Christmas Concerts

Cole's pre-school concert was entertaining!! What else could you expect with 20 or so 4 year olds on stage singing and saying poems. Once again, Cole and Carter found a seat right beside each other!
Mackenzie's Grade 2 Christmas Concert was filled with songs, poems and plays from the different Grade 2 classes! She was very excited to perform for us all!
Her class did two poems on stage.
This poem was about a Christmas Tree!

Christmas is a Comin'

The kids were super excited to put up the tree once again this year! Cole got into the festive season by sporting some fashionable christmas attire - shorts and a tank top!! Mackenzie was our chief decorator and loved putting all of her ornaments and ours on the tree! We could pretty much sit back and let the kids take over!

Mischief is My Middle Name!

This morning Cole decided he was going to comb his own hair after his bath! I went up to take a shower and when I came back downstairs I found Cole in the bathroom combing his hair! However, not only did he comb his hair but he also put several products into his hair to in his words "Make it look cool!" All of those bottles on the counter were put into his hair including mosquito spray, suntan lotion and nail polish remover!! Needless to say we had a little chat! Later that same morning I found him in his room with virtually no clothes on applying tatoos all over his body!!!
And yet that same crazy morning while I was getting his lunch ready he came to tell me that he had made the walls in his room look really cool by decorating them! I asked him what he decorated with - Markers and stickers!!!!
Meanwhile, Mackenzie is quietly playing with the trains in the living room!!! What a great example of boys brains vs girls brains!

Halloween

This year for Halloween, Mackenzie was a glittering, purple witch and Cole was the brave and fierce knight! We actually had a beautiful evening for trick-or-treating and thankfully the wind cooperated and stayed calm for the evening! Here's our guard spider that we made for the front yard!
Halloween wouldn't be complete without a stop at Mrs. Enns' house! This year she was dressed as a spider!
After driving around town to a few places we met up with some friends and trick or treated around the neighbourhood bay. The kids had a blast and came home with bags overflowing with candy!
The two little witches on Halloween!
For some reason I can never seem to upload these pictures in the right order so let's go back a few days before Halloween now! Mackenzie had a great time carving the pumpkins and was right in there taking out all of the goop!

Cole on the other hand wanted nothing to do with it because - you guessed it - "It's too STINKY!" He stayed as far away as he could!
The finished product!
Grandma Ann was able to join Mackenzie at her school for Pumpkin Day! She was so excited to have Grandma there with her. They spent the morning measuring their pumpkins, counting seeds and carving them!
And now we're back to Halloween Night! Carter & Jaxon with Mac & Cole !

Mackenzie's 7th Birthday

I can't believe Mackenzie just celebrated her 7th birthday! It seems like just yesterday she was a little baby and now she's growing up so fast! Mackenzie celebrated her 7th birthday in style by having a "Fashion Show" birthday party! Our house was filled with 9 giggling girls putting on make-up, doing their nails and getting ready to strut their stuff on the runway!
My Mom and I made Mackenzie's cake! It's supposed to be Polly Pockets walking on the runway! We ran into a problem when the dolls kept wanting to fall over - so we had to stick them into the cake really far! This made it look like they had no legs!! Oh well, it still tasted great!


We gave Mackenzie a new bike for her birthday - complete with hand brakes and gears!

Go Karting

This past Saturday we headed to Winkler to do some go-karting and mini golfing with a group of friends! The kids were too little to drive the go-karts by themselves but they had a great time as a passenger with Mom in the driver's seat! Mini-golf was a little more challenging as we had seven eager little swingers ready to hit that ball!

Fall Fun

The kids have had fun this fall in our backyard! This spring we planted one pumpkin seed in our garden which quickly overtook the whole area and produced over 8 pumpkins!! The kids were very excited to harvest them the other night and of course the scrapbooker in me saw a great photo op so I took out my camera and started snapping!! Mackenzie, as always was very cooperative! Cole on the other hand was a big goof and kept making silly faces etc! I finally gave up trying to get a nice picture and just took a whole bunch of goofy ones! The kids also had a great time playing in the leaves! Notice the preview to Cole's Halloween costume! We bought it on Saturday and he hasn't taken it off since!!