Girl Time!

This is last weekend, a girlie day including the farmer's market in Strathcona and Julios' as per Bonnie's request. What great girlfriend time! I love going to the farmer's market on Saturdays and hanging out there. My favorite booths are the stuffed olive booth, the purse lady booth and the BC fruit booth. I was walking in last weekend, and there were animal rights activists just outside of the entry way. Sam had his sheep skin in his buggie, so they didn't like that too much. I thought it was so funny. We sure have some great people in our lives. Bonnie, Michelle and I try to get together at least every couple of months and all catch up. We all lead such interesting lives, its so neat how we can come together and hear eachothers stories and encourage eachother on in the Lord. God is good for giving me such good friends!

Teething....

Ade took this pic a couple of weeks ago. This is Sam's night blankie - and it smells so irresistably yummy like him! He is starting to really like to cuddle - which is a good thing. Last sunday when I picked him up from the nursery he hadn't slept for a couple hours and he fell asleep on my shoulder! This is the first time he has ever done this people! From birth he has always went into his crib awake, and fallen asleep on his own (a good thing!) but the thing is he didn't really like to cuddle when he was tired. Ade always tells me, just keep cuddlin, kissin and huggin him, and he will start to like to cuddle - and alas he has! Rejoice! We got some pics done at Walmart a couple of weeks ago - and I really don't like them that much. I prefer the candid ones. Ade has such a talent for seeing great shots and angles, and he knows all the functions on our digital camera. I just put it on manual and go to town.

Sam's first tooth is surfacing, an eye tooth first believe it or not! He has the cutiest little red cheeks ever, and even though he is teething he is still so very pleasant. He loves to chomp on my fingers and his foam B. He just keeps getting more adorable with each passing day.

Today we went swimming for family day with Mark, Pauline and Hannah. It was a very family day thing to do. This was Sam's first time in the pool. Mark and Pauline have become great friends of ours. Ade car pools with Mark, and Pauline and I hang out and do mommy stuff. She is a great encouragement to me. Hannah is about 17 months old, so its nice to have someone to ask questions, because I know it hasn't been that long since she has gone through it all.

We are busy thinking about all the components of finishing our basement. What a task this will be! Ade and I are excited to do the project together, and looking forward to lots of learning. We would like to get it done in the next couple of months. We will just pick away at it one project at a time. It will sure be nice to have it completed. I am sure looking forward to the process!

We were in Edson for a couple nights last week - Ade had a drilling job he was doing there. Everything imaginable went wrong with the trip - but everyone is safe and at home now. Abby came back with us and I got to take her to her first ever movie in the theatre. I thought we should do it up right - so we went to the Cinaplex Odeon and watched Curious George. It was great. The best part was seeing how big her eyes got when she saw the huge movie screen. She talked about it hours after. What a treat to be able to take her!

Aunt Viola

This is my aunt Viola, Me and Sam a couple weeks ago. Her and my uncle Alan came over for supper which was long over due on my part. My aunt Viola has been an amazing godly influence and source of consistancy in my life. They lived in Edmonton in the same house for as long as I can remember. I logged much time napping there at the end of my pregnancy between doctors appts and picking up Ade from work. She is my fathers oldest sister. I love going over to her house and having a really good cup of tea and catching up. I am always so encouraged by her consistancy. Thanks Aunt Viola for being such a good Aunt to me! Sam got to hang out with her the other night when Ade and I went to a Darrel Evans concert.



It's funny how I am so used to him always being with me now, so when we leave him with someone it seems odd that he isn't with us. I feel the same way when we go somewhere and leave Jasper in the kennel. I love when the four of us are all together - it feels so right and complete.

Lots has been happening around here. I have been busy scrapbooking Ade and my trip to Europe last may. Its sure nice to look back on the pictures and see what a trip of a lifetime that was. What a blessing it was to be able to visit with the Brunner family. I always tell Ade that I think that we should retire in northern Italy. It is one of my favorate places to visit.

I have been experimenting with some meals lately. Some of you know that I try to plan my meals weekly, so I get to think up new creative meals, and try new recipies. The other day it was pasta day, and I had these big pasta shells in my pantry - So I stuffed them with spinich, sausage, cottage cheese and baked them in a bed of spicy tomato sauce, topped with parmesan and drizzled with a light cream sauce. They were so yummy - and Ade was quite impressed too!


Sam is doing great. We just love our days together. He is such a good sleeper! Goes down around 8-8:30 and sleeps until 6 AM - comes to our bed to eat his breakfast and then right back into his crip until 9 am. What a dream. He is so pleasant - lies in bed and coo's in the morning. Ade says he is busy singing to God. I think he's right. Out of the mouths of babes....