BERNICE

{WHAT HAVE I BEEN UP TO}

2011-03-04T11:43:00.000-08:00

* WORKING ON A NEW WEBSITE FOR PEACHLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WEBSITE
(HUGE LEARNING CURVE)
http://www.peachlandchamber.bc.ca/

* PEACHLAND BUSINESS 2 CONSUMER EXPO
http://www.peachlandchamber.bc.ca/business_2_consumer_expo_2011.html

* KANAAN'S BIRTHDAY PARTY
* DAD'S TAXES
* PERSONAL TAXES
* INCORPORTATED TAXES
* SICKNESS
* KEEPING UP WITH THE KIDS
*WESTSIDE CURB APPEAL INC.
http://www.westsidecurbappeal.com/

.........AND DREAMING OF A OPPORTUNITY TO TRAVEL THROUGH SICILY!

Sugar Gang Convoy to Bear Creek!

2010-12-13T21:14:00.000-08:00

This is on my Must try list!

2010-10-12T20:51:00.000-07:00

Homemade laundry detergent

Having a family of four means having scads of laundry to do. Which means spending a pretty penny on laundry detergent. I decided it was time to make our own detergent; it was much easier than I'd anticipated. The hardest part well be scouring the town for ingredients.

Found the recipe on this blog (www.marigoldroad.com)
You will need:
--1 bar Fels Naptha soap, grated (amounts to approx 2 cups)-use smallest grater size so it's super fine (found bar at Ace Hardware for $1.29)

--1 cup Borax (found box at Ace Hardware for $5.49)

--1 cup Washing Soda (found box at Dillon's for $2.85)

--1/4 cup OxyClean (not necessary, but can be added) *I didn't use it*

Mix all of it together with a spoon; will look bumpy, granular, and probably not all-mixed (that's ok).

Use 1T for a light load and 2T for a large or really dirty load.

Drea has some helpful notes on her blog about the cost-effectiveness of homemade versus store-purchased laundry soap. She makes a strong case!

The smallest grater hole on my grater caused the soap to stick. I had to use the next largest size, and the soap came out in little curlie-cues. I'm not too worried about it because it's still pretty fine. I've heard food processors can grate soap down pretty fine as well, but I don't have one.
I doubled the recipe to make the effort worth it (Drea mentions a double-recipe lasts up to 6 months!!), and used Ivory as the second bar of soap. For storage use a GladWare reusable storage container (8-cup size).

few of my FAVS

2010-10-12T20:17:00.000-07:00

MINTAIDE

2010-05-25T23:03:00.000-07:00

This is a new favorite in our house!
Takes a few minutes to make with all freshly squeezed fruit!
You can feel good letting your kids gulp down this drink!

Mintade

1 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice, strained

1/2 cup fresh squeezed orange juice, strained

1/4 cup fresh squeezed lime juice, strained

6 cups icy cold water

1 cup fine granulated sugar*

1 cup fresh mint leaves, torn

lots of ice

Combine juices and water in a pitcher. Stir in sugar, until dissolved. Stir in mint leaves, smashing leaves with spoon to release mint oil. Pour into ice-filled glasses.

*I like to use fine granulated sugar, however regular sugar works okay too. It will just take a little longer to dissolve. You may enjoy using more or less sugar, depending on your taste.

Grilled Vegetable Puff

2010-04-15T15:39:00.001-07:00

Grilled Vegetable Puff

This one is surprisingly simple, but looks nicely impressive. I had a recipe that called for a white wine cream stock but I didn't end up doing that, I kept if simpler, and it was divine.

1 package puff pastry

1 egg, beaten

Filling:

2 Tbsp olive oil

1 leek, sliced

2 garlic cloves, minced

1 red bell pepper, sliced Julienne

1 orange bell pepper, as above

1 green bell pepper, as above

]1 yellow green pepper, as above

3/4 cup mushrooms (I forgot these!)

1 zucchini, sliced on a diagonal.

1 Tbsp VE Vegetable seasoning.

1 tsp Vegetable bouillon (not prepared)

VE Giardino salt and VE 4-Pepper blend to taste.

I just grilled these veggies very simply in oil, on medium-high for a couple of minutes, till they were slightly softened with very bright colours. You can also grill them and then add some flour, vegetable stock, a smidge of white wine and milk, and bring it to a boil and thicken. I'm sure it's lovely, but I kept it really simple.

Roll half of the pastry puff (they come in 2 blocks) on a lightly floured surface into a rectangle about 13 X 6.

Roll out the other pastry puff into a slightly larger rectangle, and score it on a diagonal.

