right in the middle of the cleaning job.

The kitchen view of one wall. The main wall.

The breakfast nook. I bought this table and 4 chairs as my first big purchase when I moved out on my own. Notice the symmetry. I'm trying to learn how to "dress" a home.

The entire kitchen from door on right to the fax/printer on the left.

Celebrating now that the big job is done by playing with toys and drinking water. PHEW all that work makes a little girl thirsty.

Let's see how things look after tonight and tomorrow. A lot of time between now and the party to mess things up. I promise to TRY to keep the granite in sight. hehehehe.

See many of you tomorrow.

House Party (firm date) is a great way to get the house changed

PHEW! We're working very hard at getting the house ready for the Pampered Chef Cooking Show that we're hosting on Thursday Night.

BTW, if you're interested in attending, please do!!! Thursday our place 7.05pm. Contact me.

OR, if you can't attend, please feel free to check out their stuff at http://www.pamperedchef.biz/pennyk?showId=2154346 until Aug 25 (when my "show" closes).

Will post pictures of the re-invigorated kitchen and family room soon.

"Jerry Maguire" to "Talladega Nights" - An Alphabet's worth

This weekend, lil'A had a little vomit episode. Poor girl. Seemed to be coming down with something.

Late Monday night, I had it and so did Rich. Dang it! Rich had to stay home from work for two days and today, he is working but from home. We don't want to pass this along.

I slept in the family room last night because I felt so brutal. When rich brought down lil'A so I could look after her, she was playing well in her "zone". I must have dozed off. I heard what I thought was lil'A playing with her toys and stacking them up. When I came to, I say DVD cases all over the "zone".

Of course, on pick-up, we counted the number she grabbed. It was about a quarter of our collection. It was 26 DVD's. Luckily we caught her before more than 2 were actually opened.

For Auntie Lindsay's sake, we had to put them back in alphabetical order since she helped get them that way in the first place.

BC Day Long Weekend at the Lake

We have had quite a bit of camping this summer. Less than half of it is over yet. Anyhow, Saturday is when we headed out to visit lil'A's g-parents and uncle Steve for a while before we headed up to Cultus Lake.

It was a great first day but lil'A was over-tired so it took quite a bit of work to get her to sleep in the Peapod inside the tent. We thought, this is great. She'll sleep for hours. RIGHT! Like duh! As if!

At 5.30 AM, the screams start. We're in the middle of "Brassington Tent Town" with about 6 other tents. Couldn't get her back to sleep so off to walk her around the neighborhood. It was still too early when we got back from our stroll so we headed to the car to see if we could find a Smitty's restaurant. We fell in love with their breakfasts while in Osoyoos. Our GPS said one was in Abbotsford on Bakerview Street.

We get there and there is a Starbucks and Tim Horton's instead. We choose the Pantry next. Go down the road via the GPS directions and what do we find? No Pantry. But of course, a Tim Horton's and a Starbucks. UGH.

In between we came across a breakfast greasy spoon called CrossRoads. Before we when in, Rich noticed how clearly (or not clearly) we could see Mount Baker way in the distance. About 4 "layers" back. Thought this would make a great picture.

In the restaurant, lil'A was having the time of her life. Sharing Mummy and Daddy's food. She is a protein hog. If there is meat on the table, it's not there fore long. Mummy's bacon, Daddy's farmer's sausage.
With getting up so early and the sun and the swimming in the lake finally hit. For those of you that don't know the real details of lil'A may not know that she is most definitely NOT a cuddler. She is always wanting to see what's around. We were all dumb-struck when she just passed out via a quick cuddle on Rich's chest.
She was sleeping for well over an hour. Auntie June helped out with the sun by bringing over 2 umbrellas. Daddy got some ZZZ's too. These pictures were just too adorable. The camera was almost begging to be taken out of the bag.
Swimming was the order of the day earlier but as it got too hot, we had to get out. Sunscreen doesn't help on us really. SPF 60 means that I can stay in the sun for 1 minute before burning. I promise. As for lil'A, it's 30 secs.

Instead of lake water, lil'A and cuzzy Owen had way more fun in just an inch of water in a mini backyard pool. She was cold, pruned, and blue lipped by the time we got her out but she was hot within minutes. Such a beautiful day.
Second night was great. No 5.30 AM alarm. 8 AM is more reasonable. Packed up and home by 2 PM. This was great since we all were coming down with something...