supper time!

Our funny family at supper tonight....I love my weird husband!

What a Scary Crow...I mean....SCARECROW!!!!

I thought Ezra looked WAY TOO ADORABLE for her first Halloween party of the year! She was invited by a little girl she met a school...too cute!!!
I had a lot of fun putting this costume together...Im glad she changed her mind from being an ice cream cone to a scarecrow!!!
I cant wait till Halloween night!!! FUN!!!!!!

Mmmmmmmm MUM MUMS

Isla with her first "non-breastmilk" product....
Baby Mum Mums....she LOVES them!
What a big girl....the solids will be coming shortly!!!

Fall Fun

Well...the colder weather is coming and soon the snow...ahhhhhhhh
So here are some fall pictures to enjoy before the snow pics make their way to the blog!!!
P.S...Matthijs had a great time burying Isla with leaves in her carseat!!!

TEEFIES

I said I'd post pics of Islas 1st teeth....and I haven't yet! So even though these bad boys came through a few weeks ago....here they are in all their soreness....
poor gal

I CAPTURED IT....Yah!!!! Islas belly laugh...it's the greatest, cutest most precious thing ever

I really don't rememeber Ezra or Matthijs laughing this happily at 5 months...who knows though....that was a longggg time ago!!!

Again...laughing at her big sissy!!!

ENJOY!
I could listen to this all night long!!!

Belly laughs from Isla!!

Today is the first day I heard Isla come ot with a full out belly laugh!!! It sounds so little girlish...so sweet and dainty!
I, of course missed the best of them on video...but Matthew seemed to capture some great Isla belly laughs on our actual video camera...I'm not sure how to get that from there to here though!
So this one will have to do!!!

Oh did I forget to mention that shes laughing at her big sis jumping around?!

Isla @ 5months....

Isla turned 5 months old when we were away...

* You LOVE attention...just like your mommy and sister!!
* You never really want to be put down
* Drooling like crazy!!
* you have your 2 bottom teeth now....they broke through 2 days before you turned 5 months!
* Grabbing at anything and everything...especially our food!
* Had your first of something other than breastmilk yesterday...Baby Mum Mums (rice cracker)
* Getting more and more beautiful by the second...

ONE TERRIFIC TRIP!!!

Sooo we're back!!! We all had such a blast! We're happy to be home after the many, many, MANY hours spent in the car!!!

-3600 kms
-40 hours (in car) with 3 kids side by side in their carseats in the backseat of the car...dog on MY lap.
-portable DVD player (God send, colouring books, pencil crayons, books, cards, princesses, hot wheels, snack food, juice as well as many other great distractions....

HIGHLIGHTS

-visits with friends & family
-indoor playplaces
-bulid-a-bear
-pizza party, chinese food party
-thanksgiving dinners
-shopping with sis & sis in law
-BBQ
-family photo shoots
-pumpkin patch - followed by hospital trip
-tractor rides and lessons from grandpa
-very happy that Pake is out of hospital and that we were able to have a couple of quality visits with him!

We had a great family vacation. During the entire trip Matthe and I only fought once! It was about him packing my chips underneath something heavy - crushing them all! If you know me, you know NOT to mess with my chips!!! Really though I've gotta give it to Matthew...he did a fantastic job packing and unpacking the car a million zillion times. matking sure that everything we needed for the trip was within arms reach (except for my chips).

Matthew and I totoally thought that although it would be awesome to see our families and friends that the trip would be somewhat nightmarish!!! We couldn't have been more wrong. The kids did well in the car the 2 days it took us to drive to hamilton and the 2 days it took us to drive home from Bowmanville. Nothing that a blaring Ipod couldn't handle!!! The kids did so good adjusting to the many different sleeping arrangements and our families did well keeping us all very comfortable. We had a fun filled and action packed 2 weeks! Finishing it off with a trip to the ER with Matthijs to find out that he had soft tissue damage in his ankle from jumping off of a giant haystack on our last day there!!! My dad says that Matthijs is an accident waiting to happen...Matthew says he's just a plain ol' walking accident!!!

Our trip ended with some tear filled goodbyes (you know me!) and promises of seeing each other soon!!!

We love you all! Thank you for making this a trip to rememeber...forever! But most of all we need to thank Jesus for having His hand of safty on us the entire time. We gave our trip to Him everytime we got inside our ol' Volvo and everytime He blessed us!!! Thank you God not only for our safty and health but our family and friends!

BIG congratulations to our friends...Sherri, Richard, Joshua & Elijah...they just welcomed a baby girl into their family on October 20th. Her name is Leah Henrietta and I'm sure she's absolutly beautiful!!! We were hoping we'd get a chance to meet her. But like most girls....she was fashionably late (8 days)

Here are 25 pictures to sum up some of our trip back 'home'

Our drive down was BEAUTIFUL amazing colours....just breathtaking











The 3 Musketeers...Me, Nancy & Brenda....friends since JK & Grade 2


Meredith turned 2!!! Thanks for the pizza pary guys!!! Yummy.......




Me, my sis, my brother...our parents, husbands, kids, Trevors girlfriend Jacquie that I just love!!! It was great to finally meet you!!! You fit right in with our family!



Apple picking


Our good friends Josh ans Eli


Pake with Isla...the oldest member of the family with the youngest member!!!


Still not rolling over...but still trying to master the sit-up


Tractor rides and lessons from grandpa!!




Matthew, his sisters...his parents, husband, wife and kids...missing Rachels boyfriend Jakub...we miss you!


HOME SWEET HOME....the beauty we arrived home to! FALL is in the air and on our ground!!


That was a long post!!!!

on the road still...

well i guess we're not really on the road still...but we are still travelling! Having a great time with both sets of families. They spoil us so much! We'vedone playplaces, build-a-bear, pizza partys, BIG thanksgiving dinners and lots more! The fun has just begun at Matthews parents house...this morning we went to the apple orchard for some good ol' fasioned apple pickin'
The kids are overtired but have fun most of the time!
The newest of our news to report is that Matthijs now has a new found addiction called the coputer and Isla cut her 2 bottom teeth yesterday!
We have another 20 hours in the car on way home. That adventure starts on Friday morning....
Love Us

Ezra's school picture proofs are in and she looks so incredibly CUTE & grown up!

I know that the green background and Ezra's pink coloured dress may not match...but GREEN and pink are her favorite colours...and thats what she wanted!!! So Ezra!!!
I don't know how I'll choose.....
Help!!!

bits and bites....

YUMmmmmmm don't cha just LOVE those things?!

Anyways, what's it been? A week since I've updated this blog? I'm slacking!!! Nah, I've had photo shoot after photo shoot...and 3 more to go this week!

Anyways things are going well here! Getting prepared (mentally) for our drive back home in a week today!!!

I wanted to add a few pics...just some bits and bites throughout the day!!! ENJOY!

Matthijs' hair is a tad on the long side! Not too bad, but long enough to SPIKE his hair...doesn't he just look like a little man in these pictures!!! No wonder why I call him handsome more often than calling him by his own name....




My bestest girlfriend...KRYSTA!!! She knows me WAY too well to put together a surprise like this! I love her!! Thanks Krysta!!!!! I love it all way too much! Guess there's NO CHANCE in quitting the kickboxing eh?! THINK PINK!!And she also knows about my "not so secret" love affair with MICHAEL...I mean MICHAELS


Yeah, yeah...even though my favorite chip is DILL PICKLE...I do share with my cuties!!!



And just because you don't see near enough of him....
Matthew trying hard not to look happy :)