The Count Down is On!

Only days away from Santa's arrival and the kids are getting worked up! Kaylin really is sooooo excited that I am sure she won't sleep on Monday night!
Brayden on the other hand is excited but worried that Santa is not going to come thru and bring him that Playstation 3 that he really must, gotta just have or he'll die thing. The only thing on this list this year by the way and I won't even mention it's price tag :-) Thankgoodness I got one early as I don't think you could get one at this point. Yesterday we decorated gingerbread cookies and had a fun time doing this. Check out our creations. What do you think? Apparently the one with the big red lips is me according to Brayden. Aren't I pretty? I was yummy too as he ate me on the way to the mall in the car today!

The Christmas Concert

So December 18th was the kid's school christmas concert. This year the kids are eachother's buddy class so they ended up being in the same performances. They sang "One Little Candle" and "It Must Be Santa". It is always fun to see the kids in their "sunday best" and singing their little hearts out for all the Mums, Dads, and Grandparents in the audience.

My kids sounded great and had a fun time too. I don't have an acutal picture of the kids singing, I was too busy videotaping and besides, they were on opposites from eachother! But here is Kaylin in her classroom before going on stage. She sparkled like crazy in her outfit and looked wonderful. Brayden being the typical boy did not care about what he was wearing but looked good too!

This is our beloved Grade 1 teacher Mrs. Gordon. She is just short of being amazing..no actually she is amazing and we just love her. Brayden had her as well for Grade 1. We are quite blessed that she is teaching Kaylin this year. Fingers crossed we can only hope for Grade 2 with her as well !!! XXXXXXXXX

The Birthday Party!

So the party went well and we had 7 of Kaylin's friends attend. We had the party from 5:00-7:00pm which was a great hour becuase we were the last party of the day and had the gym really to ourselves. Even the adults got in on the action by jumping in the foam pit. The cake worked out well. Kaylin decided on a cupcake cake. Very cute, but we are still eating the leftover cupcakes! Turned out to be a great time for all.

A birthday on the horizon!

The Kitten is about to turn 6 soon which means=Birthday Party plans!

She has chosen 11 of her classmates to attend her party at a local gymnastics center.

Here are the invitations I have made for her and do you think she is starting to get excited? Put it this way..the 15th can't get here soon enough for her!! I do like the way the invites turned out. I am quite happy. I sure the boys that are invited will just love the swavorski crystals on them! Oh well!!!

So look what I woke up to Saturday?

Yep SNOW! The kids were thrilled to wake up to the snow falling on Saturday morning. It snowed all day Saturday and Sunday. We are back to the good old rain now and it has pretty much taken all of the snow with it but we had 2 days of fun!
It really did put everyone in the Christmas spirit and all you had to do was look around and see all the Christmas decorations that were being put up. Our street is pretty well lit up now. On our house, more lights than usual this year and of course they are all LED Noma lights. Nothing but the best lights for the electrician in this house. Looks great!

Gotta say thanks snow for coming on a weekend and not making a nightmare for us commuters on Monday morning!!

Fall photos......

Finally we have had some nice days....which really just means NO RAIN! We have even seen some SUN!!!!!! (shocking! I really should'nt complain yet. The rainy season is just starting!! ;-) After B's soccer game on Saturday, I got some shots of the kids playing with the leaves. Such a treat for them to just grab some dry leaves and throw them in the air or really more fun it throwing thema at eachother!!!!

Halloween 2007 Whewww...it was busy!

But a great time had by all. The weather held out nice for us rainy Vancouverites! Little bit of drizzle for about 5 mins and that was it. We even managed to have a great neighbourhood display of fireworks too at the end of the night. All the kids were decked out in glowsticks, hot chocolate and sparklers too! B & K were so excited for Halloween this year. It seemed like the days leading up to the big event were filled with parties and other fun events!

K had a little party with Sparks and she was dressed at the Bratz Bat. Gotta have some glamour to the costume for my girl. The group (all 14 of them) decorated pumpkin cookies with yummy candies and sang songs and basically got exicted for the big night. B won 1st place in a contest at the daycare for the best original pumpkin drawing. The principal came in a selected first, second and third and he WON! He was so excited. His prize for winning 1st place was a mircoscope. So this weekend we are going to inspecting lots of things. I was quite the proud Mom!

For Halloween, we let Brayden and his best buddy Al do some trick or treating on their own together. Just on our block and they had to do a check in with us at the house. It wasn't that crazy busy so really we could still see them, but they don't need to know that do they? He was so thrilled to have some breathing room from the parents. K on the other hand was an animal. She did more house then the boys. They ended up taking a break and getting warm, but watching Transformers on our couch, mean while, K and Dad and still running from house to house. I was very proud of my girl. Lots of please's and thank you's. She was a Devil and every time I looked at her I started to giggle because she really did look like a little man. That mask was so funny. It is really just fabric but it looks so real. Here is a shot of her at her finest just before we headed out to Trick or Treat. At the end of the night, 2 bags of candy later, hot chocolate and fireworks watched she was begging to go to bed!

All in all, it was a good night and the kids had fun!