O' Christmas tree....

How lovely are your branches! This is the first year that Maelie showed interest in finding out where each ornament comes from! I gladly shared the memories :) Most of our ornaments have a story to them... whether it be the bear ornament with a pregnant belly, a crocheted snowflake, a Tim Horton ornament, a Best Godparents ornament, and hand made mouse, and many other handmade one... they ALL have a special place in my heart!

 

Yo !

Love this pic! it is so genuine :) Maelie's personality at heart!

The sweet look! :) This is the .... "come on... just one more pic!!" look!! :)

What does December bring?

November is just such a busy month! For the 3rd year, Nicole and I decided to do our card sale for charity. We raised over 800$ ! Our sale is always at the end of November to give time for people to mail their cards.

We worked countless hours, and found most of our ideas on Pinterest. I am very thankful for Pinterest! It is a way to share ideas with the world. I don't remember every blogger whose ideas we CASED!!


Here are a few samples we made!

This one is CASED from KittieKraft! She has the absolute best ideas ever. I love her talent. She keeps my papercrafting store in business! Every time I fall in love with one of her cards, I have to get the material for it!!

We had so many more samples, but I thought I would only put up a few :)

My favorite products are from Stampin Up, Impression Obsessions, My Memory Box, and of course  Scortape (now has a different name though)

Most beautiful girl in the world :)

I adore her smile



I cherish her hugs

I admire her heart

but most of all

I love that she is my daughter

 

Happiest fall of all!

This photo just makes me laugh! You would think we were in a wind tunnel! 

 

Fresh air, beautiful leaves, precious daughter :)

We went ahead with a small photo shoot but there were people walking in the park and Maelie didn't want to pose with people around. I got to steal a few pics though!

Let's go mom! It's cold!!

Pumpkin picking!!

Sonia's , the girls and I headed off to pick some pumpkins! Melissa is from Mexico and she had never been to a pumpkin patch before so she was treated to beautiful fields of orange beauties!

 

Ta-da!!! fields and fields and fields to choose from! Maelie wanted a big one however they were heavy to carry!

A little rest along the way :)

There we go, 3 perfect girls and 3 perfect pumpkins!

We stopped at the little market while we were there, they had lots of fruits and veggies, and some homemade stuff too. I had to force Maelie to pose beside the décor :) We are never too old to enjoy some fall fun!

First Romance

Maelie is dating a boy. She is growing up so fast! I am glad that she is able to experience romance :)

She is sooooo happy :)

Millions of Maelies!

So many poses so little time!

 

I just love when Maelie is in a playful move and decides to have her picture taken!!

What a beautiful world

Maelie likes going for hikes for photo sessions. We take a whole bunch and then she usually selects one or 2 that she likes as her profile picture. I of course end up liking them all as long as there are no middle fingers sticking up!!

We are lucky to be able to go visit Gatineau Park... such a beautiful place!

I saw a trail online that brought us to waterfalls... so I decided we would try that one! It took us to the Carbide Wilson Ruins.

The first sign we saw along the way was:

Thankfully we are not the type to walk around with no clothes on!!

Selfies are always a very important part of our excursions :)

The view long the way was breathtaking!

So many photo opportunities... Maelie enjoyed the hike. I did as well until we had to turn around and come back!! It was such a long way!

When the website said it would be a 30 minute hike... they didn't take into account that I am not a really fast walker!! We made it to the beautiful waterfalls in about an hour 15 minutes :)

The ruins were ... well... ruined!

Hi baby girl!!

Once we got back to the parking lot, we left our walking sticks rights on the rock where we found them. Hopefully 2 other people would use them for a wonderful hike!!

New place in town



We saw these interesting signs on the news recently and of course, hearing that it was advertising for a Cat Café... I was quite interested!! I can't own a cat due to allergies in our home, but I really LOVE them. 

 

So of course when I heard of Café Chat Siberien, it was on my to-visit list!! So after the hot air balloon chasing, Maelie and I headed out there.

Here is the star of that sign :) Walking in the cat area, everything was SO perfect for them! They can run around the café, climb everywhere, it's amazing how well done it is! There were even couches to just sit and hope that a kitty will drop by on your lap!

Gorgeous little guys!!

More mature kitty... very cute!

Maelie is really good with cats, she doesn't run after them or try to get their attention, she lets them come to her.

 

 

 

We also learned that YES, we are allergic to Siberian cats. (some people aren't allergic to this kind) So, it's great we can go visit them but not stay too too long. We leave once the sneezing starts!

 

We'll go back for sure. It was a VERY clean place, the mocha & hot chocolate were delicious, and you leave there really content. The staff was friendly and kind, and they went out of their way to make sure we had a pleasant visit.

 

We left the café and headed up to the Champlain Lookout. We've lived out here for 10 years now, and had never been!

The view is majestic! I still can't believe some people biked all the way up! it's insanely high!

Maelie enjoyed taking a few selfies :)

I love THIS picture!! SUPERMAN!

Our day was filled with activities and it was barely 11 AM!! How I love hanging out with my baby :)

 



Final day for the hot air balloons! We got up early for this one so thankfully some balloons went up!

 

They are so gorgeous up there!

I took this one from right under!

Landing!

We enjoyed watching them land all around us near the airport.

Until next year!