Lets give Kim just one last vote and hopefully put her in the lead. Contest ends today so this is your last chance to help her out. Thank you everyone who took the time to vote for Kim, she really does appreciate it :0)

VOTE HERE

PUMPKIN CARVING

This year we fell a little behind on our Halloween preparation and the pumkin carving ceremony didn't take place until suppertime today when Matt came home for supper. It was a bit rushed but the job got done with the help from all the kids. Jay was excited to get to do the pumkin face design this year. It turned out great as always and once again his name is "Jack"...Scooping the gutts...Blake wasn't to impressed with this process...Matt carved Jay's design....Kohl with a hand full of pumkin gutts...yuckTime to pop out the eyes, nose and mouth..
This is" JACK"!

SPECIAL TIME FOR TRINITY

Trinity finally got to go back to Grampie and Grammie Myrtle's for another sleep over, she really enjoys her time visiting with them and is always looking forward to another sleep over.

After their morning out to the park in the cold and collecting some leaves I had to pick Trinity up so we could head back towards Cape Breton. She is already planning her next visit with Grampie and Grammie Myrtle.

Blake getting ready to blow out his birthday candles on his Shrek birthday cake...

Blake and Grammie Way....A glimpse of Matt in the future...he has more hair than he has now...Kim got in on the fun with the kids and dressed up, her coffee needed a little extra milk....
Kohl trying on his gummie eye balls...


All the kids came dressed in their Halloween costumes...
Taking some time to color Halloween pages...a calm moment before Matt started the wresting match... Matt ended up getting slammed from every direction..
Blake made lots of noise...I guess I was suppose to give them to the kids as they went home..ooops, I never thought of the noise...
Blake wanted to read his own birthday cards this year. He did a pretty good job at it. I am very proud of him!



Thank you to everyone who came and celebrated Blake's 3rd birthday. It was nice to have the family around. I miss you all!

FLAT STANLEY ADVENTURE

Trintiy had to do send Flat Stanley on an adventure. Well Matt wanted to do something special for her so he took Flat Stanley to work with him for the day. I tell you those two can sure get themselves into trouble....LOL Matt took Stanley to work yesterday and typed up their adventure and emailed it to me to look at...from Matt's story I had a great idea to turn it into a story book adventure. Trinity was pretty impressed with this and couldn't wait to get to school and show her teacher.

I thought I would share this Flat Stanley adventure with you....we had fun putting it all together:0) It's a little rough, we were up late getting it done :0)

FLAT STANLEY AND THE MYSTERIOUS SPOOK ADVENTURE

Trinity's Flat Stanley arrived at 556 Main Street one cool fall morning. Always searching for adventure Stanley decided to go to work at the local store with Trinity's dad for a day to see what mischief he could get into.

Upon arriving at work we got an eerie feeling that it would be a mysterious day for sure. We began by putting the key in the door, but for some strange reason it wouldn't open, sometimes the lock can be a bit stubborn but today it wouldn't budge, not one bit. This was strange I thought, it was sure lucky that Stanley was here today because without a blink of an eye, he quickly jumped out of my jacket pocket and slid under the crack in the door. He jumped up onto the candy machine at the front door so he cold reach the lock-switch on the inside of the door and quickly got us in.

Around the door we saw a trail of crumbs leading down to my office, this was peculiar because the floor is always swept at night. We walked back to the office so we could get a start to the day but when I went to get my name badge out of my desk drawer I realized that is was locked and I couldn't find my key anywhere, I wonder where it went? Stanley wanting to help again was able to slide through into my drawer and get it open it was great to have him here. Looking through my drawer I couldn't find my badge anywhere, weird I left it there I was sure last night, all that was there was a fluff of fur.

Stanley was feeling there was more to this mystery than meet the eye he was trying to put the pieces together and find out what was causing this mischief. Stanley and I decided to continue on our day, we were working on Halloween displays today, this make Stanley nervous as it was spooky seeing all the Halloween decorations and scary music playing. Stanley was walking down the aisle filled with Halloween treats and suddenly he heard a rustling sound coming from the end of the aisle, he rushed down to see what was going on.

He found little bits of paper all ripped up on the floor, strange he thought, what could be leaving crumbs by the door, fur in the desk and bits of paper on the floor? Looking up on the shelf he saw where the paper had come from, there is a hole in the box of cheesy chips. Stanley was starting to figure things out, he looked behind the chips and what did he find?

..........SNUCK..........BOOM.............BANG! Out fell a furry little creature, he stood up on his hind legs and spoke to Stanley. "Stanley, funny to see you here, how are you doing? It's Sam Mousetache, your old friend." Stanley said, "I had a feeling it was you, it all makes sense now, the trail of clues led us straight to you." Sam began to tell his story, "I smelled the most delicious smell and I just couldn't resist it, so I snuck in last night as they were closing the doors." "When things got quiet I snuck a few crackers from the restaurant, I was cold so the heart from the kitchen warmed me up, I didn't want anyone to disturb me so I snuck some gum into the lock up front so it would be hard to get in, you probably saw my crumbs." After I was done I snuck down to the office and got the bosses badge pass so I could open up the locks, I saw this shiny key on his desk and thought I might need it for something. When I was crawling out of the drawer, I caught my back and pulled out some of my fur." "Then I followed my nose down here to the delicious cheesy smell and you found me."

"Well Sam I guess that solves the mystery, let's go snack on these cheesies, clean up your mess and then I'll head back to Trinity's house to get ready for my next adventure...where will it bring me....we will have to see?

FAMILY TIME

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Matt and Trinity playing bratz and barbies
Kohl and Blake building towers with the blocks
Jay got some of his project typed out...then headed off to Youth Group!

Not much else went on yesterday. The weather was cool and rainy so we hung out in the house.

A PLEA FOR MORE VOTES....

I JUST RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM MY BEST FRIEND KIM BACK IN SAINT JOHN AND SHE IS STARTING TO FALL BEHIND ON HER VOTES :0( SHE COULD REALLY USE OUR HELP WITH WINNING THIS CONTEST... IF WE ALL JUST TAKE ONE MINUTE AND VOTE FOR HER IT COULD PUT HER BACK IN THE LEAD... SHE IS LIKE FAMILY TO ME AND FAMILY STICK TOGETHER. SO I AM DETERMINED TO HELP HER WIN THIS SCRAPBOOK CONTEST....

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO VOTE FOR KIM....

ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS CLICK HERE AND VOTE FOR KIM.

Remember...you can vote for her once everyday until October 31st

A NEW LOOK FOR ME AND THE BLOG...

Matt dyed my hair last night...
It 's a little darker but it matches my roots...next comes the hightlights :0)
(Kohl took this picture...good job buddie)

It's hard to believe he is almost 3 years old...where does the time go?

(I got these pictures back today)

ENJOY!

WE CAN ALL USE A LAUGH...

CAKE OR BED

HUSBAND IS AT HOME WATCHING A FOOTBALL GAME WHEN HIS WIFE INTERRUPTS,



HONEY, COULD YOU FIX THE LIGHT IN THE HALLWAY? IT'S BEEN FLICKERING FOR WEEKS NOW.


HE LOOKS AT HER AND SAYS ANGRILY, FIX THE LIGHTS NOW? DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE GE WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD? I DON'T THINK SO.