Place the first pastry puff on a cookie sheet lined with dampened parchment paper.

Spoon the grilled vegetables onto the bottom and then roll the scored one up onto a rolling pin and roll it out over the bottom and the veggies. Make sure you've left a decent "border" along the bottom.

Brush the edges of the bottom rectangle with the egg, and place the larger one on top, and then seal the edges with comfy pinches. This is nice stuff to work with, very elastic and user-friendly.

Brush the entire piece with either egg or cream to let it brown, and cook in a preheated oven at 400 for 30-35 minutes (mine took 40), until risen and golden. (For the record, I did NOT use egg to bind it shut, and it sealed up just fine.)

This was beautiful, and very tasty. I'm sure the wine sauce is great, but even a simple veggie grill was just lovely. I'll be making this again for sure. Substitute any veggies that are nice for grilling. Eggplant would be yummy, too, I'm sure!Add a captionGrilled Vegetable Puff

PEACHLAND'S BUSINESS2CONSUMER TRADE EXPO

2010-03-30T22:41:00.000-07:00

I'm Appreciated!

2010-02-17T21:13:00.000-08:00

Westside Curb Appeal has Incorporated and I have been given my own business cards!
I guess I'm appreciated!

Haiti

2010-02-02T19:49:00.000-08:00

I know that everyone has been talking about Haiti and the devastation that has gone on there! It hurts my heart when I actually take a moment and let it sink in what has happened!
It brings me back to when we experienced our devasting Fires here in the Okanagan! We had amazing firefighters, brave police offers and amazing citizens that helped emotionaly, physically and monitary!
Haiti does not have this! Everything well almost everything has been destroyed! They didn't have very much to begin with and their expectations are no where near ours, but they still don't have anything! No food, clean water or roofs over there head!

I always feel that I want to reach out and help where I can but I never trust the organization that are gathering the money! I want 100% of my money to go to the victums! There has been so much great support from all over the world for Haiti!

If you feel a tug at your heart and want to donate but feel the same way I do than please visit this blog to hear true stories from a Canadian that calls Haiti home now! Her stories are so priceless and just breaks my heart!

Karen who runs Hats for Haiti happens to be the mother to Dana Kayal who is My upline for Epicure here in West Kelowna ,BC.
There is information on this blog to make a one time donation or to request to support a child through monthly payments!
I have been told that once the dust settles there well be a lot of children that have been left behind and well be place in this orphange!

Please click on her blog and hear her passion and truth!

www.hatshaiti.blogspot.com

What to make for dinner?

2010-01-28T09:32:00.000-08:00

I always have a hard time figuring out what to make for dinner! It has to please everyone and needs to be somewhat healthy! I'm not one to make something more than once and I'm not creative in the Kitchen! So the other night I pulled out
"RECIPES BY GOD" cook book,
& thought I would try the "TURKEY ROLL"!

Oh My is was soo easy to make and Kanaan had 4 helpings! We ate the whole thing!
I thought I would share with you the receipe:

Turkey Roll

1 1/2 pounds ground turkey
1 teaspoon sea salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper

Filling
1 1/2 cups frozen corn
1 egg
1/4 cup minced fresh parsley( I used Epicure)
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper

Mix turkey with sea salt and pepper. Mix filling ingredients in a separate bowl.
Place turkey mixture on a piece of heavy-duty foil and press with hands into a 12inch x 10 inch rectangle. Spoon the filling over the turkey mixture, with one inch of the edge. Roll up ( jellyroll style), starting with the short side and peeling foil away while rolling. Seal seams and ends. Place on greased 13 inch x 9 inch x 2 inch baking pan. Bake uncovered at 350 for 1 hour.

I placed mine in a cassorole dish and added sweet potaotes and yams with some 3 onion dip( epicure) sprinkled on top! It took more like 1.5hrs to cook!

ENJOY!

Snow Day In Peachland!

2010-01-25T11:04:00.000-08:00

Awsome!

2010-01-15T16:36:00.000-08:00

It has been a joke in our house around the dinner table regarding if dinner was good, great or awsome! Chris well always comment on other peoples dinner that it is "Awsome" but my dinners are never up to par until tonight!

Tonights dinner was " AWSOME" according to Chris:

Epicures Chicken Cordon Bleu
Boiled carrots with VE vegetable sessoning
rice

YUM

GOTTA TO LOVE EPICURE!

see previous post for Chicken Cordon Bleu receipe!

Dinner question!

