Enough :)

This year kinda feels like the winter that never ends! It's March and we just got a HUGE amount of snow!

How to get up there....

ta da!! Sitting in our living room looking outside, we see a huge snow pile. I can't wait for that to melt down a little!!

Destination Imagination

Maelie was part of the Destination Imagination team this year at her school. If you want to read more about what DI is, make sure you click on THIS link. It's basically all about teamwork, creativity, challenges, etc!

Maeie's team created a play about a kid who believed in aliens. They included a lot of humor in the play.

All the school teams slept at a local high school. They spent the evening doing ice breaker games and they seem to have had a great time! The parents were encouraged to come by and see the performance the next day. All the schools had a timeframe to present their play, and then in the afternoon they had an instant challenge! We are not allowed to know what the instant challenge was until June... once all the schools in the world have completed them! :)

All in all it was a great experience and a priviliege to have participated! Maelie's team won 2nd place in their age group. I was extremely proud of how her team did... !!

All these wonderful memories with her classmates will shape who she is and becomes... I am glad she has opportunities to try new and interesting things!!

Valentines 2013

I am not sure what it is with 2013... but it is the year that is flying by. It is already March and I haven't blogged about Valentines yet! Let alone anything in between!!

Before Valentines, Myriam came over to make some treats for her class. Maelie helped her out so we could be done faster! She just wanted to play!

We wrapped little gums in the small cellophane 1 X 8 bags, and then tied both ends so that it would look like candy.

Myrian organized all the tags to her liking. It was fun :) I enjoy crafting with her and Maelie.

Then, then night before Valentines, Maelie and I worked on little treats for her class. We packaged fish in baggies. Some pretzel and some cheddar.

The tag said "So glad you are part of my school". Maelie was happy to hand out her treats!

Valentines morning,  Maelie had little hearts waiting for her with treats underneath. We were dog sitting that week so Peluche was trying to see if there was anything for him.

Happy Valentines!!

Maelie ended up hiding a bacon treat in the hearts for Peluche. He had no trouble finding it!

Teacher appreciation week

This year, teacher appreciation week snuck up on me! It's usually Valentines week... but this year it was a week early. Thanks to Pinterest, we managed to find a few ideas for 3 days of treats for staff!

First off was the flower pot filled with suckers! This is where the idea comes from.

We hot glued the ball in the pot and then started poking in suckers we found at Walmart.

Maelie enjoyed the fact that she could participate.

We had to punch them in once in a while!! We managed to fill it with about 110 suckers!!

Missing something?

How about a ribbon to finish it off? We also added a sign thanking the staff at Maelie's school.

Day 2, we filled 1X8 bags with M&Ms.

Then I added a cute little poem that I found at this website. I had the poem printed at Staples as the color quality is much better than the printer we have here! Aren't they adorable?

The final idea of the week was some Extra gum packs. I saw the idea online and just modified the poem.

Didn't it turn out cute? It smelled so minty in my kitchen even through the wrapping! :)

Maelie was quite proud to give her treats away to the staff. She loves to give!! Just like I do. I hope they were happy with our treats this week! :)

Happy bday Bill!

Feb 3rd was Bill's birthday. Maelie was up at 5 am to make sure we had everything ready for when he got up! He prefers to wake up in a *slower* way.

He was barely up when he was bombarded with his presents.

He was able to survive through that and then sit in the living room with his coffee..... followed by cheesecake!! There's nothing like early morning cheesecake! LOL

We had a nice lunch at the buffet :) Happy bday Bill!!

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!!