sunshiney, swinging fun!!!

The last few days have been nothing but glorious, with the exception being this morning which greeted us with wet snow. Sam was thrilled to get the shorts out of hiding, revelling in the appearance of new freckles daily! I love how in the last pic it almsot looks as though he is about to run backwards off of the fence into the neighbours yard!

SHOCK, and a broken heart...

Beautiful Sandy, beautiful friend.
Sandy and her girls Nova and Quinn. They were her life...yesturday she was ripped from their lives in a tragic car accident. They were with her in the car and their seats saved their lives.

Sandy was an incredible woman who loved God with all of her heart. She was a good friend, who even loved on my kids before she had her own so we could get out in the evenings. She stayed with Daniel and Claire while Sam entered the world. A girl who you could count on. She shall be missed terribly, but never forgotten....

Easter 2008

beautiful ice...

Claire went from this...to this...for locks of love...

Daniel enjoyed time at Martock...

Calire tried her hand at skiing...

PAY IT FORWARD...

Here's a chance to get a surprise in the mail from me. My surprise is coming from blog buddy, Jamie Dawn.

Here are the rules:

1.~Leave a comment that says you want to receive something from me and you want to Pay It Forward. The first THREE to agree to Pay It Forward at their blogs will get a gift from me. I need your home address, so email it to me at hat@ns.sympatico.ca

2.~The three winners must do the same thing on their blogs, so the Pay It Forward challenge will continue throughout Blogdom.

We just started March Break so the kids and I are looking forward to the arrival of Karen and the gang for some entertaining days. Twoonie Matinees, and the Arctic exhibit at the Museum of Natural History and the Seamonsters exhibit at the Museum of the Atlantic are some of the activities we hope to partake in. The rest of the time will be spent laughing, eating, and perhaps reupholstering a chair for Karen...the kids will just be content to tear around, enjoying being together again.

an icy world...

so very pretty....

a rather hungry mourning dove, flying solo today...

no words...just the sound of her fingers making music on the aged ivory keys...be still my heart...

Attempting to capture the lunar eclipse...

What a glorious site to behold...it was rather cold so I kept running back and forth from the porch to the house to warm up...I can only imagine how much more spectacular it must have been out in a field!!! The camera did not manage to capture the redness of the moon, but nevertheless one gets the idea, if only slightly...

Welcome Levi...

A very excited Isaiah!!! Being a big brother is a ton of fun so far!!!

Wee Levi being loved on by Grandad Riley...

So thankful to finally hold this precious boy!!!

A wee chat with Mom...such an alert wee man!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

Sam and Claire were thrilled to have such entertaining eggs for breakfast this morning... Sam of course loves his pepper!

the old grey mare, she ain't what she used to be....

nuff said!

Shannon and her Kylie crafted wirework coffee scoop....

both Kylie and I ordered the choclate terrine with mango and raspberry sauce....

Sannon and Shelley went for the warm banana bread molton something or other~

Celebrating us!

The wonderful menu for our annual birthday dinner...this year we chose to go to Stories, a beautiful restaurant in the Halliburtan Inn. From the moment we got through the door we were treated like queens! We had our own room where we spent the night laughing 'til we cried...

Shannon was quite taken with the miniscule cornmeal muffins.

Amy our most gracious hostess, who I think we managed to exhaust by the end... although we stayed quite late, she made no effort to remove us, and just let us enjoy ourselves to the fullest!

rather well fed contented souls....

Shelley's duck...

Kylie and Menen both ordered the bison, deer, and quail...very, very tasty!!!

Shannon's guini hens...

Rosa and I each enjoyed the sesame crusted salmon with lobster mash....amazing!!!!