Remembering The Little Things

Monday, October 27, 2014

This week Adessa has finally agreed to stop sucking her thumb! I can't quite remember but I think Danika was around this age when she started as well. We took her two blankies away and we are on day 4 of no thumb sucking. We are so proud of her!

Amara is awesome... she has such an outgoing, hilarious personality. She makes us laugh on a daily basis!

Thursday, September 11, 2014

This Week

Yesterday was crazy. Adessa woke up in the wee hours of the morning puking, and continued until about 11 am. She was so brave. She never complained or cried once, but a few times asked for food right after getting sick. The poor girl went down for a nap for a couple of hours and then woke up completely better and has been fine since!

At one point I left the three girls on the couch watching a show and went upstairs to go to the bathroom. In a span of a few minutes, Adessa ran upstairs and missed the toilet, puke all over, so Danika starts screaming and then Amara walks into the bathroom sucking on the end of the toilet brush!!! It was a bit of a nightmare! Thankfully Danika stayed home yesterday as she has been fighting a cold and wasn't feeling good in the morning, but she was such a huge help with amara as I was taking care of Adessa.

Today Danika was back at school, and we had our home visits from both the girls teachers. It is such a great idea, as it helps teachers get to know the kids better. Adessa is so sweet she prepared all morning for her teacher to come visit. She cleaned her room, she got dressed all pretty, made her teacher a card and a bracelet. Then she helped baked cookies and some iced tea. The visit went very well. Her kindergarten teacher is a new teacher, young and so sweet. Adessa just loves her!

Danika's teacher brought her home from school and she has been teaching for 32 years. she is super sweet and Danika says she is her second favourite teacher so far. I think it will be a great year for my girls.

Galiano island

On the weekend we worked our butts off on the Saturday to get some more unpacking done and Steve went and bought some shelving for the small storage room we have. I took off in the morning to take Caroline for her birthday present... Pedicures at a little Asian salon I'm Duncan... It was SO fun! Such a lovely break and we laughed our heads off at the massaging chairs.

But came home to help my hubby with the house. We got quite a bit done, but things are so slow moving with three kids.

Sunday we went to church and then afterwards we took our boat out for the first time! ( with boat number five!) We went with a little crew of friends and headed to an island where the men dropped us ladies and kids off and they went fishing. They came back with a couple huge ling cod fish and we explored the little paradise island! It was wonderful!

That evening we came home and put the kids to be early and then made dinner with the fish caught that day and had a date might at home. No tv... Just talking. Just what we needed!

New house

We have been moved into our new home for 2 weeks today. We are loving the extra space, the location and the size of the yard. It has been insanely hectic however and I feel like right now is the first time I have put up my feet and taken a deep breath... And that is just because I got home from walking Meeko for an hour with a friend! 😜 but I needed out for some fresh air!

I have unpacked so many boxes it is crazy... And there are still more. But the spaces that count are all unpacked.

Our moving experience has been something I wanted to document. With our few weeks notice to get out of our home for the new owners move In date, things were a little hectic getting out. I had packed up our home, we had booked a moving van and we asked a few friends for help. But I think I was a bit delirious or something, because I should have flown my mom out or somebody to help me. This was by far our biggest move, and we have three young children. Out of our five moves in our eight years together we have had help for them all... But this time I just didn't think... Or I thought I had it all together. But boy was I wrong! Thankfully I last minute asked our babysitter if Danika and Adessa could sleep there and they happily took them for two nights. So the night before we had to get out we loaded up the uhaul. We got the biggest 4 bedroom house sized uhaul you could get and we filled it to the top.... Twice!!! It is unreal how much stuff we have! The next morning we got up early, packed up the rest and headed to our new home. We arrived and met the landlord from pemberton Holmes realty to do the walk through, as that was the earliest we could get in. She took us around and we were appalled! The place hadn't been cleaned... The floors were filthy, washrooms disgusting... Nothing was done as promised! We were so upset! We had a full uhaul in the driveway and Steve had hired his guys from work for the day to unload, not to mention that we had to be out of our home that day! So we did what we had to and had the guys unload into the dirty house because we had to go back to our house and fill up again and I had to go clean it. We got back and I had a couple of my good friends stop by and help me unload the kitchen which was super helpful! I felt at my wits end at that point so was very thankful for Sharon and Charlene and thankful that my girls were still at Meagan's!

That evening Meagan's family had us for dinner and offered for us to sleep there, but we wanted to get back to the rental. Steve and I couldn't sleep that night and ended getting up at 4 am to start settling ourselves. It was quite the day!

