Monday, April 9, 2012

Happy Easter 2012

Can you believe it, two blog posts in just one week…. I hope that everyone had a wonderful Easter with all your family and friends. Despite the fact that Daddy had to work most of the weekend, we made the best of it and had a great weekend full of fun and most importantly celebrating that “God arose from the dead”, I am still trying to understand how that happened but it sounds like everyone was very happy!

We started off our holiday weekend on thursday night with a Skype call from Granny and Pop-Pop. It was great to see them and get to pretend they were with us celebrating, they sent us a gift package in the mail that we opened while they watched!

Next up on Good Friday was a visit to my friend Olivia’s house. We did some egg colouring and an easter egg hunt. Paige, Olivia and I did a good job at finding all of the eggs and sharing with eachother, it was lots of fun.

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On Saturday, as soon as Daddy got home from work at 9am we headed out the door to a Maple Sugar Bush Farm for a wonderful family day. Paige and I got to help some bunnies find their eggs they lost and in return they gave us a nice treat bag, then we got to pet some farm animals and last but not least we got to have a really nice pancake brunch buffet, it was super yummy. This was such a great idea and we have mommy to thank!

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Paige and I got the best suprise after nap time on Saturday, not only did Uncle Ryan show up all the way from Mississauga so did the Easter Bunny. The Easter bunny snuck into our house without mommy noticing and laid a trail of eggs from each of our rooms down to the rec room and at the end of each trail was a whole bunch of nice gifts. The Easter bunny also hid eggs all over our whole house but Paige and I are so good at finding them, we found them all!

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Mommy made us a nice dinner on Saturday night and we had a nice evening together and watched the movie HOP that Gigi sent to us as an Easter gift, along with lots of other nice things! On Easter morning Daddy had to leave super early so Paige and I made sure we got up early so we could spend some time with him. When we were sitting in the kitchen eating breakfast I looked outside and saw a whole bunch of eggs, not sure if the Easter bunny came back or if we just missed them on Saturday. Either way Paige and I were super excited and we got bundled up and headed out to find them all!

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Since Uncle Ryan was in town we decided what better to do on easter sunday then head to “Cosmic Adventure”, the largest indoor playground in Ontario!!! We had so much fun, turns out they had lots of activities on going during the day for easter. Paige and I both got air brushed tatoos, we participated in a scavenger hunt and we won (with the help of Mommy and Uncle Ryan) and we played a huge game of tag, it was fantastic!

To finish off the day, Uncle Ryan treated us to a fancy dinner at a nice Italian restaurant, we got all dressed up in our Easter dresses! After dinner we decided to suprise Daddy with a take-out pizza and a visit. We went up to the NICU to visit with him and all the nurses, everyone kept saying how we made their day!!!

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Well that is all for now, time for bed, have a good night!

Love y’all,

Emmie and Paige

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

"Baby" Paige is 2!

If you have found this post, I'm just learning how to use our new Mac computer.  I am sorry it has been so long since I updated the blog…once again time has just flown by!

Hard to believe, but my baby sister Paige is now 2! We got the chance to have a nice birthday celebration at Gigi and Papa's house and they invited Princess Aurora to the party and she actually came, it was

amazing to meet her in person, she is very nice.  We had so much fun at her party and it was really nice to have our cousins come out to celebrate. Paige and I wish we lived closer to everyone!!!

Look at this cute picture of Paige posing just like a princess…she learnt that from me!

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Princess Aurora came with lots of things to do at Paige's party. We got to make our own bracelets, get our nails painted,

put on make-up, dance to disney music and she read us a princess book, it was just perfect. In case some of you don't know

Princess Aurora is Paige's all-time favourite princess, so you can imagine how excited Paige was, it was a fantastic birthday

surprise.

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We had a great time at Paige's party and we still can't believe she is already 2! Thanks to everyone that was able to come and celebrate at Gigi's!

It is always fun to get together with Auntie Amy, check out the silly pic of the two of us at the party….

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We ended up celebrating Paige's birthday for a whole week with many different people. The first party was at Gigi's but after that we celebrated with

the Chambers family in Oakville, I love going to there place to play with Cassie, she has tons of great toys, it was lots of fun. Then we drove all the way

back to Ottawa….it is such a long drive but I guess not nearly as long as it use to take from Tennessee! The following weekend we celebrated with

Kara, Vance and Olivia at our place and had nice dinner, sorry no pics!!! Then Daddy had to work on Paige's actual birthday but the nurses

that he works with are super nice and they bought Paige an ice cream cake and we went up to the NICU and they sang her happy birthday! Last but not

least was a nice pancake birthday breakfast celebration with Uncle Brodie and Auntie Carrie, it was a whirl wind of parties and Paige and I loved every

minute of it! Sorry for the lack of pics…too much going on we just forgot.

 

Mommy and Daddy have both been really busy lately but they have been doing there best to make sure we get in some quality family time! Here in Ottawa

we live really close to a whole bunch of Maple Sugar Bush Farms, so we decided we should go and check one out. We went to the Proulx family farm and

it was fantastic. We got to go on a horse drawn wagon ride, we got to eat Maple syrup on snow, we played on the slides and went to the petting zoo, it was

lots of fun!

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Something else Lita and I have been working on the past few days is trying to teach Paige how to use the potty now

that she is 2 years old it is time she learns!!! She really enjoys using her own little potty but I am not quite sure she

really understands why but she has used it a few times now!

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Many of you may have already seen the brief post I did a week or so ago with all of the wonderful pics taken by a

photographer that Mommy hired, she did a fantastic job and got some really nice pics of all of us, check it out below.

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Well I think that is all for tonight. I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter weekend.

 

Hip Hoppity Happy Easter!

Love y'all,

Emmie and Paige