VIDEO VILLE GRAND RE-OPENING

APRIL 15, 2006

RENT A MOVIE AND GET YOUR NAME ENTERED TO WIN A SONY PSP (PLAYSTATION PORTABLE)

HUGE SALE ON PREVIOUSLY VIEWED MOVIES AND GAMES

OTHER PRIZES AND GIVEAWAYS

THE EASTER BUNNY WILL BE AT THE MALL

98.1 THE TIDE WILL BE BROADCASTING LIVE

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

POP THE CORK...WE DID IT!

Well, there's a couple of reasons to celebrate. A few weeks ago we took over Video Ville. So far it has been very enjoyable. I have been working a lot, but loving it! And Warren and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary on March 21. We went overnight to Inn on the Cove in Saint John. Check it out www.innonthecove.com We had an amazing meal. The man that owns the place is a chef and has a cooking show.
We went to see Rob Thomas in concert a couple of weeks ago. Anna Nalick opened for him. She was good except for her weird catlike stripper dancing!
Spring is here, a high of 13 today. We had a great winter. Not very much snow. I think there was only one snow day all winter.
Is anyone watching American Idol? Bucky and his mustache have Got to GO! I like the bald guy and the gray haired guy the best. They would make a very interesting final. To hear them interpret the same song for the last show would be something to see. What's with Simon's middle part? He should definetly stop judging people's appearances!
Well, time to get back to work!
K

Okay...

...I will blog for a quick minute. So today we went to the lawyer and signed the papers for Video Ville. I was nervous and excited. Last weekend we took the youth from the church to Crabbe Mountain. I actually skiied. I had fun once the fear faded a little. The first time I went off the bunny hill and headed down Dave's Dream I go going faster than I wanted to so I turned and ended up almost in the woods. Once I got stopped I didn't want to start again knowing as soon as I turned I would be headed straight down the hill. Yikes! Warren, the ever patient person that he is, stopped a little bit further down the hil to wait for me. I was on the verge of tears from fright, so I took a deep breath and told myself, "Kerry, what would you do if this was Amazing Race and the next team was coming right behind you?" That's all it took for a little pep talk. Warren is always saying that he wishes him and Terry could go on Amazing Race and I am always saying that if he went with out me he unless he won the million it would be a verrrrrrry looooooooooooooong time before I would get over it. So I figured I had better get down that hill and not let him down! I actually used blades instead of skiis and they were very easy to control after I got the hang of it. Well, I am very excited to start next week at Video Ville. Jeff left today. We will miss his lots. Lauryn cried when he said goodbye. I think Jeff took over as uncle when Terry left. I only hope I can run Video Ville as smoothly as Jeff did. If not, I hope they have good cell service in the jungle! Bye for now! Keep checking back for pics of Brooke's 3rd birthday party on the pic blog whenever I can get them on there. Our computer with the camera software died. Bye for now.

Some news.....

No were not pregnant! However, we did buy a whole lot of movies. Wow, you say, did we join Columbia House? Well, no. We are in the process of buying a video store. For everyone who has been to St. George, you will probably know Video Ville. So I am leaving the Credit Union and moving on to owning our own business. I am very excited, but I have so much to learn. Jeff will be giving me all his Ville knowledge next week before he goes to YWAM. So that's our news.

Dooryard?

I was just reading Wade and Jen's blog and remembered I had asked her what a "skiff" of snow is and thinking about how different our slang is depending on where you live and then I thought I would throw out this question:
(Only non Maritimers are allowed to weigh in on this issue)
-What is a door yard?
It's a common word around here, but when I went out west no one knew what I was talking about. Lets hear what you think it is...................................

