Party like it's 1999!

I graduated from High School June 1999, and I can't believe its been 10 years!!! One of the girls I was friends with in high school sent me a message on Facebook saying that she was thinking about planning a 10 year reunion!!! I was so excited! I volunteered to help. We were supposed to get together tonight to start the planning but myself and one of the other girls couldn't make it so it has been re-sheduled. The date and venue have been set, it is August 28th! And so the diet goes into super mode.....HA! I went to curves this morning, and went to Turbo Jam cardio class this evening, and on top of that I am doing weight watchers flex points plan....if this doesn't work. nothing will! Tomorrow night is our last night of Turbo until next winter, and we get weighed and measured....I am hoping to be down at least 5 pounds. Today was day 3 week 2 of weight watchers, and I have been doing really good. My goal is to lose 40 pounds before the reunion. I have more weight then that to lose but that would be a fabulous start! With turbo jam class ending,I will have to start doing the videos I have at home...its not as fun, but it will still do the trick. I also want to start walking, I have the best intentions..Ha!

And speaking of losing weight....we found out that Blaine has Hypothyroidism which is the most common of the thyroid disorders. It occurs when the thyroid gland becomes under active and does not produce enough thyroid hormones. The metabolic rate falls and normal bodily functions slow down. In other words, this is why He has had absolutely no energy, and has gained weight! We just thought it was side effects from chemo (he finished 6 months of chemo 17 months ago), so needless to say it was good to find out that he won't be like this forever. Hopefully, the pills the doctor prescribed will kick in soon and give him lots of energy. Here's to Hoping! :)

Happy 28th Birthday Blaine!

Wishing my wonderful husband a very Happy 28th Birthday!

Love me, and our 3 beautiful little girls.

We are so incredibly lucky to have you in our lives.

TGIF!!!

I Love this song! And it is so true.....It happens....LOL or at least in my life something always seems to go wrong...LOL but like this song says, Let go Laughing!!!

I would also like to share one of my all time favorite quotes/sayings

""Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain. "

And believe me I have danced in plenty of rain!

Have a good Weekend!!

It is Finally Spring!!!

After what felt like Winter would never end, Spring has finally sprung here on Prince Edward Island! The girls and I took a walk on the board walk by our house the other day, here are some pics I took.

River wanted her picture taken "at the beach" lol

it was a little bit of sand by the board walk and she called it the beach...lol

Race ya!

Lazy Dazy Weekend

We have had such a wonderful lazy weekend! I couldn’t do it ever weekend, but every once in a while is perfect.

Friday night I took my baby sis Chandler (17) out to teach her how to drive a standard….she did surprisingly well for her first time. She has the shifting down pact, and stalled a few times at stop signs…..we even had to different vehicles stop to make sure we were ok, ( they thought we had broken down Ha!) We just laughed and told them she was learning to drive a stick and thank you. It was a lot of fun….we stayed on back roads, and went down some we had never been down before…..and ended up on a very long, very muddy, dirt road. PEI has a lot of these red dirt road (hence my blog title :) ) and this time of year they are really bad. We thought it would only be a short road so we drove on it……15 minutes later and my hand was sore from grasping the HOLY CRAP handle…lol 

We couldn’t stop to switch drivers because we would have gotten stuck, and neither of us had brought a cell phone, and it was way out in the sticks…..so we would have had a long walk to get help….and we couldn’t turn around ….and all I could say was Chandler keep us out of the ditch and remember mud like this is just as slippery as ice. She got us threw it…and we vowed never to go on back roads we didn't know again….well this time of year anyway.

This is a good dirt road compared to the one we drove on….lol

Saturday we did nothing, I did a little laundry and the kids played outside. Blaine & I went out Saturday night to a small gathering at some new friends of ours. There were 4 couples including us there. It was a fun time! We got home around 2am and went straight to bed. Chandler was babysitting and had stayed the night so she got up with the girls this morning and got them breakfast and let us sleep in. It was nice! Thanks Chandler!

