Sentimental Stuff

 

I am a sentimental soul. I save things, treasure things and find joy in memories.  This is perhaps part of the reason I have taken to blogging, it combines treasuring pictures and memories. I have meant for a while to share about a few special things our girls have. 

 

The first is this darling knit family made by my friend Kristi. She made them for the girls and included our pup Tula.  The girls were given them last Christmas and I love when they play with our 'knit family'.

 

Sweet right?

 

Oh the quilted pups!  Oh my heart as I look at this picture.  My friend Sue is a fabulous quilter and seeing that she made these sweet guys, I put in a request.  The most beautiful part of the pup pillow story is that it was on a Friday we let our Tula go and it was Sunday that Sue called to say she was done the pillows. They were this perfect, perfect timed, special gift for our little women and honestly me.  Amelia slept on her pillow for about a month.

 

So just a few sentimental things I have wanted to record.

~ Momma P

Jacober Visit

It is amazing to me how quickly you can pick up where you left off with old friends.  Certainly time passes and our children grow but other then that it is comfortable and great to get to visit, just catch up.  It was just a quick night and then day of hanging out, but so much fun!  My girls asked a few times this week when we could see Ember and Eden again? Adorable. Many pictures of our beauties. Jacey, Neely and their parents joined us for dinner (oh and Nathaniel too), they all enjoyed playing together. Everyone was gaga over the baby...Neely is a very patient soul, she is always mauled when she comes to visit.

The girls had some fun spreading out like EVERY blanket we own!  They had a blast!

 

We decided to go on an excursion. Totally worth the entrance fee, for the climbing/play area alone!

 Would you believe that this is the only picture that Amy and I go together, a butt shot with no one smiling. Ha!

 Just a little snuggle with my big girl, she's all serious and didn't want to take a break from playing but I for once had someone else to take a picture.

 

Great times!

~ Mrs. P



Get-A-Way

 

Fun, fun, fun times together - the G n J combo had a night away!  After a long haul this fall for work we took a night off together.  Started with the temple, had some dinner, did some crazy enjoyable West Edmonton Mall shopping, loaded up on some new music we had been wanting and saw a movie, then hit the hay for an uninterrupted sleep.  Sooooooo nice to be together!

Aside from being together, it was nice to do the things we did so often as a couple before our littles arrived.  It was comfortable to slip into who we are aside from 'mom and dad'. We finished the 24hr date with a trip to IKEA. We missed our girls and talked a ton about them but I must say it was nice to be together.

 



 

~ Mrs. P



first snow flakes

 

We've had more snow since these pictures but I love how my ladies went wild with the arrival of the first flakes of the season. 

 

Simple.

Beautiful.

Joy.

 

They remind me often to stop, slow the pace and enjoy. I appreciate them and love watching them.

~ Momma P



Birthday BOY

This guy just had his birthday!!!!

A 6am picture because why not, everyone in the house was up and ready to party.

 

We try to make it special around our house.  This year I made Graham his own birthday banner, using his two favourite colours.  No, it is not a coincidence that the Oilers sport the colours blue and orange.  After I finished making it Amelia was a bit upset, insisting that her dad also really likes pink...yes her dad likes it... yep totally up there for fav. Poor dude has had a pink banner a lot these last few years, wohoo he now has something a little more his style. 

 

Anyway a little bday fun for the dude even if he had to work that day!

 silly birthday specs

 

 scrumptious ice cream cake as per requested

 homemade cards 

* OUR DAD IS A ROCKSTAR*

decorated with a ton of stars :)

 a winning gift

 The man is very loved by the ladies in his life! 

~ Mrs. P



Halloween Hooligans

This post contains an over abundance of Halloween pictures,

in my defence we did have a good run of festivities last week.

 

 

This picture cracks me up!  Stella's face is hilarious and Mia is posing all sweet as pie, whilst in reality just moments later fighting ensued because Mia wanted to hold Stella's hand for a picture and Stella would have none of it. I wanted to get a picture of them in their Halloween shirts.  This is the position they presume while I am in the shower.

 

 PUMPKIN Carving

We had the Bird family over to do some carving. We feel fortunate that they live so close and really wish the rest of our family could just pop over so easily. It was a blast and the girls enjoyed designing and I think Graham and Alyson enjoyed the carving.  Other then Jacey, no one was a fan of the pumpkin guts.

Can I just note that I LOVE getting festive for any holiday!  When Mia was a baby I found these Jack-o-lantern baby legs and then last year I found the Ghost baby legs, such adorable festiveness.

 

 HALLOWEEN Day

For the actual 31st we had a busy, busy day!!! Rhyme n Story Time in the morning was a costume party, we then came home for a quick lunch and nap.  In the early afternoon our Joy School group and other friends then met up at a Senior's Centre for a costume parade which was a BLAST!!!!!! We plan to go visit again at Christmas, honestly any excuse to go visit would be great. Directly from there we hit our Joy School friend's house for a Halloween Party which was awesome! There was crazy food, fun games and the yummiest pumpkin soup to fill our bellies before we headed out for the night.  We quickly came home and had a little snack (we were stuffed from the bone bread, rat meat loaf, pumpkin soup, snake veggies and sugar cookies).  Nathanial joined us for the third year and we stayed out nearly an hour visiting our neighbors.  Such fun!

Finley's flower costume was spectacular!!!!! Her mom actually made it, super impressive!  There were some great costumes.

The bird ladies were; a parrot and an owl. Adorableness!!!!!  Stella was excited that her and Neely got to match.

Before we headed out we had some orange smoothies in our Halloween cups with our orange straws (yeah Target!)

 

All ready to head out.

Another year in the books! It is such a pleasure to be able to enjoy the holidays and traditions with our little ladies.  They bring a joy and excitement we would not experience otherwise. Pretty thankful!

 

~ Mrs. P