ICING!

Yesterday I was making icing for some cupcakes I had made for Primary's great to be 8,

I let Linkyn and Edyn lick the beaters and scrape the leftovers out of the bowl. They

were loving the icing. I put the extra icing in a bowl in the fridge and ran upstairs to

get dressed. I heard them laughing and giggling for a couple minutes, so I ran downstairs

to the kitchen to find that Edyn had grabbed the bowl out of the fridge and they had handfuls of icingand were licking their hands and had it all over their face. I couldn't decide to get them in trouble or not, and as I was debating that, Linkyn put the bowl on his head and therefore ended up with icing all over his head too. I could not help but burst out laughing and quickly grabbed my camera to snap a few pictures. THose 2 kids I tell you! 

Our Family Song

So a couple of months ago we got the newer Muppet Movie, I wasn't sure if Edyn would like it or not and was kind of surprised that she LOVED it and wanted to watch it again and again. It is pretty cute and has some fun songs on it. Edyn started singing this one song from it all the time called "Life's a Happy Song." It is so cute to listen to her-she sings mostly "I've got everything that I need". To make it even better, Linkyn loves  it too so we get to enjoy his dancing and Edyn's singing all at the same time (and of course mom and dad always chime in). Whenever we're sad or grumpy we play this song and it makes everything o.k again!

July

We celebrated Canada day at the Calgary zoo with some friends. Daniel took Edyn to see the fireworks-which ended up being a lot later than thought, so she fell asleep, but woke up when they finally started.

 We had lots of fun at this water park in Rocky Ridge, Linkyn did not like the paddle boat-or maybe it was the lifejacket. I almost fell out into the gross water while trying to get back on the dock-the boat was moving away from the dock as I had one leg on the dock, so after doing what seemed like the splits somehow got myself on the dock. I'm sure it was an amusing sight.

 The kids and I were able to attend my cousin, Dillon's, wedding in Cardston with my parents. Linkyn would not hold still so my dad ended up taking him outside to play in the mud puddles.

 We played a lot at my parents house and enjoyed the little pool, bike riding, and especially the trampoline. Edyn who has never liked getting water on her head actually started pouring it on her head and had a lot of fun doing that.

 A day at Heritage Park

 A day at Calaway Park

 Thursday nights were frisbee nights-we had a few adventurous nights with mosquitos, thunder storms, and of course playing very competitive teams.

Summary of Summer

This summer flew by as per usual, we had so many nice sunny days, which made it all the more fun.

June consisted of many trips to the park, lots of yummy smoothies and many walks. Daniel and I also celebrated our 6th anniversary. My parents watched the kids and we headed off to Fairmont B.C. Although it rained most of the time we were able to do a couple rounds of golf and head to the hotsprings. It was also the first night I actually slept straight through since Linkyn was born, which was sooo nice! Daniel let me choose a restaurant to eat at and so of course I chose the Black Forest Restaurant and got to enjoy some delicious rouladin, spatzel and of course rotkohl. It was delicious.

Freude

 Freude means Joy in German. I have been full of "freude" as some friends that I met in Germany on my mission were able to come visit us on their trip Canada and the USA. I actually only knew Anne on my mission,  she got married after I returned back to Canada. We had a blast the past few days touring the beauties of the land and laughing with Thorsten as he has the best sense of humor.  It was so refreshing to be out in the mountains and feel the peace that being in nature brings.

We also went to the Calgary tower. I'm always a little scared to take a step out on the clear glass that looks straight down, Edyn on the other hand went right out on it and thought it was so cool. I love this picture of Linkyn-poor guy, he was so tired.

 We also stopped at Heritage Park- due to pouring rain and tired kids we didn't go in the park. Instead we dressed up and got pictures done. Edyn had so much fun dressing up and didn't want to take off her dress up clothes. She especially love her "brella." Linkyn enjoyed sitting on the horse, we tried to put a little mustache on him, but it didn't last long.

