Madison the Fashionista

Madison is forever wanting to craft, color, sew etc.
She is happiest when she's in her creative zone. :)
She wanted to sew something so I had given her some

old t-shirts that were no longer wearable, and this is what she
came up with. I was very impressed with it.
It's even got some sparkles for some added bling. ;)

Poor girl!

Our dear Kaelynn has had a rather rough holiday in BC this time around.

It started off with a rather disastrous bike ride down a gravel sloped driveway and

ended with a crash, lots of blood and a black eye. Today we had water balloon

fight and she was taking a break on a small bench when she was attacked by wasps.

Apparently there was a wasp nest right underneath where she was sitting. She ended

up with 5 wasp stings on her legs and hands. Pretty traumatic and I think I can

expect to hear lots of screaming from now on whenever she says any type of

bee/wasp/hornet. She's looking a little beat up, but I think since Byron showed

up unexpectedly yesterday she's happy as can be anyways. :)

All Done Kindergarten!

My Little Loves

K & N

 I convinced these two to go in front of my camera for a minutes, so

they dolled themselves up, hair and everything. I was looking forward
to start shooting, however it didn't last for long.

When their next-door cousin came knocking on the door asking them to 

come play with her, guess who was the more exciting option. Not me.

 I convinced these two to go in front of my camera for a minutes, so

dolled themselves up, hair and everything. I was looking forward
to start shooting, however it didn't last for long.

When their next-door cousin came knocking on the door asking them to 

come play with her, guess who was the more exciting option. Not me.

Blessings

There are times that I've wished the day would fly by. And then there

are times like today when I wish I could pause my children right where

they are, right at this moment. It feels like such a short time ago

that I held our oldest for the first time, and now in just a blink of an eye later

my youngest is beginning to write her letters. How did this happen so fast?

I pray that on those days I am wishing for bedtime to come soon, I will

take a step back and be thankful for the beautiful gifts God has given me.

I pray that I will take the time to laugh with them, to play with them, to make memories

with them. And when they spill their milk, smear the toothpaste

all over the bathroom and in general wreak havoc all over my house I 

need to remember to look at the bigger picture and not live in just those moments.

Children are a blessing from God, and while it may not ever be possible for me to treasure

every single waking moment, watching them grow is a beautiful thing.

Wacky Hair Day

I totally forgot about wacky hair day till the day of. Ooops! Thankfully

there is such a thing as google and I found some different ways of coloring

the kids hair without the usual color hair spray from the dollar store that I've

always used before. And now I will never go back to buying it again. 

One way I found was to mix mousse and food coloring together, which I did. I

used that in Ethan's hair, and it did work quite well, but I also saw one that

used chalk pastel. I just dipped the chalk in a cup of water and colored Madison's

hair. The color from the chalk turned out much deeper than the food coloring & mousse

so I did end up going back over Ethan's hair with that. And the best part of it all

is that it all came out really easy in their showers that night. I was a little worried

about the food coloring in Ethan's hair, but there was nothing left. :) 

So Sweet

I could just squish her with hugs!

Our 'Special' Children

Byron had a sore leg and sprayed some very strong smelling
muscle pain reliever on it. The kids thought the smell
was so disgusting they were wrapping themselves up so they wouldn't 

have to smell it anymore. They are definitely children of their father.

Lipstick & Nailpolish

These girls are very girly girls. And they were started young on the makeup by

their Auntie Leanne, who I have warned in advance I will have

my revenge on. (11 months till her little girls next birthday. Heehee.)

It's All Kaelynn

 

 

And then the duck lips came out... She's a strange one!

  

 

So excited!

I am so excited about something I got in the mail yesterday! I

ordered a new lens on friday and it came already! And 

of course I just had to try it right away. :)

Kaeylnn's kindergarten class had a Teddy Bear Picnic yesterday. I'm quite sure she enjoyed herself, because the first thing she said when she walked in the door was that it was SO much fun! Here she is with cousin Tasha in their bear faces.

 

Madison has been sick off and on since late Saturday night. Poor girl, you can just see it in her eyes

that she's not feeling quite normal. Hopefully she'll be back to normal soon.

 

All Kinds of Fun

I had big plans to do a post at the end of January about 2013 so far, and then

we had a very upsetting incident. Our computer, along with our backup drive

crashed, and I lost about 7 years worth of pictures. Boom, just like that!

But my amazingly talented hubby is thankfully a computer geek, and has

come to the rescue. I will admit that I lost sleep for a night, and cried a few tears

before Byron was able to convince me that he'd be able to get them back.

He spent many hours working on the computer, and I am ecstatic to say

that I have my pictures back. They aren't quite ready for use, as they have to be all

re-organized and sorted, but I've never been so thankful that Byron has a talent

with computers. :) 

For today, here are some pictures of the kids. I got to play

with my sister-in-law's Canon 50D (I really, really like it!) and

of course the kids wanted to take part in the fun. :)

 

DAY 363: Happy 5th Birthday Kaelynn!

Typical Kaelynn face! :) Kaelynn was able to celebrate her birthday

this year at Grandpa & Grandma's place. It made it just that

little bit more special. And the part she was most excited about?

The Winnie the Pooh ice cream cake. How much better can it get?!

Well, I made it do December 31st! I'm happy to be done! 

Somehow I must have messed up and missed more days than I thought.

I'm pretty sure 2012 had more than 363 days... :P  I'm just going to 

pretend that never happened.

DAY 362: Comfy Beds

This is where the girls slept while we were at Mom and Dad's.

Madison and Nadiya slept on the two couches facing eachother

and Kaelynn slept on the one at the end.

DAY 361: M&M's and Cards

DAY 360

DAY 359: Beautiful BC

DAY 358: Hotel Waterslides

While Byron looks like he's having a great time, Nadiya looks

not to sure about this waterslide business. We made the trip out 

to Chilliwack for a holiday, and stopped in Kamloops

for the night on the way.

DAY 357

I almost thought I didn't have a picture till I remembered that I 

had been playing with the camera on my new phone. If I had

any other picture I'd probably use another one.