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Airplane Hangouts

"Kinsley, you're gonna want to see this!" I love this moment when Cairo wanted to make sure Kinsley didn't miss the takeoff. What a gentleman! Plane after plane, spending the morning at the airport with these three just fills my...

Kids Toys and Books

Rainy Days with Battat Toys

It's been so rainy here in Vancouver and I have definitely done my fair share of complaining. However, I'm grateful for companies like Battat Toys that help keep our imagination, learning, and playing, alive & well during these LONG rainy...

Family

Let's Tell Cairo

David, There are a few things I have been dreaming of to tell our son. Things that I am sure you have been dreaming of too. I thought I would write them down so I didn't forget. Let's tell him...

Family

St Patty's Day: Our O'Reilly Roots

Happy St. Patty's Day! We come from a long family line of Irish roots (ahem...our maiden name was O'Reilly) and although we aren't really into the green beer, we thought green and white milkshakes was the way to say cheers...

Food & Drink

Easy Like Sunday Morning

I go through these phases of either feeling like I'm at the top of my chef game or asking myself if it's ok to have scrambled eggs for dinner three nights in a row. Thankfully we have a simple lunch...

Family

a 3 minute glow

As a mother I don't have a ton of "me" time in the day. Some days I have pity for myself, and then quickly move on as there really isn't a point in relishing in my own self pity. This...

Family

These two

2 years ago these two were still in our tummies and life was much more uneventful. Huge change always comes when adding another kid to the mix but what a joy it is to witness these two interact on the...

Family

How I organize

As a parent, I feel like most days I am constantly picking up toys and putting them away. I don't like looking at messes, but obviously with children messes are inevitable and quite frankly are usually a sign my kids...

Family

Sharing the love

Happy Love Day! What a great reminder to not only love the ones that are dear to our hearts but to everyone around us. Yes we should be doing this every day but it's nice to get the calendar reminder...

Food & Drink

Breakfast for Dinner

My husband gets up at the crack of dawn most mornings so we rarely have breakfast together. But someone just told us that February is "National Hot Breakfast for Dinner" so I thought what a perfect idea to do a...

Family

Date Night

We have been cooped up in our homes with all this crazy snow in Vancouver so we couldn't contain our excitement to get out into civilization with a date night this week. We know the importance of date nights for...

Family

Keeping Warm with Mill Heat

We have had some cold, snowy days here in Vancouver and as some of you know, my little family lives in a basement suite. Some days it has been so frigid we have turned our oven on just to help...

Family

A Little Video with Jake, Kinsley & Cairo

Family

The Sweetest Little Valentines

Ah! We have all the heart eyes with this brunch we hosted with our little kiddos. Ok yes we are biased but we think they are just the cutest :) With Valentine's Day just around the corner, we wanted to...

Food & Drink

Super bowl Lettuce wraps with Primal Kitchen

Go Patriots!! We teamed up with Primal Kitchen to create a delicious, healthy family recipe for your super bowl party this week! We first learned about Primal Kitchen when we did Whole 30 last spring. Primal Kitchen creates dressings, mayos,...

Family

Party time!

Our littlest sister celebrated a birthday this week and we wanted to honour and bless her on this special day. Birthdays are a wonderful reason to get friends together, eat yummy treats and remind someone how loved they truly are!...

Kids Toys and Books

Let's start a band!

It's official....these two are starting a band! With the help from Battat Toys , these two are constantly jamming away with their Parum Pum Pum Musical set. We always have music playing in our houses. We listen to everything from...

Family

Plans can change, He remains

I've got big plans this year. Plans for building family memories, character traits I want to work on, places I want to visit, and even crazy dreams like drinking an entire cup of hot coffee without warming it up. Like...

Food & Drink

Pool Time, Snack Time!

Last week's weather Report: -5 today Celsius!. Will repeat, -5 Celsius. We are definitely not used to these chilly temperatures here in Vancouver. So obviously we decided it would be a good idea to go to the POOL! I know....

Family

Kinsey's Big News

T H I S G I R L I S W A L K I N G ! ! ! I can hardly believe it. It's been months and months of holding on to my hand and walking all over...

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How I take a compliment

There is a sweet peacefulness about sippin' a latte alone. I do my best thinking here. When I am just sitting in silence, its in these moments (yes they are rare) where some of the biggest thing I want to...

Family

Family Adventure Day: Fort Langley

Last month was busy but we also had time off from work so we took full advantage and had a family day in Fort Langley. We met up with my sister's family and found ourselves in some of the most...

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Competitive genes

You can't really grow up amongst our family members without being competitive. Baseball in the backyard, beach volleyball, settlers of catan, canasta, wits and wagers, no matter what game it is, we are all in and playing to win. Jake...

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Life Lately with Beau Hudson

As this year quickly comes to a close we have been reminiscing and looking back at some of our memories as families. One of the reasons we started this blog back in April was to be able to remember some...