It's been awhile!

Okay, so I'm so far behind on blogging now, I don't even know where to start!! I actually started writing this post about a week ago, so I'll try to recap all the things that have been happening around her lately.

Last Monday was Jeff's 32nd birthday!! We celebrated together with his parents at their house for dinner. His mom made his favorite dinner...homemade spanikopita!! Along with farmer sausage, asparagus, corn on the cob, pita bread and finished the meal off with his favorite dessert, peach pie. He was happy!!

I am so thankful for an amazing husband and daddy to our kids. I could not ask for a better man to spend my life with...I am blessed!! I love you so much Jeff.

That night, Gabby and Marty slept over at Grandma and Papa's house because it's normally
Grandma day on Tuesday, so it just worked out! We brought Megan home with us because it was a school night. Megan was sad to go to bed that night because Gabby wasn't there with her...so cute!! The next morning I helped out in Megan's kindergarten class. I love helping out and watching all the little 5 year olds interact.

We didn't do any gifts for birthdays between the 2 of us this year. Well...we were in Vegas for my birthday, so maybe Vegas was our birthday gifts to each other. The kids made Jeff a cute little birthday card and they were so excited to give it to him.

In other news, I took Gabby to see a speech therapist on Monday. My family doctor thought Gabby's speech was normal for her age, but I just wanted to make sure. She has trouble with some letters like "d" and "r" together...for instance she will say "gress" instead of "dress", or "Geff" instead of "Jeff". Anyways, the therapist thought she was normal for her age and even could say some words ahead of her age, but we are going to work on the letters she has trouble with. The therapist said to just keep saying the words back to her, so that eventually she was say them correctly too. We are going to go back when Gabby is 4 years old, just to see her progress. Gabby was SO well behaved and cooperated well for the speech therapist. I was so proud of her:)

Being silly in the bathtub...

Last Sunday, it was Family Sunday at church. All the kids stayed in the service. It was so sweet watching all the kids at the front of the church singing there songs. My girls love to sing!! They sang "I've got a River of Life", "Love the Lord your God", "Jesus Loves Me". It melted my heart seeing all 3 of our kids up there singing...well maybe Marty was just standing there looking cute.

On the weekend we celebrated my mom's 60th birthday!! My brother came up for the weekend. We went out as a family on Saturday evening for dinner to a Greek restaurant. And then after dinner my dad blind folded my mom and drove her to our church where 40 of her friends were waiting for her. We had a surprise party for my mom!! It had been a busy week leading up to the party because of getting all the food and making the desserts and decorating...but so fun and worth it. I am truly blessed to have such an amazing mom, who is also one of my closest friends!!

We have had sickness in our house for the past week or so:( Marty started with throwing up on Friday, Gabby started on Sunday, Jeff on Monday and Megan on Tuesday night. So far, I have not felt sick and I am so thankful for that!! Thankfully it seems to only be a 24 hour flu.

I'm reading a story to the girls and Gabby's holding her "barf" bucket...

We had our first big snowfall this week!! The girls wanted to get all bundled and go outside and play. I love the look of the snow, but I do not like the cold temperatures. Yesterday, I walked Megan to school and it is -18 degrees...not fun!!

We also decorated our house for Christmas last weekend. I put the tree up and brought all the boxes upstairs and then I told the kids we could decorate. They were SO excited!!

I think that's all for today. I'll try to update more often so my posts aren't so long...

Photoshoots...

I know it's been a few weeks since I posted, so I'll try to remember all the things we have been up to lately!

I can not believe we are into November already!! I've been trying really hard to get my Christmas shopping done. I'm almost there! The kids are pretty easy to buy for, so that's always nice.

I took a bunch of pictures of the kids in the backyard last week and I didn't realize until after I had taken all the pictures, that the camera was on the wrong setting and the pictures are a little blurry:( But, we had a fun time anyways...

We got some fall family pictures taken by our friends yesterday. I think they turned out pretty good! At least everyone is looking at the camera!

I helped in Megan's classroom one day last week. I made sugar cookies with 3 of the kids(including Megan). We had a great time and the kids were really well behaved. Megan was VIP the day I helped, so I got to see her be her teacher's big helper. It was SO cute! I forgot to bring my camera:(

The kids LOVE to play in daddy's truck...

Megan had a busy week at school last week, she had pumpkin carving, VIP day, Halloween Party!! She had so much fun. She is really loving school. And, she got invited to her first birthday party for one of the girls in her class. She dressed up as a butterfly for her Halloween party on Friday. All the little kids dressed up at school was pretty cute!!

We went over to our cousins place to do some pumpkin carving one evening last week. We didn't end up doing the pumpkins that night, just because we didn't have enough time. But, we did manage to get a picture with all the 2nd cousins together with Great-grandpa!! They are all 5 years old and under...

And....the kids were SO excited to go out trick or treating for Halloween. Megan and Gabby totally get it and love going around our neighbourhood to get treats!! Marty wasn't too sure what was going on, but he had fun just running around in his costume. I couldn't get enough of the kids in their costume...seriously SOOOO cute!!

A monkey, mouse and ladybug...

We are getting good use of this monkey costume. Megan wore it for 2 years, Gabby wore it for 2 years and now Marty will probably wear it for a couple of years!! I just love it!!

On Friday night, Jeff's parents offered to take our kids for a sleepover:) I know I've said it before, but we are SO blessed to have both sets of grandparents in town to help us with our kids. Thank you so much mom and dad V for blessing us in this way! We went out for dinner and then did some Christmas shopping. We slept in the next morning to 8am...without interruptions, it was wonderful! Then we ran a few errands before picking the kids up at lunch time. Then, that same evening, we went to our friends place for a potluck dinner...so fun!!

We had a really fun, but busy weekend!!! Now we just need to rest a bit this week:)