Spencer's Graduation

 

 

 

 

Spencer is my third child to graduate from pre-school. Why is it that we have so many grads before grade twelve one might ask? Well I remember graduating from high school and all the hype that went along with it but really was I this cute in grade 12? I think not, plus the fact that Spencer told us that only those people who loved him were coming to this very special of special days! How could James and I not make a big deal about him leaving his pre-school days beside the fact that we pay for him to go. We should be celebrating now only one left to go, and then on to the next stage of life..........

A little of this and that

So as most of the world knows we are home bodies, don't really go anywhere all summer. My kids favorite holiday to count is the trip out to Magrath Alberta to visit our dear friends who really live here in winnipeg but venture home every summer. Fun for them sad for us. So this year I decided to make the summer more just just another summer we bought ourselves one of those above ground pools. We are now waiting for the dead heat to hit so we can spash adn play in it all summer. I also sign my son up for tackle football yes you read that right. Greg has been dying to play so I went for it this summer. I even had to pay insurance on him incase of ingury. Now really how can an eight year old team get hurt well let me tell you. Greg is a whopping 55 pounds and quite a few of the players weighted in at 95 or higher. That is crazy!!!! My husband is only 127 maybe socking wet.... My poor son has no hope being a big man. He can run fast so all I tell him is when football starts run like the wind then no one will be able to tackle him down.
We also had quite the little laugh we have a mail box that requires a key to get in, well we lost both keys. At first I thought it will show up well no go so I had to get the post office to change the locks and issue us new keys!!!! Just to get the mail!!! That is crazy what happen to the good old days when the mail man came to your house bringing letters of joy? So tonight I get to go get a weeks worht of mail beside that fact that I have to prove who I am and that I do infact live at the stated address. At least I know no one can get my mail right?
Lastly I have been called as the music leader in primary I did this about eight years ago so it is not new to me however if anyone out there has any good tricks that I could use send them my way. I could use a couple new things to make it fun for the kidlets. We are doing the music with sharing time but any suggestions I would love. ttfn

life of a soccer mom

You know when you watch movies and there is the mom with her mini van driving children all over. I have finally entered that part of my life. All I see is schedules that need to be kept. Monday and Wednesdays are my big days with over load with Alina and Greg back to back games. I also get to be the coach for both teams. Now this should not be so bad but I can't get to all of Greg's games on time. I have great helpers on his team so that helps me out a great deal. I don't know the game so well so I have had to read up on the game so I can teach them something. What good is it to play a game if you don't know the right way to play. We have a strong teams and the kids are full of engery. As a side note I have been taking my second course of cake decorating. This course is full of flowers flowers flowers. It is lots of fun and keeps me busy being creative. I know most of you are out there being sport moms of some sort and really running monday to thursday is not so bad. My kids love it so I can do it for them. Happy driving.........

Vole Update

So the voles are still here, but i am happy to report that their numbers are getting much smaller thanks to gohper doom(I think the spelling is wrong). What a great way to die!!! they are suppose to eat this posion and die in their their holes to bad for me i keep finding dead voles all over the back yard screaming as if they were alive and still making the kids run to the front yard to play until James can come and scoop them up and put them in the trash. It is becoming more aware to me that maybe this year I will not be getting a tan until the cruise in Novemeber if my little friends don't leave my house and stay away for ever. My one neighbour now has mice with her voles so I now have to keep my eyes open for that aswell. I hate little critters so much!!!! But they are dying so I should be happy for that right?

An other hobby has taken over the Northcott house hold.

 

 

 

This past month I decided that it was time for me to learn how to decorate cakes. It is yet again another hobby that has been dying to come out. I sign up for course 2 which starts next week along with soccer for three of my kids. I am the coach for two teams and get to just enjoy watching Spencer run the field. really if I didn't have a thousand things on the go what would my life consist of? ........... And lastly I have finally also signed myself up for aqua aerobics, the only problem is that my classes are from 8-9 at night monday through thursday so I will have to take the next month off because of the kids sports. If any of you out there are looking for a great way to work out this is it. I LOVE IT and my class is not full of old women,just the average jane out there wanting to get in shape. Happy Blogging I'll post again soon sorry for the short one today but I need sleep so that I can take on tommorow.........

VOLES

So now that the snow has melted and we can offically start spring winnipeg now has another problem! Have any of you seen these? They may look cute but they are destroying my backyard and eating all my perannials. At first I thought it was the kids, but then I saw one scurrying across the yard. The problem is that we can't get rid of them mouse bait although they some what look the same doesn't work. they like grass roots and seeds of all kinds. I looked them up on the internet and they said that fox pee is the best thing to put around to get rid of them...... Ummmm where am I suppose to come up with fox pee to rid my yard of these pest? I think it is time to get myself a shotgun and have a little bit of fun. They are lucky for one thing I am scared to death of them so if I see too amny okay if I see one I scream and make all the kids go to the front yard. Two the back still is a little to wet for them to come power rake for me. Greg and his little friend decided to hunt them yesterday so I thopught go right ahead however they got one and then pounded it's head in so then I had blood all over the rocks under my deck. I think that was worse then them running around. Greg was so upset over it when he was done that it took me a hour to calm him down. The scream before the poor thing gave up the ghost I think will haunt him for a little bit. I still can't believe that he killed it in the first place. So now they have Greg on their side of saving them and wanting to make their home as comfortable as possible. Is he crazy if I even say posion he yells at me. Boys what do you do with them I don't know. So wish me luck I am hoping with our neighbours to rid ourselves of them in the next week I'll keep you posted of our progress.

What can I say?

This past weekend was conference, and I can honestly tell you all that it was just amazing to me. I love it normally don't get me wrong but it was so powerful and I felt that the twelve apostles have a bond that is just unbreakable. We played around with the t.v. and figured out how to transfer the picture to our t.v. (they have such nice t.v. out there now but I love my beast) we have a 45 inch so the picture was Hugh and the kids would come sit and watch a bit and then play with toys and then come and sit and watch some more. Greg couldn't wait for the prophet to speak. He kept asking me why I love President Monson so much? I just do, I have waited my whole life for him to be the prophet. Another side note Spencer thinks that his name is Thomas Spencer S Monson I can't get him to omit the S oh well he loves that his name is everywhere. He got all excited when ever Richard was said as well. Silly kid!

Yesterday afternoon when I was making lunch, I was heating oil on the stove, James came over and told me that it was too hot so he reached in the freezer and pulled out the ice cube tray (dud) put it in the pot with the HOT oil and it started splatting everywhere I have a small burn on my arm. Our alarm for the house is hooked up with the fire station so you guessed it, the alarm went and before we could prevent them from coming we had two fire trucks at our house about 15 Min's from the time it started, pretty good now we know if there is a real need for them to come. Anyway they had to come in to the house and check it out before leaving I couldn't face them but did try to find my camera to take a picture really does this type of thing really happen to normal people? Have no fear I couldn't find the camera. All my neighbours have been asking what happened so now I'm the talk of the street BEWARE WHEN TRICIA IS COOKING.... When that was all done with we watched the last session of conference and all was well.