A Walk & Ice Cream

Tag and I headed out to Abby today to visit Julie, Cali, Sophie, Mom and Max! We went for a nice walk at McKay Park trail and then headed to Stone Cold Cremery after for Ice Cream... I had groupons to use!!

Something smells good...

No more pictures!

Why is rock collecting so popular in this family?

Mom & Max... he is turning out to be a great dog!

Nana teaching Cali how to feed a horse

I got Tag & Max to relax for a minute for a picture!!!

Ahhh sprinkles!

Finally... the last class!!!

I had my last class today for Management Accounting... sooooooooo glad its over, I gotta say, it has not been enjoyable... pretty painful. Now I just gotta make it through the final next week, wish me luck!

My little veggie garden...

Last year I had that big veggie garden at work... this year, I decided to downsize... I rearranged the garden area around the deck. One half is flowers and such, the other side is my garden. I did 2 small rows of carrots, a large pot with herbs and 4 pots that will have lettuce in them. I started the first pot of lettuce and every week after, I will plant the next so we have fresh lettuce for a long time! Hopefully it works!

Mom gave us all Gerbera's for Easter, I picked out the pink one... sure is pretty!

Spring is here!

Brian and I needed to take a trip to the dump after a little spring cleaning over the long weekend. Aldergrove Lake Park is right down the street so we took Tag along to go for a walk after... it was such a nice day out!

Happy Easter!

We all had a fun time at Dad & Jeanie's for Easter! Julie put together a Easter Egg hunt for the kids in the back yard and Jeanie made an amazing meal. It was also great to finally have some nice weather!

Poor Sophie was looking a bit beat up... she had road rash from a previous trip and fall and kept bumping her head and nose on things...

Happy 65th Birthday Doug!

Happy 65th Birthday Doug!

I asked Doug what type of cake he would like for his birthday and he wanted a Carrot Cake with Butter Cream Icing... I have never made carrot cake before, so the search was on for the perfect recipe, and I definitely found it! (Carrot, Raisins, Crushed Pineapple, Coconut and Buttermilk) I did 3 layers with Bavarian creme in between... Everyone loved the cake!! Surprising to have carrot cake be a hit!

The party at Doug's place in White Rock was great... apparently it was the first time the kids were all together in about 10 years! Crazy... anyhow, it was a wonderful time, great food, drink and great company!

Happy Birthday to Julie & Cali!

So this year I missed out on Julie and Cali's birthday Tea Party! I felt so bad, but I was so sick. I managed to make all the cookies and the cake for the party (I promise I did not breathe or cough or lick anything!!!) Anyhow, the desserts turned out awesome... Brian and I dropped them off at Julie's when they were out so they didn't catch our germs (Brian was sick too).

Merry Christmas

Our tree Christmas morning. I have to admit, I didn't take any pictures on Christmas other than the tree!! We had a fun day with gifts in the morning. Went over to John and Stefanie's to see them and the kids in the afternoon... the power was out at their house so they were unable to cook their turkey!! After we headed to Dad and Jeanie's for a Christmas Feast with the family! Jeanie did an amazing job of dinner, it was greatly enjoyed by all. I brought dessert... pictures are on my cupcake blog! www.cupcakesbyholly.blogspot.com

Christmas Eve

We had some visitors on Christmas Eve! Julie, Greg and the kids came over along with Mom for some Pumpkin Cake and snacks. Brian's dad joined us for dinner and we had a chicken pot pie I threw together... gotta love home cooking!

Staff Christmas Party

Today was my staff Christmas Party... it was not your typical staff Christmas Party, it was more of a kids ice skating party with pizza and Santa after, so Brian and I thought we would borrow a couple lucky nieces and nephews to join us!!

All ready to get out on the ice!

Me explaining to Lilah why she needs to keep her gloves on!!

The compromise! Jacket opened up to cool down, gloves back on! She was too warm, haha

Crashing again... he was having so much fun!

Uh oh... hit the wall

They were saying cheese... I don't know why they all look crazy in the picture!

The only kid that got applause when he opened his gift, it was pretty funny... I think its cause he held it up like a trophy!

Transformers! Wow... Santa did good!

Santa telling Lilah what cookies he wanted left out for him on  Christmas night!

My little ponys... Santa did awesome again!

We all had a fun time!

Christmas Photos...

I got to take pictures for Julie and family again this year... think I got some cute ones!

Christmas Ornament Cookies

Nadia is going to be leaving for India in a month now and is working away at earning money for the 3 month trip. She is going to have a booth at her Church Christmas Fair this Saturday so I am heading to her place tomorrow to help decorate cupcakes for her to sell. I have spent the last night and this evening working on Christmas Ornament cookies to donate to her booth to try and make a few extra dollars! They turned out pretty good... I posted more close ups on my cupcake blog.