get your girlfriends together

and go see this...

I saw Valentine's Day on Tuesday with seven girlfriends {after a nice dinner at Baton Rouge with K, and a trip to get my new iPhone} and we give it our eight thumbs up. It is a fun night out chick flick kind of movie {despite the not so great reviews it is getting}. And it has such a great cast. McDreamy and McSteamy, Bradley Cooper, Ashton Kutcher and Taylor Lautner all in one movie...how can you go wrong?

I am off to learn how to use my new phone...

This may be a challenge for me, as I am not so technically inclined. But how cool that I can video tape the kiddies, take photos and use all the apps that I know nothing about yet? Auntie M tells me I can even get a Kindle app. So, who can come over and teach me how to use my phone?

♥ day photo shoot

{warning: you may overdose on all the super sweet photos of my cutie-pie kids in this post!}


Miss S looked ready for Valentine's Day in the "I love you" printed shirt that Auntie M gave her...

{Miss S is such a fashionista. This is a Stella McCartney top, part of her collection for Gap Kids - Gap stores in Ottawa didn't get this collection, so Auntie M in Calgary shopped there for us!}

{all the photos of Miss S are taken on the window seat in her room. I ♥ this window seat! I always wanted one when I was younger, so I jumped at the chance to put one in her room!}

R is too cool to have mommy pick out his clothes already {I swear he thinks he is a teenager} so I am very glad that he thinks this new shirt from Auntie T & Uncle B is "awesome". We are just coming out of a very long period where all he would wear were super hero t-shirts, so it is nice to see him embracing change...

Happy Valentine's Day!

stayfunny designs

I am happy to share with you...my friend Stephanie's new Etsy shop! I love Etsy and I'm a huge fan of Steph and her scrapbooking, so I was excited when she asked me to link to her new shop on my blog.

{this is me with Stephanie and Renee, old photo from Nov 08 taken when Stephanie was published in Canadian Scrapbooker magazine}

Now go check out Stephanie's scrapbooking and her new Etsy shop!

i want to live in a pottery barn catalogue

I miss Pottery Barn.

Why don't we have it in Ottawa?

I am currently lusting after this chandelier...

but K has told me I am at my chandelier limit for this house. {He is also suggesting that hanging paper next to light bulbs is a fire hazard...}

Just think how fabulous this would look in my scrapbooking room. I could alter it all the time with photos and vintage ephemera. {I would have to ask K to move the existing shabby chic chandelier out of my scrapbooking room, and put it in...the guestroom???}

Look how fancy I could make it at Christmas...

So maybe someonelikeAuntieMbackhome could go check this out for me and put it in their suitcase and bring it here at Christmas. I am sure you would have room for it Auntie M, just don't pack your usual amount of shoes this time...

{And don't tell you know who}

(all photos from www.potterybarn.com)

halloween oh nine

Halloween came and went so quickly at our home. Here is how some of it went down.

We enjoyed all the sweets of the season. Like the ones that came in this box...

all the way from Winnipeg {thanks Auntie T and Uncle B}!
And these Pumpkin Fudge Brownies that Miss S and I made {a new recipe we were trying out}...

R and I made some Candy Kabobs to share with our friends. R's favorite candies were the gooey spiders and gummy worms...

We wrapped them in spiderweb cellophane bags to give them away, but this is how they looked as a candy bouquet...

R dressed in costume to parade around his school on the 30th. Miss S wore a witchy outfit for a play date party at Lee Ann's house with some of her pre-school pals.

Miss S's pre-school did not want the kiddies to dress in costume so they wore black or orange the week before Halloween. Miss S thought that was too boring so she wore a tutu and glittery shoes with her black tee {Fancy Nancy style}. When the tutu got in the way of her playing at the sand table, she just stuffed the humongous thing in her cubby.

Miss S also wore her tutu {a Halloween one that I made for her} to dancing class. I made one for The Other Miss S too. Their dance teachers came dressed as ballerinas for Halloween, appropriately so...

Monique always calls The Other Miss S her tasmanian devil. Here she is, the whirling dervish at dance class...

On the 31st, Miss S went to another Halloween party at a neighbors. R had hockey, and then went to the Sens game with K. We had squeezed in carving our pumpkins in the morning. R wanted his big pumpkin to be eating the littlest pumpkin. He sketched how he wanted it to look on paper, wrote "make this" on the top of the drawing and gave it to K to cut out...

And finally, the kiddies favorite part of Halloween. Dressing up and trick-or-treating around our neighborhood. This is where I said "if you don't stand still for at least one photo there will be no candy for you tonight"...

After hitting up all the houses on our street for candy, the kiddies and K came home to look it over. And line it up on our family room floor apparently...

And that was Halloween 2009.

And now I am going to start on Christmas, just so I can cross everything off my holiday To-Do list. {I am not kidding. Right after trick or treating, Renee called and we planned a shopping trip to the States for the next day. I'm almost done my Christmas shopping thanks to our spree!}

the many hats she wears

The scurvy pirate...

the wicked witch...

and the cute 'lil cowgirl...

Miss S and I updated the dress-up chest with some new hats from The Dollar Store. The kiddies love to play dress-up, and I am happy to indulge them. {And at a grand total of about $3 for all these fun hats, why not?}

I love to see the kiddies using their imaginations, so as long as they are having fun, I will encourage them to wear as many hats as they want.

dancing queen

You are the dancing queen

Young and sweet, only seventeen

Dancing queen, feel the beat

From the tambourine, oh yeah

You can dance, you can jive

Having the time of your life...

Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene

Dig in the dancing queen...

.....

Miss S is having the time of her life in the most adorable tutu that I bought for her, from Trinity's Tutus. Miss S loves the pink and brown Strawberry Chocolate Cupcake tutu...

and the matching "S" top that I ordered from isabellaboo...

Dig in the dancing queen!

what do

The Bachlorette, Jillian and I have in common? Not much.

Other than this fabulous pendant...that she wore on Monday night's show.

Handmade by RitzyMisfit, mine is a melted and stamped wax seal green pendant, with quirky vintage-looking charm. Jillian's was turquoise...

{The one pictured above is a photo from RitzyMisfit's site, not my actual pendant}

You can pick the "level of character" and "degree of color" that you want your pendant to have. I love it.

That Jillian...she has great taste in baubles.

As for men??? I guess we'll see...