Happy Birthday Baby

Today my son turns eleven. Eleven! I don't even know where the time has gone! He was once so small that he fit in the crook of my elbow and now he is almost as tall as me. For my not so little boy, I wish a year filled with happiness and hope, luck and ingenuity. Happy Birthday Baby!

Fun Times

I have no idea what inspired me to host a sleep over birthday party for four eleven year olds! It was hectic, it was loud, and it was lots of fun. Although the Hobbit marathon was a dud, the kids had a blast playing minecraft and having competitions and bouncing around the walls.

Make a Wish!

Already feeling crazy with so many kids in my house! Thank goodness they are all having fun! I think this party is a complete success :-)

Calypso Water Park!

I think this day trip will be counted as one of the highlights of the summer! Definitely had a ton of fun, suffering from lack of properly applied sun screen now though :-(

Second Downtown Excursion #2

Took the kids to the War Museum and had lunch with Erin. D loved the museum and R was horrified. I think that learning about our hisotry, good parts and bad is essential to understanding where our country comes from and where we should be heading.

Second Downtown Excursion #1

Took the kids to see the Changing of the Guard. D was interested, R was grumpy to be awake so early and I loved the bag pipe band and all the pomp and circumstance!

Fun Filled Saturday!

We had an awesome afternoon with Nicole and her daughter at the Tulip Festival! The flowers were beautiful but Rowan had more fun running around and Dorian had more fun having a sword fighting lesson. Afterwards we headed to the Biggs' place were we played board games, cuddled their kitten and had a lovely supper! Thankful for good friends and happy family.

Happy Birthday Gran!

My mothers birthday was Friday and we got together today to celebrate! Happy birhday Mommy!

The Easter Bunny Came!

I feel like I cheaped out on Easter this year but I am okay with that. Their baskets were filled with jelly beans, rabbit marshmallows, malt eggs, peeps and Cadbury cream eggs. I think that is enough right? It was hard saying goodbye to them at noon but I also got to go have Easter dinner with the Biggs which was really lovely! Big Lebowski? Why yes!

Easter Flowers

Flowers for Easter dinner courtesy of my Mom. Dinner was pretty good, and I think I made the best sirloin tip roast I have ever done! It was medium on the ends and rare in the middle so everyone got the cut of meet they wanted!

P.S. Sirloin tip roast regularly $22.94 purchased for 11.97. Have I mentioned price matching?

Thank you Wil Wheaton!

Today was International Table Top Day! We spent our entire day rolling dice, flipping cards and destroying Tokyo. We played our new games: King of Tokyo and Castle Panic along with all our old games. I think we may have the rules kinda off for Castle Panic... We stayed up quite late and much fun was had by all!

Shamrock Cheeks

Missed out on St Patrick Day with the kids but still got cute shamrock tattoo pictures! That is, before Dorian's started to have an allergic reaction to his. Apparently several kids from their school reacted the same to the tattoos. Also, baby oil on a cotton pad takes temporary tattoos right off.