Christmas Wishes!

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas!

 

All The Pretty Horses

 

Trick or Treeeaaat!

 

Happy 2nd Birthday Karly!

 

What a proud day! Our little Emma is off to kindergarden. She was so excited, she got up bright and early to make sure I was up and didn't sleep in on her first day.
If you haven't noticed, PURPLE is the "new" pink this year for Emma. All of a sudden everything has to be purple, oh and a dress....Emma loves wearing dresses...back to school shopping this year consisted of buying 4 new dresses, a skirt and one lonely pair of jeans. She only wears pants if she has to, not just cause mom says so, it has to be the teacher who says "wear pants tomorrow cause we are going outside" (she listens to her teacher, not so much her mom). I figure we should embrace her love of being girly, dressing up in princess costumes, wearing dresses everday and riding her bike in skirts and party shoes.... Karly, on the other hand, would prefer her pants and a set of cowboy boots, no dresses, no silly princess costumes and DON'T try to put cute pig tails in HER hair, I think she will be Daddy's little tomboy....

Out for a Sunday ride

and the winner is..........Emma Heystek!

Summer reading paid off big for Emma this summer, she was the grande prize winner for her age group at the local library. We submitted our reading minutes all through the summer and entered the draw each week. Yesterday she got a call to come right down to the library, she was pretty surprised and somewhat apprehensive about winning something (and not sure she wanted a new bike - she really loves her princess bike with pink tassels, front basket and doll carrier on the back). But once she got home and started riding it, she realized a new bike wasn't so bad (she says Karly can have her "old" one). Besides this one has a new bell AND pretty tassels too!

Karly also won a prize in her age group.... a tugboat for the bathtub complete with a seahorse, crab, squirty fish, octopus and even a walrus! What lucky girls!

HAIL-O "summer" Vacation!

Well, we were really excited for our one week summer vacation this year. We decided we would venture to southern Alberta to visit beautiful Waterton Lakes National Park. This would be our longest camping trip with our new 31' "home away from home". So we packed up the girls and headed out last saturday for a well-deserved family vacation. First stop, Pincher Creek! What a crazy night! The rain started around 1am, and it rained and rained and rained. I told Troy to go outside and check on our friends (that were staying in a tent) to make sure they hadn't floated away, so he did, and came back a few minutes later and said everything looked fine. Well, it wasn't 5 minutes later and there was a knock at the door and there were our soaking wet friends, Jorge (their dog) and their sleeping bags. The rain got so heavy that their tent fell in on them! What a great start to our summer adventure. The next night things didn't improve any, Troy ended up in bed all evening with a stomach flu (not from the Beer he says). Then on Monday we made our way to beautiful Waterton Park, we were all getting comfy and setting up the trailer to spend the next few nights here when the HAIL hit!! not just little balls of ice and rain but GOLF BALL size hail! What a mess, there were holes in our awning, holes in every vent, holes in the skylight and water dripping EVERYWHERE! ahhh vacation..........we made the best of the next few nights but decided to head home early and inspect the damage to our not so new anymore trailer. Hopefully the insurance adjuster will arrive Monday morning and things will look up from here.

A little BLUE!

If Karly could only speak, she could let us know how the Navy blue marker tastes, I guess (some of us) will never know. She says mmmmmmmm.......so I'll take her word for it!

Egg-citing Easter!

Well, it was a very exciting Easter for our girls this year. After several visits to the mall to meet the Easter Bunny, Emma was still not convinced she wanted to sit on his lap, but rather just wave from the front of the line. So yet again, another year without a photo of the girls with the (somewhat scary) looking mall Easter Bunny. It obviously scarred her enough that she didn't like the thought of the Easter Bunny coming into our house at night and leaving chocolates for her and Karly. She doesn't mind Santa stopping in while she is sleeping, but there was just something about that Easter Bunny......so, just before Emma went to bed on Easter's Eve she asked, " could we just hang our baskets at the front door and the Easter Bunny will see them as he hops by, but then he won't have to come in to our house while I'm sleeping?". So I agreed, that would make his job alot easier. When morning came (at 6:30a.m.) Emma couldn't wait to go see what the Easter bunny brought for them, she was so excited to get her own chocolates, a new umbrella to match her rainboots and raincoat, new markers and new books! Wow, this Easter Bunny isn't too bad after all, "maybe next year I can try again to go and sit on his lap", says Emma after opening all of her chocolates!

Forever in our hearts, Grandma Quigg

On March 2nd, 2010 Grandma Quigg passed away peacefully in her sleep in Sidney, British Columbia. At 89 years old you could say it is somewhat expected, but when that day comes it is always surprisingly unexpected. Just the thought that I can no longer pick up the phone for a quick "hello dear" from my loving Grandma brings tears to my eyes. Her health was good but over the past few months her memory was fading. In January Shanna and I flew to Victoria to visit her, it was only a few days but I am so grateful to have made those last memories with her. We had some good laughs and enjoyed sitting with her and spoiling her with flowers and chocolate. She may not have remembered my name, but the "cute girl in the pink sweater" will do. Next week, Shanna, Danny and I will fly to Victoria to say our last goodbye to our precious Grandma, Etta May Quigg -forever in our hearts.

 

Here we go..............

So after following my good friend Cheryl's blog for the past year I thought it was time I joined in. Funny things happen at our house, almost daily and lately as I witness these events I snap a mental picture of how funny these events would look to others.

For example, a few weeks ago I couldn't find the cordless phone anywhere, I did find it eventually (in the last place I looked) in the TOILET! As I looked down into the bowl and saw the phone sitting submerged in the water wondering if I should reach down and grab it or ask Emma to, I snapped my first mental picture of how funny this picture would look on a blog no explanation necessary......

Then, just last week, I saw Emma carrying around my scissors that I use to trim by bangs once in a while, I said "those are sharp and you shouldn't be playing with them, so put them back where you found them". So she put them away. A few hours later I walked into the bathroom and realized I had something on my foot. I looked down at my black sock and discovered a lock of blonde hair.........so I called Emma and asked her "who's hair is this?", "oh, that's mine I just cut a little off this side and a little over here". So I quickly ran over to her and inspected the damage. Not to bad I thought, hardly noticable. Of course, I gave her a little "talk" about the danger of cutting her own hair. A few minutes later I noticed her still standing in my room lost in her thoughts, so I asked her what was up. She looked at me very seriously and said "so I probably shouldn't tell you that I cut Karly's hair too?" AAHHH, I picked up Karly and looked for the evidence of her new haircut, I must admit she did a pretty good job for an apprentice. I then walked into the bathroom and took my second mental picture of three more locks of blonde hair laying there on the bathroom floor. And that's why I thought these moments are just to precious to keep to myself, I hope you enjoy a glimpse into our lives with OUR SWEET GIRLS!