Still alive....

Aisling has mentioned to me this weekend that I have not been on this blog since January!
Life just seems busy......I have good intentions then time just seems to get away from me.

Last weekend Jaden had her first dance competition in Hamilton. The girls did very well winning a couple of overalls, Jade ended up winning overall 9 year old soloist for the competition so she was thrilled with that.

On Thursday we went to Toronto to be with Sinead, Radu and his family to celebrate the life of his grandmother. The kids came to the funeral with us, I had informed them that it would be an open casket but that they did not have to go and see her. After we were there for a little while Jackson asked me to take him up to see grandma, so we walked up there and he looked at her then proceeded to ask me why there was only half of her there and what had happened to her legs? were they already gone to heaven ? I quickly explained that they only opened up half of the coffin and he was relieved.

Easter weekend consisted of a very large gathering. Radu's mom and dad and his aunt and uncle came to dinner on Saturday. Altogether there were 14 adults and 5 children (Anna, Paul and their girls had gone to the Sault for Easter). Then Sunday Shane and Rylan went golfing with Radu and Jay and Sinead and Aisling came and hung out over here for a while.
I cooked a turkey dinner(which turned out great;) and mom, dad and Sinead came over and ate with us.

The kids have more chocolate than they need.....waiting for one of them to throw up, although we found evidence that Bear might have had his fair share of chocolate while he was here for a visit earlier .....he may regret that later, or rather Aisling and Jay will when they have to clean up after him!

Shane is back to work tomorrow but I took the day off as the kids have no school. Jaden has some extra dance classes and a mock exam for her ballet exam that she will have on the 23rd of this month. Other than that we are just getting caught up on homework/projects that need to be done. I work all day Tuesday and Wednesday, lunch on Thursday and then we (Jaden and I) heading to Mississauga as we have an early start to a full day on competition on Friday. Jaden has a grade 4 sharing night on Wednesday, I am working but Shane and the boys will go and hopefully tape it for me.

I have taken tonnes of pictures in the last little while although I still don't know how to use my camera....surprise, surprise I have not yet signed up for a class! I just need to download the pictures and I will share some and hopefully that will help with some updates;)