I can't believe another week has flown past! Last week we survived Maeve's birthday.

I'm not the best Mommy in the world, there are some things that I don't really enjoy doing and that is keeping 2 girls safe while they ride their bikes.... sooo with Maeve busy at school, Madigan rode her bike to the beach!




It is much easier keeping one child on the bike route and off the pedestrian part than two let me tell you! Her reward? A kiss from her Mommy who adores her!


All the Mussellam ladies got to go to Liam's 4th birthday party and paint and work with clay making Yoda figurines!! The kids had a blast, working hard at the Art Studio, pumping out some serious Yoda action!

Friday Lexie and Gary welcomed their little Logan to the world! Logan came a bit early and he is very tiny! Sounds like he is eating like a champ and everyone is taking excellent care of the whole family. I busted out the ole knitting needles and tried about 7 or 8 time to come up with a hat that will fit Logan's adorable little head! After many attempts here is the finished product, modelled by Madigan's doll "Blueberry"

Big Week

Hello friends and family!

So we've had a pretty big week around here. Ms Maeve Adera turned 6! Yes 6! My baby, my first born baby girl is 6! I can't believe it!

Maeve just LOVED the card that Michael made for her. For my birthday Michael made me a very beautiful special card and Maeve asked him to make one for her on her birthday. Maeve also asked for a cake *just* like the one Gramma Suzy *made* for Daddy.. a chocolate cake from scratch with yes with money in it! Thanks for setting the bar so high on that one Susan!

Maeve woke up to a very special surprise! While she was sleeping Michael and I preformed our usual birthday magic! We used the table cloth (plastic crap) that we've been using since Maeve turned 3 in england!! haha talk about getting one's money worth!!


Maeve LOVES the new backpack Madigan picked out for her!


For breakfast Queen Maeve had swiss pancakes with fresh fruit and whipped cream!

Ahh what a day! She was sent off to school with cupcakes for all her friends and her two teachers Tony and John! I prayed they would let them have them at recess but no, they got them just before coming home for the day! I had to apologize to all the parents for sugared up riled up kids!!

After school we played with Carter and Mel at Carter's (Cooper's) park, picked up Daddy around 5 and came home for homemade pizza, cake and a couple of movies. Barbie and the 3 Muskateers! The girls LOVED the cake and the movie, but the pizza not as much! I have to work on my pizza dough recipe!

Tired little girls got to sleep late and were up early saturday for the AppleBarn Adventure!! We met up with Mel, Monkey, Carter, Uncle Kenny, Auntie Shannon and baby Kara




. We picked 19lbs of the tastiest apples EVER! This year we actually hit the "HoneyCrisp" apple season. There is a 2 week window to get these beauties and we nailed it this year!

Madigan got to ride a pony!!


We played on the airpillow (awesome) picked apples, went on a tractor ride, played in the playground and then came home for dinner, cake and ice cream with some Grandparents! George, Susan, Darryl, Great Granny Grace and her friend Alva came over for chinese food, and a few presents! My girls are so thankful for the gifts given to them they are really lucky little ladies!


sunday brought us to toysrus to spend some bday bucks! Maeve went with a Barbie Muskateer (obviously) and Madigan opted for one of those creepy fur real puppies! They love them!

Now, a HUGE pile of laundry has my name written all over it so i bid you adieu!

Today we went to spend some birthday bucks

Wedding!

Well this weekend we really lucked out. Not only did Erin and Don get married, the weather was gorgeous! I was scared about how cold/wet it would be by last weeks weather! Sara and I spent Erin's last night as a single lady together. They tried and tried to get me to sleep with them but I hope everyone knows how much I :

a)enjoy sleep
b) enjoy sleep by myself
c)enjoy having my own personal space to sleep!

The wedding was at Pipers' Lagoon. It was pretty beautiful. They got married almost right on the ocean. The girls did a GREAT job as flower girl! They almost painstakingly laid a trail of petals to "Help Auntie Erin find Don" ! I made it up and down the isle without barfing due to being nervous so that was nice! Sara looked gorgeous (I'm taking full props for her hair! we rawked it!) and Erin looked beautiful! I was very happy for the wedding part to be over, now I just had the nerves for the speech I had to do!! Fortunately Gary let me man up and have a shot before the big deal!


Dinner was really good. I didn't eat much (explains how fast I got drunk) I had so much time hanging out with friends and family. I think EVERYONE had a great time! Everyone looked so good! My Mom, you looked great in that pink suit! Danica, you looked so fantastic! Jason & Barb, Bro & Linds you clean up well! Mr Robin Smith cleaned up and looked pretty good in the beginning adn alth he was totally polluted at the end.. he did it with style!

All in all a great day, a great wedding and a great future for Mr and Mrs Boekenkruger!



Hopefully you look this good after being married this long!!!

So, we got the Xbox 360.....



yes, they are awesome!