on my toes

June 3, 2014

June 1, 2014

a weekend round up full of colour.....

Papa's are the best. He dropped this sweet little pad over. Don't worry, we're not slumlords, we're keeping her rent quite reasonable.

Tricia and I getting photo bombed at the start of the Color Me Rad run. This event is a total blast.

one of several colour blasting stations along the run

the best dance party at the end....

the best shower awaits......

getting ready for pizza night with Tam & John

a wonderful evening spent outside with friends....

I hope your weekend was bright and vivid too! xoxo

May 27, 2014

After work, I met up with my hubby & gal at the Ladner May Days. It was awesome. She was tall enough to go on some rides and there was face painting, a petting zoo, a free gymnastics zone, food trucks galore & carnival games. Watching her face light up on her very first ride made my day.

Craig got to hold a Hedgehog - it was cuter than the ones at Purdy's that I'm used to. ;)

I worked this weekend, but I didn't mind since it was drizzly out.(Dramatic pause for your shock - Vancouver - rainy?!?)

On Monday morning we literally ran into good friends.

Child labour is alive and well at our home.

The yard is always the safest place for toddlers to paint. Always.

When you have a little one, you have to come up with a lot, and I mean a lot of games. For this one, I fill up a bucket of water and we put in household items one at a time, and guess beforehand if it'll float or sink. Luckily I leapt over to her before my iphone became a "sink" item.

Whenever I can, I like to put a little sunshine into my mom's days, so today I gathered up some of her nearest and dearest friends for an impromptu brunch. I made these easy & tasty recipes: raisin scones & cranberry/orange scones and chia seed pudding that I layered with fruit salad.

I love these moments. xo

I hope you had an amazing weekend! A lot of these photos are snapped with my iphone, so the image quality isn't the best, but I highly recommend grabbing your phone and capturing shots throughout your weekend to remind yourself, how lucky you are to have so many amazing little nuggets of time. It's honestly one of the best ways to feel gratitude, which is one of life's biggest keys to happiness.

May 23, 2014

pop goes the world

We were playing with bubbles in the garden because hey, it's Friday night after all, time to break out the bubbly! This one reminded me of Earth.
Maybe it's the anticipation of Summer, but there's something brewing in me that's ready for another adventure. We watched a beautifully filmed documentary called Mile Mile & A Half about a group of artists who hike through Yosemite National Park on the John Muir Trail. Their hike was 25 days long. I'd love to gather up some of our favourite outdoorsy friends for an adventure like this - maybe not 25 days long, since we all have young children - but to take on an adventure of this capacity, with tangible goals, feats of endurance, and the natural rugged beauty of the great outdoors to photograph along the way would be truly amazing. I really love the level of planning and physical training that a trip of this magnitude would entail. I know that hiking and camping aren't for everyone, there's definitely a clear division of people we know who would love it and those who would laugh in our faces at the mere suggestion. Camping you say? Why, have all the hotels burned down?
When I think of our favourite adventures, whether it was camping in the Serengeti or doing belly crawls through caves, it was always us, testing ourselves, in the great outdoors. There's something that connects deeply to my soul when I'm in beautiful vistas, it's both breathtaking and humbling all at once, reminding us of the bigger picture that we're a part of. What's something that you want to cross off your bucket list this Summer?
xoxo

May 20, 2014

my heart

We had a tonne of fun playing and picnic-ing with friends at the park. My daughter hugs by leaning on people, she hasn't figured out that arms are often involved.

I hope you squeezed in some amazing moments into your day. xoxo

May 19, 2014

weekend round up.

Hello Friends! I hope you all have had an amazing week! Sorry for the lack of posts this week, it's been a busy one where I've been wanting to be completely "in the moment" with family and friends.

Here's a few random images from the weekend. I'll write more tomorrow. xoxo

It's Friday night! We're all pretty sophisticated over here.

The backstory is that she is a leopard who has just escaped from the zoo, and is presently starting up her getaway car before the zookeeper gets her. It's quite action packed. I think she has forgotten that her breed is quite adept at running quickly.....

In eager anticipation of her friend's arrival at the park.

One of his special skills is being able to wash the car in record time for $2. It's quite impressive. Wax on wax off Craig.

I used to run in 5 km loops around our neighbourhood. But now, we've come up with a new game plan: my hubby drives in the straightest possible route, exactly 5 km from our house, and drops me off. It feels like a more exciting goal for some reason, because there is no way I can take any shortcuts if I get tired. I have to push myself to get home.

Not to offend any wal-marters, wal-martians? But I really do loathe the Wal-mart experience. I had to go there because they had a good deal on diapers. And sometimes, when you need diapers, milk, a sun hat and gardening supplies, and you've got a toddler in tow, and don't feel like hitting up a bunch of shops (because just the act of loading and unloading the aforementioned toddler can do your head in)...you end up at Wal-mart. And I swear to god, whenever I am in that store, there is always someone screaming at the top of their lungs into their cellphone about extremely personal business, like a missing child support payment in their bank account. And as luck would have it today, I chose, what teased me to be the shortest check out line, only to have the person in front of me doing the "well, that's not the price that was posted above this chair......" song and dance with the checkout clerk....and then lo and behold, 15 minutes later they've returned from the depths of the store, realizing that they had grabbed the wrong item, and that the price, as bob barker would say, is right after all. Meanwhile, as my toddler is melting down, and justifiably so....I texted my husband to say, "I'm in hell." (Which he knows instantly to interpret as Walmart.) And he texted back, "that place sucks a bag of dicks." Which, I know is a Louis CK expression, but it made me laugh out loud in the line up because it was so completely applicable.

(Even loading up the car, I glanced over at a family in the parking lot: dad was loading the truck, toddler was running around like a maniac, mom was trying to gather up the toddler to prevent his inevitable demise in a walmart parking lot, and the whole family drove away without realizing mom's purse and half their groceries were still in the cart. A walmart attendant gathered the belongings without missing a beat, as if this kind of thing happens all the time. That's what this place does to a person.)