Hike with Rentons and Movie Night with Burdges ...

Hiking with the Rentons ... Isaac is now taller than JL ....

We all went to see Paddington 2 at the theatre on Saturday  ..... it was a cute movie ...and afterwards Marg suggested going for dinner!  There is a great noodle restaurant across the street from the theatre so we wandered over there!  Isaac got a hold of my phone and took some candid (blurry) shots of people ... Cristin came to the movie too, so she came for dinner too, since she is like family .....

Megs!! Getting so big hey? Such a fun girl .. this is probably her looking at Elliot .... he does weird stuff that seems to make her laugh ....

Her first bowl of Pho!!

This made me laugh ... heading back to the car, Marg starts to beetle across the road...super jay walking, and nobody else steps out onto the road...

Light turns, and people start to move ... everyone was laughing, it was just such a happy night ... Marg and Gordon spoil us ... such a nice couple.

...and we're walking .. and we're walking .....

Trunk Party!  She had all this stuff from a Syrian family who was moving and had to leave alot of their stuff behind ... I got some toilet paper .... (speaking of behind)

 

 

 

Grabbed a few things from the grocery store on the way home, Isaac snuck away and came back with his choices ... this kid thinks he's SOOO hilarious .... sigh...

Thursday Getaway! Aisha, Darlene and Moms fur coat .....

Met this favorite but elusive friend of mine for dinner at Browns Social House .... we laugh and dream big when we are together ... she is such a great spirit, wish we lived closer ..... our kids are pretty close in age, so its fun discovering how teenage boys work!

After dinner it was time to head to Aisha's....she is my teacher ... smart and lovely with struggles of her own .... and very honest about those struggles ...

Boy ... I look tired in this picture ....

No Sidebar is a facebook group that Susan told me about, so I joined it to see what it was all about - its about people (mostly women) trying to simplify their lives - So Susan asked a question about her family fur coats and what to do with them, an onslaught of responses, but I thought mine was the funniest!  Love the last comment of the thread .... my mom IS a badass....

hikes and instantpots and stuff....

Snagging these two for lunch and a hike ... we decided to have an 'Instantpot' lunch to celebrate both of us getting one from Marg for Christmas!!  Super fun!

I wonder if Marty misses his early morning and after school cuddles with Mittens while we were in Thailand?

Instant Pot roast beef dinner ... all done while I sat on my butt pretty much ..... got up for 5 minutes to mash the potatoes while Chris carved the roasted and steamed some broccoli....

Nerf gun battle down at the gym .....

He knows I love Petes Dragon ....

A few randoms from the first week of January

It is the morning lineup these days .... water with lemon and Frankensense, vitamins, smoothie then coffee.....

Chris is making great use of his 3D printer!  Here is one of his projects for our artist who keeps losing his pencils ....

Smith girls slept over for one night of fun ....

and we burned our Christmas Tree ....

They all slept well ... got to love attic space ....

She is super teenager-y!!  ;-)  but in a good way ... love watching these girls grow up ....

New Years 2017!!

From PJ's and bed head in 10 minutes ... a little make up and a few curls and out the door we go ...

Ran the café for the beginning of the retreat.  Bunch of young 'guppies' who were excited for the party but also a group of older staff who we love and enjoy hanging out with ....

Isaac came down to the café for my second shift to help out ... he is going for a record of how many days he can stay in his onesie ..... Nobody even seemed to bat an eye, even a couple campers came in with their own onesies on ..... so funny.

Chris couldn't last past 6:30 .... we had grabbed dinner for all 4 of us and brought it home and eaten in the livingroom, and then he went to bed until 11.  I stayed down at camp doing the café and playing games with the older staff until almost 11...so by the time I got back, I was starting to crash on the couch, and he was putting his shoes on to make sure all was running well down at camp.  The sweet guy brought home sparkling apple juice with the boys so he could toast in the new year with me (who hadn't left the couch at midnight to go down like the boys did)..... so here we are cheering with camp cups! ;-)

Around 1am, a group came up and we watched Mall Cop .... pretty hilarious as we were all making fun of ourselves "Hey! What'd you do for New Years? Well!! We rang in the New Year watching Mall Cop up at the Burdges...."

At midnight, Chris had brought out the floating lanterns for campers ... it was a spontaneous and lovely event  - a favorite highlight of the weekend according to one camper the next morning ....

He is my favorite ... this month has been good for us ... we have been all over the map (literally)--with where we have gone in the world, what we have dreamt about for this upcoming year, where we are in our marriage and our friendship ... and things just seem to keep getting better.  I am one lucky girl.