My updating is pathetic!! Almost as bad as my spelling.

Sorry I havent been updating about our wonderful wedding adventures.

It is a crazy time of year for me. This is my contract renegotiation month and companies in the UK are on the cheap. It's a small battle but in the end I will give in. All for the greater good of elearning they say. :~)

We have now started packing. April has already started and I was supposed to be doing some during my 11pm -4am shift last night, but I had gotten into watching the movie "Jarhead" and then "AeonFlux" so I worked really hard and enjoyed some movies, while doing so. But I now have to pack double tonight to catch up.

Nothing else really new but the Terrible Two's just keep on going. She now like to tattle. "Mommy, Kayla's on the table"... "Mommy, Meaghan wont get me cuppy juice". "Mommy, daddy drink all your pop."

Oh yeah, she even thinks she can rat out on dad. She is gonna be learnin a lesson or 2 real quick, as dad dishes out the allowance(or lack there of). :~)

Anyhow Duty calls. (Some days I wish duty would lose my phone number)

Later,

Henry

A picture is worth...Who cares show the pictures already :~)

Ok so we have a couple of picture to show since we were getting the house inspected today, our camera tagged along.
Backyard

How quickly things happen. Don't Blink :~)

WOW, I am amazed over the events of the past 2 weeks. Just on the weekend we were in Halifax for Wedding Dresses and Bridesmaid dresses. (Thank you Monica for putting up with us :~) ). I got to spend a little time out with the girls on Saturday as I took out my 3 + Monica's 2 oldest girls out to supper. I learned some new saying and Cait learned the meaning of some old sayings...BTW that Ring of Fire was oh so horrible. :~).

And that's when Kelsey broke the code to discoveer the Big Secret that April and I had. OK there was no code but with a little talking to Michaela and guidence she found out our big Secret.

I thought it was funny because everyones first guess was "oh your pregnant". Well Hello I'm a guy I can't get Pregnant ...It's impossible :~).

But the Secret is out of the Bag now So I might as well Blog it.

After 3+ years of being fussy and looking April and I finally found a house that we both really like. So we decided to buy it. We are to be moving in at the end of March.

It is nothing Spectacular but we got what we both really wanted all along. 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 Acres of land I am closer to work and to our doctors and the malls. The Mortgage payment will be the same as we are now paying out for Storage and Rent and Laundry and Rent for the buisness.

And this way I can keep a good eye on my workers :~) Running the company out of my home. It has a seperate entrance and such.

The kids have a wooden play structure with swings which is being left and a huge SandBox. I already decided on how to add onto the deck and where to add the above ground pool. (probably not this summer)...

It is really the first one that April and I both really like and we saved a bunch because it is a private sale from a lady I work with. The only disadvantage and the reason she was moving was because the City bus doesnt travel out there, and once your kids become teens it is drive them everywhere or move. So after a long discussion we decided to just not let our kids have a social life. Sorry girls, but thats life :~)

Well I am off to get my Insurance papers and the water tested.
Later

Henry

IT's Friday ...Yippeee

Well I am off to the Miramichi at Lunch today, so that we can pick up Myra (April's sister) and then we we are off to Halifax. The girls are doing wedding stuff this weekend and well I get to hang with the Kids.

I miss you JJ, come home soon. I know we'd still be at home with the kids during the day, but JJ makes my nights go by in an entertaining way.

Dont get me wrong I still have lots of fun without JJ there. (Monica has already threatened to uninvite me to my own wedding, so I have to say that. Just kidding!!!)

And maybe just maybe this time I can teach Monica some Video upload skills. It is very easy, all she has to do is put the clip on her computer then upload it to my site and I will take care of the rest. Very easy that way.

On a side note I will have a new website up and running soon that we will have some Wedding details and our RSVP forms and such on. It is not a wedding site but it is going to be used for that before I use it for business purposes. We also did the Toll Free number thing...
Website address which is not yet available(But should be in a weeks time) is www.thefatman.ca and the toll free will be listed there as well as on the invitations which will be going out in the mail next week. We are finally happy with the design and we have all the info, so now it is to get back home from a weekend of fun and print them off and mail them out.

