Sunday

After we recovered from the great marshmallow consumption fest that was '07, Maeve and I had a date! Yes that is right. Maeve and I ditched Michael and Madigan and went for brunch with my friend Mel. "Melly" as Maeve calls her was a good date! We had french toast, some expensive coffee, and did alot of window shopping! Mel didn't complain once! How nice! Maeve had a tough time walking and requested some sort of Camel service. Being said Camel, I drew the line and said for every block she walked I'd carry her one! We made it to the bay and picked up (after what seemed like hours) a couple of things for the girls. Bubbles and a barbie kite! Mel found the kite and Maeve found the bubbles.

After our awesome bay finds, we sent Mel home and Michael came and picked us up. Off we went to Kits beach for some spectacular weather and kite flying! Not to mention the serious bubble blowing. It was AWESOME! We had literally GAZILLIONS of bubbles! The wind was perfect! If you squint you can see Madigan flying the kite by herself too!
She amazed everyone walking past! They couldn't believe a "baby" was flying a kite... ok ok as usual I exaggerate.. it was just one lady that said it! but you know how we like to exaggerate in the blogosphere!



We just have to keep Paul Pat away from our kite and maybe it'll last longer than the last one did! hahaha burn paul.. burn!

Ahhhh the weekend

How GORGEOUS was it this weekend? So gorgeous we went alllll the way out to Maple Ridge to kick it with Uncle Kenny. Uncle Kenny bought a boat last weekend and he was itching to take it out for a spin this weekend. So wagons ho, we started out for Aloette Lake. SSOOOOOOO gorgeous! Great provincial campground to boot! Unfortch, no dock so we couldn't launch Uncle Kenny's new boat. Boo... no worries tho, we are in BC! So, back up into the wagons we go and head out for Pitt Lake! Success!! We launched the boat.. unfortch again, the battery was dead! Poor Poor Uncle Kenny! Uncle Kenny took the boat home and we stayed at Pitt Lake to let the girls roam! How 'bout that view!!!!!!

After the day's excitement we sparked up the firepit and Unkle Ken crisped up a couple of marshmallows for Maeve. She loved the first one perferred then told Uncle Kenny, " I want a clean one not a dirty one." Hahahah after he painstakingly roasted one to a perfect shade of caramel the little ingrate requests a clean one... Classic! Daddy, was forced to eat the rest of the roasted ones.

Tuesday/Wednesday

Hey you fer, go fer a two fer!

Haha I think that was some sort of old Burger King commercial. I think it was two little burgers sort of stuck together!! hahahahah ahh memories?

So, tuesday afternoon we had a visitor at Casa Mussellam. Our friend Roan is expecting a baby brother or sister sometime in May. Midwives were called, beginnings of labour were begun and Roan got to come and stay at our place for a couple of hours. Unfortunately it was a false alarm and alas no baby as of yet but we did get this gem!

Enjoy!

Aren't they pretty!

Ahhh Monday.. back to the grind! It is a GORGEOUS day today! We have to stick around here this am to ensure Madigan gets a good nap! Also I put in a bid for an ikea table and chair set for the girls and hopefully I get it! Here they are in all their gorgeosity!

Our Daughter the Bruiser

Poor sweet, empathetic Maeve; her little sister is a bossy bruiser!

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Yay, Yay, Yay, boo, booo... booo

Yesterday was a GREAT day! The sun was shining so, with our double stroller back in action, I loaded up the girls and struck out towards Kensignton Community Center. I've registered Maeve for a few preschool type classes and Yoga for myself! I figured it was going to be at least a half hour walk and to tell the truth, I was totally dreading it! Turns out it is a less than 10 minute walk along some cherry tree lined streets! Sweet! The park is great, they had sand, swings and a pretty cool climber with sides for big kids and sides for littler ones! So this was the first YAY.


Today Mark from Shaw came and hooked a brother up. We now have cable, internet and digital phone! Wahoooo, YAY number two!

Two lovely gentlemans from a little company called, "IKEA" phoned me to tell me my couch will be arriving in 5 minutes! Not 5 weeks, not 5 days, 5 minutes! Yay number 3

Now the boo stuff... boo means Vashti's oral surgery.... boo also means all the people at th eoffice who said, "its not a big deal" were not only liars, but liars that have never experienced the pain that is the first stage of a tooth implant. It is not fine, it is not easy.. I would rather give birth to be perfectly honest!

