Growing up!

2003

2003- The year we became a family of 13

2005

2005- The year before all the graduating fun started!

2008

2008- this was the year we it took 10 minutes to get the perfect family picture. Only to have phoenix walk out of the bathroom 10 seconds later.  Three of us are graduated and one got herself hitched!

2010

2010 - five of us are now graduated and our family has graduated to taking pictures on the deck outside at Christmas instead of by the tree. there are now three new brother-in-laws in the family and all though you can't see it two nephews and one niece brewing. :)

2011

2011-I got myself married. But you can also see the niece and nephews!!  :)

2012

2012- we've grown away from the Christmas tree, the back deck and into the U of L!!! haha we're just that cool! but what other place has a hallway big enough to fit twenty of us?!
So there are Four new bro-inlaws, 8 of us done with highschool and three soon to be four nieces and nephews. Go Becky!

I think we have done better with family pictures the older we have gotten. How weird.?

Give us just a little while, We'll soon be outgrown of this picture and hunting down the perfect time and spot for our family picture!
We're growing up pretty good I think.

All About Dan

There was this one time I actually believed Hockey had an end. It was back before I met Dan. Then I met this wonderful man who loved hockey. He refereed it and was really good at it. While we were dating there were some weekends I didn't see much of him because of this sport Hockey. One day we were talking and I asked him when the hockey season ended. He told me "at the end of March". YAY. That was only two weeks away. Suddenly it was the middle of April. And Hockey was still going. by May I finally saw my finacee. :)

 Dan had a good hockey season. He made it to Alberta Cup and got his Level three. Which means he can Referee the higher level games. He did well in AB cup. Not as well as he wanted to but he was still one of the top guys there. That makes me proud. We came home from AB cup and put the hockey stuff away. :)

    

 oops. he just informed me that there is still one more week of a hockey camp in July. You wouldn't believe it but hockey seems to never really end. 

Lacrosse. A new hobby that was found. A friend of his that he reffed hockey with told him to take a lacrosse clinic so that he could ref Lacrosse. So he went to the camp and learned lots and now is reffing Lacrosse about once a week. It would be more often but he is starting to work a lot of overtime at work too. He quite enjoys it and I've found its a sport I like to watch too even help out with once in a while. :)

Rugby. Another favorite Sport. And it has just began. He was going to be coaching the mini's right now but with the busy time at Viterra he hasn't been able to. Maybe when our kids start to be in sports.
Well rugby has started. He made it to a practice the other day and came home all sore and bruised. So when you see him covered in bruises know that it's not entirely me. :)

He normally plays flanker but today he was a hooker. I mean the hooker. That's my man. (don't ask me cause I really don't know what the positions mean.)

not from me. This is from the sport he loves oh so much. :P

That's my active Husband for ya.

He still manages a job as well that requires lots of overtime right now.
You wouldn't believe it but we do get time together.

 I love him!
Anybody got any ideas on hobbies for me? :P

ONE MONTH!

Wow.. I finally finished my second practicum. Do you know what that means????
I'M DONE SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!
My last day of practicum was today. To me it felt like an ordinary day.... until the 3:30 bell rang!
Then it was all i could do to not do a happy dance on the way to my car. The next time i enter a school building i'll be getting paid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OH i love life right now! June 1st can't come quick enough! (graduation day, cap and gown the whole shibang!)
I'm a big kid now.. Boom boom!

7 months :o

This. This has taken me 8 months to get this far. Ridiculous. I know there are some of you that can do these puzzles in a day *cough*Phoenix*cough*.
I was really on a roll for a while. Until I hit this last section that is a rock wall. I mean take a look at it again. I have maybe 100 pieces left. And I can manage a piece/half hour. It used to be about 10/half hour. I'm no math geek but I know that's a significant drop.
So this is for my dear sister phoenix:
GET YOUR BUTT UP HERE AND HELP ME FINISH THIS PUZZLE! I'M GOING INSANE!
thanks a lot.

Spring is in the Air

So I don't know what the rest of you are experiencing weather wise in your respective elements but up here in Lloydminster is has been quite springy. (I really think it's becoming the new "southern alberta" with the lack of winter and random weather changes.)
I finished my four day week at practicum and got to spend Friday sleeping in (HA!) shopping (spending all Dan's money :) ) and then cleaning out the "hockey room"   PEWHEW!! It filled with a lot of crap. but it's been de junked and we now actually have that third bedroom back! :)
Which leaves us to our last BIG Spring project.... the lawn.. (dun dun dunnnnnnnnnn)

 Now this picture barely gives the yard the justice it deserves. I mean it was N-A-S-T-Y! So windblown over it looked like a nice comb over. Once raked... well you can see. Lets just say in some spots I'm sure I could have laid down and entered  a whole new world. It came up to my knee! (Shay you woulda been GONE!) Anyway we went out and got ourselves a nice new Lawn Mower and rake. ( Keep in mind.. we have no idea when this lawn was last mowed.) We proceeded to attack the lawn.

I mean we was really fighting for our lawn here. the poor thing.

