It is finally Spring! YAAA!

Jack and I had a great morning. We went to his tumbling class and he didn't scream or cry (that is a first). Except we walked into the class and he saw the teacher and screamed and ran out the room. He really doesn't like his teacher much! I am not sure what it is. I think she is just a little overbearing. But once he saw that there was some balls to play with he was right into it. However, at the beginning and end of each class we sing some songs and he does not want anything to do with it. If I make him come he just screams and kicks his feet and lies in the middle of the circle. So I usually let him do his own thing - and then there is me singing in the circle with no child and all the other moms' kids are singing. Jack definetly doesn't like to be doing what everyone else is. He is just usually facinated with the balls. Today he played mostly in this tunnel you can crawl in. He took a few balls in the tunnel and then would throw them out and in.

What's new with the Kearls?:

- right now jack is loving cars: he takes all the cars he can find - he loves to roll them along the floor or on the stairs. He'll sit on the stairs for a good long time playing and making car sounds, Vroooom. So cute.

- He is getting his back molars in but it doesn't seem to bother him too much - he just always has his hands in his mouth.

- jack loves the book "The Wheels on the Bus" he always turns to the last page and sits there and just laughs. its hilarious.

- We had a home portrait party at my house the other weekend (a photographer comes to the house, you invite friends and their family to come have their photos taken - each family gets 30 minutes with the photographer - there is no cost - you just have to pay for any photos you want to buy - they upload them onto a website and you can go online and order pics. We set up our living room as the photo studio and then the guests just waited downstairs for their turn. Our pics didn't turn out too well - jack would not sit still at all - he was up running around - we got a few cute shots but not too many. But the event was lots of fun - just to visit with friends.

- This last week we worked on an ad that will be in the Edmonton/Calgary Wedding Bells magazine. I love this magazine and hopefully it will get the company name out there. I also just wrote (actually Dave wrote it) a small article for a event planner newsletter. That comes out May 1. I think the magazine comes out in June.

- I just bought this book. All I need to do now is actually pull out my sewing machine and buy some fabric.

- I just downloaded from itunes onto my ipod this new cd - love it!

-We are off to Hawaii in a week - CAN'T WAIT - although after church on Sunday - Dave said to me in the car - "how are we going to sit with jack on the plane for 5 hours when he can't sit for one hour" - I just laughed and said - "this just occurs to you now!" I thought about this the minute we bought our ticket. At least our flight is at 6 p.m. - so we'll bring cartoons, books, new toys maybe and then hopefully he'll sleep for a bit of it (hopefully!). I just can't wait to sit on the beach, snorkel, try surfing and body surfing, we're going hiking, have shaved ice and oh ya - hit the massive mall with 260 stores!!! That will be a day when I leave Dave and jack at the beach and I hit the mall! We are also going for a Luau dinner at the Polynesian Cultural Centre - can't wait.

here are some of the latest pics of jack:

(jack and his big boy pjs)

(jack in mom's shoes)




(jack loves to play with the cookware)





(jack laughing at his "wheels on the bus" bok)




(cutie pie)


that's it for now,
robin.

nice write up!

Check out this blog. She did an awesome write up and the pics look great. Just thought I'd share.

We are having a Home Portrait Party this weekend! Can't wait! I am going to make chocolate covered strawberries for the guests!

Have a good weekend. Hopefully we'll see the Audenart family this weekend - if we can make it through all the snow!

R.

Welcome Spring!

Happy SPRING! Jack just turned 16 months old. Almost 1 1/2. What a boy. He is starting to say a few words. He loves to take the telephone or any toy and put it up to his ear and pretend its a telphone and say "hi". So cute.




His favorite thing is to watch the birds and squirrels in our back yard. We look out the window many times a day and watch all the birds and the squirrels eating from our neighbors bird feeder. Jack points up to the birds and ohs and ahs.




Since I work twice a week I try to take jack out each day that I am at home - we go swimming, to play places in the mall, library, parks, the gym (well he plays in daycare when I workout - I think that is a win win for everyone!). So we are always having fun doing something.


What else is new:

- Dave started a new job for a new oil company;
- Our business is going well (our second event is this weekend);
- I got a blackberry (so fun!) (only because Dave let jack play with my cell phone while doing the dishes and jack dropped the phone into the water);
- I signed up to take an Event Management certificate course (Intro to Event Coordination) - can't wait to start that;
- One month till we take off for Hawaii - CAN'T WAIT! (which means we have one month to start working out and get our flabby bodies in shape)
- I am reading the new Sophie Kinsella book "Remember Me" - makes me so happy - her books are so fun!
- jack is starting to play with crayons, loves going down the slide at the parks and loves yogurt!


