Firestation visit

Today I took the girls on a field trip. The local firestation had some tours arranged through the holidays. As the girls have always loved fire trucks and stations, I thought it would be a fun time for them.

Here are some pictures from our visit.

Coming to a close

the season that is... after Christmas and boxing day, it often feels like a great weight is off my shoulders. The hype and preparation leading up to Christmas always seems so exhausting but definitely worth it. I hope everyone had a fabulous time with family. We were definitely missing ours this year but spent a nice quiet weekend letting the girls enjoy everyone of their gifts. (It may take me a week to get the livingroom back to normal)

Here are some pictures for those who we were unable to see through the holidays:

Laura was quite excited to get this gift and Jenna was giving it a thumbs up too!

Laura completed her own shopping again this year at the school's christmas store. This is something her school sets up every year. The families provide donations to the school and the student's bring a $0.50 donation to the local food bank then walk through the gym and find items they want to purchase for their immediate family members. These gifts have been very interesting through the years. You truly never know what you are going to get.

This year she got a mickey mouse coffee cup, a scraf for me and a little pablo doll for Jenna. She is always more excited about these gifts and watching you open them than any other gift under the tree. Its so neat to see. She stops everything she's doing, and just watchs to see your reaction. As you can see from these pictures, she got the perfect gift for Jenna this year.

2 days to go

until Christmas. The girls have been climbing the walls, literally, climbing the walls. They are both trying really hard to be good but they are so excited and eager and enthusiatic. Which of course makes it pretty much impossible to be good - although, they are.

I have been trying to keep them busy (and out of the house). In doing so, I've been taking advantage of the outings around the city. On Saturday we went to the Bushplane museum for a movie. After the movie, they did a craft, had a snack and then toured the museum. Great use for an afternoon at this time of year. The local paper was there. Here are some pictures of the event:
http://www.soonews.ca/viewarticle.php?id=23725
Take a look at the bottom right pictures...yep, that's us in the far right ones. Glad I wasn't yelling at them when the pictures were being taken, eh?

Yesterday we went to a christmas movie at the library. Again, popcorn with the movie and some sprite. Any one who knows my girls knows that is a perfect combination - they were thrilled. Again, it was a good turn out but got them out and doing something fun.

UHU sample

I received a sample of a new glue stick (not really new but new to me) by UHU a few weeks ago. My last few weeks have been a little chaotic but I was able to complete a few layouts. I also will be trying it on a mini album to see how it holds up on chipboard (hopefully in the next week).

I wanted to try the sample with some old pictures. I find these pictures tend to really give adhesives a work out as they have a tendency to roll and bend. The UHU worked fabulously! No warping or globing and the pictures stayed put.

Then I thought I would give it an even better workout with some chipboard. So for the chipboard paisley pieces on this layout I coated the back of the edging and applied the patterned paper. Then I used the UHU to stick the chipboard to the page. Again, no problem with sticking or transfer.

It even stuck to the ribbon/ twine and the acrylic piece at the bottom of the layout went down just as easy. I did find the acrylic showed the adhesive through though so make sure you're only using it underneath your papers.

Wow!

What a busy two weeks! It has been such a crazy time! Here are some pictures of Laura's bowling birthday party:



First we went bowling. Two lanes, bumper pads in the gutters and everyone scoring over 100 points. Truly a fun time!






Of course, presents!





Then there was pizza and cake. Grandma out did herself again with Laura's cake - the girls were all in awe!







Followed by loot bags and fairy wings.

Visiting uncle

Uncle Todd came up for a short visit this past weekend. The girls had such a great time - they loved having him around and were sorry to see him go. (Jenna was napping at the time and when she woke up was quite upset she wouldn't be seeing him for a few months)

He definitely picked a good weekend to visit though. Here is what we woke up to this morning:







Yep, SNOW, and lots of it! The girls were thrilled but I was happy Todd had been able to get up before the roads started getting bad. I imagine he is happy too when he sees these pictures.