a late Birthday Present...

[Sept 20]

What a fun day...

Wes had a trade show and I had some work meetings for a chunk out of the day, but as soon as we were done we happily and excitedly came through on a birthday promise we had made Aubrey....

For her birthday last month, her gift from Mommy and Daddy was a Pony ride. We told her by having her open a gift bag containing a paper figurine of a little girl riding a horse. We promised we would take her one day soon.

The rest of summer was busy, then school started, and then the snow came (that had me worried), but yesterday we realized that we should just make this happen now! 

So we did. We managed to book the last spot of the day and surprised the girls!!!

THEY LOVED IT!! ... we all did!

This happened...

 

Thanks to her big sis!

Dang.

Not sure how I'm going to fix it.

Aubrey doesn't seem to mind.

Olivia is going to miss her scissors... that she won't see for a week. 

Snowtember!

 I love Fall. I love the colors, the crispness in the air! And, that is exactly how September started. In my opinion, Summer was ending too soon, BUT I was happy to enjoy the beauty of Fall.  We knew SNOW was in the forecast, so we enjoyed every bit of Fall that was left.

We are living now with Wes' brother and his family. They live just a few step away from Fish Creek Park. We had such a nice little stroll in the park with our cousins!

And, the next day was probably even MORE fun (according to the children)

 

And then more snow came. This time, shutting off power for hours throughout the city! We were lucky enough to only have our power flicker a couple of times. Wes tried to take Olivia to school.... drove 7km in 1.5 hours. 

Decided he wasn't going to get very far and turned around to have a SNOW DAY!!...

The girls got a kick out of the fact that daddy couldn't go to work because there was too much snow!

 

They enjoyed every last minute of it.

Party Time!

On August 20th our sweet Aubrey turned Three years old!! We can't even believe it!! She asked for Spaghetti for her birthday dinner so I made that. And, we celebrated with Crave Cupcakes! We were so happy to have uncle Brandon join us!

The following Sunday we invited her near-by aunties, uncles, cousins and grandparents. She was trilled to have everyone over to celebrate with her and asked us many times, "when are the people coming?". When it came down to it (and people started arriving) she felt shy and had a hard time even saying hello. But, I know for sure that each person made her feel special and loved. 

 Some quality brother-sister bonding time between Charity and Dylan! Charity couldn't take Dylan's strength any more and ended up cheating! ha!

All eyes on Aubrey as we sing Happy Birthday to her! Can you tell that she loves being the centre of attention?.. ha!... not really! 

Princess Elsa

Corn-hole. Wes' new favorite game!

Our sweet, happy Simon!

The next day, we drove down to my mom's house and had a SURPRISE party for Zoe!  And, continued to celebrate both Zoe's and Aubrey's birthdays!!!

The birthday girls

Aubrey: 3 years old

Zoe: 10 years old

And, to finish it off we went to the pool!!