On a first name basis

(looking at pictures)

Mom: Who is this Skyler?

Skyler: Banna

Mom: Who is this?

Skyler: Baby (him of course)

Mom: Who is this? (looking at a picture of dad)

Skyler: Dats Jon.

......

(picking dad up from work. dad walks out on one of the cat-walks at Canada Place)

Breanna: HI DAD

Ryan: HI DAD

Skyler: HI JON!

......

(in the kitchen)

Mom: Skyler who is this? (points at dad)

Skyler: Jon

Mom: Its Daddy!

Skyler: No its JON

......

(looking for dad)

Skyler: Jon were are you Jon

(mom walks up the stairs after him)

Skyler: MOMMY

Mom: what?

Skyler: I LOST JON!

Crusin...uh...in style?

Crusing after playing dress up. He seriously coasts across the floor in this dump truck every day. Yes he is in a witch costume and yes it is a dress.

Breanna Said:

"Im so bored, I feel like a plant!"

Crusin

Ryan's favourite past time since moving somewhere with laminate floors.
(sorry for the blury photo)

Pulling from the archives.

*I have not blogged in a while so I found this one in the archives that I had not published.

So the other night I found Breanna (when she was supposed to be in bed) lying on the floor by the light of the bathroom, stuffed toy in her arms and book in her hand. The conversation went something like this.



Mom: Breanna go to bed please....



Breanna go to bed now....



Breanna: ....im asleep...



Mom: Breanna you have till the count of five...1...2...3...4...5



(for the record I could toltaly tell that she had been reading her book and was not asleep at all there was no doubt about it.)



So I pick her up and plop her in bed, not roughly but not as gently as I would have if I actually thought she was sleeping.



Breanna: MOM I WAS SLEEPING!!!



Me: Breanna I know you werent sleeping.



Breanna: yes I was..



Me: Then why were you on the floor in the hall.



Breanna: I fell out of bed.



yeah chances are if she fell on the bed she would have woke up crying or at the very least woke up to climb back in bed, not some how land 5 feet away from her bed in the hall in the perfect position to read by the light of the bathroom.





So she continues to insist that she did indeed fall out of the bed and was indeed telling the truth and gets upset that I do not believe her. As I leave the room she drops this one on me...





"Heavenly Father knows Im telling you the truth"



Seriously how do you respond to that?!?!?!? I just said goodnight and went down stairs.


*Breanna did admit later to her little fib. we talked and it is all good.

I am sure there are other things I could or should be blogging about but since I am sick and miserable I will just say this:

Today I walked around the corner and found my daughter reading a book silently to herself and I cant get over how supremley cool that is. My kid can read. Literacy is a wonderful thing.

A smattering of Photographs

Skyler is my little mischeif maker he is always getting into something or other.

Ryan does not believe in making regular smiling faces for a picture. ( his lens fell out of his glasses due to a lost screw. thus the lack of glasses and the cross eyed look)

I cant get over how grown up this kid is getting, she will be 7 this september at that blows me away.

The kids favourite place to sit and watch a movie.

Space boy Ryan at the Telus world of Science

The lego sculptures are super cool, the picture does not do this one justice. It was 3 dimensional, lit from the inside and really looked like a lego man escaping from the lego box.

Breanna posing with the lego.

Hey it is almost a normal smiling picture! I think he was probably just laughing at me when it was taken. The whole world is a joke to that kid.

I photoshopped Skyler's broken tooth out of this one. We will see thursday if the dentist thinks he can make the broken tooth look like the one in the picture :)

Breanna with her newest cousin Joryn. What a couple cuties!

Body images.

Mom: Ryan do you like this outfit for Skyler?

Ryan: No it'll make him look fat!

Mom:?!

Breanna: Ryan it wont make him look fat I picked it out!

Ryan: Ya it will!

Breanna: No it wont!

Ryan: ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya
Breanna: no no no no no no no no no no.....

Breanna: It wont make you look fat unless your fat before you put it on!

End of conversation.

Count Down continued.

7 days till Christmas 3 presents obtained.

So I was thinking the other day of the Christmas present I bought my sister the year Jon and i got engaged. I gave it to her early because I was going to spend Christmas with Jon and his family. It was a hamster and it died on Christmas day. We thought of renaming it posthumously to Scrooge.

Count down.

Days till Christmas: 9. Number of christmas presents obtained: 1.

Dont Judge me it is one of those days

Breanna: So Ryan do you want to come upstairs with me?

Ryan: Uhh nope.

Breanna: Come on Ryan we need to go where mom cant see us.

Mom: Breanna what are you doing, If you dont tell me you are not going upstairs.

Breanna: We are plunging our tummies. (breanna has the sink plunger and she squishes it onto her tummy.) Well mom can we?

