Daria’s Life

Yesterday was an exceptionally fun day for all of us. My Mom, Sister and her two boys headed down for a visit to enjoy our new pool and have a blast. It was certainly that! We had the best time yesterday playing in the water with all of the kids. Nathan had prepared the night before by running out to purchase a few essential floating water toys (ie: a huge water Sea Saw!).

The weather cooperated perfectly for us, in fact my Mom actually purchased a wet suit at Costco and got in with us. Our favorite new water game is “Whirlpool” where you have tons of people in the pool and you all run in the same direction in a circle. With all that activity it produces a current and when you yell “whirlpool” everybody lays back and enjoys the ride! It’s a total blast and something I hope we’ll get to do with all of our extended family this summer. (don’t miss out!)

The Sea Saw is a fine addition to our collection of water paraphernalia. Nathan and Dylan were the first to try it and man they were intense! They totally got air when they were on it. The kids played on it most of the day, but finally my Mom and I gave it a whirl. I’ve never laughed so hard, my mom was hilarious!! (way to brave it mom).

Later we had a marshmallow roast in our new fire pit. The kids were all standing around cooking theirs when Noah comes outside with a little plastic clothes hanger and a marshmallow on it!! ADORABLE! He just saw that everyone had a hanger and figured any kind would do.

All in all it was a wonderful and wild day. Andrew has stayed a few extra days to play with the kids and they’re having a blast being around each other. This is shaping up to be quite the fun summer for us!

I’m FINALLY getting my butt in gear and am presently uploading pictures from our visit to International Quilt Market in Portland! I’ve been dying to share them all with you, but it takes a long time to upload that many pics - whew Flickr is laboring away as we speak.

In any case I hope you enjoy, I’ll be adding tons so check back tomorrow and there will likely be more. Don’t forget to subscribe to my flickr feed, or add me as a friend on your own Flickr account. - XO!! Daria

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www.flickr.com Boutique Cafe’s Quilt Market Portland - Spring ‘08 photoset

A few months ago Old Red Barn Co. did an awesome Quilt Giveaway on their popular blog.

Fast forward to present time and they’re doing it again!!! This time it’s a quilt made with Ginger Blossom fabrics from Sandi Henderson! Talk about beautiful, I can’t tell you how much I am coveting this quilt. The fabric designer is a good friend of mine and I can’t think of anything I’d love to snuggle up with more than this gorgeous quilt in her fabrics!

Pick Me Dana, Pick Me!! (I’m working on my video to convince you of my dire need!! LOL!)

I was out running errands today and right next to my “errand” store was Payless shoes. I had to run in and check out the sales, they have a big one going on right now and I’ve been on the hunt for a new dressy pump. Check out what are now in my closet!

They are super comfy platform pumps, even with a 4″ heel and I love that they cut lower on one side (you can’t really tell from this pic). I might need to go back and get them in brown too!

Last week was Brigs long awaited Tonsil and Adenoid removal surgery date. He was very brave for the most part and came through the surgery really well. It’s taken a bit longer for him to bounce back than his older brother Joshua, but Joshy was lucky enough to be able to have the new Coblation method which has less bleeding, less pain, less swelling. Sadly they weren’t able to do that method for Brigs.

I was very proud of my little guy, but I never want to take him to a hospital again! The kid was climbing the walls to get out of there! (we both were). Thanks to our family members for all of their help! We couldn’t have done this without you all. XO

Guilty, guilty, guilty of not blogging stuff that should have been blog-worthy! So here’s a brief recap in a few seconds:

1. Joshua James turned 7!!!! We headed up to Calgary and hit the Calgary Zoo for his birthday. Nicole/Bjorn and family came along for the day. It was blistering hot, the animals were awesome (so was the slurpee/soft serve ice cream concoction). On the way out of town we stopped by to see Conor and Katie (and bask in the air conditioning at Mom and Dad’s house). Katie made us dinner and fed us all cookies - yum!!! It was a fantastic day and we loved being with our kids.

2a. Canada Day we woke fairly early and headed out to the Raymond Parade. The small town puts on quite the show, and we will definitely be back next year. In fact, I have heard whisperings of my husband wanting to BE IN the parade next year. Maybe his Mom can make him a costume!! The kids loved the miniature horses, motorcycles and all the tons of candy they throw out into the crowd.

2b. Canada Day Con’t - Nathan’s parents took our family to see Wall-E! Oh my gosh the boys were so in love with that movie. It was adorable. We braved the torential downpour and somehow made it to the theater without a canoe.

3. Did I mention that the kids are out of school? I was in attendance at a million farewell bbq’s, picinics and presentations. Joshua was a rockstar at Sports Day and showed off his coordination and energetic nature to all in the vicinity. He was precious!

4. It’s the afternoon…I have a migraine…and I’m still in my pjs. Gotta split but at least you’re caught up on what our family has been up to. I’ll be a better blogger soon. Promise!

My son just rocked out his final report card, and now he’s headed off to High School in the Fall! Way to go Dylan, I’m so proud of you. You totally kicked it up a notch and proved to yourself that you could do it. I hope you can always remember what it took for you get here, I know you can continue to do that. You’re a smart kid (oops, I mean teenager!). It is fun to watch you investing in a goal, and makes me so thrilled to see you succeed at it (it’s better than a shopping spree to me!).

SUPER STAR!

There are many moments that my kids just shine and I completely gush over how wonderful they are. This is not really one of those stories, but begs to be told!

Yesterday was Joshua’s end of the year class picnic at a lake near the school. Brigs and I ran over to meet up with Joshy’s class and to surprise Joshy. While we were waiting for the Grade 1’s to arrive we decided to play on the playground. Brigs climbed up on this tall wooden platform and was so proud to be up so high. He was having so much fun that it attracted the attention of an older kid who was also there. He climbed up next to Brigs and was likely double Brigs size! Then my little sweet voiced boy says to the huge child next to him “you’d better get off here or I’m gonna punch you in the face!!”

Ok I was totally shocked. The kid could have easily beat the tar out of Brigs with one swoop. Amusingly, I think he actually found it funny and started to laugh a bit, that this little mosquito of a kid was threatening him. I of course talked with Brigs at length about his behavior and delt with it on the spot. But the thing I wanted to convey with this post is how the size of his body does not even come close to the size of his spirit! He’s just my sweet little feisty Brigs (must be all the Scottish blood in him).

Nathan has been back in Florida the past few days for another dental implants course. While gone this week we got to iChat a few times. On one of those occasions Noah walked by and saw his Daddy’s picture pop up on the computer.

He got all excited exclaiming “Oh! it’s HIM!! He’s Fan-tastic!!”