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Coffee and scream

We went to coffee and scream yesterday afternoon...... it was awesome..... the boys loved it, I would suggest going.... if you want to check out there website http://www.coffeeandscream.ca. Finally all the family pictures are posted feel free to take a look at http://picasaweb.google.com/vmairs

Life

Man I have the worst luck with buses...... my original bus broke down yesterday and I was delayed over an hour..... the worst part is I would have been home half an hour earlier than normal. My very sweet dad came and rescued the boys so they didn't have to sit on the bus and took them over to Leslie's. So I guess it all worked out cause Leslie made supper for us to. Tyler must be growing cause he ate so much it seemed we couldn't fill him so we gave him a cucumber to chew on and he stuck the whole thing in his mouth. We had to leave early cause Tyler was really cranky, my dad was trying to cuddle with him.

Dinner

We went out for dinner tonight at Red Lobster.... my dad paid and I found out it was cause he won at the casino.... some people have and others don't.
Red Lobster has all you can eat shrimp on for $20.00. Rob ordered mashed potatoes and Tyler, yes I mean the little one.... ate over half of his potatoes. You can see in the picture how big the pile was in the first place, needless to say he passed out as soon as he got home. I am not sure what it is, maybe I just expect to much but when we go out I just end up getting mad at something about the service or the food and then the whole night is ruined. Tonight was the first time in a very long time that I enjoyed myself, we had the best server, I have ever had, if you go to the Red Lobster on 36th street ask for Tanya and you will see what I mean. She was so nice, we were telling each other a story and I did not feel like she had other tables to wait on, it felt like she was there just for us...... we left the biggest tip ever.
Well just an update on the school bus driving. I did a charter in between my morning and afternoon route, and as I was taking the first group of kids to the pool, I was coming up to a green light and a car came really fast from the side road and if I hadn't of swerved he would have hit the side of the bus, cause he ended up stopping half way in my lane. I was shaking so bad when I dropped the kids off that I called Rob and he had to talk me before I calmed down.
The other thing I have been meaning to write about is..... the first bus I had #906 was fine for the first day and then after that something went wrong, I am not sure what but it was really slow.... so I talked to the owner about it and his mechanic came and got it from the yard and it took him 1 hour to go a 20 min drive.... hmmmm lol! so then they gave me a new bus #510 and iI broke a hose the first day and it is really good but REALLY LOUD and it has no radio, so now I have to decide if I want 906 that is fixed which is 62 passengers of the 510 that is loud and no radio and 72 passengers.
That is all for tonight, I have had a long day I will update more later.

Seth and Tyler

Seth just chillin with Uncle Craig.... notice Seth's cell phone (my old one)

















Awww!!!! and he is all mine you can't have him. lol


















This is so adorable....... he is playing with Uncle Craig

Todays Supper

I was feeling like something a little different tonight. My brother came over tonight and he has eaten noodles for 3 nights in a row so I was going to make supper with noodles but I used rice instead. I used 2 cups of rice and cooked it.
Cooked rice
mushroom soup
canned peas
red peppers
sour cream
spices
chicken breast
cheese
I mixed the soup with the rice and then added everything else in and then put the cooked chicken breast on top and then topped it all with cheese..... it was fantastic..... it didn't look that great but it was good. Hmmm!!! I think I will eat the left overs now. lol! I have made this before but I used asparagus instead of peas and it was really good to. Melanie told me she puts sour cream in her mashed potatoes and I tried it.... and loved it and now I use sour cream a lot...... I even made a potatoe salad and used a little sour cream with the mayonnaise.... it made it taste like baked potatoe salad.... really good..... you should give it a try. The edges of the plate burned a little cause I mixed everything in the caserole dish and the soup stayed on the edges.

Work and Vacation

I have finished a week of work and it has been great, I am looking forward to the rest of the school year. For those of you who do not know I am driving a school bus. It is such a chore to pack the boys in the car in the morning, then get them into the bus, then when the morning route is complete get them back in the car and go home and then repeat all that for the afternoon as well. The children I have are fantastic... I can not believe it.... when I was young I never took the school bus so I had no idea what I was getting into.... Rob and Donovan both said they were horrible children when they were on the bus. I have heard from other people that they weren't good when they rode the bus either..... I guess it is the different generation of people raising kids. When we were younger we were all spoiled cause the baby boomer's were our parents.... and when they were young they didn't have anything.... they are mostly why we have so much these days they created the market for it...... so now that we were used to having it all we are making sure not so spoil our children this time around, either that or we are just used to the children these days.... lol!
We went to Vernon this weekend mostly for the fun of it... but also to take family pictures...... we had a really good time and the kids weren't that bad.... well a little fussy but for the most part they were ok. I should be getting the pictures sometime next week and I will post them as soon as possible.

Camping

Well I am back from camping and we had a fantastic time. We had some drama getting there though... as always lol! We had my dads pickup and his 5th wheel and then we pulled the quad trailer behind that.... as you can see in the pictures...... when we stopped in Cochrane some guy said to Rob that he has never seen a pickup back up a train before.... lol!
We took this trail out to a lake not sure which one cause I was just following John.... it was so beautiful..... the trail was alot of fun too ... not to many obstacles to worry about. There were 2 other campsites of people we went with and after it snowed saturday night, they went out on the quads once more and then packed up and headed home...... so all that was left was Rob, Ariel, Tyler and me...... Seth went home with my mom cause he likes to move around alot and he would have been stuck in the trailer most of the time cause it was really cold outside. Well that is about is for camping. CLICK THE PICTURE ON THE BOTTOM OF MY BLOG TO SEE PICTURES.

I have had a horrible day. Today was my first time driving the school bus on a real route... and I made so many wrong turns, let me tell you it is not easy to turn a 68 passenger bus around. The bonus is I only had 3 kids for the entire route, today that is... I guess people like to take their kids to school on the first day. So I was a little stressed that I made the wrong turns and I ended up being late to drop them off. So you are probably thinking if that is all the stress I have then I am going good.... wrong...... it turns out that I wrecked my dads bumper. I had the quad trailer and I was to return it after the morning route and when I was backing it up I jacked knifed it .... it happened so quickly to. I wasn't going very fast but enough to cause damage. I called my dad and he was a little upset and to add to that when we were camping it snowed and made huge cracks in my dads window cause he had two little rock chips.... now he has to fix that to. So then I go and fill the truck up and go to Shoppers Drug Mart and this old guy runs right into the hitch of my dads truck..... he goes oopps! did I bump you and proceeds to get out of his van I was like uhhhh!!! can you back up now. So he starts his van again and backs up .... when he got out I said to him they should make you retest when you reach a certain age.... and he was like I already have.... I thought after I said it that it was really rude so I just left it alone and didn't say what I wanted to which was well then you should voluntarily surrender it or get a vehicle you can drive. So one last thing to make my day worse..... I went into shoppers to pick up a package from the post office.... and because I just got my Class 2 License I only have a piece of paper that is my interim license and it doesn't have my address on it, so they wont give me the package.... The lady says to me do you have a passport... well no I don't but if I did I wouldn't be carrying it to the post office. So I guess all that to say, if I cut you off cause you looked at me funny don't take it personally ... I'm just having a bad day.