Ok so I actually had a REASON for not blogging last night – I swear we did a whirlwind tour of a quarter of the province in one day! (she) Chris, Echo and I were all over the place and ended up at home in the evening exhausted! (and Echo VERY relieved to be out of the carseat) Our day started at 9:30 heading the hour + to see first the wedding location – the local Legion. It is so much easier to imagine how the set up will go now that I have SEEN the location. The wedding, reception and the gift opening the next day are all at the same location.

Our next stop was my absolute favourite little noodle house that thankfully was open for lunch on a Thursday. Vermicelli noodles… chicken breast… total YUM! We fed Echo there, hung out for a while and had a nice rest.

Playing at the table

From there to the hairdresser’s. She wanted to see the length of Chris’ hair and talk about a few ideas and took the opportunity to do the same for me. All I can say is for what we are going to be paying I am looking forward to looking divine. Her ideas are great so it should be well worth it.

THEN back downtown to the florist to talk wildflowers, arrangement and amount. The quote will be in our hands in a week or two. It is hard to believe that 10 years ago I used the same florist for our wedding!!

Now this put us in the same city as my mom so…. off to Grandma’s for a snuggle for Echo, some grandma bragging and about SIX PEOPLE saying SHE IS SO TINY!!! (which meant Mommy walked away to scream silently in her head) BUT Echo was adorable, gave Grandma quality snuggles and wowed the masses. So it is all good… but seriously people – we KNOW she is tiny, it is how she is from birth! After all she was just over 6 lbs and only 18 inches long… our little pixie.

I lucked out with a few minutes at the local baby store. I picked up 3 more cloth liners AND an all natural odour eater for the diaper bag. I just can’t get over how much I love the Sprinkles diapers.

Nice and natural

After our wedding planning, baby item buying time we headed out to the Alberta/Saskatchewan border and away from home to pick up (he) Chris who was off work at 4… for the record though we were unable to pick up the needed side mirror (She Chris could not remember the store name) we WERE only 7 minutes late! And came bearing Tim Hortons iced caps. This is the point where we started our journey home – first dropping off (he) Chris and then home for us girls. We got home around 7:30 worn out but happy. Echo did all the stretches she could and cuted it up for Aunty Karyn on the webcam so all is good with the world again!

This left the kids at home with Ken ALONE… I am told they had fun, coloured… learned and of course drove Daddy a little mad. BUT before I left (camera in hand), we took a picture of Wednesday’s creation – a tower… they all had a hand in it, moving it slowly up the side of the staircase so a child could go up and put another block on! Impressive right?

What a tower!

We have decorated bunnies to add to our spring poster – our flowers have taken up A LOT of room. I do love a craft run to the Dollarama. Next weekend we have to do our egg decorating and potentially egg hunt as Gavin is going the following weekend to spend time with Grandma and Grandpa!

Bunnies

The boys are back to work on their numbers… I found a very rudimentary game for addition and subtraction with an Easter theme from a Christian site I use from time to time. You can find both the addition and the subtraction versions for printing off in colour OR black and white here.

Working on their books

Echo helped Gavin with his numbers for a while as well. If I could only get her to TRY and sit on her own… right now she just flops right over.

With a supervisor

The bulk of the excitement is based solely on the upcoming party. Trinity is all set to be the birthday girl, and the boys to having guests. We got creative with the decorations, using the Hello Kitty die cuts and balloons as with a unanimous vote we have vetoed streamers.

Pink AND kitties

With Karyn and Ted here tonight is going to be fun. It is always great to have company on a Friday night. We have tidying to do, decorating, baking, wrapping… we will stay busy for sure!

Serious face