2010-01-15T10:31:00.000-08:00

Don't know what to make for dinner tonight!
Try this Epicure Selections receipe from there website:
www.epicureselections.com

Chicken Cordon Bleu

4 servings
Ingredients
1 lb (450 g) chicken breast tenders
2 tsp (10 ml) VE Poultry Seasoning
VE Sea Salt - Grinder, to taste
VE Black Pepper - Grinder, to taste
1/4 lb (125 g) cooked sliced ham, cut into small pieces
1/2 cup (125 ml) bread crumbs
1 Tbsp (15 ml) VE Dijon Tarragon Dip Mix
1/3 cup (80 ml) shredded Swiss cheese

Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350° F (175° C).
2. Season chicken with VE Poultry Seasoning and VE Sea Salt and VE Pepper. Arrange in bottom of shallow casserole dish.
3. Sprinkle pieces of ham over chicken and combine bread crumbs with VE Dijon Tarragon Dip Mix or VE Lemon Dilly Dip Mix.
4. Top chicken with bread crumb mixture and shredded Swiss cheese. Bake in oven for approximately 35 minutes, or until chicken is fully cooked and cheese pleasantly melted.

Per Serving: Calories 220, Fat 8 g (Saturated 3.5 g, Trans 0 g), Cholesterol 90 mg, Sodium 560 mg, Carbohydrate 5 g (Fibre 1 g, Sugars 0 g), Protein 31 g.

Mothers Day

2009-05-12T14:38:00.001-07:00

Mother's Day!

If you would of asked me about mothers day 4 years ago I would of said it was all about me and having a day to myself.

This year was the most amazing Mother's Day for me for many reasons:

The first being the fact that I don't have a mother to spend the day with!
(my mom died 3yrs ago, honestly feels like it was just this last News Years that I lost her). I was beside myself this year for Mothers Day , I guess it will never go away but you would think it would get easier not having her here for me anymore but it hasn't and it doesn't) I need her on a daily basis and think about her always!

So anyways this year I needed to do something for her and I didn't want to bring flowers to her grave site because she would be mad, so I got out her Obit. and read it and this is what she wrote for herself:
" in lieu of flowers send a bouquet to someone who can enjoy it while living or do something kind for someone who needs it or whisper a word of encouragement and love to our young people adn fellow - men in my memory"
So I loaded up Mya and put on a movie for her and we went and bought flowers and spent the evening delievering them to Mom's that are in our lives!

I received such wonderfull responses from the justure and I wish to thank everyone for their kind words. I didn't do it for attention I did it for HANNAH MARIE CARUSO.

PAY-IT-FORWARD ONE DAY!

Second Reason :
Woke up in the morning and little cutie Mya gave me a massage in bed, chris brought me coffee( I don't drink coffee anymore but I did so he won't feel bad) , the kids gave me the greatest cards/gifts made in school and Chris gave me a GSP and said this should stop some of our fights when traveling!

Chris topped it off with Making my favorite "CREPES"
(good thing I bought milk and eggs the night before)

Went to Church and than....

Third Reason:

Chris and Three guys planned,purchased,cooked,served and entertained the kids for all of sunday afternoon at our house. It was so awsome to spend it with everyone!

Sarah Serving her mommy some wine!

My Turn!

The Spread!

The Appies!

Turkey Feta Burgers

2009-05-09T22:24:00.000-07:00

I had the pleasure of making dinner for a girlfriend the other day who has just had her 5th baby.
I brought her TURKEY FETA BURGERS and appearently it was a hit in there house so I thought I would share the receipe. My kids just love them, and they are so simple to make and so much better for you than a regular burger.

TURKEY FETA BURGERS:
(my version)
I don't normally measure so this is approx.

Two packages of ground turkey
1/2 -1 cup of feta
1 cup of fresh spinach chopped up into fine pieces
(the kids can see it but can't taste it)
2 Tbsp of Epicure Pesto(you can also use oregano)

Mix all ingredients together and form into a patty.
Lightly oil a pan with coconut oil or grapeseed oil
and cook on med.
Cook patties slowly to ensure that
they are fully cooked through
( turkey is not very fatty and
will burn easly on a higher setting)
Turn them over regularly.

Should make 6-8 patties

I'm so so sorry!

2009-05-09T22:13:00.000-07:00

So I finally got a new laptop the other day and I just had some time to check out my blog.
All I have to say is that I'm so so sorry!
How annoying is all that music that you have had to listen to this past year.
My old laptop lost it's ablility to play music about a year ago so ever time I logged into my blog I had no idea that the music was playing over and over again!

So I couldn't figure out how to turn off the music, so I just ended up deleting the rockyou slide shows.

