A True Little Mermaid

What a great day we had! It began with us helping our friends Heather, Tega and Ru move to a new home across town. It was rather chilly outside, but once we started working - well lets just say that we worked up a sweat quite fast! (Now it is just waiting until their new baby is born).

Then it was a quick shower and off to Nathan's sixth birthday party. Nathan had a swimming party at the Aqua Arena. What FUN! This was Chelsea's first time swimming and now I am considering making it a weekly event. Chelsea LOVES swimming. She is amazing in the water - a true little mermaid!

It was even better because a lot of Chelsea's little friends were there too. Also in the pool with Chelsea was birthday boy Nathan, Jenna, Benjamin, Olivia, Arianna, Hannah, Rebekkah, Amber and Amy. (There were some other kids there too that Nathan knew.) We are so lucky that Chelsea has such great little friends!!!!!

Here are some pictures of our little mermaid....

Nanny Is Mad Because I'm Slacking At the Blog

So here are some recent pictures....

Chelsea, Dora and Taya

Here are some more of Chelsea's little friends.... She got Dra from Nanny and Poppy Hart for Christmas and she got baby Taya from Uncle Mark and Aunt Julie.... In one picture, Dora looks to be whispering secrets to Chelsea.....

Chelsea and Chloe

Last week we went to see our friends Nancy, Stephen and Chloe. It was so nice to see them again. We ate, laughed and of course took some pictures. Chloe gave Chelsea and cool glowing bear! It is white, but it lights up all different colours when you turn it on. (And I remember when I was a little girl being amazed that my dolls eyes closed when you lied her down....). Anyways, here are a few of the pictures that they took.....

Chelsea and Ashley

Chelsea's little friend Ashley (and her mommy and daddy) came to NL for Chistmas break.... Here are some pictures of the two of them. Anyone who knows me and does not know Chelsea can pick her out because Chelsea is the one with the necklace on!!!!!! Anyone surprised that my little girl has lots of jewerly????? LOL! Like mother like daughter, I guess!!!!!!!

Little Cuddles!

Here are some pictures of Chelsea and her friends on New Years Eve. We decided that we would take a group picture of all the kids that were at the party when we noticed that Jenna, Chelsea and Brennen were all cuddled up on the end of the couch.... I LOVE these pictures of the three of them! It was the cutest thing I ever saw....! Then again, when you have cute kids like the three of them you have to get cute pictures! (Yes, I am still posting New Years Eve pictures.... I am sooooooo behind)!

Brennen's New Years Eve Party

On New Year's Eve we went to Brennen's New Years Eve Party at his house. We had a lot of fun there with all of Chelsea's little friends! Here are some pictures of the party. The group picture was taken by Brennen's dad Nathan who is the best photographer ever (anyone who needs a great photographer for a wedding or nice portrait pictures let me know and I will give you his contact info... He is really good)....

Anyways, here are some of the pictures.....

All Smiles

Time To Take It All Down!

Well it is time to reclaim our living room and take all the Christmas stuff down. Actually I have been in the process of taking our stuff down for days and days. I would do so much and then stop.... well tomorrow is Old Christmas Day and all of the stuff has to be put away by the end of tomorrow....

Stealing an idea from Laura, I thought that I would post some of our decorations. There is a pictrue of Chelsea's first Christmas art project (the snoman made from a paint stick), there is Chelsea's baby nativity which Chloe gave her, there is some of her snowbabies from Grandma Porter and there is a picture of our tree (taken about 2 weeks before Christmas when we first put it up).....

Christmas Day Pictures

Christmas Mystery

We have a Christmas Mystery....

On Christmas Morning, Barry, Chelsea and I joined my Dad, Grandma and Mark and Julie for a big Christmas morning breakfast. (It was yummy too). Anyways, after we finished our breakfast we decided that we should exchange gifts and cards/white envelopes (inside joke). Chelsea must have been a really good girl because Pop Porter gave her money to go shopping with (boy, he knows me too well), Nan Porter gave her clothes (that I picked out), 16 pairs of socks (because I told her that she was running low on socks), some books and a Sarah angel and Mark/Julie gave Chelsea a Cabbage Patch Kid named Taya.....

Anyways, Barry and I had gifts for everyone too and a card. I asked Barry to give out the cards while I opened our present. While he was giving out the cards he asked me who did we get this card from.....? I said that I did not know .... the card was not even opened.... and furthermore it should not have been in the pile of cards that I had seperated the night before to give out in the morning. (i still have no idea how it had gotten in the pile of family Christmas cards)....?????

Anyways, I opened it and discovered that it was a Christmas card from Chelsea Allison....?????? I was speechless and that does not happen very often!!!!!!!!!! Inside the card was money and a note from Chelsea to say that Tim Horton's coffee was on her. WOW!

Now I know that the card and money was from Chelsea, but someone had to have helped her! I have an idea of who the assistant might be. But my mom gave Chelsea money to take us for coffee on Mother's Day.... so it might have been her..... Plus, the card is signed like my mother would have signed it.....

However..... my mom lives in Halifax and there is no postage on the letter (and Julie swears that she did not deliever it)! Plus the outside of the letter is addressed with our address but it does not look exactly like my mothers extremely neat penmenship. Plus, the money insude the envelope was inside a paper pouch so it would not fall out.... and my mother always just puts the money loosly in the envelope.... And there was a sticker on the envelope and my mom does not use stickers on her envelopes..... Can you tell that I have really thought about this....So, it is a real mystery!

Anyways, whoever helped Chelsea with her gift to Barry and I - thanks, it was really nice of you! It was a nice surprise. I was shocked and it took me a few minutes to wrap my head around the fact that the card was from Chelsea....LOL. Anyways, it was one of my best memories of Chirtsmas 2006. It will be going into her scrapbook!