Out with the old...

So my daughter's 2nd birthday is fast approaching.  And we have already bought her new toys and I know a few other things she's getting from family as well.  And I sit here looking around the house thinking....yup, it's time to pack up her "baby" toys and make room for new big girl ones. Some friends say oh keep them for when you have another baby.  And I might keep some, but most are going bye-bye! I just don't have the room and I can't hold on to things that are waiting for baby #2, that could be years away....who knows!  We have no idea what our future holds and with such a tiny home we bought and very little storage, some things just have to go. Kids toys are getting bigger and bigger!  Its hard to buy a tiny toy anymore, everything is huge and clutters up the house. 

I find these days she's more interested in reading her books, colouring, painting, playing with the toys that use her imagination more than pressing a button and they do their thing.  She is very bored by the noisy toys (secretly i'm soooooooo happy about that!!) I can't wait to play with her on her birthday with one of her new toys she's getting.  She will freak her freak!! :) It was one of my faves as a child, and I hope its hers too. And since she's not interested in dollies or stuffed animals just yet, I do hope she likes what we picked out for her.

I am having a Hawaiian luau themed party for her and even found the cutest lei and baby sized grass skirt!  hahaha oh my its cute.  Now to get her to wear it will be the tricky part! And all of us there will get a lei to wear as well. I can't wait to decorate!!  Sunday will be a very fun day :)  I took the weekend off work as I did last year too, and I am hoping I will always be able to have her birthday "party" day off....there is NOTHING more important to me than my little girl.
xoxoxox

time's a tickin'

My 20 year highschool grad reunion is in 3 years. That makes me really old. When I was graduating and trying to think ahead to what our lives would be like at the 20 year reunion, I kept thinking, wow i'll be so old by then.  But time is starting to catch up to me. If the party was tomorrow night and someone asked What have you been up to since grad?.....I wouldn't have alot to say. Don't get me wrong, i'm no hermit and I have done oodles and oodles of things.....but I guess I still haven't achieved MANY of the goals I thought I would have achieved by this time.

I thought I would have been married. I thought I would have travelled somewhere. I thought I would have had more than one child. Maybe had a doggie, or a kitty. I would have been skinny. I would have a tight, close knit groups of friends. I would have dinner parties and ski trips, camping trips in my trailer, not the tent!  I have allowed life to just happen, and only a few occasions I can think of where I made a specific changes to change the outcome of my destiny.

The time has come to make a few adjustments. Time to get back to living and ticking off one by one the goals I need to set for myself.  I already have a list made of the things I want to accomplish. Its hard to know how to start these changes though.  I need some inspiration...

Canada Day

So this year Canada Day was on a thursday, and my fiance had thursday and friday off this year!!  And since he works monday-friday, and I work saturday/sundays, we really look forward to having any days off together...and this year we got 2 in a row!!!!  So my only request...we are NOT wasting the day watching tv or staying in the house!

So yesterday on the holiday it was rainy, and not that nice out.  So instead of the parade and going to the park to see the festivities we thought, let's skip it this year, our little girl won't remember it anyways, she's too young, and lets head to the next major city which is about an hour or so away to do some shopping for our little monkey girl who is almost 2!!  What a success! Sometimes shopping can be stressful when you can't find what you are looking for, but this year we lucked out with a great sale on 3 of the things we wanted. I love a good sale!!! I can't wait for her to open her gifts.  Even though she was in the cart when we got everything, we let her play with her new sand bucket and shovel for the beach and she forgot about everything else sitting in the cart with her!  And really, at this age is still about about mommy and daddy and how we get excited for her, she really wouldn't care if we got her a stick and a tin can...she'd have fun!  So after hours of shopping fun, the ride home was so peaceful with a sleeping baby in the backseat. She shopped til she dropped, literally! I had to snap a picture of it too, since she fell asleep with her sunnies on...so adorable!
So we had a later supper and then movie night for us after she went to bed and it was a great day. It's always so much fun spending someone else's money!

Today we knew was supposed to be sunny. So while she was having a morning nap, I ran out and got my groceries came home, my fiance made us yummy sammies and when we were ready we decided to go to the beach and take some family pictures.  The last time the 3 of us were in a picture together was almost a year ago. It was time for some new ones!!  It was so sunny but really breezy down by the ocean today, but we still had fun enjoying mother nature at its finest, and snapping some new summer pictures! 

Then it was off to Canadian Tire to stock up on our camping supplies for next months trip!!  I managed to grab some glow sticks! lol. I think that's my fave thing about camping, hanging a blue glowstick in the tent....don't know why or when I ever started this, but I can't camp without one, and it HAS to be blue! I'm weird I know.  Got a couple new air mattresses, and also my daughter got her first sleeping bag!!! I hope she likes camping! Now we are home, the baby and her daddy are both napping. When they wake up we are having a steak BBQ with caesar salad, new potatoes, and veggies.  I think we'll be sitting on the patio for sure this evening. We need to soak in some more sun and enjoy this beautiful summer day.

Its not like we did anything wild or exciting, but for us just to have 2 full days together was awesome. I'm getting sad they are almost over and I have to go to work this weekend, but that's life. Until I win the Lottery I just have to suck it up and put on my big girl panties. I told him today maybe we should think about having another baby....he put some beer in the fridge. Hahahaha. (guess that's a no.)

Hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend!