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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY LAINEE!

LOOK WHO'S 4!

IT'S LAINEE

Lainee had her birthday party at the Super 8 Motel on Sunday with lots of fun in the pool with water slide. We were late as usual but when we are away it's hard to get anywhere on time LOL. The kids still had lots of time to join the party in the pool and everyone had lots of fun! I couldn't believe it when Blake went down the water slide! He is full of surprises lately, I guess that's all part of growing up ;0) After their swim Chad and Kerri had pizza and cake for the kids then they played with balloons before heading back to their house for the gifts. It was a busy day but I am glad we got to see Connor and Lainee before he headed home. It was a fun party!

POOL PARTY!

Trinity and cousin Lainee

Kohl and Jay

Blake...all smiles!

PIZZA PARTY AND CAKE

MMM

LAINEE WE HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR LAINEE!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Monday, November 3, 2008

A ROUGH START TO THE WEEK....

A ROUGH START TO THE WEEK

OUCH....

Today when I picked Kohl up at school he didn't quit look himself. His big bright smile wasn't there today and as he gets into the van he says to me " Mom, do you see something different with me?" It took me a minute but as he moved to his seat in the back of the van I noticed the mark beside his eye. Apparently he took a tumble over his friends foot and the sneaker rubbed against his face. He's not looking too happy but he says he's fine, it only hurts when he blinks :0(

Hopefully his week will only get better.

I work tonight at 6:45pm and Matt will be putting the kids to bed early so hopefully everyone will get caught up on some sleep. I still have a lot of unpacking and cleaning to get done so I guess that's all for now!

WE MADE IT HOME SAFE......

......WITH LOTS OF UNEXPECTED SNOW.

After having a great supper with Grandma and Grandpa and having a little party for Blake, we got the kids changed into their pj's for our long drive home. We got on the road around 5pm, the kids were watching movies and cuddled in with their pillows and Breigh was curled up with her pillow bed sleeping. All was well then as it got dark I had noticed that there was snow on the ground, next thing I am seeing snow flakes in the light beams ahead. Nothing to worry about only a few flurries and it is only the first of November....right?! Well that all changed when we hit Cape Breton, we entered into a hail storm and I mean big hail balls pounding at the windshield, the roads were snow covered and very slippery and not long after we passed 2 cars that had gone off the side of the road with one car looking a bit wrecked, then just minutes later we approached another accident with 2 cars off the road. Well by this time we were a bit uncomfortable with the road conditions and were very cautious of the other cars. To make matters worse the van was out of windshield washer fluid so the windows were a mess :0(

Matt did stop at the first gas station to buy windshield washer !

The window does look worse in the picture....

By this time I had called dad to let him know what kind of mess we were in just in case they didn't here from us later that night. Do you think it ended there?...nope,

HIT OR MISS?

As we were driving (no double lane) we noticed a transport truck with a line of cars following, then the car in front of us put on it's signal light to pull off the road. (I don't know, could have been uneasy with the oncoming traffic?) As the car was pulling off the road we were getting ready to pass it then it swerved back onto the road, slipping and sliding in front of us. Luckily every kept control of the vehicles and we continued on our way but we left a lot of space between us and that car! By the time we got home the snow had stopped and the roads were clear. I tell you we were some glad to be home!

BIRTHDAY PARTY WITH GRANDMA AND GRANDPA!

MAKE A WISH!

Look at the excitement on his face! Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for my new outfit and Wall-e leapter game :0)

Jay and Breigh

Grandpa and his puppies...
Breigh (left) and Bel ...mom(right)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAKE

I CAN'T BELIEVE HE'S ALREADY 4!

PIZZA!

CAKE!

NOW THE GIFTS!

dinosaur from Destiny, Jazlyn and Alexis! Thanks

passing daddy a card...

optimus prime transformer from Aunt Judy! Thanks

Blakie says thank you to everyone who came to his party and thank you so much for the wonderful gifts!

It was a great party and I love having and seeing all the cousins and family together. Unfortunately it doesn't happen enough but it's hard with us living so far away. We make the most of it when we are home visiting. Thank you for sharing this day with us celebrating Blake's birthday!

Papa, Kohl and Blake spending some quality rough play time together while I was packing the van Sunday morning!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Friday we got up early, packed the van and headed to visit with our family for the weekend. We stopped in Amherst to have lunch with Grandma and Grandpa at McDonald's then it was back on the road. We got to Nana and Papa's house in time to carve the pumpkin then get dressed into costumes! The fun was about to begin.....

PUMPKIN CARVING!

Trin, Kohl and Blake were washing the pumpkin getting ready to carve the face. This year I passed along the job of designing the pumpkin face off to Jay. Now this will be his Halloween tradition to come up with a spookiest face for the pumpkin!

digging in and getting messy...

Great job Jay!

The pumpkin didn't get named this year but it turned out really good.

Great job kids!

NOW FOR THE COSTUMES!

Papa and Trinity getting ready. Love the yellow and green hair!

Matt dressed up and used Papa's yellow hair to go with his clown hair! I didn't dress up until later when I heard someone was giving out candy apples. I wasn't long turning into a green dinosaur! LOL

Jay (army dude), Kohl (cat in the hat), Matt (clown), Trinity (witch), Blake (optimus prime, transformer), and Robin (rock star)

VISITING THE HAUNTED HOUSE!

This was the first time that we had ever gone to this haunted house. My mom had told me about it last year and it sounded really neat so I made sure that we got the kids there to see it. Now I didn't know what to expect or how the kids would take it but they were great. Sure they were scared but still it was fun! Blake had the most fun of all! He made friends with each live creature there was and he had to be pulled away when it was time to go.

It was amazing to see all the work that had gone into this Haunted House!

There were monsters, skeletons, zombies, etc...walking around the yard and jumping out!

At first we just thought that the Hulk was decoration that he jumped up behind up as we were going up the walkway to the house. Blake was amazed with the Hulk. I would have to say he was Blake's favorite!

We were greeted as we entered through the front door!

This creature didn't move for the longest time...then when the kids turned around it would stand up. Blake finally caught onto this and started having fun with the creature. Anything for a can of pop LOL!

Ok. so he handled the spook of this creature pretty good but not Trinity. Before Blake caught onto what was happening Trinity got bored with the creature just sitting there and turned around to see how they had the piano decorated and when she turned around the creature was standing right there looking at her. well it didnt take her long to start crying!

She was ok, she didn't leave the haunted house!

Outside with Hulk is where we spent most of our time. Blake was having fun with Hulk. Blake thought that he had magic powers, everytime Blake made fist and punched his head, chest, knees, etc....the Hulk copied him. So too see if he (blake) really did have magic powers he started wiggling his butt to see if the Hulk would copy. Sure enough the Hulk copied. It was hilarious and we all had a great time watching but i'm sure the Hulk was glad to see us leave lol!

After trick or treating was over Jay went and spent the night at Bird's (my aunt), then the kids dumped out all the treats and sorted through them. They got 3 times less than last year but that is perfectly fine with me and we all had fun and that is all that matters!

SCHOOL SKATING

On Wednesday the kids went skating with their school and as always I find the time to take Blake along for the fun. Kohl got to use his new skates and we quickly realized that Blake is in need of bigger skates so we will see, maybe he will get new ones next pay! Kohl got a bit frustrated at first when he kept falling, he was blaming it on us getting his skates sharpened LOL once he got the hang of being on skates again he was fine and had fun! Blake did awesome and was even skating without his little red helper :0) I didn't see to much of Miss Trinity as she was off with her friends but she did come

around from time to time for pictures.

It was warm that day but raining so they were late getting on the ice so they had extended their skating time which was great for the kids but I wasn't prepared for Blake and after the first hour he was tired, his feet were sore, he wanted something to eat and drink (which I didn't have). He was just plain miserable and just me taking a picture of him set him into a tantrum crying.

Once we were finished I got Trinity and Kohl settled back at school and brought Blake home for a nap. Yes he did sleep and was in a much better mood when he got up which was great for me because I had the night off and we had to take Trinity into her dance troupe class. What a day that was!