M & M July 2011

Trying to get back on the Digital Scrapbooking.....here is our July in review!

"Mommy what's a.....?"

Seriously those three words were enough to make me almost go bananas today :)  Seriously.  When Big Mack was like 2, and quietly playing by himself, while all the "other kids" at the playground seemed to be having these epic, paragraph long conversations about the meaning of life (I MAY be embellishing a teeny, tiny bit) with their parents, I remember telling Bob, when he is talk, talk, talking up a storm, I will talk to him for days!  Well sweet mother of everything holy, today was not one of those days.  When we got home tonight and the M & M's were inside the house, I shut the front door and sat on the front steps by myself for like 2 minutes, just enjoying no one asking me....

"Mommy what's a....."

- banana                   

- star

- baby

-can opener

I know I am being a horrible mother, and I will explain to him anything until I am blue in the face, but a banana?  C'mon.....when he asked about the banana a little part of me wanted to say "uh the fruit that you have been eating every other day since the beginning of forever"...but I didn't. 

Sigh, feel free to leave horrible Mother comments :)  It's a good thing he is cute...

I will say this...I am thankful that he does talk to me, sometimes I just wish that he would ask me if I was Team Edward or Team Jacob.....or who I thought was going to win Big Brother

We all have dreams :) 

Thomo ♥

A few weeks ago The Thomson Family came to visit us - how lucky are we!?!  We had a super fun time hanging out in the backyard and playing with the little people....it was a super fun way to spend an afternoon!  We ♥ the Thomo's!

Sweet Sadie Jae

 Ian and Sadie testing out the trampoline!

 Big Mack showing Ian all his "war wounds"

 "Hey Auntie Tracy!"

Miss. Matea looking sweet, she still acted like a bully :(

Apparently I don't feed him..

Big Mack making "grass angels" and showing off his ribs

 Sweet Sadie a littl eunsure about the slide....

 I C E   C R E A M ! 

 After knowing Sadie's Mom for like 10 years, I have actually seen Tracy make this EXACT same face when eating ice cream :)   Too Cute.

 Oh yeah this face too...

Such a little lady...

She is soooo loved

 "Open you eyes Ian!"

 We ♥ The Thomson Family

M & M super Fun Family Summer Party 2011

Oh my goodness me did we EVER have a blast today!  There are too many pictures to share right her in this post, more importantly we made some awesome memories with our family and friends :)

"The Set-Up"

"Eats & Treats"

(I totally slaved for days to make these personalized cookies....I'm lying, I bought them...but they were delicious)

some super fun water bottles!

 Thanks you Hattrick Designs!

Check out her etsy shop...very cool :)

And a few action shots!

Not too many as the little people are going to sleep and this M Squared Mommy is super tired too :)

Thanks to everyone who came out and shared this super fun day today, and for those who unfortunately had to miss it...no worries, we are thinking of making it an annual adventure :)

See you next year!

 The GP cousins

 Melissa & Ayva

 Zack!!!

 The Bampi taking his supervision responsibilities of Miss. Matea VERY seriously...THANKS Bampi!

The Nana also kept a watchful eye on our tiny blonde tornado--thanks Nana!

The Schurman Gang making sure everything is going good in bouncer #1

 Who is the biggest kids of all?

 Play-doh room

Aidan!!!

Daddy & Matea

 Crazy Uncle Bob

The Macleod's

Little Loves in the sand

(Ayva, Matea, and Kyra)

 My sweet nieces from Atlanta ♥ them

 Karen & The Roberge Family

Sweet Parker and his super sweet Momma!

 Fenna...I have approximately 1000 photo's of this little Miss....because I think she is so adorable!

 Ayva!!!!

So pretty.

 Tom and Baby Nate

 Amanda & Evan...i think this might be a "keeper" for The West Family

 Mack and Bob

Okay let's see who actually READS this blog....

GUESS which TWO pictures you think are my fave...just guess...c'mon you know you want to :)

I ♥ comments, so maybe leave your answer there!

Thanks again friends and family for making today a super fun day!

Trip to the Zoo--from back in June :)

Waaaay back in June we took a little trip to the Edmonton Zoo....we love The Edmonton Zoo.  It has all kinds of neat stuff packed into a waaaay smaller area (we have a hard time at the Calgary Zoo, there is sooo much too see and the M & M's peter out really quick) and they have all the snacks that Mack and Matea LOVE...anyway we love it.  Pictures to prove it :)

Checking out the lemur--he was super pumped!



 Concentrating super hard on the merry go round--her first ride, she loved it!

 M & M sweetness...I love the way Miss. Matea "looks" girly and graceful in this pic.

 Unsure on the train ride...but it ended up being fun, fun, fun!

 Big Mack's first Big Paddle Boat Ride...the good news?  He stayed in the boat!

 On the way home with his treasures from the zoo store :)