Friday Favorites!

Number 1 comes from my hubby.  Last night I was out at a friends house until pretty late, when I came in I new he was sound asleep, and had been for quite a while.  But as soon as I got in bed he rolled over and snuggled right up to me.  Still sound asleep.  He is ALWAYS hot, I'm ALWAYS cold, so there's nothing better than getting snuggled so sleep.  Love him!

Number 2 is from my dear Lyla (shocker I know!).  Right now one of her favorite things to do....is sit.  Yep, sit on the floor, sit on one of her chairs, even on the radiator (not on obviously).  When we were at my Mom's last week she was kind of walking around backwards, and we were all wondering what she was doing.  We were all sitting at the table and she was 'looking for a place to sit'.  At one point she just leaned back against the wall and squatted down into a sitting position.  So freakin' cute!

Happy Friday!

Summer Vacation

Although we didn't have a lot of extra money when I was a kid, my parents always made sure that we got to travel (by station wagon of course) and really enjoyed out summer.  When I asked my mom why we weren't in soccer in the summer she said it was because we always complained when we had to leave the beach early!  I grew up in PEI, can you blame me?

So now that we are 'all grown up', this is still something I want for our families. It's tough, I work in recreation and g works in construction, so the summer months are busy. But fortunately we've had things we 'had' to go to the past couple of years, so it made it easier to work things around.  Last year I was standing in a wedding for a roomie for university so that gave us a great opportunity to visit New England and get some great shopping done.  This year we had a lucky draw of dates since my big bro was getting married, and g had a ball tournament the following week.  As much as I adore my Mom and Dad, I knew staying there for a full week would be a little much. So we booked a beautiful cottage and called it a vacation!

The schedule looked kind of like this. First Lyla and I went over to PEI for a quick weekend trip.  A cousin of mine who lives on the complete other side of the country was visiting for the first time since my parents' wedding, and she couldn't stick around for my brother's wedding. So since it was also 'Old Home Week' in Charlottetown we figured we take in a few things.  Then I had to come back for Mon-Wed for work. Lyla and my sister and I headed back on Wednesday to help prep for the wedding which was on Saturday.  g came on Friday and we checked into the cottage on Saturday for the week.  He played 2 games a day all week (it was SO hot), and other than that we just enjoyed visiting.

Here's a couple of my favorite pics...lots more to come!

Labor Day is the new New Years!

Just back from vacation, such an amazing vacation, I think it's actually my favorite ever!  So of course I have tons to blog about...I actually started writing down topics last night and filled a page, so I am going to have lots of things to write about, and I'll easily hit my 30 posts challenge!

But for today I'm going to focus on the start of the 'new year'. I really think resolutions and all the stuff would work better starting with labor day.  It's the unofficial end of summer, and change of weather and wardrobe, and a starting fresh.  Maybe because my Dad was a teacher and we always looked at the fall as the starting of the new year.  I never feel that motivated by January 1st (except for the new calendars and day planners...love those!), but this feels like a fresh start for me.

I think this year it's even more so since we just got back from our vacation. Because I came back off Mat leave in May I didn't take any summer vacation until now, and it was much needed and fantastic!  Also we just moved offices ( I got stuck in the basement of our building), and I've taken it upon myself to really spruce up my office. New lighting and frames, even a rug, it's been great.

So here's to my 'new year'.  I've got lots of goals and plans, so stay tuned!