My Sweet Liitle 2 year old

Paige just turned 2 on May 19. She is such a sweet and funny little girl. She loves her big sister and wants EVERYTHING that she wants. She is very feisty and wild but so sweet and loving. She talks up a storm and always refers to herself in the third person, it is soo cute. She loves to call my mom "Marilyn" and my dad "Bumpa". She is handful this one, but I love her to pieces! Happy second birthday my cutie little Paige.

She is ready for her party! I thought it would be fun to have a long weekend BBQ/birthday party but since I planned it for the Monday - the coldest day of the weekend, it was an inside party. It was soo cold out, I think the high was 4 degrees!!

Showing off her big jumps. She finally does get her feet off the ground :) She has the biggest, sweetest smile.

I made cake-pops for the party. Thanks for the help Caitlin, they were a hit! I thought they were really good.

Paige loves to play dress-up. Thanks for all the great presents everyone.

Anytime I asked Paige what she wanted for her birthday she would always say

" Chuck E Cheese, go rides." So here is the birthday girl at her requested birthday location.

My New Hobby

I thought that I would write about my hobby since it has become my new favorite past-time! I have always loved to shop and bargain hunt but being at home with one income makes it hard to shop! That is unless you coupon shop. I have been doing this for about 6 months now and I can't believe how much money I am saving! I can't believe how much you can get for free or nearly free with sales and coupons. I just had to share. I wanted to scan a receipt and put it on here but my scanner isn't working, so I'll just tell you all about my best shopping trip so far......
London Drugs lets you "stack coupons", you can use multiple coupons as long as they are all different bar codes, so I got......
1 Sunlight Laundry detergent
2 - 15 packs of Cascade action pacs
2 Venus razors (reg. $14.99 each)
2 HE Liquid Tide Total care
Olay night cream
Large bottle of Olay Quench lotion
Olay Definity lotion (on sale for $19.99 -- reg. 36.00)
Olay Bar soap 4 pack
Olay Body Wash
Olay Daily Facials


All of that for the grand total of ......... $11.93 (and $5.04 of that was tax). That is less than the price of ONE RAZOR!!!
My coupon saving alone were $105.00 not to mention that most of it was already on sale.
I know I am a big nerd, but it such a rush to get all these products that I use or have for a treat for myself (like the facial stuff) for next to nothing!

Happy Shopping everyone!

Elyse is 4

How time flies! I can't believe that Elyse is 4 already. She is a really smart, polite and sweet little girl. She is friendly and outgoing and loves to go places and do things. She really is a joy in our lives and we love her so much.

One of Elyse's favorite places is Chuck E Cheese, so we had to go there for her birthday. She is one of those kids who love mascots.

Elyse loves to "big sister" Paige, sometime I think she thinks she is more like 12 years older than 2 years!

My Hero

We were on our way to Chuck E Cheese for Elyse's birthday, we made a quick stop at Toys R Us and came out to flat tire!!
Chris came to our rescue in no time with NO complaints. Thanks Babe!! I really appreciate having a good husband to do those "man" things without giving me any attitude!

The Easter Bunny Came

The girls were thrilled to search out all the treats the Easter Bunny left. I love seeing how excited they get over some chocolate!

My kids could hardly wait to dig it. Paige is a candy-o-holic! She is always asking me for "treats".

Kindersurprise!!

Elyse's Party

We had an Easter/Birthday party for Elyse on Good Friday. It was really fun. We had an easter egg hunt, bunny cupcakes and lots of presents.



I love the difference in these 2 pictures. The girls playing at the party and then there is the boys playing at the party.

Paige is ready to party in her Easter dress.

Elyse was pretty excited!

Kicking Horse - Happy Birthday to me

Chris bid on a job in Kicking Horse, B.C. It is about 3 hours from Calgary and he had to go up to site measure. The people he is doing work for said he could stay in their chalet so I thought that I would go up too. Mom and Dad watched the girls for the weekend (thank-you Mom and Dad!!), so we could have a weekend away for my birthday. The chalet was right on the ski hill and absolutely amazing, it was one of the nicest places I have ever stayed. While Chris worked, I chilled out in this amazing place with gorgeous views of the mountains and read a magazine, did my nails, relaxed, you know, all the things you can't do at home with two kids! I had the best weekend, what a great way to spend my birthday! The only downside was I got food-poisoning from my meal on Saturday night but at least I waiting until we were home last night to get really sick!
The view from the Top of the mountain, we took the gondola up. Unfortunately we didn't really have time to ski.

The view was breath-taking! There was so much snow but still it was about 10 degrees warmer than Calgary!

We went into Golden, B.C. which is the town at the base of the Mountain, not much there :)

This is the day we were leaving, this is the chalet's patio leading to the "backyard". It was sunny and nice when we left and then we came home to more miserable weather and a ton of snow. Why can't spring just come already!!

It is a beautiful drive through the mountains to get there. And the drive seemed really quick with no-one fighting in the backseat :)