Strike a Pose

So I have a little poser! We were able to go to the Skates N Skirts Store in Mossbank over the weekend, and we got the girls matching Figure skating dresses. Jada is in love with her dress. She wanted me to take pictures of her different poses. Now, she came up with these all on her own. I will get pictures of the girls together and post them at a later date.

Linesman

Well, last week, Eric got himself a little 'job'. He is now old enough to be a linesman for any age group younger than him. He is very excited about this new adventure. And I must say, for his first two games he did well. Learning lots. The new boys did have a mentor and that was an excellent thing. He really helped the boys A LOT.

My camera takes really terrible pictures in our rink, but it was nice to capture his first game. I think his favorite part was dropping the puck.

Skate Boot Covers

So, these wouldnt load to facebook, so I am posting them here.

Jada's feet get so cold at CanSkate, so I decided to sew up some warm fuzzy covers for her to wear on the ice. Maybe this will help to keep her toesies warm. ANd I couldnt just sew them for one girl, so Sara got a pair of green snowflake ones as well. Jada's are the pink flower & butterfly ones. Both girls think they are awesome. I'll let you all know if they work. Till then.....

Happy Halloween!

What a beautiful day it was for all the trick n' treatin' there was to be had today!! Though we had a very sick Sara and she got no treating in. Earlier in the week we carved the pumpkins that we got from Grandma & Grandpa Welk. Jada would have nothing to do with the 'guts' inside the pumpkin. She was content to draw his face and hair on the front.

Eric and Sara are both very much into scooping the inside out with their hands. Ewww...is all I have to say about that. Both Eric and Sara get to use the knife and carve the creation of their choice for their pumpkins and each year they are gettin better and better.

Here is Sara with her finished pumpkin, it's a kitty. (I did help her draw it on and do some of the cutting.)

Jada wrapped her 'baby' in a blanket for the pictures. (She could carry around her pumpkin for days. It's so cute)

Eric did the vomitting pumpkin this year!!! NICE.

Here's a picture of the girls in their costumes. This was Jada's daytime costume, a mermaid. For the evening of trick or treating she was Sully off of Monsters Inc.

Eric was a homeless man, and I didnt even take one picture of him. Boo. So till next halloween...

A Weekend with Grandma & Grandpa

Two weekends ago, we went to Grandma & Grandpa Welk's place to celebrate Jada's Birthday. ALso, Eric & Nathan got to go to a Calgary Flames game (in Saskatoon) with Grandpa. They had a really fun time. My Mom made Jada this amazing house cake. Jada loved the cake! The candles were fun sparklers.

And the presents were very serious business to open. Jada got playdough!! JOY!!!

Jada's 1st Day of Preschool 2009

So the school year has finally started for all three kids. Sara is in Grade 4 and Eric is now in middle years in Grade 6. What a big step that felt like. Also, Jada started preschool yesterday. (She did go last year as well for half the year, so this is second time around, just with a different teacher) Jada doesnt want to go to "preschool" so she is going to "playtime" with her friends. (That's what we call it now) Here she is all ready to go, and she was actually excited this afternoon. She got to wear her backpack (which was Sara's backpack for preschool back in the day, which Jada thought was really cool that both Sara's name and hers is now on the backpack) The whole walk to school, she chitter chatted my ear off. It was great to see her in a good mood! Here she is finding her name tag with her new teacher, Mrs. Mittleholtz! She was so amazing with the kids.

She ran right to the babies and started playing with some of the other girls. It was great to have a different experience with preschool. Probably b/c she is a bit older and more mature that she is handling it better.

And when I went to pick her up, she was super excited about getting a smelly pencil and sucker from her teacher. The she chatted all the way home again. So proud of you Jada!

Day 12 - Aug 9

Woke up.
Went for Breakfast
Packed up the tent site for the last time
Came home.....that is where a whole new exhaustion starts. THe washing and cleaning of clothes, van, blankets.....now we have spent the next couple of days trying to recover from our adventure. For my record sake, I need to add that I slept with a toque on for 7 out of 12 of those days. So so long to our 2009 summer vacation....looking forward to 2010 already!!!