Synchro show!



Saturday we had our yard sale. It went quite well, though we had a few rude people drop by , trying to bargain a bit too much. I am glad I stuck to my guns! :) Maelie also did a great job. As she collected money for her toys and stuff, she could picture herself shopping at Aeropostale... buying everything in the store! That kid seriously has more clothes than I had in ALL my school years!

Saturday evening, we surprised Myriam by going to her synchronized swimming show. She didn't think we would go because it was in the evening and she knows we are in bed early. It was awesome to see her face light up and when she saw us up in the stands!

It's adorable to see all the girls in their fancy suits!

Her group did a great job! I could see the major improvement from the last show.



There were so many talented girls! The advanced teams were seriously amazing... had perfect timing! We enjoyed ourselves even if we were EXHAUSTED from the yard sale! :)

another bday !

On Wednesday, it was Elena's birthday. Elena is Sonia's student who is staying with them until July. She just turned 16 and is such a sweet girl. We thought she should work for her bday gift so we packaged it in a balloon! 

You can;t give someone who is leaving in less than a month with a TON of suitcases something big so we gave her a gift card for the movies since we know she will go!

We ate at Lyna le Sushi. Maelie ate what you can see below... I don't remember the name of it exactly. I think it was cucumber flavored.

I had a veggie spring roll, and only remembered to take a pic when I was half way through. It was very tasty!!

We had a wonderful time! June is so full of celebrations!!

Happy Father's Day!!

Happy Father's Day to Bill and to my dad Jim!

This is Maelie and her daddy before Father's Day Brunch. 

They were both saying "take the picture already!!" LOL I just wanted to make sure I ahad a good one so I clicked away. Maelie is very blessed to have Bill as a dad. He will always make sure she is ok and will drop everything to run to her rescue. You can tell they have so much love for each other.

Happy Father's Day to my awesome dad :) I am glad that he is a part of my life and that Maelie has a wonderful grandpapa.

Another year older!

One more birthday passed recently! It started the week before my bday. My mom came for a visit. She and Maelie picked up an ice cream cake ... and for bdays, you can have ice cream cake for breakfast ! Hurray! I had candles that I hadn't used last year, so I decided to use them... even if they reflect last year's bday! LOL I am now 38... but when I blew out the candles, I was still 37.

Good morning cute Grand maman!

Maelie got to work on her nails. That seems to be the standard activity when grand maman visits!!

Nice job!

This is what my garden looked like on June 2nd. Just so I can record the evidence that I did not kill it yet!!

I love Maelie's little summer freckles that are out on her nose area!!

On Monday, my actual bday, Sonia and her family took us out for supper.

Another year older! I don't mind birthdays, because the alternative to birthdays is not being alive to have one! :)

I brought cupcakes to my work for my colleagues to enjoy, and i was spoiled with bday wishes and love!! and gifts too. The most important to me though is just being with my family and friends. Nothing can beat that as a present!! They love me and accept me for who i am!!

New gardener without a green thumb

So yes...I started a garden. Usually I only plant herbs for the summer, but this year, I felt like venturing out of my comfort zone and grow veggies!

Bill was out of town this weekend so I decided to ust pick up a raised garden instead of waiting for him to come home and build it for me. I got two kits and put them together so i have nearly 11 feet long by i think 3.5! After building it I lugged a ton of dirt and all the veggie compost goodie, and manure.

I had a few veggie plants , and a bunch of seeds. Lots of carrots and radishes! Yum!

I also filled my planters with herbs.... they already look nice!

Here is a planter full of basil!

I was really proud of what I accomplished this weekend!!

Maelie and I also ventured out and decided to plants some seeds in the house.

We decided to start up a few herbs, some peas and beans as well!

Maelie enjoyed pouring the water to get the little peat moss bundles going! and then adding the seeds :)

Cross our fingers something will come up!!

Face off

LOL - Maelie and Peluche facing off.

A visit back home

Last weekend we went back home to visit. We hadn't been in quite a while! Since we were dogsitting, we brought Peluche along with us. He kept us quite busy!! We also drove down 5 baby ducklings. They were hatched at Maelie's school in the grade 1 class. The visit apparently revolved around animals!! I have more animal pictures than people!

Here are some of grand-maman's chickens. They are so cute! They are the ones Maelie chose last year as tiny babies.

Here is a box a ducklings, and a box of chicks that my mom had.

Maelie was holding on to a baby chick.

We gave the ducklings a bath... Peluche wanted nothing more than to make some friends!

Drying off... SO CUTE!

Maelie was hoping to get some swinging time...

Hi Mom!

We had supper at my dad's on Saturday. Of course, Peluche came along. He was VERY excited to see Meggie. He would not leave her alone one second. Here they are both half dead, worn out with their tongues hanging out! Maelie is also exhausted from all that babysitting!

Meggie loves to cuddle with Maelie :)

I didn't even get a pic of my dad and Lucie! I will have to remember next time.

It all went downhill that night as I caught an agressive stomach bug. I was up most of the night. Maelie caught it the next day but it was not as agressive. We hung out in bed and on the couch until the Monday of the long weekend. I was exhausted and have been recuperating all week. My energy levels have not come back up quite yet!