The Emily Kasper Show

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My daughter is a bit creative, so I hope we’ve captured that.

Em spent the morning calling me Mrs. Kasper and insisting that we are in school. She even made me let her have a recess.  I think next fall is going to kill her because she’ll still be to young for kindergarten. I picked up some Mr. Sketch markers for her at staples yesterday. As should have been foreseen, she now has a VERY colourful nose from all the sniffing.

I’m going Kayaking in a bit, so I’m going to get stuff ready. I got a new dry bag yesterday, so I’m excited to use it today.

Washing Lego

Lego has been a favorite pastime of mine since I was allowed to play with it…AKA post putting things in mouth era. I’ve been collecting it for the last 2 decades. In the last couple years I’ve had 2 bins of Lego given to me! So now I have oodles of Lego, which is fantastic by me. Coco and I built a huge creation out of Lego a year ago, and now Thing 1 (Emily) is enjoying building obscure creations. So here’s the problem with being a bit of a germaphobe…Lego can get dirty! Especially if it isn’t your own dirt. So I took upon myself the task of cleaning the Lego!

Step 1: Put Lego in sink with soapy water. Rince well!

Step 2: Place Lego in Salad Spinner! Spin Spin Spin! This drys Lego fast.

Step Three: Be very grossed out by disgusting Lego Water. Or as Emily Calls it…Lego Soup!

Step 3: Create!

The Sights of August

These are some of the sights from this august. Its been a fun month. We are gearing up to kick back into school and regular life. I’m hoping for at least one more beach day prior to the onset of scholastic progress.

Cousins Matthew and Emily

Smiley McSmiles

The art of pooping on the beach with a life jacket on.

Life on Mars because of the Kelly Creek fire

Beach Aerobics

Tasteful Mommy Moment at the beach

Morgans Cousin Teresa

Auntie Teresa and tiny tot

Three sleepy girls on the way home from a beach day!

Photo August

Emily runs to her Daddy and with a very frustrated tone she says “I’ve tried this water and that water and my pool, but Jesus won’t walk on them!”

We were going to take the plastic Jesus away, but it kinda helps us understand how Emily thinks about God, what she learns at Sunday school and what things really need to be better explained to her like how Jesus isn’t a toy. I’m hoping I’m not being sacrilegious.

I’ve decided to follow the Informal Matriarchs lead and chillax for August, but I’m going to do it a bit different. I’m starting by not updating my twitter or facebook all the time. As for my blog I think I’m going to blog once in a while, but mostly photoblog unless Em does something really funny. Speaking of funny, I was carrying Avery in the Snugli and pushing Em in the Stroller and a Lady walked by us and said: “Oh, you’re carrying a baby, I just thought you had really big Boobs!” Why you would say that, I don’t know…

I’m pretty sure I’m having Post Partum Depression again after having Avery. I’m sure I did after Emily too, so if I blog about anything I might blog about that. I think blogging about what stuff you are going through is healthy to help you understand yourself and maybe encourage someone else. So if you see me, tell me it ok to relax and just enjoy my girls and my summer without cramming it full of things that need to be done. I’m doing my best not to jump right into everything that I used to do. When I get too busy I get stressed and anxious and I forget to just be. I know I don’t have enough patience for Emily when I’m like that either. The last few days have been alot better. I didn’t think I had time to go to Loon Lake, but I booked it and went anyways, and it was fantastic for me to relax and let go of the day to day stuff. Then when I got home I decided to make a conscious effort to slow my life down and find ways to meet my needs emotionally, spiritually, and physically. So now I start every morning with a shower and take 10 minutes to get my head in the right space before taking care of my tiny tots. I think that’s helping alot! Anyways. AV is waking up and none to happy, so I’d better go get her.

Oh! and I get to meat Prime Minister Stephen Harper next week at a BBQ! Pretty stoked for that!

