well well

it's been forever since my last post. for a mnute there i almost forgot i had a blog.

lots has happened, too many stories to tell one by one......

i am now 30. 30. wow, time is flying. with sarah turning 5 last week, and haley turning 8 next month, there are times that i wish we could stop the clock and simply enjoy the state we are in now. but then again, if time were to stop, i think life would start to get very boring.

the summer has been quiet. nothing more than work and daycare, with a few playdates and trips to the beach added in between. i have been able to spend some time with friends, new adn old..

i promise that i will never let this blog be ignored again, and pictures and stories will follow in the coming days/weeks. in fact we are getting ready for a fun filled family farm weekend happening this very weekend. there will be pictures, and im sure there will be stories.....
so stay tuned and again, sorry for being a bad blog host :(

pics and posts coming soon

i know its been forever since i posted on the blog. very shortly we'll have some new pictures and posts for all to enjoy. :)

back!

I'm back from the great Punta Cana!

the week flew by and the drinks really flowed. LOL. and the food. oh the food. i have never eaten so much variey and quantity as i did last week. i spent an amazing week with an amazing group of people and made plenty of new and unexpected friends. and just met some very intereseting people along the way.
the wedding was beautiful, the bride, radiant. and the whole wedding party looked kick-ass. (thanks to Julie for making me up that day. she has insane make up skills).

there are lots of stories to tell, one better then the last. lets just say that i have never been "sexually advanced" with my cousin before, drunks and russians do not get along, and helping an intoxicated man back to his room with a friend, may still result in the occasional bum grabs, speedos are still big(get it?),mullets may or may not still be popular in quebec, and the list goes on and on......

i have lots of pictures, but have them all up on facebook already. it's a little easier to get pics up on there then here.

again, a great trip. period. i so dod not want to come home, but i think the kids and Jason were kinda missing me a little.

definately a trip to remember and thank you to everyone who made it awesome!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

it's a little late, but we were having waaaayyyyyyy too much fun to sit on post things on the computer.
christmas was great. really nice. the kids got what they asked for, and are still getting things unwrapped as of last night. of course, EVERYTHING takes batteries this year. EVERYTHING. (and so off to costco we'll go later today)

we have a quiet evening to ourselves on christmas evening, watching toy story and eating a dinner that had no turkey, potatoes or stuffing involved. again, a very wonderful thing.

yesterday was my first ever time out to a mall on boxing day. and i gotta say, with so many sales going on before the holiday started, stores weren't lowering prices much more then they already had.

today is another "holiday" and we just have some eveyday stuff to get done. i welcome it and am happy that we can go out and do it all together. it doesn't happen like that very often, what with the kids having lots to do, school starting up and what not.

so in ending, i hope you and your families had a wonderful christmas holiday season, and from us to you, i wanna wish you a happy new year. i'll so it now, just in case i forget to come on here again in a week ;)

and btw-i know the videos aren't up, they will be before the new year.

slight delay in the videos, i have to figure out a better way to upload vidoes on this thing. bear with me, i will have them up soon :)

it's been a while

wow, almost 2 months without a post!

well, things are busy. very busy. funny how the christmas season is what will slow us down.
the kids are doing great. haley is earning LOTS of badges at brownies, is doing way better in school, and her reading is near perfect.
sarah is still sarah. funny, sweet, with a little bad in her. i guess that's so all the sweet doesn't rot her from the inside out.
matthew is talking up a storm and just being an all around boy. doing what boys do. you know, things like scaring his mother when he tries to climb things and jump off of said things.

school for me is crazy, but fun. i have had the pleasure of making new friends, and managed to pass term 1. only 8 more terms to go! clinical has started and i am loving it! just solidifies my desire to be an RN and having everyone around me rooting for me, makes me want it more.

there is a video coming up soon. of the kids daycare concert. it seems to be taking forever to upload, so i thought i would post this first. there will be another video later tonight or tommorow too. haley has her school christmas concert tonight. our first one ever!

can't wait

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

well.....ok so its a little late, but at least it wasn't weeks ago.
the kids had lots of fun, adn had lots of parties to go to, between school, daycare, the Y and halloween itself, the costumes were well used.
here are a few pictures, some of them aren't the greatest but the kids werw not in a mood to sit still....there was candy to be had!

random pictures for your viewing pleasure

just a few extra pictures we took recently.

girls

haley is 7. she has been for a few weeks now. but....she just had her birthday party last weekend.
her very first all girl party. no boys. the first step to sleepovers, gossip, mall runs and makeup....

she must have wanted to let her "tomboy" years go with a bang because she picked go carting as her activity. it was fun, the girls were perfect and here are a couple pictures of the fun





that last one was my favorite. they give the little caps to wear under the helets(a welcome idea if you ask me)and they were all just thrilled to wear them!!

3 weeks in into fall.

well, technically fall doesn't start for another week, but for the purposes of life fall starts when kids are back in school, and the weather gets colder.

haley Loves her new teacher. she is getting better already in her reading skills and very shortly her math will start to come home too.
ballet has started and swimming starts tonight. and brownies starts in two weeks.

sarah is motoring around, always busy and always trying to keep up with haley. a typical little sister. her ballet has also started and this yar for the first time ever she is also going to learn tap in class. she cannot wait to get tap shoes. i, on the hand, can wait forever.

matthew is doing great with the big kids. little girls are drawn to him when he arrives(makes his daddy proud) and the poor little guy got stung by a wasp this week right in the eye. it was completely swollen shut for 2 days. i regret not taking a picture. not quite sure why i didn't think of it until after he looked completly normal again.

school for me is busy, crazy and an experience that i could neither anticipate, nor fully prepare for. but so far so good.

that is the last few weeks in a nutshell. its my favorite time of year acutally, because as crazy busy as we are, there is structure and i NEED that to get through things.

pictures will follow soon.
haley has her birthday party this weekend, and i want to take somem cute fall pics of the kids in the near future.....