We took a ride up to Montreal this weekend to visit my sister-in-law Theresa and her family. As always, we had an awesome time just hanging out, laughing, eating good food and staying up too late. It was especially fun since it was the first time the kids were old enough to acknowledge each other. I can honestly say I do not know which one of the two were more excited to see the other in the morning.
Our weekend was filled with screams of “ASH-AY!” from my niece Liliane who turns 3 in October. Lucky for her they are coming to see us next month…Or should I say lucky for Theresa and her husband Stephane. Asher had a blast playing with her toys and flashing his cheesy new grin at her.
There is a wading pool a short walk from their apartment so we headed over for a dip. Unfortunately I imagined a much smaller pool that Asher could sort of crawl in and out of and neither Matthew or I were prepared for the soaking that ensued. Matthew especially wasn’t prepared to fall while stepping into it, and I sadly wasn’t prepared with my video camera in hand.
Much time was spent in PJs and it took a bit of juggling to manage 2 nap and sleep schedules (a nice lesson for all)
On the last day I tried to get a great picture to cherish for years to come. Instead I got these:
Last month we did a photoshoot with the adorable Efrain and Jenn at J’adore Love Photography. They are wedding photographers trying to build up their baby portfolio and we were happy to help! Here are some of the teasers, we are really looking forward to seeing the rest.
Can you believe the Olympics are over? Its such a let down after all these days of excitement. I kept thinking “I wish the olympics were always on!” but who has the time?? I stayed up way too late every night and went to work with an olympic hangover. Plus our TV must be so relieved. That thing got a work out this month! We barely turn the TV on normally, and then we are watching 5hrs a day? Its kind of nice that I won’t feel the pressure to watch, but also sad. I know you know what I’m feelin.
The olympics were even a bit more exciting this year, being in Matthew’s hometown. Not to mention his dad and a whole bunch of our friends were working there so the emails, tweets, status updates and phone calls really kept us in the loop.
Asher supported his brothers and sisters from the north by showing his Canadian pride at mealtimes
We’re grooming him for a life in sports, obviously.
OWN THE PODIUM! or the bumbo. Whatever.
On another note
Due to my lameness in posting I decided to challenge myself and do another round of NaBloPoMo. If you remember November, it means I have to post every day for the month of March. This is going to be super scary and intense because I am going onsite on Friday and will be working 16hr days all of next week. In another country. Hopefully I can write up some posts in advance!
Expect to be seeing some flashback photos from the past 10 weeks – I definitely slacked on a bunch of cute moments. I can’t wait to share them with you.
Hey other aunties near and far…
Just a bit of news for you.
The boy is quite smitten with Auntie Jaime.
You may need to step up your game.
That’s all I’m sayin!
For Matthew’s family’s Christmas gift exchange we were all assigned a name and and have to submit lists of some things that we might want. Matthew’s sister Theresa has me and I am sure she’ll find me something that makes me smile, list or no list, but it was requested so here it is. If you want to buy me something make sure to let her know, double gifts are such a hassle.
The budget is $50 but I figured I’d just add a bunch of random stuff and post it here.
other:
soft scarves in fun colors. for warmth or fashion)
necklaces
cute throw pillows – yellow, orange, red. or pillow covers @ 18×18
giftcards to gap/old navy (canadian ok) + target (us, obvs)
We didn’t do anything special, in fact we kind of completely forgot about it. We decided to go out for dinner next week to celebrate, this week was just too crazy to deal.
8 years ago we were in Vegas, how I wish we were there this weekend instead of packing, painting, schlepping, sorting and moving. In any case, one of my biggest regrets was that we didn’t get a professional photographer to take photos for our wedding. Oh 2001, you were so cute. How times have changed. Wedding photos now-a-days are amazing, personalized and creative and I’m not fooling myself into thinking that what we would have had then might be as good as what we’d get now but still. A gal can dream. We don’t even have digital photos of the day, because regular people didn’t even have digital cameras.
So instead of displaying our wedding photo I’ll post one of another handsome couple.
May I introduce you to…
The Karts circa 1973!
I can’t quite figure out what my favorite part of this picture is. its definitely a toss up between my dad’s hair, moustache, tie, lapel and sleeve.
Sharon looks adorable and is almost cracking a smile even! I wonder what they said to make her keep her eyes open…
Ok, I know I said I have all these things to blog about and I do! Its just that Matthew’s sister Jaime came to town Thursday and we’ve been having too much fun to sit down at the computer.
Today was a great day in NYC. After pouring rain yesterday the sun finally came out and even thought it was pretty cold (40 deg!) it was at least pleasant.
We had a really fun day today, not a typical Easter Sunday for most but maybe a typical one for us. Family, friends, good food. No egg hunting this year, but I’m sure its something we can look forward to in years to come.
This morning Jaime’s friend Stephanie, who goes to NYU, came over for brunch. Matthew made an amazing frittata, potatoes and turkey bacon and Steph brought over pastries to go with our strawberries for dessert. I am seriously having issues with remembering to take photos so we have none, its pretty sad.
In the afternoon the 3 of us went to see West Side Story which was awesome. We walked around the village for a while before going to dinner at Blue Hill NYC. We treated ourselves (and Jaime of course!) to the tasting menu in honor of her stay. Not only did I forget to take pictures, I didn’t even bring the camera. Its PATHETIC. One of the specialties at Blue Hill is their use of “this morning’s farm egg”,err…an egg from this morning. They bring it over from the farm and it is so delicious! As a speacial Easter gift they gave us this basket of this morning’s farm eggs.