See I have been trying to find a way to have my company cover some of the expenses instead of it coming out of pocket from me. So we are going to use our corporate Toll Free number for the RSVP. It goes to our house anyways.

My account thinks that I am very creative in my ways for getting away with the out of pocket expenses. For example:

I hire my own kids as models for stock images that I can use to build websites with. Well I couldn't just have them wear the same outfits for all pictures . So, instead of paying them for the work they done they got to keep the cloths that the corporation bought for the modeling job. Curiously enough my picture project coinsided with the begining of the school year, so getting a new wardrobe at that time of year came in handy.

Well my 10 mins of workless enjoyment is over now, but I'll be back with details from the weekend.

Oh by the way, I will also upload picture of my first Cake decorating experience. I had fun. :~) and pictures of the Kids enoying it, They had even more fun.

Later
Henry

In the words of Rita Mcneil" I'm a Working Man I am"

What a Crazy freakin week. So like my job is a pretty good one and I keep busy but this week has been nuts. With Strikes votes and negotiations going on, it seems like everything is hitting all at once, then it will be quiet for about 2 years at which time I get all my "real " work done. I was hired on here 2 years ago to create a new Database. Well I have yet to start working on that project. I have created Applications for Online Surveys for retirement, and I have created education modules for the old database. I also do mailout's, Web maintenance, and I can go on forever but my main project still needs to be started.

But to bring this crazy week to an end I will be driving the crew to Halifax to hang out with Monica and get some wedding stuff done. April's youngest Sister Myra is totally excited as she gets a weekend away from the kids.... Hmmm I dont think Timmy would like having our's too or I'd conveniently forget them :~).Just kidding of course.

Even though Madison cracked a dozen eggs on the floor, and cried about the "oranges messy everywhere", and she tries drinking toilet watwer from a plunger(ooohhh gross) and she plays in the toilet and the frdige and hmmm I think I am getting serious about leaving them now. :~)

Meaghan and Michaela are now in Highland dance clases and doing good. Meaghan's class consist of her and Marco. Marco is a boy in her class at school too, and conveniently he was in a picture with her at the school too, and for valentines day he sent her an Email... Hmmmm I think Marco and I is gonna have us a little talk. :~)

Michaela class is quite a bit larger though and she has a lot of fun doing it.

As for the Wedding Plans, they are swift and Crrrazzzy too. If I woulda known how much money was involved, I tell ya it woulda been an old fashion shot gun weddin out in the back woods of Beaverbrook. Not that were having much better than that :~)

I had more to say but I lost it all......as there was yet another Major car accident outside my window. Gotta go. will update later...Hopefully

Henry

Bryan Adams is coming to Fredericton

I am so totally excited. I was coming back from working in SaintJohn this morning to hear something about Bryan Adams and I thought they said he was coming to Fredericton but I didnt believe because nothing cool ever happens in Fredericton. Thats a lie Willie Nelson is coming here too and I am not sure who I would rather see but I think Bryan wins based on the rave reviews that I read in the Blog's. Tickets go on sale tomorrow and I will be there, not floor tickets this time though I wanna enjoy the concert.

I am just so thrilled and so is April, I am hoping to hear all my fav's. Cuts Like a knife, Somebody, Run to you, Summer of 69. I mean he has so many good tunes it is sure to be a night to remember. Only torture is after buying the tickts we have to wait until April 4th to go. hmmm if the concert would only been a couple weeks later I coulda had a good time and used it as a B-day gift. Well I guess I can't be cheap on Aprils birthday this year.

Later and Happy Friday everyone.

All Baby Proofed but Monster Proofed we are not.

Well it seems that baby Madison may have made the decision on not having any more children. Meaghan and Michaela were little monsters too when they were kids but they were never as clever as Madison.

