LIFE is GOOD at the BEACH: June 2011

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Walk Up The Mount

Our winter has been SOOO mild. YAY for me :)

Today we took in the sunshine and headed up the Mount.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Happenings

We love Starbucks! And we love hanging with friends at Starbucks even more!!

Max and his friend Jackson. Jackson weighs 10+kg's That is 20 some odd pounds. What does Max weigh, well not sure how much he weighs but not even close to 10kg's :)

Family walk at the beach

Hanging with Daddy getting ready to chase birds

He's just too cute for words!

In other funny news: I discovered rhubarb this week. How you ask? Sam's mom has a sweet friend that brought us a box full of garden goods. Everything from fresh farm eggs to kiwi fruit. And a bunch of some pink celery.

HMMM. I just bought a whole stalk of celery for some soup, which I only needed one or two pieces of celery. BUMMER. Later that night while I watched Britain's Best Baker (yep I live in a country that gets boring UK TV, no drama, no fights, no yelling, but what can you do it's still kind of like a food network show?) One of their challenges included that pink celery. OH, it's not celery it's rhubarb! DUMB!! But at least I figure it out before I made something with it. One of the best pies I ever had was a rhubarb strawberry from Costco that Danielle and Derrick and I used to get. YUM. I went straight to google to figure out what to make with all this rhubarb. I found a cake recipe for which I had all the ingredients. It was a rainy blustery day so I baked up some rhubarb cupcakes with sugar and cinnamon on top. YUMMM! Sam didn't like them but I did. While sugar is still pretty much a no no for my body I do admit I sampled quite a bit today. Max even had some. Play group and my in laws will enjoy the bountiful pink celery cupcakes come tomorrow!

Sunday, June 12, 2011

I heart them.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Friends

Hayley and Finn (and Ryan) came to see us! I am sure some of you remember me talking about Max's little friend Finn from a couple of months ago. Hayley and Ryan have moved temporarily for four months...the first being while we were in America. I left for America and came back to no Hayley or Finn. I was so bummed, but today I was so excited to see my friend Hayley and get to do our "thing." Get Starbucks, talk, walk and connect about life, work, trusting, kids and marriage.

Our little men at Starbucks! I absolutely LOVED Finn's cool glasses!

This picture cracks me up because I can just hear Finn saying, "Man mate you have A LOT of emotion."

A little blurry but seriously how cute are these boys?!?

Our sweet boys just hanging out

Finn is looking

Max is looking

It has bee so fun to see all the blessings in our life this last year. In my quest for focusing on the good I can tell you that Hayley and Finn have been a highlight for Max and me. Max was THRILLED to see Finn and Hayley today. He was chatty and quickly tried to grab and cuddle them both. Max overwhelms Finn a bit but we still got some good smiles. Finn is a delight and such a perfect little man. He smiles and has eyes that light up. I love watching Max and Finn talk and play together. I am thankful for the surprise friends that God has placed in my life in this season. Today as we walked by the ocean and just talked about life I felt encouraged, hopeful and known.