Alexander's 7th Birthday

Jouky, Alexander and Lucas came to town on the weekend to join the rest of the family already here.  We all headed to Jouky's parents' place to celebrate Alexander's 7th birthday, Cars style!  Happy birthday, Alexander, with lots of love from all your family!  Thanks for another great visit, Changs, and we look forward to seeing you again when the babies arrive!

Hanging Out

It's always nice to see Nicole interact with her cousins.  We can't wait until Alexander and Lucas join them on the weekend too! :)

My New Short Do

I have been growing out my hair for awhile now to allow me to donate it to the Cancer Society. It was finally long enough for me to chop it off and so I did it, a total of 10 inches from tip to tail! I'm still getting used to having really short hair, but I figured a New Year with a new do couldn't hurt. Thanks Vanny for helping me cut it, and I hope my hair makes a really good wig! :)

Eileen and Nicole Are in Town!

Eileen and Nicole came to town early Thursday morning so we picked them up from the airport. While Eileen got a much needed nap, Nicole and I had fun playing together. Here are pics of her wearing the new little sister shirt and playing with the blocks we got her for Christmas. She is such a big girl now! :)

Philip's Trio Castle

Ever since Philip got his Trio castle from us for Christmas, he has been playing with it non-stop (he even built it on Christmas day, but I forgot to take pics of the finished product). Here is another day where he built the castle again, and wanted me to take pics of it this time. Forget Bob the Builder, we have Philip the Builder in our house! :)

My New Year's Resolution

Hey everyone! After a long hiatus, the blog has finally been updated! It took awhile but it's finally done, a total of six months worth of posts, and it only took me about a week of holidays to do it... haha. You'll have to go through the blog archives and start at the beginning of August 2011 when I started updating it again. My New Year's resolution this year is to spend more time with my family and to spend more time blogging about it so we can remember all those special moments. So, hopefully this is a sign of things to come when I don't blog once every six months anymore because boy was that ever a lot of work! I hope you can keep all of your resolutions just like I hope to keep mine (regardless of what the comic below says! hehe). Enjoy all the updates and all the pics! Happy New Year! :)

Disney on Ice's 100 Years of Magic

Philip has been asking us if he could watch the Disney on Ice show again so I was able to find four great seats to attend the 100 Years of Magic show on New Year's Day. We asked Philip who he wanted to take with him and he said "Liam!" with a smile so off we headed to the Rogers' Centre with Philip and Liam in tow. The show was actually a lot more entertaining than the first one we watched, but I think the really close seats helped with the experience. Liam was eager to capture all the action on his camera too for Lisa and Jeremy to see while Philip was really excited that he recognized every single character that came out. Disney World has really branded my son it seems but I'm a fan myself so I'm definitely not complaining! Thanks for being such awesome sports throughout the whole show, boys, and we hope we were able to give Lisa and Jeremy a great playdate alone with Anna for a change! P.S. Happy 34th birthday, Jeremy! :)

Ringing in the New Year

We were invited over to the Ramlogan house again to ring in 2012! Yen Vi, the ever gracious hostess that she is, said that it was going to be low-key dinner but she made pulled pork sandwiches, sweet potato fries, lots of appetizers and even waffles for dessert, which is anything but low-key in my opinion! Needless to say, we thoroughly enjoyed her feast again followed by playing some board games and watching Happy Feet. Philip and Natalie were quite impressive and made it past midnight while I must admit that I kinda crashed around 10 pm and woke up again just before the countdown. We hope everyone had a Happy New Year, and may 2012 bring you lots of good health, happiness and love. :)