May Weekends :)

Maiko's 2nd birthday was celebrated on May 10th in Kitchener. Aleksy and I headed up to Kitchener & Waterloo for the day for celebrations, and pre-celebrations St. Jacob's Farmer's market. I really wanted to check St. Jacob's out because I have never been!

I was very impressed by how huge the St. Jacob's Farmer's market was: there was so much food, flowers, and other items for sale! We bought some berries at a cheaper price, some homemade honey for our friend Steph's birthday, and we discovered the Mennonite retailers have the best baked goods of life. Aleksy got some butter tarts and I got the best cinnamon raisin sticky bun with icing that I devoured in an embarrassing time.




We also had a bit of time to have a drink downtown Waterloo before heading to Tabi & Dons. Who knew downtown Waterloo was so nice?! We found this awesome little restaurant and had a beer each: they brewed their own! We ensured not to eat too much because Tabi and Don always have the best food!

And the best decorations and baking! These were paint brush cake pops, delcious dessert squares, cookies, and paint topped rice krispie squares. I had soooo much dessert that day!

Our Rachel Weekend :)

We had Rachel over for a sleepover on Saturday May 24th. We came up with a brilliant plan that we would take her on a road trip to St. Thomas to this cat adoption house that houses 100 cats!! She loved the jeep ride there, laughing hysterically at the wind blowing her hair around. And she liked the cat place, but I dont know if I would say she loved it... there was so much cool stuff to do for our weekend of fun that she was asking us when we were going to the park... our park is that good.

And so we got home and went to the park! Rachel hit up the swings, slide, and everything in between. And asked to go again the next morning... but we stuck to soccer in the backyard instead.

This is the massive hill in our backyard that Rachel lives for. When she first saw it, its all she asked about... can we climb the hill. She did end up climbing it the week before because my sister has friends that lives nearby, so we climbed the hill with her twice! I ran to the bottom to get a shot of Rachel and Aleksy!

And after a long day of jeep riding, cat visiting, going to the park, soccer, climbing hills, and grilled cheese, we called it an indoor evening with making peanut butter chocolate chip cookies (with peanut butter that Rachel made herself at the Picards peanut place!) and watching a movie. We suggested something new, but Rachel insisted that we watch Despicable Me like last time she had a sleepover. Rachel passed out whilst eating her cookie and chubby drink and we put her to bed in "her room" with the sleeping bags that she requested!