hello friday :)

do you feel like time is flying? can't believe it's april already. can't believe ariella is 3 months old already. can't believe I have to go back to work at the end of this month :( can't believe Shane Long is going to be preaching in my church this weekend...his father was my first pastor from when I came to God in Canada back in 1996. He has since passed away unfortunately. I am good friends with Shane's brother Rick and his wife Laura (who I still have to call Laura Jo - I can't help it!) and SOOOO very happy for them at the arrival of baby Talia :) I still only really remember Shane as a teenager so it's all a bit weird lol. I'm looking forward to hearing him preach on sunday tho!


She's so clever - holding her rattle and even trying to chew it! And she LOVES to poke her tongue out...and smile - A LOT. It's awesome :)

I found some cute paper at spotlight this week (while trying...in vain...to find the 'perfect' curtain fabric for Ariella's blinds) and layered some of the birds/butterflies to make another frame for her room:




Thinking of putting a family pic in the 3rd frame...

Kai has been really sick this week. Puked up all over himself and the floor at spotlight (one of 2 trips out there this week lol) very high temp etc. Seems to be coming good today tho thankfully.

Josh and Aaron had an AWESOME time away fishing for FIVE days. I missed them terribly :( Josh caught his first fish and I'll post up his moment of glory as soon as i get the pic off grandad's camera.

I'm off to have a massage today thanks to my wonderful friend Lisa :) my birthday present from last year and I'm finally using it.

Have an awesome day everyone ;)

Oh Canada...

Today at work we had 'Multicultural Day'. The whole junior section took part - each class moved thru 4 sessions. My class did Canada, Ghana, the US, and folk dances.

It was such an AWESOME day. I really enjoyed myself. Especially in the folk dancing! lol, we did the chicken dance and every now and then some brave kids got the chance to 'modify' it by doing a move that came from their country and everyone had to copy. They did a super job! I was so proud :) We also did the heel & toe polka and something I can't remember the name of...oh and the hokey pokey!! That was the best :)

The Canada session was run by a couple of people from the high commission. I was unprepared for how 'Canada homesick' it would make me. Natty - the guy kept saying GOOD JOB and it reminded me SO much of you :) might have to give you a call soon hon ;)

I started thinking of hockey games...ohhhh how I LOVE a good hockey game! Ben I am SO looking forward to one day getting to that game you said you'd take us to. And how the first time I walked to school in the snow I thought (seriously) that I was gonna freeze totally solid and die. The smell of a skunk (so bad). PEI...feeling so excited that I was actually in the place that inspired Anne of Green Gables (which I really should add to my list of favourite movies cause I LOVE IT!!) Wow...I really shouldn't start thinking about it cause it's torturous.

Here's some pics of when we went there in 2006:

Here's me and Josh by the bridge that joins mainland atlantic Canada to PEI. It's something like the longest bridge in the world? Maybe?

This gorgeous house was part of a kind of re-creation of Avonlea. Josh & I went here with Ben and Joanne and their ADORABLE kids and had such a fantastic day. We even saw a pig race :)

Here's Josh in the school house. A moment after I took this pic he starting eating the chalk

One of the shops was of course a raspberry cordial place that sells actual raspberry cordial (not the alcoholic stuff like the movie lol).

Keltie, Grace and Josh in the buggy. You get to dress the kids up and take your own pics - SUCH a good idea! So you don't have to pay someone else to do it when you've already paid to get in. Doesn't Grace look gorgeous in that wig!!

Might continue this stroll down my Canadian memory lane tomorrow...