Wahh.. Maeve's last day of kindergarten! One of the Moms brought in cupcakes to celebrate her daughters summer birthday. They shared them with Madigan and Liam AND the whole class! Maeve and Ronan are SO big now!!


Maeve and Mrs Broderick! Maeve and all the kids in her class ADORE her! As sweet as she looks, I have, heard her raise her voice!


Madigan(kitty) Mrs Broderick and Maeve. I hope that Mrs Broderick will still be at this school and teaching kindergarten when it is Madigan's turn!!


Celebratory sister kiss at our congratulatory lunch out with Daddy! We all love Maeve so much and we are so proud of her!


But if the two of them ever come home this drunk again, they are going to be grounded forever!

OMG... last day of school? When the hell is this happening?

I can't believe my baby.. my baby ...is finishing up kindergarten tomorrow! How in the world has an entire school year slipped by me? How on earth have I not aged one day at all in the mean time?? At this point all I have are questions!

To thank Maeve's teacher we made this:




I just LOVE what Maeve wrote inside. She is so clever and wonderful and awesome and fantastic and smart and fun... oh god, here comes Michael to stop my rave about Maeve!!



I can't believe she'll be going into grade one next year!!! Go Maeve!

What a weekend!

Talk about whirlwind! We got to visit with the Reynolds and the Dawsons on saturday.

We hit the Red Onion for some burgers and the Play Palace because the weather was kind of blah.

The kids (young and old) seemed to like everything! We tried a new Mexican place for dinner. It was GREAT! Not the service mind you but the food was great and the kids were all GREAT! Imagine, 6 adults and 6 kids not one squabble, whine or time out! It was awesome! The boys were treated to a second round of margaritas while the ladies took the kids to Britannia park to play for a bit before heading home.



Saturday Barb, Morgan and their girls hosted a GREAT BBQ so everyone could meet up in one place with the Reynoldzes. I know I've said it so many times but it was GREAT! There were new kids there and everyone seemed to get on really really well. The big kids sort of paired off and did big kids stuff while the younger ones got to play on their enormous home play structure! it was a treat!

For Father's day, I had a babysitter (Thanks Auntie Mel) all lined up to come over and watch the girls while I took Michael out for a movie! Things changed drastically at the BBQ when we started reminiscing about the weekly LOTR Risk games in Alameda with Eric. Well, one thing led to another and it was game on.. Good (michael) vs Evil (Eric & I). There was some initial hope for me, working with my evil counterpart. Then as usual, too much evil is not a good thing and Eric began his war of attrition:




As you can probably barely see, there I was (RED) my lone General standing tall and proud. The last man standing as it were. That was until my next turn. Look carefully and see what a woman scorned can accomplish.


It was all for naught. The ring carried right on through the badlands and damned if that fat little hairy hobbit didn't hurl it into Mt Doom. Good won again.. but not next time... muhahahah... muhahahahahahahah... muhahahahahha

S ..A ..T ..U ..R.. D.. A.. Y ... NIGHT

Kiss Me Deadly"

I went to a party last saturday night,
I didnt get laid I got in a fight
uh huh, it aint no big thing (really?)
late for my job and the traffic was bad
had to borrow ten bucks from travis's dad
uh huh, it aint no big thing
I went to a party last saturday night,
I told you that story and I'll be allright
uh huh, it aint no big thing
but I know what I like
I know I like dancin with you
And I know what you like,
I know you like dancin with me

kiss me once, kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
kiss me once, kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
had a few beers, gettin high
sittin, watchin the time go by
uh huh, it aint no big thing
nothin to eat and no tv
lookin in the mirror dont do it for me
uh huh, it aint to big thing
but I know what I like
I know I like dancin with you
and I know what you like
I know you like dancin with me
(dance with me!)
kiss me once
kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
kiss me once
kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
(well I know you like dancin with me)
kiss me once, kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
kiss me once
kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me
come on pretty baby kiss me
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
kiss me deadly
went to a party last Saturday night Wished Walter a happy 40th and it was allright!

Well look who we have here..... Guest cameo, Jacob Barry George!!!! Auntie Sara is at a seminar and we are watching Jakers today. Well, I am anyways! Maeve and Madigan are over the moon that their cousin is here to play! Our place is SOOOO hot though! We had the kids out at the park til 9pm last night!



For my birthday we met up with Granny Gracie and she showed us around her hood. She has been a Green Coat at YVR for 30 years or so! We had lunch, looked at sculptures and she treated us at the Olympics Store! (She didn't buy us any Olympics though, rude.)




Our gorgeous little one being gorgeous as usual!


Our little Forest Nymph at Stanley Park. Its 30 degrees in the sun and Maeve was 'cold' in the shade.

In this photo Maeve is a self titled, "Jellyfish". I think she looks more like one of those old skool toilet roll ladies that my Granny Cotton used to have on the back of her potty!