Coco's room

OK, first post on the new house.  I've taken pictures of each room, but I think I'm going to post them as before and afters as I fix them up.  So Colie's room is done and it's oh-so-cute!  My lovely and talented friend Shannon came and helped rearrange, organize and decorate. And now Colie actually keeps it clean and everything has it's place!  Luckily her room was a nice neutral colour and all it took was putting her already cute things in place.  My mom is still planning on making her a quilt for her bed, but yeah, one down, too many to count to go! 

Photo Shoot

I found these pictures on my camera one afternoon.  Apparently it was taken by some princesses and used for a creative mini photo shoot.  Maybe Jayme will take after a couple of her Aunties and be a photographer.

Brady's Teeth

For much of the summer Brady's two front teeth were wiggly, and not just a little wiggly, but hanging down, able to flip and turn and all kinds of grossness wiggly. The first one fell out on it's own in the car and that pesky second one hung on for a disgustingly long time.  Finally after a week at camp with me, we got home and he decided to let Daddy pull it, it didn't take much and he looks so cute with them gone!

Before

After

Summer part II

We had some wonderful times at our trailer this summer.  Even with selling the house and buying the new one, I was blessed to be there with the kids for about 5 weeks of the summer.  Mark had about 3 of those weeks with us!   Jayme and Brady had so many friends there and we sometimes didn't see them for hours at a time.  I thought forsure that Nicole would love her preschool chapel, but alas, she did not.  I even tried bribing her with ice cream and that didn't even work!  I had been reading her the Dr. Seuss book "Marvin K. Mooney Would You Please Go Now"  and she told my mom that it was a book about a boy who didn't want to go to prechool :)  Well there's always next year!

We actually had some warm weather this summer, so we were able to swim in the pool a lot and go tubing behind Grandpa's seadoo.  Both kids passed their swimming level and they really grew in their swimming ability and confidence.

Brady's crazy hair after a wild tube ride!

We did quite a bit of quadding and they loved the freedom of driving their own quad.  Jayme is quite cautious and would listen well to Mark and respect his rules.  Brady liked riding on the wild side a little more (especially when there was an audience!)  Thankfully we had angels watching over us and there were no accidents.

Like father, like son :)

What a great summer...aaahhhh 

Our summer: Part 1

Our summer started off with a bang!  Our May/June months were crazy: soccer 4 nights/week, plus all the prep we did to get our house ready to sell, we worked many late nights painting, cleaning, decluttering, oh my, just remembering it makes me tired.  But finally by the end of June, our house was cleaned, and staged ready for the open house, it looked so good we almost reconsidered selling, ALMOST!  We finished up and headed for the lake for a couple days to recoop and relax.  Then we drove home (and stopped in to see a cute new baby girl:  Jillian Patricia, born June 24th to Trish and Jacob)  That night we flew to TORONTO!! What an exciting way to start summer holidays!

Poor Jayme had a bit of air-sickness, but all in all we enjoyed the flight.  It was so good to have so much family on the plane with us!  When we landed all Nicole kept saying is: "I can't believe we're here, I can't believe we're finally here!"

We had a super duper amazing time staying at the always wonderful Chateau Paradise, with the two most amazing hosts in the world.  We enjoyed a beautiful wedding and had such a great time with our Letkeman family.  

The kids looked so cute in their wedding duds, and Jayme happily wore a skirt (I know miracle!)  They danced the night away at the reception.  They had a blast with their big cousins and aunts and uncles.  In fact just today they were reminiscing about the wedding and were talking about all the songs.  Brady wished there was a CD from the reception!

They had fun taking turns riding in the "short bus"

All in all it was a great vacation!!  Jayme says it will be a long time before she will fly again, but they are keen to drive to Toronto again very soon, I'm not sure how keen Mark and I are on that 24 hour drive, but we'll see!

It's that time again!

A fall full of changes, that sums us up this year.  Normally we'd be dealing with new teachers, and new clothes, not so bad, but we decided to add to it a new house, AND a new school, oh and a new LANGUAGE at school!  
The move has gone great!  We are LOVING our new house, we have many projects to do but no major renovations.  Just some paint here and there and a few odd jobs, like a deck, a shed and a new garage door.  I will post later this week all about the house!
The new school is very exciting too, Jayme has gone with a couple of friends from her old school, unfortunately Brady didn't get that same luxury.  He had a bad case of nerves the first day, which resulted in many tears, mine and his.  Finally the teacher just took his hand a brought him in, and then he did well.  He really is a strong kid, and we're so proud of him.  His darling little sister had a lot less sympathy for him, at one point while I  trying to coax him into the school, she shoved his back and said, Get going, or else Mom's going to give you a spank.  I don't think she even asks for them while they're gone to school all day!

While they were at school, my sister came over and we made 32 pints of salsa.  I had forgotten how much I could get done with just little Colie around.  I guess by saying that I now have no excuse for my absence in blogging!