in Sarnia for but a minute

Graham headed out after Easter for a shutdown in Sarnia!  We planned our next few months to be full of FaceTime calls, our weekly love notes for dad and lots of solo girl time BUT after only five days his work called him back.  We were pretty pumped up to say the least. He is still on shutdown, but he is home and we sure like having him around.  We had planned some family time out east but since he is home we will do something else, we are just super happy to have him home....sure love the guy.

~ Mrs. P

Easter just with the Ps

 We have had a busy spring with what seems like a blink of blissful family time between shutdowns for our dad.  The guy is an credibly hard worker, experienced, knowledgeable and everyone wants a piece of him, no one more then us!!!!!  His December/January shutdown lead almost right up to our Cruise in February and then we had March together and now he is set to take off to Sarnia, Ontario to help with a shutdown there for 6-8 weeks takin the rest of April, May and perhaps the first week of June because I always mentally plan for shutdowns to go longer. Truly he is very valuable! We opted to just have a little family time ourselves for Easter and it was very sweet.

The Easter Bunny came and spoiled our girls, our bunny and puppy - who received a little blue bunny peeps squeaker toy!! We had the requested breakfast of Puff Up Pancakes and I just couldn't help but snap a picture with the cute napkins (I may have a slight napkin problem because I just love cute napkins).  Anyway, the weekend was nice, the days were just us cocooned together and as cheesy as it sounds, being together with these people is my favourite place to be. 

~ Mrs. P

darling dancers

It is dance festival season which is very busy!!!! It means class is changed to a different night and it means costumes/makeup preparations.  It also means that the ladies might get to miss school (they are not too sad about this part either) hahaha.  Something special happened this year, they both danced on different days so we made 'Dance & Date Days'!!!!!  Each lady stayed with me the whole day. They danced at festival and then we hung out together the whole day...it was pretty special!

Amelia danced in St. Albert and decided on the Mutart.  I was so proud of the lady, watching her dance with her group "Baby Cloud'.  We then had lunch at the Mutart and took in the beautiful flowers and greenery in each of the pyramids, it was lovely!!!!  I just loved hanging out with her.   I love this woman, her kind and gentle spirit, with some sass in there for good measure. So grateful she is my daughter!

Stella Bella danced here in town at the DOW and opted to spend the morning at home together playing babies and school, I was the teacher hehehe.  Her 'Tiki Room' Dance was so entertaining, the costume so fun this year. We met up with the Crustancho girls and the Birds were there at the indoor play place, so that was fun. For snack she suggested that we wait and pick up Amelia from school so she could join us for ice cream, what a thoughtful girl. She is independent and kind, witty and clearly thoughtful. So thankful she is our girl!!!

While festival season is busy is also beautiful! All the years hard work is paying off and they really are darling dancers. It is such a pleasure to watch them and spend time with them.

~ Mrs. P

fur baby

This fur ball is seriously such a joy!!! Sometimes she still gets a little wild. Sometimes she still goes barking crazy at the front door.  She still sometimes does devious things, ahem eating the noses off of stuffies.  BUT she is a joy and a perfect fit in our family.

The girls and I were kind of giggling when we pulled out this library book to read and Tessa jumped up to join us.  Get it? hehehe

~ Mrs. P

cat cafe cuties

Our ladies are big animal lovers and a friend shared that they had fun at a cat café, so we planned a cousin date.We dropped our dad off at the airport and then headed to the hip strip of Whyte Avenue.  Auntie Leslie and Auntie Alyson joined us with their little people and we met at the Cat Café on Whyte to get some kitty cuddles in.  The cats are all up for adoption and the café works in conjunction with the Humane Society.

It was a puuuuuurfect activity to sidetrack us from missing our dad!

~ Mrs. P

olympic pride

There is something about the Olympics that makes me feel all global citizen, peace is possible, united in passion across the world....basically it gives me all the feels. After our cruise we came home and caught the tail end of the Olympics but with technology we were able to catch up on the opening ceremonies, figure skating and ski jumping (my favourites). I feel like this might be the year that my girls have also fallen in love with figure skating.  We watched Canadians Scott and Tessa with tears in our eyes. School had a tshirt day were you sported a country of your choice and then snapchat had a fun ski filter so we played around with that.

Love these little women of ours. 

Love our country.

Love the Olympics!!!

~ Mrs. P

St. Patricks Celebrations

We aren't Irish but we celebrate!!!!  We actually have a stash of St. Patricks gear and this year we added some scarves from Target (we love us some Target), so fun.  I love the festiveness that we make of every holiday.

The school had a fundraising dance so Amelia and I went (sadly Stella wasn't feeling well so stayed home with Dad).  I love community events or in this case school community events because it is such a wonderful opportunity to connect with other parents, to catch up.  There are a few families we have known since Amelia was in kindergarten so it is pretty special that we have watched our children grow together in their school careers. I loved watching kids come running for her when we entered the gym. 

The days can be long with bickering or repeatedly teaching, modeling, feeling like you are falling short but goodness when I look at these photos of our two little miracles with their goofball antics and smiles it absolutely wipes the tough parts of being a parent to the side. We must be doing ok because these are some pretty great girls! 

~ Mrs. P