Our week in review...

As you can see from all the pictures, it's been a busy week!

Hanging out in the rocking chair, happy as can be!
I love the way Natalie looks at Rachel.

Painting butterflies with Auntie Linda

Pretending to mix paint

Showing me that she was going to paint a butterfly

So we put her to work

She did a pretty good job - most of the paint isn't near the butterfly but that's ok :)

Weekly cow picture

Rachel decided Natalie needed to have a drink while I was trying to take pictures

Grandma & Grandad bought the girls a play house - Rachel was SO excited. Now I can't wait until Christmas morning!!!

Rachel & Grandma having some 'tea'

Peek a boo

Grandad & Natalie hung out on the stairs

This picture makes me giggle. The girls were having so much fun sitting beside each other; they were both laughing. I'm so glad they are really close in age (17 months) because I think they're going to be best friends as they grow up!

Both looking at the camera for a change and of course that's when our camera decides to crap out on me. I'm so sick of that camera! UGH! Anyway, I tried to lighten the picture but now it's really grainy...still cute though.

I knew I kept those Avent bottles for a reason - now Rachel uses them to feed her baby. We have bottles for her dolls but she doesn't like to use them, she wanted a real bottle apparently.

Time to burp her baby (who is wearing one of Natalie's dresses)

I guess her baby made a mess while eating because the next thing I knew, Rachel was dragging out Natalie's bathtub.

Hmmm...look Mom, I can sit in here, too!

Natalie finally likes her swing again - she went through a phase where she would cry when we put her in it. I wanted to cry myself because Rachel loved that swing when she was a baby (well, who are we kidding - she still loves it!)

When you tell Rachel to 'smile', this is the face she makes. Cracks me up every time!

Look at that excitement in Natalie's face!

Rachel's new favourite thing to do - push Natalie in the swing! Works for me :)

So there you have it! We've had a great week, despite the weather. It's been crazy hot around here (35C and then add the humidex to that and you're looking at 40C at least - yuck!) and when it's not super hot, then it's raining. We do need the rain and I must say that our grass looks fantastic because of all the rain but I don't like being stuck indoors with this weather.

We went to Toronto on the weekend for a bbq at my Aunt's house. We had a great time although Natalie screamed anytime my Aunt Cathy would talk to her! On our drive home, we ran into some nasty rain storms - the kind where you need to slow down, put your 4 way flashers on, and really concentrate so you can keep the vehicle on the road. Ron had a few drinks so it was up to me to drive home. I don't mind because I'm comfortable driving in that type of weather; it's all the other idiots on the road that I worry about. We made it home safe & sound and actually in record time (could be the fact that I have a lead foot when the driving conditions are good).

Ron had to work some overtime last night because of all the storm damage. There were quite a few calls to take care of relating to trees down or just branches and what not. He was exhausted when he got home from working the extra couple of hours in addition to being in that horrible heat all day. Not sure I could do his job in that type of weather; having to wear chainsaw pants and long sleeves (he works around hydro). Then again, I'm not sure I could do his job on a good day - I can't even start his chainsaws :)

Have a wonderful week...