Ok So it has been a month since my last sip of coffee!
Was it hard? Yes!
Would I like a cup of coffee? no

I have no intentions of having a cup but I do have to tell you that Timmy's coffee does temp. me a lot. I can see myself having a little bit of a struggle when camping starts. There is nothing like a hot cup of coffee to wake you up after a crappy night of sleep!

2009-04-02T12:09:00.000-07:00

So I decided once again that I was going to eliminate coffee from my diet.
I was determined!
Day one rolls around and I wake up and make myself and nice cup of vanilla rooibos Tea! YUM! No problem made it through the day. Chris comes home from work and throws a brown leather travel mug at me and says "here" the week before I asked him while at Petro (his morning coffee stop) "Why don't you ever buy a travel mug it comes with 3 free refills which basically covers the cost of the mug." his reply "cause" So I guess I got him thinking and so he picked me up a travel mug with 3 free refills. Great now I'm on a no coffeeine kick and he gives me 3 free refills.

So anyways I go to bed for the night and can't sleep because the headaches are kicking in already. I wake up with a massive headache and enjoy my vanilla rooibos tea. no problem.

I'm on my way for the day and I have a lunch date with a couple of girlfriends and I just don't want to ruin it with my headache so I decide to grab a cup of coffee on my way to pick up some flyer's for Chris. Headache disappears.

FABULOUS!

So I picked up these flyer's and the lady was so grateful that we are going to hand them out for her at the "Business 2 Consumer Expo" this weekend that she gives me a $50 Starbucks gift card. Fabulous yes, but not good for my no coffeince diet(yes I know I can geta tea).

So day three comes along and I take Mya to Tim Horton's for lunch and can't resist a coffee since I had already had one the day before, guess what I won a FREE COFFEE.

I take this all as a sign that now isn't the time to quit caffeine.

Maybe when my free coffee's disappear I will try again!
D

Banana Bread Recipe

2009-03-11T21:22:00.000-07:00

I'm not the best baker in the Kitchen but the one thing I do right is banana bread!

Banana Bread Recipe:
1/2 cup margarine
3/4 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 cup mashed banana( I usually have some frozen that were going bad)
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour( usually use a mix of whole wheat/white)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking sode
1/4 salt
1/2 cup milk
1 tbsp vinegar
2/3 cups of chocolate chips

Cream together margarine and sugar.
Add eggs. Beat well.
Add banana and vanilla.
Then add all dry ingredients.
Mix and milk and vinegar.
Please in muffin tin or small loaf pans( Epicure sells silicone ones that are awsome) than sprinkle chocolate chips.
Bake at 350f for 30min.

2009-02-02T10:40:00.000-08:00

Ok The cutiest Idea Ever!
Just Had to share it!
Yup I bought two.!
I wish I remember Kanaan's first tooth that he lost!
www.officeofthetoothfairy.com

2009-01-29T20:50:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to share a site that I just love looking at for inspiration.

I LOve loVe LoVE AlliEdwards!

CHeck it out:
aliedwards.typepad.com

2009-01-29T20:19:00.000-08:00

Dinner!
What do you make for Dinner when you have such a busy day and your son decides to come down with strep throat and is at home with you all day. You reach for Epicure Selections!
I made the most amazing heathly , yummy soup ever tonight and It seriously only took me five minutes to mix and 45 to cook.

Epicure Selections has come out with a line of Bouillions( veg./chicken/beef).
For $8.95 you receive a jar that make 50 cups of LOW SODIUM BOUILLION.

This is what you will find in the chicken bouillion:
Yeast, Natural Chicken flavor, onion, salt, celery, black pepper white pepper, glucose, molasses, gum acacia, herbs ,species.

Sodium Comparison. Epicure Selections is 80mg per tsp, the knorr powder is 520. Crazy difference.
MSG is not added to any of Epicure Selections products.

So Anyways I reach in the cupboard place a couple of tbls spoons of chicken bouillion to my pot of water, looked in my fridge and cut up some left over chicken breast,added rice from last night and opened up a can of corn and mixed it all together with two tablespoons of Red pepper ( pantry basic) and viola!

Home Made Chicken soup!YUMMMMMY!
Making soup is so out of my element but it was the easiest dinner ever!

Epicure Selections cat. is now available online @
www.epicureselections.com

Ali Edwards Challenge!

