My Sweet Indulgences

Miss D is Two

 

A wonderful day for a Two Year Old Birthday party.
Beautiful and sunny!
Sio's friends from college who live in the Toronto area came for the party.
It's quite the drive for them and even longer for Mandi as she has an 18 month old .
What great friends eh??
So here we go ....

New wheels from Nona and Bapa

Barbeque hot dogs and chicken
Lots and lots of salads

Daphne and her friend Gabrielle checking their plates....










   After dinner sprinkler fun.....

 

 

Mommy cuddles are great
after an afternoon of sprinkler fun

 
 

 

Having too much fun with all the new toys

But then it was time for

 

 

 

Happy Birthday dear Daphne

Happy Birthday to you

 

 

It was an awesome day altho I still can't believe you are TWO!!!!

happy halloween

Hope you all had a ghoulishly spooktacular night.
We were in the Prior (what the locals affectionately call Arnprior Ontario)
I must advise you that this post is very Daphne as a flying unicorn heavy  ---- a Nona perogative

We had a wee chat with the gang in Alberta

 

 

Then it was time to go Trick or Treating

 

Well .. Miss D doesn't really get it yet but she loves putting on those walkin or should I say runnin shoes and go up and down the front side walk

Which is what we did ..... LOVED it!!!

Coming inside was a completely other story ...
HATED it!!

Just look at that face

 

 

But once inside all toasty and warm and the house smelling deliciously like Bapa's pizza all was
better

A piece of pizza and a couple lil chocolate bars its was time for bed

 

 

Unfortunately there were only 5 little T and Treaters

Oh well there are lots of treats leftover.

I think Will may be taking a few for his lunches this week :-)

Once Miss D was in bed we "played" a new board game ----Settlers of Catan
I think once we get the hang of it it will be a lot of fun..
Drank too many apple martinis and stayed up a little late.
But as usual it was a fun night

And today is Will's birthday so we had a coffee and homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast.
HB and I left soon after breakfast.
Got a dinner party to rest up for...

a year ago

 

 

One year ago today I was sitting in my family room when I got a text from my daughter Siobhan saying.

"I just took the sweetest picture"

Now she had just adopted her sweet lil kitty Shelley and we were all being bombarded with pics of Shelley .

So I thought it was just another sweet pic of her.

 

This is the picture she sent!!

I couldn't talk and had a terrible time dialing the phone to talk to her.

I was crying and shaking and smiling all at the same time

 

 

And now our sweet lil Miss D is 3 and a half months old.....

 

Celebrations and a Heartbreak

Had quite a week here at the ole ranch

 

We were invited to celebrate a 1st and 60th birthday party.

HB and I were quite honoured to be included in the celebration.

It was for my walking buddy Deb's retired guy and granddaughter.

You can see the celebration HERE

 

 

Then we got to spend the afternoon with

 

 

Our sweet lil Miss D

 

Terrific weekend you are thinking.

And you would be correct ......

Until we came home Saturday night and found this

 

 

 

 

 

 

The big beautiful locust tree in our neighbour's yard had split and toppled onto our roof.

At first we thought it had been hit by lightening as we had been having some very bad storms.

But it just seems the poor ole tree was rotted.....

 

 

 

 

We found a fantastic arborist --- recommended by another neighbour ---

He came to assess first thing Monday morning and by Monday afternoon was working at getting the tree off our roof.

Unfortunately the tree --- which we have figured out to be close to 60 years old  ---- had to come down.

We are heartbroken over this

 

 

 

Neighbours Tom and Melanie watching the chop down :(

 

 

The arborist came back on the Thursday and took the whole thing down.

They chipped and chopped and took everything away.

Even cleaned up the street of all the rogue branches and saw dust.

 

Tom and Melanie are talking about planting another in its place.

 

After all of this I came down with one heck of a cold but I won't

 bore you with those woes.

Suffice it to say I am still recooping.....