Five Blondes

Wordless Wednesday: Fiveblondes together.

Kate — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:54:26 +0000

Merry Christmas to my favourite sisters!

Micaela — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:23:19 +0000

A Christmas Survey

Kate — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:18:44 +0000

A little nap time blogging for your enjoyment.

Mic just posted this survey, which Lauren completed 2 years ago. Since I finally have some down time with 2 kids sleeping I’m going to give it a go, and waste precious nap time.

1)Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? I love Hot Chocolate (especially specialty kinds like Rolo hot chocolate and white hot chocolate)

2)Does Santa Wrap Presents or Just Sit Them Under The Tree? They are wrapped (unless they are oversized), but the presents in the stockings are not wrapped.

3)Colored Lights or White Lights. We have warm white on the tree and cool white (look blueish) outside. I think multi-coloured are really pretty as well though, as long as they are perfect multi-coloured.

4)Do you hang Mistletoe? Nope.

5)When Do You Put Your Christmas Decorations Up? End of November, whenever my Christmas spirit starts to kick in.

6) What is Your Favorite Holiday Dish? Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes (with Oma’s gravy, although since we normally make it now I guess I can’t call it that anymore) and ceaser salad. 7) Favorite Holiday Memory as a Child. Running downstairs to open our stockings and looking at all the presents wrapped under the tree and wondering what they are! I also remember taking things from our stockings and going to show mom and dad. 8)When and How Did You Learn The Truth About Santa? Like Mic, I really don’t remember.

9) Do You Open a Gift on Christmas Eve? We used to open our sister gifts on Christmas eve, but this year we are doing that on boxing day. We have one side of the family Christmas on Christmas eve and we have a Christmas exchange at it.

10)How Do You Decorate Your Christmas Tree? First lights, Second any ribbon or garlands, third everything else. I keep the nice ornaments at the top away from Hailey’s hands. Good thing too because she decided she loves to take off ornaments and throw them behind the tv stand. I have no clue where she got that crazy idea.

11)Snow! Love it or Dread it? Oh my goodness love it. But hate driving in it.

12)Can You Ice Skate? Yup, not too hot at stopping though.

13)Do You Remember Your Favorite Gift? My engagement ring! But that shouldn’t count as a Christmas present since any other time of the year it would just be an engagement present. So I guess I totally got jipped that year and all I got was a picture frame. I remember getting skiis and lessons when we were young, I loved that gift because it got us addicted to the ski hill!

14)What’s The Most Important Thing About The Holidays For You? Getting to see my family.

15)What is Your Favorite Holiday Dessert? I love any and all holiday desserts.

16)What is Your Favorite Holiday Tradition? Parades, Christmas mass, singing Christmas carols, watching Christmas specials on tv, new Christmas outfits and now getting to come up with my own holiday tradition for my family.

17) What Tops Your tree? Nothing, because I can’t find a star I like enough to put up there.

18) Which Do You Prefer: Giving or Receiving? I like giving them, especially when I know they will love the gift.

19)What is Your Favorite Christmas Song? O Holy Night

20)Candy Canes…good or bad? Good!

21)Favorite Christmas Show? Elf. So funny!

22) Saddest Christmas Song? Christmas Shoes.

Christmas 2010

Brianna – 5 months!

Kate — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:01:19 +0000

Weight – Slacker mom never got Brianna weighed for her 5 month birthday

Length –See above.

Diapers – Size 3, she kept peeing out of her size 2s at night so we went to size 3s.

Clothes – Size 3-6 and 6-12.

Feedings – Every 3 or 3.5 hours.

Nighttime – Bed at 7pm (she would go earlier but an earlier bedtime would not allow us to get anything done in the evening). Dream feed at 10ish, I feed her again when she gets up at 6ish and put her back down until 8 or 8:30 whenever she wakes up. I love my sleeping baby.

Personality – She can’t make up her mind wether she loves people or hates them. She loves to smile at people from the safe place of my arm, but once she gets passed over she normally starts screaming pretty quickly.

Development

Loves chewing on her toys.

Practicing with sippy cups, trying to get her to drink milk so I can have a bit of freedom once in a while

Sitting up with help.

Loves

Swimming- went swimming the day she turned 5 months (so really this should be in her next post) and she giggled the whole time. It helped that her big sis was there jumping and splashing around and we all know how much Brianna loves Hailey!

Hates

Daycare at the Y, but really that is to be expected since she cries whenever other people hold her.

