Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Christmas

Christmas was a little different for us this year.   We got possession of our house 4 days BEFORE  Christmas (it was supposed to be mid-end January, so a bit of a shock), we had tonnes of packing to do.    We didn't move until after Christmas, so we could enjoy the holidays a bit.    

The girls in front of my parents Christmas tree.  We never set one up this year, which was VERY strange.   Kinda glad we didn't set up a tree, as Tenley was constantly eating the lights and pulling the stuff off my parents tree.  Hopefully she's over that stage by next year! 



It was Tenleys 1st Christmas.   She had fun opening some presents, and sleeping for the rest.   


Dreyton excited to get his Star Wars lego from Santa


We wanted to do something small for Christmas at our new place, since this was our first year in our first home!   Santa surprised the kids by setting up the gifts at our new house.


Tenley got spoiled with a activity garden, and MANY other gifts


Don't ask me what Santa was thinking!!!   


I didn't get many pictures from Christmas as my camera broke.


Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Finally Updated Pictures!

Finally we have updated pictures, last family pictures were on Tenley's baby blessing day!   








I have pictures of Zoë too on my mom's camera, so will update later on.  




Monday, December 3, 2012

Dreytons 5th birthday party

I decided to have Dreyton's birthday party a month early.  With moving, and Christmas at the end of December, it was just too crazy.

 It was nice to have it a month early, where not much else was happening so I could spend some time making his party as fun as possible.

my boy is all about superhero's, so it was no question to have a superhero party.

I enjoy making my kids birthday invitations with my digital scrapbooking software.   I planned a superhero training birthday party, where they learned to be superheros.   



I decided to make capes for all the kids.  Considering I really have never sewn before, this was a HUGE task for me to take on by myself.   They are not perfect, but they did the job, and the kids were excited to get there own capes.   These were 6 out of the 8 capes I made.   



Super food!   Dreyton strongly dislikes pizza, so we had hot dog wraps for his party.   


Since I am in the process of moving, and my house is a mess I booked the church for his party.  It was great to have so much space to plan and organize his party.


One thing I did not do was make his cake for him this year.   I wanted to spend my time making capes instead.   He picked this out at the "bakery" which he was super excited about.  


Uncle Shawn and Tenley.  Tenley had fun exploring the church, I had also set up a playpen and baby monitor in one of the rooms so she could nap.    


"Nemesis", the kids had to make sure he didn't destroy the party!


They had video's that they watched on the Ipad which "Nemesis" recorded, telling them the bad things he was doing to try to destroy the superhero training party.    


In order to become superhero's they had to have super speed, learn to fly, and super strength.   

Super speed was doing some obstacle courses around the gym 

Super Strength was lifting the milkjug full of ice 5 times above their head.   

and Learning to fly was jumping super high in the inflatable bouncer



After they did all their tasks, they earned their capes.




"Nemesis" froze superman's power in these balls and the kids had to figure out how they were going to get the balls out of the ice.   We helped them figure out they had to run it under warm water to rescue them.    






Next they had to find all the kryptonite "glow sticks" around the church, so they wouldn't lose there superhero powers.



At the end they found "Nemesis" and had to take off his hat (which gave him his evil powers), they found out it was Lee and he had accidentally put on a hat that gave him the evil powers, and they rescued him.





At the end, kids ran around in the dark gym with the inflatable bouncer, glow sticks, and lights in the fog (I rented a fog machine).
 

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Tenley is now 9 months!


This girl keeps me on my toes!   She is very busy, and advancing way too quick.   With Zoë and Dreyton I was ready for them to learn new things and was excited to see them advance and grow.  With Tenley I want her to stay small and like a baby for as long as possible.   I know how fast it goes by!    Unfortunately Tenley has other plans....

Tenley at the science center in the baby area.   She is crawling, and pulling herself up on everything.   She loves to let go and try to balance standing on her own.   

She loved crawling through this tunnel of mirrors.  


Baby crawling track.


This pictures shows her in my eyes, a blur!    Can't keep up with this girl, I am usually trying to catch her from getting into trouble every few seconds.  


Unfortunately my camera is broken, so I have had to take poor iphone photos.


A typical Tenley picture, crazy hair!


Thursday, November 1, 2012

Halloween 2012

Zoë was sleeping beauty for Halloween this year.  Lee took the kids to the halloween dance at their school this year, while I volunteered with raffle tickets.  

we did some pumpkin carving, I enjoy stenciling it out, and making it more of a shape then the jack-o-lantern style.  







 a witch and a angry bird


My little koala!   Aunty Erin works at a costume shoppe, and one day they had breakfast television coming to take clips of different costume ideas.   Tenley and Dreyton went early in the morning to be on TV, and as a gift they gave out costumes to each of them.  

Black Spider-man, Koala, and my Pirate girl (her costume she wore door-to-door)


I even dressed up!   I was a witch.


Their halloween candy (and Daddy's hard candy pile, he takes while they are sleeping)


Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Corn Maze

I love searching for deals, so when I came upon a deal of the day for a family of 4 to the corn maze I jumped on it.   I enjoy it so much more knowing it didn't cost an arm and a leg.  

My mom watched Tenley while we went, as it was quite windy which she would not have enjoyed.   




Kids love these "pillows", you can jump pretty high on them






Train ride through a part of the big corn maze



Big pedal quads?   




Dreyton saw his best girlfriend from school there - Ella.  Watching the pig races



Petting Zoo



Zoë just loves to pose for the camera, usually telling me to grab the camera and take a picture quite often





Going through the smaller corn maze, you colour your fingers with chalk and try to find all the colours.  



Horse-back riding.   Zoë's pony's name was snowball



Don't remember the name of Dreytons



Bought some sugar pumpkins, and made some puree for the future.