About our Mini-Holiday....

It was a blast! Had such a great time relaxing and enjoying life with our kids :) It was our 4 year anniversary on Thursday so we packed up and head for the big city ;) We spent a few hrs in the waterpark, and that was (aside from my new purchase!!!) the highlight of our trip. Avery is naturally a waterbug, and was fearless...but her lips were so blue, it was such an ucky day outside, that it was pretty cool inside the park. Jaden surprised me, he was comfortable in the kiddy pool, going up and down the waterslides by himself! He loved it, and think he loved having the freedom of playing in the water without being too scared, or having us being RIGHT beside him in case he would fall in. After getting back to our very kewl Igloo room, Rene was kind enough to stay with the kids while I went into the mall and shopped for 2hrs ALONE :) ahhh nothing like shopping for nothing in particular. It was so fun, but I must admit my feet were sore when I got back to our room. We did the traditional room service for nachos once the kids were sleeping and watched episode 1 of Survivor. What a perfect anniversary! Friday we brought the kids to Galaxy Land, and then we went to make our special purchase. Rene stayed in the van with Jaden and Avery who were sleeping, and after comparing with Future Shop and Best Buy, I bought my *DREAM* camera!!!! It is an EOS Canon Digital Rebel XTi... just released this month! I got such an awesome deal through Japan Camera, and I know I'll be doing business with them again. I was treated so well, had excellent customer service (hard to find these days) and he even through in some freebies, which I would have never got anywhere else. Let me tell ya, I have been dreaming and drooling over the idea of owning a good camera for months now, and so the day came. I have had so much fun with my new toy... I have definately fallen in love with a "thing". So if you are still reading this (you are crazy..) here are some pictures from our mini-holiday (with my old camera) and then some new one's with the new camera. They aren't perfect yet, I have a lot to learn, but practicing is part of the fun ;)

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Monique & Sebastien

Here is a link to Monique's blog, it is full of adorable pics of Sebastien :) Just wanted to share! http://sebastientime.blogspot.com/ I couldn't help playing with one of the pictures of Sebastien, here it is :) Monique if you want me to take this down, just let me know!

A SPECIAL LADY...

...IS CELEBRATING HER BIRTHDAY TODAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIKA!

HAVE AN AWESOME DAY, SORRY WE COULDN'T BE THERE, BUT WE ARE THINKING OF YOU!!!

LOVE UNCLE RENE, AUNTY ADRIENNE

JADEN & AVERY

:)

First Day pictures...

Here are a few pictures from Jaden's sort of first day of preschool. Monday was the orientation...and I guess his official 1st day will be next Monday. He really enjoyed the orientation day. They had half the kids attend, while the parents went into another room to get all the info on the playschool. Jaden tells me as we walk out the door "Take wot's of pictures Mom, so you can scrapbook this" lol... oh he knows his mommy well.

I was very tempted to take a picture of Rene heading out the door this morning on his first day of work with Talisman. =) I haven't heard from him today, so not sure how it went. He went to his orientation yesterday. I thought it was pretty sweet, a lady he worked with at Exxon phoned today, wanting to wish him well. She said "I don't tell every husband's wife this, but your husband was one of our best out here, and I am personally sad for the company that they are losing him. He was an outstanding employee here, and I'm going to miss him... please let him know I called to wish him well" awwwwwwwwwwwww! He makes me so proud :)

We are leaving tomorrow morning for Edmonton. Our summer was a very busy one (rene worked 61hrs of o/t in the first 9 days of September!) we did do a lot of visiting in Plamondon, but besides that we didn't really spoil our kids yet, so we've decided that a trip to the zoo, and a night at Fantasy Land Hotel would make up for it! Check out the room we are staying in: http://www.fantasylandhotel.com/rooms/igloo.asp the Igloo Room! lol... Jaden is sooo excited to sleep in the 'igloo bunk bed' If the weather isn't bad, we'll head for the zoo in the morning, and then to Fort Edmonton Park in the afternon. Friday we'll go to a movie and to the waterpark. Looking forward to having some time as a family, away from the new job, new school, and the house. Have a good weekend everyone! I'll be back with a *ton* of pictures ;) heeheeheee!

Fun Weekend!

This picture of Jaden with a tie on... cracks me up! Jaden got this tie, and loves it... and he went to put it on, but he had no clothes on, so put it on his underwear... omg... he was dancing it was hilarious! Just had to share it!

What was probably going to be a quite weekend, with maybe some packing.... turned out to be a fun weekend :) Rene finished his last day of work with ExxonMobil on Saturday. He will start the new job at Talisman on Tuesday. Celine and Jason came up for the weekend with Dawson & Brianna, and we had a lot of fun :) Saturday morning we had a play date at the park with a bunch of families. Lori, Angie, Nicole, Jolene and then Alf/Maureen and Celine came with their kids. They all got along well and played for quite awhile. We went over to Maureen's for pizza after, and the kids played some more. Alix was kind enough to come over last night and babysit so we could go out for supper with Jason/Celine and Dorien/Nat... love doing that every now and then.. nice supper, no kids :) Came back to our house, and the kids played some more.... I took a bunch of pictures. Alf/Maureen got a sitter, and came down to play poker, and have a few drinks with us, Silly/Jason and Nat/Dorien... we had a blast! Came down to Nat and Rene, and some how Rene pulled it off, and won our 2hr game! It was a late night, but of course our kids had us up earlier then we would have liked ;)This morning we made it to the park and the kids played some more, while we were kinda quite and sipping back some coffee ;) It was a nice visit...and so nice to enjoy company who come here, rather then always having to travel to go visit people. Thx guys, we appreciate you taking the weekend to come up for a visit, when we know you are so busy, and you are welcome to come up anytime!!!! Here are a few pictures you can share them =)

**Note to self: Start taking pictures of the adults too! Too many pictures of kids only!!! lol

Finally Wednesday!

