Our cat-dog

Not that I needed a lot of proof, but here's Minion sitting alongside
Tobey, begging for scraps at dinner tonight. I'm pretty sure he thinks
he's one of the dogs. :)

You know you're a mom when (#5,882)...

You spend your Friday night making Minion Candy Spoons!

Logan's 6th (OMFG he's almost 6!) birthday party is tomorrow. Our house will be teeming with ~12 5/6 year old boys (mostly). I've been prepping for the last few weeks and have had tons of fun coming up with creative ideas to carry out his requested Despicable Me Minion theme. 

I've held off on posting most of my prep pics until the big reveal, so this will just be a sneak peek of what's to come! ;-)

Homemade Advent Calendar 2013

And, done. Phew!

Festival of Lights!

Tonight is one of the last "cheap" nights at Vasona Park's Festival of
Lights so I decided we'd go before the crowds really hit. As usual,
the boys loved it.

This year, we let them stand up and poke their head out the sunroof
(or sit in my lap as Callum decided to do) which made it even MORE
exciting.

They were both yelling and waving and squealing with delight the entire time! :)

Current project

I may have bit off more than I can chew with this year's advent
calendar idea. 24 little black and white boxes cut and folded by yours
truly. *yawn*

(And yes, I'm already behind!)

Always Thankful

I keep meaning to pull down the pics I took with my nice camera to
post about Thanksgiving but these are going to have to do for now. ;-)

Thanksgiving Dinner #1 - as it turned out, the Jodoins and McDaids
didn't have plans to spend Thursday with their families, so we joined
the two families for a fantastic meal that night. I made a cake and a
couple of sides to accompany the dinner which was fun for me (I really
love to bake and cook!) but otherwise Jenn did all the cooking and
hosting. We had a really great time!

Thanksgiving Dinner #2 - my parents decided to cancel our family plans
on Friday because they've had a lot going on lately. I felt like it
would still be nice to get the family together tho, so I offered to
host the meal at our house instead. Zane made some killer mashed
potatoes, but otherwise I took on the entire meal myself! All vegan,
for 8 hungry bodies. Phew! Also lots of fun and great to have my
parents and brothers at our house for a change (the boys adore their
uncles). :)

Thanksgiving Dinner #3 - Logan and I headed up to the city on Saturday
to meet the Cables family at a local museum featuring a bee exhibit.
It was supposed to be all of us but Jon and I had started to come down
with a head cold the night before and he wasn't up for rushing out of
the house that morning (since we slept in). Because we had no plans
and I had quite a bit of food still at the house - a whole dinner in
fact, that I had purchased at Whole Foods when I originally thought we
were having dinner on our own Thursday - I invited the Cables down to
our house for the evening and our two families stuffed ourselves silly
with way too much yummy food. Another successful dinner in the books!

We had a fantastic break hanging out with great friends and family and
eating way too much good (I also took advantage of being off work for
a full week and did a lot of prep for Logan's birthday party coming
up!).

Now we're all counting down the days until our time off over Christmas. ;-)

I've got some catching up to do!

First day back to school after 9 days off. No clue why they're so tired.