This is Chandler, I have mentioned her a few times, so here is a face to the name.

Hannah Montana: The Movie!

If you haven't seen the trailer for the New Hannah Montana Movie Check this out!!

Last night after we finished a Turkey Dinner, I took my oldest Raven and my baby sister Chandler ( she's 17) to the Hannah Montana movie. We as a family watch alot of the shows on the Disney Channel and Hannah Montana is one of our favorites. I was really excited when I found out it was coming to the big screen, and I definitly was not disappointed! What a great movie! I think it is my new favorite! Raven and Chandler really enjoyed it too! LOL!

Happy Easter!

Where are all the Purple Bedrooms?

We (or rather I) have decided that purple will be the color of our new master bedroom. I have been searching Rate My Space for ideas, and inspiration, but found nothing that is nice or inspiring. I have a few ideas in my head, but I would like to see some before I commit. I found bedding at Second Glance Interiors that I love, it is a mossy green silky bedspread with random embroidered little purple flowers. It is that purple that I am planning on painting the walls. But that is all I got....



I found a few sites that help you pick out paint color, they are My Perfect Color Benjamin Moore and Behr . From these sites I found a few different shades of the color I have in mind....

This one is called Hyacinth

This one is Winter bouts

This one is Mystic Purple

And this one is called Cupid's Dart

Here are a few of the Purple Bedrooms I have found, none are what I have in mind, but at least its something:

This one is a Teens room, but I really like the color

Not a fan of this one...

I love this one, I really like all the different fabrics and patterns.

Okay, this one looks blue, but it is a shade of purple...

This one is just very simple. I like the wall color, and the white trim but that's it.

Celebs Closets

Nicky Hilton

Her shoe collection, which isn't raided by her friends or family because of her size 10.5 foot, is organized by designer."My Manolos are together, Chanels are together, Louboutins together."

She also owns 200 + handbags!!!

My husband complains because I OWN 6 HA!

Mariah Carey

The vast space still can't contain all of Mariah Carey's shoes. "I have about 1,000 pairs of shoes. But lots are in storage," she says. Carey designed the sweeping space with gold-leaf and bleached-wood floors. "Like Louis Vuitton luggage," she says, "it will only look better over time." Few girls would be able to fill the closet, which is arranged by color and material, as well as in event-specific groupings.

Kimora Lee Simmons

Head of Baby Phat clothing line, combined two bedrooms in her 49,000-square-foot Saddle River, N.J. home to create her expansive walk-in closet. "I wanted my closet to look like a boutique," she says. It contains over 500 pairs of jeans, 35 custom-made Hermes Birkin bags and an extensive collection of jewelry. The closet, which is decorated with leopard-print carpet, marble columns, a mini-bar, and flat screen TVs, only holds some of her clothes—the overflow is stored in other bedroom closets. Everything in her closet is photographed and stored on her computer so she can easily put together outfits, "I'm very neurotic is what my closet says about me," she says. "It's always in great order."

Ha! Now that's a Closet!!!!

Fergie
When Fergie moved in with new husband, Josh Duhamel, she jumped at the opportunity to create a brand new closet. "We knocked down the wall between two rooms and Josh named it Fergieland!" she says. "I designed it myself, so there's a boudoir-boutique feel." The large room is just for Fergie's things (organized by color and category of course), while Josh's clothes are kept in his own closet in the master bedroom. "Before Josh and I moved in together my stuff would be over flowing into piles in the living room at his house." she says. "Now I love the process of picking things out."

Paula Abdul

All her outfits and coordinating accessories are numbered with tags so she can easily pack for trips and events. Her impressive shoe collection is made up mostly of high-heels—"I always wear heels unless I'm working out," says Paula Abdul, who is just over five feet.

Eva Longoria Parker

Hers is a 133-square-foot master closet, imagine that!

The Meaning of my Name

What does your name mean?