The day after V-day

Yesterday Warren surprised me by having flowers delivered to me at work. Nice! Usually he skips Valentine's Day and waits until our anniversary on March 21. He also got me a book I have had my eye on - Cure for the Common Life by Max Lucado. Started it last night, so far so good. We ordered Chinese from the Good Wok in Pennfield. They were so busy that Warren didn't get home with the food until almost 8pm. Thanks to Tamara for sending mail to the girls. Lauryn is at Kings Kids right now so they haven't opened it yet, but every day she asks me if she got mail today so she will be sooooo excited to get mail, and Brooke, too.
Happy belated Birthday to Stephanie!!! Lauryn got to help her celebrate when she went to NS with mom and Syd.
I got tickets to see Rob Thomas in March in Saint John. I didn't go to Matchbox 20 when they were here and I wished I would have so this will almost the same. Newsboys are coming in April or May too.
Katie, our friend who has been living in Florida, is here staying with us. She's been babysitting for us. She came just in time. Paula, our regular babysitter, and her family have been sick so Katie has been filling in. Not much of a vacation for her at times!
Brooke is asking me to go get her and apple. She is watching Bambi 2. Warren, Lauryn, and Katie went to Kings Kids. Warren was driving the bus tonight. Brooke and I were going to take the van to Calais, Maine to get some gas and milk ( much cheaper, well worth the half hour drive) but Brooke insn't feeling too good so we'll wait until tomorrow. Just have to be back in time for Survivor!

Warren blogged????

Wow, who knew Warren could blog? That was his first one ever. I haven't even nagged him in a long time to write an entry. We are having great weather. A couple of weeks ago it was 12 degrees. We took the kids to see Hoodwinked. It is cute. Brooke sat and watched it and ate popcorn and rolos almost until the end. Lauryn, who is usually scared in movies was quite calm. Well, better get back to doing what I came down stairs to do-laundry!

January?

Well, this is Warren.... I don't often blog myself, but I do read the blogs (which I enjoy), so it is not fair that our blog is so out of date. It is a nice to surprise to see a new entry when you click onto someone's blog.

We have been having quite the winter. You could almost mistake our weather for that of lower mainland BC. Well, we haven't had, what, 30 days of straight rain! But we are without snow, and yesterday was a bomby 9 degrees celcius. The winds have turned around and we are now sitting at -10. I got inspired today to build a small skating rink in the back yard. ( I guess I am expecting colder weather) Within an hour I had framed up leftover boards from the basement, and some leftover plastic. I flooded a fair amount of water which I am now letting freeze. I am going to have to put some taller boards on the one end as it is the clearly lower than the other end. I'll put some photos up once completed:>

Work has been busy, and is going to get busier. Seems like I am always saying that. I guess a person can only be so busy, it is just the rate at which you are falling behind that changes. Things will be falling behind over the next couple weeks:>

The girls are doing great. Lauryn seems to be enjoying Kindergarten, and Brooke is turning 3 in a month.

Kerry and I are going to be leading the youth at our church, starting the first Friday of Feb. There is no youth pastor, so we are forming a youth committee which will help in the planning of the events. Should be interesting. God is faithful, thankfully his strength is perfected in our weakness, so we'll put our trust in Him.

Well, I think I have run out of words. I could ramble on, but I will rather finish up and send you off to the next blog:>

Bye for now.

Church Christmas Concert

Lunch after making gingerbread houses.

And the winner is........................

A couple of weeks before Christmas we went to the Algonquin Hotel in St. Andrews to make gingerbread houses with the kids. There was judging after and Lauryn won a prize for her age group. She was so proud. I helped her only by putting the house together and putting the icing where she told me to. She said she knows she won because of the unique snowflake design on the roof! Her prize is that she gets to go back sometime to a Mad Hatter tea party. Maybe we will save it for her birthday party.

Lauryn puts the angel on the tree

Bloggin time again....

I am making myself blog before I read the other blogs because lately I just check out everyone else's blogs instead of blogging. There are some new ones that have been added so it takes more time. Well, we might get some snow tomorrow. We had a few flurries in November, but nothing that has stuck. We got the Christmas lights outside. Looks good with the green grass. I don't really like snow. Only if it snows so much that I can't get out of the house and everything except the video store closes down and we get to go down main street in 3 feet of snow to get movies to hibernate for the day with. Anyway, Warren's Christmas parties were last weekend. I say parties because the company he works for had one Friday night and Sat. night. There are too many employees to have it at the Algonquin on the same night. I went Friday night with him then we stayed over. Mom kept the kids for us. Then Saturday we came down from St. Andrew's and picked up the kids and went back to the hotel. Warren went to the party because he was helping with the slide show and I took the kids down the street to see the parade. They got very excited about seeing Santa and Mrs. Claus at the end. It was very cold, but fun. Last weekend I went and saw Walk the Line with the girls from work. What a great movie, even if you don't necessarily like Johnny Cash's music or know anything about him.
The basement is mostly finished now. It's all painted. I like all the colors except the bathroom turned out quite bright yellow instead of what I had in mind. Hopefully it will tone down once the floor and everything else is in the bathroom. The flooring comes on the 20th as well as the couch from sears. Looking forward to seeing it all put together. I am taking next Thursday off to go and hopefully finish my shopping. Need to get some babysitter and teacher gifts. I have a head cold and the nightime tylenol cold is starting to kick in so I better get to bed.
Night!

