A Love Affair

Last weekend. . . . or maybe two weekends ago (I can't really remember). . . . I had the opportunity to go to the Calgary Home and Garden show.  My cousin's husband gave me 2 free tickets and so I wanted to use them to see him in action and to check out all of the cool booths that were there.
For those of you who don't know, I am currently trying to design my family room and even though it is almost done, I am just needing a couple of finishing touches. . . . you know. . . . small things like blinds, curtains, statues, candles and stuff!
So, I grabbed a friend and we went.  It was a fun evening, and Weston (my cousin's husband) did a great job talking about perennials. 
However. . .
That was the night my love affair began.  You see, at one of the booths was this sleek, hot, steamy worker..  He was there showing off his abilities to clean floors with non pressurized steam.  I fell in love, and I fell hard.
He was a dream come true.
I immediately gave him my number and everything else that he needed and I went home.
I felt a little guilty as I walked in the door of my home because of my strong feelings, but they were short lived because as soon as Otto met my new guy, he kind of fell in love too!
I've named him McSteamy because he gets really hot and steamy all over my floors.
He really gets around at my house, but he doesn't seem to mind and neither do we.
He is my new Steam Mop, and I am completely having a love affair with him and will never go back to regular mopping again!

A Little Bit of Room

I haven't posted anything in a while because I have run out of things to say.  There is nothing extremely exciting happening in my life right now and everything is running pretty smoothly.  I know I need to post something, so I turned to the trusty old journal starters and I found this question:
What is your favourite room in your home and why?
My favorite room???  I would have to say my Great Room on the main floor.  This includes my Family Room, Kitchen and Eating Nook.  When Otto and I were building our house we saw the upgraded main floor plan which cost an arm and a leg more than the original floorplan.  It added about 100 extra square feet to our main floor and doubled the size of the kitchen and eating nook.  So, Otto gave his arm and I donated my leg and we upgraded the main floor.  We have never looked back.  It was the best investment we could have ever made.  Since we have moved here our kitchen has been filled with different dishes created by obscure recipes that we have come to love.  Our Eating Nook has been the host of several buffets and special dinners.  Our Family Room has held many friends and family at various parties and get togethers.  We have loved having our house filled with loved ones who can come over and share our food, friendship and laughter with us.  We even had hidden speakers put into our ceiling that have been the source of many a musical background. . . especially at Christmas time!  So, my favorite room is my Great Room. . . . there is a reason that it is so great!  It's not exactly the room itself (though I think it looks pretty great) its the fact that our Great Room is the perfect gathering place for the people we love, and that's why its my favorite room!

The new me!!

On Saturday, I went and chopped off all of my hair and dyed it a totally different color! Yep, I am not even lying!!! I was feeling like a FRUMPY old pregnant woman and I was acting like a FRUMPY old pregnant woman and so I called up my very talented cousin (who I ALWAYS get to do my hair) and she fit me in on Saturday. As the hair came a tumbling down, my self-esteem shot up. Now I feel like the good old Megan that I used to be. I know that my siblings think that I am ancient, but I am only 28, and now I only feel 28.
After getting my hair done, I went shopping at IKEA to continue to get things to organize my house. Several hundred dollars later I had things to organize closets, bedrooms, kitchen cabinets, the laundry room, a new bed for Caroline, and the cool hanging chairs for my big girls. So I have spent today cleaning and organizing the house. It is amazing how rewarding it is to be able to find a spot to put everything and not just have things laying around the house!!! I can't wait until I can get everything I want to get for the house and get this thing set up the way that I want it. I never had the chance to do that in the old house, so I never really made it a home. THAT WILL NOT BE THE CASE WITH THIS HOUSE!!!! I am going to hang pictures and find knick knacks if it kills me!!!!

The house

Well, today was an exciting day for us because we FINALLY got our driveway poured. The bad news is that I won't be able to drive on it for a month, but at least the kids will stop tripping on the rebar. That has been a huge hassle!! Well, that and the fact that Dustin thought that the sand on the driveway was his own personal sandbox. . . to make matters worse, we just happen to be keeping his sand toys in the garage, so he has gotten out his shovel on several occasions and happily played in the dirt on several occasions. . . . and you know what? I let him!! It was the only way I could carry in all of the groceries without worrying about him running onto the street!!!!! What a good mom am I hey??
Some other really exciting news for me is that starting yesterday evening, I have really been able to feel this baby move. Little Lee seems to be as active as his big brother. I am so grateful for this because I was starting to wonder what was going on in there. Even though I can feel him moving all around, I am still completely nervous because I had thought that I could feel Robin move too, even when they had induced labour to get her out, I still had that little bit of hope that they had been wrong, but unfortunately, they weren't.
Also today, Caroline and I made some spiders and ghosts to decorate our house with for Halloween. I don't generally like to decorate my house with crafts, but it seems as though I make an exception when it comes to holidays. It was really fun playing with all of the glue!! The only problem was that Caroline kept on getting mad at me because I couldn't make the ghosts look like girls!! Do you know how hard it is to make a girl ghost????
Well, tonight I think that I am going to start looking at blinds. I mean, we really need them (I am sure that all of the people driving by behind our house enjoy the view when I am changing!!) and we can afford them, so I might as well get them! Oh and speaking about getting things for the house, I have been thinking that maybe I should have just ordered me up one of those self-cleaning houses. . . . it seems as though I still have to clean this house because it doesn't clean itself. . . . I knew this house was defective!!!