my new, most fav and fabo restaurant evah!

i have yet to find a replacement for my dear precious mykonos in sasky until now...we were give a gift card last year to chateau de pape and finally used it last night. oh. my dear. amazing-goodness. the restaurant was beautiful, the food was the best that i have had in a long time. we dined in quiet, splurged on appetizers, an amazing entree and finally dessert (which had more calories that my daily allotment) we did however have to take a second mortgage out when the bill arrived but it was oh, so worth it!

monctionians, you must try this place! 2 thumbs up baby! 0 comments

Posted by mel at 5:24 PM

soccer champ

chris's coworker has a little one 6ish months younger than nate who goes to a weekly "soccer" practice (really, the kids are 18-36 months) last night they had a "invite a friend" night so chris, muetti and vati took chris while i stayed home and cleaned up then got ready for our anni date- which i will talk about more later) anyways....nate had such a great time! he did really well and was still talking about kicking the ball this morning. i would consider signing him up for a weekly base, but it's freaking redic expensive and with me being cheap that isn't so good....ha

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Posted by mel at 4:32 PM

muetti and vati visit

chris's parents are in town for a few days. nathaniel is doing quite well to the adjustment of having "strangers" in his house. with in 10 mins he brought books to both of them to read to him....ha.this handsome dude would be chris's dad...aka "dadda's poppa"

what would a visit be with out the horns? nate was quite taken with them

they played some swiss songs for us...and the neighbourhood

then it was time for more books from "dadda's nana"

while vati rested

after our turkey (ok, roast beef) thanksgiving/happy anni chris and mel dinner, we walked off some of that yumminesseig's can not simple take a walk, they must stop at all maps and map out our route, then discuss all aspects of the map, determine what route would be the best, how long it would take to get there....ha

my batteries were dying so the flash would not work, hence the dark pic's....but here we are walking on that predetermined route....ha

chris's parents are leaving tomorrow morning some time to take off for a few days to discover n.b and pei. they will be back for the weekend.

chris and i had our anniversary yesterday. yeah, happy anni to us! another year under our belts

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Posted by mel at 12:24 PM

bawahh!

working with kids can be challenging, working with parents is a whole other story. imagine my delight when i found this video. enjoy!

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80770375/ 0 comments

Posted by mel at 1:45 PM

boo from the zoo

boo ya' all

" hey mommy!"

the zoo was being set up for "boo at the zoo" amazing! the decorations are awesome! i will go back in a week or so to see what the final product will look like. the above is the walk way into the zoo. beautiful!

nate kept saying to the cougar "hi, kitty, hi"

i could not get over how beautiful the zoo was. the trees were so incredibly bright and full of color. i tried to capture it with the camera, but you know how that goes...it's always better in person

i also enjoyed having the place to myself! there was NO ONE there! it was the best. i let nate run free, and that he did!

more tree colors

nate found ducks on the path, he was surprised to see them before we got to the duck pond. he quickly got over the shock and chased them

what in tar nation is this animal? anyone?

nate was a wee bit sceptical about entering the treed area...

he got over that and chased me to the car.

another wonderful morning before the rain started. it's pouring out now, boo...i guess that gives me an excuse to bake something fall this afternoon!

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Posted by mel at 2:43 PM

stacy's shower

some decor pic's. the poms were a hit

little one's name

more poms

did you expect me to not post a pic of nate? ha. he was climbing in the gift/train table

long shot of the hallway

favours. candy sooks

carla's amazing cake. 2 layered. top was a lemon pound cake. delish! bottom chocolate pound cake. amazing! note the cake topper...the baby's skin color...how amazing is that!

mom to be cutting her masterpiece

mad dash for the grub

the 2 preggo's. shannon (on the right) is due this thurs, stacy in 3 weeks.

the shower was a sucess. the turn out was great, the food was amazing, stacy was blessed with an abundance of adorable out fits, much laughter, sharing of stories and secrets were told. i may do another one....maybe...

nate story

chris took nate to mcdee's for supper. chris told him i was at a party, which nate told everyone and anyone who would listen.

on sat i told nate if he poops or pees in the potty he can have fries...which he then left me red faced by yelling "PEE, POOP! FRIES" all morning at the mall...no worries...chris got his dose after nate watch a man enter the men's room and yell "GUY! PEE, POOP, FRIES" at mcdonalds....haha.

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Posted by mel at 1:50 PM

patio stones and driveway

voila, chris's hand made walk way stones, we will do more landscaping next year

close up on the hebrew letters

sprinklers for the plash pad!

it was raining, which would explain the mini puddles. long shot of the driveway

another shot of the finished driveway.

i can not get over the positive response we have gotten about this driveway. i get a good 10 people who drive by a day, just to look at it. chris has already had 4 serious inquiries to do their driveways!

well chris, you took the chance and it worked....like i doubted you for a second!

one last pic

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Posted by mel at 1:32 PM