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Natalie’s Friend Birthday Party

Natalie has seen her siblings having their friends over for birthday parties so this year as she turned 5, she wanted to have her friend over too. It was a fun Monday afternoon. She had 4 little friends over which age ranged from 2-9 years. The party started at 1pm till about 5ish… They played [...]

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Natalie and Andrew’s Manifestations

When deciding what to do for their birthday cakes, I asked the kids specifically what they wanted on their cakes. Both Natalie and Andrew wanted to have gummy worms for their cakes. Guess what, last Monday, grandma Lita, comes over with some jelly beans and a container of gummy worms. How appropriate was that. I [...]

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My little girl is Five today

Natalie just turned 5 today. She was so excited when she woke up this morning and went straight downstairs to tell daddy that she is 5 today. At church this morning she told everyone… So precious. She says that she is a big girl now, not mummy’s baby anymore…

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Spring Cleaning – Garage Sale

Now that we have been in Winnipeg for almost 3 years, and having all our stuff in boxes in the garage, we have discovered that we do not need most of the stuff there.  So we have decided to sell a lot of it.  Most of which are household items and “stuff”.  So we have [...]

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St Jean Baptiste Day Celebration in Winnipeg

Today is St Jean Baptiste Day and there were some activities for the kids here at Provencher Park in St Boniface.  I took the kids to watch the entertainment which was all in French, good thing I had my translator, Matthew.  Great chance to be exposed to the language.  They had a great time and [...]

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Free Movie at Cinema City McGillivray in Winnipeg

Winnipeg is a great city for finding deals. I was on the Cinema City Website and found out that it was Community Day at Cinema City McGillivray on Saturday June 12th. The movies are free and the popcorn and drinks are only $2 each. What a deal. Proceed from concession sales are donated to the [...]

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Are you enjoying the weather?

Now that the rain has stopped, we are enjoying the great outdoors. Mum and dad love BBQs so tonight we ate our veg(lentil/chickpea) burgers outside on the deck. From the picture you can see that some of us had sweaters as it was a little on the cool side. The kids are so happy that [...]

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Creating a Vision Board

Last Monday, the weather was not very nice and it was pretty gloomy so we decided to go into the basement with our magazines and pictures to create our vision boards.  Actually we created vision books, which is a little more portable for us.

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Winnipeg Girls Try-a-Tri

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Sleeping In Their Fort

Yesterday, Natalie and Andrew built a fort in the basement and decided to sleep in it.  They asked our permission and we thought, why not?  They were so excited, they brought that clothes, stuff animals, pillows and blankets down there and set up for the night.  We were not sure how long it would last [...]

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