I realized that is exactly what I have been doing for the last 5 days! Apparently it did not leave much time or space for BLOGGING!
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
-Mother Teresa
"When you spread around joy and happiness, then life all round becomes a grand, contagious celebration."
-Anna Trimiew
"The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have."
-Leonard Nimoy
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Jana and her proud parents at her first charity event sponsored by her store. HEARTS FOR OUR HOSPITAL |
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A Grammie D crafted card for Beau's first birthday |
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Beau with his "Grandpa Arvid" at his birthday celebration here yesterday |
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Beau loves balloons... Here I am holding him with one of the many he had at the party! |
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Beau loves his Poppa Brian, too! |
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Beau got several great gifts...and his sister helped with the unwrapping and showing of the cards! |
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Beau wasn't as into the cake as we thought he might be! Many cameras were on hand to capture this milestone moment in time. |
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A little birthday Hug for Beau from his daddy |
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My niece, Rowen with Mariah and Beau on his new little plazma car he got from us... it was a hit! |
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These little cars can hold up to 225 pounds in weight... so fun for grammies too! |
Beau with his Grandma Nancy
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Nels with Beau and friends... Shelane, Buzz, and their new baby, Braxton! |
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Mariah had been at the Farmer's Market earlier yesterday so still had the traces of a KITTY CAT painted on her face! Here she is wearing my PJ top turned into a little dress!!! SPOT the FUN! |
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Poppa sure loves his Mariah! |
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Beau loved being the centre of attention at his first birthday party! |
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Yummy cupcakes from "The Cupcake Conspiracy" ... this was his Birthday cake! |
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Lots to CELEBRATE for sure! This has been a hectic but ever so fun week around here. Jana and her partner, form her store, Melissa, along with a friend, Leslie, decided a while ago to host a fund raiser for the CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION of SASKATCHEWAN. Their event was called "HEARTS FOR OUR HOSPITAL" It was held last thursday night and raised an estimated eleven thousand dollars for the hospital. It was a very classy event held at the Radisson Hotel. The evening had appetizers along with a cash bar, a presentation on the hospital, a speaker, two musical acts, and a silent auction. We were very proud parents of Jana indeed, on doing such an amazing job of this event and raising so much money for a good cause. They plan to make this an annual event, as this first one was a huge success. With all the lead ups and preps to that event, I had Beau here a bit more this week to help Jana do the running around for her event. In that time I was able to get some cute "PRE" birthday pictures for my "BEAU"-THDAY CARD crafting! Friday night we took Mariah to her final swimming lesson and she passed from "SEA OTTERS" into "SALAMANDERS", so we took her out for pizza on the rooftop of the Athena restaurant to celebrate that on Friday night! We always enjoy time spent one on one with her, what a little sweetie she is, and so grown up all of a sudden! OOPS forgot to put a pic of that in the blog... maybe next blog! Yesterday we hosted a little birthday celebration here for BEAU. His first birthday isn't actually until August 8th, but with this being the long weekend, his Edmonton grandparents and Auntie Ingrid and his great Uncle Bruce from Vancouver were all in town. We had 22 people at the party in total and had a great time. The party started at 6:30 and our final guests left just before midnight. Lots of "LIVING, LOVING and LAUGHING" took place throughout the evening. I took 129 photos at the party and 4 videos, too... so it was hard to make a selection of pics for the blog to give the non FB readers an idea of the party fun! Unfortunately, neither of my brothers could make it, but were invited. Today the beat goes on as we have some friends invited for a barbeque here this evening. I left the balloons all hanging for todays supper to keep the FESTIVE SPIRIT rolling! I have lots to CELEBRATE, The last few days have been just great. From raising money for a good cause, To sharing love with the in-laws! Blowing up so many balloons, Listening to some kiddie's tunes... Crafting cards, and wrapping gifts... Feeling like I've given some lifts, LIVING, LOVING, LAUGHING, too... That's what HAPPY HEARTS will do! My life's been great... infact it's fun, Soon our baby BEAU will be ONE! |
A wonderful family fun time birthday blog, and I think it's very cute. The 'birthday boy' looks like he's having a great old time being the center of attention..he's just the cutest. All of the photos are great and I love your 'quotes', poem,...the photo of Beau with his GrammieD and toy car is VERY cute, I love it! It's nice to see everyone really enjoyed themselves..your a 'hostess with the mostess' for sure...thank you for sharing the 'birthday blog' very nice indeed..xo
ReplyDeleteThanks for TAPPING in Arlene... I love your comments and look forward to what you have to say always... we did have a fun week for sure...and Beau loved his little special celebration, too. Hard to believe he is nearly 1... where does the time go?!!! xoxo
ReplyDeleteHome run - sharing the party. Excellent, thanks a whole bunch for letting your readers be part of the festivities! Good time had by all. Such an incredible family, Diane.
ReplyDeleteThanks Arlene... glad you could stop by and be a part of some of the fun we had! I am blessed a a great family and many wonderful friends, too, yourself included!
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