Horse Jumping

Kaitlyn jumping Ben

Kaitlyn jumping Ben then Rachel jumping Frodo. Just love watching these girls!

Kaitlyn was so excited about jumping last night. Ben had a bit of a rough start then the last jump of the night he really took off. He came around the corner and moved into a canter and just sailed over the jump! Kaitlyn was on cloud 9. Her teacher, Tara, was so proud of her and I'm going crazy wanting more!

Kristin's Bday dinner

Matt took me out to the Harbor Street Brassiere last night for my birthday dinner. Our friends Brooke, Jim, Kris and Zach helped us celebrate. What an amazing dinner we had. It is a house that a local guy turned into a quaint restaurant. Not many tables and not a lot of choices but excellent food that is organic and fresh. Matt had the steak and I had the stuffed chicken leg. OH MY it was to die for!

Then along came my cake! OK that was AMAZING! What a wonderful surprise.

This was a wonderful end to a 4 day birthday celebration. I do have to say turning 39 is pretty great! I may have to turn 39 again next year......NAH I can't wait to see what 40 has in store for me!

WHAT????? 39!!!!

Yep 39! Hard to believe I am 39. I SO remember my moms 40th Bday party and thinking I won't be there until forever. And look where I am my last year of my 30's. Amazing how time flies!

I spent my birthday celebrating big. It started on Wednesday....my girlfriends here had a wonderful lunch for me followed my the most amazing dessert ever! Yesterday I got to travel with Kaitlyn and the band to a competition then got many surprises when I got home. I was spoiled by my family last night with a wonderful dinner of scallops, shrimp, asparagus, sweet potatoes and of course angel food cake ~ my favorite! Saturday Matt is taking me out to a very nice restaurant in town with our friends. I get to dress up! I even bought myself a new dress!

So...I have to say it has been one of the best birthday's I've had in a long time! I think I can get used to this week long celebration!

Kaitlyn~ Horses and Band

Kaitlyn, Delaney and Olivia

It's Kaitlyn's turn to be talked about and pictures posted. I've spent all winter talking about Grace and hockey so now I need to spend a little time on Kaitlyn....

This past Wednesday Kaitlyn was able to ride a new horse at lessons. His name is Rocky and is such a sweet gentle horse. And tall!!! He really isn't that much bigger than Ben ( who Kailtyn still loves the most ) but Rocky is longer legged and much thinner. Kaitlyn did a great job getting Rocky to trot and I know she was itching to be able to canter but Tara, her instructor, is very cautious-which I like- so maybe next week!

Thursday found Kaitlyn and the band heading up to Owen Sound for one of many competitions they participate in. I was able to go along and I have to say the KTTPS band if AWESOME! I wish I could have videoed them but it was against the rules and I'm such a rule follower! There are 3 levels you can be awarded. Bronze, Silver or Gold. They got a silver. The judges were tough because we found out out of all the 20 or so groups that were there they only awarded 1 gold, 3-4 silver and the rest were bronze. Next month will be the spring performace and I will be able to video them so then I will post it so you all can hear them!

OOPPPSSS!!! Forgot about the Hockey Champs!!!

So I was looking back through all the posts and realized I TOTALLY missed posting about Grace and Matt's big hockey win!!

So a couple weeks ago was the year end tournament for Grace's hockey team. Going into it Matt kept saying "They can win this" and so he set out to keep the girls focused on playing as a team and having fun. Saturday morning was game one and we tied the game. It was a good match up and we were pretty excited to start off on a good foot. Game two was that evening. It was a very close game and the team was pretty aggressive but our girls played their hearts out and won!!! This meant we would go on to play for the #1 spot!

Now I have to tell you, all but 3 girls are in the school play and Sunday at the same time as the game was the first dress rehearsal for the play. Needless to say we had some girls who were pretty worried about this. Our wonderful directors for drama knew this could be a possibility and told those girls to out there and win it!

Sunday we woke up and headed to the arena. The girls weren't as pumped up as normal so us mom's came in and got them all pumped up best we could. One girl, she is pretty quiet and doesn't say a whole lot, said to me "You moms better bring your game and cheer us on". Well, I took that as a challenge.

The team the girls played was our other local team and the girls new many of the other players. The coach goes to our church also. So we knew this was going to be a great match up and a very close game. It was pretty even playing but our girls came out of nowhere and took hold of game and blasted them. What an awesome feeling!! These girls have never gotten very far in this tournament and most have been playing since they were very little. So here they were BUILDERS DIVISION CHAMPIONS!!! They were awarded medals and a trophy. We are so proud of our Pee Wee hockey girls. They didn't have the best regular season and had some hard games but they came out of nowhere post season as a team. Encouraging each other, supporting each other and being one unit playing for the same goal! What a wonderful end to the season!!

Matt's Bday and Easter

This past weekend was a long 4 day weekend. So we headed up to Collingwood to stay in the house that is available to us through Matt's company. We went up with the Berkman and Dunhan families. We had the Dunham boys for a couple nights so Kris and Zach could celebrate their anniversary in Toronto.

Friday night Kaitlyn, Grace, Brooke and I along with another friend who's family was there, Kimberly, went to see "The Last Song" while Jim and Matt held down the fort with all the boys.

Saturday was Matt's Bday and I sent the guys off to play 18 holes of golf for Matt's Bday. Brooke and I took the kids over to "The Plunge" for a fun few hours of swimming. It's a great place right in the heart of the Blue Mountain village. The weather was amazing and we all wore ourselves out!

That night Kris and Zach showed up and we all ate a wonderful dinner that the guys made then the adults went out for drinks in the village to celebrate Matt making it to another year. (This is how Matt likes to put it.) I had a special cake made for Matt which turned out amazing!!

Sunday being Easter we put on a great egg hunt and fabulous ham dinner that everyone pitched in to make. It was a very relaxing day of taking walks, sitting in the sun reading and taking naps. We ended the night playing a card game I remember playing as kid at our lake cabin. Kris and Zach call it Pirates rummy ( I think that was it ) but we called it Shanghai ( I don't think I spelled it right ). It was such a blast. After all the adults watch "The Blind Side" it was so good to see it again. So much I missed the first time I watched it.

Today is our last day on our long weekend. It's been a relaxing day of laundry and getting ready for hit the ground running with a busy short week ahead of us.

I am so thankful for such a wonderful friends here in Canada to spend these holidays with. It truly was a great weekend one we will remember for a long time!