I made these in February and framed them last week. They are gifts for christmas this year. I am trying to do more homemade gifts this year and to get them done early. We will see how it goes.

Emily's hawaiian night at sparks. They made grass skirts out of garbage bags, broke a pinata and each got a lei. They also made a suncatcher each. She had a great time.

The boys have had 2 swimming lessons each and they are doing great. We signed Emily up for gymnastics since her level of swimming lessons was already full. We will see about getting her into swim lessons in the next session.

Over the past 3 weeks we have gone bowling 3 times with some of the other homeschool families and the kids had a blast. The boys all bowled together and competed of course. Emily bowled with another family that had 2 younger kids and she made friends with the little girl.

Yesterday at swim lessons she decided to talk to another little girl and they made friends. Considering how painfully shy she normally is, this was a huge thing for her. When the little girl left Emily came over and informed me that making friends is easy and she has decided she is not going to be shy anymore. LOL!!

My neighbor asked me to decorated this cake for a friend of hers. So she baked it and iced and then I decorated it for her.

Another picture of my grandson. So baby and mom are at home now and both doing great.

Now I am working on getting me and the kids onto a schedule and trying to get rid of a cold.

Yesterday we cleaned up the twins room and most of Emily's. Hopefully today we will get the shelves in her room organized and then I can say her room is done too.

My oldest child is a mommy now and I am a grandma!! Here is Auntie Emily holding her nephew.
He was born this afternoon at 3:48pm and weighed 7lbs and 11oz. They have named him Matthew Clifford. I might be a little bit biased but I think he could be one of the cutest babies ever.

Tigger having a nap. Tracey and Riley are staying with us so they brought Tigger, Lizzie and Bear out with them too. They are the babies that can't be left alone yet.

This morning Tracey and Riley headed to the hospital, the dr has decided to induce her. Hopefully my first grandchild will be here later today.

A few weeks ago our neighbour asked us to go out to a friends place and see a foal. The baby was 4 days old and the kids thought it was really cute. We got to watch it exercise and pet it. The last picture is of Kathleen feeding the mom. We also got to see the other horses they had and of course Emily got to see and pet all the cats. We managed to get pictures of 4 of the cats but the rest ran off. I was really impressed with the fact that the cats had toys and beds to sleep in all set up in the barn. There were 10 cats and the owners were taking really good care of them and they were all fixed.

Emily's first time skating.

Colds and flu have made their way through our house. Emily got sick and then me. I ended up sick for almost a week and then lost my voice for a few days. When you end up staying up all night with a sick child then you seem to get it twice as bad.

In the past few weeks we have gone to an art class with the kids and Emily went belly dancing with Sparks. The twins went on a ski trip with the youth group and had a great time. The ran out of time at the art class and didn't get to finish their projects so we are working on them at home. Once they have them done I will post more pics.

Last night Emily and Faith had a sleepover and decorated Valentine's cookies. Then they cuddled up and watched movies and ate cookies before bed.

This morning I am heading out to drop theboys off for their youth group ski trip. They will be gone for the whole day and they are very excited. David already left for the last day of his first aid class and Rob has to work early today. So today it will just be the girls at home. Not sure what we will be doing but I'm sure we will find some way to entertain ourselves.

The lantern Emily got at the dollar store.

So for the past week Emily was sick and then it was my turn. Now we are just coughing, thank goodness. Other than that things have been pretty quiet here. Will hopefully get one of the cross stitch projects framed this week, then will post pics of that.