Easter Time!

So today starts a 10 day stint of my kids being under the same roof - together - all day!  Could be interesting!  Today started off with the first of a few Easter activites I have up my sleeve!  Gramma came up to help us decorate 24 easter eggs - and what fun we had!  There was glue and glitter, paint and crayons, stickers and foil!  What a wonderful mess!

Tomorrow the kids are signed up for the easter egg hunt at George Lane Park - which they are still unaware of!  So that should take care of tomorrow - run them out of energy at the park for a couple of hours then home for naps!

Sunday we start with finding the treats the Easter Bunny has left at our house, then we drive to G&G Kitchens' to see what is lurking around there, and then finally we go for a huge egg hunt at Granny and Pops'!  They will definitely sleep that night!

Monday finds us looking after a neighborhood kid for the day - there safety in numbers!  They should keep themselves entertained!!

Tuesday and Wednesday are still open!  Will have to do some brainstorming for those days! 

By Thursday the "father" is around and he is on duty for the rest of the week/weekend!  Then before I know it we will be back to routine and waiting for the school bus to arrive.

Hope I remember to enjoy this week of doing what we want when we want - before next Monday hits!

Happy Easter EVERYONE!

I'm Baaaack!

So I have been terrible at blogging for a couple of months!  I find that my boring day-to-day life is nothing that anyone would be interested in!  Same old school routine, skating lessons, parent council meetings, and housework!  I am however lucky enough to go scrapbooking tomorrow!  A couple of weeks ago I did get to spend the weekend away at an amazing retreat and it was there that I started my 2007 album!  Now don't think that I am really that up-to-date, in fact although I am 3 years behind I also skipped doing a family album for 2006.  I figured that that was the year that Jack was born so his baby album should suffice for our family one, however I have ran across some milestone things that Mardi did that year...like being a flowergirl for our cousins' wedding!!!!  So needless to say I will be backtracking and completing a 2006 album ... someday!

So tomorrow I will be trying to complete my album I have gotten so far into.  I am only going until 4:30pm as I will be rushing home to see the Brier final!!!  Nothing, not even scrapbooking, will keep me away from the tv and the Canadian mens final in curling!!! 

GO TEAM ALBERTA GO!!!!!

Happy Birthday Jack!!

Well the day is here!  My baby boy is 4 years old TODAY!  I am a little sad that he is growing up so fast but we are enjoying every minute!  Once he wakes up it will be a mad dash to get his sister to school then he and I are making his birthday cake, followed by a trip to Monkey Mountain Toys for him to pick out whatever he wants!  Should be a great day!

Most Likely To...

All right ladies, as much as I giggled my way through your blog submissions I have a little getting even to do.  I however don't care who has the "nicest rack", who has the "best hair" or who is the "best looking".....
mine is all about scrapbooking!

Who is most likely to:

1.  Sleep in the morning of the scrappin' day?  HALEY - 10:30am...seriously?

2.  Stop in at church (most likely to pray that no one forces a drink on her) before attending said day?  KACEY

3.  Enjoy my cooking the most?  KIMBERLY - because I have learned all her picky eating habits so I only serve food to accomodate her diet.

4.  Leave in a huff?  HALEY - literally.  She made so many trips while in the "terminal stages of her pregnancy" up and down the stairs packing and running after her first born that I am sure she slept good that night!

5.  Leave their children? KACEY -because she did.  No safety in numbers when you have that many one or two could get left behind.

6.  Need a haircut, a hair accessory, or need to constantly talk about ones hair?  KIMBERLY.

7.  Finally who is most likely to be a late arrival for a day of scrapbooking?  ALL OF THE ABOVE!!!! 

Tobogganing Day!

Today was the most perfect day to go out and slide down a hill!  I took the kids in the morning across town to a wonderful hill!  I was able to play them out, take them for lunch, then to bed for an afternoon nap!  I love that these kids not only play hard but they sleep hard too!  What a perfect Sunday!

Say Cheese!

We made it! 

I have been so ready for Christmas for so long this year (gift wise) that time seems to be slipping by!  Mardi thankfully had a dentist appointment yesterday so we decided to throw in a picture with the Ol' Guy too!  This is the first year that Jack was totally ok to go and sit on Santa's lap!  No parent in the photo this year!  I am so proud of them both...they played with the elves while I stood in line for the hour and they never once even looked for me!  They are at such a good age now, I had to call them to get their attention when I had made it to the front of  the line.  Even after their picture was taken Jack wanted to go play again!  Those Elves at Chinook ROCK!!!

Merry Christmas to you all!  Only 3 more sleeps...4 more for this household!!!  hehehe!

Thank Goodness for the Tree!

Oh Christmas Tree!

Other than this brightening up the downstairs there are no signs of Christmas around here!  Our house is starting to look like it is inhabited by our jehovah neighbors!

We are so looking forward to Wednesday when the weather is supposed to warm up and we are able to climb a ladder and hang hundreds of christmas lights, hunker down a sparkling snowman in the front yard and set up a bunch of old cedar post nailed together with some old barbed wire and leather reins wrapped in lights that cost me entirely too much money!

Thankfully we did spend a evening letting the kids decorate the tree!

I loved Jack's branches full of tinsel and christmas balls!

And I love how these two could not stop from goofing around long enough to get one good picture!  How good would it have been anyways ~ with Jack missing his pants and Mardi's self-hairdo!

Crazy kids...remind me of their FATHER!