Can you say "HOLY SNOW"

This is what we woke up to this morning....about a foot and a half MORE of the stuff. This is a picture looking out our back patio door. You can really see how much we actually got, and this is just since last night (the deck was shoveled yesterday afternoon). CRAZY.

I sure hope that Santa brings me the snow blower I asked for.

Snow,

Yes we have a lot of it and the kids are lovin' it.

Remembrance Day

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders Fields.

- John McCrae

I had my moment of silence today....did you.

Avery is 7!!!!!

Where did that time go? Wow.

Avery had a great birthday this year. It all started last Wednesday when grandma took Avery, Cam and their cousins horseback riding and then back to her house for pizza and cake. The kids all had a great time riding the horses and talked about it all the way home.

Then we went to Great Wolf Lodge this past Thursday and Friday. Grandma took Isaac for the two days so we were free to hit the water slides as much as we wanted. We had a fantastic and exhausting time. We crawled into bed just before ten last night and everyone here is having a very lazy day today.

Av, Cam and cousin Tiernan. This was Tiernans first trip to GWL and he loved it.

So this is a picture of Averys birthday present from Nana. It's a remote control tarantula. It's a little smaller then a dinner plate, it's all hairy, it's ugly........and Avery LOVES it. Isaac had the honour of meeting the spider this morning and he is horrified of it. Avery was making the spider chase him around and he just couldn't get away from the thing fast enough.

Boo to you.

Bat girl Avery. What a perfect night for Trick-or-Treating.

Happy Halloween morning!

Cam, Av and Isaac gettin' in the spooky spirit of Halloween. Everyone is very excited about tonight.

Happy??? Devils Night.

This is how we spent our Devils Night.

And the end result.

Beautiful Day.

Nothing new to report. Just enjoying this beautiful weekend.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This Thanksgiving weekend we had a lot to be thankful for.

Friday was the one year anniversary of receiving our referral for Isaac. Its hard to believe that this time last year we were staring at a picture of our future son. It seemed to take forever to finally get our referral but when we look back now the year has gone by so quickly.

Our referral picture of Isaac.

Isaac today!!!!!!!!!

Cameron came home with a terrific grade on his math test! We are so happy with how hard he is working this year!

Mike's friend gave us his cottage in Tobermory for the weekend. The kids had a blast building a fort in the woods behind the cottage and throwing sticks in the bonfire. We barely saw them all weekend and they we pretty upset when this morning came and we had to head home.

What would a weekend away be without catching a couple of snakes! Notice Cam is wearing gloves while my girl who loves all things slimy is holding her snake with bare hands. It was a great weekend! Hope yours was too.

We headed to Port Elgin this morning to check out the whole Pumpkinfest thing. It was my first time going and it was a little disappointing. Believe it or not there was not a pumpkin to be found. Seriously. Now I'm sure they were there somewhere but we looked and could find no pumpkins. The kids had a good time anyway.
We had to park and take a shuttle to the festival. Here is Isaac on his very first school bus ride. He absolutely loved it.

Av and Isaac grabbin a five minuter on the way home.