June & July

Happy 2nd birthday Laurie! We can't believe that she is now 2! Such a big girl in such a short space of time. She had such a fun birthday party with all of her cousins and friends (and I'm sure the grown-ups too). It was a Peppa Pig themed one and we hired a bouncy castle and they all bounced until they dropped - we got some pictures of this but unfortunately we had the camera on the wrong mode so all of the indoor ones are a bit fuzzy so we've only included one:( Laurie got her hands (or should I say mouth) on her birthday cake before anyone noticed - as usual with her, she can sniff out sugar a mile away.

Laurie is getting even busier - we didn't think this was possible but she is happily proving us wrong! She has "escaped" 3 times now. We find her somewhere near the house with her wellies on the wrong feet and not a lot of clothes on splashing in the puddles! Luckily for us we've gotten her back safe and sound but need to be more vigilent!! She has also been helping Gran June with the wall papering as you can see above - we're thinking of hiring her out if anyone needs some slave labour painting and decorating done :)

Our little Alyssa is not so little anymore - well kind of! She is still wearing some 3-6 month clothes (maybe they were labelled wrong?!) and still in her stroller car seat so she is a petite little lady and is 1 next month! Time has flown by! She has now said her first official real word... Kara! Can you believe in a house with this many people she calls on the dog first? She loves her and loves playing with her so I guess its understandable. She has yet to crawl but who needs crawling when you're a teleporter? Gran June has dubbed her "the invisible mover". You place her somewhere and within seconds she's across the room with hardly a movement! When we take her to my music classes she loves it - she knows exactly what to do with all of the instruments! Maybe this one is our little musician.

With us... as most of you know we are relocating back across the pond to Canada in the near future so we're just getting organised for that! But here and now in Bonnie Scotland we're enjoying our time with the girls out on day trips here and there, I am teaching my music classes and I have submitted my first assignment for my wedding planning course - eek!! Ryan is working part-time for an engineering friend in Calgary doing work online, he is still loving Young Mens and will be sad to say goodbye to the boys! He's just back from camp and is now officially fed up with the rain - I'm surprised it took him this long! After his weekend of being sopping wet all weekend long he is missing the sunshine!

By the way, the blurry photo of Ryan and me is us cutting the top layer of our wedding cake - it was still edible but for some reason our guests didn't want to try a piece of 4 year old cake??!!

Hope you're all well - see some of you soon, until next time...