meeting sophie

We met Sophie!

...and then promptly fell asleep in Daddy's arms. The San Diego zoo was great, a must with your family or loved ones.

Just don't forget your hats like we did or $22 will buy you this stylish future zoo keeper hat!

my 1st mother's day

Romantic McDreamy and Smart Saucy cooked up an extra special 1st Mother's Day for me.

Something old... and something new.....

What could be more perfect than a charm bracelet that belonged to my Grandma Kinakin (one of the best Mom's in the world!) And add to that a heart lock in a little blue box from my favorite store.

Yoda and I both shed a tear privately before the guests arrived and while the Sprout gave me his Mother's Day gift ( a 1.5 hour nap!)

What a special day for lucky me! I will look to this special bracelet when I need true Mother power!

happy mothers day mom

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."-- Cardinal Mermillod

st...st...studio

Come on in and sneak a peak through my kitchen window.

This is my window because in dons my very own name. What's this I see? cabinets? Yeah! Those are my upper cabinets that are about to go up. Yes, 2 rows of perfectly measured cabinets to organise all my artsy treasures! And under those cabinets will be more beautiful storage and counters as far as my little arms can reach and glue.

This......this is a boiler to warm my little feet as I create masterpiece after masterpiece with in floor heating.

Soon my love, my kind old kiln you too will be warm with new projects in your belly. I have so many ideas!

McDreamy spoils me. He didn't have to build this studio but did because he loves my artsy side. One our first dates involved sketching by candlelight on a coffee table sitting on the floor.
He has no idea how excited I am for my studio to be completed. I can't wait to be able to begin a project and leave it out for days while I tinker with it.

I know my little buddy in Manitoba is pretty excited too. I can't wait to have him over so we can do some clay projects and make his aunty Tiff aunty Nelia and Nanny pair of glass fused earring.
I am sure many masterpieces are yet to come but this will always be my best project...

fresh fruit for the chef

The Chef hurt his knee and needed some TLC so the Sprout and I slipped over with a special supper for The Chef the other day. He dined on Sassy's famous ribs ( Nana's secret recipe), oven roast potatoes, stuffed tomatoes, fresh fruit (he he), iced tea, cookies and mini kit kats. McDreamy enjoyed the same supper quickly before rushing back to the OR with a little Bar-B-Que sauce still on his cheek (maybe that's the real reason surgeons wear masks!)

perfect parks

We love going to the park. We are so lucky to have 5 parks with in a 10-15 minute walk from our house.

What park do we feel like going to today...

.....the hill park with the good swings and slide

......the splash pool park

.......the handy market next door to the park

.....the perfect climbing apparatus for supervised babies park(I'll get pics of it soon)

......the cool and shady tree park

fun factory

The Sprout had a great play date with a few buddies a while back. Here are a few photos from our day at the fun factory. This place really is called the fun factory. There are multiple ball pits, rocking horses, tunnels high and low, swingers, sliders, giant plastic trees with slides and doorbells just to name a few highlights. Best of all this magnificent place is free for babies but silly Mommies who forget their socks must may $2.63 for a pair that you could spit through, still, a small price to pay for The Sprout's happiness. It was a great time, we can't wait to do it again!

purple cupcakes

dear cupcake queen,

I attempted my first solo cupcake order today for dear friend of The Sprout's who is leaving him for the bright shiny lights in Regina. My cupcakes baked up nice and firm thanks to your brilliant recipe tweaks and my icing is fluffy and decadent after following your wonderful never fail directions.

I sprinkled with a smile while thinking about you and Loopy guiding me through cupcake journeys past.

As my cupcakes lay in waiting to be shared with friends I only have one small question left.......how do you keep your family from eating the cupcakes before supper?! (OK, MCDreamy and I BOTH had one tonight BEFORE supper!)

love,

your student, sassy

OK Everyone now you must go over to the iron cupcake challenge and vote for the real cupcake queen Saucy right now! This title belongs to her but she needs our votes to win! Now, for the love of cupcakes, go and vote!

(look at the side bar on the left and put your check by

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Jones Soda Blue Velvet Cupcake is the one by Saucy of course!

brothers birthday

My Big Brothers 40th birthday was one of the events that kept me busy. It was a great evening of family, friends and laughter. One of the highlights was running into an old friend, we worked at Moxies together many moons ago. I really had a great time chatting with her (hello Dianne! don't forget to leave a comment and let me know when you start up your design blog!) and also chatting with super cool new buddies.......the owner of a great downtown store with shoes, jewelery and bags that I adore, hugs to aunty joy, I loved chatting with you and your bling is still on the top of my wish list! My Big Bro has great friends, it was a great time, thanks everyone!

Happy Birthday Big Bro!

april picnic

My family LOVES picnics.

If you know me well you will know that I NEVER will turn down a campfire and a hot dog. It must be the old camp wakonda teenage counsellor in me.

This was a special bar-b-Que...The Sprouts 1st of many at our local forestry farm just minutes away from our door step. The air was crisp, the hot dogs messy and the company perfect. My sister and the twins who live in Vancouver braved our cool Saskatchewan temperatures for a few eventful days including the picnic. It really feels like a family event when they are with us-it's never the same with out you guys! (move here hint hint)

I remember soooo many picnics as a little girl with my 2 brothers and sister- anlgin lake shore picnics, boat picnics, at the fire tower picnics, picnics at the old bridge, pike lake picnics, borden bridge picnics, rainy picnics wearing garbage bags, eagle creek picnics with grandma k and that's just to name a few-now look at us all with our own children. Wow.

McDreamy and I had a wonderful time on the tandem bike we rented for the kids. I could have pedalled all day singing "alloutee"! McDreamy was the captain and I was the rear admiral....seriously, he looked up the proper tandem terms when we got home. I highly recommend the bike for your next family function, it is guaranteed to bring out laughter and great memories!