It's Time to Make a Wish!

Sometimes I wish I had a voice recorder on record 24/7, so I could capture all the sweet things my children say. I love this one by Jude talking about making wishes on dandelion seeds:

"When you blow the seeds they go to the North Pole and let Santa know what you wish for"

And "It's okay to pull them off if you can't blow them" 

I love my children, and wish they would slow down. I just want them to stay little for longer.

A Little Catch Up

Well hello! It has been a long time since I have checked in. I kind of forgot how to use my blog and this post is taking way longer then I had anticipated! And so far all I have done is load the pictures and write these sentences:) 

I thought I would do a Wordless Wednesday for my first post, with a mish mash of photos from the last couple of months, but then I felt like some of the photos needed a bit of explaining, so I've scraped that idea. Most of the photos are random selections I made while scrolling through our photos, so there really is no rhyme or reason, but it will give you a tiny idea of what we have been up to.

I just like this picture, and it was taken after my last post so I thought I would throw it in, and it's kind of a nice beginning to this post.

Lots of teeth have been lost. I think the one lost in this picture, was actually lost. Like swallowed lost!

Two teeth in one day. One of them was ripped out of his mouth while visiting the dentist. She noticed how loose it was and decided to pull it out without warning!

My camera decided to stop working properly and so a lot of pictures are blurry! The auto focus works occasionally, and now the light meter has stopped working. Lame! But cute little photo, if it wasn't blurry. This is Furno. Jude's costume for Halloween. Furno is a Bionicle, for those are not familiar with Bionicles.

And the another Halloween shot, must have been taken by Rob, because he uses the flash, and I refuse to use the flash.

 Me and my last minute costume. I was dressed as Janelle from the Chipettes. I just used Jai's Simon costume from last year. 

It's winter now, so a lot of time is spent indoors building set ups.

Lots of booties

I finally tried on some dresses. These are by Discarded Courture. It was a last minute crap-I-really-wanted-to-get-some-nice-photos-of-me-in-these-dresses-and-she-needs-them-back-tomorrow moment, so they are taken after we put the kids to bed, as we were getting ready for bed ourselves. Not a great time to take photos.

I entered an Upcycleing contest through Brushfire Records and my piece was accepted and entered into an auction fundraiser. They sent me all this as a "Thank you". I'm pretty stoked!

On the ferry.

It is impossible to get a decent photo of us all. At least one person was blurry in every single one of the 50 photos we took. Well that's not true, there was one photo where we were all in focus, and I thought this was the one, but clearly it's not, but I'm too lazy to find the focused one, so.... 

I felt super guilty for not sewing my kids some cloths for Christmas, so I made them some "warm, cozy" pants as Jasper calls them. I have a bunch of fleece that I was given a couple of years ago, that has been sitting in my closet and I couldn't decide what to do with it all. It's cold. And the boys like to play outside, so this was a good solution.

 Jude on his Furno bike wearing his red warm and cozy pants. Furno is red so Jude likes wearing red.

 Jasper's super cute legs in his new warm, cozy fleece leggings.

And that's all I've got for today. There is a lot more that went on, but too much for one post. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season, and I wish you the best in this coming year. I have a feeling 2013 is going to be the best year yet!

                             

The First Beautiful Weekend, Spent Indoors

This weekend was glorious! Warmer then any of the summer days we had last year (we were totally ripped off last summer!) Guess where I spent my weekend? Indoors. For the whole weekend. I signed up to do the Spring Prestige Craft Fair, which at the time I was unable to predict the weather. This is the West Coast, so there is always a chance of rain. This of course was not the case, so you can guess how many people wanted to spend their sunny day at an indoor craft fair. It was very disappointing. The craft fair itself was great. Amazing vendors, well organized fair, with limousine shuttle service, lots of advertising, a beautiful venue, but very few customers. Sigh. It was a little disheartening, but again, who could have predicted such a beautiful weekend?

It wasn't a total loss. I did get to pick out new earrings that I won from Sunshine Jewls:

I got to pick out two pairs of earrings. I also picked a red pair.

Face Painting

Jude insisted on sitting on my lap. 

Pikachu pose.

 Show me your cheeks.

We strolled down to the dock and discovered some seals sunbathing on the logs. They blend in so well, we barely noticed them at first. We watched them for a while, maybe the last hour of the show. I completely abandoned my booth because I couldn't bare being inside any longer. The seals made some funny farting sounds and we all had a good giggle. 

We thought this little piece of seaweed looked like a fish.

I wanted to get some sun on Sunday morning before the show. Look how beautiful it is. When I finally went inside, my neighbours told me just after I left the previous night, a women came and wanted to buy one of my quilts!!!!!! That would have made my weekend. What a bummer. Oh well.

When we got home, there were hearts on the door, and all throughout the house. The boys drew self portraits and Rob hung them under their belly casts. It was the pick me up I needed. I love my boys, and was disappointed that I didn't get to spend Mothers Day with them, but they sure know how to make me feel loved, and that was just what I needed. 

What's in your fridge?

We have the usual, meat defrosting for tonights dinner, lots of veggies and fruit, almond flour, leftovers...... and a stuffy puppy in plastic container with marbles. 

This is one of my favourite things about having little ones in the house, and I try not to think about how much I will miss these discoveries when they are older, but I will. They warm my heart.

As I'm writing this I have tears in my eyes. Tears of love and happiness. My ten year old just came down the stairs to give me the birthday card he made for me with coupons inside for things like, a free massage, a free movie night, a free I make snack all day, one free I make you a comic, one free read an extra chapter etc...I love my children so much, sometimes I cry.

Winter wonderland!

I didn't believe it would actually happen, but it did! We have snow!!! and lots of it. More is falling from the sky as I write this.

Our winter has been fairly mild so far this year, but all of a sudden the temperatures dropped, and we are covered in a soft blanket of snow. It's beautiful. I'm not a huge fan, mostly because of the cold. I'm a coldy, so ideally this is not my kind of weather, but I think the boys will have a blast. I can spend half an hour bundling them up, and hopefully Jude will last longer then 10 minutes (which has been his max tolerance for the snow in previous years), make them hot chocolate, and kiss their rosy red cheeks.

Here are a few pictures of what it looks like outside right now:

This is our little Charlie Brown Christmas tree.

I can't wait to bring our dog out in the snow. She is a husky/malamute/great pyrenees, so she was made for this kind of weather, but she totally cowers in the snow, tiptoeing through, like maybe if she treads lightly it won't touch her. Like a cat. She is so like a cat. She does the something in the rain. Then all of a sudden she gets a burst of energy and runs around in circles, releasing her inner dog. It's fun to watch.

I hope you have a great Tuesday:)

Autumn

Crunchy leaves, changing colours, crisp air, children laughing, running, playing. It is a beautiful time of year.