Mom: (picking her battles) Whatever Breanna.

Breanna: Ryan! Mom said we can do it, do you want to come!?

Ryan: Nope

Breanna: Well if you change your mind I will be upstairs plunging.

Seriously I cant imagine any serious harm coming from it. The worst I can see happening is getting a call from the school or something because they want to know where my kid got the large hickies on her stomach. Oh and it is a sink plunger, totaly cleaned and NEVER used on a toilet, just in case you were worried.

And she blogs again.

So apparently semi annual blogging is not sufficient to satisfy the crowds how about quarterly? Well look it has not been four months yet since I last blogged (just a few days shy) I am ahead of the game! Yay me!

You should all thank that anonymous person who commented on my last post their desire to hear from me again.

So what to blog about.....

• Breanna is in grade one I am sure you all know that though (see you know my life why do I need to blog?) I am constantly amazed by how fast she is learning to read. She reads her readers they send home every night no problem. I guess I just expected this to be a longer process. but no she is doing spectacular. It scares me in a way because how are me and Jon going to talk without the kids knowing what we are saying when we cant S P E L L things out anymore
• Ryan is in preschool and he absolutely loves it. If anyone is looking for a preschool for their kids for next year call me because this school is fabulous. He goes Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons and it is in the same school as Breanna so that is really convenient.
• Skyler is a menace as usual and climbs on everything, he even pulled the bench from the table today over to the counter to play with the knives. Oh joy I need to move those higher. He is the cutest little menace ever and I love him. He is also learning to talk, he repeats anything you say and his favourite thing to say right now is look at this or look at that, My favourite is when he pulls up his shirt and says "look a belly!".
• Jon and I are enjoying a quiet fall, we took it easy on our schedule this fall and are enjoying the lack of commitments in the evening. He will be taking part time classes again in January. Jon is still delivering papers and in a fit of insanity I took a job managing a few apartments. I was not sure I wanted to do it again but it is actually pretty good, I don't have to handle anything outside of the suites I rent so that means no building cleaning and no shoveling. The company I work for is really great as well. My 15 units keep me surprisingly busy some days but oddly enough sometimes I find it easier to be productive at home when I am busy outside of the house. (other times I am just plain unproductive everywhere lol)

Anyhow there is a brief update of my life hopefully it keeps you all happy until I blog again in about four months.

p.s. Just kidding I so wont take that long again to blog.... at least I dont think so.... well i have the best of intentions....

Conversations with my over acheiving husband

Heather: Hey were you able to fix the printer?

Jon: Yeah

Heather: Great! How did you manage to do it.

Jon: I took the coat hanger out of it.

(He is so smart)

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Jon: Check this out I just don't know how this happened!

(Jon is completely elated as he shows me how much extra room he has in his once snug pants)

Heather: Well it might have something to do with the fact that you are running to a hundred different houses every day to deliver papers and then you paddle hard core on the river for an hour two or three times a week at Dragon boat practice.

Jon: I also usually run before practice as well.

Heather: Yeah dear I have no idea why you are losing weight.

Jon: I just feel like I should be doing more.

(shaking my head, yeah he is definitely a couch potato)



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(Jon walks in the bedroom after papers at about 5 in the morning)

Jon: hey can you look at my head and tell me if I am bleeding?

Heather: Uh a little maybe why?

Jon: Well when I was delivering papers to this house I ran under a tree and It was dark and I could not see this branch and I ran straight into it. I saw this big flash of light like lightening and then I woke up on the ground.

(thank heavens for the baseball hat on his head, without it he would likely have needed stitches, but with hitting the front of his head on the branch then the back of his head on the ground when he fell he has had a mild concussion, the dizziness passed pretty quickly but he has had quite the headache for a couple of days.)

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Ryan: Dad how did you hurt your head?

Jon: I ran into a tree when I was delivering papers.

Ryan: Why did you run into the tree?

Jon: Because it was dark and I couldn't see the branch.

Ryan: Next time you should use a flashlight and be more careful.

(out of the mouths of babes)

Family Camp 2008

So about a week and a half ago we headed out for our family vacation of the summer. We started out Friday at a family reunion in Magrath for Jon's mothers family the Walton's. Great fun was had there, they have what is basically a huge slip and slide built into the side of a hill and the kids LOVED it. It was great I got to know some of cousins a lot better and basicaly everyone just socialized and played all weekend.


Sunday we headed to hill spring and visited an old friend of mine and stayed over night there, then we headed to waterton for two nights. We had a great time just enjoying our family and the out doors, we went to red rock canyon had ice cream at The Big Scoop, and went to cameron lake to wade in the water.

