Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Our July Rachel Weekend!

Last weekend, we had my niece Rachel for a full weekend, Friday to Sunday! Before the weekend, we had set out some ideas of what we were going to do on the weekend because we wanted to load her full of fun things to do. We were watching Rachel while my sister and Kenny were out at the boat with Mom and Paul. On Friday, Rachel came over around supper time, and we ordered some pizza, got some snacks and watched and movie. And by movie I mean that Rachel brought her favourite Spongebob shows and insisted we watch them because they are the best. So Aleksy and I (half) watched Spongebob with Rachel.

Not only did Aleksy and I plan for things to do with Rachel, she also told me that Saturday was "girls day" because Aleksy was out at Rock the Park and it was just Rachel and I. She brought all her nail polishes (she has a lot) and wanted to do manicures. The girl has a lot of nail polishes... more than me!

Before we got our nails all prettied up, we had some homemade pancakes for breakfast (mine and Aleksy's weekend go-to breakfast!) and then we went garage saling in our neighbourhood where Rachel scored some new stuffies.

It was just after lunch that Rachel and I painted our finger and toe nails before heading out to the movies! Complete with sparkles and all...
There were 2 options that I gave to Rachel for movies to watch on our "girls day": Minions and Inside Out. It was an easy choice for Rachel because she had already seen the Minions movie so we went for an afternoon Inside Out movie! This is the one I wanted to see way more so I'm glad my sister had taken Rachel to see Minions earlier in the week!We were originally going to go to the movies in the evening after the park but because it was a 30 degree hot hot day, we decided to watch the movie in the cool theatre and go to the park in the evening...

<---- this is our movie selfie. Rachel makes pretty faces for pictures. The beauty of rainbow cinemas is for under $25, we got admission to the movies, Rachel's kids snack pack compete with popcorn, pop, and candy and I had a large drink! If it was Silvercity, $25 would be admission alone...
The movie ended around 5pm and we had lots to snack on during the movie, so we weren't exactly hungry for supper yet... so we headed to Gibbons park first to feed the ducks!

As you can see, Rachel was very excited to feed the ducks. They get aggressive and hissy when they see bread, so we went to a safe area where there was not too too many ducks and geese (its the geese that are scary!).

After the bread ran out (pretty quickly because Rachel was really excited about feeding the ducks), she played on the playground for a while at Gibbons. Then we had some McDonalds for supper before heading home for the evening. When we got home, we played some soccer outside then watched Big Hero before calling it a night!
On Sunday the 19th, our big plans for the day included celebrating our little Cadence's 1st birthday!! Before heading to Chels and Warren's we had some breakfast, hit up the park in our subdivision... because Rachel would never let the weekend pass without doing that... After realizing that we forgot to tell Rachel to pack a swimsuit, we went to Wal Mart to pick out one because we knew Rachel would be very sad if the other kids were playing in the "cold tub" and she couldn't. We also got pool noodles for Rachel and Andzelika's girls because swimming's just not the same without pool noodles. Rachel chose the colour to match her nail polish!

Rachel loved the water and stayed in there until it was time for supper and cake and presents! It was a super hot day!
Cadence with her birthday cake... no utensils needed. Although her birthday is actually beginning of June, we celebrated in July because the initially scheduled birthday got cancelled because Cadence was exposed to (but never got!) scabies.... yup. Scabie baby.

But Cadence got to space her cake loving out with a birthday that she had in June, and in July!

I decided I should also get double the cake, so I had 2 big pieces... because... why not, i'm pregnant! No drinking so I make up for it in cake...

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