Then the girls started school three days after we moved in. My Danika is in grade three already and Adessa is doing three full days of kindergarten a week! Seriously where has the time gone?! They both have been liking their new school and love that they can pray and read bible stories. We are very happy with this new change. They both looked so beautiful on their first day of school, but sadly I didn't even take a picture!

Saturday, August 23, 2014

My Adessa Mattie turned Five!!!

My baby girl turned five on August fifth and I just can't believe it! This past year she has really grown and is not a little girl anymore. She is my little ray of sunshine and has the best smile and laugh of anyone I have ever met. Her laughter is so genuine, that she makes anyone laugh when she starts!

Her birthday was a very fun time this year and the lucky girl had three separate celebrations. One in Calgary with grandma Mattie, her actual birthday and then we did a joint party with her best friend kailey at fuller lake.

The awesome Frozen cake grandma Linda picked up!

My beautiful girl!!!

Dearest Adessa ,.. I hope you had the best birthday in the world because you are the best five year old girls that I know!!! Your special smile, beautiful face and daily enthusiasm for life make me sad when I am not near you! I hope this is the best year ever and God will keep your heart and life pure And strong!!!! Love you always and forever... Grandmaac

The Past Month

Ever since our vacation in Calgary I feel like I haven't had a moment to rest. Our time away was wonderful and I have a thousand pictures to prove it, but just no time at the moment to recall the time away. It felt like a blur- even though it was three weeks, but I really felt the difference this year with a one and a half year old. The trip was fun, and every day was packed with something, but it was exhausting. Steve flew in for our last busy week and the evening he flew in, we were out for dinner and got a call from our realtor that our house had sold! By one of the first people who looked at it, but needed to sell their home first. We were very excited and agreed to their terms of wanting possession on August 28th, because we were just so excited to have sold our home in the market.

Reality of the situation didn't hit, until we got home. Our last week in Alberta was filled Dailey with events. Steve and I had the night away he flew in and then spent the day together while grandma and grandpa had the girls, then the next morning we had family portraits in okotoks and then that evening we had my cousins, Stephanie's wedding reception.

Steve's family took Amara that evening because we were on the nw side of the city and the reception was very late. They offered to keep her as it was midnight by the time we were done and we agreed. Unfortunately the next day Amara was very missed and I still feel terrible as we did a joint party for Amara and grandma Mattie and she never got to see Amara.

But that afternoon we had to rush off to cochrane to go see Steve's aunt and uncle who were visiting from Newfoundland and it was the girls first time meeting them, and my first time meeting Steve's uncle. We stayed in cochrane for a quick couple of days and then drove up to Edmonton to meet our new nephew Caleb! He is such a little sweetie and we were so blessed to meet him as such a new baby! Amy is doing so well and we had such a lovely visit. It was also much too short but at this point I was itching to get home and figure out where we were moving and to start packing our lives into boxes.

These past couple of weeks I have been packing in between trying to find a place for us to live and taking care of three children. We just found out a couple of days ago that we got a place to rent... Praise God! So we will be renting this home for a year while Steve builds us a house. We have an offer on a lot in maple bay, and have a couple of weeks for those conditions to come off. So we are just praying for wisdom as we walk forward in regards to building and where.

The past week all the girls had fevers on and off and have been quite sleepy. I am praying that whatever they have that it stays away from Steve and I as we don't have a day to just lie around! He has been extremely busy at work, which is wonderful, but means he is gone all day and into the late evening and then our weekends have been spent packing. Today we pulled everything out of our yucky garage and vacuumed thousands of spiders out and then re-packed it so I can start getting boxes out of the house to see what I have left. We get the u-haul on Wednesday and then move over on the Thursday morning. I am feeling quite excited about some more space! The house is 2400 sq ft compared to our 1500 sq ft. So the girls will all have their own rooms, with Danika's room being the guest room and then on the main floor an office for Steve. We are on almost an acre of land and the back is fully fenced so lots of room for Steve's trucks, trailers and boat.

I am very much looking forward to being in the new home and unpacking... And then school starts on the second of September! I will be ready to send the girls and have some time to put my feet up!

Awesome week!

A few iPad photos from the rest of the week. Tomorrow we pack up and convoy back to Calgary where I'll spend another week until Steve arrives. We had lots of fun the rest of the week. Yesterday we boated to Margaret falls and we have been playing tennis, and getting in loads of tubing and wake surfing.