Heart filled Days

One of the best things about having girls is the love they have for hearts and Valentine's Day! here's a small sampling of how we celebrated this year's Valentine's Day! ❤️

Fun Valentine's for our friends...

 Surprise Valentine morning heart messages...

 A love letter from Anna...

 Our annual heart shaped pizza and some conversation heart cookies!

Holiday Highlights

From snow to skiing to holiday baking we kept busy this holiday season. We enjoyed snow filled days...

A night our at Enchant Vancouver - the world's largest light maze...

Skiing the local mountains....

 Our annual Yule Log and Gingerbread Men....

Three years ago I made Anna a light up box with a strand of Christmas lights that only half lit up...

Three years later, another big box and another set of lights that only half worked and we have the Light Up box 2.0!

 Matilda found it to be the perfect place for a mid afternoon snooze....

First Snow

We got our first snow of the season today! It was also the most snow we've seen since moving to North Vancouver. While we get plenty of snow within a 15 minute drive up the hill we have never had as much snow as we did today...we've had dustings of snow BUT today we got almost 5 inches of the white stuff. And it was a good wet perfect for snowman making snow! It was also the first time we've (and by that I mean ME) have had to shovel the drive since living in Toronto. FUN!

BOO!

Happy Halloween! Halloween for us was a real TREAT....why? Mother Nature decided to take pity on us and dry the skies just in time for trick or treating! And since October had only 3 days of no rain we enjoyed every minute of our dry Halloween!

This Halloween we celebrated with chocolate chip spider cookies and meringue cookie ghosts. I actually made the meringue ghost cookies for Anna when she was 3 and she still asks for them! The girl loves a meringue!

A Royal Visit

 A couple of weeks ago the royals were in town! Prince William and Princess Kate visited Vancouver and a friend and I decided to brave the crowds and attempt to get a peek at the royal couple. Anna was very excited to see "a real life Princess" (her words!)...though I did explain to her that the princess would not be in a big ball gown and crown! So with our best tiaras on we hopped on the sea bus to downtown Vancouver and got a peek at the royals! And by peek I mean it really was a peek.....crowds and crowds of people....!