In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, I’ve forgotten to blog a few pics from my recent trip to Quilt Market in Salt Lake City. I was covering the event for my website Boutique Cafe, and interviewing oodles of fabric and pattern designers. It’s always a huge treat and honor to be able to showcase so many of the most talented people I’ve met – I love it!! Scores of new interviews are still on their way to Boutique Cafe so keep coming back to see more and also to snag some Market Swag from the designers. We all love a giveaway…right?!!
Here are just a few fun and funny moments from Market this time around:
Jessica Levitt and I show off our matchy matchy camera bags! (Thanks to Nate’s Mom for mine, I LOVE it!!)
Hamming it up with my sweet friend Anna Maria Horner, we always have so much fun together.
Best moment ever!! Making Joel Dewberry recreate the Ty Pennington pose from a famous magazine cover. You all know it!
Megan and Chelsea playing dolls!
Megan (Brassy Apple) being swarmed by her blog fans. It’s true, Megan is totally recognized everywhere she goes. Here she is pictured with @Killerella and @BustyLaRue. It’s so fun to see my friend being all famous and fabulous! I love Megan!
Want to see a bunch of giggly girls at Market, look no further. I swear when I get together with Kim and Kris from The DIYDish, we can’t help the laughter and hijinx. We laughed, I cried, good times.
Most of my coverage is on Boutique Cafe and my photos are all viewable onFlickr.
This month my big baby boy turned 17! Can you believe that he’s that old already? I’m dying here.
As part of his Birthday gift we wanted to spend some time with our boy and make memories with him. We decided to take him (and Lola) out to visit Victoria in British Columbia. The three little boys stayed in Calgary with their Nana and Papa for several jam packed days of crafting, movies, cousins, frogging and fun!! (Thank you again Mom and Dad for taking them – they are still buzzing about all the fun they had with you!)
We arrived late at night but that didn’t discourage us from going out. We checked into our little hotel room on the Inner Harbor and walked downtown (Lola in tow) to check out the city. We found a waffle place that was open late at night and had delicious waffles around midnight.
Our adventures over the next few days included Whale Watching, exploring the island, shopping, eating at many delicious restaurants (The Blue Fox for Breakfast, Haultain Fish and Chips), walking the beaches, spotting an adorable family of seals bobbing in the ocean near us, and Zip Line/Bunjee Jumping.
I loved our trip, the entire time I felt emotional thinking about how my son is growing up so quickly. Soon things will change once again and trips alone with him won’t be happening. I’m so happy that we took this opportunity to vacation and enjoy him, he is so funny!! I hope you enjoy the little video I’ve put together to remember our adventures.
Here it is!!! Photographic evidence that my sweet baby brother and his adorable girlfriend Andrea visited us this past weekend! We had such a marvelous time with them, they are such a wonderful couple and so in love with each other. Their new baby is due to arrive in August, and we are so excited to meet her. My brother has always been so special to me, I love him with all my heart. It’s so joyful to see him happy and to get to know Andrea even better – she’s a total keeper!
Thanks for coming to see us you guys – we love you
Lola Olivia is our little Angel. I can’t believe how grown up and beautiful she is, sometimes she takes my breath away. At 15 months old she is busy, talkative, spunky, happy (most of the time), and utterly kissable. I’m not sure what I ever did to deserve her, but boy am I grateful that she is ours.
This has been a week of rebirth, changes and new carpet! Not only are we redoing our flooring in the house, but we’re also getting rid of the old green countertops and yucky backsplash in our kitchen. To make my point even further that change is sweet thing, I chopped 5 inches off of my hair yesterday (well I didn’t, my hairstylist/darling buddy Cheryl did). I LOVE IT!! It was time to embrace the Spring, and get rid of that straggly long hair, I have been wanting a change but finally got the guts to do it. I highly recommend a cute haircut – go and treat yourselves to a new you!
I feel like a completely different girl, bear with me if you see me glancing in the mirror alot over the next few days. I still can’t believe that I’m me!
Just goofing around with my “Incredibooth” app on my iPhone. I love that it captures my delight with my life right now, don’t get me wrong I have worries and stress like all of us. I’m just feeling much more positive and more “ME” than I’ve felt in years.
