Since the haircut

Brian and dad left the day after Christmas to get back to drywalling. Before we left Fort Qu'Appelle, dad got drywall up in Dominique's cubby. She even got a fancy archway for it. Now they are feverishly trying to finish up the rest of the basement while we played the week away.



Here the kids were making it snow on mom's snowy village. It lights up, but the kids didn't find that quite animated enough, falling snow was that extra touch of "je ne sais quoi"- umm mess?


We have been enjoying dinners and playtime together. Today will be our first real day apart as Jenn's kids have appointments and the trio and I are going to go hang out with a friend in town this afternoon and evening.




The kids and I enjoyed a day of adventuring on the acreage, through knee high snow. I got a lot of great pics to upload from that. We were going to enjoy the outdoors today also, but our warm snap ended and it dipped down to -17 C so we are instead enjoying the Wallaces' wii game indoors ;)




The kids were careful monitors of the food being dished up around here. I have a feeling they were also the recipients of some delectable morsels during this observation session.

Yesterday, we had a huge day. We went swimming, then to the library, back to mom's to read some of the materials we'd just gotten, then back into town to Jenn's where we enjoyed crepes from France, sent by some friends and the kids played while I painted in Imogen's bedroom. They are getting here room all painted and organized, so I had offered as one of my Christmas/birthday gifts to her a small wall mural/decor painted on. They picked a branch of cherry blossoms and it turned out so nice! She will enjoy it now, but it is not babyish, so she can enjoy it when she is older too. I had seen a similar design several times on the net and was so excited to get to paint it. Pictures upcoming... hey, I have to leave you with some suspense so you'll keep coming back for more!

Hope you have had some holidays and are getting to enjoy them. We are looking forward to having the daddy back tomorrow-basement drywalled or not! Yippee!