Furnished house

Well it's been 3 months since I've done the blogging thing, I love seeing how everyone elses lives are doing and I forget to do ours. Before I forget, here is a couple pictures of our livingroom furnished. A new place is so fun, pretty much each piece of furniture is new and bought for it's specific location in the livingroom.

Our bookshelf and lamp were the last additions to the livingroom, I'm finding it so fun to "nest".

The top shelf above the tv now has a couple more decorations on it, one being a Canuks vintage plaque. For any of you who know Aidan, it's something that represents him well. As our friend Drew says, " it makes it look that you had a little say and your wife didn't decorate Everything." The elephant on the window ledge is the one I brought home from India in my backpack covered in a blanket, It brings back great memories every time I look at it. The final touch will happen in the next couple of months, PAINT. We're kind of sick of the builder's biege. Aunty Beulah was over (our decorating specialist) and we've decided on three colours from Benjamin Moore: Capilano Bridge, Stanley Park and Beach Glass.

With Aidan and I working in retail, our crazy busy lives are back to a normal level with a great christmas season at work and more importantly with our families. In November I moved stores within the company, I was at the Langley Coast Mountain Sports that was litteraly 1.2 km from our house and I'm now at Park Royal Sport Chek/ Coast Mountain Sports, it's a combo store in West Vancouver 120km away from our house. In good trafic like and afternoon shift or a Saturday my commute is 45min each way but on a normal day to bad traffic my commute is an hour and a half to 2 and a half hours. A little crazy I know and I really feel it when the commute is bad but I'm having a lot of fun with the challenge, it's giving me the opportunity to run my own store kind of, I take care of the Coast Mountain Sports side of the business. It's not forever, that is for sure.

New Years was another great holiday unwinding from the busy christmas season, We were able to spend it this year again with 2 Aunt's, my Uncle, Cousins and Sister and her boyfriend at Camp Homewood. We spent it playing cards, horseback riding, watching movies and visiting. It was our second opportunity to spend New Years like this and have decided that it is going to be a family tradition.

With the calming in the stores Aidan and I were able to spend a couple days in Whistler with friends at their place. Aidan is in the process of teaching our friends 5 year old how to snowboard. We were also able to make our annual February trip to Kelowna to see Aidan's best friend Scott and fiancee Krista. It's so fun that she is now his Fiancee, they've been dating longer than Aidan and I have been together. The location of their wedding has been anounced and Hawaii here we come, we just don't know when. I'm so excited.

Well I don't want to overload you all with all the happenings of the Lightfoot household, I'll give it to you in bite sized pieces, but I will now be on the blogging bandwagon again :)

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

Our Winter Wonderland view. First annual snowfall in the Lower Mainland. The local mountains have been getting dumped on for the last month and it finally came down here.

Don't think people will be sitting out in the court yard today:)

However, anyone wanting lodging to come and enjoy an epic alpine season give us a call.

Grampa's tree is standing strong through all kinds of weather.

A Long Awaited Visit Part I

On October 20th we flew out to Ontario for our much needed vacation. It had been two years since our last visit and we had 5 new members of the family to meet.

Our first stop was to the Toronto area for our friends Mike and Marta's wedding. Their wedding was a cultural first for both Aidan and I. Mike and Marta are Polish so their entire wedding and reception was in Polish, even the live band at the reception sang in Polish, it was fantastic and a wedding we wouldn't miss for the world. I felt as if were in "my big fat greek wedding" only Polish style.

While in the Toronto area we stayed at Aidan's sister Chris and her boyfriend Logan's place. This is where we were able to meet the first 2 members of the family that we hadn't met yet. Somehow we made it home without a picture of Chris and Logan but we did get pictures of Lexi and Stanley, the new additions.

Both Lexi and Stanley are very small parrots, they are both incredibly smart and you have to be carefull with what you say because they do copy you. Lexi is the blue one, she entertained us for quite a while on the kitchen table playing with her ball and attacking a pencil. Stan is a little more outgoing and social, as much as Chris and Logan are training him, I think Stan has done a great job in acutally training them, it's great. Between the two birds they have more toys than an average child, there is nothing wrong with spoiling your animals.

After our visit we were on our way to Cornwall, where the rest of Aidan's family lives. Our time was spent the best way possible, with family. We decided that this visit we wouldn't do a lot of sight seeing, instead we spent more time visiting.

The Dream is ALIVE

Some background to the picutures we posted yesterday.

March 2005, Aidan and I purchased a condo. A new house to call our own and take the next step in life, a mortgage. Apparently building Condo's takes a long time because there are 74 miniature houses in the one major complex. The due date of completion was between February and June of 2006, the builders gave themselves a 5 month buffer.

As most people can attest to when building a house, it's actual completion date is always late. It's been even worse in the lower mainland with the shortage of trades people and the multitudes of houses, townhouses and condos going up all over. Gone are the days of driving past a farm or an empty field.

4.5 months past the June due date, our dream is coming alive. On Thursday September 28 Aidan and I did our walk through to note any deficiencies. We brought an army, My Aunty Beulah, Uncle Jeff, Cousin Greg, Aidan's boss Drew, Aidan and myself did the walk through. Most spots were merely cosmetic. We did however have a really ugly pipe sticking out of the celing; it was a sprinkler pipe with the sprinkler uninstalled. They'll fix that one for sure.

Our official move in date is October 26th, however we will be in Ontario for a long awaited vacation, so we'll move when we get back October 31 at 9 pm. Due to us renting and not getting back in time to move out and clean, Aidan and I will be moving our stuff into storage and then into our new place when we get back. The cats will stay at the house because it doesn't take much to move them out in time.

So please, now when you look at our last post and see the pictures of our walk through; envision that space only a couple of weeks away from being transformed into our house and a place for Aidan and I to call our own.

Lightfoot's Mansion

Welcome to Unit 211,
our humble abode.

Please enter.


Picture comfy couches,
hot coffee, a book and a warm
fire.
The kitchen awaits
taming.

Our Family

We would like to introduce you to our girls, Abby is 3 1/2 and Emma will be 2 in the middle of October. To our mom's, they don't have any grandkids from us but they do have 2 beautiful grandkitties.

This is a typical Abby pose for the camera, chilling out and relaxing. Abby has taken on the role as queen with her sister and can usually be found in her bed watching over the house. You can score big brownie points by offering her treats when you go to the kitchen.

Emma, is our crazy cat who lives for attention. Her greatest attention getter is playing fetch with the rubber wrist bands (the livestrong kind). Emma's the cuddly one that loves when new people come to visit.

Another Ferry Ride

A Visit out West

A beautiful day at Shannon Falls, Squamish, BC with mum & Dave on our trip to Whistler. Just one of the picturesque days we had during their visit.