snowman family

We had a ladies event this past weekend where we made our family as snowmen! It was so fun! The kids just love themselves as snowmen. I tried to put lots of glitter on Nadia's and to make Colin's scarf look like a hockey scarf. So far Colin snowman has taken quite a few nose dives.

So what do you think of our snowman family? Pretty realistic?

anxiously awaited

Well, some of you have been anxiously awaiting photos...and Tim's been bugging me, so here they are. Of course you have to see an in-progress photo. While Tim was doing the hardwood, Colin thought he should get dressed as Bob the Builder and help Daddy. He's a step ahead of Daddy with those safety goggles!


Here's a before picture of the living room. I'll add more 'after' photos later, but for now here's the idea of what the area looked like. It was all a very light coloured carpet....and white walls.

And....after. Although Nadia keeps reminding us that we still need to do baseboards. Geesh, cut us some slack!

We did slate in the entry, and Scandinavian, hand scrapped hardwood in the living room and dining room.

Before: in the dining room.

After! We took out the china cabinet and put up an "art wire". As soon as we put it up, Colin suddenly was interested in doing crafts.

Dampa Dampa visit

Grandpa and Grandma came to visit before Halloween. It has been insanely busy since then, so sorry it took so long to post these. Sometimes I just skip ahead to the present, because it's too overwhelming otherwise. So anyway....

We went to Ikea and got Colin a puppy mask, and Nadia a birthday cake hat. Colin let Grandma wear it! :)
Nadia finally let Grandma put her hair in a french braid. Only because I told her the next day when we take them out she would have curly hair. Apparently, she wants curly hair.

Grandpa was the centre of attention. Playing with the kids....they LOVED it. Colin finally stopped calling them Opa and Oma (because they were just here too). Now he calls them Dampa Dampa every night when he thanks God for them.

Halloween

Nadia was a puppy monkey and Colin was Bob the Builder! Colin even enjoyed going trick or treating. Tim said he would stand in front of Nadia at the doors and then just stair at the people after he received his candy. He was quiet mesmerized by the whole idea.

Nadia's 2 pumpkins.

pumpkin carving

So I just realized that we have a serious lack of posts lately. Just goes to show that we've been really busy. Very good busy...with lots of great stuff.

Yesterday, was the first day in about 6 weeks that there was nothing on the calendar and nothing that had to be done. So I played with the kids and we did some wall prep. It occurred to me that it's almost Halloween so we broke out the pumpkins we grew this year. And I let the kids draw on their pumpkins.

Nadia especially enjoyed getting her hands mucky to get the insides, out. And helping to get the seeds out of the gunk. Colin got right in there too, but picking the seeds out was too much for him. He said, ``Yuck! I just watch.`` And he pulled up a chair.

I helped Colin a little with his drawing.

Nadia was so proud of her biggest seed, she collected.

The finished product.
Guess which one is Nadia's!

birthday memories

For the first time in many years my twin brother and I got to celebrate our birthday together. It was a fun day. Rueben played with the kids. Nadia went to play school. We picked up some groceries at Superstore. Including this Black Forest Cake my brother picked out. And we went out for supper at my favourite restaurant, which everyone else loved too. (That's always good!)

This photo is for my Mom. This is how we always used to look in our birthday photos. None too impressed by the time Dad had the focus on the camera just right. And we even lifted the one end of the cake together. Just like my Mom used to always make us do. Don't worry Mom, we still think you're amazing...having to put up with the 2 of us and all.

under construction

Our blog is under construction. It was feeling a little left out since we've started pulling our house apart. My brother is here and he understands html. In fact his job is to write stuff like that, so we're working on it over the next few days. It's very exciting. I love to design, I just haven't got a clue about the inner working of html. So check back in a few days to see what we've come up with. Just don't expect too much.