Coffee cake and candles....

Christopher asked for a coffee cake for his birthday cake - and coffee cake to us Brits means just that COFFEE cake lol...whereas here in Canada coffee cake is a ring shaped cake that can be any flavour that (I'm assuming) you eat with coffee!! So coffee cake here doesn't taste of coffee - it can be chocolate or blueberry or lemon etc etc (yep Canadians are weird lol!) And Chris wanted traditional coffee and walnut cake :)

Our chickens have stopped laying eggs because of the drop in temperature this week so I had to keep sending the children out to see if another one had popped out! By 2pm we finally had the 4 eggs we needed for the cake...one was so fresh it was still all warm :)

Anyway, the cake doesn't look brilliant but tastes divine...with coffee flavoured buttercream in the middle and coffee flavoured icing on top and walnut halves to decorate :) Perfect for my coffee addicted teen

Yum :)

Amazing to think I have a child old enough to get his drivers permit - his learners at least ;) We've said he can get his licence but that does NOT mean we will allow him to drive!

Date night....

Coming back from date night on Wednesday, we came across a HUGE Elk on a corner of Ellerslie....it was HUGE!!!! We weren't sure if it was from a wild herd or from the Elk farm along that road, so we drove down to the farm but no one was home, so we drove back up to the Elk to scare it away from Ellerslie which is a road where cars do quite high speeds....

When we got back, a whole herd of Elk raced out of the trees and jumped the fence and ran into the road!!! So we kind of scared them off of Ellerslie and onto a side road...they then went across the road and jumped into the field on the other side and took off away from Ellerslie....one of the Elk stumbled coming over the fence and fell...so we made sure she was ok before we headed home and as we drove we could see them all walking across the field....

Whether they are a wild herd free to roam (they were tagged) or an escaped herd from the local Elk farm, they were at least safe for another evening and away from the busy road - they really were huge Elk so if a car hit one of those at 100km an hour then it would be a very nasty accident fort all involved :(

Beautiful animals!! I've heard on the radio a few times that a herd of Elk was on the move in that area and in our area.....but it was amazing to see them running free away from the Rockies!

Puppet show time

Abigails gift to Chris, for his birthday, was a puppet show.....she made little stick puppets and performed from behind my big chair.....

Wednesdays sunset for you....

Our new little girl....

Josh Classen, our local weather man (My Mom really likes him lol) is supporting World Vision right now and during August is trying to get 3200 children sponsored by families in our city of Edmonton....

So I am thrilled that yesterday we sponsored a 5 year old little girl named Margori. We picked Margori for a number of reasons - She lives in Peru - a country that Susannah studied at school last year and Abigail will study in a few years.....Margori is the same age as Abigail and she loves mathematics and ball games - Abigails favourite activities!

We have wanted to sponsor a child for so long but were just never organized enough to do it, but now its done and I can't wait for the welcome pack to arrive :)

Yesterdays visitors.......

Christopher turns 14.....

A few pics of Chris opening his gifts this morning....

We had cake around 4:30pm and then we WERE going out for supper together but plans changed and instead Chris and Lloyd have gone to the movies to see The Bourne Ultimatum.....

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