Easter 2012

Welcome to the 582747th Easter recap that is floating around blog land today. I hope you enjoy your stay.

We spent Easter weekend at my parent’s cottage and had a wonderful time, as always. Evalyn had a blast with her cousins, hunting for Easter eggs, chilling by the “pond” and bossing her Nana around (ahem, “Come here now sweetie”).

There’s not much to say so I’ll just let the photos do the talking.

(Oh yeah, any tips on getting photos of your toddler that don't make her look like she’s constipated? I even tried the “Sit nice for a picture and I’ll give you another chocolate” trick … no luck.)

The Easter Egg hunt!

Cousin time. Yeah, the boy cousin was there, too, but apparently he moves too fast to get captured in any photos without being a complete blur.

Someone gets her love for the outdoors from her Daddy-io. Nothing like exploring in the woods, throwing rocks in the “pond” and playing in the playhouse!

I hope you all had a fantastic Easter celebration with your loved ones.

Christmas in Short Form

As evidenced by the lack of posting over the past two weeks, it’s safe to say that we’ve been enjoying our holidays. We really, really have. Despite the fact that traveling exhausts our wee family and we’ve been battling a few different types of sickies over the past month, we did our best to soak up this holiday season. Having time off from work has rejuvenated me so much. I’ve read an entire book series, finished and ordered Evalyn’s first year photo book, done some much needed reorganization around the house, and napped. A lot. It’s been wonderful. And since the holiday season has flown by without so much as a single blog post from me, I decided to just write a little quicky to sum up the last three weeks of our lives.

I spent so much of my time savouring the moments and the details that I found I was left with relatively few photos. But that’s okay. Because I was there, in the moments, always.

We kicked off our holiday season by traveling to visit Evan’s family. We played with cousins. We ate. We danced. We decorated Nana’s tree. We opened our Christmas PJs and book. We opened our stockings. We didn’t sleep, at all. We cut our first two molars. We opened gifts. We played outside on the sled. We had fun.

We then came home for almost a week before heading to my parent’s cottage in the Muskokas for Christmas weekend. While we were there, we played. Hard. We didn’t sleep, at all, again. We got two more molars. We had a cold. Mama had a cold. Daddy was getting over the flu. We rode a reindeer. We decorated the most Charlie Brown’ish tree that you ever did see. It was perfect. We got a kitchen and some play food. We walked in the snow. We loved on our Nana. We kissed our Uncle. We played. We played. And we played some more.

We came home on the 27th, a day earlier than we had planned, because sleeping was not happening and we were all too exhausted. Despite that, though, we had a good time. The past week at home has been spent enjoying lazy days. Cleaning up from the chaos of Christmas. Ringing in the New Year with good friends.

This week, Evan is back to his regular schedule and Evalyn and I are working on getting back to ours. She goes back to daycare tomorrow, and I have work to do to tie up last term and get ready for the new term to begin next week. We’ve enjoyed our small break from reality, but I’m ready to get back to normal.

Welcome, 2012! Here’s to a great year.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from the cutest little peacock you ever did see!

I took her out for her very first trick or treating adventure on Saturday, since I have to work Mondays. And girlfriend rolled in the goodies! Her bag was full of bubble bath, raisins, chocolate, sour candy, and of course – apples! Don’t worry, I took care of the chocolate and sour candy right away so she wouldn’t get into it. But, thanks to Uncle Big Burdd and Auntie Marica, Evalyn now knows the beauty of Sour Patch Kids and Caramilk bars.

How many Halloweens do you think we’ll get where she chooses the apple over the candy?

Happy Halloween!

Eva’s First Easter in (mostly just 428374) photos

I know that everybody and their mothers are posting Easter recaps today. So, I apologize if this is boring. But … deal with it. It was my baby’s first Easter and I will document it, thankyaverymuch.

We spent Easter weekend with my family at my parent’s place. There was lots of fun, food, and playing. Eva is really starting to interact with her cousins which is so cute to watch. She just hollers and laughs every time Little H is in sight. And Eva and Baby A were all over each other giving kisses, climbing on each other, and chatting up a storm.

There is not much to say about Easter that the pictures won’t tell you so I will leave it to them to do most of the talking.

There were Nanas, and Papas, and cousins, and aunts, and uncles (and one aunt and uncle missing. Sad face). There were two days of beautiful weather.

Needless to say, there was lots of playing – both inside and out.

There was park time.

Swings? Yes please.

There was an Easter egg hunt.

There was a pretty girl, in a pretty dress.

And there was a slew of pathetic attempts at family photos using a self-timer.

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend, celebrating the gift of the resurrection of our Lord.

Happy Monday.

Checking In

Hello, friends! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends.

We sure did.

And guess what?

It ain’t over yet!

In fact, for us, it’s barely even started. We celebrated Christmas morning, just the three of us, together in our own home. And let me tell you, we loved it. Loved loved loved it. No better way to spend our daughter’s first Christmas. We can’t wait to spend more years together that way.

After that, we took off to the Dude’s folk’s place and spent a few days there. We celebrated Christmas with both his immediate and extended family and had a blast.

I definitely have a ton of photos but haven’t even taken the time to upload them.

Now, we’re at my folks place and my entire family (minus one BIL who will be arriving later this week) is here. How great to be together.

We’ll be having “Christmas eve” on Friday and “Christmas morning” on Saturday and I can hardly wait.

Even though I don’t have any Christmas photos to share with you, I thought I better not let you go so long without seeing any pics of my sweet girl.

A few weeks back, my bro and SIL were at our place for the day so we had a little impromptu photo shoot of my lady.

 

I have said it before and I certainly will say it again – having a photographer brother is the bees knees!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from my Little Pumpkin Bum!