Some Humour

Needed a bit of humour lately?! The kids have the sniffles and fevers, we are fighting it and John has one last exam on Tuesday. I can't wait for a break!!!

Even if we are tired and a tad grumpy, I love my kiddos so, so, so much! Even when they are tired, whiny and impossible to deal with (especially the 3 year old), I have moments like these that make me smile and thank God each and every day for them!

I am not sure what he is pretending to be or do here, but most likely it has something to do with Cowboys or Pirates!

HAHA, gotta love this shirt that was a hand-me-down from our friends in Australia.

Someone found a new favourite toy--the doorstop! She was so, so proud of herself!

What a ham! Enough said!

Two more

So I forgot that we went to visit Santa and got a picture on Saturday. I will have to go back and make a layout about that. John wrote a final on Saturday morning and then after he got back we ventured out into the cold and went to the Mall in Balzac. They were doing free Santa pictures at Bass Pro Shop. Well, you get what you pay for--right. So yeah, I wasn't too impressed with the quality of the picture, but it was free and we didn't have to wait in a long line. Plus they had some crafts for Zech to do throughout the mall, so it was a nice afternoon out.

Dec. 9 layouts

Here's a two-pager for the 9th.

Christmas Day 6

Here is Day 6! I am falling behind.....

Thanks to Crystal for nominating me for this little award! What a sweet, nice surprise! I am going to play along, however I don't know if I have seven people to nominate?

Once the award is accepted, the nominee has to do the following:

•Thank the sender for nominating you.

•make sure you link to the person who nominated you.

•Copy the logo onto your blog

•List seven interesting things about yourself.

•Nominate Seven Kreative Bloggers.

•Post links to their Blogs

•Leave a comment for each letting them know of their nomination.

So here are some random tidbits that you might not know about me:

1. I hate the cold! I am so NOT a Winter person, it is sad! I love having a White Christmas, but that is it! I would love to have Summer year round!

2. If I had the money I would be a Professional Student. I don't necessary want to get the 'Piece of Paper'--I just want to take courses that truly interest me and that I know I would have a blast learning and studying!

3. I took my first plane ride when I was in Grade 11 (Bamfield Trip) and now I can't count how many plane rides I have been on since.

4. I wish I knew more languages! I also wish that I could get my Spanish back to the level it was!

5. I took piano lessons for 12 years and now it has been 12 years since I touched the piano! Sad I know, but hopefully soon that will change and we will be able to get a piano and provide the kids with lessons.

6. I have to ask to lie down whenever I get a needle. Even if it is just a blood test, otherwise I will pass out cold. I am not sure how I have survived two pregnancies with two c-sections! Thank goodness I never saw the Spinal needle!

7. I always wanted 5 kids. Twins and Triplets! Doesn't that tell you how NAIEVE I was!

I'm going to pass this award on to:

Melanie (maybe you will blog a little more if I try and force you too! :o)

Aunty Elaine (I have been missing your posts too!)

And that is all that I know of.....

Genesis at 6 Months

My baby is half a year old already! We are so blessed to have her in our lives!

So at 6 Months Genesis:

- Weighs 19 lbs. (about 8 kg)

- Is 27 1/2 inches long.

- Wears mostly 12 month clothing.

- Wears size four disposables.

- Is finally on a routine during the day. Morning nap at 10:00 am for an hour to an hour and a half and an afternoon nap at 2:00 pm for an hour or more--depends. At least she is napping good now!

- Started sleeping through the night last week for a week. It was great!! It's back to never sleeping now since she got sick. Erghhh!

- Is almost crawling!

- Loves to be on the floor and she goes everywhere. We have to do some serious GG proofing here soon. While she isn't crawling, she uses her arms and legs to push herself along the floor.

- Still loves the Jolly Jumper! I wish we could take it everywhere we go! She loves to jump on our laps too!

- Is still sooo smiley and happy. We are told all the time that she is the happiest baby ever!

