Amelia our Wonder Woman

 

So I must first say that although I am not a fan of Wonder Woman's outfit she does save the world  and do good, so ya know it all balances out.  We read a book to the girls about Wonder Woman and our Miss Amelia has taken to striking a superhero pose.   On our camping trip she was AWESOME at showing our family her muscles and her superhero moves. 

 

 

There almost aren't words for her AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!

The similarities are uncanny.

 



 

~ a proud Momma P

Gull Lake Camping Get-A-Way

Campsite Fun



 

 

Beach Bums

 

 Cuddles

 

Since acquiring our trailer mid-July we had our third and final camping excursion.  I can hardly believe how much fun camping has become!!!  The girls love it.   Mr. P loves it and I am learning to love it.   Cousin Kingston stayed and the Bird Girls came to visit too.   Gramma and Grandpa Hudkins came for the day which was so nice.  As well Grandma Hinko brought down her motor home, so it was truly an extended family camping trip. 

 

There are a few things that I particularly enjoy about taking our trailer out;

 I love that my girls can run free, splash and get dirty (this ABSOLUTELY goes against my nature).

I love that we don't have a schedule.

I love that our technology is often sketchy out in the 'wilderness', it forces us to disconnect.

I mostly love that we are all together 24 hours a day.  It sounds so cheese ball but life is full of 'stuff' so it is nice to just be together without work or other commitments.

 

~ Mrs. P the camper  HA!

love you, love you, love you

Neely Jane is super popular! 

I am talking being mentioned in prayers, "glad for baby NeeNee",

being listed as Stella's favourite thing about the day, "I liked playing with NeeNee",

 and when the sweet babe is actually in our presence she is smothered with love!!!! 

When I say smothered, I mean smothered.

Both of the girls will stand in front of her and say no jokes, fifty times "I love you Neely"!!!!  It will carry on for like fifteen minutes.  Our littlest cousin can never doubt that she is loved.

 

~ Mrs. P

Family Movie Date

Had a little family movie date to watch...

 



 

We hit up the DESPICABLE ME 2 movie and had a blast!  It went pretty well and the girls loved the snacks, but then again who doesn't like movie snacks.  There was only minimal loss of interest for our shortest near the end, so I bit my lip and let her play around on the floor.....gross but actually not terribly gross.

 

 Also totally funny we let them play on the arcade games, hilarious to see Mia's dance moves.

 

~ Mrs. P

Puppy Love

 

Our sweet old girl Tula has been needing some special TLC.  She has visited the vet a few times this summer and it just breaks our hearts when she is not well, so far medications have been able to help.  The girls ADORE Tula and probably not an hour of the day goes by where they don't give her some cuddles or hugs or attention.  For some reason nicknames are pretty big in our house right now and we are always singing the song;

"Tula Tula Bo Boo-la,

Banana-nana Bo Boo-la,

Fee Fi Fo Foo-la,

Tula"

Stella calls our sweet pup 'Tulie' and it is adorable. Here is hoping that our 11 year old granny 'Tulie' is on the mend.

 

~ Mrs. P

better after

 

This past weekend I was able to attend a scrapbooking retreat with some friends and it was AWESOME!  We left Friday morning and stayed until late Sunday afternoon, a Red Seal Chef cooks all of your meals as well as a few yummy snacks like cinnamon buns and cookies with fruit smoothies....scrumptious!!!!!!! Graham is a great hubs and I don't worry an ounce about our ladies because he is such a kickin Dad, he mostly knows the ins and outs.  Although I do miss them all (Graham included) it is so refreshing to have time away.  The retreat is actually at a Hunting Lodge with a bunch of scary, stuffed animals but that aside it is super relaxing and productive.  We visit and work away!  I brought a Christmas present project I wanted to finish and also brought the laptop with high hopes of plowing through our family pictures on my online scrapbooking program. I wanted to try a new program but got frustrated and reverted back to the one I know, ugh really need to just be more brave and have more patience with myself.  Anyway,  I finished my project, finished one online album and have four months left for our 2012 Polischuk Family Album.  We all enjoy looking at the finished albums, so it is fun and so worth the effort.

