desi

We think our dog has ruptured her cruciate ligament in her leg. If this is the problem, she would need surgery which would probably cost $1600 plus all the other costs, such as pain medicine, etc. She would have a long recovery time and no guarantees that it is not going to happen again or happen to the other leg.
Anyway, we will likely take her to the vet in the next day or so.
Ethan would be heart broken if we have to put her down. She is his girl, he talks about her all the time. The first thing he does every morning is grab his pillow and lay it beside her crate and talk to her. He keeps praying for her that she will get better.

Happy New Year!

This is Ethan's shopping list. It says:
Cake
Brownies
Plates
Hot Dogs
Milks
Pop
French Fries
Soup

lots going on

It's been awhile since I posted. I probably won't even remember all we've done in the last little while! I'll try:
We went to Niagara Falls last month with the kids. It was alot of fun, but keeping the kids quiet in the hotel was not fun at all- especially when they woke up at 5am!
We went to the Fallsview Indoor waterpark two days in a row, the kids loved it. It was raining the second day, which was when we were going to walk over to the falls. So, we decided to drive by and Gavin fell asleep before we got there! And he as the one that was so excited to see them. We ate at the Rainforest Cafe for dinner the first night.



We got a new computer a few weeks ago and I love it!!
I also got braces about 2 weeks ago, they are just starting to not hurt and I am starting to get used to them.
We are planning a trip to Costa Rica at the end of July. I can't wait. The tour that we are interested in includes 7 nights and 11 tours including a Crocodile Safari, a Jungle Skywalk, a Canopy Tour (ziplining through the jungle canopy), kayaking, a trip to a volcanoe, horseback riding and lots of other stuff.

***image heavy***

Just some random pics from this weekend.
My garden:




My boys:



Ethan's squirrel house (an idea from The Creative Family):
Ethan building his squirrel house:


Desi:
Some craft time yesterday:
Ethan loves to create things, Gavin loves to play with the supplies.


The kids and I made some awesome bread this morning. It was a recipe from soulemama.com called WHO bread (wheat, honey and oats). It was sooo good, and it used ingredients that I had on hand, which was nice since I haven't been shopping too much lately.

crafty fun

Colouring the back of wrapping paper:

Watercolours and glueing (?):




Collage of things we found outside:

And Desi, not doing any crafty things :)

new restaurant in town

Ethan (holding a pad of paper and a pen): What do want at our restaurant?
Me: Pizza.
E: We don't have pizza.
Me: Chicken.
E: We don't have chicken.
Me: Well, what do you have?
E: Strawberry yogurt, vanilla yogurt, panzerrottis, bananas and raspberries.
Me: A banana and strawberry yogurt.

And now my waiter is hounding me to try a panzerotti and chicken fries (he must have lied about not having chicken before). And I've been handed about 12 bills- apparently I didn't hear myself say everyone's food is on me.

March through the years

Ethan in March 2004:
Ethan in April 2005 (still blowing bubbles) - no pics from March this year, for some reason:
Ethan in April 2006 - no pics from March this year either :( :
Ethan in March 2007:
Ethan in March 2008:

Gavin in April 2005 :
Gavin in April 2006:
Gavin in March 2007:
Gavin in March 2008:

And just to show how small they were at the same time:

Also in March 2004 - my brother Owen (on the left), when he was under 6 feet. What happened?:


Oh, and Perry and I are both sick now...

This last one isn't a great picture, but I like because I was just noticing how small Gavin looks in that picture on the wall. He was about 18mo old and now he's just turned 3. We always say he still looks like our baby, but looking back I can see he's grown up so much. So I kind of like the whole idea of this picture showing the change, although it's a little hard to see him in the framed picture.