Happy Tuesday!

Today was a good day.....

Happy Faces...happy to be outside without 10 pounds of clothing on!

Pretty girl - this was her "determined" look - she was attempting to get to the top of the slide!

Having fun together

Alot of my shots from today were like this - her trying to escape from me :)

this is when she finally "made it" to the top of the slide :)

Getting ready....

Hooray for Matea!  She made it down the big slide!

Attempting to get a "sibling photo"

Big Mack thought it was funny, funny, funny.

Little cuties

This was about 3 seconds before Big Mack gave Miss. Matea

the big "double knee drop" on her tummy...there was a BIG timeout, and

two very sad toddlers.

Daddy & Matea

Big mack doing his new favorite activity - DS

After supper cuddles

*Close-Up*

*Close Up*

*Close Up*

A little Miss. Matea picture.....

A cute little "March" picture for Miss. Matea's scrapbook :)

What do ya think?

Miss. Matea in the morning & Big Mack's "date night!"

I got some pretty cute pictures of Miss. Matea this morning.  She is still teething like crazy, and not always too happy about it, but she is STILL so adorable....

Matea is her favorite spot...in the kitchen in the corner, cleaning out all the cupboards

Hi Mom!

Now what do I do with this?

Pretending to "jump" - basically just stomps her foot....cute.

I like this picture of the Schurman bums :)

Helping Daddy

BIG MACK'S BIG DATE NIGHT!

Mack had his little buddy Ayva over for a little playdate tonight...

they are cute, cute, cute!

Ayva and Mack having some popcorn...

They were dancing, and saying goodnight to each other

i think this picture was taken post dance moves, but in the middle of a "night, night hug"

A little bitof this & a little bit of that :)

So....I have been working ALL week - this is a stretch for the M&M's and I (once again...thank goodness for "The Nana") PLUS, I was subbing in grade 2!  Yikes!  Grade 2 is fun, fun, fun - don't get me wrong, and the school I was at was awesome - but I swear I have never said the phrases "Boys and Girls" and "sit in your desk please" so many times!!!!  Still adorable though, they say "thank you for teaching us" after every new lesson :)  Cute.

ANYWAY....everyone was "missing" each other a little bit this week.  The M&M's were VERY excited to see me whan I got home, and I was VERY excited to see them too.  I only had one morning where I cried a little one the way to work.  Big Mack got up before i left the house, and he was very determined to have me stay home "You take that off, take that jacket off!  You stay with me Mommy!" - I cried.  And you know what?  He was fine, fine, fine all day - he ALWAYS has fun with Nana.

Too much talking, not enough pictures, right?

This was the scene at my house Wednesday after school :(

Mommy & Matea having a little cuddle

M&M's loving their Momma!

This is what Miss. Matea looks like when she is teething, I swear my little lady has cut a bizillion teeth in the last month!  My poor little princess :)

Big Mack playing with some "new-ish" toys we got from some friends :)

I love, love, love when they get along....AND I capture it on camera FOREVER!

I wanted to throw this picture of Big Mack in BECAUSE he is wearing a little jacket from our super good friends The Thomson's (Ian, Tracy, & sweet Sadie Jae)  They have gotten him so many super cute prezzies over the years, and this jacket was part of his 1st birthday present from them!  I am glad that he has finally grown into it because it is soooo adorable!  PLUS I know that Tracy reads my blog so...."thanks buddy!"

Here's the awesome Thomson's :)

This picture is old - Sadie was JUST born, (like 3 days old) and let me tell you, I never looked this good when my little people were 3 days old :)

I know this is a crazy mix of a blog tonight but....whatever :)

i just wanted to share my little "work station" with you guys - it has goten a little bit of an overhaul the last little while...I'll let the pics do the talking.....

Now I can blog AND Scrapbook while i watch my fave movie...that's right don't pretend like you don't know!  Twilight, and of course New Moon too!

*Special thanks to "The Uncle Jer" for his tech services & to "The Bampi" for lending my an extra monitor - I know - spoiled.

