HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUNNY!

YOU PROBABLY THOUGHT YOU'D BE LUCKY TO GET WORMS AND A MEATBALL FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY WITH OUR RECENTLY *ENHANCED* SCHEDULE AROUND HERE. WELL, YOU CAN HAVE THAT AND MORE BECAUSE FOR TURNING 33 I WAS HOPING YOU'D LET THESE GUYS OUTFIT YOU FOR AN AFTERNOON ESCAPE ONE OF THESE DAYS.

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Happiness is finding your kids all cuddled up with a good book

Happiness is a one week old baby boy

Hope your third day with us was as wonderful as ours was Simon!

He's going to think about that one.

Thanks Mom,

they're beautiful.

Siiiiigh-mon...we're home, we're smitten.
Thank you soooo much for all the lovely loving comments! I couldn't wait to come home and read the "ooo's and aww's" of my family and friends.
Love Ang

Simon's are forever...

Introducing Simon John Franklin.
Born at 5:17 am, August 23.
Weighing in at 7 lbs, 13 oz., and measuring 20.5" long.
Thanks everyone!

overdue day 4 and looooooooooz'n my miiiiiiiiiiiiiiind when i'm not either watching North and South or poking through a garage sale . Oh yeah, it's getting ugly.

i just realized that steve and i accidently bought stuff that resembled our favorite people...ourselves! ain't that neat?!

Last year, Emily asked Steve to make her a "Tiger Plane" for her 6th birthday (note the tail)! You can tell by her smile that it's extremely special to her.

Kiss the birdie Tom-Tom!

Thanks to my mom's ingenious present to Emily, a scrapbooking kit that includes everything you can imagine, the girls were able to spend literally hours making "Cheyenne and Emily" keepsakes (taking breaks to fly around the yard and stuff in between).
At $2 a piece, Steve couldn't resist buying both unicorn costumes at one of last weekend's garage sales.

My dad died on this very day last year and today is my baby's due date. We settled my dad's ashes with his late mother in Gretna, Manitoba during our visit in June. Feel free to look at this wee blog about him that I started last year.

Ashleigh Robertson: 1984-2005

It's been exactly one year since the 22-year-old, blonde beauty above was taken from our family. She was the light of my brother Matthew's life. His girlfriend, his Princess. She and my sister became dear friends. A genuinely sweet person, Ashleigh and Matt were the perfect pair. Without a shred of warning, Ashleigh was killed by a drunk driver merely hours before we lost our dad.

Thinking today about all those that have been forever altered by this tragedy, especially my brother and sister, smiling bravely above.

Tommy's bedtime walk to the beach

Frozen in place as a plane roars overhead. "Baa-ing" at the sheep in hopes of having his call returned. Pausing in amazement upon reaching the ocean. The tide much closer than he remembers it being last time.

As if being seen with me in public wasn't enough, my hubby and my sweet daughter have been working overtime to ease my, um, heaviness, by coming home with the neatest surprises. Last night it was the Holy Grail itself-my own Dirty Dancing. I carefully took the cellophane off, and I might have to read the back cover a few more times before opening the case or maybe even watching it or something.

Thursday
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She finally did it! Introducing: The coolest blog in the North.
And, on the subject of Jaime...

Happy 30th Birthday to my wonderful friend to the end! Love you Charlie Brown!

(okay, this is the last birthday announcement on this blog as i neglect to mention so many important b-days, and yes, i had a mullet.)

Take a look!

Intrigued by all things fishing, our budding enthusiast spent last week's evenings hiking down to a lake with Steve just to see what she might find.

Emily and Tommy's 2nd cousin Elle is sooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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