Spring, spring, spring!!!!!!!!

Yay it is here.... Warm days, sun shinning, bike riding, parks twice a day. My favourite time of year has come, anything but Winter in northern Alberta. 

Training!!!!!!

I'm not one to take selfies, but tonight I felt pretty proud of myself. Started my day with working 9-5, it was a super busy day and was going non-stop my whole shift pretty much. Then relief society dinner and conference. Then home to get ready for Easter dinner for tomorrow, hide Easter eggs, watch Kansas lose to Villanova (great game). Then started a 13km run at 9:50 at night. It was my longest and hardest run yet, but felt so proud of myself for sucking it up and finishing the very long, very sweaty run. 

Look at all that sweat

 

Always Watching Over Us!

From 3:50pm until 8:00 pm today was just total and complete chaos, and stress. Today was gonna be a little bit stressful as Macie had dance pictures at 5:20 and Mark wasn't around to watch Wade. So I was already preparing myself for chaos. However at 3:50 Molly started crying like she was in severe pain. I went over to see what was wrong and she was licking her Bum like crazy. When I lifted her bum there was a huge Marble size growth on her bum. (This next part is pretty gross just to warn readers). I just barely touched the growth and this insanely gross amount and disgusting brown puss came out of the bump. It kept coming as well as blood and the most horrific smell ever. I seriously threw up in my mouth a little bit. I rushed her to the bathroom and pushed out more of the grossness, and Molly wouldn't stop crying. It was now 4:00 and I had to leave for Macie's pictures around 4:45. I quickly grabbed the kids, there stuff and the dogs and drove to the vet. They were amazing and took her in right away, cleaned up the bump, and gave us some medication to fix the infection. I then had 5 minutes to get from the vet to Macie's pictures. We got there ran in like a crazy person, and upon opening her bag to put on her dance shoes,  I realized that amoung all the chaos I had forgotten them at home. Great, I went to the dance teacher and asked her what I should do, she said she will have to be shoeless for the group picture and can borrow someones shoes for her solo shot. Macie of course started crying, she was already super emotional about Molly and this put it over the top. Then another little Miracle a friend from Macie's Preschool had her dance pictures just before Macie's and her mom said we could borrow her dance shoes and bring them back tomorrow at preschool. Macie was hesitant at first but then was very thankful as it was these shoes or nothing.  Of course pictures went late, and I had promised the kids french fries after Macie's pictures. We went to Boston Pizza and they were tired and hungry so misbehaving and not listening. We came home and I was done for, I told them to put on her Jammies and go straight to bed. They did so, and then brought me a book and said Mom please read us a book first. I of course caved to there cuteness, even though I was beyond done. After reading the book the kids gave me the best hugs and kisses ever and said Sorry for not listening at Boston Pizza and thank you for the french fries and Ice Cream. We ended with the sweetest prayer buy Macie, Thanking Heavenly Father for our day and all we got to do.

There is no question today was chaos, stress, and just annoying. However while Macie was praying I couldn't help but tear up and thank my Heavenly Father for everything he did to help make this day work out. From the Vet seeing Molly so quickly, Macie's friend letting us borrow her tap shoes, even little things like finding Macies stuffed animals she sleeps with at night right away when we had no idea where they were. He can't stop the bad days from happening, they are going to happen and they will be there, but his love for us is so amazing that he does everything he can to make it better, and to give us little miracles so we can get threw it. I love my Saviour, and I know he is real and that he loves me, and that he is always watching over us.

ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DANCE CLASS!!

This makes all those Wednesday nights of taking Macie to dance class and waiting there for 30 minutes and trying to entertain Wade all worth it. The Pictures, the adorable outfits, the make up and hair, the Dance Recital at the end of April. Actually being honest this year has been awesome, Macie made a really good friend, and the dance classes are held at a school so me and Wade get to play in this awesome open area for 30 minute and have a blast together.

March madness baby!!

I freaking love this time of year. Basketball  Basketball and more Basketball. From high school games to college finals and of course the ever anticipated March Madness. Got my bracket all filled out and hoping for a victory this year with my family pool. The only thing I hate about not having Cable is I miss watching sports. Especially the Olympics and March Madness. I might have to hit up some friends house this year to watch some games or Boston Pizza. 

Today me and the kiddos got all dressed up in some basketball gear and we played some ball. It was cute I taught the kids some drills, passing and shooting. They are of course clueless but cute watching them trying to figure it out. 