Messy

Yes we are still alive
and doing well. I've become a little distracted with that thing called Pinterest. Everytime I come to the computer thinking that I'll catch up or actually do a blog post I get sidetracked. That's why I post-poned signing up for it for awhile but it got the best of me. At least I did make it to my blog today:)

Here's a  picture of my life right now. Linkyn always making a mess on the floor or his face and Edyn being a good big sister and showing him the ropes of "how to make the best mess possible!" I love a clean house and it often seems like I'm always cleaning, but I'm learning how to enjoy a mess and just let go for the moment/day/week. 

Lately...

Time has been flying, February already...I missed a few months and I wasn't even hibernating.

 Sometime I need to learn more about this blog stuff, there are so many fun blogs and designs and ways to  do things. I feel a little overwhelmed at times, wait I feel a lot overwhelmed most of the time on staying up with technology, among other things. But the main purpose of my blog is not to be fancy dancy but to be our family journal and remember the simple and sweet moments, and even the hard ones at this time in our lives and if anyone else cares to see what we've been up to that's icing on the cake;)

 At the beginning of January Daniel's side of the family all got together and went to the new Science Centre. It was tonnes of fun! I even got sucked into buying a membership...so if anyone wants to go, give me a call:) I thought it would be a great place to go on the cold winter days, but this winter has been actually pretty warm (don't worry I'm knocking on wood right now).

 Our boy turned 6 months old and is sitting superbly and trying oh so very hard to crawl, he gets so frustrated because he can get up on his knees, but then as he tries to move forward, falls on his tummy. He is getting quite the personality and I'm thinking he's going to be as stubborn as Edyn. Yikes. He grabs anything he can see and puts it all in his mouth. He gets upset when we have to take something away from him. He slept for the first time last night 8 hours with no feedings at all! This is definitely a miracle as the longest he's slept before that was 3 hours. We did make him cry it out and I had to go to the basement where I couldn't hear him and have Daniel go in every 5-10 minutes to reassure him. I was so glad to see him smile at me this morning, fearing he would hate me.

 He loves sitting in the laundry basket and playing with his toys

 Edyn and I went on a pumpkin muffin baking spree and I won't say how fast we ate them. I want to make her an apron one of these days, but for now she's wearing my apron from Germany that looks so cute on her, she choose her head band too, one flower was not enough, and yes she needed a butterfly on it as well.

 Playing dolls in our fort

 A couple of weeks ago I was vacuuming and Linkyn and Edyn were playing in my bedroom. Edyn loves to shut doors, and so had shut our bedroom door. As I went to check on them I realized she had locked the door as well. About a month ago Daniel and I had talked about how we need to get a different door knob as it is a key lock (which we don't have a key for) and Edyn might lock Linkyn in there sometime. I really wasn't worried because she's been opening and shutting doors for quite some time now and hadn't done it yet. Well lets just say I kind of freaked out as I realized the door was locked.   A pen wouldn't work to open it, the hinges and screws for the doorknob were on the other side.  I called Daniel at work crying, so he told me to kick the door down. I was thinking, ya right like I can do that. I grabbed his heavy winter boots and decided to give it a try. The scariest part was making sure Edyn wasn't by the door, I kept yelling to her to go by the window, but I couldn't tell for sure where she was. I knew Linkyn was safely away from the door. Well I took about 3 hard hard kicks and realized this is not going to work, the door didn't budge. I guess it was the mother adrenaline in me that with my 4th kick sent the door wide open. Thankfully Edyn listened and was by the window. The only damage to the door were black marks from the boots and some cracks. My hip hurt for a few days, but it was kind of fun to have kicked the door in. I felt like one of the cops on t.v shows. Needless to say everyone was fine and I was so happy we were all together.

 Going sledding in the + 0 weather

At the end of November we got some shocking news. My sweet niece Sophie who was just 4 at the time was diagnosed with Leukemia. She lives in Arizona with her family (my brother Kyle's daughter). They do a blog for her at sophiebear.org to keep us posted on everything. It has been so incredible to read about their challenges and the strength they've recieved from the Lord. They are such an amazing family and if anyone could make it through this trial is is defienetly them. They did a run for her in Arizona (London's Run) on January 28th and since we couldn't be down there with them, we decided to do  a run that same day to show our love and support for them. We ended up doing it at the church gym, as we were in  Lethbridge and they  had horrendous winds that day. It was a great day just to be together and think about our sweet Sophie and the little fighter that she is. We love you Sophie:)