Can ya see the difference. The left side is mowed. the right isn't... I tell ya we thought we were fighting a losing battle. Dan's allergies kicked in and Grass was blowing everywhere thanks to the wind (I tell ya the new Southern Alberta).
Nevertheless we persisted.

 Hacking away

(See there I am. Bet you were wondering where I was in all this. tehe. Well someone had to take the pictures. :P  I helped too. But no one took pictures of me. Cause I work hard all the time. It's just such a rare event for Daniel I had to capture a lot of images. :P )

Well anyway. We finally conquered the yard two hours later. Dust in our eyes and ears and nose and other areas that just probably shouldn't be mentioned on a blog.

The Front Yard

THE BACK YARD

 Gross hey? No worries we'll be better then the last occupants and keep the lawn up to date.

4 day week :)

So just an update for all of you that our kinda lost as to what is happening in The Fyfe Life.

I have entered my last practicum!!! :) Graduation is only weeks away! It is going lovely! Love the school I am in and have already gotten several comments that I need to get on the Sub List ASAP. :) Already passed my mid term and got flying colors. (yes i'm bragging i know.. but I am Proud. :)) I guess some teachers had said that I need to go back and get my teaching degree. We'll just have to wait and see about that. I am done with being in school for a while. I am happy to just be able to work and help others.

Daniel is busy busy working for Viterra. So far it is quite a good job. He likes it and comes home happy so I am happy. Makes for quite the happy life. Hockey season has finished! Daniel may be sad but I am quite happy about that.I get my husband back for a while... at least until rugby season and lacrosse season start up. I better find more hobbies to occupy my life.

As for the rest of the family Thelma/Debra is doing wonderful we finally got her all fixed up so we have no more problems with her. Just need to replace a windshield. (after all the rocks are mostly gone). Stanley had a 'bout of sickness there in my second week of practicum. (just like he did in my first practicum). So my lovely neighbors drove and picked me up from school. Saturday they took a better look at it and Stanley decided he was feeling better and has been running beautifully since. (hopefully they stay that way) (knock on wood).

I can't really think of anything else. Our life is a calm one. relatively unexciting. I'm sure it will get there one day. :)
Adios!

ps Easter holidays start on FRIDAY! (hence the 4 day week)
Anyone got ideas as to what I should do??

Oh Adventure!

Take a look at this beauty!!!
Wonderful isn't it?

 Well to start off this story I need to go back about oh... two months. I was home one lovely Wednesday when the weather up here was -50 and worse. So I took a cold day from school and stayed home and made some banana bread. My house starting smelling all wonderful. As the timer went off I stuck a toothpick in and it wasn't done. The outside was all nice and brown but the inside was gooey! so I left them in longer. But they just kept getting darker and darker and goeyier and goeyier. (how this happens is beyond me). Well to make a long story short I burnt the banana bread. Now if you know me well you know I happened to be a decent cook and don't normally have the pleasure of ruining anything I bake. So this was a first to me. I was quite upset and wondering how I could hide the mess so that Daniel would never know and so that I would not get mocked by him. Lets just admit it... he is a big tease. And this event had torture all over it. So I chucked the loaf of bread and left the muffins on the counter. oops. and Daniel came and asked why I had hockey pucks on the counter. (ingenious I know.) He had that little sparkle in his eye that let me know he was teasing me. So I told him that I quit and am never making banana anything again! The End.


The Second Story:
We are now back to about a week ago. Daniel was making dinner while I was getting some homework done. He took the last toblerone bar and was eating it. (Rude cause he got them for me. :) ) Well my friend Kari called and asked me to come help her with Luke for a minute. So I snuck into the kitchen and while his back was turned I took the toblerone back. (lets face it. It was rightly mine) As I grabbed this bar of goodness I heard a WOOOOSH. I gasped and jumped back checking over my arm and coat to make sure i wasn`t on fire. (i was paranoid) Well nothing looked to outta place so I skipped on over to Kari`s. Two minutes later i get this call from Daniel,
`RING RING RING RING RING
I:" Hey what do you want?"
D: " The Stove is on Fire."
I:" What?? on fire? What did you do? There is an extinguisher by the dryer"
D:" It's just on fire."
I;" Fire extingusher..."
D: " Ya i know."
I:"Well put it out. Turn the stove off."
(We have a gas stove. And keep in mind here Daniel is being really calm and I am just a little worried. And Kari is running around the background hunting for her extinguisher)
D;"Ya its out now. But the stove is smoking."
I;" I am on my way."
So i ran to the house which is literally a hop skip and a jump away from Kari's. As I ran i called Head Office to tell them. They put in a work order but that was all they could do till the following Day.)
I got inside and the stove was smoking. Not a ton but it smelt like something in the house that had burnt. We finsihed Dinner at Kari's.
The next day I was told we were getting a brand new stove but not until Monday. On Tuesday it was finally installed and ready to go. SO NICE! Do you need to see it again?

It's a beauty. and the other day i made these!!!! COMPLETELY PERFECT! No burns gooeyness. . . nothing. Just utter PERFECTION!

Oh yeah. Yum Yum. I think I might break that promise I made and continue making Banana flavored goodness. :)