FINE, THEN THE WIFE ASKS, WELL THEN, COULD YOU FIX THE FRIDGE DOOR? IT WON'T CLOSE RIGHT



TO WHICH HE REPLIED, FIX THE FRIDGE DOOR?
DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE WESTINGHOUSE WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD? I DON'T THINK SO



FINE, SHE SAYS THEN YOU COULD AT LEAST FIX THE STEPS TO THE FRONT DOOR? THEY ARE ABOUT TO BREAK



I'M NOT A CARPENTER AND I DON'T WANT TO FIX STEPS HE SAYS, DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE ACE HARDWARE WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD? I DON'T THINK SO I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU. I'M GOING TO THE BAR!!!! SO HE GOES TO THE BAR AND DRINKS FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS............................... HE STARTS TO FEEL GUILTY ABOUT HOW HE TREATED HIS WIFE, AND DECIDES TO GO HOME AS HE WALKS INTO THE HOUSE HE NOTICES THAT THE STEPS ARE ALREADY FIXED. AS HE ENTERS THE HOUSE , HE SEES THE HALL LIGHT IS WORKING AS HE GOES TO GET A BEER, HE NOTICES THE FRIDGE DOOR IS FIXED.
HONEY, HE ASKS, HOW'D ALL THIS GET FIXED?


SHE SAID, WELL, WHEN YOU LEFT I SAT OUTSIDE AND CRIED. JUST THEN A NICE YOUNG MAN ASKED ME WHAT WAS WRONG, AND I TOLD HIM. HE OFFERED TO DO ALL THE REPAIRS, AND ALL I HAD TO DO WAS EITHER GO TO BED WITH HIM OR BAKE A CAKE.



HE SAID, SO WHAT KIND OF CAKE DID YOU BAKE?

SHE REPLIED,
HELLOOOOO.. DO YOU SEE BETTY CROCKER WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD? I DON'T THINK SO!


Now that I put a smile on your face, let's put a smile of my friend Kim's face by voting HERE!

HELPING A FRIEND

I have never done this before on my family blog but I am here looking for some kind and caring people to help me help a friend. Kim was and is one of my best friends from Saint John, she has just entered a contest to win an awesome scrapbook kit and she would really like to win the prize. Right now she is in the lead (thanks LeeAnn and Robin for voting) and I would like to help keep it that way. Voting goes until the end of October and you only have to vote once but if you want you can vote once every day until October 31st. So if you would like to help me out then just click HERE and vote for KIM! I have it all set up for you, it's easy to do!
Thank you so much for your help I know she will really really appreciate it! I will let you all know how she makes out!

Love you all :0)

A DAY FULL OF FUN AND EXCITEMENT!

Getting decorated for Halloween

An Eagle flying over our house while the kids were playing...
After lunch we took the kids on a long walk to the Indian Beach Park , it is about a 40 minute walk but with the kids and their bad collecting habits it took us much longer to get there...first we came across some chestnut trees and the kids broke them open and filled their pockets with chestnuts...I lost count of how many trees we actually came across getting there and then back home again...

They gathered somewhere around 200 chestnuts...

Those are pictures of the kids with their chestnuts and here is a picture of my NUTS...in the chestnut tree.

So here we are stopped further down the road toward the park at a burdoch bush...a how exciting this was for the kids...here they found themselves in a sticky situation. They had burdochs stuff all over themselves. What a mess!

Here Blake was amazed with them sticking to his fingers, Kohl got in on the fun and got stuck to the bush...(way to go Kohl), Jay can spell the letter J (and proud of it) and Trinity found our walk to be a bit nippy! LOL (and proud of it as well)

LET'S CONTINUE OUR WALK...

I just love the view...

Blake with his oversized blowie flower...

Then we heard the sound of firetrucks...and lots of them (I'm sure I turned the oven off)?! LOL

yup, I'm safe it was a parade of recue vehicle for fire prevention week...Boy they sure like parades here in North Sydney...

Well here we are...FINALLY at the park!

The kids had a great time playing and getting dirty but hey they will wash. Trinity send me down over some rocks to get her a minty green colored rock...I almost fell in a hole to get it... We could see a Cruise Ship in Sydney across the water from the park. This saved us a trip to Sydney to see it...

Finally 4 hours later we made it home just in time to make supper (chicken was already cooked) it was great and Blake tried stove top stuffing for the first time and loved it!

Dig in everyone...Supper's ready! MMM