Bloggin time again....

I am making myself blog before I read the other blogs because lately I just check out everyone else's blogs instead of blogging. There are some new ones that have been added so it takes more time. Well, we might get some snow tomorrow. We had a few flurries in November, but nothing that has stuck. We got the Christmas lights outside. Looks good with the green grass. I don't really like snow. Only if it snows so much that I can't get out of the house and everything except the video store closes down and we get to go down main street in 3 feet of snow to get movies to hibernate for the day with. Anyway, Warren's Christmas parties were last weekend. I say parties because the company he works for had one Friday night and Sat. night. There are too many employees to have it at the Algonquin on the same night. I went Friday night with him then we stayed over. Mom kept the kids for us. Then Saturday we came down from St. Andrew's and picked up the kids and went back to the hotel. Warren went to the party because he was helping with the slide show and I took the kids down the street to see the parade. They got very excited about seeing Santa and Mrs. Claus at the end. It was very cold, but fun. Last weekend I went and saw Walk the Line with the girls from work. What a great movie, even if you don't necessarily like Johnny Cash's music or know anything about him.
The basement is mostly finished now. It's all painted. I like all the colors except the bathroom turned out quite bright yellow instead of what I had in mind. Hopefully it will tone down once the floor and everything else is in the bathroom. The flooring comes on the 20th as well as the couch from sears. Looking forward to seeing it all put together. I am taking next Thursday off to go and hopefully finish my shopping. Need to get some babysitter and teacher gifts. I have a head cold and the nightime tylenol cold is starting to kick in so I better get to bed.
Night!

November?

It has been so long since I posted that I don't even know where to begin. Congrats to Bonnie & Cam & Kelsey on expecting a new baby. The pressure is on for a boy, but girls are just as fun! We have been having the most amazing weather. Sunday it was 14 degrees, Monday was warmer and yesterday was 17 degrees. Lots of the trees are even still green. Hopefully this is a sign of a mild winter. This is day 3 of finishing our basement. It coming a long pretty good. The subfloor is down and some of the studs for the walls are up. On Friday I am going to Portland, Maine for our annual girls shopping weekend. Can't wait. This year we are staying until Sunday. 2 whole days to shop and eat!!! Halloween was fun. Lauryn was a princess and Brooke was a cowgirl. We went to a few neighbours then to our friend Julie's house for a little party that we do every year instead of taking the kids all over town. Who needs that much candy? Last Saturday some friends and their kids came over to carve pumpkins. I hadn't done that since I can remember. Maybe I never carved a pumpkin? I don't know. Anyway, Brooke missed it because she went to Nova Scotia over night with mom to see her mom.(My grandmother) Lauryn had a sleepover at Ben's house on Friday night and Brooke was away with mom so it was the quietest this house has ever been. Warren & I were watching a movie and everytime it got loud I kept reaching for the remote to turn it down, but then realized I didn't have to. It like driving alone and you still keep looking in the rearview mirror to check the kids! Warren played hockey Saturday night. They won 2-1. Warren took the kids to Kings Kids tonight. He had to drive the bus, so the kids like to go. Lauryn is doing good in school. Report cards come out on the 18th. I hear the kids coming, gotta go do bedtime and I'm ashamed to say, watch One Tree Hill. Night.

What's up? Try this again....

