HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!

Like always, we celebrated Canada Day with my sister in Grand Bay! The kids got lots of treats, and prizes and food! Then we headed back to my sister's house for more food, drinks and lots of swimming!!

The older girls are staying with Barb till Sunday... hmm...maybe that isn't such a good idea.. she is a very bad influence!! LOL

Lily is feeling a bit better, we ended with a tooth emergency earlier in the week!

She very suddenly started having an incredible amount of pain in the tooth that was still abscessed (her appt wasn't till July 7th to have it removed) but we had been hoping to get in on a cancellation.

I called our dentist and he took her in right away, and once he saw the tooth he said it needed to come out immediately! So after some fast phone calls to the Dental Association to find out who had access to Nitrous Oxide and how fast could she get in to see them...our wonderful dentist had an appointment for us in 2 hours with the Dental Surgeon.

They were absolutely wonderful with her, they wrapped her in a blanket, sang songs to her till she was well sedated, and while they worked on her, they sang songs. I almost cried! They were so kind and caring and knew that she had suffered so much trauma and pain already, and took every precaution to make her feel calm. She didn't even whimper!

She is still having some pain where the tooth was, but that is normal as the infection was pretty bad and it will take a few days to clear itself out. When she got home from the surgeon's she started to eat some soft foods, and by the time her mouth was not frozen, she had eaten 4 helpings of supper, pudding, ice cream and a fruit smoothie!

She hadn't been eating well for the last few weeks because it hurt, but she would never tell me that she was in pain. sigh..

I'm happy this has been taken care of and now we can have fun and relax the rest of the summer!

The girls attended thier Annual Gymnastics Banquet last week. It is always so nice to see everyone with thier hair down, and all dressed up!

Well!! Lily has ANOTHER abscess on her molar. She is back on antibiotics, which she hates, but she is taking it like a little trooper!!

We are on the dentist's cancellation list to get this one pulled out. We are going for the gas again this time.

I hope we won't have to wait too long.

Here are some fun pics from Sunday...

After supper the kids and I cranked up the tunes and danced around the kitchen to Lady GaGa!!

What a riot and a great stress reliever!!

Love the pointed fingers and the dirty PJ's!!

Hanlin on the Drums!!

Then he switched to the Guitar!

Lily on the Keyboard!!

Abigail was the photographer

Even mommy got into the dancing!!

Poor Daddy, who had just arrived after being at a conference all Sunday, was trying desperately to eat his supper while all the craziness was happening behind him!!

**Tifanny, we had your pulled pork sandswiches for supper**

(with fiddleheads and home made frenchfires!)

It was a big hit.

JESSICA...........

(aka.. mommy.....)

WHERE ARE YOU...

AND WHEN ARE YOU COMING TO GET US???

WE MISS YOU...

ON YOUR MARK......

GET SET......

GO!!!!!

GUESS WHO LEARNED TO RIDE HER BIKE SANS TRAINING WHEELS??

Nothing better than Kitten Kisses!

Look what I'm fostering!! 6, 4 week old kittens.. well, 5 now, as 1 has already been adopted!!

They are just too cute for words!!

Have you seen this?? It's fantastic!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8PAuvxCZuM&feature=related

$239 and a very weird love affair

$236.00

or

A very weird love affair between a cat and a dinosaur!

I heard Georgia choking in the playroom the other night, and I ran in to find that she had swallowed the antena of the dinosaur remote! She was obviously in distress.. (no duh) and when I tried to grab her, she took off, dragging the rest of the remote behind her. As she was running, the remote pulled out and she vomited everywhere!

We finally caught up to her in the kitchen, where she was not looking too healthy. She was having trouble breathing and was curled in a ball!

Frank rushed off with her to the vet

(at 10:30pm on a Monday night)!

An hour and 236.00$ later..

x-rays, steroids and antibiotics...

She had aspirated on her vomit and had fluid in her lungs!

Thankfully she was going to be alright, but it took a few days.

It's strange though....

Whenever she meows, the dinosaur roars....

Weird......

Weekend fun!

We were off to PEI for the Atlantic Gymnastic Championships this past weekend.

The big girls travel with the team, there and back. So we didn't have to worry about them. Frank and I decided to take the two little ones with us and make a mini vacation out of it.

We left Fredericton at 8:30pm Thursday night, after some last minute craziness. Frank worked a full day, I had left the little ones playing outside while I got the truck packed and the girls ready for thier trip. They played hard and had tons of fun! I would throw food at them every so often and by the time Frank came home, they looked like 2 feral animals, with dirt streaked faces, black nails, and dusty pants, with HUGE smiles on thier faces!!

Frank gave them a quick soak, while I finished packing the truck and we headed out for supper on the road! By this point we had decided to leave late enough that they would fall asleep for the full 3 hour drive!!

WHAT WERE WE SMOKING??

Hanlin wasn't too bad.. he feel asleep about 1 hour into the ride.. (this from a kid who can't stay awake when we drive to the store 5 mins away)

Lily stayed awake for hours...falling asleep after 10pm! She told us she was listening to the radio with us (cbc "Q").

We arrived close to midnight, and both kids were now wide awake!

I'm not sure if the hotel staff felt sorry for us....

dragging in at midnight with 2 bright eyed kids asking for directions to the pool, a load of luggage that would put most celebraties to shame, a dog tired from being in her doggie seat belt for 3 hours and wanting to run around and 2 tired parents, dragging feet and crossed eyed holding a Venti coffee each now cold LOL

But the wonderful staff at the Rodd Charlottetown took one look and bumped us up to a suite!!

(thinking about it now.. maybe they just wanted us as far from the other patrons as possible!)

It was gorgeous, the kids had thier own room!! Halle-flipping-lujah!!

Each morning we had marvelous breakfast, then we would run out to watch gymnastics, then run back in time for the little ones to swim for hours! We walked all around downtown, picking up treats (candies and goodies for them and wine for us ;) ) We dined at a sweet little Thai spot.. Mmmm bubble tea..and got in even more swimming! We would sit in the room and read magazines and do a little work and even planned our summer vacation!

Saturday night the little ones had popcorn and a movie for supper (I said this was a vacation) and were off to bed before 8pm! Frank and I decided that we were hungier for something more than popcorn and we ordered room service!

Something we never do!

Man it was amazing! If I could of kissed the cook I would of!

Crispy Duck with a Blueberry Port Reduction and Beef Tenderloin with 5 Onion Marmalade

both cooked to a perfect medium rare... with roasted asparagus, squash, beets...and a bottle of Organic Cabernet Sauvignon Cono Sur... OH YUM!!

Then to be able to leave all the dirty dishes outside the door and then have the "magic dirty dish fairy" take them away!

Whoa.. a little bit a heaven...

Here's a view into our weekend...

A little bit of gymnastics:

A little bit of swimming:

A little bit of Gracie's Room work:

A little more gymnastics:

A little bit of work for Frank: (aka fun for Frank)

A little more swimming:

A little bit of good food:

A little bit of good wine: (ok, more than just a little bit..)

A lot of rest, fun and relaxation:

While visions of swimming and popcorn danced in thier heads:

and the dog got the best bed in the place!!