canada love

A trip to Canada was just what the doctor ordered. A long weekend relaxing with friends old and new. Fiona learned how to crawl up a stair or two, we ate more than we should have, and G got a couple dives in with S.

She sits at the bottom of the stairs...


Halfway up the first one...

On top of the first, making her way up the second...
Enough already!
Attack of the cutest girl ever...

Out the window, we can see G and S paddling back from a dive on Copper Bluff...


Did I mention that Quadra is one of the most magical places on earth??
In line for the ferry home, G and F are being sweet...

Then G got hungry, and needed a snack....

And her Quadra Bubba (Grandma) made her a Halloween costume!! Pics to come!

the summer of the cupcake (and a few weddings too)

So this summer we saw G's sister get married, and two sets of good friends get hitched as well. E & A traded vows in August, and K and R did so in September. For that September celebration, I volunteered to make the cake - or rather, the cupcakes. There were just shy of a hundred guests... so logically I made about 157 cupcakes. Good thing, since they all disappeared, to a crumb. Here are some photos from our Summer of the Cupcake...

E and A's wedding:





G and F passed out after a delightful dinner with some new friends...


Fi being cute.

And she started to always do a safety grab...

Cupcakes begin. Here are the fixings for the carrot cake cupcakes...

And this is not even all the sugar I used...

Chocolate, mid-making... three different kinds of chocolate in these bad boys...

And the vanilla, so innocent...


Fi on Orcas Island...


Kicking her toes in the grass...


Reaching for the camera...

Mmmmm.....


Murder of crows in the tree outside our room...


Cupcake frosting assembly line...

Couldn't have done it without these awesome assistants.



We went through 28 cups of frosting. Boy howdy! And when we were all done, cupcakes stored safely in the walk-in, we found this lone cupcake... suicide for one so young is just plain sad...


The wedding begins...


(My two loves looking lovely...)


R and K doing the deed...


Artsy shot cuz I can't help myself...


Dinner by moonlight...


Finally!! Cupcakes are served!


Yum, yum, yum....


Sweet topper!


And now I am joining the gym.....

october

I updated my phone and found some previously unshared photos... so a brief recap - in June, Fiona found her toes.


By August, she was sitting up by herself.




In September, she mastered the downward dog position, and started to do a hop/crawl.





By the end of September, she had her first tooth. And now it's October, and she is crawling and pulling herself up on the furniture. Outrageous.

Back in August, we went on a plane to visit Tia M.




I found more photos from that trip, and wanted to share:








And just for comparison, in case any of you were wondering... here are Fi's red socks, when she was two weeks old.


And very soon you will see how her red socks look today....