Dreyton's 1st Birthday

Dreyton turned one while I was in Utah, I felt really bad leaving him but I know that it doesn't make much of a difference to him if we celebrate a day later. This is his 1st year slideshow for him, for some reason after each video clip it goes blank for 5 seconds so just ignore that as I was tired of trying to figure out why.

My brothers wedding in Utah

I flew to Utah EARLY in the morning to go to Ryan & Katya's wedding. I took the shuttle to Provo which almost made me miss the wedding but luckily I still got there an hour early. I got off the plane and went to the shuttle service and there was a courtesy phone there I was supposed to call and check in with. They told me to go to terminal 1 and to wait outside for the shuttle, after 20 minutes of waiting I went back and asked when it should be getting there. They told me it had come to terminal 2 and left without me and i'd have to wait another hour. I did a bit of yelling and slamming the phone down and went to go rent a car instead, but apparently since i'm not 25 for 2 more months I have to pay 50 dollars for 2 days, additional to the cost of renting the car. So I gave up and swallowed my pride and went back to the shuttle service and waited for the next one to come. Pictures of the luncheon to come soon... It was a really nice small luncheon which I swear had the best wedding food i've ever had and it was fun listening to stories about the groom and bride on the open mic. I left in the early afternoon the next day. This is the slideshow I made for there reception, when I get some pictures of there wedding I will add them to the end of the slideshow.


I could look out of a plane for hours, except i wish the window was a foot higher so I don't have to crouch

Christmas Day Eve

We drove back from the cabin on Christmas Day to have a nice Christmas Dinner and to open presents with the Stanfords.

Zoë and Dreyton opening presents

Dreyton did not like the wrapping paper on presents, but he loved looking at the toys he got

Jenn and I seriously thinking about starting a new fashion line with our emergency vests we got

Christmas Eve Day (Sefcik Family)

Celebrating Christmas a day early at the cabin

Zoë got a doctor set and these lovely glasses came with it

Opening Presents

Winter Wonderland

The Stanford cousins at Nana and Pop's house


We are at the cabin this year for Christmas, except we are celebrating a day early so Ryan and Katya and my parents can start driving to Utah for Ryan's wedding, so we'll be driving to Calgary Christmas Day to spend with our Stanford side of the family.

Zoë and Daddy having fun playing in the snow

Daddy showing Zoë how to make snow angels

Zoë giving Mommy some fake flowers she found

Dreyton has lived in this walker while being at the cabin. He is an accident prone and it's not too childproof here. He loves it and can go super fast.

Zoë wanting to play with Dreyton's walker

Dreyton Walking

I just realized i haven't put a video up of Dreyton walking.

Zoë's Swimming Certificate

Gingerbread House

Daddy doing the prep work

Zoë is getting excited to play with candy

Dreyton got the job of doing a gingerbread ornament (not much went on the cookie)

Mommy and Zoë's side of the gingerbread house

Daddy's side

Random pics

Zoë on a crazy hair day


Cute little nephew Drew

Zoë putting on Pampa's gloves and hat

Snow Day

Yesterday there was a huge snowfall in Calgary, so we decided today would be a perfect day for Zoë to play in the snow with us while Dreyton had a nap. She had lots of fun throwing snowballs and trying to walk in the snow.

Nana's Class

While we were going in town we dropped off at Nana's grade 3 class, the kids loved playing with Zoë and Dreyton.

Zoë teaching the class

Dreyton has become very good at walking. Here he's walking to one of the kids

Zoë teaching Nana how to use some new equipment

My 11 mos old Monkey

I have never had to deal with a climber until now. Zoë was never interested in climbing on couches, or tables etc but Dreyton sure is. The first time I noticed he was going to be a climber was when I was on the computer and looked over in the playroom and see him flying down our huge slide at 10 mos old. The instant I pick him up he's squirming away to climb up me, and I always spot him climbing on the small table and chairs or climbing up my couches.

This is the age where it's near impossible to change a diaper or change there clothes since they're squirming so much, near to impossible to read a book since they're trying to rip all the pages or climb on you to get behind the couch, and near to impossible to not have food smeared in every place they could possibly imagine during meals. On the other hand it's also the best age as they have so much to see and play with and nothings boring, and they're learning many new things. Also with my two kids this is the age where they sleep through the night.

Sugar Cookies

Lee had a couple days off from studying and school so we decided to make sugar cookies. Zoë is becoming such a good helper in the kitchen, she can do some of the prepping for me which helps out a bit. If we have something baking in the oven she brings a chair and sits down and watches it cook, she finds it fascinating.

Putting the flour in (VERY messy)

Mixing time

Taste test

Making the bell shapes

Taste test again while iciing (only had red food colouring so decided to make pink cookies)

Dreyton's turn to taste test

She loves to do funny faces at the camera

Ho Ho Ho

We had a fun day today baking Christmas sugar cookies and then going to West Edmonton Mall for all the free rides and to see Santa Clause. It was both Zoë's and Dreyton's first time meeting Santa and I was very impressed at how they did. I love this picture of them on Santa's lap cause they both do the same thing when they are nervous, which is put there fingers in there mouth. Zoë asked Santa for a choo choo train for Christmas, and Dreyton was just thinking this guy looked funny. The set that Santa was in was in a movie called Christmas in Wonderland which is based in West Edmonton Mall (I don't suggest anyone watch it though, as it wasn't very good).


Today I went to Zellers for this moonlight madness sale they were having so I could get a train table for the kids for Christmas which was 60% off regular price. When I got there, there was about 20 people waiting for the train tables to come out and when they did there was only 6 table sets. Everyone went crazy and started grabbing and pulling to get one, so I went in and got in a battle for one with this one lady. I won.

Lee's obsession

There is one thing that will drive Lee up the wall crazy, holes in clothes. As soon as he spots the smallest hole in a sock he has to rip it up to the point of mutilation. We were watching a movie in the evening and Lee spots a small hole in my elbow of my black hoodie so the next thing I know he is ripping my clothes apart like a crazy man. He ripped my pocked off my shirt, ripped the front completely off, AND ripped half of the sleeve off. Beware if holes in jeans ever become the style again.

simliar to the shirt BEFORE Lee attacked


AFTER the mutilation

My poor boy

Dreyton and I have been sick last night and today with a fun head cold. My poor boy has just laid on me all morning, or if I put him on the floor to play he will just lay down on something and fall asleep in our living room. Here he is falling asleep in our living room clutching onto the baby thermometer.

Christmas on the Square

We decided to go to churchill square tonight and look at the light set up with Heather and Dan and the kids. Zoë had a blast looking at all the lights and afterwards we went on the c-train on a little detour before heading home, Dreyton as usual slept through most of it. Landon had fun pushing the emergency button on the train and Zoë had fun entertaining other people on the train asking them if they're having fun. I forgot my camera but luckily Heather had hers to take some pics of the night.

Zonked Out

Zoë decided she was too big to have a nap today. I had her in her room for 1 1/2 hours in which she decided to play, read, and jump around until eventually I came and got her. After awhile of her playing and watching some cartoons I found her like this..

...luckily for me her naps are not over yet

Dreyton on the other hand will fall asleep anywhere, we didn't want him to sleep after our car ride one day so we had him sleep in the living room while his sister ran around him trying to wake him up and we were shuffling around. Apparently he can sleep through anything as he never woke up until after awhile.