extended family adventures

 The Bird family peeps are so so good to us when Mr. P works insane shutdown hours.  They invited us to join them on an adventure to Fort Edmonton Park and it was a beautiful day! Six ladies and good old Uncle Jon :)  They found the mid-way to be the coolest part.

Lots of smiles as we explored, sure love these ladies!  We met up with Mr. P for dinner, it was such a great day.

~ Mrs. P

ballet for our little beauty

Stella Charlene has waited for her turn to do performance ballet.  She has watched her big sister get fancy costumes and is now beyond thrilled that it is her turn.  I am pleased for her! She danced last year in a rec dance class, quite different.  Each week she is so excited to go and has great fun, preparing for a big dance at Christmas.  Her teacher is fantastic, she is a lady who has taken her talents and is a gift to her students. The studio is pretty great and it is nice to watch my little woman enjoy this experience. 

~ Momma P

park picnic with friends

The Watson women are moving and we are all quite sad about it.

We have about 6 weeks until they move and we are making the most of our time with them. This week we met up at the park by our house for a picnic.  The weather was glorious and the company was great.  Jody is one of the people that in my 'over protective new mother stage' I actually let Amelia stay with.  When I flew out east to be with Jacey and Alyson at Ability Camp, Amelia stayed with her during the day when Graham was at work.  I feel forever indebted to her for that. They will be missed!

~ Mrs. P

panda & kitty

I don't think our two darlings could get any cuter?!?!  Our dear friend Kristi made up these hats and cowls for the girls, she is a wizard with yarn.  My animal loving kids were so pumped up and with the leaves turning and the crisp fall air, it seemed like the perfect time to pull them out.  It really is a pleasure to be their momma.

~ Mrs. P

Sunday Sweetness

Sometimes Sunday church is a bit crazy and sometimes it is rather sweet.  This was a sweet moment!

~ Mrs. P

work hard for your money

These ladies are definitely part Polischuk....they like money hahaha! Ok, everyone needs money, most people like it and I like to tease Mr. P about the Polischuk's and their love of money.   The girls have little purses and they are on a bit of a spending spree.  They wanted some stuffies at IKEA the other day (like we need more) so I paid and then they did jobs to earn back the money.  Before running errands they said they wanted to bring their purses and I just knew that meant they would want to stop at the toy section.  They did.  They were thrilled to count out their money and pay for their top picks, I am kind of proud of them actually.

~ Mrs. P

food bank drive

This past week these little ladies and I had a route for the Food Bank Drive.  If I am being totally honest it was not something we did cheerfully.  I feel a bit bad about it actually, our bad attitudes that is not the service. The classic fall cold hit our family and Amelia ended up missing a few days of school, poor woman.  The Food Bank Drive is two fold; firstly the delivery of flyer/collection bags at the beginning of the week and second the pick up of donations on Saturday.  The cold made for a delay on flyer delivery.  After doing half of the route I ended up putting out a call for any of my old YW who had a few hours to spare so we could get out the last half of our flyers. Bless my sweet Megan, without her it would have taken me a few more hours.  The Birds ended up helping me with collection and the girls were able to sit in the box of the truck 'organizing'...it was pretty great in the end.  Such a reminder how important service is and how it feels good to help.

 

~ Mrs. P