The Easter Bunnies Garden

Ok anyone who knows me well knows I am not good at crafting. However today I impressed myself with a creative idea I came up with all on my own. No seeing it on Pinterest or Facebook just thought of the idea and made it happen. Not that nobody else has never made something like this before, but this was all from my own imagination. Now of course it is not perfect, especially cause it was something me and Macie did together but I seriously enjoyed every minute of it. The thought is that every night until Easter we will put a carrot in his garden and he will come and eat it and leave us a chocolate treat. Then on Easter Sunday we fill it with carrots and he brings us lots of Easter treats.

Doing grown up stuff!

Macie lives for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or wraps. She would have them everyday for every meal if I let her. This past week though she is all about doing it herself. She gets the bread or wrap, gets the PB and J, the knife and a stool for some height and there she goes, being all grown up and making her own sandwiches. Of course being the sweetheart she is she makes one for Wade as well. What is happening here, when did she grow up so fast. 

WEEKEND WARRIORS

WEEKEND WARRIORS

For the past few months since Mommy started work, daddy and the kids have been weekend warriors.

The three of us get ready the same time as mommy. Daddy helps the kids get dressed, feeds them breakfast, gathers snacks and diapers, and even puts Macies hair in a pony tail. The destination- Parent link. Cold Lakes best free children's indoor playground and toy zone. Did I mention free...

It is always a struggle to get on the coats and boots and get out the door, but we manage to be some of the first families there ready to play at 900am. Wade always asks "playground, playground?" He loves the "playground"

Parent Link is really cool. There are so many toys to choose from. and They are cool toys. Wade loves the train set and the dinosaurs. The train set is on a small table screwed together, that has many different options to drive a train around and around. The dinosaurs are sweet. huge and cool looking. They always get a few moments for sure. The Kitchen has been garnering Wades attention and he loves to take the burger patty and give it to daddy saying "cookie". Dad loves the plastic burger cookie.  

Macie is great on the play ground. She goes up and down on the slide and runs all around the top portion and waves through the windows making sure daddy waves back. Daddy has ventured a time or two up into the play ground, even enjoying a joyride down the slide a few times. Careful, the roof is low in the children playground.

Macie also loves colouring and doing crafts. Crafts of note: 

• Hot Mug picture colouring. She coloured a piece of paper that sits around a hot mug, which was suppose to be daddies, but mace loved it too much to pass over. 
• Similar idea but with a potting plant- Macie planted a few pink flowers - no buddy yet (Wade's Bean Sprout is kicking major chicken)
• oblek-  made with white glue and borax, super cool feeling- similar to silly putty.

There is also a mini Trout hatchery going on now. The centre obtains a license to spawn rainbow trout.

We enjoy looking each week to see the development of the hatchlings. Eggs, Alvins, Frys and adults.

Right now the fish are at the alvin stage.

A few weeks ago, we were invited to a baptist bouncy castle event in Bonnyville. Being the weekend warrior I am, we were all over that. The event was at the sports centre. One whole field house was dedicated to the group. There were 5 bouncy castles and 5000 mini beach balls. 

Wade spent much of his time running through the beach balls and kicking them and as many of them as far as he could. Laughing the whole time. Macie loved the bouncy castles. There were 3 obstacle courses, 1 slide, and 1 plane jane. She loved the slide and a 2 of the obstacle courses. She has no fear. Climbing up one wall and jumping down the other side. Most children just slide but not Macie. We were only there for a bout 2 hours as Wade was showing major signs of sleepy syndrome, so we left a bit early.

Macie had her first taste of carny food- Corndogs. She kind of liked them.. but only ate about 1/4 of it before jumping all over the purple snow cones.

Wade only went for the chips and green snow cones.

Today was a bit slower as Wade was feeling a bit under the weather. We broke out Daddies old Lego and played pirates. Daddy built a pretty cool ship, in which he was the captain and Macie was first mate. Wade fell in love with the lego alligators and sharks. He spent a bit of time brawling with them. The wrest of the day was batman focused. Wade is in love with batman. Dinosaurs may be lost forever. He runs around the house exclaiming "batman, I'm batman!!" Today Cat woman(Cobalt)got the best of batman. While Batman was running near a chair, the sly cat, took a swipe at the dark knight. He didn't like that. of course Cat woman only wanted to play, she jumped down and chased him, but Batman must be allergic to cats cause he ran up the white flag and ran to daddy. The remaining time spent as Batman, he was very cautious around Cat woman.