My Li'l Guy is 1 years old!

This week was a pretty busy week!

 A good and busy week.

Sunday night I went to my friend Kaitlyns baby's shower. It was nice to get out of the house and get a bit of a different scenery. I helped decorate and it was a lot of fun. I just know God was there because of how everything fell into place. 

I painted a painting for Kaitlyn and needed to wrap it. I had some brown wrapping paper left and brought it with me to wrap it since I went early. (That was my friend Megans idea since I was going to wrap it at home but would have been late to the party)

The paper ended up being a perfect fit for the colour and size for the decoration on the wall! It hid the large bible verse sticker that was on the wall and there for we could see "Brody" better... it is just funny how things can just fall into place like that.  God is so good. I love his little surprises. 

Have a look at the cake Megan made. It's so cute!

  Tuesday we had tea/art class at Jenny's house. We painted ostriches! We enjoy standing in front of the hung paintings and point out how different, cute and funny they are. It's so much fun! I really enjoy teaching and seeing the results afterwards!

Wednesday was Li'l Guys 1st birthday! I wanted to have a huge celebration for him. 

The theme was Noah's arc! 

I had fun making the waves and seaweed with streamers, the clouds with doylies and the rain with gommette. (Not sure what that is called in English!)

Jenni and the girls lent me the boat with all the animals. I hung it up with fishing line.

We had a lot of yummy food! Tortillas, pulled pork and ground beef with rice and black beans and a lot of veggies and sauces to fill it up!

          

I am sooo happy both kids had a good nap before everyone showed up haha! 

Over 20 people showed up! I love it! 

Then Dairy Queen ice cream cake!

Yummy....

We then opened some beautiful gifts. 

I love my birthday boy. 

For the tortillas I made a garlic sauce that I love! And here it is:

Garlic sauce:

1 box cream cheese (roughly same amount of cream cheese and sour cream)

1 cup sour cream

5 garlic cloves (to taste)

Blend it all VERY well. Until all the garlic is pulverised. If you want it more garlicky, add more garlic! :D

I suggest the cream cheese to be room temperature for easier blending.

I hope you all had a wonderfully week! <3 

Easter of 2017

Last week had been a more mellow week. More of a "stay at home" kind of week... I have been very blessed to have Jonny boy with me for the past two weeks. Weather depending he will go back to work Monday.  Then it will be just me and the kiddos again. 

Jonny boy had to put down my neighbour's cow because it broke a leg. He only has one cow left for she is roughly 25 years old. We went to visited her because she is lonely since her 4 cow friends have past away now...

She is very beautiful and huge!

We also had my good friend Martha and her man Pastor Caleb over to cut down some rotten trees. We were worried they would fall on our house. And they also stayed and had dinner with us. With their two beautiful twin girls Elia and Louise.

Apparently this is how "real men" hold hands during prayer

(This was a remake after the prayer.  It was too good not to capture it on picture!) We had a good jolly old laugh.

Jonny boy cut down a branch from an old tree from me. I thought it looked very pretty. I thought Nanny Luba would appreciate it!

Li'l Gal stood and watched her Daddy heroically cutting down the branch for mommy with his chain saw. She was impressed.

She is so cute.

Today we had a couple come to our house for a viewing. I try and not get my hopes up too high because it is very easy to get disappointed with selling a house! I could go into more details, but today I am happy and don't feel like ruining that haha.

I tried to de-clutter my house and get rid of things to attempt a "less is more" type of lifestyle. I only kept my kids most importent toys and the rest I stored in the shed. It cleared up a lot of room in their room. And it will make it easier to clean. 

I also hooked all my belts on a hanger to clear out the bottom of my closet. It looks much bigger now!

Jonny, the kids and I went for a walk down by our river. Jonny said there was eagles flying around. And so there was! Three!   This is a pretty terrible picture.  I wish you could see them live! They were so beautiful and even did a flying show for us!

This is the river. I will miss it when we move!

