Spring, right?

It's almost spring! I say that with my fingers crossed, knocking on wood and waiting for spring to come!

My wonderful hubby and kids came home the other day with some beautiful orange (K's fav colour) and purple (Q's new fav colour - I think just for the flowers!) flowers. They are so nice!

















I took this photo the other day. It was so dark outside and this little ray of light came out. Sorry for the random angle, it just didn't want to work for me!



These photos were taken today. Shock, I know, I'm on time with posting photos but hey. I took photos of some for our garden and some from "random" places, in the middle of someones yard, the side yard of others, about 4 feet from trees. It's cool! I love how God can have little surprises of "spring" come out in the most unexpected places



















These last ones are from the school. K found this HUGE stick! Normally I"m not one to let him play with sticks at school but this blew out of the tree last night/yesterday with the huge winds we had! Also there is a shot of the (what I think will be) the new gardens at school.

Grad Photos!

Kyler had his grad photos taken at the very end of March. That was our crazy day... I had a birth to go to, Kyler had grad photos, school and retakes and then another spill later.

Anyway we got the photos today and what a cutie!!

What do you think? We are going to order photos and get some for family so I need to know what is better:



1 - with or without paper




2 - with or without thumbs up!

What do we teach our children?

Today I had a rough day. But to make it worse I ran into a bunch of "kids". I swear... I'm turning into one of "those" people.

We were sitting at the drs office and they were WAY over crowded! IT was crazy. K, Q, and I were all on 1 chair, and that's IF there was a chair. A few people ended up in the hall. I'll be honest I could have given up the chair once and a while, generally when I was about too someone would get called in.

I was shocked at how many people didn't offer to get up. OR took 2 chairs when they only needed 1.

The other thing that surprised me was the amount of little kids in to see the ENT dr who had headphones on blaring music from their hand held video games. Kids that were younger than mine playing on their parents Iphones, or any other electronics.

It might seem rude but I'm happy to say my kids played with the toys in the office, looked through books and did our reading homework while we waited the hour to get to see the dr.

Then we went to Harveys for lunch. Remind me to NEVER go there when the high school kids are on break. They are even snottier than ever!

The boys and I ran in the rain behind the fireman to get inside. One held the door and we followed right behind them to get our supper. Shortly after this high school girl tries to get ahead of us in line... and when I pointed out we were there first she got all snotty.

The part that pissed me off more was that there was 5.00 on the floor shortly after we all got in line. One of the fireman picked it up and gave it to the guy ahead of him. The guy ahead of him said it wasn't his so he turned to the last person in line (a high school girl) and gave it to her. She walked back to the snotty friend and said "I paid with my card and he just gave me 5.00. I'm totally keeping this and not telling anyone, ha!"

Seriously sometimes I want to smack people.

can you tell it was a bad day?

On the positive swing... I'm going to be making sure that my children are taught well.

Easter Monday Park Day

This morning when we got up the weather forcast said rain... but no... it was nice and sunny!

The kids and I packed up some of their easter candy, juice, water, camera, a book for me, and some music, and grabbed the kids helmets and coats and off we went around 9am. We got there and had the park to ourselves until this little girl came over with her daddy and grandma. Once they left another 2 little boys came over. And then finally, after a quick call, our neighbours came as well. Around 10:10am the little girls showed up and we had fun until 11:15 or so and then Q had to pee so we raced home on their bikes. We had a good time. Here's are photos from the day:

Happy Easter!

This year we had alot of hard work in our Easter but alot of fun. So much I even got a sunburn on Saturday!!

And believe it or not I only got these photos from our bunny day:

Wordless Wednesday ~ Sunday Morning's Breakfast

Thomas Fun!

Every once and a while we are blessed to have "Little Thomas" come and visit with us! His Mommy is almost nearing her "end date" at work and with the baby number 2 so we don't have too much time left with him.

Last week we had him for a normal 7 hour and then a 12 hour day. It was alot of fun! Here are a few photos we got of him:

This was on Monday night with the YAH group:



He would just stand/sit there after a bit with his mouth open waiting for people to do it. It was so cute!

This was on Tuesday. We went to play outside and he had fun trying out somethings on his own:

Happy Birthday Quinton! Part 2

On Monday nights we have what's called "Young Adults Hangout" at our house. Basically a group of people get together and hang out. I feed them supper and we just chill. A few weeks ago we played some crazy games and this past time we just had cupcakes for Q's birthday. It was fun here he is enjoying his next cake:











All he wanted was a "Tractor Cake" since we couldn't find one we bought tractors and stuck them on!