Congratulations Auntie Carrie & Uncle Brodie!

The big day for Auntie Carrie and Uncle Brodie has finally come and what a fantastic day it was. Our weekend was filled with wedding events, first it was mani/pedi’s, then the rehearsal dinner and then the wedding. Our entire family was in the wedding; Daddy was the Best Man, Mommy was a Bridesmaid and Paige and I were flower girls along with Sophie. We all looked beautiful and we had so much fun. Everyone kept telling me what a great job I did walking down the isle, I did exactly what I was told. Sorry no pics tonight of the ceremony, we were all al little too busy, we can’t wait to see the pictures the photographer got. We do however have some to share from the rest of the day/night!

       We did lots of dancing at the wedding, the music was great and everyone was having a blast. Mommy and Daddy let us stay up until 10:30pm, then we got to go on a big yellow school bus with Gigi back to our hotel while everyone stayed out even later to party some more. I think they were all feeling a little tired this morning and they kept using the word “Hungover”, not sure what that means!!!

     

I have so many other pictures to share that we have taken over the past few weeks. We have once again been very busy and just haven’t had the time to blog, but I guess better late than never! Here are some pictures from Halloween night. Paige and I were really lucky we had Gigi and Pop-Pop & Granny in town to spend halloween night. They all came out with us tricker or treating, it was a beautiful night, not nearly as nice as what we are use to in Tennessee but not bad for a Canadian halloween night. I dressed up as Snow White and Paige was Tinkerbell…we got lots of neighbors telling us how cute we both were, I think our costumes were a hit! Our neighborhood was really busy for halloween night, we got 120 people at our door!

Check out the pumpkin in this picture, who does it look like…Tinkerbell maybe! Daddy carved this pumpkin for Paige and I and he did a great job. We carved 5 pumpkins the night before halloween, Granny and Pop-Pop brought us 4 from the family farm in Mallorytown, which meant we all got to carve our own pumpkin!

The weather was really nice when Gigi and Granny & Pop-Pop were in town to visit, so we made sure to get outside and play. We helped Daddy clean up all the leaves on our front lawn! When we were done playing we got to go in and warm up but Daddy and Pop-Pop stayed out to get our yard winter ready, something we aren’t use to doing!!! Canadian winter here we come…

We also got to have some fun one morning at the mall down the street. We all headed out to see a Live My Little Pony show, it was so neat. There were three of the Ponies there; Twilight, Rainbow Dash and AppleJack, they sang and danced, Paige and I loved every minute of it!

  

Over the past few weeks I have been taking skating lessons at a local arena. My first day on the ice was tough, I had troubles standing but by lesson #3, I could move on my own, turn in a circle and get up and down, everyone says I am doing great. Here are a few pics Mommy took on lesson #2…Daddy is on the ice with me to help!

Mommy has been working really long hours lately, her work is swamped right now. But she made it up to Paige and I one night last week, she came home and we spent the evening baking our favorite things. We made cupcakes and peanut butter cookies, they were all very yummy!

Since Mommy has had to work so much lately, Gigi decided to come down and spend some time here and help out around the house. We all appreciate Gigi’s help, I know it makes Mommy feel better knowing that she can always count on her! Thanks Gigi!!!

Well, that is all for now, time to get ready for bed. Hope everyone has a great week. Next time I blog will be after our vacation to the Bahamas, this time next weekend we will be relaxing at our resort, we can’t wait!

Love y’all,
Emmie & Paige

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

This was Paige’s first thanksgiving in Canada and it was a great celebration all weekend long. We got to see so many family and friends, it was fantastic! We headed to the big city of Toronto on friday, the Jeep was packed to the roof with all of our stuff and our dogs. As soon as we got into town Mommy took off to her hair dressers and then out for a Mommy’s only night out with the girls, sounds like she had lots of fun with Auntie Amy and a bunch of their friends. I asked Mommy if next time I can come, of course she said YES. Sorry no pics of that! But we did get many other nice pics.

I was super excited to get to see Papa and hang out watching cartoons in the morning, here is a pic of us just chillin together, Paige was still asleep, she was a sleepy head!

The weather was so fantastic this weekend we made sure to soak it all in. First thing Saturday morning we met up with Heidi and Leah at the Pumpkin farm, there were lots of people there but that didn’t stop us from having a great time. We got to pick some apples, pet some animals and go on a wagon ride, it was the perfect day!

All of us kids loved picking apples, the best part was getting to eat them after we picked them off the tree. Heidi and I also learnt the proper way to pick an apple “twist the apple towards the sky and then it will fall off, it it doesn’t then it isn’t ready”, how cool is that!

The animals in the petting zoo were really nice, they all loved being pet! Paige was a little scared but she quickly realized the animals were friendly and just wanted her to either feed them or pet them!

Look at this funny picture we took of all of us, everyone is looking except Paige, she kept trying to look at the picture, silly girl!

Paige took a real liking to baby Leah, she kept playing Peek-a-boo with Leah in her stroller, they both just kept laughing like crazy, it was super cute!

Gigi made us a really yummy thanksgiving dinner and she had the whole house decorated, it was really nice. Gigi is a very good cook, we loved everything!

After eating tons of food and having a great night, Paige and I got all cozy in bed and watched Lion King, it was the perfect ending to a great day!

Nothing like staying in one place for too long as the saying goes, we packed up on Sunday and headed north to Orillia to celebrate thanksgiving with the Hollinger gang. Great Gramma H. and Uncle Gordy splurged and treated everyone to a nice dinner at a restaurant. The entire family was there, it was great to see everyone.

We also got to meet the newest member of the family, our little cousin Gwendolyn, she is just 3 months old and she is really cute. Granny and Pop-Pop now have three granddaughters, they are very lucky! It was so nice out we decided to tackle taking some family pics. Poor Paige was playing a little shy with everyone because she doesn’t remember them as well as I do, but that will get better as she gets bigger like me!

After dinner with everyone all the cousins went swimming in the hotel pool attached the restaurant where a few of us were spending the night. It was lots of fun. Even Great Gramma H. came down to watch all of us swim, if you look closely in the picture below you can see her in the burgundy jacket!!!

My little cousin Presley was there and she is almost three, the two of us swam for over an hour, she is a fish just like me!

Check out this silly picture that Daddy took of Paige. She was playing in Mommy’s suitcase!!!

We had a great time visiting with Granny and Pop-Pop, Tata, Uncle Chris and Gwendolyn. We finished off our visit with a yummy breakfast brunch!

Our last stop on our trip was a visit with Grandmere. Luckily it is only a 20 min driver from Orillia to Victoria harbour so it was really nice to be able to get to see her. She hasn’t been feeling well and we thought a visit from us would cheer her up, plus we also brought her the biggest potted Mum ever just in case our smiley faces weren’t enough, hehe!

Daddy decided to help Grandmere out and mow part of her yard and he gave Paige and I a ride, it was super fun!

Right before we left Daddy took this great shot of all four generations!

Now I know this was a long blog, but we just had too many great pics to share with everyone. I have just one more pic and it was taken for Great Granny, she loves the fall time colour changing of the leaves and we thought she would love this one!

Well, I am pooped, it took us 7 hours to get home tonight and I am looking forward to sleeping in my own bed. Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving!

Love y’all,

Emmie and Paige