Tickled Pink: November Weekend

Celebrating Erica's 25th Birthday!!

Thursday Kyle stayed home from work. He arrived home Wednesday night from Niagara Falls. Kyle and Claire made waffles together, whole wheat pecan waffles. Delicious!! Once Abby woke up we had to get the girls passport photos taken, so we headed to Walmart. Abby was not co-operating for her photo, she kept sticking her togue out or would have her mouth open. She must have taken 20 photos before one worked. Claire did great, she usually doesn't smile for photos so that worked perfect. I headed to the house to meet the rep for Hunter Douglas to go over possible window treatments while the girls went down for their afternoon naps. The Hunter Douglas rep measured all the windows and showed me different colours in the Duette blinds. I chose a grey/brown for the main floor and a white/beige for the second floor. All the bedrooms will have black out blinds so I won't have to put garbage bags over the girls windows, lol! I also met with Maric's carpenter who designs and builds all of their closet organizers. I went over what we would like in our walk in closet, mudroom, front hall closet and girls bedrooms. He is going to forward the sketches to me later this week of what he comes up with, I'm excited to see what they look like.

The colour of blinds for the main floor

Our kitchen cabinets

The mudroom

Kyle and I were able to go for a date night Thursday, Yay!!! We were able to get my sister and mom to babysit the girls. Kyle and I went out for dinner, we made reservations at Peasant Cookery in the Exchange. We had heard about it from friends but had never gone before, it was great! The atmosphere was romantic with dark lighting and glowing candle light. We ate their warm beet salad, I had the Berkshire pork with mac and cheese and Kyle had the age cheddar gnocchi. Everything was fabulous! I will also tell you I treated myself to a nice glass of white wine, since I wouldn't need to feed Abby until 1:30 am I thought why not!

We quickly walked over to the MTS Centre, we were going to watch the Jets vs. the Pittsburg Penguins. I always enjoy going to see the Jets but I love any excuse to see Sidney Crosby play hockey, he is talented hockey player. The Jets lost in a shoot out to Pittsburg but it was an intense game and so much fun to watch. Overall, it was a nice date night and I can't wait to do it again.

Opening face off

Crosby scoring the winning shoot out goal

Friday was fun, my friends Angela and Erica came over with their little girls for a play date. Claire loved to talk to both Lily and Allegra. It's always great getting together with the girls to chat and catch up on everything. After the girls went down for their naps I was able to get a workout in on the treadmill and do some strength training as well. I got a good sweat on! Once the girls woke up they played while I was able to get dinner ready. I made marinated chicken drumsticks with mexican quinoa. After dinner we Face-timed with Keith and Elena from Vancouver. They had their first baby, Alicia on Oct 23 so it was the first time we were able to meet her. She's a cutie! We can't wait to meet up with them in Hawaii in January.

Saturday was a quiet day for us. We didn't make a lot of plans just so we could enjoy time together as a family. Kyle wanted to take Claire and Makena to the dog park in the morning while Abby was napping. I stayed home and put laundry away and went through my clothes to get rid of things I didn't need before we have to move. After lunch Kyle's dad and brother and my dad were coming at 12:30 to help move all the patio furniture and play house to the new house. They were going to store all of it in the new shed that was built attached to the house in the back. I got more cleaning and organizing done around the house while the girls were sleeping.

Packing up Claire's clothes and shoes

Yesterday Kyle took Claire out to Stonewall to watch Evan play hockey. I stayed back with Abby so she could have her morning nap. We were having my family over for dinner to celebrate my sister's birthday. Kyle prepped lasagna for dinner once the girls went down for their naps. Dinner was delicious! My parents brought a Dairy Queen ice cream cake for my sister's birthday cake. Claire kept saying "Let's Party!" She was excited to sing Happy Birthday to Erica and blow out the candles.