Bounce.............

Sam stole a used bounce sheet from the laundry basket and ended up carrying it for our walk........it even seems like he was asking Rosie to smell it :)

Mine!!!!!

Sams favourite word right now is 'mine'.................so when he got this egg from the chickens tonight he cuddled it and said 'mine' and wouldn't put it in the bucket........he even refused to give it up to go on the tractor with Daddy...instead he came with me into the laundry room.......he held it for ages and then after I had finished what I was doing I asked him where his egg was and he said 'oh' with a sad worried look and pointed into the corner where his egg was cracked on the floor......

Thank goodness for dogs...I called in Amber and she ate up the egg :)

Snow white hard at work.............

Snow white was still hard at work this evening feeding her flock of hens........collecting eggs.....and supervising her baby brother.....a Princess's work is never done...............

A token.......................

Lloyd came home with a beautiful bouquet of roses for me tonight.......they are the most delicate shade of peach and are just so gorgeous.............he said it was because of the email I sent him this morning that made him want to buy me flowers :)

I love you Lloyd.

How on earth did I get so lucky?

The end result..............

Here are Abigails wiggly jiggly fruit treats or whatever they are called :) she had fun making these all by herself :)

YUM!!!!

Cairo relaxing on the deck.......

Millennium playground..............

This afternoon I took Lauries friends (the twins) to MP with us......they all played in the sports zone (the aged 8 - 15 area) while I took Sam and Abigail in the indoor playground. I met Sh there with her two girls.........and also Pam with her crew...its a very special day for Pam as her DS turns ONE!!! :) So I took cupcakes and a candle and matches and mid way through the afternoon we went outside and sang happy birthday and had the cupcakes :)

Susie loved having T there to play with.........and Abigail made several 'friends' that she was running around with...including being chased by the staff member for a while which she thought was fab!!

We left MP late and ended up driving to collect Chris from work at the museum before heading to the twins home to drop them off...........then we finally headed home.....

We just got threw with dinner...I made my savoury brown rice with beef...I cooked the beef in a peanut sauce ......everyone loves this so thats good........

I have the beginnings of a migraine................but I am trying not to take Imitrex...we'll see...Lloyd told me to go and soak in the bath for a while and see if that shifts it but I'd rather be outside with everyone so once I'm done with this I will go out for a walk with the dogs.....see who wants to join me..................

Tomorrow I FINALLY have a quiet day at home....as much as I have loved everything we have done this last week and everyone we have seen, I am looking forward to doing NOTHING tomorrow.....the twins are sleeping over tomorrow night and we have a busy weekend.....so tomorrow is my day to relax at home...I am such a homebody...I don't like weeks when I am not at home.....................

I didn't get to talk to my Dad today to wish him Happy Birthday...........we called a few times this morning but their machine picked up....and by the time we got home he would have been asleep as they are 7 hours ahead.................so we will call tomorrow.

Today is Sh and J's wedding anniversary......they are off to the Creperie downtown for supper which sounds lovely! Happy Anniversary!!!

Thursday stuff.......

Its so weird here this morning......Laurence slept over at his friends again last night and Chris left early this morning for work....so its just me and the girls right now as Sam is napping.......... it seems so quiet!

Susie is writing to her penpal and Abigail is doing math at the table.......Abigial loves math....she is adding and subtracting numbers to 12 today.........I write out a page of sums (at her request) and she writes in the answers...............she usually gets them all right...sometimes she writes the numbers back to front but the answer is right......

Susie has been making me laugh this morning.......she has been practicing an English accent......she came in thrilled this morning to tell me she can now speak in an English accent...I laughed and said thats good Susie because you ARE English lol! She was practicing saying 'I would like a packet of crisps and a cup of tea'.......................too funny!!!

Susie just told me that its too quiet here today!!!!! With only three children home it does seem really quiet! Still, we will all be home this evening again and tomorrow night we have two extras sleeping!

Reaching the top shelf.......

I'm not sure Abigail should really be doing this........................

Wednesday fun..............

Yesterday Christie came over to scrapbook........um.....how much scrapbooking did we get done Christie????????????? Not much lol! Christie did NONE lol and I did half a page.........but we looked at pictures, talked a LOT and spent most of the time laughing........I had a blast!

In the pics above you can see Christie happily made herself at home.......although her comment about my decent English teabags tasting no different to Orange Pekoe was a MAJOR insult lol!

Mid way through the afternoon Nancy B came over with her gorgeous boys.......we went into the chicken coop and the children picked out all the eggs for Nancy to take home.............and I was educated on diaper-free babies which I find fascinating!!!! I had never seen crotchless pants for babies before...I figured crotchless clothing was from 'adult' stores only!!!

So Nancy was saying how my blog me look so capable...yet I am in awe of her with her amazing boys and her patience to go diaper free (which has so obviously paid off.........) and her amazing 4 year old who just seems so grown up and was showing Abby how to ride a bike without training wheels...............which of course she now wants to try again after a few tries this summer......

Laurence called and said he wanted to sleep over another night at his friends......and Fern called to say she has some mail of ours so I am hoping to call around and see her new baby!

Lloyd forgot to take his wallet to work yesterday so borrowed some money from a colleague for lunch and then was worried he didn't have enough gas to get home.....luckily he made it home and we made it to the garage for gas..............but it also meant we had to go into town for groceries as he couldn't stop off on his way home........

We ended up going to Smittys for supper and then running into Sobeys for bread and a few other things.........I was really tired by the time we got home........so we flopped on the sofa and watched a weird documentary about Miss Olympia..........which I plan to blog about!!

Anyway, it was lovely to see Nancy yesterday.....and I had such fun with Christie all afternoon. We must 'scrapbook' again soon ;)

Wednesday says goodbye................

Wiggly Giggly Fruit Snack

This week in Abigails Chirp magazine was a recipe for wiggly giggly fruit snacks.......Abigail really wanted to make these yesterday but we just didn't find the time......first thing this morning she asked again so as we are home for the morning we made them......they are cooling now and tonight when they are et she can cut the shapes out of the tray of jello :)

Comment to Nancy B........yes we made jello BUT I am not dressed, Abby was not dressed...Sam was running around stealing raspberries with orange paint all over himself and all over the dining room floor from Abigails painting session before breakfast...........and I felt bad all day yesterday for not finding time to make the jello yesterday when Abby REALLY wanted to make them.......and I still haven't blogged about your visit yesterday or Christies!!!!!! I also fed my children waffles for supper last night because I was too tired to cook.............

Happy Birthday Dad!!!

Today is my Dads 67th birthday.....................Happy Birthday Dad!
(Unless he's shrunk a lot since I saw him last I think he's sitting down in this picture with my Mum sat on the arm of the chair........lol! He's not really several inches shorter than my Mum!)

Today also, Pams little boy turns one!!

:)

Happy Birthday C!!!
(See you later!!!)