2008-09-29T08:03:00.000-07:00

I realized it has been forever since I have posted a new entry. I really enjoy reading my fellow bloggers posts, to me it feels like if you haven't talk in over a month you still totally know what has gone on in their lives and can just pick up where you left off. For me I struggle with the journel aspect of blogs. Those that know me well know that grammer and spelling are not my favorites. (Please feel free to correct me It doesn't bother me!) Anyways to my point! I caught Chris last night looking at my very old and non updated blog. He actually commented that he enjoyed reading it. So I thought I would take ALi Edwards up on her challenge for the week( if anyone wants to join me please do) http://aliedwards.typepad.com

Challenge: documenting a week in your life I well be trying to take photo's of what my week/days look like and scrapebook them and hopefully post some as well. I hope everyone enjoys getting a little inside scoop of my life. I think some of it well surprise you. Here I go.
First surprise. This is what my kitchen looked like when I woke up ( i should say still looks like I took the picture and choose to update my blog instead of tackling the kitchen). I wake up in the morning to Chris's alarm clock blarning off station to some hard rock song( the alarm clock is set 11 mins faster than the real time so he always hits snooze, why not have it on real time and hit snooze? I can never really understand his logic, he always stands at the clock at night trying to figure out what time to set it and calculates the difference etc) Anyways normally the kids wake me up but today was a change and I was able to arise and make a cup of coffee and enjoy a few sips before yelling up the stairs at Kanaan to get up. Breakfest is made, lunch it packed and than it is time for school. Everymorning Kanaan asks me to get him a pair of socks. Why can't he you ask. Well take a look at the bottem drawer of the dryer. If there is one thing I can't stand that is matching socks. So every morning we fight as to who should get his socks and I always lose beacause the bus is coming and he needs to get out the door. I always have to send him off at the back door with a hug and kiss and " Have a good Day" . That was my morning. Now I guess I should acknowledge my other child Mya. I gave her some milk and set her in front of the tv. Maybe breakfest might be nice.

I will see how long I can doc. the day and life of Denise Renee Krahn. Enjoy!

Someone's garbage is someone else's treasure!

2008-04-07T20:28:00.000-07:00

My last creation. I have been in the need of some new end tables.( since a certian someone shattered one of mine). Money isn't flowing out of our pockets so I decided to look around and found a couple of end tables that have good shapes to them and re finished them. Pottery Barn end tables for $350. just don't work in this house.

So anyways here is the before and after of my salvation army find.( actually mel found them and I jewed them down to $10/each)

My baby is turning 7!

2008-03-07T15:32:00.000-08:00

WESTSIDE CURB APPEAL IS OFFICAL

2008-02-28T22:34:00.001-08:00

CHRIS HAS HIS BUSINESS UP AND RUNNING OFFICALLY!
CHECK OUT WESTSIDECURBAPPEAL.BLOGSPOT.COM

Kids say the cuties thing!

2008-01-24T19:37:00.000-08:00

I'm sure that we all have great stories of our kiddies saying the cutiest things but I just have to share with you Mya's saying of the day.

Do you remember scratch and sniff. Well I came across a valentines book at chapters that is scratch and sniff and I couln't just leave it their so I purchsed it.

I haven't seen scratch and sniff forever. Anyways I brought it home and I think that Chris and I had more fun with it than the kids. It brought back memmories and the smell is still the same. TO funny.

Anyways I was reading the book with the kids tonight and we were scratching and sniff and halfway through the book mya asks "can I itche it this time" .
To cute!!!

Kanaan quading!

2007-12-25T17:54:00.000-08:00

6 years and too smart

2007-12-25T17:00:00.000-08:00

Picture this: Christmas eve and the grandparents are over. We have just spent a great day together with the inlaws and sister in laws. Having christmas dinner, opening up presents and going sleding. Everyone has left and we were all ready for our night sleeping by the fire waiting for Santa to arrive. We decided to open some gifts before we go to bed( we always do this so that christmas morning is more relaxed and the kids can just play) Everyone had opened a gift and it was my turn. .Chris gave me a grey Abercrombie & Fitch hoddie and I had put it on. Kanaan has just learnt to read this past school year( the means it has only been 4 months) As he is reading my shirt he says if there was a "B" in stead of a "F" it would spell.........and I stop him and we all just started laughing. How do they learn so fast!
Gro

Simple, short and no information!

2007-10-17T11:49:00.000-07:00

Well it has come to my attention that My husband doesn't like this thing called "BLOGGING" or as he puts it Exposing everyone to our lives. So I have to watch what I post. I don't know what the big deal is but somehow he is receiving information.( I know who it is!)

ANOTHER EXCUSE I GUESS!

