Oh My Gosh...

Oh my gosh... what have I been doing for 6 weeks??  I certainly have not been bloggin'.  I will try to make up for lost time.  The photos start from most recent to last month.

First I will start with all our beautiful flowers we (Dann) planted in the front yard.  Although it has not been extremely hot, the long hours of daylight have really helped in the growing time.  As long as 'we' plant harty type plants that can with stand the cool temps, they flourish with new buds.

Above is some type of Geranium and below are a mixture of Petunias along with a few other things (Pansies & stuff)?

I love Pansies 

So we bit the bullet and ordered a new castle bouncer off of ebay.  It arrived the last week of May and it has been a neighbourhood hit ever since.

Dann has wanted to purchase this item for 2 years now.  It actually was a lot cheaper than we thought, and we got an industrial one, so the seams won't rip (like the ones from Wal-Mart etc).

Three of Dann's sisters came to visit us the last weekend of May.  We had a great visit, some good eats and just a little drink... lol!

The kids love spending time with their Aunties and they received an abundance of attention!

This is the group photo at the lake.

Emma & her bud Darby

Ethan is always trying to catch up to Emma.  He runs pretty darn quick, and usually manages to catch her at some point.  He loves going outside for walks, and can say 'walk' & 'out side' very clearly.

Ethan & Auntie Phyllis

Emma with her Aunties

(Cheryl, Phyllis, & Jeannette)

Soccer season is in full swing and Emma always manages to add a splash of pink into her soccer outfit.  This day it was a pink hoody, as it was a cooler evening. Other days, she trades in her black cleats for her pink running shoes.  She is such a girl!

This photo of Ethan is my favorite (at this time).  

He is so darn cute in it, I just want to squeeze him.

Emma has been progressing nicely with her reading, and she enjoys reading certain books to Ethan.  He loves sitting by his big sister to hear a story.

My little girl is getting so big.

She is now 122 cm (4 feet).

Now that's tall!

Ethan & Daddy...

My handsome boys!

Ethan's Page

Hard to believe Ethan is 18 months old.  I put a few new pics together of my sweet baby boy.

Ethan is much more of a ham at this age than Emma was.  

They are about the same size at 18 months and as you can see Ethan towers over the crib.  Luckily, he has not tried to climb out yet!

Ethan loves the outdoors and he was darn proud of himself when he discovered how to mow the lawn.  Dann will have him pushing the real thing by 2 years... lol!

I think Ethan loves Emma's hat more than she does.  Actually, any hat is a favorite to put on and run around the house in.

I thought this photo was cute of him eating watermelon.

Again, if it's not a hat, it is a popped rubber ball.

He ran around with this ball on his head for hours.  He cried when Dann took it away.

Happy again with Daddy...

A quick video of Ethan playing on the slide.

Meme

MEME

So a fellow blogger friend decided I should take part in her new thing she was introduced to in blogger world "MEME". I have to answer all these questions and then tag 5 other bloggers to do the same thing. It is a way to get to know one another and learn some thing new from someone you have known for a while.


The 8 questions are:

1) What were you doing 10 years ago?
2) What were you doing 1 year ago?
3) 5 snacks you enjoy?
4) 5 things you would do if you were a millionaire?
5) 5 bad habits?
6) 5 things you like doing?
7) 5 things you'd never wear again.
8) 5 favorite toys.


Okay Jennilyn, here is my "meme" you tagged me with...



8 Answers...
1) 10 years ago, Dann and I were living in our first house/condo together in Calgary (we moved in March 1997 and living in sin) While living in sin, Dann popped the question, thus I was busy planning our wedding day, which had been set for the fall (Sept 1998).



2) One year ago, I had just joined Weight Watchers (3 weeks into the program) and wondering if I would reach my goal (65 pounds). Some hard work and dedication let me surpass my goal and to date I am down 79 lbs!!


3) 5 snacks I like: ice cream (bad), chips (worse), french fries (again, really bad), chocolate (are you seeing a pattern?) and finally... popcorn, which is the only snack I seem to have on a regular bases now... low calorie and it fills me up. I still treat myself to the other 4 items, just not as often as before and in a lot smaller portions (after all, a girl has to live).


4) If I was a millionaire, I would give my family some $$, pay off all our bills, invest some $$, give some $$ to charity and then I would quit my gov't gigg and open a beautiful B&B in a tropical location (I know Dann would be on board as well).


5) My 5 Bad Habits are: being lazy at times, procrastinating, putting my fingers in my mouth (tapping my nails on my teeth... not biting them but they are still in my mouth), indulging too much at times, and buying shoes or anything else for that matter.


6) 5 things I like to do: go for a walk "alone", shop... for anything, travel to new places, meet new people, and watch t.v.


7) 5 things I would never wear again: volleyball shorts (aka: bum huggers... what was I thinking?), silk disco coat for roller skating, neon socks/nylons, big hair/bangs, and straight leg stretchy jeans. The 80's were not kind to a lot of people, but the music was awesome!!


8) My 5 favorite toys (I'll keep this clean): my kitchen aid mixer, my (Dann's) Starbucks coffee maker, all my scrapbook items I create with, my digital camera, my foot messager.