Funny New Moon story:

I went to Toys R Us on Thursday with Jer.  We went for the sole purpose of purchasing "New Moon", not just the regular New Moon DVD - the one with the Team Edward pins!  Because really what would I do with the "free with purchase Edward barbie doll?!?"  That would just be ridiculous.  ANYWAY we were at Toys R Us, I purchased New Moon and the cashier fella says "would you like a gift receipt?" - i laughed out loud and told him it was ALL for me - and then he laughed a little too :)

Big Birthday Bash!

So it was "The Bampi’s" birthday this weekend, you know what that means, right? Schurman/Clevette family fun time! Woot, woot! We had a little BBQ, Bob made some delicious homemade burgers that he copied off the food network from the guy that does that show “Diner’s, Drive-inns, and Dives” – I’m getting off topic but the burgers were pretty delicious :)  I wish I would have taken a picture....

ANYWAY….the Bampi’s birthday party. Super fun times. Even though it wasn’t Mackenzie & Matea’s birthday, they still cleaned up in the present department?!? I know spoiled, right? Yep – they are.

Big Mack enjoying the new DS game Bampi & Nana bought him for....Bampi's birthday?
Spoiled.

Miss. Matea loving her presents from Nana & Bampi.

this present was so loud we had to put tape over the speaker - thanks guys, remind me to bring this over to your house :)

DS is one of Mack's new favorite past times....weird.

I'm really BAD at video games, really bad.

Blowing out the birthday candles!

Big Mack has got his "eye on the prize"

Bampi is sooooo kind to share the birthday spotlight with Big Mack

YIKES! Big mack gives me a heart attack EVERY time we go to a birthday party!

Waaaayyyy too close to the candles!

Matea with chocolate ice cream cake ALL over her face!

Cute. 

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She wanted to wear her shoes all over the house on Saturday night, she loves them.

She REALLY loves shoes in general!

Cute, cute!

Rub-a-dub-dub...a three and a one year old in the tub!

Has it been forever or WHAT?!?  That's what happens when this "wandering educator" gets called to work 4 days in a row?!?  Craziness, thank goodness for The Nana!

So....there really isn't any story behind these pictures.  Usually Bob and I do bath time together (when I say together i mean Bob does all the hard hair washing, and teeth brushing and then a swoop in for the snuggles and night, night smooches - it's a tough job but someone has to do it)....ANYWAY a few nights ago Bob went to play bball (can you believe it!?!) and I had to do bath time solo - it was hilarious!  Matea was adorable, even after she got caught up in "Hurricane Mackenzie James", and Big Mack, well he was Big Mack....never a dull moment :)

***Disclaimer***

If you don't like cute little bath tub bum pictures, then you need not look ANY further!

It really is as painful as it looks :)

Big Mack's favorite toy to make a mess with in the bathroom.

Cute little M&M's!

Hold on!

Here comes the start of "Hurricane Mackenzie James"

Poor Matea she is caught right in the middle of the storm!

Wow.  That's alot of splashing.

This is where I stop documenting and start parenting :)

Poor Matea...she did not enjoy Hurrican Mackenzie James as much as some people did.

She's really tired at this point.

Out of the bath tub....

These are the "cute little bath tub bum" pictures, in case you didn't recognize them 

Now for my new favorite pictures......

"TA-DA!!!!"

(please don't email me and tell me they were "okay", because i think they are great, strictly because she looks incredibly adorable)

Yeah, they have been edited some, prepare to see these pictures in a scrapbook page in the near future :)

And now for some "Princess Matea" pictures

She was still recovering from "Hurricane Mackenzie James" so when I was getting her ready for bed, she needed ALL her blankets on her change table.....princess.

"Oh Mommy i need that blanket too....why don't you just bring them all..."

Look at her little face in this picture!

She looks like such a DIVA!

I think this is her: "Ha!  So that's how you get Mommy to do stuff she normally doesn't do...hmmm" face.