Snow day...

This past weekend was our first snow since Rupert was just a little guy! This year he is MUCH more into it. He was a little cautious at first, as with most things, but after a few minutes he got right into it! Grammie and Grampy came up this weekend as well which was much fun indeed!

{family resemblance}

Reading with Grampy and Sid.

The men discussing how the puzzle was made. Seriously. That's what they were doing.

Rupert in daddy's glasses... and workin'em.

Our first snow walk. This is one of the brief moments Rupert would let Colin carry him... most of the time he wanted to be running around in the snow!

Our destination... the new Co-op and Serious Coffee near our house. Woot!

There's something magical about snow at night. It's our plan to always take our kiddies out for walks on the first snow of every year... even if it means waking them up!

oh my little snow shark!

The next day was Colin's day off so we took the morning as a "snow morning". We got all bundled and headed out for some fun!

Rupe was in love.

Rupe and daddy watching a truck trying to make it up our hill... it is a common occurrence during the winter on our hill.

After our lovely snow time we came inside for hot chocolate for Rupes and rumnog coffee for the adults, along with some delicious chocolate chip cookies. And yes that is my amazing new Santa mug... jealous?

Rupes knows how it's done.

yup... again... more family resemblance! I love my precious boys.

playtime...

Our boy loves to play! I love this stage so much! He is just figuring out that all his toys can interact together and it is so fun watching him create and play. Of course his favorite thing to play is trains. He can spend an entire evening just lining up his trains and driving them around the tracks.

{Smiley boy ready to play}

We've recently got some of Colin's old playmobile out for Rupe to play with with his trains... and he loves it!

Cheesey boy. This is the face he makes when we tell him to smile :D

Conductor Rupe gets to drive the train today. His passengers include Hobbes, Ottis Lee, Buzz Lightyear and Snowy!

toot! toot!

Rupe also loves playing with his buddies. This is a little buddy that we met at gym pals named Jaxton. Jaxton likes to head straight to our magazine rack and promptly empty it :D

Sneak hug!

Little helpers. The boys sat in the kitchen and played as I made dinner :D

We tried to make a Thomas convert out of Jaxton while he was over... but decided our church directory was a little more amusing to look at.

More hugs!

The aftermath of two 1 year olds! But they sure did have fun!

Thanksgiving...

So this one time I decided to start a blog and for the most part kept up at it... but sadly have not really been keeping up with it lately... womp womp. So these next two posts are catch up posts. and then hopefully this week will be more recent... fingers crossed!

This blog comes with a warning for the first couple of photos... mainly warning for those out there that do not care for swarms of birds... ahem Aunty Megan... you have been warned.

Over Thanksgiving holidays we went down to Victoria to spend some time with the family, immediate and extended! hooray! One day we thought we'd venture down to the marina and feed the ducks... alas there were no ducks to be found... just seagulls and lots of them!

Rupe was not dissuaded, he stood his ground amongst all the birds!

This particular seagull looks bigger than my child... and that is saying something :D

Grammie shows us how it's done. Rupert loves diggers! he could have spent the whole day playing with the digger... didn't like sitting on it... but liked helping!

We were very thrilled to get to spend time with Aunties, Uncles and cousins!

{the beautiful Halle girl}

A treasure hunt! Today's treasure... chestnuts!

Rupe's treasures.

Halle's treasures. Cousin MyMy was sleeping during this adventure... but there was enough chestnuts found that I'm sure she shared in the booty.

On the digger with Grampy.

And now Grandma is wrangled in to do some digging! I think that's everyone!

We had a wonderful time with all the family under one roof! Can't wait till Christmas! I am loving these little people grow up together.