We "Baby Proofed" the house alright. The door handle covers today are not as good as I remember or maybe our little monster is just that smart, because they just dont work on her. Dont get me wrong they give the bigger kids and dad a hard time at opening the doors, but not Madison.

April and I thought we were smart because we would just lock the door, she's to short to reach the lock. But she is just tall enough with her fluffy pink chair.

What gets me is that she knows how to get around the building. She knows where Landen and Connor lives. She is just a bad little boy chaser.
She runs upstairs but we usually catch up to her just before she knocks on the door. and to think she is only 2, the teen years are gonna be hellish.

I started thinking that maybe I could hang a cloths line in the house and chain her like you would a puppy. She could still get around but only within her given limits. But oh yeah go figure child services just wont approve, I was thinking maybe I should let her stay at the office with them for a day. They'd all be willing to volunteer to help setup my nifty little doggy/child system, after the first 2 hours.

She is a cutie pie but I think Mom and Dad need a break every now and then. So we found a nice neat and new program that will take Madison every Monday and Tuesday and eventually it will be 5 days a week. They take her from 8:30-noon and it is only 300 bucks a month for the 5 days a week. They get to dance and play piano and learn about music and other fun stuff like make freinds. I am hoping it will play her out a little so she's a little more relaxed each afternoon.

Well back to work with me.

Later

Henry

Almost got caught!!!!!!

It's been a while, since I have updated as life just seems so busy. I still work my full-time job and althought I have hired workers for my own company, I started taking on more contracts to grow a little more which means I am working full out again. I got a cool contract that has me now working with a group in India to create a new E-learning course. I am the specialist, that gets to ensure my friends overseas are doing there job correctly, and then I finish up the course by adding my voice for the people who like having the course read to them. But enough about work.

Are you curious of what I almost got caught doing? Well it's a long story but here it is:

The Baby (Madison) who is now 2 has learned to open the doors. All Doors. Oh yes, she thinks playing in the toilet with the plunger is fun. She loves her sisters rooms and well coloring the walls with markers is just the added bonus.

Being in an apartment makes it worst because she for some reason loves playing in the halls. April and I have to put aside our difference of opinions on homes and buy one soon, before Madison drives us batty. I was actually thinking of getting one of those animal pen's(Like on the Rugrat's cartoon) to trap her in. But she is to smart for it and she would just climb out.

So this morning April takes the girls out to the school bus, and I was still half asleep and just not wanting to get ready for work. So Madison decides it's time to play in the hallway. OK major dilema!!!!!!! Do I

A. Run in the hallway in just my undies to get her and risk getting caught.

B. Go to the bedroom find my robe or pants and get them on then go out to the hall and get her.

So thinking I am as fast as I was when I was skinny, I think it is just a quick little run.(In the back of my head I am thinking "Hello Fat Man, you dont run you mmmmm I am not sure what to call it but Run isnt it.")

So I take the risk and think I can get her quickly.

Oh yeah, she knows she has me in a comprimising position so it is a good time to lay down and kick up a fuss and not want to come back into the house.

In the end I made and I don't think anyone saw me streakin in the hallway. I sure hope that no one was peeking through the peep holes. :~)

TGIF, I am going out and getting stuff to make opening the doors more difficult today. I cant believe how strong she is either, she can open the big heavy doors in the hallway that Michaela cant open. Yeah she opens them so she can go upstairs. She knows that the boy's live upstairs and she loves boy's.

We are in so much trouble as she gets older. She knows when she is doing wrong but she just doesnt care. April and I do not scare her. I growl and she growls me back. If we tap her fingers she smacks us harder. I thought we were gonna have to just chain her up but April found her weakness.

She hates the TimeOut chair and oh yeah it works. She has to sit in it for 4 minutes and you would think we were the meanest parents in the world but it works.

And speaking of work, That is where I am this morning and I have a couple people waiting on computers to be fixed so I best get at it.

Have a super great weekend everyone.

Henry