Halloween !

Totally unedited, throw them up there so the grandparents can see- Halloween pics !

Daddy thought I was crazy when I said Dylan was going to carve a pumpkin with a drill......

 But it was a good opportunity for him to participate in an activity he normally wouldn't be able to....

 And it was something we'd never done....  

 And he loved it....

 Turned out pretty good

 Halloweening at the mall... 

 Into the warmer Lion suit for outdoor trick or treating....

With his best girl...

 And one of his best buddies....

 Even the scary houses weren't that scary....

 And the two buddies waiting for the fireworks to start.

What a great night we had !!!

Spontaneous is my middle name lately.

One night last week I decided last minute to plan an evening of a picnic, waterpark, playground, and music in the park.  When Mat called to say he was leaving work, I told him to meet us downtown- and didn`t say why.

It was a fun night.

With it being the long weekend, we decided to be spontaneous again and Sunday we picked up some pizza, and drove out to Paul Lake for a picnic and beach fun.

Unfortunately Dylan hasn`t been sleeping well and was really tired.

Messy

We hosted a playdate on Friday at our house.

We decided to make choco-cherry muffins- with fresh cherries from our tree !

My little "helper" got a bit carried away.

and had lots of fun !!

Lesson of the day- the fun from this activity FAR outweighs the mess I had to clean up.

Cheese !!!!!!! While eating cheese

While in Calgary, our nephew's 6th birthday was held at the Cranston community waterpark.

Great facility, but you have to be part of the community association to use it- which kinda sucks.

Because the party was there, they let those of us who don't posses the golden key in too.

(even the riff-raff get in sometimes)

haha.

Dylan LOVED it.

It's a great area for kids.

Dylan adores water... he has no fear....

water directly in the face results in....

LAUGHING !

They had a really cool pinata !

Dylan thought it was pretty neat... although at first I don't think he believed us that he could use a hockey stick to wack it.

Normally wacking things with a hockey stick is a big NO

and results in him getting in trouble.

Yummy birthday cupcakes....

And some rest with Daddy after lots of fun, food and water adventures.

Probably the best/most fun birthday party we've been to.

** special note**

You might be thinking, wow- Tracy is really self absorbed and fixated on her son- where are the pics of the birthday boy and of the other kids??

Well yes, I am fixated on Dylan- thanks for pointing that out...haha

BUT

there are no pics of others for two reasons:

1) others have declined permission to allow me to share photos which I respect

2) I didn't ask others if I could use their pics, so I will not post them without permission.

Tracy

xoxox

While in Calgary we took Dylan a Stampede breakfast- which normally is a lot of fun, unless you take a crabby toddler, which he had turned into that morning.  

Oh well, free pancakes !

In the same vein as my last post- I convinced Mat that we should go to the stampede on kid's day.

It's free if you get there before 9 am, and bring your kid, or a kid you are able to borrow.  Luckily for us- we have a child.

Score !!!

Through the gate no problem !

Hardly a line?

Free breakfast- no line !

 It started to spit a bit of rain.... not a biggie, we have the stroller cover....

 Made friends with some animals.....

I personally LOVE horse noses....

And then... 

the sky turned

an awful shade of

blue

black

grey

And the sky opened up and poured and poured and poured....

as I waited in line outside

YES.

O.U.T.S.I.D.E

for tickets to the superdogs.

Mat bought us cheapy ponchos that look like garbage bags.

And we stood in the line.  

Getting soaked.

There are no photos- too stressed, drenched and worried about my camera.

But in the end, we did do some fun things...

We walked and walked and

walked....

 We rested our newly pedicured feet.

And we took our tired boy home after lunch.

Mat and I returned later in the evening for some adult fun.

Mmmm... Poutine.

SCORE !!!!

We've been watching the extreme couponing show on TLC, and Mat is really into it... more so then me.

I do have to admit, it's fun to get a good bargain.  So, while in Calgary we stumbled upon cereal for $1.00.

NO FREAKING WAY !!!!

uh-huh!!!!!

Stock pile !!!

And YES, we had to display our score !

Couponing Nerds

Cherries !

The cherries were ready, but since I was sick I didn't help pick them.   Instead, Dylan was involved in the action this year.  He thought it was awesome- so much fun.

Now before you comment about our boy being unsafe on the ladder... I must let you know, we did have him read the safety instructions first.  haha.

(he's fine- really)

And finally he got tired of me taking his picture... so posed for this one, which basically says... get the * beep beep * away from me with that camera already !

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