 

This year we had a very quiet group of ladies, very quiet.  I am a talker and pretty social but I must say it was actually very nice.  Peaceful is the word that comes to mind, lots of thinking time.  As I organized and arranged pictures of our family from the previous year I was overcome a few times with gratitude and love for my little crew.  On Sunday we snuck into Camrose to hit the first hour of church, have the sacrament and kinda cool, the speakers talked about FAMILY.  I found myself again thinking about my family and what specifically I can do to be better for each of my girls and my hubs, how can I be a little better, in turn to help them be better, grow into a stronger family.  I know that I write this often but it is such a long awaited privilege to be a parent, one that I am so grateful for. One of the speakers said how becoming a parent "saved him, made him be better".  Not that I was not a good chick before but as I look back over the past four years, nothing else in my life has propelled my personal desire to be better then parenthood.  Often my short comings erupt or are exposed and goodness it makes me want to be better for myself and my family!

 

I have continued to think about my little fam, each of them and their goodness and sweetness.  I am so thankful for their uniqueness, I thought and prayed about each of them. I am glad I had the  quiet and the time to do so.  I totally came back refreshed; ready to cherish, teach, have fun and nurture.  I know the weekend was needed and as we've run errands the last few days, running here and there I have a renewed patience and appreciation them.  Stepping away for a few days allowed for some perspective, I was able to think about a few things differently - not even really big things, just things in our everyday life.  So worth it, I am certainly a little better after this weekend. 
Every little bit helps!! Ha!!

 

~ Mrs. P

snip snip

 

Hair cuts for both girls today!  We had a mullet situation and a multiple swimming lessons situation which both required a trim.  Although I could french braid Stella's hair I could never just leave it down because it really did have a mullet thing going on, so she had her first trim.  Amelia just finished two weeks of swimming lessons so her ends were a little fried.  She went first and modeled for little sister how it all goes down.  Amelia even got some pretty pink in her hair, her favourite colour - hence the sassy smile!!  Stella followed and started with some tears, but then after trying to side track her with a movie, beads and bubbles the stylist was able to trim up the back and even put a sweet little French braid across the front (which I sadly didn't get a picture of).  It seems silly to capture this event with a play-by-play but it was Stella's first cut, a milestone and seriously how adorable are they in the pink jeep, which the duck cape on? Love these ladies. It was a reminder to me as I watched Stella how scary new things can be sometimes but how often we just need to watch those that have gone before, have some trust and it will work out.  I was pretty proud of her and pretty relieved that I didn't have to climb up into the pink jeep to hold her.

 

~ Momma P

 

Mr. P and I are different in many ways; he tackles problems by just trying different things, while I like to research, read, ask a ton of questions, sometimes even be shown and our bodies are like polar opposites.  Also, he is calm n cool while I am totally emotional and I could go on BUT something we are totally alike in our love for music. I wish I had kept track of how many bands we've seen together.

 

Getting out together can be tricky, we have fabulous babysitters but sometimes weeks will go by and life just flies.  Graham scored some tickets for QOTSA: Queens of the Stone Age and although he loves them more then me, (like a lot more) it was SUCH A FUN NIGHT OUT TOGETHER!!!!!

It sounds so silly but getting to be out, alone, together really makes you remember why you like one another.

 

~ Mrs. P



More Camping Fun

Our family is evolving into a new phase, it is beautiful and a bit scary...we are becoming campers!

Graham loves camping and now that we have been out a few times with the trailer, the girls love it too and well, I am coming around.  There is a peacefulness and calmness when we are out together camping. The quietness is lovely and we were able to explore along the river, pulling the wagon and walking our pup Tula. We took a drive into the mountains too.  The girls had a blast! Such fun, such fun.  It makes me want to go out camping together more.  It was weird having Mr. P go off to work this morning, we loved having him spend every waking minute with us. Sappy but so true!

 

Round II of camping adventures a success!

 

~ Mrs. P