This Friday we went to celebrate Jesus resurrection with our church. We are so blessed beyond our knowledge to be able to celebrate our beliefs in the open! Isn't it just awesome that Jesus came back from the dead to prove to us that all his promises are true, that we can fully trust him and we can have eternal life with him in heaven one day!

We ended the day with a nice bonfire/bbq at Pastor Ken's house. My friend Tanya, Ruth and I played worship music for a few hours! I had my ukulele (that i am ecstatic to have, thank you Christine Brady) and Tanya on her guitar So much fun! I didn't want to leave.

To end on an "yummy in my tummy" note, I want to share with you an easy meal idea that the kids loved! And that was so easy to make. Probably not so easy on my "diet" though... hahha

Here it is!

Tomato, pesto dish

-1 small jar of green pesto

-1 can of tomato soup

-Honey garlic sausage (I got mine at walmart, 16 sausages for 10$ not too bad. I'm sure Italian sausages would have been good too)

- 1/2 Red pepper
-1/2 Green pepper
-1/2 Onion
Noodles. (Half a bag)

#1: cook noodles and sausages at same time. While sauteing your chopped up veggies in some butter in a separate pan.

#2:when everything is cooked, slice your sausages up, add the pesto and tomato soup. Stirr it up until it's heated. 

#3 And VOILA!  serve with some cucumbers or salad just to add more veggies.  
Enjoy!
Until next time! Enjoy the sunshine, I know we are!

Don't loose it, reuse it! -Rocky

This past week was a week of new beginning, unexpected surprises and creativity. (No I am not pregnant haha)

Li'l Gal and I planted out first seeds of the year! This is also her first time planting 

Seeds!

Ps: I suggest you say a little prayer before you plant seeds with a toddler because geesh you need lotsa patients! 

I ALWAYS need to remind myself that she is 2 years old, not 26!

I cut the top and bottom on a yogurt container then cut little rows from the middle of the container to mark my veggies with a permanent marker...

I also put my dirt and seeds in the egg part (not lid) of  cardboard egg containers. Then placed them in "breakfast in bed trays." I added the water only in the tray, as the water will rise and wet the seeds  and dirt.  I don't pour water on top because the dirt might fly everywhere. 

Li'l Gal loved the experience.

Last year I used wooden  popsicle sticks with permanent marker and the water washed it all off in no time...

Our unexpected news was Christian James lajoe!

He just so happened to be in Nova-Scotia and had supper with us! 

(I was secretly hoping the pretty lady to his left would jump out of the back seat :P)

An other thing I did (and I was so proud of myself) was making home made noodles! (Thanks to Lisa Penner for the recipe and encouragement!)

First, prepare a big pot of water and bring to a boil. Then, add 1 heaping tablespoon of salt and 1 tablespoon of butter.

 (The butter is so the noodles won't stick together in the water)

 I mixed 5 eggs and roughly 3 to 4 cups of flour. Kneed until your arms fall off and your start to sweat. About 10 minutes. Until it forms a nice hard perfectly blended ball. If you have a kitchen aid then by all means use it!... 

Cut the dough in 5 or 6 sections roll very flat and slice in VERY thin slices.

(The noodles almost triple in size when they boil!) Again, if you have a noodle maker device, then by all means use it!..

Add small sections in the water at a time so they don't stick together. Boil for 5 minutes, or until the noodles taste how you are used to noodles tasting.

Add your spaghetti or what ever sauce you desire and enjoy! 

I am also quite loving the water paint my mother bought for my last birthday.  It is so simple, and I can even paint on my lap while watching a movie because of the little supplies needed!

To end my week, my sister in law Naomi and good friend Martha had a girls night out together! We went to a Thai restaurant on prince  street in Truro called "Yoka". I had sushi and it was soooooooo good! And good prices too!! I forgot to take a picture to share. Just imagine three women sitting in a Thai restaurant smiling in the camera having a blast all the while thinking, "Ugh, finally I can get away from those kids and have FREEDOM!!" Haha, I'm exaggerating slightly. 

After that we went to the movies and watched BEAUTY AND THE BEAST! What a good movie. I did not want it to end. 

It brought me back to my child hood. 

Until next time friends!