Seeing The Fingerprints

How Could I forget to post about this fun concert we attended.  There were people throughout Broadway church who we knew.  We sat by my brother and sister-in-law.....who were on a date along with my brother's blackberry and the continuous Canucks dreadful score.  Glad we were at the concert and not that Canuck game. Here are some photo's of the night. (Didn't take any videos, so you'll have to go and put on one of his cd's). Downhere opened for Michael.  We didn't really know any of their songs, but they were good! http://www.downhere.com/  Check out their website. Michael and some of his crew.

These 2 girls each planted a sunflower seed.  I thought it would be fun to chart in the growth of the sunflower to that of the girls.  They both seemed pretty excited about this idea.........but we'll see how excited they are by the time we've take 25 pictures.  Here they are together proud for the hard work they did in the garden. Of course they weren't wearing their Sunday best when they planted........but I forgot to take photo's of them on the day of planting as we were so busy with all kinds of things outdoors.  As tempting as it was to get out my camera and play around the weeds kept calling my name. And the garden markers.  This was also a fun, easy project for the girls.  They picked each garden marker carefully for each veggie. I didn't have any popsicle sticks in the house, but cutting up an icecream bucket did just the trick!  Ice cream buckets are also good for making shirt collar holders......(random I know).

So a little while back we prepared a Tea for our GEMs and their moms. It was fun posing the mom's with their daughters. Some just wanted to act totally goofy with their sisters and others acted pretty proud with having their mom. We ate yummy cake, trifle, cheese and crackers and some fruit. The girls were to serve their mom's. Some moaned and groaned about this.......but I think it was well deserved of the mom's to be served for once. I think the girls actually enjoyed doing this in the end. We also made a flower arrangement per family in a little tea cup. This was an easy and fun craft and decorated our tables nicely after we were done. If you are interested in learning more about the GEMS program let me know. Its a fun way to interact with girls between the ages of 7-12. And of course at times with their family members too.

What are the girls holding? Did you look at their shirts. They are very excited and we had a fun time sharing our news this way. That was the real reason for our photo shoot a few weeks back! This is our l'il peanut at 9 weeks.  Isn't it amazing when you see a heart beating and legs kicking?

The past couple days have been good ones for us.  We have had visitors over.  And the girls just love entertaining them and making them do whatever they ask.  Recently we've put sand in our sandbox so its been a big highlight.  The girls try to get anyone to come and play in their with them.       Human Sandwhich need I explain more?     You can tell by the expressions on the girls faces how much fun this really is.  You should give it a try if your kids are grumpy. We also have some cousins over for a few days.  Since it was a fairly windy day and we've been talking about getting the kite to fly for a while  we thought it was as good time as any to get it up in the air.  Also a good way to get the girls nice and sleepy just before bed. Everyone getting their turn at flight.               Our 3 year olds first time flying a kite. ...

So I finally dusted my house today.  A chore I would rather do without.  A chore I can't wait for my girls to do for me one day so I don't have to do it.  But as a reward to myself for finally getting this job done I did some photography.  This time on my own girls.  I haven't done a photo-shoot in a while so its good practice for me in more ways than one.  First for behind the lens, second dealing with a 3 year old and an almost 2 year old.  3's a fun age for pictures, but that grumpy 2 year stage........."NO! NO! NO!".  I remember taking my now 3 year old to "Sears" for her 2 year pictures and how she couldn't stand it.  Apparently extremley common for this age.  So here are a few of the photo's.  I'll post more on another day. Well to the start of our session the girls found this snail on our window.  This is our friend Sam and he likes to visit us regularly. The only problem was her sister nicely scratch...

Here it is.  The Cake Smash. It was so cute watching him do this as he was so nervous when he approached the cake, but once he tasted the icing..........well you can just guess from there.