A few days ago we took the boys out back to plant some sweet peas that our friends next door gave us. They were so excited to get to head into the garden. Once everyone was ready to “work” it quickly looked like it was going to turn into a “city job”, you know the kind were there are 3 workers and 1 shovel!

After some careful supervision and instruction we were ready to get our hands dirty.

First up was Brandon. Just need to get the seeds into the hole and then fill it up with dirt, pretty simple right…

Whoa, all this manual labour is making me a little light headed, I better sit down and take a break before I…

After Brandon had his posterior planted he was done with um planting so Owen took over. Mom helped a little and then set him free to keep planting on his own.

Owen really enjoyed working with the seeds and soil. It was extra cool because this week they got to plant seeds at daycare and have their own plants growing right in the room. Owen wanted to bring it home today but we told him it had to stay a little longer. He cried and was pretty sad because he was so proud of his plant that he created…

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Tonight we decorated Easter Eggs. Grandma, Aunty Claudette, Uncle Phil, and GG all came over to help and watch the boys. Of course the coloring looks like juice so Brandon had to taste it. Hmm not too bad for vinegar and dye!

Yeah know that the kits come with a little wire thingy that you can use to dip the eggs right guys? Never mind, I forgot that it was way easier to do it this way…

COOL, guys look at my egg! What egg? Ohh you mean the one on the end of the green digits!

Uh oh! Um I think there might be a problem here guys. For some reason I just cannot get the egg to be the same color as my hand no matter how many times I dip it in.

Yep they are pretty green alright!

What is with my children dying their hands green? The last time was of course St Patricks Day.

Even Aunty had to get in on the action. Look at that concentration and attention to detail…

This is mommys egg she made at the start, so pretty. I am not sure why it was the only egg to escape the greeny blue bath that was the fate of at least two dozen other eggs, including Aunties focused effort.

See there is a theme to this years egg decorating, what can I say the boys dig blue

A lot!

For some reason even with the blue baths…

We did end up with one dinosaur kind of looking egg. I think this might have been the outcome of Aunties egg after Owen got his hands on it =)

Happy Easter everyone!

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So I think that spring has finally began to emerege again so I went out for a walk camera in hand to see what kind of interesting things I could find downtown. As I wandered the streets and alleys some water pipes along a brick building caught my eye. I just love the texture and color of these.

I then noticed that one alley had a building with one of its windows smashed out and the curtains were hanging out. Just around the corner from that were a pair of shoes neatly placed along another brick wall. I did not place the shoes for the shot, there was no way I was going to touch some random shoes in an alley ick. I find it abcolutely amazing what you can discover just wandering the streets.

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OK yesterday started off like an average Edmonton spring day but the forcast was calling for some “snow”. Hmm by the time I got home there was massive wind gusts and it was indeed snowing. Environment Canada had a wind warning for the City of Edmonton – St. Albert – Sherwood Park. Their website warned “This system is generating strong northwesterly winds of 60 gusting to 90 km/h this evening.” and “will also give significant snowfall to areas of Northeastern Alberta by Friday evening. Snowfall accumulation will be around 10 to 15 centimetres before the snow ends Friday night.” Nice! well I am not going to let it get me down because I know that Spring will still prevail at some point, even if only through pictures for now.

And to think the ducks and geese were just settling in on the ponds out back the last few days. Poor guys!

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