Photos of April

This has been an odd month for weather. Hot and sunny, then a blizzard with enough blown snow that I got stuck coming home from work, then, the following week, warm and sunny again! Now, it's westcoast weather - overcast, raining, windy and cool. The trees are just starting to get a green tinge, the grass is turning green, the birds are back...I love spring!

Some Photos of the house

Here are a few photos of the house so far. The burgundy is all gone, new trim, new counters, new floors, new paint colour in the kitchen.

an update on things here

For my lone friend who is not on FB and has been wondering where my pics of Easter were... here's a few, more can be found at this link:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/album.php?aid=212856&id=650696549

Here are a few photos of our visit to Lloyd over Easter. The weather was perfect and the kids spent a lot of time outside.



On Sunday, we went to church with the Brands. Technically, the church is in Saskatchewan, so we even left the province for Easter!

Evelyn was able to join in the kids singing. She actually did really well, especially considering that she only practiced a few minutes before! It was SO cute to see her and Juliana up front in their white dresses.

The kids played really well together the whole time. I can't remember any fights. Usually there is one spat between the girls when we visit, but I don't think there was this time! The boys had a couple quick little issues, but did really well together too. The three boys spent about an hour plunking chips into the 'connect 4' game we picked up. Even little Ben was doing his part to fill it up and dump it out. The object of their game was to fill it up, not get 4 in a row!

We made the resurrection biscuits again. They worked out pretty well, though we discovered it worked best when we folded them in to little round balls before baking.


Since then, I have been working on getting the house ready to sell. I'm STILL waiting on my counters.... I will call on Monday to see where they are at. I have painted all the doors, and closet doors and have cut (by hand, with a miter box) the trim for the doors and some of the floor baseboards. The new trim looks really sharp! I will need to rent a saw for the day to finish the floor trim. My baseboards are an inch taller than my miter box, so the corner cuts where the board is on edge are almost impossible to do cleanly. I've just done all the straight edge cuts that I can lay the board flat, and the corners for the doors that, again, I can lay the board flat for. I changed the colour on the kitchen walls a bit. Now it's a darker blue/gray. I like it. I have thought I should have gone darker in the kitchen since I first painted - and I was right! I think it will look really great with the new counters....whenever they come... Once I finish those three outstanding jobs, I will consider myself pretty much done!

I plan to post 'before' (like when we first bought the house) pics and 'after' pics when I have everything completed. I'm pretty proud of what I've done to the place!

So, it looks like I have a good reason to put all this work in. I interviewed for a 0.77 permanent position in Nanaimo, and, pending satisfactory reference checks, I have the position! It is on a mixed medical and elective orthopedic surgery unit. It is well staffed, and sounds like it has a good team atmosphere. I'll admit, I'm not excited by ortho, but the jobs that do excite me are all filled internally, so at least it's an 'in'. I was also offered a casual position in the ER in Nanaimo (in their waiting-for-a-bed holding pen). I think I will call that manager and accept that offer as well. Ryan will continue to look for a position and work toward getting on the sub list at least. Nothing is finalized yet. But that's where we're at so far. My start date will be July 27th. That is the extent of my knowledge so far.

There has been some interest in our house already, so I don't think we'll need to list it with a Realtor. I like that that keeps more money in both our pocket, and the potential buyers pocket too.

And that's an update on things here!

http://homeparents.about.com/cs/eastercrafts/a/eastertradition.htm

Some really neat Easter baking ideas.