Everyday Beauty - Week 24 - Daddy
A week full of Daddy fun with a birthday and Father's Day. He was showered with presents and cake and cards and pancakes and love. I think his favourite was the lawn dart set picked out by the girls though. I made him a cake. Uh, yeah, I am not a cake maker so there will be no picture of that fiasco. It tasted great, but since presentation counts for a lot you pretty much had to be blindfolded to appreciate it.
It was also the second last week of school and the second last assembly. As one of the Sparks Leaders I had the honour of helping our wee group of Sparks present a cheque small in size but big in heart to our school's SCC snack fund. As a group of cute girls they gathered some donations while selling cookies on Cookie Day and rather than keep them for our group we decided to donate them to the school. It was very sweet and I think they are feeling proud of themselves.
For Father's Day, well the day before Father's Day, I got an entire day to myself while my lovely husband took the girls to Nana and Papa's for a visit. It was much needed time as I was trying to complete two online courses before the 30th. Success! This makes the next week and a bit a whole lot more relaxing.
We hope everyone had a lovely Sunday and got to spend some time with their families.
Playdate
Reading
Happy Birthday
Cheque
Hairy?
Courses
Father's Day
Everyday Beauty - Week 23 - Garage Sale
The town garage sale was this week, on the Saturday to be specific, and it is looked forward to all year long. Everyone has a plan and this house divides and conquers. The girls are now old enough to have their own money to spend so we end up with some interesting buys by the end. One of these years we will participate and have a whopper of a sale, but at the moment we really just love walking it.
We also played hooky from school one afternoon this week and took the girls to the aquarium. It was a hit and a definite must-do again. Plus we took the train into the city which is a big deal in an of itself. Summer is just around the corner and more fun day trips like this await.
We had some fun at home and ended the week with a rainy Sunday afternoon full of board games.
Roly coming up for air
The aquarium
Giddy up
A playdate
My workout buddy
Garage sale find
Games on a rainy Sunday
Everyday Beauty-Week 22-Birthday
Well, in the very busy week this week, I seem to have missed Thursday. Or I lost the picture somewhere and it will turn up and be inserted when I locate it. :) Oops, I was sure I took one.
It was birthday party week here for my 8 year old. Zoinks! 8! We had Zoo to You come and they were fabulous. The kids absolutely loved it and I think I can safely say the adults did too.
The last of the dance roses
Raffle score!
After donating 10 inches of hair.
I don't know where Thursday is...
The birthday cake.
A new friend
Homework?
Everyday Beauty-Week21-Tractor Power
Another really busy week with so much packed in there. We had rather an interesting array of activities this week, including our Sparks Advancement Ceremony (dead boring picture that day as I can't show the other kids), our school's annual fundraiser and an antique car tour to round out the weekend.
The garden has been planted (still needs to be weeded properly) with some guidance from a friend, and some pretty flowers are popping up here and there. It will be lovely, I do declare.
We had some more hulahoop fun with the neighbours and a rather interesting breakfast request.
The upcoming week will involve significantly less running around for children's activities, but is jam packed with editing pictures and family photoshoots. Going to be a good one!
Blooms
A tiny taste of our amazing outer space themed Sparks Ceremony
Hulahooping
Deviled eggs for breakfast?
Hoppy Bunny
So cool in the antique car
And a whole lotta tractors - this is only half of them
Everyday Beauty-Week 20-A Birth
Well, that was a busy week! Most of it taken up by dance and ending with an awesome recital by my daughter's dance academy. As a first timer, I just loved it! Seeing all the dancers so excited and all dressed in their costumes was so fun. We had a happy little girl at the end who was so proud of herself. She got some roses as well and could not have been more thrilled. She is sleeping in her "perfect bun" and asked to wear her costume to school tomorrow. Too cute.
And as the title states, we had a birth. A hatching actually. On April 15th we put one of those eggs in water that hatches something out for you. In this case it was a flamingo. The stated incubation period was 4-5 days. Ours hatched in 35. Thank goodness this was not in the womb of some poor unsuspecting mother.
The school had their annual spring concert this week as well and the musical talent blew me away. This is an elementary school and the bands were phenomenal!! I should know, I played in our highschool band and uh, these children were far better. I have blurred the picture to protect the other children, but let me say 36 children wearing sun hats, playing the kazoo and singing Mister Sun was so adorable.
Skip
Her Spy face
The hatchling
Concert
Dress rehearsal
A little hula
A proud dancer