So, tooth removed, implant placed, bone graft done.. check check check.. last thing is my "flipper" tooth.. basically a tooth on a retainer to hold the space open, and also so i don't look any more hill billy than i already do... Well, wonderful Dentist places flipper tooth retainer in my mouth and... of course it doesn't fit! He says, you are ok to go without one until we get a new one right'? I was... uhh... ya.. really what are my options.. he sort of laughs and says.. well I'll just modify this one and we'll get anew one for you on tuesday... nice.. so that is yay yay yay boo boo booooo day from me...


The above pic is me and my new fake tooth on my sweet sweet couch with just one of the three people that I love so much

this is vashti, out!

a bed

Well boys and girls this is it. Our bed has finally arrived! Yahooooo! It got here in WAY better time than last time! The only thing is.... two boxes didn't make the trip. They weren't accounted for when they were unloaded from the container. boo... booooooooo guess what is inside? Photo albums.. you know, replaceable stuff... wahhhhh Oh well, it is only fair seeing as we lost ALL the pictures of Madigan's birth soon after she was born! Also the kids cd player, all my baskets for storing their clothes, AND my gorgeous cermaic bowl that we got for our wedding... wah wah snivel snivel.. ok I'm better... at least we have the girls toys!

They have SO many toys! I'm so glad there is finally stuff for them to do! Maeve is playing with her old skool fisher price people and Madigan is riding her billion dollar car/riding toy!

I have to go and put the bread in the oven!

Michael's happy our bed is here because he is going to try and put a bun in my oven!

hahahahaha

hope that grosses nearly all of you out!

sssh shhh shhh haa haa haa.... sssh shh shh haa haa haa

hehehe Happy Friday the 13th!


So here is another post with NO pics... lets call it a bulletin point about whats goin on in our lives

* Our belongings have cleared customs we are just waiting for the movers to fin a delivery date/time for us.. yahoo

* We ordered our new couch and it wont be here until after April 17th... booo.. but yay...

* Danica and Mike might be coming over! Yay haven't seen them in ages!

* My friend Angela is having a big birthday and me and Mel are going to help her celebrate it! Yay yay yay

* I have 3 loaves of bead in the oven and they might just be the best loaves EVER!



Random quotes from our kids:

Maeve, "Mommy, your teeth are yellow.... and your eyes are yellow too.. mine are white." Gee thanks Maeve

Madigan, "Look Mommy looooooook", "Lets go", "swing again, swing"

man they are growing fast!

Galloping off to a Great Easter Weekend

Here are the girls horsing around! Hahah So far the weekend has been great! We were at Horshoe Bay Ferry terminal for just over 3 hours... y es yes, awesome I know! Made it to Gramma Luvvies house on the Island, had some eats and went to bed...zzzzzzz

Saturday was fun got some great visiting in with Makenna Dawn and the cutest Saige ever!

I'll post some pics of the Eggstravaganza later! Happy Easter Everyone!

mOOooooooving right along

Hi faithful readers!


We have been busy! We successfully moved into our new place!~ Yay! Big thanks to Uncle Kenny and Auntie Erin.. no, not as a couple, as individuals! Auntie Erin cooked us a fab dinner on sunday night and let us stay at her place and Uncle Kenny slaved, heaved, ho'ed and drove to hither dither and yon to get some rather large pieces of furniture to us. Thank you both so much!

Short blog and no pics. Sorry, as usual we are 'borrowing' internet! We have ordered internet thru shaw so we wont be pirates forever!

Saturday we had brunch with Granny Gracie then back to her place to check and see if a rabbit made a brief appearance.. surprise surprise he had!

Sunday as mentioned before we had to leave our luscious apartment downtown and head over to the ever hospitable Aunite Erin's. We had a wonderful dinner and Madigan did a REALLY good job sleeping! (ie only screamed like we were peeling off her skin once through the night!)

Monday brought the big move to our new place. Uncle Kenny (lifesaver) and Daddy (wonderful) did all the heavy lifting and driving and picking up of things. Monday also brought us a surprise visitl from Papa! Big ups for Papa as he played monster with the girls and they had SO much fun! He also brought some boxes of ours from Powell River! In those boxes were several items that I didn't expect... ie.. my cutlery & tray, my knife block with knives AND my toaster! I was going to go and buy all of those things on tuesday but super Papa to the rescue brought them to me and they are mine and I can't believe I packed those things and they were in with the few boxes he brought us! KARMIC! Totally bizarre the way the world works!