Rachel is Two!

We had a fun birthday weekend celebrating Rachel! Friday night before her birthday we went swimming at Millennium Place (last time that she would be free)! Saturday was her birthday. We opened presents as a family in the morning. We had McDonald's for lunch and black forest birthday cake. Chris had meetings in the evening so we hung around at home. Sunday we had dinner at Grandparent's Lamont and had more birthday cake and presents.

 I'm happy to say she is still playing with this baby doll!

She still has the funniest faces! 

 Macy was a little sad as this was the first birthday or present opening that Rachel actually understood the gifts were hers and Macy couldn't just take what she wanted to play with. We are still learning sharing in this house!

 These girls are great!

Rachel has quite the personality. She loves to laugh and play, but has a stubborn streak too and loves to do things on her own. She is very clever and finds a way to get what she wants. Right now she loves the movie Home and the soundtrack too. She especially likes Mickey Mouse, but also still likes Curious George. She loves dancing and running and playing with her sisters. She is learning more and more words and I can communicate pretty well with her, she definitely understands almost everything we say and do. We love this energetic and spunky gal!

Halloween!

Halloween was on a Saturday this year. On Thursday Macy had a Halloween party at school. She dressed as Rapunzle, and had beautiful long hair, but no picture! On Friday night we went to the Dogan's for a family party. It was great. We ate delicious food all Halloween themed. We played some games, like toilet paper mummy and donut on a string. But again, no pictures. Too bad.

Halloween day cousins Clark, Bruce, and Aurora (and their parents) joined us for trick or treating. I stayed home to hand out candy. They also met up with our regular neighbourhood crew to trick or treat.

 Rachel, Macy, Aurora, Clark, and Bruce.

 I make Macy dress as a lady bug for trick or treating because it goes so well over coats and warm clothing. This year wasn't too bad and there was no snow.

Thanksgiving Weekend 2015

On the Saturday of the Thanksgiving weekend we met up with the Leishman's, Steve Lamont family, and Grandparents Lamont at the Edmonton Corn Maze. It was a beautiful day! Sunny and warm, with just a little breeze. The corn maze was lots of fun and lots of activities for the kids. Below is a large bouncy pillow that everyone enjoyed.

 Above is Ruth, Rachel, and Macy.

 We split up from the others for the corn maze, but Ruthie came with us. We started off letting Macy and Ruth each take a turn picking which direction we went. After about 25 minutes and going in circles, Chris took charge and we were out it no time!

 Dad and Rachel.

We had to wait a bit for the other group to get out!

 Simon, Anderson, Henry, Rachel, Ruth, Macy, William, Bruce, Aurora, and Clark.

The also had a little petting zoo and a large hey bale hill for the kids to play. It was a great time and we would definitely go again.

She's Ready to Ride!

Tough Mudder 2015 Drumheller, AB

This year I went down with Chris to Drumheller, AB to watch him do the Tough Mudder. It actually was really fun to watch! The girls stayed with Grandparents Lamont, so it was a mini-getaway.

Below are some fun pictures. Chris is always looking for people to run the race with him!

Storm Trooper Sighting - Maybe it was Finn?

Chris sent this picture to me while he was in Winnipeg.

Do you think he stopped for coffee? Or maybe a frozen hot chocolate?

Macy's First Day of Kindergarten!

Macy had her first day of school on Thursday, Sept 3, 2015. It was only a two hour orientation, and she didn't take the bus. The first bus day was the next Thursday, Sept 10th.

Macy goes to full day kindergarten at Pine Street Elementary. She goes on Mondays and Thursdays, and alternating Wednesdays. Her teacher is Mrs Appleby, who lives 3 doors down from us and has a 5 year old daughter Taylor, who Macy is friends with. Mrs Appleby is great, and Macy is loving school. She takes the bus back and forth and loves that too. She even gets to sit next to our other neighbour Kallie who is also in her class. Kallie's mom walks the girls to the bus stop in the morning, and I pick them up.

 Here she is eating a 'healthy' breakfast of corn pops. She is already disinterested in having her picture taken!

Rachel and I dropped her off and then went and played at the Millennium Place playground.

After we picked her up we went out for lunch, Macy picked breakfast at Cora's, it was delicious. I can't believe I have a kid in kindergarten, but I'm also so excited for the school years ahead!