Birthday Cake & A Chef

Lukas loves his mom's birthday cake.

A lot.

So much that he got right to work in his kitchen

making another one.

Celebration Time!

Nothing says, "Thank god I've finally finished my Thesis defence," than a

bottle of Baby Duck!

Well done Heather. Well done.

~Mikah just saw this picture and he laughed and said, "Auntie Heather got some rum for me."

Thanks for that dad.

Forestry Farm...

Lukas sees the bears.

Oops, Lukas sees a bench. Fun!

A wolf sees Lukas.

Mikah sees a Llama.

We see buffalo.

I see brotherly love.

I see a little boy climbing a BIG hill.

The cougar sees Lukas too.

The camera sees a mom and her number one boy.

Halloween 2009

First Trick-or-Treat

Happiest Sock Monkey Ever.

Baba Feeding the Monkeys

Spooky 9th Birthday

Alek celebrated his 9th birthday with a Halloween party. I, of course, got to go nuts making gross food, and the kids got to go nuts gobbling it up.

Witch's Fingers & Blood Sauce

Chocolate Covered Armpit Hair & Used Q-tips

Bloody Worms & Eyeballs

Catlitter Cake

A Couch of Clone Troopers (the irony was lost on them)

Serenading the Embarassed Birthday Clone Trooper.

Blue Eyes

It's Beginning to Feel A Lot Like Christmas

Less than a month and the countdown begins around my house. We always try to put our tree up the first weekend in December; we decided that this weekend is close enough. Now I'm going to have to locate and dig out all of the decorations. Argh!

Christmas planning starts now, baking starts now and the serious present buying starts now too. I always have good intentions to have it all finished by now but... realistically I'm always just getting started. I have a few ideas and thankfully none of them are included in this list...

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