Elf on the Shelf - Jank 2012

Last year we had a house guest from the North Pole surprise us in December.

He's a very naughty little elf that likes to cause havoc in our home.


Meet Jank... 

Immigration

There's a time in your life when you reach a fork in the road and you think, where do I go?!  My hubby and I are have been at this fork for a while now.  

Last weekend we decided it was time to move forward... and take a whole new direction.

Ranz is moving to Canada!

As bittersweet as it is, I can't help but be a bit excited... ok a lot excited!!!!

It's definitely not our forever plan... but California won't be going anywhere anytime soon and what's a few more ice storms and blizzards anyway?!!

So what now?!  IMMIGRATION... ugh.  Way to rain on my parade Mr. Canadian Government.  You would think my husband is coming from the planet Pluto and he has to prove that it's actually still a planet!!  Yes, I still consider Pluto a planet... just because you're small doesn't mean you have to get kicked out of the planet club... geez talk about universal bullying... sorry I'm way off track here.  My point here, (if you're still with me) is that Immigration Canada isn't what I thought it would be.

13 Forms!!!  And that's not even the hard part... very time consuming though.

Questions like...

 

Number of persons included in box #3 of the Generic Application 

Form for Canada (IMM 0008), under section Application Details?

  

Ummm... they lost me with that one!

 

 I loved this question...

Did you give your wife any gifts at your first meeting?

 

How is this a bad thing??? I like gifts lol   

 

Ok so I (almost) understand all the questions... just wish 

they weren't so repetitive.

 

Now that my half is done it just leaves Ranz's half to do... 

and boy do I not envy him right now.

• medical check up... for him and the kids from an assigned doctor at the other end of the world!
• FBI clearence
• fingerprints
• photos
• nursing exam
• documents documents documents
• fees fees feeeees ugh

I hope the kids know that Santa is broke this year 

because wow what a pricey venture this is.

 

Bad news... it could take up to 22 months to process!!! 

That's a sad thought :(

Good news... he could still work here on a VISA if he 

gets a job first.

 

Immigration also asks for pics of us, our family and 

some trips we have been on together.  I thought it 

would be fun to sum up the last 5 years in a collage :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Los Angeles Zoo

This year we spent my birthday at the Zoo!  Jace loved it... everything he saw was an Elephant... lol.

This guy was just chillin... watching the crowd go by.

Flamingo

Mohawk bird

Seals

Tortoise... this guy was huge.

This one made me laugh... now that's grooming! Silly monkeys.

After Jace insisted everything in the zoo was an Elephant... we had to show him what a real Elephant looked like.

I love this pic!

Jace getting the best seat in the house.

Rhino...or Hippo... really what's the difference?!

Giraffe

More Giraffes...

Chimpanzees... these were awesome to watch.

This Chimp was swinging a log with his feet.

Chimp chillin...

More chillin!

A selfie.

Love love this pic of my boys!

Now it's our turn to chill... Jace loves his chocolate... insisted that he eat my whole ice cream by himself... were still working on the sharing thing... lol

Family selfie!

Overall I had a perfect day!  The weather was amazing and the animals were fun to watch.  My favourite was the Chimpanzee exhibit.  We could watch them all day.  So intelligent, one Chimp was eating a cucumber and (like my kids) didn't like the peel.  He managed to remove the peel with his teeth in complete strips like he was using a knife.  Now that's skills right there!

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone... feels great to be 25 ;)

P.S...

While my beautiful mama was visiting she treated me to a mani pedi for an early birthday present... arn't they pretty?!! Thanks mom... you're the best!

My nails

Mom's nails