How Cute!!

So whenever we hang out with Kaitlyn and Trevor, we get a kick out of letting the babies play. That is if conditions are perfect like they have both been fed, diapered and aren't cranky. It is so cute because Blaine thinks Olivia is fun and will do her crazy play time laugh and it cracks Olivia up. She can't get enough of Blaine, she just talks and makes weird noises at her until Blaine does the laugh and then she cracks up and makes the noises all over again waiting for Blaine to do the laugh some more. It is inevitable that after a short while one will start to tire of this and melt down and the other one, so sad that she is sad, starts the meltdown too. It is the cutest thing to see and whenever we go to head over there I am always like "Olivia are you happy you are going to see your best friend Blaine?". It's so fun to see their little baby interactions!

We always joke that because we want them to be friends that when they get older they will just drive each other crazy and never want to play... "Do I have to play with HER?" But I'm sure that wont happen, they will have many more fun play dates to come!!

New Project

So on the corner across from Walmart, my Dad is going to be developing that open area. He's going to be overseeing a United Furniture store, sporting goods store and a Starbuck's. This pole building is currently on the site and needs to be moved. My parents told us we could have it if we took it down. It's a great opportunity to get the metal and wood framing for free. It is a great size for Marcus to have a shop area and to provide shelter for the animals that now reside on our property (more about the animals later). Marcus got some menfolk to help him take off the metal sheets (special thanks to Peter and Trevor for the wonderful help, especially in the down pouring rain!! Also to their wives for letting them go!). Marcus was out there the other night taking a million pictures so we will know how to put it back together once all the parts are at our house. My Dad's been an awesome help with figuring out the best way to take it down and use of his tractor and excavator!! It's exciting but also a little daunting because of the work involved. The next time you drive by take a look, all the metal is off and it is just the frame, so this week the focus is getting the wood off.

On a side note my Dad found something interesting in the woods behind the shop. He was walking back there and stumbled across this old lady who had been living in a tent in the woods for I think over a year now (If I'm remembering it correctly). She asked him when construction will start so she will know when to move. She said she lived there all year round! It gave him quite a start because he wasn't expecting to see anyone and she just walks out of her tent and says "hello". So when we had the work party there she was back in the woods just hanging out-CRAZY!! How many times have I drove past there and never knew a little old lady was living back there?

The Results are IN!!

Olivia and I after my interview on the steps of the building

So for all of you who are waiting with bated breath for the results of my interview for citizenship, the results are in....

I MADE IT!!!!!!

I got a little nervous before I had to go back, there were some questions that I was still fuzzy on. Like name the 13 original colonies, and some of the Bill of Rights questions. Luckily my interviewer asked my all the questions I knew, so I got 100%! I also had to read a sentence he wrote ( All the boys are in the park), and I had to write a sentence he told to me ( It is a sunny day today). He also had to review the moral character questions from my application, which was kinda awkward as the questions were: Have you ever prostituted yourself? Have you ever been a habitual drunkard? Have you ever sold drugs? These are just a few. A week later I was sworn in and now I am happy to say I am a lawful citizen of this country. They give you this cute packet that has a mini book of the Constitution, a mini flag, and another book telling you all the great things you get to do now that you are a citizen! US Passport here I come!!

Confessions of a Canadian

So it finally hit me today what a big week next week will be for me. For those of you that don't know, I am a Canadian (insert favorite cheese head joke here). For almost a year now I have been going through the process to become a US citizen. You have to turn in your application, and money, then you go down to get finger printed. After that the FBI does a background check on you, which I passed ;) The last step, which will take place on Tuesday, is an interview with a homeland security person. They ask you various US history questions (who wrote the Star Spangled Banner, explain how a bill becomes law, what were the original 13 colonies, etc). They also test that you can speak, read and write English. After that all I have to do is be sworn in.

Nerves have started to set in though. I keep remembering my Mom's interview. (She has been like a month ahead of me in the process. I have gone down with her for all of her appointments, which is great because I get a better heads up of what is in store for me!) When it was her time to interview she got nervous and forgot a question. She had earlier been concentrating on who our allies were in WW2, so when the interviewer asked who we were fighting against she blanked and said who the allies were. My mom asked to redo the question and the lady was like "no, too late!" She totally passed her interview, but I could totally see myself doing the same thing. I really have no excuse because I attended school down here and took US history.

It will be so nice to be done with the whole process. It's kind of unnerving to think that my residency is conditional. They could kick my back to Canada if I ever broke the law, which would never happen, but still... With my citizenship you will all be stuck with this Canadian sister for life! There will be no getting rid of me after Tuesday!

What's Going On Here??

I must seriously be dumb at blogging, after that last post I tried to add more people to my blogging buddies list and it only let me add one person before saying error and not letting me add any more! I know I'm doing it right because I have successfully added two people but I'm not understanding why it just bombed on me. I feel like I spend 90% of the time on this site just figuring the dang thing out with only 10% doing the fun part-blogging. I will persevere and beat this thing!

Weather!?!

I can't wait for the weather to turn nicer. We had that one gorgeous t-shirt weather day a little while ago and now I feel like it's turned a complete 180. It's like it's teasing you, it's all nice and beautiful and today it's freezing. I hadn't realized how much I missed the sun until it finally started appearing again. I almost felt like I needed my heavy duty coat on today! Oh well, I got some serious house work done today which is always nice.

Here Are Some Gorgeous Pictures

Here are some of my favorite pictures of our little bambino. The picture of me and her is from Easter Sunday, it is my favorite fancy dress that she has.

Unfortunatley she is sick for the first time right now, so she has been very fussy. She can be tempermental anyway so combine that with runny nose and sore throat, it has not been fun.

On a side note it took me a ridiculously long time to upload these pictures. Maybe I'm an instant gratification type of person, but at the rate it took to download I might not be posting pictures very often. I think Marcus is going to take a second look at it and see if I'm doing it wonky or something. (Which is quite probably as I am not to handy with computer-ish things).

Also I don't really know where to get some cute templates from, they didn't have very many cute ones to pick from. I'm sure I'll figure this out someday.