Next we went and spent one night in the Johnston canyon camp ground and then we hiked up to the upper falls in Johnston canyon. It is a beautiful walk and if you get the chance you must do it. after the hike we headed home to our own warm beds. It was a fabulous trip we had a ton of fun and really just relaxed and enjoyed each others company I dont know why but there was a lot of talk about underwear ( ryans recent obscession) but you really had to be there to get it.

Anyway here are a few pictures:

Ryan insisted I get a picture of his bubble, I didnt realize what I was photographing until later.

Skyler chillin by the campfire at Johnston Campground

Skyler had quite the snooze in the kid pack on the Johnston canyon hike

I was just trying to get a nice picture of a little boy walking by a fence but he kept turining around and sticking his tounge out whenever I went to take a picture. What a goof. This is by Cameron lake in Waterton

Just a cute picture of the squirt taken by Jon

Me and Breanna by Cameron falls. Taken by Jon.

Breana Showing off her first aid skills. She insisted I needed a bandaid for a little cut. Again taken by Jon

Skyler LOVED the waterslide.

So did everyone else.
and who can pass up the oppourtunity to play in the mud?

Ryan at red rock canyon

Jon and Skyler by the camp fire in waterton.

Thats all for now folks!

Teaser

We returned yesterday from our family vacation. I promise a proper post accompanied by pictures is comimg soon but first her are a few words to describe our trip.


Family Reunion
Fun
waterslide
campfires
tents
friends
Macaroli
Mountains
UNDERWEAR
waterslide
ice cream
driving
deer
Johnston Canyon
Dirty laundry
hiking

Translation

What Breanna said:

Mom you should go sit on the couch and rest, you look a little sick.


What Breanna meant:

Mom go into the living room so I can hide in the kitchen and eat a cup of sugar.

Tag!

Ok i promise I have a real honest to goodness post coming. Really. Here is a tag from nikki. You type your name into a search engine with the word is or wants and see what comes of it. For example "Heather is"



Here is what I got.

Heather is actually quite tall and brainy.

well I have never been described as that but I will take it as a compliment

Heather is a beautiful woman that has entertained us for decades

Well thank you Im glad I could bring joy into the world

Heather is a young, single, working woman

uuhhhhh I am afraid you have been misinformed.

HEATHER IS WATCHING

yes even you.

Heather is the one with the muscles.

Yeah anyone want to arm wrestle?

Heather is growing quite nicely in its pot

just give me a little water every couple days and I am good!

Heather is a scank and a fat slob

the internet is not very nice sometimes!

Heather is furious

wouldnt you be if someone said that about you?

Heather is not above bribing people for their affection

only when they say mean things to me.

Isin't it ironic

Now that Breanna is in a booster seat she has a habbit of unbuckling herself whenever we stop. Even if it is just a quick stop she will unbuckle herslef and since she cant do it back up herself so I have to go back and buckle her back up. It bothers me from time to time and this morning when she did it I was muttering about putting her back in a regular car seat so she could not do it anymore.

Anyway not ten minutes later when we go pick her friend up to drop them both off at school somehow I manage to lock my kids and my keys in the car. Thank heavens for a kid who can unbuckle herself so she could unock the door for me.

Caught in the act

I seriously want to take that seed away everytime I see this picture

all right all ready

I know i have heard it from everyone I have not blogged in forever! So to appease the masses here you go! Some happenings in the Hill house.

• Ryan is four yay! He had a good birthday will lots of presents from grandparents and aunts and uncles and mom and dad. My kids are going to get spoiled. They have so many people who love them and I love that.



• Jon is 33, my hubby is growing up too, hee hee hee.



• Jon is doing papers in the morning, he is an on call paper deliverer. He usually gets a call the night before telling him which route he is doing for the next morning or the next few mornings. Sometimes though he gets an extra route in the morning. The other day he did 300 papers in one morning. The man is a machine. He seems to like it and the extra income is nice too.



• I am blogging my first blog on our new computer. We decided to use some of our tax return on getting a new desk and a new case for our computer. As many of you who have been here know our old computer was very noisy. It would get hot inside and the fan would kick into high gear and make a loud high pitched hum. So we decided to get a better ventilated case with fans to keep everything cool. Well we were putting all our computer guts into the new case and then we saw smoke. Not so good when you are dealing with computer. Smoke= Replacing almost all the computer components because they are either toast or not compliant with the new stuf. I love the new computer it is so very wonderfully quiet



• I am seriously tickled pink that spring is on the way. I can not wait till the snow melts from the parks and we can go play and take walks in the ravines, so excited!

well anyway here are a few pictures to leave you with

Breanna with the mini mandarins. So Cute! (the oranges are cute too!)

How much is that baby in the window?

Ryan at the ice castle