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nav can weekend

Since moving to Ottawa, I have heard many scrapbookers refer to Nav Can in a happy place kind of way. I am still not really sure what Nav Can means or is, but I don't care. All you had to tell me was. Girl's weekend. No kids. Scrapbooking 24/7. All your meals and a bed to sleep in...and I was there. {Basically it is a huge conference center/hotel on the water in Cornwall}. I went this past weekend with Christine, Lee Ann, Vicki {who organized the weekend} and twelve other women.

It was a great time, I met some new friends and I went to Auntie Em's Scrapbooking shop. I stayed up late {was not woken up at some ungodly hour by my kiddies} slept in, and did not even have to think about making meals. I enjoyed meals, coffee time and some cocktails with my girlfriends. Happy place!

I now have twenty more pages to tuck into the kiddies books.

Here are a few to peek at...

And here's to my wonderful husband and parents that took care of the kiddies and everything at home while I was off in my happy place! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

radio city christmas spectacular

{photo taken from here}

I got home from a girl's weekend away {photos coming soon} just in time to catch the Radio City Christmas Spectacular show starring the Rockettes, at Scotiabank Place. I took Jill with me to enjoy the show from our box seats, but it would have been even better if we could have brought our kiddies along. I wish there had been an afternoon show, as it was too late on a Sunday night for my kiddies, even to see Santa dancing with the Rockettes.

What a fabulous show! I loved the hundreds of dancing Santas, the falling toy soliders and the virtual double decker bus tour of New York. I love the history of the Rockettes. You can check out some video of the show here. Ottawa was lucky to be one of the few Canadian cities that made the tour. One day I would love to see the show at Radio City Music Hall...Christmas in New York would be amazing! I think I will have to make that trip happen sometime in my lifetime...

Now that I am in a Christmas kind of mood, I am starting to plan more festive activities for our family. What kind of Christmas are you planning?

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)

missy mouse

Renee has always called Miss S

"Missy Mouse"

And now I find myself calling her that sometimes, too.

How fitting that this was the Halloween costume that Miss S picked...

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!}