so the new years has come and gone. the holiday season is over, and things have relaxed.

christmas and new years were great. Troy got christmas off, and we went into the firehall to have christmas dinner with his crew (who had to work) and their families. seeing where troy works was really cool, and we got to go for a ride in a crash truck out on the tarmac and see the base from the other side. it was really great.

Mom and dad came out for five days and we were joined by Gary, dads older brother for two days. We all had a blast, especially on new years. Troy worked, but mom, dad and i partied hard with boardgames, new years comedy specials and champagne.

i've been reading alot with something like 25 books under my belt since jan 1st.

sonnet is doing extremely well, and is talking and doing alot more. there are a few new videos of her on youtube, the newest ones are dark, but cute as heck. http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=kirastorm is the link

troy at work today, after two days of recuperating after a minor surgical proceedure. he is quite happy to be off bedrest and is feeling great.

i hope everyone is doing well with the new year

well christmas is coming. the geese are fat, the turkeys are huge and also restless.

we are ready for the big day. tree is up, and gourgeous. presents are bought and wrapped and under the tree the only i have to do really is get the stockings stuffed. except that i have lost our stockings. oh woe! maybe i can make new ones. that would be fun. mine will be lack of course. (just kidding!)

we've had some big changes since my last post. sonnet no longer sleeps in her crib. shes a big girl and too heavy to be lifted in and out. now we find her passed out on the floor alot, as she gets out of bed and plays until shes exhausted and then she passes out where ever she is. its very cute. this is her bed for the moment. thats her beloved ernie doll that the firefighters gave her on the evening of our fire.

things have been a little hetic here. troy took another instructers course and passed with flying colours. this week he been teaching all week, plus the 24 hour shifts.

friday we had a small fire. everyones fine, and troys coworkers came and saved the day. the only casualty was the toaster. troy was at work of course, so it was just me and sonnet to take care of everything. but i did exactly what i was supposed to, so we are all fine.

we are almost all done our christmas shopping, with only 4 people left to buy for. i have bunches upon bunches of stuff to wrap though.

i made fudge today and did tons of cleaning.

tommorrow my friend kathy is coming over to watch pirates 2 with me. it should be awesome.


i have a bunch of movies to uplaod to youtube for everybody to see.

got another video up on youtube. clicky this time of sonnet dancing her little heart out.

man its nice to have my digi cam back. i didn't do much today, put some laundry away and cleaned the kicthen. i did a bunch of work on book three and started writing a novella.

DIGI CAM LIVES!!!

woot! we have recived our digital camera back from the fuji people! it works!

so i immediately well... ok, first thing i did was realize i had no clue where the memory card was, and then panic. and then i searched. i still have no clue where the damn thing is. so we bought a new one. a bigger one. a better one. a huge one.

so then the first thing i did was do a tour of the house video! yay! so i uploaded it to youtube, so that everybody could see the house! it took forever to upload, and process, but the link should work now CLICKY

there will be new pics of sonnet, and new videos of her too. we've been working on getting her to say nanny on video, but so far, she only says it when she watches the video. i'm thinking of how much shes changed since anyone on here has seen her, and its alot.

and this just in, my child is a genius! i was up here blogging away and i heard the phone ring. but it didn't sound like my phone was ringing, so i headed downstairs to find sonnet on the couch, phone in hands, she had it on speaker phone and she called my dad! she called grandpa! she hit speaker and redail to get him on the phone. shes so smart!

thick and gentle

the skies opened up and we had snow for christmas.
yesterday was the family christmas in enterprise. and we got five inches of snow out here in bc.

the power went out at some point, either last night or this morning. and outside is a perfect winter wonderland. so we got all dressed up in layers of clothes and took sonnet out to play in the snow. she wasn't too sure what she thought at first, but she quickly started to enjoy herself.

i showed her how to make a snow angel, but she declined to try it out herself. then mackenzie and i ran all over the place and sonnet laughed and clapped. then we came inside.

we are having stew for dinner, its cooking away in the crock pot, and i made molten lava chocolate cakes to have for dessert.

big news on the book front, i got my first royalty check. which is awesome, and dad has agreed to be my second editor for book 2.

things are crazy

MY GRANDMA IS NINETY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA!!!

so yeah, things are crazy. we've started christmas shopping. which is nice, but you know, insane.

i had a great friday night. the MFRC (military family resource center) had a ladies spa night. so, for five bucks, i got a half hour massage, a facial, a yoga class, a lecture on plants (which was lame) a swim, and a soak in a hot tub, plus daquiries and chocolate fondue. twas awesome. the yoga and massage were the ebst part of the evening.

sonnets doing good, full of energy and stuff. she started stripping at night, until shes only in her diaper. which thankfully, she leaves on.

troy is on course all week, taking his emr instructers course through work. he still has to work a 24 hour shift on wenesday though, so it sucks.

we've been busy planning things for when mom and dad come up in december. i'm getting really excited about it.