Fotoday

We had a great time at the lake this week. It was HOT! I really needed to get some time away and rest up. Having a baby is hard work. haha. We played in the water and built sand castles and relaxed and read books and ATE FOOD and really just enjoyed our time. Morgan came out on Thursday and spent the night which was a good thing because when we caravaned home the truck broke down. Middle of now where, with no cell service! So It was really a God thing that Morgan changed his mind and stayed or me and the girls would have been stranded. Sucky. Either way Morgan and my Dad had to go back and get the truck today. Here a photo or two from this weeks adventures.

From the time I was little my Grama and I would have tea parties whenever my parents would drop me off and go to the races, so its a very cool thing to watch my Grama, now G.G. (great grama) having a tea party with my girls.

Pinky up!

Kipp and Georgia’s Wedding

Lets see if I can blog really fast. We went to a fantastic wedding on Thursday! Kipp and Georgia tied the knot! I ended up walking down the Aisle with my girls. Emily was holding Flynn’s hand and it was adorable. Emily wore the flower girl dress that thr flower girl at our wedding wore. She was so cute. It was super hot out so I ended up with a burn, but it was a great day. I got to take a bunch of the wedding pics too, so I think that’s what today’s Blog is going to contain. I’ve got family here, so blog time is mostly out for the weekend. Anyways, Wedding pics for you!

Getting Ready. Classic Mirror Shot

My Cutie and her Buddy

Origami Cranes are so pretty

Emmy and Auntie GoGo

Ahh. Love!

Croquet!

Flynn kept wanting to be pulled around

Daddy and the undie Princess. She also did this in the middle of the ceremony.

Emily says to Daddy: Daddy, when I get bigger can you pick someone nice for me to marry?

Daddy: I’d be happy to!

Am I Boring…

I totally wanted to blog yesterday, but the call of the sleep hit me harder and I went to bed. Normally I get a chance to blog in the morning or during nap time, but niether worked out well for yesterday. It`s a good thing too because yesterday I would have spent the whole blog telling you how nuts Emily had been all day. All the LONG day. I might as well have fed her a bowl of sugar.Wooo crazy child. Today she`s still acting her age, but I`m not looking up postage prices on sending a 32 lb parcel to Siberia…if you catch my drift.

My Mom and I went for a walk at Lunch time yesterday. It was so beautiful out. I made Emily walk as much as she would to wear her out. We walked all the way around Sepa Lake mudhole. *whoa, my keyboard switched into french on its own. odd ééé. * I`ll have to figure that out laker, but for now I guess I can`t use slashes and the apostrophe( which I just learned is a verb in french aswell) is weird too. Where was I… Ah the lake. The water is down so far that the 2 lakes don`t even come closr to connecting anymore. Its kinda sad. Speaking of lakes…I get to go Kayaking tomorrow!!

A friend from church is taking me! I think we`re going to Canim Lake. When I worked at Lake of the Trees, someone donated a Kayak, but I had to duct tape part of it and it just went in circles, so I don`t call that Kayaking. I even subscribed to a Kayaking magazine for a while. I wish I trusted myself enough to take my camera with me, but theres no way I`m taking it out with me. Morgan has this saying that goes something like `Courtenay can`t go near water without getting wet`. It`s true. I think I`m like a labrador that`s poorly trained. I just can`t help myself. My goal for tomorrow is to get my feet wet, but nothing else unless everyone gets wet. We`ll see how I do.

Its going to be a long day away from Avery and Emily. I`ve been away from Em before, but I`ve only left Aves for a couple hours at a time. Tomorrow I`ll be gone from 10 til dinner time, so most of the day. I`m sure Daddy and his girls will be just fine. I`m really happy to have a me day.

I used to do alot of crazy things and then I got married and had kids, and now I`m downright boring. A couple weeks ago a friend asked me what my hobbies were. I wan`t to say all my old hobbies: snowboarding, rock climbing, skateboarding(Im banned from skateboarding by MK, but thats another story), Mountain biking and all sorts of other crazy stuff, but I couldn`t say those things since I hadn`t done any of them in forever. So I ended up saying reading and blogging or something. I always said I would love to be one of those crazy skydiving grammas, but who knows, maybe I`ll end up one of those knitting gramas who enjoys bridge. So I`m excited to do one of the kind of fun things I used to do before I became boring.