2007-10-13T07:27:00.000-07:00

Well Two days have come and gone and last night I had some cheese sticks and as I'm typing this I'm drinking coffee with sugar.
I was to terrible sick yesturday that I spent the whole day on the couch and the kids were totaly ingnored. When help was home I left my self go and got very sick and I just thought I had caught the flu and it was just bad timing. I have heard that was just all the bad toxins being released from my body. WOW if that is the case I'm full of them. Chris let me sleep for a hour and than he invited the neighbour kids over for pizza and movie( cute thought but come on the last thing that I needed was hearing other peoples kids never mind my own) Anyways I made the best of it and had some cheese sticks and I felt better.
Chris was leaving in the morning for weekend and I know that there was no way I could get through it being on this detox alone. So I'm sad to say that I have pull the plug for know. I going to really watch what I eat and keept excercising and hopefully when I have a little more support I well try it again.
Trust me it cost $36 and all the food that I bought for it I'm not going to let it just sit on my counter.

Once again I didn't succeed. This seems to be the story of my life lately.

After all of the can you believe that chris ask for S E X last night! Give me a break. His comment was "You said you were feeling better"

Bernice

It has been a long time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-10-11T16:03:00.000-07:00

Well for those of you that have stopped checking my blog because I haven't updated it since august.
HERE I AM!

Summer has come and gone so quickly this year. THis summer was going to be full of adventure and exploring BC with the family camping. Well we did just that just one time! I have no idea where the time went buy! We did a couple of trips to the coast and Chris and I did a over nighter in Bellingham and that is about all the exploring that happened. We are already looking for a motorhome for next year so this doesn't happened again.

The summer was also filled with Chris losing his job and trying to figure out where to go from here and my dad buying , selling and moving into his new home. Mya has turned 3 and is turning into a true beauty with a attitude and Kanaan is growing up so fast. Yesturday he brought home a book that was three lines per page and he read most of it on his own. That makes me said and proud but WOW times is flying.

Just today I realized that my mom was only on this world for 58 years. In one breath it seems like a long time and than when I put it into persecptive when I'm 58 the kids well be 31 and that is just horrifing to me knowing that they could very easly be in the same situation as I have been when my Mom died. I want to live until the kids are old and grey and see where there life has brought them.
Last night as I was putting Mya to sleep she was just so pretty and I just thought to myself that my Mom would so love to be here spending time with Mya!

Anyways that brings me to my next adventure. I want to live a long heathly life and that is something that I haven't been doing. Excuses have come way to easly to me this last year and it has gotten the best of me.

I have started as of today the "WILD ROSE" detox. It isn't pleasent and it has only been the first day. I well for warn you that if you call or see me anytime in the next 12 days that our conversation well be around food. I love and I want it. I know that I need to get through this to bring me to the next step of excersing on a regular basis.

I'm telling everyone that I'm doing this so that I'm held accountable.
If anyone has any suggestions of something good to eat please let me now.

Thanks for reading all of my Jibber Jabber and for looking past all of my spelling mistakes!

Denise Bernice

2007-08-17T00:21:00.000-07:00

2007-07-31T22:09:00.000-07:00

Sometimes they just amaze you!

Kanaan has be driving me nuts lately. He has been doing everything he can to make his sister mad, he has been crying like a baby to everything. Like tonight he would not stop crying because he couldn't get his radio at the right volume for when he goes to bed . So anyways tonight we decided to do some things outside like cut the grass, trim the flowers etc and I heard Kanaan say " Doesn't that fence need to be fixed?" than he proceed to grab a hammer and some nails and find a stool so he could reach( it is actually a rubermaid container) and went over to the neighbours fence and started to fix it. Low and behold he actually did it by himself.

Kanaan surprises me just when I have almost of had enough of him. This makes up for everything else.

We well see how tommorow goes!

2007-07-31T21:32:00.000-07:00

I have had my camera for ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh along time and I never really have time to play with it so today at Skaha I deceided to try out a button and it was so cool. It is amazing what you can do if you have time to play with all the buttons. This button was just a continous shotting so I got Kanaan going down the slide.

Kanaan's Swimming lessons at Peachland Beach

2007-07-15T11:59:00.000-07:00

Way to Go Kanaan! Kanaan passed Swimming lessons for the first time at Peachland Beach! As soon as he was done he asked when he could go again. Thank goodness because the very first day of swimming lessons we left early because he was crying like a baby and after two weeks he was asking for more. Why is it such a struggle to get them to do anything!

Fathers Day!

2007-06-18T11:00:00.000-07:00

We went up to Sugar lake with My Dad, the kids and Jay and Mel Friesen and there the kids for a Father's day fire and fishing trip. Little did we know that it would be super windy and pretty crappy for fishing. We made the best of it and tried to warm up by the fire. The guys through the rods in a couple of times and than we roasted some winnies and called it a day. Chris, Dad, the kids and myself continued up the very bumpy, gravel, off the side of the mountain roads to find "Headwaters" and "Peachland" Lake. Peachland is beautiful but Iwouldn't recommend anyone with a weak stomach to go up there. I was telling chris every minute or so to "go slower"," be carefull"

Happy Father's Day!!

