Latest Happenings

I'm going to try and update this blog a little more regularly! So, here are some recent pictures. First of all, we have had three snowstorms in the past 3 weeks or so.. which has been a lot of fun. This year the kids are finally big enough to play in it. In Newfoundland there was just too much snow and they were too little.. making it really hard to even walk around, let alone play. The ratios here on Cape Cod are a lot more favourable. They thoroughly enjoyed making their first snow 'cave' with Brian.

Mom and Dad Claus spent a week with us and we had a great time.

Our house gets really cozy in the snow... when the upstairs skylights are covered with snow it feels like an igloo!

Bronwen with her birthday present... a real fishing rod!

John loves to help in the kitchen..

Those neck wrinkles!

Daddy and the boys

Mom Claus made this delicious Boston Creme Pie.

Brian at work with one of his gliders.

Visiting our favourite coffee shop in Woods Hole

An array of delicious treats!

Watching the ferries

Grandma snuggles

We're adjusting to life with three kids. It is very busy but I wouldn't change it for the world. I feel like I spend a large portion of each day feeding Rupert, making meals, tidying up from meals, and changing diapers. In between that is squished all the other things in life that need to get done. But then when the kids are all sleeping, like right now, I like to take a few minutes and have a coffee and do something that helps me feel rested. Even if that is just checking emails.. just to sit down in the peace and quiet helps a lot. :)

Photo Recap

Time flies, it's already December! Blogging has kind of fallen by the wayside for me, but here's some pictures of our activities over the last month or so. 

We went to the Remembrance Day Celebrations downtown. It was a beautiful crisp fall day. Newfoundland places heavy importance on Remembrance Day (as they should!) and with good reason- though the population is small the percentage of Newfoundlanders who fought in the wars was very high.

Watching the parade

This was a monumental evening.. Brian submitted his thesis to the Faculty of Engineering. 5 copies later... it was a large stack of paper. Now we wait until his defense in early 2015..

 We went to 'Christmas at the Commiseriat', a celebration at one of the historical sites downtown, an old heritage house.

Bronwen was scared of who might be sleeping in this bed...

First snowfall!

Not as fun as it might seem apparently..

Sledding down the driveway.. just the right amount of thrill for the kids right now

Zoey's 2nd birthday! John and his lady friends..

gather round the piano

best buddies!

June days

Here are some of the latest photo updates!

Last Friday I went out for a lovely dessert date with my handsome husband. We hadn't gone out just the two of us for a long time... and things have been pretty hectic around here lately so it was nice to spend some time together, just the two of us. Upon our return, our babysitters said, "Well, we've never met a two year old who knows how to yodel." Good thing they are very relaxed and experienced with kids and grandkids, because Bronwen had finally fallen asleep about five minutes before we arrived home. At least we weren't there to hear it... haha.

Mr John is on the go! Crawling all over the place. Just this morning he performed the good old unroll the toilet paper trick, and here he is getting into his favourite cupboard.

We went back to the botanical gardens, and it was sunny this time! Here is Bronwen looking at the "dutts".

Such a beautiful day!

If Bronwen sits on the front of the stroller, then mama can actually walk the trails... I do enjoy walking a good trail.

Some of the garden grounds

Picnic lunch!

Bronwen was really excited for her juice... I think she was looking forward to this special treat all morning, haha.

Mmm.. peanut butter and jam!

We went to Home Depot to buy some tomato plants and snagged the truck cart. I have never used one of these things, thinking they were too big (they're huge!) but Bronwen saw some other people return it since we parked right beside the cart corral and was fascinated. I have a feeling she's not going to forget it anytime soon....  I may be looking for the truck cart more often when we go to such stores! Cheap entertainment at it's finest.

"brrrrrmmmm brrrrrm"- truck noise

John thinks it's really tasty...

That's all for now! I did find some tomato seedlings at Canadian Tire, so I'm hoping to try again what I had great success with last year- cherry tomatoes on the back deck. We planted our garden last Saturday and we're hoping to see some green things growing in it soon- nothing yet, hopefully the seeds didn't all perish in the very cold weather we had this past week. It's supposed to be a nice weekend in St. John's... grow seeds, grow!!