Christmas Time at The Gallaghers

The kids made Rice Krispie Houses instead of Gingerbread Houses. Actually we still have the gingerbread houses too...we never did get around to making those ones. Guess we got something to do while James sails next month. LOL!!







Chino likes the ice cream...but apparently the ice cream doesn't agree too much with Chino. We found that one out the next day. YUCK!!

There are still lots more to come but these ones are just so my mom GETS OFF MY BACK!!! LOL!!! Just kidding mommy :)

Auntie Courtney's Visit

My baby sister came for a visit the other weekend. We really didn't do anything besides hang out on the couches and watch movies. The weather was crappy so we couldn't really do much. But I promise Courtney, next time we will actually leave the house. LOL!!!


Check out how strong Keenan is, he pick her up right off the ground!!

The kids LOVE Auntie Courtney!!
They were even her hair dressers. LOL
Then on Sunday we met up with our Dad and Gail so they could get her back home. We went to Denny's and it was THE WORSE SERVICE EVER!!! We sat there for over an hour and all we got served was our drinks. I won't go into the details but lets just say we eventually just left and ate at the food court at the mall.

Catching up

Mom was giving me a hard time about not posting enough so I will try to do some catch up....but I am not promising lots. LOL!!!

We have had some good times lately and I will try to get some pics in, Here are some clips and pictures of Keenan's Christmas concert. He was sooo AWESOME!! He is such a cutie!!


Here is Haylei with the other two girls from daycare. Amanda and Brycee

Keenan was in the Sooke Santa Parade with his dance class...he is in Boys Hip Hop.

We were a little early for the parade so we took them McDonalds first to burn off some energy.

Seriously!! HOW CUTE ARE THEY!!??

Sleepless in Victoria

Well, another sleepless night. And worse tonight, James is duty, Haylei is having nightmares/dreams all night and calling out. So here I am at 04:25 in the morning posting.....tomorrow is going to be a rough one.

Well anyways, I know I said that I had mor pics to post but I don't want to be on here ALL night. LOL!! I am thinking maybe I should try to get in a nap before I have to get up for work in an hour.....

But I did want to get some Christmas photos so I will post some of our house so you can all see what I am so proud of. The maybe friday night I will throw some up of the kids and such.

Here is our tree and a couple of me pretending to take "good" pics, it is hard to do with this crappy cybershot I have but I will make do with it for now :(

First we will start by going around the yard just to show you how big some tof these things are.

Only in Victoria can you get away with being outside in Dec with no jacket...mind you we were only outside long enough to turn everything on. Not that that took much because James MADE a special extension cord that is 100 feet in length and there are 7 outdoor electrical boxed spaced along it. So that way we plug everything (almost into one long convenient cord and don't have the ugly sight of multiple extension cords all over the yard. Isn't he AWESOME?? So handy :)

And the Finale!! Well, almost. I can never seem to be happy with what I do... and James sin't much better. So we will be replacing the ucucles on the top roof with some new LED icicles. It will sooooo much better. I will post another pic when that fets done.

I hope you enjoyed our decorations...just wait til next year....it just keeps growing and growing. Next year I will have to add MORE to the display!!

This and that catch ups..

Well it has been a bit since I have posted. The last one was before I went to Kitimat.

OH, on a side bar I am starting this post at 18:09 Thursday evening. I have had some issues with my hips again and my back went into spasms last night so this post may take a while to actually complete this but I want to see how long exactly...

I got in Thursday night and visited a couple people but it was a quiet night...Friday...not so quiet. Out I went to hang out with some of the girls. And that is NEVER quiet!! LOL!! We had a good time hanging out a a girlfriends and then hitting the scene. HAHA!! It is Kitimat...there is NO scene. We went to the 'Ol Keg (not to be mistaken with The Old Keg), it is the pub-by-day/club-by-night place there. I got to see a LOT of people that I knew so that was AWESOME. I was too busy mingling and chatting to take many pics but here are a couple.

Here is my mommy's dog "Potter" He was my shadow when I was there. I couldn't go ANYWHERE without him. He wouldn't even get up in the morning with mom. He waited until I got up. LOL!!! Isn't he a cutie??

Here is Dad with Potter....in their usually spots. hehehe

And I can't forget Remembrance Day!! It was such a good day. We all met up in the parking lot of Dairy Queen the fell in line for the parade...(I would post a picture but mom didn't take any)...tsk tsk Moooooooooooommmmmm, just kidding:) But she did take these good ones.

This is me and the President of the Kitimat Legion.

My Commanding Officer from when I was in Sea cadets, myself and the other man used to be the Legion President and he is still rather active with them. He also picks on my mom a lot and its funny!!!

One of Kitimat's great RCMP's, they were a great bunch of people.

This is Leslie. I NOW feel old when I am having cocktails with a kid I used to BABYSIT!! She is a great girl who has travelled and done a lot with her life. We are all proud of her.

HEY!! DAD!!! Recognise this guy?? He used to work for my dad in Price Rupert and now he is the Commanding Officer of the Sea Cadet Corp in Kitimat. What a small world hey??

Mom and Dad...aren't they CUTE??!!

I got this great idea and got every ones hats together...look at me trying to be some sort of photographer. LOL!!! We were missing an Air Force head dress, too bad that would have been a better more complete picture.

HAHA!! Here are some reps for each hat. LOL!! We had so much fun there.

Well, I am done this one. I have more but they will have to wait. But if you want to see all of my newest pictures, there is more on flickr. I will post another shortly, hopefully it won't take as long :) It is now 10:45 Sunday morning....

Kitimat next week

I made a comment in the last post about going up to Kitimat next week. Yes, thats right I am going back home for a few days. My amazingly awesome husband has gotten me a ticket to go home for Remembrance day. Ever since joining the military it has been something that I have wanted to do.

Being from a rather small community I have always wanted to go back and show the town that even I made something of myself. (If you knew me growing up it was a toss up between actually DOING something with my life or becoming a bum in constant party mode). I have just always wanted to go back and speak to the Cadet Corps that I used to belong to and who introduced me to military life and let them know that there are options for them out there, they just need to make the right ones. And if I can get through to just one of those kids then it would be totally worth it.

Plus I will be going up there ALONE no hubby, no kids. After the retarded year we have had this is like a mini break for me. Yes, Hawaii sounded nicer but then I couldn't talk to the kids. And at least up in Kitimat I know people and my room and food are FREE!! LOL!!!

So to my HOTTIE of a hubby, THANK YOU for the ticket. I love you and YOU ROCK!!!

Halloween fun

We took the kids out for some good old Halloween fun. First we went to Galey's farm and it was sooooooo much fun. There was a corn maze, a train ride, petting farm, games, tractor ride, pumpkin patch and more probably I just can't remember it all right now. Then that night we took them to the high school last weekend because they were holding a family fun halloween thingy. The kids LOVED it. It didn't matter if they won the game or not they always got a prize. So that was good. Plus me and Keenan entered the cake walk and for the first time I actually WON!! Not that it was anything great. I wasn't too sure even what it was until we were leaving and someone said "oh you got the bat". Ohhhh, so THAT is what it was. I didn't take a pic and it is gone now. Keenan attacked it.

They had sooo much stuff around the farm as you go along on the train. These are just a couple.

Hey Mom, do you and dad remember these prices????

There are many many more pic that I want to post but blogger is being pissy again with me. I will post them on my flickr but just for you mom I will try to get them all on here before I come home next week. If not I will just bring them all up on a CD.