Christmas Decorations

I love making things for Christmas!  

Painting with Dad

Mike has been working on a new painting and Owen wanted in on the fun.  When Owen grows up he wants to paint a bear with all the colors.  He wants to ride a horse. He wants to find bugs when he goes to work.  He wants to listen to rock'n roll ALL the time.

Guinea Pigs!

The long haired one is named Barbie.  Lyla said her name for the first time tonight, so cute.  The orange and white one is Sweetie, and the black and white one is named Michael Jackson....just kidding.  It's named Speedy.  We love our new little friends.  They have a fun outside cage as well with lots of running around room.

Snake Family

The big event today was Mike and Owen catching 8 snakes in our backyard today.   I'm just glad none of the snakes came in the house this time.

 It looks like the snake I'm holding is dead, but don't be fooled by the little devil.

Owen loves the baby snakes!  He had a hard time letting them go.  I'm sure he'll be out tomorrow to go find them again.

Closest I'll get to a Stampede this year

A family of snakes have made there home in our backyard.  As I'm typing Owen is finding baby snakes right now.  A bucket with a family of snakes in it is the next blog post :)

 We went to the Beacon Hill Petting Zoo for the last 10 minutes it was open.  Those goats were really cute and feisty.  Thankfully it only takes 10 minutes to see everything there and we even got to see the goats stampede to where they sleep.

We had a little picnic in the park and it wasn't long before we had 2 peacocks and a seagull stocking our dinner.  Later we had fun picking Ruban and Faiths apple tree at there new house.  We'll be back to do some serious picking and canning with all the apples soon.

Mums Park

This lovely Sunday evening we decided to go for a nice little walk and pick some blackberries.  We weren't expecting Owen to pick a bucket of slugs. Yuck!  He of course was in heaven and it makes me smile every time he tells me how friendly slugs are :)

 Owen and I are both proud of our treasures.  Mine are blackberry's.  I couldn't believe we found a bush that hadn't already been picked.

General Update

I thought I should do a little general update.  We are all good and healthy for one which is lovely.  My pregnancy is going really well, of course I have my "Man I feel Good!"  days, and "I need a nap" days.  Oh and please try not to be to terrified by my english skills :)  I have a love for the piano.  I can't believe that I love to practice the piano.  It has become my favourite little get a way where I can make beautiful music and learn a new skill.  I can't wait till my piano teacher is available for another lesson.  I need more direction into the classical and not just the simplified hymns.  I do feel great playing the simplified hymns but I need to expand my horizon.

Owen is awesome.  He made Grandma and Grandpa Heninger's day when he told them "I love you like a lightsaber fight".   They new that ment true love :)  I finally got Owen craft supplies yesterday with the going back to school sales.  Yes, a glue stick and scissors can be hours of fun :)  I feel bad for waiting so long, but hey, it's now time for crafts with mom :)

Lyla is now down to one nap a day.  Very sad but true.  She can find her fingers, eyes, toes and more.  But the big ones are knees and elbows that she found for me the other day.  I was impressed.  She can say nyny, byebye, mine, mama, me, and I'm pretty sure she said no to me yesterday.  I love waking up to Mike placing our pretty baby on me in the morning and getting big hugs from her.  She will forever be my angle baby.

Mike is busy.  He has been having long days at work and then he loves to work on his new project in the back yard.  It's a waterfall which he named "Julianne Falls"  to butter me up....it worked.  When I find my camera i'll take some pictures of it.  Then it's plugging away one chapter at a time finishing his Power Engineering class.  He's a hard working man and we can't get enough of him.  When he comes home from work he sneaks in the house so he can at least go to the bathroom before Lyla attaches herself to him.

We have more adventures planned for this summer, so tune in again:)