February 16, 2010

---Anise and Grandma playing checkers (kind of) during Grandma's lunch hour.---

February 15, 2010

---Kaden was inspired by the snowboarding while watching the Olympics, and decided to give it a try himself using packing tape and a cereal box. The result - some great entertainment for Sean and I from the window---

February 14, 2010

---The three loves of my life---

Februrary 13, 2010

---The kids playing outside in the water and slush. They were soaking wet and frozen by the time they came inside. It was so nice to see the two of them enjoying the warm weather together---

February 12, 2010

---The cupcakes for Kaden's class - I got them done! Yummy---

February 11, 2010

---What you get when a 3 year old gets a hold of the lotion and decides she has too much on her hands. It's also all over the mirror and wall in the bathroom. Guess I need to hide it in a different spot!---

February 10, 2010

---Kaden at Aggie Days. His class went for a field trip today, and I was lucky enough to get to drive and supervise. The kids and I had a lot of fun. We got to watch a cow being milked, a sheep being sheared and  made some canola oil.---

February 9, 2010

---Anise told me this morning that she needed 7 elastics in her hair. So this is what I came up with - pretty cute hey?---

February 8, 2010

---Anise, the warrior fairy princess---

February 7, 2010

---playing Memory match together. Now that we have 9am Church we have the afternoon to spend together as a family---

February 6, 2010

---I made these today for Kaden's school Valentines party. I'm going to put them on top of cupcakes - that's the plan anyway. We'll see if I end up with time to do it or not---

February 5, 2010

---The clock Anise and I  made for our Mommy-Anise date. The boys went to see Avatar, and us girls stayed home and made a clock and listened to ABBA. Hehehe.  I made one of these with Kaden a couple of years ago, and had one to make with Anise, but have never done it until tonight. We had fun cutting and gluing and making it look pretty. She wouldn't go to bed until it was hanging in the perfect spot on her wall---

February 4, 2010

---This is where I spent most of today, in the fetal position, moaning. The rest of the day was spent in the bathroom. I was sick. Really really sick. Not the sore throat, stuffed up nose, coughing sick. The other kind. The one that isn't considered proper etiquette to talk about. Thank goodness my Mom was able to get Kaden from school for me, and help me get the kids in bed. Sean was on call, so he came home when he could - checked me out, made sure it wasn't gall bladder stuff, you know, did the Doctor thing. The kids did pretty good too. Anise was left to her own devices for pretty much the entire day, and I 'm happy to say she would probably fair pretty well for an extended period of time. She managed to get herself some milk, without making a mess, and foraged for goldfish crackers all day. She even came and "read" me some stories at some point.---

February 3, 2010

---Two of the clipboards that Anise and I made today. She's becoming quite the little crafter *wipe tear from eye* She helped me pick out the paper for each one, told me what color ribbon to use, and picked out all the buttons and showed me where they should go. We're not quite done the one on the right - Anise says it needs a birdie on it still. And buttons. She is just as fascinated by buttons as I am, which is fine because I have quite the collection to use!---

February 2, 2010

---The kids paying with Play-Doh at Great Grandma Frache's house. Kaden was home sick from school today, so he got to come with us to visit Grandma---

February 1, 2010

---This is what you get when you ask the family for a nice family picture with the self timer---

January 31, 2010

---So, it's definitely not my favorite picture of this blog so far, but here I am at 25 weeks. Kaden took this for me, since Sean's been on call all weekend, and I'm just not coordinated enough to do it myself---

January 30, 2010

---The kids fooling around together for the camera. We now have about a million of these pictures. They just kept saying, "take a picture of this funny face" It was all pretty hilarious---

January 29, 2010

 

---The pizza buns I made today. We love pizza buns, but they are so expensive to buy, so I thought I'd give it a try making them myself. They turned out great! I will be making these again---

January 28, 2010

 

---some books the kids and I read this afternoon---

January 27, 2010

---Kaden (#3) at his soccer game tonight. He is one fast little guy, and can get around most players - including those who are twice his size. Go Kaden Go!---

January 26, 2010

--- This is where I spent my entire day. No kidding. With only one vehicle until Sean's car can get fixed my trusty van has been in high demand. My day went like this:

8:15am - take Kaden to school (Sean did that one. Thank-you!)

