Gate #1

Yay! Matthew put in a gate for us - Now hopefully no more escapee's!
He also built the gate but I don't have any pictures of him building it (I was too busy cleaning my 'new' house for the first time) :-) I'm super impressed, mostly because I've never actually seen him build anything before :-P
Here are some pics of my handy hubby hanging our new gate.







And here are a few pics of my two princesses, yup I said two... sigh...


Walking the runway! :-P






Dylan was sick of the dress after about 1/2hr - longer than I last before I want to take a dress or skirt off and put on some comfy pants!

New camera for my sister = Photo shoot for us!

My sisters Rebekah and Sherene came down for a surprise visit a few weeks ago. Our cousin Tim was coming down to visit his brothers and the girls asked if they could come along to visit us :-) They showed up at 10 or 11pm or something like that and Matthew and I were just getting ready for bed. They came down stairs and shocked both of us! :-P So fun! I love surprises! And sil Rachel knew about it all along! :-P
Just before they came my (little) sister Sherene (aspiring pro photographer) finally bought herself a new professional camera! :-) She's been using a little 'pocket' camera up until now. (The pictures she was able to take on that little thing really shows natural talent!) I also really like her fun, no pressure attitude, in my eyes she's a pro already! :-)
Becca and Sherene were only here for a couple of days, and just the right couple of days too... we used their babysitting services, and I was just at a nice lul in the packing. We were able to fit in a few fun things to do, and still have some nice chats over coffee. One of the things we did while they were here was go to the river valley and snap a few pictures while having a picnic supper :-) Here are a few pics my sister took.
Click here to see more pics Sherene has taken.



A few family pictures...








Just Matthew and I





Both kids




Just Miriam




Just Dylan





The picnic part






Becca





Rachel




Our amazing photographer - Sherene :-)





And as if this post wasn't long enough already... here's a few more :-)

Getting a little daring...

My monkey children...
Big windows in 7 days!!! And they won't have to climb up dressers that are being fixed in the living room to look out of those windows! :-P (the ceilings in this place are 7 1/2' ceilings so this isn't your average height dresser (it's 43" high)... we had it custom made (Dad B) - and then I broke it. Not because it was poorly made, but because I thought I could move it by myself with all the clothes in it. (I did move it, but broke it in the process.) But my handy hubby fixed it) <3

What have we been up to?

A few pictures of what my kiddies have been up to...

Here is Miriam playing with her lego from Nanna (Mom B). She LOVES playing with this! Such a good 'toy'! Thanks Nanna!





And here is Dylan-
Why is there a diaper and a pair of pants on the floor?



Oh! He's playing dress-up -Do these tights look good with this bathing suit? :-P



Ha ha little stinker! :-P



In other news, Dylan peed on the potty!! Yay! It was a bit of a trick though, I put him on the potty while I was getting the kids ready to go in the bath and filling up the tub :-P I'll try it again next time I put them in the tub :-P

Stage 2 of our messy house :-P

A little update on the 'wet room' situation around here :-)

During the last half of April, my MIL asked if we wanted to use their den for a storage place for our boxes until we move, so that the boxes weren't right in our living room. YAY! We moved the boxes upstairs as soon as we could. In the living room we set up the bed Dylan will be using in the new place, so Dylan could sleep on the bed, instead of having both kids on the couch at nights. Now the room is all dry and the in-laws offered to mud and paint it after we move, so that we could have the room for the kids asap. That sounded great to us :-) So now the kids are in their room again, and our place is getting very empty :-)

The following pictures were taken when the kids were still sleeping in the living room, because we were still drying out the room. I'll post more pics soon of how our place looks now.

A cute boy! :-)



Our living room after all the boxes were moved upstairs.




The dining area




The kids play area. - a bit cramped, but they managed.

Dylan's Hockey Net

I know it's a little late... Dylan's Birthday was on the 11th of April, but better late than never right? Here are 2 pictures of Dylan's birthday present from Dad and Mom (Matthew and Lorelle).
We can't wait to put in our new back yard soon!