I can't believe it's October already! I can't believe I'm a blogger! I can't believe Desperate Housewives sucked again tonight!
Anyway, I now have to get caught up on my little blog journal. This was the reason I started a blog so I apologize for how boring this may be for my loyal readership...but I can't really help it, this is my life...simple but busy! Maybe I'll throw a joke in at the end to try and keep you entertained.

The Labour Day weekend was a blur. My brother and his girlfriend decided on Thursday that they would like to have a birthday party for their daughter (my niece, Aspen) on the Saturday at Chuck E. Cheese's. This was just a couple days after we had talked about it and he said we'd have our usual family gathering (we celebrate everyone's birthday!) at mom's in a week or so. It DEFINITELY wouldn't be the long weekend since he had to compete in his Club Championships (golf) all three days. Needless to say I then had to scramble to get her a gift! Anyway, we had a great time, Aspen (turned 3) and my kids had a great time running from game to game and Mom and Dad especially enjoyed it...particularly the noise level! At least the pizza is good there. I personally like trying to kick my brother's ass at basketball...not that we're competitive or anything...hah!! And it's not like we kicked any little kids off and took right over...we waited our turn!
Everybody came back to our place after where my brother and husband then proceeded to beat my poor dad at pool. He used to be quite the pool shark in his younger days but I don't think his game had much bite that night. ooohh...bad pun!!

Aspen

Sunday my girlfriend Kathy and I took our kids to Kidzone and Boston Pizza. Monday we then decided to take them to the African Lion Safari when the weather looked like it was going to co-operate. We didn't get there until after lunch so we had to pack in a lot of activities in a short amount of time. Our girls even went in the water park for a bit but the boys decided playground equipment was more their speed...the water was too cold for them! Both my kids enjoyed the elephant show the most. Jesse was so excited to see "Baby Logan" and Emily was thrilled when she found out one of the other new baby elephants was named Emily. All the kids were so excited driving through the safari (yes, I took our van), just hoping monkeys would crawl all over the van! We made it out of there with everything intact but then had to contend with some very large and not so pretty ostriches who decided to surround us and peck at the windows. All in all though, a successful outing..a lot of fun!

Chloe & Emily

Jesse & Jake

The next Saturday was a day Jesse had been looking forward to for weeks...Mighty Machines Day!! He was in his glory..firetrucks, garbage trucks, street sweepers, rollers, bulldozers, hydro trucks, and the ever popular..recycle truck! He was even more excited when my husband's sister and brother-in-law showed up with their kids. All of our kids are similar in ages and get along very well. They all climbed onto every machine...so exciting...if you're a 4 year old boy..or a single gal looking for a fireman or a street sweeper!!

Emily, Shawna, Alex & Jesse

Emily

Sunday was the annual Optimist golf tournament a bunch of us always go in. My group has always consisted of my brother, a retired guy I used to work with and a fourth that we seem to find at the last minute. My husband has his own team with co-workers and another guy from work has a team as well. Our three teams have such a blast! The only thing I don't like is the 7:30 a.m. start...I am so not a morning person! My team ended up winning again this year (two in a row!) with a score of 12 under. Yippeeeeee...we like to win, can you tell?

The next couple of weekends consisted of 2 birthday parties Jesse had to go to (one at Kidzone, the other at the Lego place in St. Jacobs), Friday night scrapbooking crops for me, an all day crop (me again!) on a Saturday in Cambridge, dinner for me and girls from work (happy birthday Julie B.!), and my husband lining up at 5 a.m. to sign Emily up for dance. Yes, you read that correctly...5 a.m.! I actually drove by around 1 a.m. on my way home from a crop and there were already people lined up. I would have stayed but I didn't have a coat or a lawn chair with me...how convenient!!

This weekend my girlfriends and I went to London for a scrapbooking show yesterday morning and last night I took Emily to see "Open Season". Sunday my husband left for four days for a conference so I took the kids to mom's for the day and tried to get some stuff done around the house. Yes, my scrapbook room will soon have it's grand re-opening for all my nosy scrappin' friends!!!


OK, HERE'S THE JOKE I PROMISED:

Little Tony was staying with his grandmother for a few days.

He had been playing outside with other kids for a while when he came into
the house and asked : "Grandma, what is that called when 2 people are
sleeping in the same room and one is on top of the other ?"

She was a little taken aback, but decided to tell him the truth.

"It's called sexual intercourse, darling."

Little Tony just said, "Oh, OK" and he went back outside to play with his
friends.

A few minutes later, he comes back in the house and says angrily,
"Grandma, it is not called "sexual intercourse" !!! It's called "bunk
beds" and Jimmy's mom wants to talk to you... NOW !"