10 Years!

Yesterday David and I celebrated 10 years of marriage! Wow, how the time does fly! I have to admit that they have been pretty great years. We have grown so much together. We have experienced and learned so much already, about ourselves, each other and life. I am so thankful for a man that inspires me, challenges me and in general makes me a better person. I can't imagine life without him in it. We are truly a team; I love how we do everything together. Even the mundane become enjoyable or at least manageable when we share the tasks together. Not every day has been easy, but those days have made us stronger and better yet. I look forward to continuing to share life with David, he truly is my best friend.

We originally planned on going on some grand vacation for our 10 year anniversary, perhaps Fiji. But here we are at home with a one month old baby and a high energy toddler. It may not be Fiji but we're happy with the season of life that we're in. David was at school all day and then in Toronto for the evening at a food and wine show (no infants or kids allowed), we both didn't realize that the date of the show was our anniversary several months ago when he was planning on going. Oh well, what's a day. He came home briefly at mid day which was nice. Other than that, I spent the day with the kids and was able to see Michael and Rebecca one last time before they headed back to Vancouver early this morning.

Knowing that we wouldn't be together yesterday, we all went to the States for most of the day on Thursday. We did some shopping and browsing around which was nice. Kids bedtimes always seem to come so early though, so then it was back home for the evening.

Perhaps next year we'll go on that grand trip...or perhaps it will be many years away. Oh well, we have many other great trips that we can fondly remember in our "before children" days.

Bath Time for Calvin

It's funny how much bathing Sarah when she was a newborn intimidated me. For at least the first month David and I would always give her a bath together. It just didn't seem to be a one person job.

Well, three weeks later I have bathed Calvin by myself every time. It didn't scare me at all this time. David has evening classes most days of the week so I had to figure out bath and bed time with two kids right away. I'm pleased to say that it's actually gone really well. You can see in the above photo that Sarah always has to get right in there while I'm giving Calvin his bath.

Finally the other day David was home during bath time so I asked him to take a few photos since I am unable to give a baby a bath and take photos at the same time, just not that talented.


Calvin doesn't love getting a bath, but settles down pretty quickly and seems to enjoy it in the end.

Sarah showing off Calvin

The ever adoring big sister showing off her baby brother this morning.

Just a Sarah look. I can only imagine how many photos we have of this girl. I'm already worried that Calvin won't have nearly as many photos.

Daddy and the Kids

David's loving his Calvin time too. For the last couple of afternoons David's been having little naps on the couch cuddled up with Calvin.

End of the day cuddles continue to be a favourite time of the day.

Calvin and Mommy

Just because I'm so in love with this little guy...

Do we need 3 Bouncy Chairs?

Everybody seems to be fans of the bouncy chair! It hasn't broken yet, so we may be ok since I can't seem to get Sarah out of the chair.

Even Keisha gets cozy in the chair when the other two aren't around.

Raking the Leaves

Yesterday I was feeling VERY tired so David took Sarah outside while Calvin was napping. I was able to get 1.5 hours of precious sleep and David had some father daughter time. When I woke up they were just coming inside from raking up the leaves. David handed me the camera and said he took some photos. I love that he's into capturing our family moments just as I am. When I looked through the photos I smiled at what I saw. He said he kept putting Sarah into the leaves and she would try to climb her way out of the pile; looks like she had a good time.