http://thesills.net Silly words from silly folks Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:29:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It took us a while to get settled into our new place, but it is finally starting to feel like home. We have all 5 appliances up and running. What a fiasco! Electricians, plumbers, and gas fitters, oh my. We get our couch in a couple of weeks, blinds in ... http://thesills.net/2010/03/10/settling-in/ We are happy to welcome our niece, little Ava Anne Gureatsa to the world. She arrived on Thursday evening, weighing in at just under 7 lbs, after a grueling 13 hours of labour....nice work sis! Mom and baby are doing great and are now home. I can't wait to meet ... http://thesills.net/2010/03/07/congratulations-mat-and-rheanna/ We made a last minute trip to Vancouver this weekend for the Olympics since it seemed like a shame not to drive 4 hours to join the festivities. We left Friday morning and spent the day wandering around the sites. The first stop was Granville Island to check out some ... http://thesills.net/2010/02/28/the-sills-go-to-the-olympics/ We haven't had time to do much exploring yet, but we definitely know Home Depot and Rona inside out. After work today we took a drive down Lakeshore Drive and found a gem of a beach really close to our house. We woke up to snow, but as you can ... http://thesills.net/2010/02/24/photos-of-kelowna/ Our Valentine's day this year: 2 hours of packing, 3 hours with the movers followed by 6 hours of cleaning. How very romantic. At least we spent it together. While cleaning we reminisced and decided that our most romantic Valentine's day we had was our first one, when we were ... http://thesills.net/2010/02/23/week-1-in-the-okanagan/ ....sorry for those coming to the blog to read about the new iPad....we were referring to our new house.  We flew to Kelowna for what was supposed to the day on Jan. 23 (has it really been that long since we last blogged???). We attempted to fly in the morning, ... http://thesills.net/2010/02/06/our-new-pad/ A wise man once said, "when the Sill's put their mind to it they can really get stuff done" Well, that stuff done has been "prepping, selling and buying a house." The past 2 weeks we've listed a house, sold a house, gone snowboarding for 2-days and bought ... http://thesills.net/2010/01/19/wow-things-happen-fast/ This has been a crazy week. We put our house up on MLS  and before we could even write a blog about it going on the market, it's been sold! It got listed on Wednesday at 11am and by noon we had 5 showings booked. I was off to Edmonton for ... http://thesills.net/2010/01/10/sold/ After working day in and day out over the holidays, we have now completely finished paint and we have finished the drywall in the basement. We had water in our basement a couple of times over the years whenever it rained a ton. Turns out it was due to the ... http://thesills.net/2010/01/06/basement-renos-done/ Given that our house is in shambles, we decided not to get a tree this year. I wanted one since it was the very first time in 12 years that I didn't travel anywhere for Christmas (interestingly enough it's the first time since I can remember that I also haven't ... http://thesills.net/2009/12/31/o-christmas-plant/