Friday, November 11, 2011

Becoming Grandma

The moment finally arrived - Wren Penelope Anderson arrived October 21, 2011 - beautiful dark haired 7 pound, 15 ounce bouncing baby girl.  I left home on October 22nd for the initial inspection and to visit my children too of course.  Turned out to be a big day for Ayla too - she and Ron got engaged that afternoon!! So we had lots of celebrating to do!!  Here's a few photo's of the time spent there, kind of a mish-mash - all taken with my new android phone, which has a very good camera but the colors are all really bright; I need to play with it some more I'm thinking.  


Mommy cuddles


Daddy cuddles







Auntie Cuddles


First bath at home




She scrunches right up like a little ball


The beautiful flowers from Gramms and Gramps



Jack Calverley and Wren at the baby shower


I was also there for halloween, so we spent the evening at Brad and Soleta's and watched as waves of halloweeners came to the door - it was the coolest halloween ever!  This is Marko and his twin cousins.



and "The Pirate" that never left his corner all night!! :)



Even Wren dressed up!!



I made a quilt and bird mobile for the baby's room:





And then (not to be left out!) here's the happy engaged couple!!


Look at those smiles!!

This is how she asked Sonya and Jocelyn to be her bridesmaids - I thought it was so cool!



                                                   The drive home was beautiful - first part was beautiful green with golds and reds interspersed and then suddenly it was all white topped trees, a real contrast. 





Hard to come home to cold and snow, but maybe it won't be for too long???


Friday, June 17, 2011

Eager Grandma

I had a few hours in Cross Iron Mills mall this afternoon and just "happened" to stop in at the Carters/Osh Kosh store and found this outfit and could not leave it there!!  Yes, I think my first grandchild is going to be a boy!! 


Sunday, April 3, 2011

April Snow

Saturday morning we woke up to about 4 inches of beautiful wet white snow covering everything.  It snowed all day and by the end of the day we had about 7 inches - probably more, because it packed down quickly because it was so wet.  It was a bit depressing because it is April and winter is supposed to be over, but it was just so beautiful.  I thought it was funny when I came across these advertisements when I was browsing the newspaper flyers..........




and I looked outside and saw this:




By 4:30 we had 6 inches - here's proof:



Sunday morning we woke up to beautiful sunshine and blue sky - I measured again, almost 7 inches!


It really was beautiful with the blue, blue sky in the background - here's how it looked around my house:







And with the sun shining, it soon started dripping making some cool icicles........





Monday, January 31, 2011

Moxie's New Profile page




I guess I'm on a Moxie kick lately - must be the long cold winter, cabin fever setting in and the only living being I see all the time is my dog!!  No, not so true - although, the long, cold winter part is definitely true!! The days are getting longer, it's actually still light out when I get home from work these days!!
Anyway - the point to this blog - I just set up a new profile page for Moxie on this site!

To go directly to her page click on this link:
http://pawsway.ca/en/Page/moxiesmum/Moxie

How fun is that?!  Yeah, I know - get a life!!  But she is pretty cute!
Stay warm - spring is coming!!
Love,
Moxie's Mum

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Moxie's Marvelous Makeover

Poor Moxie - I've been intending to get her groomed for a long, long time - even had some appointments that were cancelled and re-scheduled and re-cancelled again.  I finally got her into "High Tails" which is in the "Rascals" store on Edmonton Trail.  They did a fabulous job on her.....and she wasn't stressed at all when I picked her up - usually she shakes for hours afterwards - even when I had to  put her sweater on her because it was -22 outside!  So here's some before and after pictures of her. 

BEFORE:




AND AFTER:


BEFORE:




AFTER:


It looks like she lost about 20 pounds - but it is so nice and soft again! 

Sunday, January 2, 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Christmas 2010 - Full house - it was so much fun to have all my kids home and another 3 couples join us for Christmas dinner and gift exchange and games.  The day went by SO fast!!  And then to have another full week with Ayla and Ron and Lane and Jocelyn was absolutely superb!!   Here's some photo's to show how we spent most of our time................

This is Christmas Eve when everyone had to grill their own food on Hot Stones - so delicious!!





Christmas morning.........







Christmas Dinner...........






I'm so sorry I didn't get any pictures of the guests!! - I guess I was too busy eating!! 

(or sleeping??!!)


Ruger and I rested while Ayla and Jocelyn stuck their heads over bowls of steaming hot water........



THAT's why they are so beautiful!!




This gives you an idea of how we spent our days.........games, food, puzzles



and lots and lots of books.......



Quite a variety - guess which ones belongs to who???

And just some random ones.....












Mike and Raylene and Connor Anderson - New Year's Day



Wishing you and yours a very Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year with many, many highlights!!