What I'm Thankful For

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I thought I would take a minute to reflect on what I'm thankful for. All too often we sometime forget the smallest things make life so wonderful and the greater things that we sometimes take for granted.

-My Family and Friends, especially my husband and son
-The bouncing baby girl in my tummy
-My favourite song that come on the radio on my morning drive to work right after I spilled coffee on my lap and somehow make this little mishap not such a big deal and reminds me that the day is going to be good after all.
-The happy story on the new or in the newspaper, that brings tears to your eyes and reminds you that there are still caring people in this world!
-The sound of my sons voice at 6:00am in the morning on a Sunday yelling mommy from his room, although not so welcomed the for the first moment, it melts your heart that you are the first thing they think about after waking up.
-Lip chap
-Having a reliable vehicle (or three) to get me where I need to go
-My house, maybe not the biggest on the block, but it's perfect for us!
-Modern conveniences like my dishwasher and toilet seats (in Cuba they are few and far between)!
-Being able to provide my son, with everything he needs (and more at times)
-Having food on our table every night (and being able to order in when I don't feel like cooking)
-The Internet and Google, as all the answers to life's questions can be found on google
-Having good jobs that support our family

What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving??

Let's Go North

This Past weekend Daxon and I headed to Eagle Bay Resort with my parents, brother and my sister (she decided to come last minute which made it much more fun). My parents have a camper their all year long, but since it was cold we got a cabin, which had 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a dishwasher! It was lots of fun and a nice little break!

The Family

Group shot

Daxon helping Grandma with the dishes

Exploring the outdoors!

2011 Resolutions

So I`m not usually one to make resolutions, but there are a few things I would like to change, or improve on, so I thought why not with a new year.

1. Stop drinking pop, so at least less of it
2. Be in the moment and have more fun
3. Take a picture a day for the entire year
4. Be healthier- not necessarily loose weight (which I would also love), but just make better food choices and instead of driving to the store or to get the mail on a nice day, walk.
5. Save more money- you can never have enough stashed away

I don`t want to stretch it, so these five will do.

New Years!

It's been along time since we went out on new years eve, the last few years we spent at home or doing something low key because we had to work. So this year was the year to let loose, I felt bad at first leaving Daxon on new years, but then thought he's in bed by 7:00pm anyways, so it probably best we go out this year and then new year stay at home with him.

My sister headed up the new years festivities by renting a party bus to take us to the Casino for supper, I must say that the meal was very disappointing, but nothing a bottle of wine couldn't help. We hung around at the casino for a few hours after supper until the bus returned to take us back to my sisters place, where we partied hard. Here are a few picks of our exciting night! (the pictures aren't with my good camera so the quality isn't the best)

Our ride for the evening

Me, my sister and her husband

Having a little fun

My sister, brother and me

My handsome husband

Christmas Weekend!

Overall we had a great Christmas weekend. Christmas eve and Christmas morning we spent with Derek's parents. On Boxing day we had round two of turkey at our house with my family. Daxon was still to little to know what was going on, so we didn't go crazy with his gifts (we rather save our money for something that he really wants and will know what it is) but we made sure to set out milk and cookies for Santa and discovered by the time Santa get to our house he would prefer a coke rather then milk, so we are going to make a new tradition. We also started a tradition of opening one present on Christmas eve which is Pj's, so I will now be on the look out for the coolest pj's throughout the year. Here are some pictures of our exciting Christmas weekend!

Oh Christmas Tree, or should I say Tree's!

The past years we have always purchased a real tree, I love the tradition of going and picking it out together and the surprise of what it will look like, but most of all the smell. So this year like in the past we went and picked out our tree the first week of December and brought it home and decorated it. Well about a week later I noticed that I was cleaning up the needles two or three times a day! I knew in the back of my mind that the tree was going to be completely dead by Christmas, but though if I kept on watering the thing it would magically come back to life! Well I though wrong because when I woke up one morning she was done, to the point where ornaments were starting to fall off!

I had mentioned my tree situation to my Mom, who then told my Dad, who then went out and bought us a new artificial tree! So we got to decorate the tree twice this year! Lucky for me as it is one of my favorite things about the Christmas season.

Real tree before she kicked the bucket

New tree!

Advent Calendars

Grandma and Grandpa E gave Daxon this advent calendar to count down till Christmas, it's super cute and each day filled with a little treat! I'm sure it will to a tradition for years to come!


I made this advent calendar for Derek and I, as you are never to old for an advent calendar! It's made from a small muffin tin, magnets and some festive paper. I used the chocolates that my sister and I had made to fill it!

Embrace the Camera

Daxon and I (and Daisy) after decorating our Christmas tree!

Outside our house after putting up our Christmas lights!

Candy Cane Wreath

I made this wreath last year and thought I would share it! It was very easy to make, all you do is glue mini candy canes onto the wreath form and add some Christmas balls and a bow, simple enough!

Halloween Fun!

Here is Daxon on his first Halloween, he was a Monkey! Since Daxon is still to young to go trick or treating, we decided to head to the city, so we could take him around to our parents and friends!

Happy Thanksgiving!

On Saturday we headed to my sisters for Thanksgiving supper. We had a great time with our whole family and my sisters husbands family. We took this opportunity to take a family photo, for my mom to use for her Christmas cards!

Fall Treats!

I put together these little bags full of homemade chocolates for Thanksgiving supper at Derek's parents house this past Sunday!

And also these little bags for the table settings at Thanksgiving supper this coming Sunday at my sisters house.

Fall has Fallen

Well at least at our house it has. Yesterday was such a cold day I decided that I would start decorating for the fall season, I had purchased a few fall items on our recent trip and wanted to display them instead of putting them away for a week or two and this is what I came up with this year.

We recently put this hutch that was my husbands grandmothers in our dining space. I have really enjoyed displaying pictures and such on it and can't wait to decorate it for every new season!