No Voice!

2007-06-18T10:52:00.000-07:00

I have been fighting something for almost a week and it has finally shut me up!

I have no voice, just a whisper today! If you think I'm lying just try calling me!

I have learnt one huge lesson this morning.

MY KIDS CAN HEAR A WHISPER!
Do you know what that means?
It means that I shouldn't have to yell at the kids in order for them to listen to me!
All morning they have been listening and I can't even talk. Funny how that works.
When I ask Kanaann 3 times to do something he can't hear me when I yell at him he still can't hear me or understand me but when I whisper something he can hear me the first try.

I might have to pretend all week that I can't talk and see what I can get accomplished with the kids.

What can $63.00 get you these days/

2007-06-11T19:28:00.000-07:00

For $63 you can buy a brand new Roxy sweater with tax!

At Value Village you can buy for:

Denise: Roxy sweater, Abercrobie sweater, billabong sweater

Kanaan: Fox sweat shirt, dirt bike shirt and Shrek t-shirt

Mya: Old navy sweatshirt, gap jeans, gap sweater jacket, beautiful denim skirt, old navy valour sweat pants, old navy flower tank top, Gap sweater jacket, old navy tshirt.

and a whole bunch of toys!

All for $63 with tax.

I love Value Village today
( I don't normally have luck but the kids were patience and I had a chance to sort through it)

Beach Bums

2007-06-01T22:49:00.000-07:00

Wow I can say I have a good life. Nothing like going to the beach on a Friday afternoon and enjoying the sun. I ran into so many people it was nice to just hang out. We did get sunburnt but we are already planning the day tommorow. This time boating! I can't believe how fast these kids grow up.

2007-05-30T20:39:00.000-07:00

Well I actually did it!!

I actually sucked up the big bucks and got Lasik surgery instead of new glasses.

What a piece of cake! I would recommend it to anyone.
We left thursday night and stayed in Langley(super 8 with a waterslide) quickly went for a swim when we arrived because the pool was closing and than we were so hungry that Chris went out at 10pm and got everyone Mcdonalds. The kids loved that.
The next morning we spent a few hours at The Greater Vancouver Zoo ( most of the animals were still sleeping when we arrived so I would suggesting not going first thing in the morning),

We deceided to venture into Vancouver with lots of time to spare before my appointment because Chris and I just don't get along in Vancouver, we always get lots for some reason. This time I googled everything and It went smoothly the whole time and we never got lost.
I love Google maps!!!!

We ended up staying at posh hotel just off Robison( with the kids) It was actually was one to the cheaper ones through Coal Harbour. It was beautiful. We walked around the sea wall for a bit and than I headed off to Coal Harbour. Kids are not recommend on coming to the appointments so Chris had to kept themselfs busy for a couple of hours. They actually arrived to pick me up just as I was finishing the procedure so they got to watch a couple of minutes of it on the TV.

The procedure was not painful at all just kind of wiered. It was blurry when I left the clinic( it didn't stop me from shopping on Robinson for a few hours) after a couple of hours it was getting better and by the next morning my eyes were just dry. Chris and the Kids bought me flowers for when I arrived back at the hotel and they ended up staying alive in the car cup holder all weekend.
Anyways to keep going , the next morning I had a quick check and everything was fine and than we were off to Victoria. The trip went great expect for the fact the kids kindof got to us and we were losing are patience because the kids are just spoiled and it is always about them. We made it through it and got to see way more of Victoria than what I expected. It is beautiful and we well return there on a camping trip so it won't be so expensive.

Anyways thank you to everyone in helping me make the big decision and I only wish I would of done it sooner.
Denise

My kids make me proud

2007-05-18T21:21:00.000-07:00

Tradition in our house for Grandma's birthday,death day and mothers etc. Is to go to the dollar store and Kanaan, Mya and Myself pick a colour of ballon and we get them filled and take them to My mom's grave site. We talk a little bit about her, who she is, what we miss about her and I always try to explain where she is. Mya calls the grave site" Grandma's House" she really doesn't get it. Kanaan understands and misses her a lot and I try so hard for him not to forget about her. Kanaan always kneels by her stone asks me what it says and asks questions about God and takes a few moments to think. Well this time Mya decided to join him and I thought it was just the most precious thing and had to take pictures. I swear this was not a posed.

The kids make me so pround.

