Photo Friday! Butterflies

You know when how it felt when you were young and you find that boy across the room looking in your direction and you think "Hey he's looking at me..." and your tummy goes all funny and you blush and feel extra pretty for the rest of the day... Butterflies right!!

Well I'm not talking about those butterflies...

OK so looking at this photo gives me butterflies that just make me want to smile and look at the world a little differently...

Happy Friday!

Photo Friday! First Family Trip in the Boat!

Robyn's Grandfather has a boat its a nice boat but in the almost 10 years we have been together I have flat out refused to get into the boat as well I am afraid... ok not so much afraid of the boat more so afraid of 1) Throwing up in the boat and B) Drowning... both very rational if you ask me...

Either way if you ask any mother can the kids go in the boat and she says yes you better bet your behind that no matter how afraid she is she will be going with you because 1) She will refuse for her children to do something for the first time without her there if she can help it and B) Her children will not drown without her...

So on our last rip out to visit Robyn's family we went for a trip in the boat and it was FABULOUS!

So for this Photo Friday I have just a few of the 170 photos that I did take! Enjoy!

 

Well as you can tell neither of us drowned and even better I didn't throw up either!
Happy Friday Friends!

Photo Friday! Grandnans Tomatoes

Robyn's Grandmother (Grandnan to our kids) is an amazing woman...

She looks so much younger than her years, has a heart that is bigger than you can imagine, she always has a smile for us and our kids (even after a knee surgery) and she has the most lovely tomatoes growing in her green house!

I couldn't help but photograph them on our last visit they looked so good (and the lighting was perfect for the photos too...) I was temped to set up my own green house and start growing my own, and well lets just say that someday this WILL happen!

My Mouth is seriously watering here...

Anyone have a good recipe for Fried Green Tomatoes??

Happy Friday Friends!

Photo Friday! Chinese Food in Little Boxes!

I wanted to share with you a Photo Friday that is a little light hearted and a lot fun!
 My whole life I can remember feeling a little envious and a little silly watching TV and movies and seeing characters eating Chinese food from the tiny take out boxes... I can also remember my Mom saying "I'd love to have Chinese food in little boxes now..." for what has felt like my whole life...

So this winter when we ordered in our dinner this is what we received and I couldn't have been happier.... I was so happy I had to take a photo!

Simple pleasures I suppose...


Do you have any silly simple pleasures? Share them in the comments I'd love to know I'm not alone!

Happy Friday!

Photo Friday! A Little Beach Get Away!

One thing you likely don't know about me it that I love the ocean, I can't imagine not living by the sea and the fact that I can see the water from my home and my second home (at my mom's place in Bay Bulls NL) and for that matter my third home (Robyn's childhood home of Little Heart's Ease NL) makes me a little giddy...

To me the world make a little more sense when I'm by the waters edge looking out at the waves or even just the little ripples in the bay... I say a little more sense because after loosing my father In-law so suddenly last month the world seems a little more than off, a little more than wrong...

The photos I'm sharing today are from a quick trip to the beach we took the afternoon after his funeral and it just seemed that the sun was shining for him, the waves were rolling for him and to be honest it put me a little more at peace with everything.

Wild Iris

Sea Urchin

Sea Star dried on the rocks

I love that the beach offers so many things to capture in a photo its like a playground for nature....

Happy Friday Friends!

Photo Friday! Learning to Crawl!

This little man is about one step away from crawling...

And yes we are tempting him with our phones... He just loves to chew and drool over them so I figured hey it works.

Mostly he just goes backward but lately for every 2 feet he goes backward he goes about 2 inches forward... I'm calling that progress!

Happy Friday!

Photo Friday! May The Fourth Be With You!

May the Fourth be with you!

Couldn't resist!

Happy Friday!

Photo Friday! A Little Something for Momma!

I have mentioned before that my Momma and my sister are both very crafty people as well and I have to say it comes in handy that my Momma quilts and sews and my sister is an artist, she paints and draws as well she does embroidery and has a great eye for color, and photos... our crafts compliment each other well I must say!

So when I showed her a super cool ring I saw on Pinterest my sister said "I can make that!"
And then about 25 mintues later she showed me this!

I love my knitting ring!

It's so great to have a crafty family! 

Are you part of a crafting family or are you alone in your crafty endeavors?

Photo Friday! Getting Ready For Easter!

Were getting ready for the Bunny! 

Who I'm sure will be hopping into your home soon too... and in our house were pulling out our ears!

And we were all smiles until...

Happy Easter!

Photo Friday! Gone Hunting!

So it seems that while I had thought that I had posts scheduled all this week while we were out of town visiting our relatives I didn't...

So since I didn't share them those lovely posts will be saved for next week... hehehe

While I was away visiting our family I spent one day with my sister-in-law and on the way back to my in-laws for the night we spotted some wildlife and proceeded to go "hunting".

This guy was trotting all over the community and I finally got him.... it only took 4 shots!

Happy Friday!

Photo Friday! Playing Pretend!

We get easily distracted around here...
It's easy for us to forget what day it is and what we should be doing...
I kinda forgot what day it was yesterday and so I kinda forgot to post a Tell the Truth Thursday...

oops!

But it was for good reason, we were at the Library for story time and we were busy playing...

Not sure what she is supposed to be but she sure is cute doing it!

Happy Friday!

Photo Friday!

So it's been a while since I have posted a Photo Friday so I thought I'd share a new Photo I took and start getting myself back on track! 