8:45am - take Sean to the hospital for work

9am - Anise and I get to Grandma Frache's house

9:45am - I remember I forgot to put the stew in the crockpot and drive home to get it going

10:15am - return to Grandma Frache's house

12 noon - fetch Sean from the hospital, and bring him to Grandma Frache's house for lunch

1pm - take Sean to the clinic he is working at in the afternoon. Just so happens I'm scheduled for my prenatal diabetes screening test and prenatal check up at the same time, so I stay too

2:30pm - finish up with my blood work and check-up and head back to Grandma's house to get Anise

2:50pm - take Anise to a birthday party

3:10pm - stop at home to check on dinner - if it's not edible at this point we are having sandwiches for dinner and I need to be prepared for that scenario. Lucky for me, the stew was doing fine

3:20pm - take a quick picture of my front seat in the van, while praying that the neighbors aren't watching - they already seem a bit wary of me

3:30pm - pick up Kaden and his good buddy Alden from school.

3:50pm - drop Alden off at home

4pm - Kaden and I arrive at home, and I frantically set about making biscuits to go with the stew

4:50pm - Kaden and I leave to pick Sean up from the clinic

5:20pm - pick Anise up at the birthday party (20minutes late!)

5:30pm - get home and convince Anise that she needs to get dressed for dance class. Right now.

5:40pm - leave to take Anise to dance with a piece of cinnamon toast and bowl of goldfish crackers for Anise's supper

5:55pm - get Anise to dance with just enough time to get her shoes on before class starts

6:05pm - go to Grandma Frache's house to pick up eggs

6:25pm - leave Grandma's house to pick up Anise from dance

7pm - leave the dance studio after Anise has given me a lengthy demonstration in the change room of what she did in class

7:15pm - come home and realize that I haven't even tasted the stew, or anything else since lunch time.

Grateful to be done all the running around for the day, I sit down with my stew and biscuits and enjoy the 5 minutes I have until I have to start putting kids in bed. ---

January 25, 2010

--- I've been feeling really crafty lately, but haven't really had (or made) the time to do anything. Today I changed that. I made myself sit down, despite the piles of other things that I 'should do' and made some hair bow for Anise. Because, she doesn't have enough *insert sarcasm here* and because they are such a quick and easy project that I feel like I accomplished a lot in a short amount of time. Unfortunately I ran out of clips so I had to stop before my ideas did. I can't wait to get at it again!---

January 24, 2010

---Yum. Really what else needs to be said. Sean and I were in Calgary for the RAS Residency interviews, and so we just had  to stop at Peters. I'm sure my dream the week before that involved making a Peters run for hundreds of burgers, fries, shakes and onion rings, only to result in one of the Residency applicants eating my onion rings had nothing to do with the fact that I insisted we go there for dinner.  And yes, I got Onion Rings. ---

January 23, 2010

---Ok, so I obviously didn't take this one myself. It's from the movie AVATAR. If you haven't had a chance to see it, GO! NOW! And make sure to see it in 3D. It was such an amazing movie, in every way. Plot, acting, visual effects, sound/music. Seriously the best movie I've ever seen. I want to go again. I never see movies twice in theatres. I'll always wait for it to come out on video to see it again. I could have sat through another screening of the almost 3 hour movie right after seeing it - and that says a lot coming from a 6 month pregnant lady with a bladder the size of a marble ---

January 22, 2010

--- Jordana (Sean's youngest sister) and I after our painful, yet fun adventure in Nanton. The short story: Sean, Jordana and I were going to Calgary. Just passed Nanton, the car dies. We call AMA and my parents. AMA tows the car to Nanton, my parents meet us in Nanton with our van (THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU!). We leave the car at the truck stop in Nanton, load everything into the van and continue on our way to Calgary, making the 2 hour drive to Calgary a 7 hour escapade. But we made it. ---

January 21, 2010

---The result of last nights fog - Hoar Frost. Why it's called that, I may never know. But whatever it's called it's beautiful---

January 20, 2010

--- The crazy crazy thick fog tonight. By morning we could hardly see across the street! The kids thought it was totally cool that the clouds came down for a visit. Anise kept saying "I'm walking in the clouds!" and giggling. ---

January 19, 2010

---My little ballerina. Tonight was parent viewing at dance class. Anise was SO excited for the 3 of us to come watch her dance (Kaden wasn't quite as enthusiastic) She waved at us every couple of minutes, and kept checking to make sure we were still watching. She would sometimes get distracted by watching herself in the mirror which was so cute to watch. I can't wait for year end show---

January 18, 2010

---Kaden and Daddy goofing around before bed. I was trying to take a picture of Kaden with his quilt I made him, but he wasn't co-operating. It turned into a big game for the two of them, as most things do. I love how well these two get along---