Nikki means:

You Are Dreamy and Distracted

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing.You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long.You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start.You are a seeker of knowledge, and you have learned many things in your life.You are also a keeper of knowledge - meaning you don't spill secrets or spread gossip.People sometimes think you're snobby or aloof, but you're just too deep in thought to pay attention to them.

Beautiful Saturday!!!

Today the temperature hit 15 degrees!!! Almost all our snow is gone ( again)!

I spent the morning doing laundry, and then we got the kids ready and the plan was after running a few errands we were going to take the kids for a walk.

After we finished our errands, it clouded over and started to pour....so needless to say we didn't get out for a walk.

After it started raining, we went for a drive out to Panmure Island. It is right across the Brudenell River from where we live. It was neat for the kids to see what was on the other side of the river.

And here is my fur baby, Riya. Having a nap on HER spot on the couch.

Which picture do you like better?

The first picture is our winter bedding, the second is our spring/summer bedding.

I like how the 2nd picture is lighter and brighter in color.

April Fools!

Happy Birthday to my friend Sarah!! She was an April Fools baby!

Love Nikki, Blaine & Girls!

PS. I stole this Pic from your Facebook, I thought it was cute! ;)

We have been having some very spring-y weather......that was right before we got dumped on!!!

This picture was taken about an hour before the snow started....

I do not have an after picture, but we got 3 feet of snow in like the next day and a half.

I would like to have a face to face with Mother Nature!!!!

Raven had a day and a half off school because of the storm, so its been a pretty low key week.

This morning, my Best friend Julia, called and said she was on her way out for a visit with the kids. I was down at Mom's when she called, and Blaine answered the phone. He calls me 25 minutes later to tell me Julia is on her way...This was at 9:15 this morning, and I hadn't started my morning chores yet and the house was a disaster. AHHH!!!...Ha! So I run home and scramble to clean before they got here. This was Julia's first time coming over to visit since we moved here and I wanted her to have a good first impression....and not one that we live like pigs...LOL. Thankfully, she lives 35 minutes away, and got lost coming into my town, HA! I managed to get mostly everything tidied before they arrived.

This is Julia & her daughter Maria ( 1 of 4 kids)

Julia is a 3rd year Nursing student, mother to 4 and wife to 1. Her kids are Micheal 8, Maria 3, Mady 2, and William 1. She is one busy momma! I don't get to see her as much as I would like, but I totally understand. I don't know how she juggles everything. She is definitly an inspiration.

Anyway, after sitting and chatting for about 20 minutes we got the smart idea of packing all 5 kids ( Her Micheal and my Raven are both in school) up and going shopping. Ha! What a great idea that was.....LOL.

Our first stop was BuyRite. It is a discount department store. We have one in Montague, but its not as good as the one in Charlottetown. They sell really nice large framed pictures and paintings for pretty good prices. They also have a lot of really cheap ( cheaply made) kids stuff, so the kids where in heaven...lol Julia & I...not so much. Ha! I was GLAD when we left that store.

River & Keilee picked a pack of these and a coloring book each out as their "treat"

As we were walking around the store they were throwing stuff in the cart, by the time we got to the check-out, the cart was literally overflowing! I made them pick out 2 things each.....it really took some convincing with Keilee...lol.

The next store we went to was English Butler, I discoved this store a few weeks ago, and I LOVE it! Everytime I go to Charlottetown now I have to stop in. This was Julia's first time shopping there, she too is in LOVE...hehe! I think....no I KNOW, this was my first and last time bringing the kids to this store. Ha! SO much brakable stuff and way too many little fingers to do the breaking....not a good combination......lol boy was that an experiance!

We finshed off out shopping trip with a trip to Walmart and then Michael's Craft Store. Both of these stores I Love! I could spend hours in both stores just browsing, and believe me I have. Ha!

This evening I had Turbo, we have our second weigh-in and measure night on friday....eek!