So much stuff...to get caught up on

I don't even know where to begin....so much has been going on with our move, unpacking, being TOGETHER with my family again, painting, putting pictures up......all WONDERFUL stuff but it's left me behind on my 'blog'ing'!!!

Everything is unpacked, all the photos are hung, the spare and master bedroom is painted (Noah's room is next - we are just on our way out the door to go get the paint for his newly decorated room)! A nice change from the Montreal Canadians theme that he has had for 5 years now! I am SO excited to see the final results. A few details are still up for decision but I just received his new quilt today from Pottery Barn Kids. It's called Junior Varsity and is perfect considering he wanted an 'all sports' theme! It is AMAZING quality - I am SO pleasantly surprised (my first order at Pottery Barn Kids)!! I told Noah he could choose the paint colour (as long as it is a colour in the quilt). Check out the quilt below....feel free to send me any ideas for decor in his room.


We went shopping in the states last weekend (as the US-Canada border crossing is in Grand Falls), mostly just to browse and buy a few groceries. We ended up going to a Walmart 'Supercenter' in Presque Isle, Maine. It had a FULL grocery store inside the Walmart store - it was HUGE and extremely cool! Well....we ended up coming home with our pool. A much larger one than we had intended to buy and for MUCH less moola!!! We got a 24' x 52" Intex Metal Framed Pool - so now we can't wait to get the fence up so we can get the pool up (the fence is this weekend's project - and so far the weather looks like it'll be perfect for building a fence)!! NOAH - has been adjusting very well, other than he has been missing having friends on the street to play with. He started soccer Tuesday night. He already knew 5 kids on his team (3 from his class and 2 from his school) - which was a really nice treat for him! We've also enrolled him in baseball that starts at the end of June as well as a daily summer program (from 1-3:30pm, Monday - Friday) for the summer called Frolic. This program is run by the Recreation Department in Grand Falls. There are activities every day - like swimming, hikes, crafts, library outings, games, etc. I am also going to host an end of school party for his new classmates (and their parents) in hopes to meet some children for play dates in the summer.

Jun 11-12 - we went back to Moncton (Dieppe) to close our old house. Noah was invited to join in his old class for the morning. He really enjoyed this. All the children were hugging him and questioning him as soon as we got there - it was really touching to see how much his classmates like him. Madame Small had an activity where Noah sat on a chair in the front of the class and the students got to take turn asking him questions about his move, house, new school - IN FRENCH and Noah had to respond IN FRENCH! Madame Small said it was an excellent activity. We picked him up before lunch and I got to sneak a few photos.


The weekend we found our new house - I took these photos (and never uploaded them - oops). The FALLS are the highest I had EVER seen since the first time seeing them in 1998 - due to all the flooding on the St. John River in New Brunswick this year.

So much to tell you about -

The first weekend we were in our house (last weekend - June 7) was the annual Relay for Life event to raise money for Cancer. To our benefit, it was held 'directly' across the road from our new house. After a long, hard day of work we took a stroll over to check out the sights and sounds. BEAUTIFUL - there were white 'sand bags' lining the outside of the track with an "In Memory Of..." on the front of each bag. At dusk, candles were lit in each bag and the the soft glow of candles in each bag lined the track - (unfortunately, I did not get a photo of this). It was fun - great entertainment as well as Noah had the chance to play soccer with some kids.

The top left photo is the view from the track - looking back at our new house.


Okay - I am all over the place with this post (basically to get caught up)!!! Here are some photos (pathetic at that, too) of our moving day. It had been such a l-o-n-g time coming - I had to document on photo!!!
So this should get us all caught up with where we're at today!!