Way To Early But...

These are just so cute! I have started making Scarletts Valentines to hand out to her classmates. We searched Pinterest and we found "Love Juice". She really wanted to make these as it will make Ethan fall in love with her and her eye's will turn into hearts. Her words exactly :) All it is is a bottle of water with a single serving of kool aid and a straw attached. We wrapped the bottle in some wrapping paper and printed off some free printable Valentines from the web. Their is so many to choose from! The reason I started early was I have to make 40 Valentines and then some. Also I thought these would take a lot more time than they have. I am just not happy with Scarletts choice of straw. I hope I can find some solid pink ones to make it more matchy! Ronyn is still undecided on what he would like to hand out, but I guess he has lots of time to decide!

Just A Little Scarlett

and her daddy! These two were being so cute this morning I had to snap some pictures.

Boys

There has been a lot of talk in this house about bums, farts, girls, video games and hockey. It is a total boys house these past two days! I had my nephew Maven for the night (he is the one in the picture with the rice crispy on his tongue) and it has thrown the balance of this house way off. It has been a blast though as Ronyn has had someone to do boy stuff with. The best was sledding. My sweet little Scarlett who helps balance us out has been at her Nana's for two days watching movies and baking cookies. I am glad that she is there as sometimes when the boys get together she becomes the target for them to pick on. I hope when she comes home that she doesn't mind that I got rid of her cluttered room and reorganized a few things. This little girl hates change but her room was getting out of control with the Christmas mess and it was driving me crazy!

Cheers To 2012.

My at symbol won't work so I can't sign into my photo editing program. It is the only button that will not work on my computer....how strange! I know I have not blogged in a loooooooooong time but it is a new year so I am going to start with my 4th fresh start! I need lots of fresh starts. I get busy and I always forget to do the things that I love to do! For my resolution for 2012 I plan to do things that I enjoy and try to remember to do them! I am also going to enjoy the moment and not worry about what is ahead. I have had a year of anxiety and I am going to rid my self of it and enjoy now and not worry to much about later as now is what is really important!

Here is a picture of my growing kids. I like to call them my babies but I get told all the time that they are kids and not babies :) One day they will realize that they will ALWAYS be my babies!

~Cheers to 2012~

Their First Taste Of Snow!

Literally it was their first taste of snow! When I woke up this morning and seen the street was covered in a blanket of fresh snow I knew Ronyn and Scarlett would be excited. So much excited that they wanted to go play at 7:00 a.m. Instead we headed out 1/2 hour before the bus came to play in the first snowfall of the year. We had a snowball fight, made snow angels, they ate some snow (well a lot of snow) and also made our first snowman. Just before I took the snowman picture the wind picked up and a mini snow storm came through. It was so intense that Ronyn had a hard time looking at the camera. I have to say I am excited about snow this year. I am going to embrace it and enjoy it! Weather we like snow or not it is coming and we can not stop it....

Halloween

Mermaid Scarlett (a little unhappy here)

Black Ops Ronyn (Yeah I know he is young for this game, take it up with his dad)

Zombies ready for black and orange day at school

Cake pops I made for Ronyn & Scarletts class - NEVER AGAIN

They always tend to stand on their chairs at the table

Halloween has come and gone but I wanted to post some pictures of the kids. Scarlett was a mermaid. Her costume was hand made by Nana Brown and then embellished a bit by Scarlett herself. She made her own mermaid crown (which she wore to school with princess dress) and added Auntie Ashley's boobie shells (as Scarlett calls them) and picked out just the right amount of jewellery. Ronyn was a war guy. He at the last moment wanted to change his costume (this happens every year) to a ninja but he doesn't even have a ninja costume. I convinced him to be half ninja half war guy and he was happy! For the school Halloween celebration they got to wear black and orange. The kindergartners were allowed to wear a simple costume, Scarlett chose a princess dress and her homemade crown. The grade one's however were not allowed. Ronyn thought this was very unfair and wished he was a kindergartner. I guess I would be upset too! I also offered to make a treat for both their classes. The kids seen my magazine with Halloween cake pops and wanted them. I thought I would give it a try. After getting lots of advice from my friend April (she makes them and sells them, She is AWESOME at it!) I wish I would have just bought them from her! My mummies turned out ok (hence the picture) but the cats looked more like mice and cats that got into cat fights. They are very time consuming and very frustrating when they are constantly falling of the the stick. I don't think I would make these again. I did however get a lovely gift from my sister Sara, a cake pop maker. I can't wait to perfect it because as of right now all I get is half a round cake pop with a funny top!

Before & After

Travis has done a little renovation on our bedroom. I have always hated the carpet in the bedrooms as it is too light of a color. I don't know what we were thinking when we built the house to put almost white carpet in bedrooms. Since we had some left over flooring from our basement we decided to put it in our room. I must say I love it. I can't wait to get the other rooms done!