I figured I better blog one last time this year!


sorry for the late blogmanship but here goes!


There is our xmas tree with Totoro happily atop it!





xmas morning. we tried really hard to let granny gracie sleep in so we let the girls get up and have their stockings around 9am!

Here is baby Jason, click to enlarge and look at Madigan. I cannot believe how much she looks like my brother!


One of Maeve's favorite gifts!


Huge haul and tempers flaring!!



We had a wonderful xmas it was great! The girls seemed to have a really nice morning and so did we!



Christmas dinner was great! Thanks Auntie Lisa for the turkey bucks! We got a free organic turkey it was huge and there are still lots of leftovers! *groan* I/we are sick of turkey!!!


This is what we did this morning, New years Eve. So sad that it took me a week to get this blog up!

Hello ya'll:

Happy Holidays!

In Vashti's family they have a tradition that they can open one gift the night before christmas (it was always a pair of PJs). So we're continuing this with the girls (sorry, I'm too tired to remove the red-eyes):

Oooooh Christmas is coming! I cannot believe Christmas Eve is a mere week away!


Yesterday Sara and Jakers came over for a visit. They stayed the night and today we made our way over to Richmond to go visit Great Granny Gracie!




We took her to Mc Donalds! hahahaha you'd think we'd be able to treat her at a better restaurant but hey, who else has a playplace! We had a nice little lunch then let the beasts loose on the outdoor play structure! Turns out that this particular McDonalds was the one Michael, Erin and Sara went to when they were little!

After lunch we hit Tim Horntons and had a nice visit at Great Granny Gracies. She taught Maeve how to play dominoes!





Jakers and Madigan ran laps around and around her place and Sara and I fought over the donuts! I won because she ate them! Hhahahaha hope she gets fat even tho I know she wont!!

Hopefully here is some video of the wild things and their rumpusing at McDonalds



ps don't judge me for the less than warm looking attire on the children. As far as I'm aware they haven't frozen to death yet and when they are cold, they'll come and get any one of the number of jackets I have on hand!

peace out bitches!

Decorating the Yule Tree

Hello all,

After pestering mommy and daddy for a week, the girls finally got to decorate our tree. Here are some pictures of the shenanigans. That is all.

Michael.





And finally, Merry ChristmAss:

hellooooo my fine feathered friends! Hope life is treating you well! We are in fast forward it seems! Life is going way too quickly!

This weekend has been busier than the rest. Monday we got a scary call. One of our friends was in the ER and we ran and picked up his big brother to spend the day with us so Mom and Dad could be at the hospital. I'm very happy to say that everything is now fine and everyone is back at home doing well!


Maeve and Madigan are doing well. Cheeky as ever and I wouldn't have it any other way! Maeve is under the impression she is the boss of us. She is constantly correcting me while I discipline Madigan!


Madigan on the other hand, is such a little trouble maker! I imagine this is what Michael was like when he was little. Always with the teasing, bothering but is so incredibly loving. Madigan is so quick to share her treats with Maeve, so fast to give a hug or a kiss and always says sorry when she hurts Maeve. Sadly the #1 reason Madigan hurts Maeve is by kneeling or laying on her hair! Maeve's hair, although gorgeous.. is becoming a little more of a hassle! She officially does NOT want me to take her to have her hair cut. She is concerned that cutting her hair will hurt her! I tell her its like cutting her nails but she isn't having any of it!


Michael has been working late the last few nights and I'm not going to lie, life has been pretty challenging for me. I know he doesn't want to be working late anymore than I do. Poor Michael misses the girls and they sure miss him! I know my job isn't neurosurgery but I have to tell you I'm feeling pretty beat these days! I'm looking forward to the holiday, to Brodie and Lindsay's wedding and spending some time with my family on the island for xmas.

For the Mussellam Chambers side of things we are meeting up with everyone at Michael's Auntie Lisa's place on Dec 23. Kersten, Michael's cousin is back from Ghana and we haven't seen her or Ryan for 2 years! My god where has the time gone! Great Granny Grace is going to come and spend xmas eve/morning with us, Grampa George will be coming over Christmas day and on boxing day we hope to have a few people stopping by! Busy busy busy!

I found a funny page where you can have a chat with Santa ! See what he has to say these days!

Hello everyone! Happy Snow Day!

Saturday I walked to work and it was sooo quiet! We had a couple of centimeters of snow on the ground and it was coming down pretty good. I worked until 2 and it had snowed, then stopped, then snowed again! while I was walking home the snow was hitting me pretty hard! I was so excited! I had a meeting with a possible babysitter so I had to hurry home and not dawdle and play in the snow!

I got home and Madigan was sleeping so Maeve and I geared up and made the snowy trek to meet our babysitter to be! Andrea is great, she is originally from Malaysia but has lived the bulk of her life in Ireland! She has lived in Vancouver for 1 1/2 years and has zero accent! Weird huh? Maeve really liked her and I really liked the way she talked to Maeve! She gets top marks from me! Michael and I are going to go on a date and not have to call my Mom over from the Island to watch the girls for a change!

While I was at work, Michael took the girls to the park up the street! looks like they had a blast!




Sunday was more snow! I figured the snow would have stopped overnight but nopers! We had tonnes of the white stuff! We had a late start today! Michael and I lazily woke up at 9:44! Oh the joy! The girls had gotten up earlier and watched some treehouse! Huzzah! Lisa came over around 1:30 ish and took me shopping at oakridge mall. I got the girls some cute long john type shirts, tights, soap and some popcorn.. oh the joy! So now Michael is making dinner and I'm signing off!