Weekend in the country

What a weekend. It too me until today to write about it. lol/. We had a great 2 days in the country visiting our friend Warren. For those of you who were at our wedding, he's the one who hitchhiked to play accordian. He's an awesome friend and it was his birthdya on Thursday. He comes to the city lots to see us, but up until the weekend, we hadn't made it out there.

as we drove, we noticed how GREEN everything was going out of the city. The city was still dead after winter, it is now green but the country was glowing. So beautiful. This was also our first trip out of town since Argentina. So good to get out.

We got there and just hung out, played music, had a fire, saw and fed animals, Manuk ran and played and fed horses, it was awesome. It was beautiful and we all got tans as well, yippee !!!

Here are a few shots, but check out facebook if you want to see more pics.

Spring is here, and life is busy

Well, things have been very busy lately. Good busy, but busy none the less.
I have been organizing a summer artisan market for Winnipeg. My friend and I am hosting a local artisans market to support local artists and artisans. We are going to have 4 sales over the summer. Everything is locally made and made by the vendors. No imports here folks. Buy local, reduce your carbon footprint.
Here is the poster. If you live in Winnipeg, check it out, it is going to be awesome.

On a lighter note, here are a few pics of the cuteness that is Manuk
Chilling in his own chair. He hangs out here lots


Manuk and daddy dancing, is his "Papi" vest. He likes to look like daddy



Manuk always loves carrying a baby around when we go to play group. Mom and I were garagesaleing (if that's a word) a few weekends ago and I was saying how I wanted to get a baby for Manuk to have at home. Mom ended up having my old baby, so we found him a new outfit. This is Manuk carrying his baby in a little backpack. Good boy, he is into baby wearing already. He will be such a good daddy one day.

A few photos

Manuk had his first dentist appointment today. He did so good. He showed his teeth off to the dentist and assistant. He has 16 teeth and they are all very healthy. Manuk got a tooth brush, toy car and balloon animal because he was so good. Here's the proof.

Thanks mom for sending me some photos of mothers day. Here they are everyone

Ready for summer

Well, I guess mom reads my blog because she sent me one picture from mothers day. Enjoy. (and thanks mom)

Mothers Day 2009

Well, Mothers day has come and gone, and as I was downloading pictures on to my computer from my camera, I realised that at mothers day at mom and dad's, I was taking pictures with mom's camera. Shoot. Well mom, you will have to email me some photo's so I can post them.
Mothers day weekend started off on Saturday, with snow. Yup, that's right, snow ! Mom and I had planned on going to the Linden Woods and Whyte Ridge neighborhood garage sales on Saturday. Jacko was working. And being true Winnipegers, we still went. Manuk and Grandpa hung out from 10 am Saturday while mom and I went out for a good 5 hours. I little dissapointing as we ended up spending WAY less than we wanted, and brought home surprisingly few things, but got a few good deals and Manuk got some new toys and books and a spring coat. It was a lot of fun to hang out with mom all day and just have some grown up shopping time. Garage Saleing is about the only shopping I like to do (other than grocery shopping). After that, we went to Grandma and Grandpa Corbetts for coffee for a mothers day visit as well. It was really nice.
Mothers day started out very nice with Manuk sleeping in until 9:30. It was awesome, I got up with him at 9:30 a very rested mommy! Once we had our morning bottle (Manuk had the bottle, I have not started drinking in the morning, lol) and cuddle, I got to work baking bread for supper later on. I also got busy making 2 batches of puff wheat cake for Jacko's family get together that afternoon.
Jacko got up and we got ready to leave. Jacko and Manuk had a mothers day gift for me, 2 new Wilton baking sheets (professional quality) and 2 " 'Ove' Gloves " . http://www.ovenglove.net/. I was very excited about both things.
We got ready and headed out to Birds Hill to Jacko's aunt and uncles house for a family mothers day get together. It was a beautiful day.

There are always so many toys there for Manuk to play with. He loved it.

All the girls love him, and he doesn't seem to mind at all.
After that, we went to Mom and Dad's for supper. We had an awesome time, and ate awesome food. It was great to get together for such an awesome reason.
All the photo's from here are on mom's camera so I can't show them off, but trust me, it was a great time.
After that, we came home and went to bed, boy were we tired.
The next day it was another beautiful day and we were hanging out in the backyard with our neighbours, Pat and Shaunda, or as Mauk calls them, Baba and well, he doesn't call Shaunda anything but loves them a lot.
They were keeping Manuk entertained while I was making us all dinner and I guess playing dress up, one of Manuks favorite things. Here is how it turned out.


All in all, an awesome weekend was had by all !

