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What a great opportunity! This giveaway is open to Canadian & US residents, and ends June 7th!
Another beautiful day in Paradise – aka Prince Rupert! It is amazingly beautiful and gorgeous for the 2nd day in a row. The forecast for the coming week is sun, sun, and more sun. Which means potentially record temperatures, and a possible flooding of the Skeena River. And while I have no control over the potential flooding, I do have control over my camera!
WARNING – You are about to see many many photos from the last 2 days of outside fun as I could simply not narrow it down to only 1. So perhaps this *should* be the DAYtwelve thru DAYtwenty of photos! LOL.
Its a bird, its a plane… its a beautiful butterfly art project!
My little dancing machine has recently informed me that in addition to taking ballet classes she would love to take tap classes! Tonight she was busy showing me her moves in an attempt to sway my decision.
See you tomorrow for DAYeleven!
I “missed” a day already! Today marked the 3rd power outage for us in 2 weeks and while the power was back on in time for supper it still threw my evening off. So a giant :P to BC Hydro and the transformers that don’t appear to be functioning very well lately, and are creating serious havoc around town here!
It is still however still May 26th… and thus I haven’t truly missed today… and while I haven’t got a new and snazzy picture to share with yall I will take a walk down memory lane and share an oldie but a goodie!
My “super model” little girl showing off her lovely Ladybugs & Lullabies Hair Clip. This picture was featured as Ladybugs & Lullabies Baby of the Month last year! Allison of Ladybugs & Lullabies is having amazing success lately and I encourage you to check out her shop!
Think You Can Dance? Guaranteed you have nothing on my little dancer!
See you back tomorrow for DAYnine!
This has been the absolute best weekend of my life. We had an absolutely wonderful, exciting, fun time. It was one of those weekends that sitting here reflecting I can't help but smile.
My Dad, in typical unconventional gift giving fashion, gave Malie a tent and lantern. The girls of course insisted on setting it up inside their room last night. This morning we moved the tent into the front yard. And of course it went back into their room tonight for another “campout”.
While Malie’s official 3rd birthday was on Wednesday this last week we celebrated today with a grand total of 10 kiddos running around the house (literally towards the end of the party when they actually started running in circles around the outside of the house!). It was a lot of fun, and Malie had an absolute blast which was of course the point.
The cake was a little bit of a salvage mission though! Malie had requested fruit filling and try as I did it was a huge disaster. As soon as I added the top layer the berries went sploosh and oozed out of all sides. And then on top of that the actual top of the cake kept sliding in all directions. Its a miracle that I managed to save the cake and have it look half way presentable. I had already applied the cake topper and everything to boot… so I had to tediously remove the top layer of the cake without it breaking it in half. Then I scooped all the berry topping off the 1st layer. Cut the bottom layer into 4 pieces for easier handling and moved them to a new tray. I cut the berry stained edges off the bottom layer and went to work again without the added layer. Cooking with Jaime is always an adventure! What else can I say? Either way I was up till 1am baking the silly thing!
In addition to sugaring the kids up on cake we also had a pancake brunch complete with heart shaped pancakes, whipped topping, raspberry & strawberry compote, gummy worms, chocolate m&m’s and heart sprinkles. A definite feast made for princesses & princes!
Total cost for the party including fruit, cake topper, decorations and goody bags for 11? $40 which is not too shabby! In previous years I’ve spent that much just on the cake (blush!).
I survived Malie’s 3rd Birthday Party! We had 8 kids plus Tala and Malie in our new place to celebrate with a panocake brunch. Every little kids’ dream breakfast complete with whipped topping, strawberry & raspberry compote, gummy worms, chocolate m&m’s and heart sprinkles. Absolutely delicious feast!
See you tomorrow for DAYseven!
Bubbling Over With Excitement over her birthday party Malie is definitely a handful today! I don’t share her enthusiasm so much as my home will be overrun with 11 kids running around! Yikes! And its now after 8pm and I just started baking her cake that has to be complete tonight to give the topper a chance to settle before tomorrow.
Little, Big Girl! Perhaps it was the choice of clothing today, perhaps its sentimental Mommy after Malie’s 3rd birthday, but Tala looked so “grown up” today. The transformation is amazing really. Watching the girls grow up is such an amazing gift.
Hip Hip Hooray! DAYthree already. Today was Malie’s 3rd birthday. We celebrated with a Strawberry Shortcake Cake, and a first thing in the morning present from Mommy & Big Sister Tala.
Tala worked very hard drawing pictures in Malie’s card the night before, which is why Malie looks so shocked/in awe in the first picture. She absolutely adores the picture that Tala drew of her in her stroller.
Did you think I forgot already? I was just waiting for the absolute perfect shot!
Malie’s 3rd birthday is tomorrow. Initially we had planned on baking cupcakes to bring to school tomorrow as a Family of 3. However, Miss Malie was all pooped out after a long day running around at school and fell asleep on the way home. Thankfully Miss Tala had more than enough enthusiasm to fill in.
At such, with great pleasure, I present the very enthusiastic (and immensely proud) baker!
Be sure to check back tomorrow for DAYthree and what I’m positive will be a picture of the beautiful birthday girl!
Miss Tala is the focus of today’s photo during our dance party this morning. She was super busy showing us her awesome dance moves from dance class. This Dance Mommy is looking forward to her first ever dance performance that is quickly approaching – and is shrouded in secrecy! None of the parents are allowed to know what the routine is. But I can guarantee that I’ll be weeping in the audience!
