Post Christmas Hangover - An iPod Photo Holiday Review

Please forgive me....all of these pictures were taken with my iPod Touch. I promise to download pictures taken with an honest to goodness camera soon but not right now.  :)

First we headed to Cluny, AB to see Nana & Papa Don.  

We visited our friends Lindy, Adrian & Matt....and took pictures of their trees....then I got busy talking & drinking Grantinis so no pictures to be found of them.

Santa brought Evan Kung Zhu hamsters.  They are very cute but also very noise especially when they are buried in a bag on a bumpy car ride.  

I started learning to knit. I still have a LONG way to go though!

Evan and Nicole LOVE their Pillow Pets....It's a pillow, it's a pet...it's a PILLOWPET!

Evan didn't do nearly enough of this.

We drove across the prairies to visit Dewey's Dad though at times I would have sworn we were on the moon.

Though the sunset sure was pretty.

That's is a REALLY long road!

All those toys & Evan wanted to play with a spray bottle & the dish brushes.  

He *may* have subsisted completely on sugar through the holidays.

We managed to put together this monster 1000 piece puzzle while at Nana's.

Ugh...here's the pile of STUFF that needs to be put away.  

And don't forget the laundry. Thankfully Nana did a bit for us before we left or it would be twice the amount.

Oh and this guy....I threatened to sell him to the gypsies at least two or three times per day.  Too many new people + too little sleep + too much sugar left us with a crabby little boy! (Who has now woken up & is screaming at me because he wants to go to McDonalds.)

So how was your Christmas?

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Happy Halloween 2010

Halloween was a bit crazy for us this year.  On Thursday Evan had a Halloween party at his preschool.  On Thursday we had a party at our friend Shawna's house and tonight the finale.....Trick or Treating!

Shawna & Kali

Thanks to Evan's Auntie Victoria, he had two costumes to pick from. One was the Alien from Toy Story and the other was a puppy (tho he swore it was a bunny).  He decided to wear the "bunny" costume to Shawna's and the Alien everywhere else.

Evan as a puppy/"bunny"

I only took him to the houses in our loop so he didn't have an obscene amount of candy.  He got to eat a few pieces tonight and he mostly wanted to eat the chips he got.  

In case you're wondering...here's what Evan looked like last year.

We had about 30 Trick or Treaters last year so I bought enough to give 1 bag of Cheetos and 1 Mars bar to 60 kids.  You would think doubling the amount would be enough....right?  Wrong!  We ended up getting 120 kids!  We ran out of candy at 6:50 so I had to run out and buy more.  Had it been later we would have turned off the lights and called it a night but that was too early.

All in all, it was a great night.  

BUT....did I mention that I'm on a diet?  Yep.  I didn't eat ONE candy bar.  It almost killed me but I managed to "just say no".  My trainer would be proud!

How was your Halloween?  Did you go Trick or Treating?  Hand out goodies?  What did you hand out?  Dish....I would love to know how your night went!

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Happy Canada Day!

Image from http://canflag.com

Today is Canada's 143rd birthday.  I've only lived here for 5 years so I haven't known Canada that long but what I do know I like.  

My favorite things about Canada are:

- the nice people

- the beautiful scenery

- all the long weekends (this is really an Alberta thing but still outstanding...almost one per month...they just made up holidays!)

- free healthcare 

Here's where I would normally post a picture of what we did for Canada Day.  Today we have been laying low and doing absolutely as little as possible.  I just woke up from a nap which was definitely a highlight.

So Happy Canada Day to all my Canuck friends....how did you celebrate?




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Happy Mother's Day!

First....Happy Mother's Day to my lovely Mom!  We didn't get to see her today because she is in Alabama.  I did send her a beautiful necklace from Etsy, though.  I saw it & IMMEDIATELY thought of her.  It is so awesome when you find a gift that is exactly right as opposed to buying something just b/c you think you have to.  I was going to put a pic of the necklace on here but the image is copyrighted so I won't.  You can see it here though.


Also...Happy Mother's Day to Nana!  She is an awesome Mother In Law, a great mom to Dewey and a great Nana to Will, Nicole & Evan.  I am very, very lucky!





For my Mother's Day celebration, Dewey suggested that we go to Chez Francois in Canmore for breakfast.  Chez Francois is my FAVORITE breakfast place ever.  They serve the best Eggs Benedict I have ever tasted.  They also have amazing crepes.  I would imagine they also have great dinner food but we've never been there for anything but breakfast.  We called & made reservations (thankfully) because when we arrived there was a note on the door that said "We are completely full! Please come again on another day".  Dewey had his usual Eggs Benedict, I had the "Ladies Combo" which had one egg benedict and 2 raspberry crepes and Evan had the kid's cinnamon sugar crepes.  Everyone was completely happy with their food.  Evan even ate all of his! This is high praise from our little non-eater!

Since we didn't have anything planned today, we decided to take a drive into Kananaskis Country on the Spray Lakes Trail.  It was a beautiful drive.  I had hoped to see a moose or a bear but it was not to be.  We did end up seeing some deer & two different sets of sheep.

The only semi-downer of the trip was that Evan is still very early in the potty training game so we stopped A LOT.  Thankfully Dewey remembered to pack Evan's potty so we could just stop on the side of the road.  We made it home without any accidents though we did have to stop to let him pee in a heavy snowstorm and on the side of a major highway.  Good times!

Yep....that's Evan on the potty in the back of the truck!

Last but not least for my Mother's Day spoiling is this beautiful Pandora bracelet from Dewey, Evan, Will & Nicole!

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