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...

Boat Weekend!

This weekend, Aleksy and I went up to the boat for some sailing. We just got back a few hours ago! Maneuvering around the sailboat is not as easy as it seems when almost 7 months pregnant. In confined spaces, you surprisingly use a lot of core muscles to get around. We headed up to Whitby bright and early Saturday morning and got there for about 10:30am. We decided not to do the usual Friday-Sunday full weekend since my sleeping patterns are somewhat unusual these days (with a body pillow, no sleeping on my back, waking up to pee and all those fun pregnant things) and I knew it would be a difficult sleep for me so we got one more day of sleep at home and drove up ourselves on Saturday (we usually just tag along in the car with my Mom and Paul). 

Saturday was great sailing weather... just the right amount of wind to get a speed of around 6 knots with lots of breeze so it wasn't too hot. We were out on the lake for about 5 hours. It was really sunny and I now have some lobster thighs.

Pregnant boating: one of the biggest differences in the usual boat weekend was the lack of drinking (for me!). What's usually a weekend with lots of palm bays & banana martinis, sometimes as early as 9am, was not the case this weekend. This was my "special, fun" drink for the weekend: Dr. Pepper! After the day out of sailing, we had some steak & veggies on the bbq for supper and some drinks and while Aleksy and Paul were out for longer, I called it a night before 11pm! The sun took a lot out of me!

Today, we had a pancake and sausage breakfast that was held at the marina then visited with Paul's Mom. She knitted our baby some adorable things! A few hours later we are now home and plan to call it an early night to catch up on sleep... I missed my body pillow last night.

Summertime Things

I feel like our weekends have been really busy since summer started, but can't put my finger exactly on what we've been doing. I guess maybe a lot of baby prep has taken our time.. like furniture shopping, registering etc. But it is just the beginning of summer and there are lots more summer days to come. Here's what we've been up to since the nice weather has arrived:

On June 13th, Brooklyn and I went out for the Big Sister's fishing day and BBQ! This was our 2nd time around participating in this event since it's something different that we wouldn't do on our own and includes lunch. It's at a lake near Dorchester and the club that owns the lake volunteers to provide the day for matches at Big Brothers Big Sisters.

This is the first catch of the day... the fish was taken off the hook before we got the picture and Brooklyn or I weren't about to touch the fish, so someone held it out for us. We're the kinda fishers that don't touch the fish... or the worms (at all.).

And another catch! We both caught at least 2 fish each (granted, it was a stocked trout lake) so I think we're pretty good, successful fisherwomen. After you catch the fish, you send them back swimming in the lake (and in our case, we hope that we didn't hurt them with the hook).
Then we had our hotdogs an hamburgers and headed back after lunch.

On the same day, after fishing, Aleksy and I had an 80s party to attend! It is an annual party that one of my teammates holds. This is a picture of some of his crazy decorations. His whole house was absolutely covered with 80s props and decorations like this table here. It was crazy the amount of 80s stuff he has... it was a really impressive setup!

Prior to leaving for the party on the Saturday, we watched the movie "16 candles" to get us into the 80s spirit!

We had hit up the thrift stores earlier in the week and found our attire at the east end Salvation Army: I bought a number of options including a one piece jumpsuit, a dress complete with shoulder pads, and some fluorescent items. Aleksy got an old school jumpsuit & a fun floral hat from Ardene.

This was my final product of thrown together fluorescent clothing & fishnet stockings. I even found a scrunchy at Ardene...

You know its a good party when my 23 week pregnant self didn't consider leaving until 1am! My usual bedtime is more like 10pm. It's hard work making a baby.

This was our Canada Day project: baby's room. The painting is now complete with a navy blue accent wall (which Aleksy is starting in this picture) and the rest of the room gray. I'm really excited to get all the other decor up... for now we have the crib & dresser set up and the room painted. A good start when entering the third trimester.