Ooops, hit enter after the title on the last entry and I guess it published. Well, here are some excuses why I haven't been blogging:
1. very busy, I know, lame excuse
2. have been using a different computer that doesn't have the camera softeware so that I can post pics.
3. have been getting ready to finish the basement which means moving 4 years of crap that has accumulated down there to somewhere else in the house or shed or playhouse.
4. Lauryn & Brooke started gymnastics on Monday nights
5. Lauryn has homework, why should a 5 year old have to do school work at home after she has been at school for 5.5 hours 5 days a week?
6. Gilmore Girls and One Tree Hill new season shows have started. Oh, yeah, and Survivor.
7. Mommy time starts after the kids go to bed and I just don't feel like trying to remember what happened that day, just want to zone out with a book or TV for an hour before bed, then up at 6:30am to do the exact same thing all over again.

Well those are a few things, I'm just on my lunch hour and I should have been putting laundry away or starting supper, but I figured it had been long enough that I have put this blogging thing off.
Have a great day. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

What's up?

School Days

Lauryn started kindergarten yesterday. I have mixed feelings about it. She did fine. A few tears this morning when Warren took her. They have to stay outside until 8:25 so I think the big kids were intimidating. She took the bus to her babysitters. I went over to the bus stop to meet her. She had some other kids that go to the babysitters help her and tell her when it was her stop. I was so proud to see her get off the bus. She looked so tired. Today she didn't eat much lunch. She said they forgot to let the kids eat lunch. Anyways, I thought she would be more tired in the evenings, but it's still hard to get her to bed.
I am watching Canadian Idol. Atleast Melissa didn't go. I hope she wins now that Suzi is gone. Gotta go to bed. The mornings are more busy now. Lauryn wants to get the bus in the morning instead of us driving her so she has to be ready at about quarter to ten to eight. Goodnight.

Waiting for Lauryn

Lauryn is due home today from her trip to PEI. Can't wait to see her. She'll have so many stories. Hopefully she'll dictate a blog entry for me.
Any St. George people want to comment on who will win St. George idol? What's with having someone from Maine in St. George idol in the final 2 no less? Also, last week I didn't feel like voting for Canadian idol, then my favorite, Suzi, was in the bottom 2. OMGosh, I felt totally responsible! Casey is cute and a good singer and a fellow NBer, but she's not really ready to entertain on the stage. Suzi rocks it! Comments, please! Who's your fave? Going to a bridal shower for a friend/co-worker later this afternoon. Went to see Red Eye last night with some girl friends. Good movie, not what I thought it would be from seeing the previews. Would recommend it. oh, and Colby from Survivior is in it! I guess he made the transition from reality show to actor okay. I asked Warren if he wanted to blog and he says no. I tried.

Crayons & Glue

Well, after reading everyone elses blogs, I thought of some more stuff thats been happening. Yesterday, Brooke had her first haircut. So cute. Didn't really get any off the ends, but now she has little bangs. I saved the little curls to put in her baby book. I thought that since she is 2 and a half it was time for the haircut. Lauryn got a few inches cut of too. I think she was sad to have it cut, but it's so hard to get the knots out every morning when it is half way down her back. It's still long enough for a pony tail. Her school hair cut, we called it.
I took her school shopping yesterday after the Cooke family picnic at New River Beach. We hit Winners and Old Navy. Founds lots at Old Navy. The Children's Place didn't have much that was cute, no good sales. Some new underwear and an outfit at Zellers. She got a Barbie backpack and lunch box. When we put the last thing on the school supply list in the cart I almost cried just thinking about sending her off to school in a few weeks. She is excited to got to school, but I am sad to say good bye to the little girl that she is. One those nasty first graders get a hold her all her innocence will be gone! Even some of her kindergarten classmates will probably teach her a thing or two. I don't remember a thing about my first day of school except that Jamie Ross cried and Wendy Anderson taught me the F word! I sat with her on the bus-she being a second grader kindly took me under her wing and proceeded to teach me that when I got home I should tell my mom to F off. Well, I got off the bus at my nan's house and told her. I didn't get in trouble, but I quickly learned that even though it was all over the girls bathroom and second graders said it, I should NOT!!! We have already been to the playground at the school because Lauryn wanted to practice on the monkey bars before school starts. She is always thinking ahead! So cute. She just called from Tim Horton's. She is out on the town with Nan, bring home some Timbits.
Blogged out for now. Good night!