October 2010

It was nice enough to do one last haircut outside

And nice enough to squeeze in a few more park days


Happy Thanksgiving!
Jayna made this turkey at preschool, cute idea

Going on a nature walk and collecting treasures

Kepler doing the potty dance after he went pee on the potty for the first time

and eating his potty treat

Formula 1 race car on display at Mac Island

Gibb doing the simulator, he crashed a lot

my little sweetie

Jayna trying to be patient before preschool one morning

horsey rides

Jayna's turn, Kepler actually lasted a few seconds, pretty impressive

Jayna and Teacher Amy at her preschool halloween party, she loves Teacher Amy

Never too old for sleepovers!

Friday was my big bad 30th birthday. I've been dreading this birthday for the last 12 years, no exaggeration. But now that it's here I actually don't mind it at all. I thought I would be feeling old and kind of bummed out, especially since Gibb's in Vancouver all week-end for a course, but it was a really fun week-end.

I woke up to this surprise outside

For dinner we met up with Lindsay and her kids at the Burger King with a playland. And then since both of our husbands were out of town we had a sleepover after at Lindsay's!

Party time!

Jayna insisted on wearing a dress since we were going to my birthday "party". She kept asking me when we were going to make my cake and when all my friends were going to come over.

Linds & Me - she's the best

The cake, 4 different kinds of rice krispies squares (my favourite treat)

My 2 crazies

When we originally planned the sleepover we figured we'd have the kids in bed by 7:30 and then the real fun could begin. But it didn't exactly happen that way. We got stuck in traffic for an hour before we got home and then the kids were all excited about having a sleepover and had to have cake. So it ended up being after 9 before they were all sleeping. But then we got to hang out kid free and not have to spend the night alone...totally worth it!

Making waffles for breakfast the next morning

I had to sneak this one in at the end of our boys with their blankets. Kepler calls his "kie-kie" and Cohen calls his "coze", but whatever you call it they love them, and these 2 boys love each other. They are best buddies!

Cuteness

I'm finally posting these fall pictures of the kids. Last week our computer crashed and we thought we lost these pictures, I was so sad. But luckily we got them back off the camera card, thank goodness! I think these are some of the best pics we've been able to get of our kids together.

September

A random update for the month...

Kepler loves books right now, he wants me to read to him all the time, and sometimes he'll let Jayna read to him
Some of his favourites right now are: Goodnight Moon, That's not my Penguin, Each Peach Pear Plum, Five Little Monkeys, Hey! Wake up!, Oh my Oh my Oh Dinosaurs, There's a Wocket in my Pocket, The Very Hungry Caterpillar... okay I'll stop listing now, he basically loves all books and he pretty much has most of them memorized

And Jayna latest love is money! She got a $10 bill from Great Grandpa and Grandma Jensen for her birthday and I think that re-fueled the obsession. She's been doing pretty good at saving it up to buy things she really wants, but then again when does a 4 year old ever have a chance to spend money.

September 16 was a sad day...

it snowed :(
BUT it didn't stick and it's been gorgeous out this week
AND I love this pic of the kids watching the first snowfall

Jayna asserting her independence

Kepler sitting on the potty (nowhere near potty training him, just sitting for now)

A package from Grandma Kathy and the Hills, so exciting

Kepler loving his new jammies from Grandma Kathy

These 2 can be so easily entertained...sometimes


Play dates!



Kepler climbed onto the counter and was singing Happy Birthday to himself and then blowing out the candles, over and over

Best Happy Meal Toy Ever!Kepler has not let this skateboard out of his hands for more than a couple minutes since last Saturday, yes he even slept with it most nights. And one night he woke up crying because he couldn't find it in his crib. In his own words "Skateboard best friend!"

Edmonton...again

I've been to Edmonton 3 times this month. Twice with the whole family and one quick trip by myself for an ortho appointment. And now we're on strike...at least until my next appointment in November. Even though it's been crazy, we've had some fun times.

Kepler being a pirate

Kepler and his cousin Holly were best buddies

Me & my girl

Kepler also LOVES his cousin Evan, and Evan is so sweet to Kepler

cute little 4 year olds: Gabby & Jayna

Jayna with the newest cousin Adam, so tiny and sweet

Kepler with Great Grandma at her 90th party

I'm so glad we have family so close and somewhere to stay whenever we go there and so glad we don't have to make that drive again for a while! Thanks Pat and Chris for letting us take over your house whenever we come, we really appreciate it!

Cute faces and an embarrassing story

The Oil Sands Discovery Centre had a free family day, and it was a perfect way to spend a Saturday with the kids when Gibb was working.

They got some cute face painting done and they had a few kids activities inside.

They also had some big trucks out, an obstacle course and a few bouncy castles!

When we went over to see the big trucks I noticed that only one of the guys had a name tag on it and it said "Guy". So I stupidly thought it was a joke and tried to joke with him about his name tag saying Guy on it. He did not laugh at all and looked at me like I was crazy. I then realized that there were other people with name tags on and that Guy was actually his name. I don't know what possessed me to even say something about it, I was so embarrassed.