it's all fun and games: August 2016

waterfowl park!

this morning we joined up with the local moncton secular home school group and went on a field trip to sackville's water fowl park. its about 15 mins from memramcook, so chris and i have been there many times in the past when we lived in memramcook....but this was my first guided tour. i actually learned a lot! it was great weather, not too hot, not too cold. the kids were well behaved and my friend came with me and i had someone to talk to! great morning out!

see joey peeking out the side window. haha

looking at the museum park

my naters

my ellie
this is funny. ellie was in the stroller and watched nate and his friend m walk together. i think m got too close cause the next thing we saw was ellie jumping out of the stroller, running over to nate, grabbed his hand and went walking with him....leaving m behind. aralee and i laughed so much. too funny to watch!

ellie taking her rightful spot. beside her brother. hahaha

but nate and m got back together again....bird watching

n and m together

joey! must you roll in the dirt????

score!

ellie joined too. notice nates arms around ellie making sure she was ok before he let her go

awe

and that was our hump day! how was yours? 0 comments

Posted by mel at 3:59 PM

joey eats!

giving joey food, or rather anything will always end up in a mess....joey eating yogurt and toast. why not put the yogurt on the toast???

mmmmmm messes are my specialty!

why not smash it all over the chair too?!?!

me? messy? never! and she went straight to the bath!

i made a new back door display for the girls on the weekend. they like it! its just cut out apples, with stickers of the alphabet and the lower case letter. ellie know's her abc's she learned them when she was 2 but every once and awhile she mixes up the lower case letters so its good to have her practice or rather "teach joey" joey likes pointing to the pictures and telling me what they are.

lots of pointing and sharing going on

ohhhh
and to think this was soo easy to make!

joey dancing in the car to the tunes

all by herself! my friend a is back in town, so we met up at the water park yesterday afternoon. the kids played so nicely, so we decided to book another date on the spot for net week. the girls spent most of the afternoon in the splash pad

last night before bed ellie made a bed for joey and herself

see!

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Posted by mel at 3:53 PM

park!

nate came up with the idea of going to a park today. ellie was over the moon with going to see the ducks. i took chris's van, and gave him my car...so there was enough room to load up the bike and chariot. we chose mapleton and the weather was nice and cloudy. not too hot....then the sun burned off the clouds and BOOM it was so HOT out! ha.. we didnt mind.....nate had a great idea!!! we had so much fun and agreed to come again!

biking boy, taking off

my little girls feeding the ducks

trying to keep joey from jumping in the lake

"ohhhhh"
point point

my girls!

so thankful i can spend my days with my kids

going

almost gone
nate had so much fun riding all over the trails

taking a break because it was SO hot out! joey pointing to everything. talk about sensory over load. in a good way!

driving home i took a detour and discovered my new dream home! i LOVE this house. everything i want!! wrap around porch, a school room over the garage and a mud room. i would love to see the inside!! dreaming is good!

happy friday everyone! 0 comments

Posted by mel at 6:19 PM

summer days!

ellie asked to play in the sprinkles. so we did
so fun!

last night, i bbq'd fish. we dont normally eat fish, but its so healthy and good for you that i wanted to try it. i bought some in july and put it in the freezer. feeling quite overwhelmed with the task of

1- cooking it
2- having my fam jam like it

so, yesterday i felt up to the challenge and i cook it. i made my own marinade. i used real lemons, salt, pepper and some all spice and i bbq'd them on low for about 45 mins

o. m. goodness

oh. my goodness

it was SOOOOO good. i ate one, nate ate one, ellie ate TWO!!!! and we all agreed that we LOVE FISH!!!!

score!!! cant wait to try rainbow trout!

this afternoon during nap time, i took advantage of nate being at his friends place and took ellie up to start my school prep. she sat down, took out the patternables and went to work creating master pieces. i am blown away by discovering my kids. just when i think i MIGHT have figured them out. nope, they change!!! ellie sat down and made pictures with nate's old blocks, for a good 30 mins. BY HERSELF!!! solid gold in my books! and she did them right! by herself!!!!