.All of it, November

Well, wow. Looks like not much happened in November around here? Makes sense tho, seeings how that was Air's first month back to work full-time in two years. We had a lot of adjusting to do.

We got some awesome 1-year passes for all Edmonton rec centers and attractions (because of said disability insurance) so we have definitely been making use of those! We love swimming at the pools and going to the indoor playgrounds ↓↓↓

↓↓↓ Alice continues her habit of falling asleep while eating dinner.

↓↓↓My children are most adorable in their church clothes//Ames walked directly into some wood sticking out of a shelf at Lowes and fell on his back on the cement floor…I get the feeling that we are lucky his injuries weren't worse than a little scratch on his cheek ↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Yes, another week at church//and another ↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓ I invited all my friends over for girls night when the new season of Gilmore Girls came out on Netflix. I was so excited that there were actually quite a few fans of the show! Also they brought the best snacks in honor of Rory and Lorelei. I need to do this more often!

↓↓↓ Ames gave his first talk in primary and did awesome! We were so shocked and impressed that he actually went through with it



↓↓↓ And one more video of Alice sleeping at dinner to call it even

Ok, so the honest BEST part of the entire month of November 2016 was the weekend trip that we made to Calgary to make our children Citizens of the United States of America at the embassy there!!! I am so happy to be a dual-citizen, and even happier to know that my children are dual-citizens of these two great countries too.

I didn't get a photo at the embassy (duh me), but we went to see Santa at the big mall there afterwards ↓↓↓

  

Then we stayed with our friends, the Harkers, that night and seriously just partied all night with those guys.

And that pretty much sums up that month!

.Halloween 2016

You know Air and I can't help ourselves when it comes to playing in photoshop… we love it! Also we love our kids so these things are inevitable.

We had a fantastic Halloween last year and I am such a loser for waiting so long to share these awesome photos with you, blog. That's life! Enough talking. Look at photos:

 

And finally, enjoy these "behind the scenes" photos with our new green screen:

   

.A Second Birthday for Alice

You can tell I love this girl by how many photos of her I'm sharing in this post. But seriously though, isn't she sooooo CUTE!!?? I can't believe my baby is already two… she's so big and tall and smart now. I love her long, straight hair. It's so fun to finally be able to braid it and do fun hairstyles when she lets me. Alice is the sassiest little thing you've ever met, she will scream and whine about something for hours before ever simply telling me what the problem is… every time. There are just so many injustices in her life to whine about, you know? It's hard to be a two year old these days.

   

Alice was so excited for her birthday cake, she was even willing to sit by it for some photos. So many photos. (I'll write more about the cake at the bottom of this post)

Time for presents! She loved this of course.

We can safely say she was sufficiently spoiled.

Blowing out the candles with her weird, hovering, Mom:

Official cutting of the cake ceremony (being dorks):

And the eating of the cake:

And just for memory sake, here are some photos from the day before her party (which was her actual birthday, but Air was working). I took the kids to the indoor playground:

 

We met up with the family to watch Tiana's volleyball tournament in Sherwood Park and then we all ate at McDonalds afterwards (Alice's favorite).

It was a good day!

*****

And now…the cake.

So I actually spent too much time mixing all the frosting colors (I wanted them perfect) and didn't have enough time left for decorating, which is probably the most important part of this Mexican fiesta style cake. So I had to rush and it turned out pretty lame…but good enough for us.

So… I wasn't going to share this, because the comparison is pathetic, but this photo (found online) was my inspiration: