Weekend away

This past weekend, we were invited to go to our friend Jacinthe's surprise birthday supper. Most of her family is in Quebec and Montreal. Since Jacinthe and the kids were going to be in Montreal for a hockey tournament, Pascal decided to organize a supper there. This way, more people could come! We figured we may as well sleep at the hotel so we wouldn't have to be on the road at night. We always love going to hotels!

Maelie and I left at the crack of dawn on Saturday. We drove right into the sunrise! We went shopping in Pointe Claire and checked in to our hotel room early in hopes of going for a swim! It turned out so did a ton of people ! The pool was packed!

We met up with everyone at a nice italian restaurant. I put Maelie in charge of taking pictures... and since she said she knew how to use it, it didn't dawn on me to tell her to put the flash on! So all the pics are blurry and yellowish. Here is one pic that wasn't blurry! Myriam eating her pizza.

And of course... if you read the post on Jacinthe's wedding in October, you will have seen the pepper. Well apparently, the pepper was looking for its partner, and we found it. Maelie of course took a picture of the salt shaker!

After the supper, we headed back to the hotel. The pool was still packed so we went to bed! The next day though, Maelie was able to treat herself to a fun time!

It was quite a decent sized pool!

I love her eyes as the sun is shining on her face. She is so adorable and precious :)

She went down the slide a whole bunch of times until she was worn out!

After the pool, we stopped by another mall and she picked up some shirts on sale at her new favorite store Aeropostale ! She got really lucky and got some shirts for under 3$! After that exciting outing... home sweet home and back to real life!

Once home, we went out for a late lunch with Bill to celebrate our 12th wedding anniversary (Jan 28th). I can't believe it's been that long!! I really enjoy my life. I enjoy who I am now, and who I am surrounding myself with. I am truly blessed!!

January 2013 - where did it go?

WOW... this month had really flown by!! and if you look at my blog posts you would think the world ended on December 25th because that's the last time I posted! Goodness!

I will fill in the blank month by letting you know what we've been up to! I barely have pics this month either though... !! I really hve to catch up for the rest of the year. Maelie will grow up and see a big hole in her life for January 2013... she'll wonder what the heck she did in that big gap!! :)

Maelie got a bunch of moon dough colors for Christmas so she made a snowman :) Very appropriate for the amount of snow we had!

She made some beeswax candles with a kit she received at Christmas.

Grand-maman visited before the new year and we had a great time! We taught Maelie how to play Scattergories. She loved it!

Maelie ended up going home with grand-maman. They had a great time! I met up with them on New Year's Eve. Of course grand-maman had to bake a bit with her helper Maelie.

I enjoyed taking pics of the little chickadees through the window. Brrrrrr too cold out there!

The blue jays eat everything they can find! Fortunately they don't eat cats or young children.

How about a big hug before we go? Maelie is SO not the cuddly type!!

Lots of snow! We didn't think we would get this much this year!

On New Year's Day. we went for lunch with Grand-papa and Lucie. We had a great time :) and it was yummy!

Once back home, Maelie played with her gifts. Here she is in her Orbeez spa.

Nice and comfy for the feet! I wish it had a heater, then I would have my feet in there all the time!

School started again on January 8th, and real life resumed!

This month's big change was that Maelie's teacher got pregnant and left! That was quite sad as we really loved her as a teacher. We are happy for her though as she will get another bundle of joy in her life.

We've had crazy weather this month, and some kind of stomach bug that left Maelie really tired. She is all better now though! Her foot is doing well most days. Knock on wood... no more colds or flus!!