Off to Tea......

I just had to share this picture of Emily. She was invited to a tea party (a.k.a birthday party) three weeks ago and she came home dressed like this. Could you imagine five little five year olds dressed like this. What fun it would have been to see. Sadly, I lack the creativity to come up with ideas like this for birthday parties. With that said, Hayleigh wants to do something for her birthday like this next month. So, we are trying to come up with something so that I am just not stealing someone else's idea.....stay tuned!

Taking Matters into My Own Hands......

Our new nephew Dustin was born March 4th and we were to go and meet him for the first time last Sunday. I ended up sick and could not go. Brent and the girls went without me. I sent the camera with Brent so I would have some pictures of my newest nephew. Well Brent came home with pictures......out of focus pictures and dark pictures. It was all my fault. I will have to take full blame this time. I told him to put the camera on A thinking that the Auto setting was identified by an "A" and completely forgot about the aperture setting. The pictures were horrible. Long story short, the girls and I headed to Barrie yesterday so I could meet the little man in person, visit with Kerri and get some pictures. He is a cutie! He sleeps alot, but I remember back to when Hayleigh was a baby and how she slept all the time and knowing now what I do, that is not such a bad thing. Enjoy it Kerri while it lasts because soon enough he will be waking you at the most ungodly hours.

Three More Pictures from Easter.....

Happy Easter......

Our traditional dying of the eggs.......
the finished product.....
Emily showing off all the eggs the Easter Bunny hid around the house......
Hayleigh, just as excited about all the chocolate!

The Easter Bunny made it to our house this year and like every other year, we have more chocolate then we really need, but somehow we manage to get it all eaten. However, this year Hayleigh has decided that she loves chocolate and has seem to have gone from one extreme to another. At one time in her life she would not touch the stuff and then she moved on to she liked chocolate one day, but not the next (and there was more days then not that she would eat it) now, she can't seem to get enough of the stuff. I can't figure that girl out!

Hope every had a happy and enjoyable Easter!

&%$@^?& Washing Machine

My washing has died on me again. This is the second time in as many years and since I very clearly remember how much it cost to fix the same problem last time, I must now decide if it is just best that we part ways?

Joe had nothing to do with death of the washing machine. I just thought he deserved a little time on the blog as well!

The Crisis of a Five Year Old......

Where do I start? Last weekend was skating carnival. About a week before carnival we had a crisis in our house. Emily was invited to a birthday that was the same day as carnival. I had arrived home one night after running some erands and Emily met me at the door declaring that we had a big problem. I thought it was something very serious and that is when she told me about the birthday party and that she would not going to carnival. My thoughts were that yes, we do have a big problem, because I just paid for your costume, so you will be skating in carnival. Long story short is we comprimised. She went to the birthday party for the afternoon and skated in her carnival that evening. The skating club does two performances in one day so Emily ended up missing one performance. In the end, everyone has happy.

Anyway, you can find the carnival pictures here.

Lots to Report On.....

...when I get a moment. I have a new nephew, we finally made to Great Wolf Lodge and there was skating Carnival as well last weekend. And, I need to mention how much I love my new Beam vacum cleaner.

More later......