- Is really starting to get vocal. She chatters away all the time to herself. She is even saying DADA! John thinks that is pretty cool (even if she doesn't realize what she is saying)!

- Sits up on her own.

- Is eating solids three times a day now. She loves her cereal and doesn't mind her veggies. Still not a huge fruit fan.

- Loves, loves, loves her bath time!

- Got Scarlet Fever and is on her first antibiotics.

- Has exzema and this weird skin irritation that we thought was exzema, but got worse and looked infected. The doctors were even really perplexed by it, so we have three different creams we are supposed to try on it.

- Sits in the shopping cart now with her big brother and she loves it.

- Loves stories and books.

- Loves her daddy and gets so excited when he comes home. She plays shy with him--it is so funny and cute!

- Had her first little ponytail!

Dec. 4th & 5th layouts

When I started this, I knew that I would not be able to complete every single day, but was going to try. So I missed the 3rd already, but I am not going to stress out about it and will just continue on with the days that I do have. While the prompts that Jessica Sprague provides for each day of this course are really great, I find that I want to capture more of what we are doing right in the moment. However, there are also some great ideas from the prompts that I wouldn't mind recording as well. So I am kind of mixing things up a little--creative liscensing--right! :o)

So here are my posts for Dec. 4th & 5th.

Dec. Second layout

Here it is! I still have to finish a few things on it, but that will come later! :o)

I wasn't going to put that picture of us on it as I look HORRIBLE! However, it truly indicates how I felt yesterday with ZERO sleep, no make-up on, and bedhead, dealing with a sick little girl and an active little boy that seemed to wake up earlier than ever. I think I was even wearing an old tattered sweat shirt of John's---sad I know! Oh the memories! :o)

Decmber 2nd & Scarlet Fever.....

My page for today will have to be posted tomorrow. See already I am falling behind! :o(

Genesis has Scarlet Fever and some weird skin irritation thing going on, so today was a day of snuggling, cuddles and a lot of stories! The last two nights have been really rough. She just hasn't been sleeping and at least now we know why. The antibiotics seem to be helping and she had two really long naps today too! So I pray that she will sleep good tonight so I can get some sleep!

So tomorrow I will post my 2nd layout, but for tonight I thought that I would post this really cool email that we got. Have you ever wondered the true meaning of the song "12 Days of Christmas"? Check this out--pretty cool!

There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me.
What in the world do leaping lords, French hens,
swimming swans, and especially the partridge who won't come out
of the pear tree have to do with Christmas?
This week, I found out.

From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics.
It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of their church. Each element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality which the children could remember.
-The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.

-Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments.

-Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love.

-The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John.

-The five golden rings recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.

-The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.

-Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit--Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.

-The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.

-Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit--Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control.
-The ten lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.

-The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.

-The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles' Creed.

So there is your history for today. This knowledge was shared with me and I found it interesting and enlightening and now I know how that strange song became a Christmas Carol...so pass it on if you wish.'

Merry (Twelve Days of) Christmas Everyone

December First

The course that I signed up for has been really great and has really forced us to put a bit of time and thought into what we want our family to celebrate, honour and cherish during this wonderful season. I am so excited to start this and make a Christmas album along with lots of different traditions and values that we have and to see how things will change throughout the years.

I really want to do a Hybrid album, but for now I am going to do all digital and then see how things go and how much time I have. The cool thing about the way this class is set up, is that Jessica has provided templates for hybrid, traditional and digital scrappers. So these tags that you see, I could print them off at home and then paste them on my page for a more hybrid effect and then I could add my own embellishments such as brads, eyelets, etc.

I just hope that I can keep up and have the time to do this. I am not going into this unrealistically though. While there are materials for EVERY day in December, I just may not be able to do something everyday. I will try though, even if it is something simple like reading the Christmas story in the Bible, or reading Charlie Brown, etc. So here we go my frist layout (which just happens to be a two-page layout). I still want to add a few things, but that will happen when I get them printed out.