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!!