"We miss you Grandma" till we meet again.

bernice

Kids say the cutiest things!!!

2007-05-18T21:11:00.000-07:00

I always remember reading my mom's magazines and loved reading the columns

"Kids say the cutest things"

Well the other day I was driving with the kids and was waiting in a long line up to turn and Mya asks me "why aren't we there yet?" I proceeded to tell her that there were cars in are way.
And her comment was ;

"Mom just say excuse me and and go"

Too funny and Innocent.

Bernice

2007-04-29T22:10:00.000-07:00

Picture Perfect day and no camera!!!!

Ok Picture this:

Beautiful afternoon and we all decided to go quading for a family day!!Great idea right?

It actually was but what do you do with a two year old on a quad?

Chris decided to get a quad back seat( illegal/not safe) the quad has huge warning signs on it not suitable for passergers. That doesnt' stop him. So he riggs up this seat and riggs it up so Mya's car seat well sit in it. Well Mya is as happy as could be, She loves riding with dad on the quad ..Normally it is just on our yard( we have 2 1/2 acres) but she was going on a huge adventure today. We packed a picinc lunch and told Mya that we were going to the quad park( meaning just trails in the woods). We were on are way and drove for a little with kanaan leading the pack( yes he has his own quad and is a better driver than I'm) Chris and Mya were in the middle and I held up the back end. We drove to a cute little spot with a wood bridge and a creek running under it and had a picinc lunch. Mya asked were the slide was because we were sappose to be going to a quad park so that took some explaining. We actually ended up running in to a group of people we new and visited for a little while and we starting heading back. Than something happened. Mya fell asleep in her car seat setting on the back of Chris's quad while we were in the middle of know where up the mountain. I felt so bad for her. Her head was just bobbing away. We ended up making it down to the truck Mya still asleep loaded up the quads and went all the way home and put Mya in bed and had to wake her up after a hour at home. She was out cold!

Anyways I sure wish I had a camera there would of been some good shots. I hope you got the pictures!
Denise

2007-04-28T16:37:00.000-07:00

You Are Basic Panties

You are a laid back chick with a real natural beauty.
You can make unwashed hair and minimal make-up super sexy.
Men tend to notice you show the "real you" - and they appreciate it.
And while basic makes boring for some, it looks classic on you.

What Kind of Panties Are You?

My unwashed hair is certainly not sexy its called greasy!

I'm pretty laid back but a natural beauty I don't think so.

2007-04-28T16:28:00.000-07:00

Do you ever have those days that there is a million things to do like clean the house because there are still dishes from two days ago one the counter, the toilets haven't been cleaned in a week and everyone has been walking in the house with their shoes on after you just mowed the lawn and there is now grass everywhere. Have you ever had those days when you could sleep in and your daughter decides to come in your bed at midnight and keep you up all night and than decides at 6am to pee in your bed on your feather down duvet and feather bed and you just really don't want to deal with it

Anyways that has been my day today!!!!!!!
Maybe tomorrow might be more motivating?

Bernice

Amazing what you can find on the net!!!!

2007-04-26T12:50:00.000-07:00

What Denise Means

D is for Dignified

E is for Ebullient

N is for Nervy

I is for Intense

S is for Spunky

E is for Emotional

What Does Your Name Mean?

2007-04-26T12:30:00.000-07:00

I found this off of someone's elses website and thought it was cool. Try it yourself!!!!

2007-04-25T20:55:00.000-07:00

Ok, So this computer thing is not for me!!!!!!!

It took me all day long to log into my blog. I couldn't remember for the life of me what my username and password were. Anyways it is all fixed and hopefully with a little bit of luck I well be able to figure out how to add pictures.

I just wanted to address the name "Bernice" It was a name given to me by Dan(Huebe)( Chris's Cousin) as I call him and it has just kind of stuck. ( it is better than "tank" that is what he called me when I was prego.)

Do I know what I'm doing?

2007-04-24T12:26:00.000-07:00

Well I figure that I better get with the program and join in on the blogging.
I love reading other peoples bloggs and hopefully someone well like reading mine. I'm getting so far away from the technology side of things that I thought I better start with this and I also purchased a cell phone with a camera phone/mp3 player that I have no idea how to use. So those are the two things that I'm currently working on to get caught out with Techno.

Let me begin with;
Spelling mistakes come naturally with me so don't be surprised to see many, many , many of them. The ones that know me well are more than likely laughing at me already. I just thought I would put that out there so I don't start receiving thousands of emails stating the obivous.

Be patient with me, once I get the hang of this I well kept blogging but that is all for now.

bernice( yes it kind of stuck with me)