The good thing is that I like boring. I`ve learned some really cool cooking and baking recipes. I`m learning to sew, so I can make reusable diaper wipes. I love blogging and practicing my writing. Maybe one day I`ll finish my short story. I love reading and getting into a good book. I`m enjoying learning to parent my girls and be a good Mom. I like hanging out with Morgan and a cup of coffee. Sometimes I do miss being spontanious and never going anywhere without my guitar, but I`ve replaced each of the things I loved to do with something that is of greater value. I could snowboard all winter on weekends, but I spend Sunday at church growing closer to the Lord, playing the drums and spending time with church family. I could rock climb all over this beautiful province (I still hope to climb some places), but I`d rather be helping Emily collect cool rocks in the yard. I could mountain bike all over the gorgeous Cariboo, but I`d rather be tickling Aves to get a smile or a coo out of her. I could be wild and crazy, but I think I`d rather be boring.

Photo-tacular

I am seriously relaxing and listening to Jazz music. I love it. Plus Emily is playing in her room quietly. Gotta love that. Avery is content and waving her arms around. Time to Blog!

We went to the park at one of the schools today. I was so disappointed. We only stayed for a little bit because there was glass everywhere. It wasn’t like a broken bottle in one place. There was glass everywhere. We found this big sharp piece at the bottom of a slide.

Both garbage cans were kicked over.
and someone dismantled this bike

Needless to say, I was not impressed. It wasn’t even beer bottles. So you cant blame this one on drunks. They were a glass coke bottles. I had hoped for a nice time, but we spent the whole time trying to keep Emily away from the glass.

Emily learning to Fly on the Swing. I used to love that!

We made a short stop at the farmers market too. I bought some organic free range lettuce (yes I know there’s no such thing as free range lettuce, it’s just fun to say.).

Then it was finally warm enough to inflate Emily’s pool. So she played in there for a long time. Daddy got to relax on the deck and Mommy got somethings done around here.

She was getting so tired but she really didn’t want to get out.

There was this VERY good looking guy on my deck.

Avery’s first smile caught on Camera.

Kayaking Me Time

Aves has the hiccups. I’m attempting to blog while holding her. Its not the easiest thing to do, but she isn’t really very happy to just relax tonight. Between that and getting puke down my shirt it’s been an interesting evening. The girls and I went to a friends baby shower this afternoon. We had a good time and Emily actually behaved herself. She’s been a bit disobedient of late. Today she did just fine. Unfortunately, she napped on the way home, so nap time didn’t go so well. 10 minutes asleep and she thinks she’s had a long enough nap. I certainly do not think she had a long enough nap. I managed to get her to snooze for a bit longer. I needed some me time!

Speaking of me time, I’m making a trade! I’m doing a bit of graphic design work for a friend who teaches kayaking. So I get a day worth of flat water kayak lessons. I’m really excited about that. I might even get to go on Saturday. I’m so excited to have some me time anyways. I’ve always wanted to learn to kayak. I even subscribed to kayak magazine for a while, but only because I had to pick one extra other than parenting magazine. I once used a river kayak, but all I could do was go in circle and then flip. It was fun. well, funny anyways. I probably could have charged money for people to watch me kayak. haha.

I think I’m going to go take some pictures of Aves. I need some new ones. I’m trying to think of some good ideas of ways to take her picture. She holds still well, but she doesn’t smile or look mysterious. oh well. haha. I’ll go take some pics and post a few in a bit.

And the Winner is…

The winner of the Great Blog Launch Giveway is…

Jenn from MelodiousMama! Way to go! iTunes here you come!! You all should check out her Blog! Its great!

Thank you all so much for entering the draw and commenting on my New Blog. I’m no stranger to blogging, but it’s nice to have a new feel to my blog. It was fun trying to get Emily to say welcome to CourtenayMama.com she kept saying “welcome to courtenay.ca” That’s not me. Oh well. Then if you’ll notice, she thought she won the itunes card. It was very cute. Anyways…don’t forget to change over bookmarks and links to courtenaymomma.com the 8minutes site won’t have anything on it much longer!

Luv Luv!

Core-10-A

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