So here you have it a Photo Friday Post for the New Year!

My cuties cuddles up watching a movie!

Gotta love these days!

Happy Friday!

Photo Friday! Halloween Take 2!

As I have posted earlier this week, Delaney had the stomach flu on Halloween. It was so heartbreaking to have to take her to the hospital rather than trick or treating... so we persuaded our friends to hang on to a few treats or if they had a special treat bag done for her to hold onto it until last night when we went out for Halloween Take 2!

They were all so sad that Delaney was sick and that they couldn't see her and Max in their costumes that it wasn't hard to get them to wait it out a few more days... and save some left over candies!

So we made the rounds to all of our friends houses' (and even went to one of their parents houses)

So for Photo Friday I wanted to share Delaney on her Halloween Trick or Treating Take 2!

Plus all her loot...

Max got a few treats too...

Plus My photog friend Seamus (of This is My Perfect Crime) snapped a few pictures of her too...

Hope that you all had a great Halloween and that you haven't eaten all of your kids candy... yet.

Happy Friday!

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Photo Friday! Pumpkin Carving!

This Photo Friday is extraordinarily wordy! and may seem more like a how to post but really its a combination of the two! 

One of my favorite things about Halloween is Pumpkin carving! 

It's not something we did frequently when I was a kid but I love it! 

There is something just plain fun about gutting a gourd and slapping a picture on there that well lets face it really doesn't belong on there! 

We had a hard time finding a good pumpkin this year, it was slim pickings and not because we went looking too late.... (that was what happened to us last year...) this year all the pumpkins in our area are kinda... well they all sucked! We had a fairly chilly summer and so the pumpkin crop really suffered but we did find one that wasn't that bad... it is almost flat on one side, and is a little oddly shaped but it served our purpose...

WARNING: the photos in this post are a bit on the blurry side... I am not great at taking photos in the dark with my little point and click it seems...

So first I have to show you our last pumpkin first!

Last year we did Minnie Mouse! 

Here she is just completed

And here she is all lit up! 

This Year I got a bit more ambitious... 

Tangled's Rapunzel!

I couldn't find a stencil that I liked so I kinda made my own.... I printed this picture and traced over the picture to make it look how I wanted it with a sharpie

(its an early illustration of Rapunzel from Disney studios)

then I put it on our pumpkin with painters tape and used it as you would any stencil...

 (I used a push pin to outline the pattern and then I just started to cut right into her!)

The key to making a pumpkin stencil is that the lines can't be too close to one another or touch, you want to cut on those lines so try not to make them too thin or too thick... 

I'm pretty proud of my little Rapunzel pumpkin... (and as I'm sure you can tell already Delaney decides what goes on the pumpkin, next year I guess we will need two, a Delaney pumpkin and a Max pumpkin!)

I had to add this video I found on You tube to this post! 

This guy has the best Halloween light shows!

This one is done with the traditional Jack'o'lantern faces singing the song from 

The Nightmare Before Christmas! 

AMAZING!

Happy Friday and Happy Pumpkin Carving!

Photo Friday! Momma said there would be days like this...

Have you ever had your mom or someone else tell you I hope when you have kids they turn out just like you... well I have LOTS! 

It seems that I was a bit of a trouble maker... 

I spilled a bottle of green couch medicine on my moms brand new carpet, I painted her teapot with pink nail polish, and I used to cut the centers out of cupcakes and fill them up with orange juice. So naturally she wanted the world to get back at me.... 

A few weeks ago just as we were packing up to head to Robyn's parents for a weekend I had one of those moments where I thought OK this is the worlds way of getting back at me....

I turned my back for one minute and this happened to my Kitchen table....

This was done by Delaney with a screwdriver..... 

and for some reason all I can think is Momma said there would be days like this... (even if she secretly wished them on me...)

Happy Friday!

Photo Friday!

These two shots were taken as we escaped the city last week! Delaney kept calling the sun set the pink and purple sky and she said over and over how pretty it was, you know because her favorite color is PINK!

It was very pretty and relaxing. I love my time away from the city!

But real life often calls us back...

Happy Friday!

Photo Friday! First Smiles!

Well we have hit milestone #1!

Max is giving REAL smiles!

And while I might not be SUPER MOM I did manage to snag these shots of my boy smiling the other day!

I just love the feeling when he looks up and smiles his gummy little smile, and coos at me... 

It's like Momma crack... and I'm hooked!

Hope your smiling this weekend too!

Happy Friday!

Photo Friday! One of the Joys of being a Momma!

I love being a Momma for so many reasons! 

(too many to share)

But one of the best reasons is because I get to be a kid still again!

Kind of a silly reason... and I might be the only Momma who will openly admit that to the world. I may also be the only Momma in the world who recomends people buy Playdough for her child... and this is why. 

Cause it's so darn fun for me too!!

Happy Friday! 

Hope you have some fun with your kiddos this weekend too!

Photo Friday! A day with the Family!

As a part of my birthday gift I asked my sister to take some baby and family photos of us...

So I thought I would share my favorites with you!

Have you had any new family photos taken lately? If you have a family member or friend that has a good camera and an eye for portraits you can do it on the cheap!

Happy Friday!

Photo Friday! Our New Family Addition!

Well here he is world!

Baby Max!

He was born at 8:29AM and he weighed in at 9lbs 15oz

Its hard to believe that just three years ago this was what I was doing...

And here I am doing it all over again!

I couldn't be happier!