Friday Photos: Happy Halloween!

May's Birthday

May May turns 5 on Thursday. I can't believe it. We celebrated with a bunch of her little friends last Saturday with a Beauty Shop themed party. We painted nails, did make up, applied lotions and perfume. The girls had fun and felt pretty.

May wanted our house to look fancy. I think these tissue paper pom-poms did the trick.

Pre-party dance party.

Cute little partyers.

It was fun.

Friday Photo: All Wrapped Up

Friday Photos on a Saturday Night: Tweedling Around Out Front

Toronto, Part 2: Niagara & Palmyra, NY

On our way home, we first stopped by Niagara Falls. It was amazing.

I have no idea what Ruby is doing in this picture. I'm going to go with wiping Cheeto debris off her hands and onto her jacket.

This is the view from where we were on the Canadian side, which is supposed to be the better side to see Niagara from for some reason. Even though I didn't know why this side was better, it didn't stop me from looking over at the people on the U.S. side and thinking "Suckers."

After crossing back into the States (border patrolmen resembling no celebrity, Canadian or otherwise) and gorging ourselves on buffalo wings, we went to Palmyra, New York to visit the Smith Farm and the Sacred Grove. It was gorgeous and peaceful and will always be a good memory for our family.

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I Want To Kick Verizon in the Neck

I've been without functioning Internet at my house for almost 3 weeks now and it's just about killing me.

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Toronto, Part 1

Our trip to Toronto was fantastic.

How could it not be when your Canadian border patrolman was:

Ok, so maybe not really but he was the spitting image of Joey Gladstone. And we die hard Full House fans all know that Dave Coulier is Canadian, so I found this to be utterly delightful. As he was looking at our passports, I was torn as to what to say to him: "Wow, so Alanis was REALLY mad, huh?" or "Cut! It! Out!"

Go had to be at a plastic surgery conference every day, all day (hence the reason for the trip) so that left me and the girls to hit up the town. They are good little travelers and the Toronto public transit system is nice and not too confusing. There was a low point, though, when I led us to the opposite side of town with no buses going back to where we needed to be, leaving me dragging two whining girls and holding a sleeping, limp, deadweight toddler for 3 miles in my already-worn-out Toms. "This is an adventure! This is an adventure! This is an adventure!" The only other complaint I have about the entire trip is that I checked a book on CD out from the library for our drive, which I thought was going to be a mystery/thriller but it ended up being Christian fiction. Ugh. I have a really hard time stomaching that particular genre.

The first day, the girls and I went to Riverdale Farm--I fell in love with this place. It's a fully functioning 7-acre farm in the middle of downtown Toronto and is free to the public. It's nestled in the middle of Cabbagetown, a totally rad area with charming old houses with awesome architecture and lots of trees and parks. I loved it. The girls had a blast at the farm and we couldn't have asked for a prettier day.

For more pictures from the day (Mom), you can see them HERE.

While in Toronto, whether it was in line for the street car or while lugging my stroller up the subway steps ("This is an adventure!") or just walking downtown, everywhere we went, people kept stopping me and asked for directions, to which I would always answer "Oh, I am SO the last person you want to ask." It was so weird! Is it because no woman in her right mind would take three small children out in a busy city where she didn't know exactly where she was going? Did they think they overheard me say "sore-ry" or "owt" or "eh?" or "hewse" ? Do I look Canadian?

The next day was rainy, so we spent most of the day inside at the Royal Ontario Museum.

I love a good museum.

And this was one was AWESOME. The girls and I spent all day long there we still didn't see it all.

We really, really enjoyed our time in Toronto. It's like a clean New York city with a European flair. I highly recommend it.