Not much else is going on. This week jack is starting a Tumbling Tots gym class and then we have swimming with playgroup. So lots of fun stuff for us to do and get us out of the house.

Below are some adorable photos of jack. Can you say "CUTIE PIE"!








(jack loves his yogurt)







(i found a bin of clothes Lisa gave me a while back - perfect timing - they all fit him now - and lots of great summer stuff - this orange shirt is adorable and jack would not let us take off this hat!)


(jack loves to help me sweep!)


- Robin

Can't Wait for Girl's Night Out!

It was a rough week last week for us. Jack came down with a terrible cold. He was miserable. Didn't want to eat and just sat on my lap and watched cartoons all day. And then of course wiping his snotty nose all the time, there was no doubt that I would catch it. I hate having a cold and trying to take care of jack when all I want to do is be in bed. We took lots of naps last week.

So that was the start of the week then suddenly on Wednesday my boss at the law firm went into an afternoon meeting and all of a sudden his heart stopped and he died - you can image what went on in the office during all of that. I was off that day but had to go in the next two days and deal with that loss and all that arises from that. It was so sad. He was young and the nicest guy ever to work for. It was so hard to be at work those days. I think every time I answered the phone I broke down to whomever I was talking to. Not to mention that Dave has been gone for almost 10 days now in Houston. See here to read about my boss.

On a brighter note, jack and i are doing much better now. We are finally at the tail end of this cold and we had a great day today shopping and playing outside. Although he completely melts down and has a temper tantrum everytime we go inside cause he just wants to be running around all day outside. At leat our backyard is fenced and he can run around there as much as he wants. I can't wait for the warmer weather when we can get some outdoor stuff and he can play all day outside. FUN!

I am so looking forward to this weekend. Karla and I are going to Tal's Girls Night Out. We are so excited. GIRL TIME! I am just sitting here getting all my photos ready!

Check out Jack's pic on this website. The lady who took some family photos put a picture of jack on her website....who wouldn't want to show off this cutie!

I think that's all - we have our first wedding for the photobooth biz this month - so that exciting and we've got the next few months booked up with stampede events, weddings and other parties. I am still just working hard at trying to get the word out there that we are here.

Have a great week.

Out Cold!

This is Jack out cold after church on Sunday - he has such a hard time staying awake at church as it is from 2:30 - 5:30. So he usually always crashes in the car on the way home. We moved him from the car to the living room - he was out cold - What a cutie!

Who are You!

Take the Quiz here!

(Elinor Dashwood of Sense & Sensibility! You are practical, circumspect, and discreet. Though you are tremendously sensible and allow your head to rule, you have a deep, emotional side that few people often see.)

This is a cute quiz. I figured when I was doing it that I would be an Elinor Dashwood. And its fitting that I came across this quiz as Dave and I have just watched "Becoming Jane" and "The Jane Austen Book Club". I think Dave learned more than he wanted to about Jane's life. But both movies were good. But I loved "Becoming Jane". Such a great movie.

January 2008

Can it already almost be February!!

We have been hibernating in our house for the past couple days. It is just too cold outside to venture out. You freeze within minutes! I think Jack and I are both getting a little stir crazy! We need some warm weather to go out and play!!

We have had some busy weekends lately - the wedding fair - which was exhausting but fun - met with lots of people and had our booth up and running. Then Fairmont. Then Dave was off to Toronto as someone had rented our booth and so he flew out there for 2 days to deal with that and set it up. Now we are off to LA this weekend. I can't wait! It started out that we wanted to go to a photobooth association meeting which is much needed for us to get some education on our booth but we are also going to get tickets for Wicked. I can't wait! I have been dying to see this musical. Jack and I listen to the musical on my ipod everyday at lunch and sometimes dinner too! I entertain jack with dance moves while he eats lunch! I am sure he loves it!!! Since its always playing dave knows the music too- so we can't wait!! It will be a fast busy weekend there but hopefully we can fit in some shopping, etc. I CAN ALWAYS FIT IN SHOPPING! TARGET!!!

Speaking of travelling - we just booked our flights for Hawaii in May. We are taking Jack. I can't wait to play at the beach with jack. We are going with another couple and their boy who is close to jack's age. I'll fill you in on more details as we make them. We are trying to find a beach house to rent. How fun is that!

Below are some pics from our skating day with friends and then last weekend in Fairmont with our friends, Kristine, Dave and Abby. Dave went skiing at Panorama while Kristine and I hung out with the kids and went for a short hike up to the Fairmont Hot Springs and we also went swimming. Lots of fun!



(love the dorky hats, right?)