So there you have it.
Now I will tag five BLOGGER friends...


"SEA-R-VU"
"Ashley Bashley"
"What does an Octopus say?"
"Life on the Sunshine Coast"


Okay, I only have four people to send this to. Oh well, better than nothing.

Easter Tea Party

I forgot to blog these photos...

Emma hosted a lovely Easter Tea Party for Grandma, Papa & myself.  

It was a hoot to see my dad sit down on the "little" chairs in the play room.

Papa had apple pie with cheese, Grandma had chocolate pudding and I ate grapes...a long with tea of course!

We all had fun, including our darling waitress Emma!

Happy Easter

I went to the liquor store to buy some wine for Easter dinner.  I have not really gone "shopping" at a booze store since College.  There was an "Easter Sale" on at a local liquor store and I got excited! I think I have a shopping problem, cause I was at the liquor store & I was thrown things in the cart cause it was on sale (I recall in College when a bunch of us bought a case of Bourbon cause it was a buck a bottle... good deal for a starving College student on a budget).  

I found this French Chardonnay called:

FAT BASTARD!

I had to buy it cause of the name 

(it was on sale too).

Anyhoo... $85.00 later, I left the liquor store with 3 bottles of wine, a bottle of Crown Royal, a bottle of Smirnoff Grand Cosmopolitan, and a bottle of Jose Cuervo Margarita.

My parents joined us this week for Easter and they were so happy to see the kids.  It's been a while since they last saw Ethan (Thanksgiving) so they really saw a lot of changes in him. 

Ethan loves to read books on your lap and he wasted no time getting up on Papa's lap for a little story time.

Easter morning started out early... 7:00 a.m. (if Emma had her way, she would have been hunting for eggs at 6:00 a.m.).  

Ethan got into opening the eggs too this year... much to Emma's dismay.  Lucky for her, he was happy with one or two.

I think Emma ate a pound of chocolate eggs today.  

(I wish I could have ate that many!).

All the hunting and walking to the park tired my babe out.  He was having his morning snack and fell a sleep in his high chair.

Up to bed he went and slept 3 1/2 hours.

 

Emma looked spectacular in her new Easter dress.

Emma & Ethan got this adorable singing puppy from Great-Grandma for Easter.  Ethan fell in love with it and carried it around all day.  It really was cute to see.

From our house to yours...

Happy Easter

Another Diaper Cake

A friend of ours had a baby boy on February 29...

A Leap Year Baby!!

I decided to make her a diaper cake, as this wonderful babe is her fourth (2 girls, 2 boys), thus I figured she has just about everything!!

I loved how this one turned out.

If I had more time in my life, I might start selling them...

instead, I will make them for friends & family!

February Update

Because I am slow and seem to have very little time these days, I figured I would group the month of February together and fill you in on what we have been up to. 

Emma went to the dentist for a check-up and cleaning.  She did very well and had no cavities... yay!!

Emma & Ethan still love Rowena's noodle dishes as you can see from Ethan's mess, he could not shovel them in fast enough!

As you can also see, Ethan is needing a hair cut very badly!

The deep freeze finally left us and Emma's cabin fever was over.  She enjoyed an afternoon playing in the snow with her dad.  They made this snow man together, but I think Dann had more fun building it.

A friend of ours cuts hair at her house, so we took the kids for a "much needed" hair cut.  They both did well and the price was right... $10 bucks a head!

Both of my boys were sick this past week.  

Dann with a bad cold and flu and Ethan with an ear infection, bad cold and cutting three teeth.

Needless to say, Tylenol & Advil were their best friend... mine too!  

I think they are both slowly on the mend.

I had to take Ethan to the hospital last Monday though.  He was so sick!!  After 5 hours in Emergency, which included chest x-rays, blood & urine samples, medication and an over all check-up, the Doc ruled out pneumonia and sent me home with a prescription for his ear infection.  

Poor little guy....

Mamma's boy is not feeling well here.  

His eyes say it all!

Even days after his meds, Ethan is still not his happy-go-lucky self (but he put forth such an effort to try and smile)!

My girlfriend (co-worker) just had a baby girl and myself and another girl from work hosted a baby shower for the new mommy today.

I remember years ago on "Sex & the City", I believe Miranda received a diaper cake at her baby shower.  I had since forgotten about this until my friend Janny brought it up when we were chattin' this week.  She told me to look up "diaper cakes" on the Internet, so I did.  The cakes were very cute (but very expensive). 

I decided I should try putting one together for my friend's baby shower.

Dann helped me build it last night, and this was the end result...

Not bad for the first attempt!

Now I want more of my friends to "give birth" so I can make more!

Here are the cupcakes Holly & I made for the baby shower.  We got the idea out of a Martha Stewart Baby Mag.  Although Martha's resembled baby lambs a bit better, we thought they turned out well for two "cupcake lamb makin' virgins"... lol!

The final pic is of the guest of honer... Brooklyn. 

She received her first dolly and grasped onto it while she slept so peacefully in a friend's arms.

TOO CUTE!!

That's all folks!