big girl earings

so, as you may have read i got my ears peirced for the first time this christmas... so now im a big girl and i get to wear big girl earings! i have bought a few pairs and find myself in clairs browsing through the 'rainbow bright' earings ,as i refer to them, wishing i was thirteen again so i could sport the neon pink plastic gems on my ears. although i do wish for that once in a while its not gonna happen in this lifetime. i have bought a few pairs of hoops and some cubic zerconias (waiting on the real thing!... i told my husband taht hes going to feel the effects of the saying be carefull what you wish for because now that my ears are pierced there is always going to be earings for him to buy me!!!) anyways, these earings are the first big girl earings i bought and i love them and had to post a couple of pics for my mom and my sister to oggle over.

since EVERYONE is doing it...

a few pics of joben at work

some pics of joben at work way up in northern alberta...hes technically called a level 1 NDT operator (nuclear devices technical operator) which just means that he knows allot about science and radiation and he takes lots of pictures all day in teh freexing cold of welds with his fancy and very heavy radioactive x-ray camera. cool huh? ha.
the very first one is of us on the last night i was there... while i was there they worked their longest days ever since being up there which was rough and you can see it on jobens face... he looks sooo tired.
the next few are of him working with the x ray camera on the pipeline...
there is one of him all bundled up and then a couple of pics of a fox. joben said that a couple of weeks ago they were working at a job a few km away and one of the guys said he foudn this dead fox so he went to cut off the tail because he collects them or somthing and when he cut it off the fox jumped up and ran away! now at least two weeks later and a good 5 km away this fox with no tail shows up and comes up to joben and is all friendly... he just kinda hung out with him.. you would think that if it was the same fox he would be scared of people so it was pretty weird.
it was SO good to see him... it was day 37 of not seeing joben so it was a much needed reunion but it was tough only spending a couple of hours at the end of the day with him... oh well only a month and a half to go! ... and then comes tree planting- oh joy. well, june will bring normalness again. i can hardly wait... and by the look of jobens face in the first pic- neither can he!

Riding up to see Jo-Ben and Rod to Wabasca

well, on wednesday i drove up to three hills (about 3 hours north of Medicine Hat where i live) and met up with Ethel (jobens boss' (Rod) wife) and their three kids Jannae, Brock and Lincon. We then drove through Red Deer (did some stuff) and then off to Leduc where we spent the night. The next day we drove through Edmonton (did some more stuff) and then up to Slave Lake (did some more stuff there) and FINALLY to Wabasca where Jo-Ben and Rod are working and have been working since the begining of Jan. (i posted some pics of the kids in teh back seat (lincon is the one wearing my touque thinking hes SO funny... he is:) and Brock and Jannae are the other two) they are awesome kids but over 10 hours in a car with three kids 7 and under in the backseat is pretty wearing. Jo-Ben and i have been able to spend some time together out here after work and yesterday their truck wouldnt start in the morning so he had the morning off too which was awesome.... not much to do out here way up north. there is basicly a big brand new rec center where we go every day with the kids to keep them from going nuts and one resteraunt (the burgar barron) where we go for dinner and then the guys come home from work. we are leaving tomorrow morning which sucks bug time but as i have said before i would have driven all the way up here even if i got to see joben for 5 mins. plus its almost half over so thats encouraging... joben and i were apart for 36 days which is by far the longest since we have known each other. it was crazy hard but now we wont see each other for another like three weeks and then i think i am going to see him again and then after a couple of more weeks he will be done his out of town work for this year! yay! anyways, right now im watching charlotes web with the boys while ethel took jannae swiming... shes in swim club and training for her next swim meet and shes wayyyyyy better at swimming than i am and shes only 7. crazy kid. anyways... ill try to get some pics of joben and i to put up althogh they wont be terribly exciting considering where we are (nowheresville!) till next time...