Nine days left in my 20's !!

Project of The Night

Accessories for the girls' flapper costumes...the big dance show is this saturday...

stay tuned for more on that!!

For amusement's sake, I am counting down to my 30th birthday...10 glorious more days in my 20's and then it's off to the real grown up world!!

(I did not make this cake, I just grabbed it off the internet:)

Digging Duo

We had a guy come out to do some "landscaping" (I always thought landscaping meant planting flowers, trees and bushes but apparently when you only have dirt, landscaping includes moving the dirt around!) At any rate, Caleb got to "Ride" the digger with his Daddy! Here are my guys on the digger.

Cousins are Cool!

I love watching our kids and their cousins together. They all love eachother so much. They all go to the same school and see eachother daily. Even on the weekends, we enjoy doing fun stuff as a big family. Today we played mini golf at a great place here in town- just look at that view!

I am quite impressed with myself for arranging these 7 children in order of age and snapping the picture with everyone of them looking quite darling- yay!

This right here is the number one reason we moved to Kelowna! (and I am not talking about the view!) What an awesome blessing for our children to grow up being a part of a big, loving, close family!!

Madsaladsa

Maddie is just as cute as ever these days! She has taken on the role of the talker in our family. Man can that girl talk! Not only can she talk, she talks in a louder tone than the average talking tone. She is so funny, she follows us around asking questions she knows the answers to, informing us about which sibling is breaking what rule, singing whatever song is in her head, and it goes on and on.

The only time that Maddie stops talking is when she has her blankie. When she is holding her blankie she goes into the "blankie zone" and the whole world around her disappears!

Here she is with her blanks and also taking a big lick of her first ice cream of the summer (cotton candy flavor, of course).

Free Spirit

Mailee Joy is the free spirit in our bunch. She does things her own way, thank you very much! In the past week alone, I have captured 3 glorious moments of Mailee exercising her right to free, um, spiritedness!

New goggles being put to good use on a school field trip

I love her tiny legs with these big rubber boots, and choice of the frilly top and skirt to go outside and play in the mud!

It was really sunny so she is squinting but you can still apreciate the bike, it is the smallest size you can get. Maddie's is bigger but Mailee is happy on this one and does not want to upgrade. These shoes are perfectly cute but for no apparent or explainable reason she has refused to wear them for the past 4 months and then on this particular day she was scrambling around to find them cause she HAD to wear them with this outfit!! Also note the rock and roll scarf complimenting the ensemble. She wears this scarf quite often because "it flows in the wind" .

I am so thankful for Mailee and how comfortable she is with what she likes and how she likes it. She is such a sweet and fun girl! Although I have fought her a bit over her wardrobe choices, I am learning to appreciate and embrace her unique sense of style and beginning to realise how integral that is to the special person that she is!

The "Buddy Party"

Caleb refers to his friends as his "buddies". Here are some photos of his fun party. He loves diggers and dirt and construction so we held his party in the playground accross the street so the kids could dig up a storm. Caleb had a great time and it took quite a bit of pursuading to get him inside to eat his cake!

I am so thankful my son in a house full of sisters is turning into such a guy's guy!

Mother's Day Tea

Mikayla's 2nd grade class hosted a cute little Mother's Day Tea. Each child read their special letter out loud to their mom in front of the rest of the class. It was very cute to hear all the letters. Mikayla wote a really sweet one, check it out!

Caleb Is TWO!!!

Our baby, our little guy had his second birthday last weekend. It happened to be the weekend that I was away but thankfully I have 3 well trained little ladies and they have one very able Daddy. The girls planned a little family party complete with a cake. My SIL took some sweet photos so I could enjoy the event from afar. Here are some of my favorites...

Birthday Extravaganza!

My husband planned an incredible 5 days away up at Vail in Colorado for me and two of my best friends. We stayed in a swanky hotel, ate fancy dinners, went to the beautiful spa for massages and shopped. It was such a fun weekend and I feel so fortunate that:

-my luggage finally made it

-I have great friends that that i still have fun with after 15 years

-my husband is so clever when it comes to coming up with gifts for me

-I have family I can trust to take care of my little ones (thanks terri!)

-I have a closet full of new stuff-yay!

So much to be thankful for!! Here are a few photos from the trip:

The Birthday That Just Won't Stop

In the name of my 30th birthday I have:

-gone with my family to California

-had a family photo shoot in SF with a professional photographer (a big dream of mine:)

-thrown and clecbrated a lovely 30th birthday bash with my 4 best friends (two of which flew in for the affair)

-as if that was not enough, my husband surprised me with an entire 5 day planned trip to vail, where I met two of those best friends and we stayed in a swanky hotel and had spa treatments and ate fancy dinners and SHOPPED...ahhh!

30 is looking better than 20 already!!