Oh happy day

Despite waking up to a very upset stomach this morning, I can not help but be in a good mood. Yesterday was a special day for a variety of reasons.
First of all it was mine and Richard's 1 year wedding anniversary. Even though we have been together for over 5 years, it's still a special day and I'm glad that we were able to share it with Emma and Xavier :) It will always be a treasured memory.
Yesterday two wonderful things happened: sweet Sebastien finally received a new kidney! Let's keep him in our prayers that everything keeps going well and without any complications.
The second thing is that our good friends Tomo and Shella welcomed a bouncing baby boy whom they named Yoshi. We are so overjoyed with this news! Can't wait to meet the little sweetie :)

I like Hannah Montana

There I said it.
Emma discovered Hannah Montana almost 1 year ago when my friend Ross (who has down syndrome) had a Hannah Montana themed birthday party. She had never seen an episode of her television show or listened to any of her music, but Uncle Ross liked her so that was good enough.
For Christmas, Santa brought Emma the Hannah Montana Movie, which is mildly entertaining. A few months ago, after having watched the movie a hundred million times, a hunted for the television show. Hasn't too hard to find since the Family network plays the Hannah Montana show at least 20 times a day, or so it seems.
I like the show. Billy Ray is funny and so is the actor that plays Hannah/Miley's brother. I actually enjoy watching the show with Emma.
Lord help me.

Life continues to be busy

It's a crazy life, but one that I do enjoy.
We're broke, but happy, crazy.
To help supplement our income, I have decided to start selling Epicure. I think it will be really great, I can't wait to start doing parties and showing people how yummy Epicure products are.
It means having to pump milk so that Lucas can stay home with Richard, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. I will miss my munchkins as I'm working, but it will also be nice to be working and having a night out all rolled into one!
I won tickets to go see Weird Al Yankovic at the beginning of the month. He is hilarious, he played of course some of his classics, still funny today.
I am writing this at 1 a.m. because I could not sleep, but now I hear the sleep fairies calling me. I bid you goodnight....

Growing every day

Lucas is now a little over 3 months old. He is "talking" a lot, squeals with delight whenever he sees his siblings and can roll over. Time sure does fly.
Xavier is semi potty trained. I can not wait until the potty wars are over with him. He knows when he needs to go, he'd just rather poop in his shorts or pee on Emma's bed (for example). Gah!
It will get better, it will get better, it will get better. Do you think I could just wish it and poof???? Here's for hoping anyway, LOL.
Emma is really shaping her own unique style and personality. She is choosing her own favourite shows and fashion styles. It's amazing. She is such a girly girl, she constantly wants to go shopping and loves doing her nails. My sweetie. When Lucas is a bit older and can be left home with Richard for a little while (without needing to breastfeed), I will take my sweetie girl out for lunch, do a little shopping and get our nails done.

Life can be crazy at times...

...especially with three children.
Some days I have a hard time keeping my thoughts straight. LOL.
We have definitely been enjoying this wonderful weather we've been getting.
Last weekend we spent some time at the farmer's market in St-Malo run by my sister-in-law and we definitely scored some great deals and yummy treats! I can't wait until we go back. We also spent some time at my brother's farm visiting his newly remodeled house. They really did a good job.
We went to my dad's place for supper. Other than my siblings and their families being there, my aunty Michelle was there with her son Michael, his wife Louise and their daughter Eden who were visiting from Kitimat, BC. Michael really is funny, it was an excellent time.
Danika came back home with us for a sleepover for a couple of nights. The girls (and Xavier) seemed to have a really good time together. I love the relationship between cousins. It's so sweet.
On the bad side of things, some vandals came into our yard and stabbed (yes actually stabbed) our pool more than six times! Why would somebody do that!? Richard has put some patches to fix to puncture holes, fingers crossed that works.
Lucas had his first set of shots this week. Poor little guy was quite grumpy afterwards. At 11 weeks old he weighs in at a hefty 15 lbs 14 oz and is now 25 inches long. That's my big boy!
Oh, Richard and I went on date (with Lucas as our little sidekick) to go see Inception. What a great movie, it definitely keeps you thinking. I highly recommend it!

Busy weekend!

We had a very busy weekend and it was worth every single moment.
On Friday, after bringing Richard to work, the kids and I decided to visit Memere, Nicole and Tony's new apartment. The kids really like the new apartment, because it has one more bedroom the hallway is longer which the kids enjoy. The apartment is two floors up and Emma really enjoys the new high views. After a nice supper and some Bugs Bunny, we made it back home.

Saturday morning we had a visit from our old friend Carlos, in the afternoon my cousin Elizabeth came over with her two kiddies Amy and Alex. We spent a really nice afternoon in the backyard where the kids played in the pool and so forth. The kids had a great time playing with their cousins, it was fun.

That evening my wonderful sister-in-law Patsy Karina invited me to go see the movie Eclipse. I hand expressed a little bit of breast milk and once all three kids were all in bed, we headed off to the movie. It was great, not only because the movie was absolutely phenomenal, also because I had an invitation to go out, just me! I can't remember the last time someone invited just me out with them. Feels good :)
On Sunday, we went to church for Samantha's baptism, daughter of my friend Julie and her husband Marty. She's such a little cutie, she's only 6 days younger than Lucas. I hope they can become friends.
In the afternoon we headed out to celebrate Darrion's 5th birthday, he's Emma's closest friend right now. The party started at a nearby wading pool. One of the dads brought a bag full of water guns and the kids really had a great time soaking each other and the dads, hehehe, that was super fun. Lucas slept almost the whole time.
We went back to Darrion's house where we were treated to a nice bbq and a really yummy rocket shaped cake.


What a great weekend!

Oh Canada!

I hope everyone had a great Canada day yesterday! It definitely was an interesting one here in good old 'Peg city.
Minutes after arriving at the Assiniboine Park Zoo, it started to rain. Sometimes the rain was light, other times a little heavier. We ducked into places like the Tropical House and Discovery Centre in an effort to stay dry while still visiting some animals. After a little while the rain subsided, but Xavier had had enough by this time. He wanted food.

We knew that the Lyric stage behind the pavillion was going to have shows on all afternoon and evening, where there is entertainment, there's food.
We made the short walk from the Zoo and quickly found the food vendors. Richard had some smokies and I bought a large cheese pizza which we all shared. It was yummy.
We watched a historical play about Manitoba and the Chinese Lion dance.

We really were having a great time, but it was HOT outside by this time, not to mention a little muggy because of the aforementioned rain. We came back to our nice air-conditioned home :)

We had Nicole and Tony over for dinner to wrap up a nice first Canada day for Lucas.