get outside

ugggggghhhhh.  we've been cooped up in our house for months weeks forever.  it's been the longest, coldest winter that i remember having in a long long long time.  and it started freaking early.  we've still got a massive snow pile separating our driveway from the neighbours and it's been so effing cold.  minus forty with wind chill.  wtf?  it's only allowed to be that cold in february.  and for like a day.  the end.

apparently mother nature overheard my weather cursing because within the last five days we've had a thirty degree temperature increase.  good timing because i think all of us were going a little cray cray.  we tossed on some rubber boots and went hunting for puddles.  so nice to be outside, enjoy the sun and not have your nose hairs or eyelashes freeze.  hope it sticks around for awhile good.

hope you had a fantastic weekend too!

liamisms ~ vol. 5

i swear the more i listen to liam talk the more i find myself giggling.  he's so serious now when he's telling us a story about something that happened in his day.  whether it actually happened or he's playing pretend.  and he's also becoming a major big brother to averie, scrap that, he's trying to be her parent.  both rob and i find ourselves telling him to stop being the mommy or the daddy and to be her big brother.  despite all that, it's super awesome to see him care so much about her.  and averie just eats it up.

but back to the world according to liam.

"when i was a baby a long time ago, i wore bows."

"i love toe nail stark."  (talking about tony stark and ironman)

"mommy, i could poop every morning."

"we can't stomp around in the snow.  it will make the snow come back and snow on us."

"i knew i was hungry.  that's why you should give me food."

"mommy is mari-jane, mari-jane is mommy and mommy's the boss."

me: it's getting cold outside.
liam:  yeah, my brain is freezing.

"my girlfriend is bits and james."  (both of his cousins)

at breakfast the other morning he was staring at his bowl of cereal and said this:
"oooooooooooo, it's so carbonated."

what a guy.  love him to pieces.

life {lately} ~ vol. 27

almost a month since i last dumped my phone pics.

it's been super duper cold here.

like minus forty with the wind chill cold.

um, isn't it march??

we're pretty much done with the cold, i could do with some spring.

and although it's been effing freezing, life has continued to be crazy and fun.

coffee, blog reading and cameras.

hunting for new bedding for liam.

finished the mudroom bench cushions, with the exception of the added the velcro.

guess that only makes them mostly, almost, 95% finished.

another family road trip ski weekend.  this time to fernie.

beer time.

completed our first attempt at hanging wallpaper.  more on this later.

canada flag art during the olympics and some olympic hockey watching at work.

new art on the wall in the pantry.

reading stories and putting diapers on baby dolls and bo-bear.