Just way too many cute pics for a photo heavy May reflection. So enjoy our family photo shoot!!!
Where it all started!
Youngest to Oldest
Zander
Gavin
Just boys
Just girls
Joy in a tiny package
Our cards for the mothers
At the church
But, I may just catch up before Christmas??? Who knows! So sit back and enjoy the peek back!
Anyway, May. Well… Mother’s Day which means Mother’s Day photos. Of course since the weather was decent we drove down to the end of our road and took photos on the path. You can check out the photos HERE since this post is HUGE already!
Ken bought me the most adorable Totoro socks. We went to church. It was a lovely day.
May also found us at Mall of America at what I felt was one of the happiest places on earth… TIM HORTONS! There are multiple locations in state now, and I have visited more than a few!!
All out of Legos!
May was also Sean’s yearly visit. He drove down this year. We had a lot of fun with him.
Emanuel and Trinity got their white belts in karate. More on that HERE.
Of course we continued swimming lessons and visited ClubY. With myself keeping suitably busy as well.
New stationary machines!
Zander and Gavin had track.
I even got my hands on some back in production Clearly Canadian!!!
For lack of a bonfire we got creative making s’mores.
Ken and I tried our hand at some minor landscaping.
We even tried some backyard gardening.
My best gardener with her Gypsy dog toy pal
dead heading in pj’s
Berry bushes!
And we bought a can crusher which was fun for the kids for about… a week.
We had company… and went visiting.
Cousin Robbie
Schwartz family
Snoopy!
Crochet…
With Gavin
School…
Reading in the best vantage points
Eating out…
Walks to the park…
It was a busy month looking back! I forget how busy when the days pass by.
A sweet apology
sparklers!
Emanuel perfected his bicycle riding.
Quiet moment!
Toad!
Well October rushed by and it was Halloween in what felt like was the blink of an eye. This was not the year for the new handmade costume for the family. Rather a couple repeats, and some purchased pieces worked out to a rather nice looking group.
Echo was enamored with the movie My Neighbour Totoro, and since we could not find a chinchilla costume (her first choice), Totoro was a VERY close second. I ordered this one off Amazon. Ken whipped up an acorn bag and for the photos I lent her one of my handmade Totoros.
Trinity chose to be a princess this year. Again a dress off Amazon, and after 2 attempts, a tiara to match.
Emanuel is still a Minecraft fanatic. This year we went with an Enderman. Black sweats, black sweater and a mask/box I bought off Amazon.
The twins went for a repeat of wizards. Ken had made the capes and staffs and the hats were crocheted by me.
This is our second year trick or treating with our homeschool friends. Echo was over the moon to run the neighbourhood with Nate.
Nate the Power Ranger
They didn’t do half bad on candy, which I sorted and bagged up. We will be eating these with some restraint. Stomach aches are not worth the gorging.
Of course Neko-chan had to get in on the fun. Though when we tried to actually WEAR her costume she balked and attempted to eat it. But still – adorable. I bought a dog costume hat, it worked!
I had less of a costume and more of a comfortable slightly on theme outfit. (not the highly indulgent Irish sweater… I plan to live in it)
Of course the girls had to do a little photo session with last year’s mini witch’s hats… I love that Echo wore skeleton jammies under her Totoro costume.
That week we did some fun Halloween themed crafts as well.
It was supposed to be thumbprints but with kids who hate getting hands dirty we used the eraser end of pencils.
pastels
Meet Jerry
We also had a lovely special lunch on Halloween. We did good!