I bet you all thought I was gone again

Well, I but everyone thought that, that's it, Tara's not writing anymore. Well, here I am. I have been busy. We have been busy here with the usual, and then on Friday, my tooth broke while eating supper, which sucked. I am so thankful Jacko has 100% dental coverage at work. Friday we also had band practice. Then on Sat. we had the accupuncture written exams across Canada, which I had to vigilate (I am still debating whether this is a word or not, but that's what they call it, I pretty much go and make sure veryone gets their papers and make sure no one cheats.)
So all the exams got written, but then it means that I have to mark all the Canada wide exams, which is why I haven't written in a while.
I am going to bed now, but wanted to let everyone know that nothing new is going on.
Wow, this made for good blogging, lol
Good night

Bread and big trucks

Well, Today was a great day. Tiffany, Tami and Tami's 4 boys came over today for a bread baking party, of sorts. It was a lot of fun and we ate some good food, baked 4 loafs of bread and had a good visit. I unfortunaly didn't take any pictures of our baking. But Tami did tell me how to put photo's inbetween the text in my blog, so we'lls ee how that goes, lol.
After they left, Manuk got to play in our neighbors semi truck.

and of course it didn't take him long to figure out where the radio was

After that, we played some music with the band, Manuk is now a member, lol. Then had a good dinner and bath and went to bed early. Manuk was having way too much fun today to have a nap so it was an early bedtime today. Hope it's not too early of a morning, as it is 11:20 and I am still not in bed.
Tomorrow we are going to go to a friends new wool store with Tiffany. Should be fun.
Good ngiht

What a weekend

Well, today has been a day of rest and relaxation. We have had a few crazy months and between work for both Jacko and I, plus Jacko working a few side jobs and me getting ready for summer and a spring craft market, let alone Manuk and all the outings and fun he brings, we feel like we haven't had a day of "nothing" in a LONG time. This Saturday I was selling my Fairy Earth Mama products at a local spring market. It was great, and good to get a kick in the butt to get my stock of products made for the summer. For those who don't know, I made a line of alcohol, chemical and petroleum free products, from lotions to healing salves to bug lotion and sun protector to lip balms and face wash. It is a fun thing and I like sharing the possibilities of using more natural products with my customers. It is a rediculous amount of work though. Every day for a few weeks I have been working for hours to get all the stock ready. The sale went well, not a huge turnout but steady. Mom, Dad, Manuk (Mom and Dad took him for the day while Jacko and I worked), Kyle, Tiffany and Sheila all came down to support the sale and me which was very nice. In the end it was a very tiring but very fun day.
Saturday night, after dinner at Glen and Sheilas (where Jacko was working all day) we were home for a total of 5 minutes to grab PJ's for Manuk and we were off again. Good friends of ours are moving to Thailand in a few days. We will miss them a lot. We went to their empty house to have a farewell. Needless to say it was a long day and night. From 9 am until midnight I think I was home for a total of about 6 minutes.
Today for some reason, Manuk thought it would be a great idea to wake up at 6:45. I managed to keep him in bed until 7:30 but then it was time to get up. We let Jacko sleep and have a really good sleep in day. He has been working so hard. Manuk and I ate breakfast, played outside and hugn out all day. When Jacko got up we decided that today would be a "do nothing but lay around and watch movies" day. When it was time for Manuk to go to sleep, we ended up laying down together and I got a bit of a nap in as well. It was awesome.
Needless to say, when it is a do nothing day, mama isn't making supper either. lol. We had a "te cena" tonight, which translates to tea time for supper. It was nice and lazy and fun.
Well, the family is alseep and I am wrappig up some work and folding a little laundry and heading off to bed as well.
Hooray for lazy days.

It's been too long

Wow, I can't believe that it's been since Manuks first birthday since I last blogged. I guess I got busy and it was something that slipped through the cracks. I was carrying manuk up to bed tonight, with his new haircut, after he had fallen alsleep on my lap downstairs and realised how old he has gotten. It didn't even realise how big until I logged in (after many attempts due to wrong passwords and forgotten user ID's). I was carrying Manuk up to bed after a full earth day. We went to play group this morning, then went to Fort Whyte which is an outdoor nature reserve/information area in the city and hung out and ate a picnic lunch. After that we came home, Manuk had a nap and we got ready for mom, dad and Kyle to come over for dinner (Tiff is dancing in Calgary or else she would have been there). We hung out and ate and after everyone went to bed, Manuk and I had come cuddle time. He fell asleep in my lap and when I was carrying him up to bed, I had to turn sideways as I went up the stairs because Manuk is getting so long. Where o where has the time gone? My little baby boy is so big. He is amazing, and it is fun to watch him grow up, it just takes little things like this to remind me how big he is getting.