Punkins

We carved pumpkins tonight. I haven't carved pumpkins in forever so when I started the whole cutting and cleaning, I realized that this takes up a lot of time! Nonetheless, it was fun times with the family. Mckenzie was up for half of the stenciling and carving and then put to bed. Sadie kept us entertained and 'helped' mommy stencil (helped as in, lightly held the top of the marker while mommy stenciled.)

After all the cleaning, stenciling, carving and more cleaning... we toasted some pumpkin seeds with salt and cinnamon. Yum!
I'm getting pretty excited for halloween. I can't wait to dress the girls up in their costumes and take them 'trick or treating'. This will also be Sadie's first year 'trick or treating' door to door. I'm not excited about going out in the cold, but we're only going to a few houses on our street.

Hope everyone has a fun and safe halloween!!!! :)

for your entertainment...

here are just a couple vids of the girls, enjoy! :)

what she said...

" Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE, the word itself says "I'M POSSIBLE". "

- Audrey Hepburn

Sadie and Mckenzie's first Disney experience...

The Disney store is  new and improved at SouthCentre Mall and it looks so much better now. Sadie loved being in there and did not want to leave EVER! With the grand re-opening of the store came two of Walt Disney's friends - Minnie Mouse and Pluto (I'd like to say thanks to a couple friends for the phone call letting me know that this was all happening). We waited patiently in line to see either Minnie or Pluto... I was really hoping to see Minnie but she went on a break right when we got there :( haha. Anyways, Sadie was soooooo good waiting in line, didn't complain or anything. When we slowly crept towards the front of the line, Sadie was getting more excited. Getting closer, Sadie would try to get Pluto's attention by saying "woof woof" or she'd wave and say "hi Pluto!!". As all this was happening, I was thinking, "alright, Sadie is pretty excited about this. She isn't gonna cry when she sees him and everything will be fine". I was getting pretty excited myself. But when the time actually came to see and take a picture with Pluto, Sadie froze and was speechless. She stood behind my leg as I kindly forced her to wave hi to Pluto and say cheese to the camera. Pluto tried anything and everything to get Sadie to hug him and play but Sadie's facial expression said, "no dice". So he moved on to Mckenzie saying hi and would try to give her kisses with that big mouth of his but I don't think Mckenzie cared one bit. She had a straight confused face the whole time we were there. Didn't know what the heck was going on. So we just took the picture with Pluto and left. All in all, it was still fun to see a couple Disney characters and not have to travel all the way to California.

Mike and I have been talking about a trip to Disneyland but totally when the girls are older! ha ha!

Singing Sadie

play together, stay together

you're backyard friends, the Backyardigans!

It's the Backyardigans everyone... If you haven't heard of them, take a look at this video.

Word on the street was the Backyardigans were coming to Calgary. So we decided to buy tickets and make it a 'Sadie day'.

{ 'Sadie day' - Mike and I had a talk about having a 'Sadie day' and 'Mckenzie day' (obviously when kenzie is a little older). Where we dedicate that day just for which ever girl's day it was. This 'day' would at least be once a month either with the whole fam or just one on one. Eventually, when they get older, they would be able to decide what they want to do for their day.}

So we took Sadie out for lunch, went to ikea and let her play around there. It's one of her favorite places to run around and play. I love how Ikea is such a family friendly store! After eating and running around, off we went to see the Backyardigans. When we arrived, we noticed that just about every kid was holding a wand with 3 stars on it. Sadie took one look at all the lights blinking from the wand and made it clear to us that she wanted one as well. It was a fun show and honestly, I don't mind watching this show either. So I enjoyed it just as much as Sadie did. Actually, that's a lie. When the show was done and the backyardigans said they had to go home, Sadie was pretty upset and said she wanted them to stay. So I guess Sadie enjoyed it more than mommy did. 'Sadie day' was a success!

 Kenzie and daddy enjoyed the show too........ ha ha!