Our Easter weekend was a wonderful magical time, I love holidays with my children and my handsome husband. The boys were so excited for Easter, we always arrange for that bunny to arrive on Saturday so we can devote our entire Easter Sunday to love and reflection on the resurrection of Jesus Christ, as well as family time. Saturday is just pure SUGAR! My Mom stopped by with special gifts for the kids, including a new pink purse for Lola bug – she knew exactly what to do with it and was giddy about having a purse of her very own.
My pics aren’t great my apologies, but I want to share a few of my cuties from this weekend anyway (if you click on them they’ll enlarge):
After the huge candy lottery, we piled into the van and Dylan drove all the way to Waterton. We spent the remainder of the day in the mountains, it was beautiful warm and not the least bit windy. There was a massive amount of snow, which I stupidly didn’t expect or prepare for. We went for a little hike along a stream, and made a huge Snow Easter Bunny in a clearing. It was awesome. We were so proud of Dylan, he finally got his learner’s licence and drove there and back. YAY Dylan!
On Easter Sunday we went to church, and then headed up to Calgary to spend Easter dinner with Nathan’s family (Dylan drove up to Calgary too). It was DELICIOUS and wonderful to be with them, it felt like we hadn’t been up there in months and months! I love seeing all of the cousins run around together, they went on a frog hunt across the street and got all muddy and elated, and Lola was fully enjoying some special time playing with her Nana too. We got home on Monday morning around 1:30 am, but well worth the utter exhaustion the next day.
Finally on Monday, I took the boys to see HOP at the theatre. We laughed and had a great time while Nathan was at work, and Lola napped at Nan’s house. The best part of my whole holiday is the memories that we are able to make for our kids. I love the magic and anticipation of youthful dreams, my holidays as a child were always magic and that’s what I hope my children will be able to say someday too. Maybe we hold on a little longer than most parents do to “The Bunny” etc. but seeing their faces and hearing those delighted sounds makes me feel like I’m doing ok. I love the innocence and sweetness of those dreams, and don’t mind if they last a little bit longer, the world will rob them of it sooner or later.
Thank you to our family and friends for making this past weekend a wonderful, spiritual and special time. We love you all!
Color her happy! Lola was overjoyed that Nan walked up the hill to pick her up for their “DATE” last night.
We scooted off to Dylan’s play, the boys went over the Crystal and JD’s house…and Lola got into her Royal apple green carriage and was whisked off to the wonderful world of adoring Grandparents. It’s a lovely place where everyone is in awe of each thing you do, and even the sassy stuff seems adorable to them.
I’m told that they first went on a long walk – 1 hour! Lola must have been in heaven, she adores being outside.
She definitely kept Mom and Dad hopping with her busy little ways. Lola brought her little Amy Butler purse along stocked with fun little treasures like makeup brushes, bracelets and her tiny baby doll. Mom said that she hasn’t slept so deep in her new house as she did last night after watching Lola!! HAHA! I can relate.
You have to admit, they look pretty darn cute together! Thanks Mom and Dad for helping us out last night!
Noah is so adorable right now, I love that little boy. Sometimes he is so endearing and tender. The other day he asked me:
“Mommy, what is your name?”
I replied “Thanks for asking Noah, my name is Daria!”
To which he answered “I want to call you Daria now, ALL of the time!”
Well I’m not quite ready to let go of hearing my 6 year old call me Mommy, but I think it’s kind of adorable that a few days later he brings me this picture that he made for me at school ->>
(Thanks to Nate’s Mom for mine, I LOVE it!!)
This has been a week of rebirth, changes and new carpet! Not only are we redoing our flooring in the house, but we’re also getting rid of the old green countertops and yucky backsplash in our kitchen. To make my point even further that change is sweet thing, I chopped 5 inches off of my hair yesterday (well I didn’t, my hairstylist/darling buddy Cheryl did). I LOVE IT!! It was time to embrace the Spring, and get rid of that straggly long hair, I have been wanting a change but finally got the guts to do it. I highly recommend a cute haircut – go and treat yourselves to a new you!
