Happy New Year 2010

This was a great evening with some really yummy food and best friends. This is the kids eating their dinner of pizza and opening their Christmas crackers (we changed it to New Years crackers. LOL)
Wearing their special hats.

Rylan's is the boy of many faces.

Our chef working his magic in the kitchen. The smells were amazing. We were treated to a 5 course dinner that was so delicious.

This was my favorite. Cesar salad on garlic bread it was such a neat presentation and was super yummy.

Mom enjoying her food too.

The rest of the evening was spent playing games and watching movies. At midnight it was time for the kids to share their joy of the new year by shouting it to the whole neighbour hood. LOL They really enjoyed banging their pots and pans and making a ton of noise. :)

It was so much fun and thanks again to our dear friends for having us all over for a wonderful night. We are so funny because we were home with the kids in bed by 12:20. We are that good. :)

Just Dance

These are our little dancers. Keagan loved this game and I must admit that I thought that he was pretty good. :)

I love watching Jamie dance he has such a look of concentration on his face and I love the tough sticking out while he is trying to dance. LOL It reminds me of the look that Rylan gets when he is concentrating really hard. I am sure that he is going to love it when he finds out I have put this on my blog. LOL So enjoy!!!

Our Fun Trip

This was our trip day two. We stopped over night in Regina and stayed at our favorite hotel with the fun slide and pool and then it was on the road again. Thankfully the roads were clear for the most part until we hit the wind and then it was hard to see what was in front of us. I love the look of concentration on Keagan's face as he is playing his game. :)

At one point this was all we could see. It was a little nerve racking but it was just fine.

Once we arrived at Uncle Tyler and Auntie Michelle's it was time for the fun to begin. So it was time to head out and do some snowmobiling. Heading east didn't take us to a warmer location so this is were mom hid out to watch the boys have some fun on the sleds. LOL At least she was warm inside the truck and the boys would get in to warm up every so often.

Stefan giving me a cute wink.

Darien loves being on the snow mobiles.

Yes it was cold enough that they needed face masks on to keep warm. Sweet Keagan.

Safety first. LOL This was the best way for the boys to all have a turn. Three on one sled and then no one was waiting.

Darien even got to drive around himself. It made me little nervous but he is very cautious and he did really well. It was a fun filled day. :)

This was the best game to play with the kids. Just Dance on the Wii is a great game and we had a lot of laughs playing it.

We had one more day of snowmobiling and this time because it was a little warmer we even managed to get my mom on it and I could hear her laughing all the way.

There is something so great watching my kids play outside even if it is on their own. This day Keagan spent his whole time outside just playing and I love it.

A day spent at the Forks in Winnipeg. This is Uncle Tyler buying each of the boys a treat.

We were pretty excited to touch this buffalo. LOL It is a lot softer than we thought it would be.

This was a display of life in Manitoba and Keagan loved looking at this display because it reminded him of dog sledding.

The boys walking the bridge.

An ice fort at the Forks. The boys really enjoyed exploring inside the fort.

We are so glad that we made the trip even if it was only for five days. It was a ton of fun. The boys love their Aunt and Uncle so much. We had the best trip back the boys were amazing. We drove for 14 hours stopping twice, need I say more. :)

Christmas Morning 2010

This is such an exciting day. I am pretty sure that I was awake before the kids were this year. I have no idea why but it was just what it was. I kept waiting for them to get up really early but it just didn't happen. They got up at their usual time. LOL
Good morning my sweet boys.

Our family 2010

This is the only picture evidence that I have that Grandma Hazel was with us this year. LOL It is a shame that Darien has such a funny look on his face. :)

Everyone should have a good set of knives. LOL Thanks my love.

I could never get a picture of Rylan looking at me, he was too busy concentrating on his gift opening. :)

Darien's gift. He was pretty excited because he has been watching how to video on You Tube for the last three months. I have no idea how he can ride his Rip Stick but it sure is neat.

This is what Daddy got and boy are we glad. LOL

It is so great that all our boys are at a great age for enjoying Christmas. What a joy.

Keagan was so excited to see a nerf gun. Now everyone in our family has one so let the wars begin.

It was a great Christmas morning and of course in true Brown fashion we decided to take a trip to Winnipeg. Yes you read it right after opening up all our presents and having something to eat it was time to pack up and head east 15 hours to Winnipeg. This was something that we decided to do Christmas Eve after realizing that Jamie would not be going back to work yet because of the accident we thought it was our chance to head out and visit with Tyler and Michelle. This is Stefan on day one of the trip. He was very lucky to be able to use his Christmas money to buy a used Ipod touch and it was the best money spent. There will be more posts about our grand adventure. LOL

Christmas Eve

This year we had the opportunity to spend Christmas Eve with our dear friends. This family has been our family since moving to Alberta and we have known them for 9 years and they are near and dear to us. Getting together with them Christmas Eve involves a lot of food, fun and laughter.
Playing the name game.

Much to complicated for me. LOL But Stefan totally got it.

So irresistible. :)

Of course it wouldn't be Christmas Eve without the traditional opening of pajamas.

24 Hours In Vegas

This was a great trip that Jamie and I were able to take thanks to my mom. Back in November Jamie found this amazing deal so we jumped at the chance to go to Vegas for the night for $100.00 including air and hotel. Like I said it was a smoking deal. We left first thing in the morning. We arrived to rain thankfully we had missed the worst of it.
We had a lot of things that we wanted to do and had to squeeze it into 24 hours. So on the bus we got to do some shopping.

In a matter of 24 hours we managed to hit 2 buffets (which in Vegas are amazing plus we used coupons for both) we also got to 3 different shopping malls and saw one Cirque du Soleil show. This is the closest that I have ever been to the Eiffel Tower just not in Paris.

This was inside one of the malls that we went to. The ceiling was so amazing.

When we booked we had to do two bookings which meant two rooms. We got quite the looks when we were checking in. LOL We were undecided which room to stay in at least they were adjourning.

This is the Cirque show that we went to see. Mystere. It was amazing. One day I will take my boys to see one because they are mesmerising.

The 24 hours was just enough to enjoy some time together. What a great treat right before Christmas. Thanks mom for watching the kids, you are a super star.

Even in Winter

Yes even in the winter time you can BBQ. Hamburgers taste the same in the summer as they do in the winter. LOL

Jamie is trying to show us how cold it really is by blowing his breath out. LOL
My husband takes the best pictures. :) Dinner turned out perfectly.