Not that anything is planned for today. Kind of a laid back one actually, which is very much appreciated. Very sunny outside today... we've been getting some awesome September weather :) We have a play date at the park this morning around 10:00...and then Community Events is tonight. THE night to sign up for anything to do in the fall ex: yoga, step aerobics, swimming lessons, Tae Kwon Do *sp?*, Dance, ... we are enrolling Avery into the Dance class for kids between 1-3, and Jaden will be busy with playschool..and then swimming lessons in January. I'm looking for something to do.. and Rene & I are leaning on volleyball one evening a week.... it's at the school across the street, just need to find a sitter!
UPDATE: Grandma is out of surgery and back home, now's the long stretch of recuperating! Rene picked a company name (no thx to any suggestions on my blog however.. lol) so it shall be PetroTech Ltd. (or) if that doesn't 'go through' at registries then OptiTech Ltd. I tried to squeeze my name in there, but a no go. (jk) Have a good day everyone, I'm off to swarm the photography forums until my kids get outta bed!

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Changing it up a bit :)

I've been in a crazy mood this week. Maybe a better word would be MOODY.. lol. Sometimes I wish I were a guy... just so emotions would stand back a bit... oh well. So we hear from our painter that it's very possible we will NOT be in our house by the end of September.. which totally sucks because a) the builder has yet to change Sept 15th as a move in date... and b) we'll have to find a place to live if it's not ready by the 30th! I feel like there is SOOO much going on, but it is HAPPENING in slow motion... does that make any sense?! Probably not to anyone else.. lol.

I have to say Congratulations to our niece Cassie, who got married a few weeks ago :) We couldn't make it to her wedding, but hope to see some pictures soon! Lucky gal..she had such a great honeymoon, that there is a bun in her oven!! :) Congrats Cas & Matt!

I am s-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o counting the days on my fingers and toes to the day I will be buying a NEW camera! I can't *insert as bad a word you can think of here*wait!!!!! :)

Grandma goes in for surgery tomorrow morning. It's sad, and I can't stop thinking about her... I pray all goes well, and she goes home healthy :) I know she'll be in bed for a few weeks... (i remember my recoup. time..blah) I'd like to go there for a visit and spend some time taking care of her on Rene's days off.

I went to a Playschool meeting tonight, I took on Classroom Coordinator, so I get to make the cute calendar with the snack and parent helper on it :) Can't believe Jaden starts playschool!!!!!!!! He is excited like crazy about it too! I used to babysit for his teacher, so Jaden already knows her pretty well...and she is a real sweetie!

I bought 2 tickets to see Black Eyed Peas and Rihanna/Swollen Members in Edmonton October 4th... if anyone in interested let me know.. either to go with me... or to buy them both!? With Rene's new job, he can't go now :( Okay, I think I pretty much babbled enough tonight. Gonna end with a few fun songs I can't get enough of right now :) G'night!

Buttons *Pussy cat dolls*

Deja Vu *Beyonce*

Lips of an Angel *Hinder*

Bossy *Keilis*

London Bridges *Fergie*

Hips Don't Lie *Shakira* i'm still loving this song...

Sexy Back *Justin Timberlake*

Into September! Yikes!!!

Tis Friday of the September long weekend... and it has been a great day. I've managed to get a lot done , and it is very obvious now that we will be moving out of our house soon... there are boxes piled up in the basement, ready to go! It's sad in a way, this is Avery's first house, and I find I've been taking a lot of pictures this week so I can remember everything that has happened here :) I remember the first week we moved in, and we had our tv on a cardboard box, I even have a picture of it somewhere! Moving has never been too much trouble, but we have accumulated a lot in the last 3 years! I had to go through BOXES and BOXES of baby clothes, and made piles of what to keep for the next baby, what can be passed on to Sebastien, and what was ready to go to a second hand store. I'm so sentimental when I see baby clothes that Jaden and Avery wore. I'm sure a lot of you don't understand that, but I get this feeling that tugs at my heart strings... and it's as if holding that little sleeper my mom bought Avery, I could remember what she felt like in my arms 2yrs ago. I'm so having more children! Nope, not right now... I have some time yet :) Could it be possible that baby #3 could be planned? *smile* I ended my day at the scrapbooking store... and had so much fun. I only completed 2 Layouts in 4hrs, I did more chatting then scrapping... but that's part of the fun. I'll post them tomorrow... I hope everyone enjoys the weekend, the weather is supposed to be nice!