Loving My City

Lauren — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:58:24 +0000

Yesterday my roommates and I had a roommates date, where we went shopping, and saw New Year’s Eve. The movie was amazing. It was made by the director of Valentine’s Day, but in my opinion it was wayy better than Valentine’s Day, mostly because even though I love Taylor Swift, I couldn’t handle her in that movie. My sisters and I love these kinds of movies, where there are a lot of different plot lines, but in the end they all connect in some way. Kind of like Love Actually, one of our favourites.

Before the movie, we met Keira at the mall, then headed to one of my favourite stores in the Byward Market, Zone. This store is amazing, and has absolutely everything for decorating a kitchen, living room, office, bathroom, and bedroom. My mom bought these for me when I moved in to my residence room to make it prettier:

They’re not made to hold jewelry, but I needed somewhere to hang my necklaces, and it worked perfectly! Rhian loved mine so much that she bought her own set to take back to Australia with her. At Zone they even have butterfly wall decorations that look identical to the ones on Serena’s wall on Gossip Girl- my favourite! Don’t be scared away if the website is in French- the company started in Quebec, and this is it’s only Ontario store. I am buying a Christmas gift for Micaela this year, and I literally called her when I was in the store and needed some guidelines because I was so overwhelmed! If you’re ever in Ottawa, I would definitely recommend going to the Byward Market, and would for sure recommend going to this store, which is also just a short 5 minute drive from Prime Minister Steven Harper’s house! Which yes, you can drive right up to and is absolutely beautiful.

After our movie, our bus stop was right by Parliament Hill, so Rhian got a roommates picture in front of the Parliament Buildings, which are crazy awesome during the Holidays.

Sorry about the picture quality. I probably should have propped my camera on the fence. If you’ve never been to Parliament Hill, you can go right up to the building, as well as walk all the way around it. It’s pretty awesome, and is one of the things I’m going to miss most about Ottawa when I graduate and move home right before Christmas. Moving home has it’s downside (not cheerleading, leaving my friends, leaving this amazing city), but I’m also super excited to be able to see my nieces and nephew whenever I please!

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Wordless Wednesday- Multi-tasking Aunt

Kate — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:58:57 +0000

Happy Birthday Leah!

Kate — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:47:56 +0000

Happy 25th Birthday Leah!

Hailey’s absolute favourite person to talk to on the phone is Leah. If she grabs the phone and you ask her who she is talking to the answer will be Leah 90% of the time. So in honour of Leah’s birthday I let Hailey call Leah, they gabbed for a bit and Hailey told her about snowmen and then I heard beeping and realized that one of them had hung up. So I’m not sure how long the conversation was, but I’m confident they both loved it.

We all wish you a Happy Birthday Leah, but here it is in Hailey form.

Christmas Bags

Kate — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:45:29 +0000

My mom is the craftiest person I know. Other then making us 5 beautiful girls, she sews the most beautiful things (she made our wedding dresses, in case you didn’t know) and sends me home with new clothes that she made for the girls all the time. I’ve always wanted to follow in her footsteps by creating things, but often fail to come up the measure I want to be at.

I told Mic a few weeks ago that she’s becoming mom, she has a cute craft nook in her house and her house is filled with pieces of her. Now it seems I should also strive to be Mic.

I’m trying my darnedest, in the little time that I have for myself, when I get a break from being the mom to the cutest girls ever, to be crafty.

For Christmas we always received our presents in Christmas fabric bags. Mom made the bags and I always thought it was much nicer then wrapping paper, not to mention MUCH less waste (ie. like none). So a few years ago mom picked up some Christmas fabric for me and it sat with my craft stuff, waiting and waiting.

Two days ago I lugged my heavy sewing machine up out of the basement and started sewing. It’s not really hard to sew a bag. Sew a hem at the top and sew up both sides and you are done, but I’m pretty proud of them! I’ll probably need more, and it’s hard to judge what sizes you will need, but for now I think these will do.
The fabric:

Pretty velvet ribbon I found to tie up the bags:

One present all wrapped and ready to be given:

Step 1 on my way to be crafty = CHECK!

Home For a Rest

Lauren — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:22:38 +0000

Okay, I take that back. When I went home last weekend with Rhian (my roommate whom you may remember from this post) it was anything but restful! Our train left at noon from Ottawa, so for 4 hours we talked, looked a scenery, took pictures, did homework, and watched “Talking to Americans” on youtube. We met Leah in Toronto for some dinner and a glimpse of the CN Tower, then it was off to London. As we were walking into an Irish pub in Toronto that a homeless man kindly pointed us into, Leah started mentioning that it was so fitting that we were going to an Irish pub! Turns out she thought Rhian was from Ireland, not Australia.

My friend Leah (not to be confused with my sister Leah) picked us up from the train station in London and we headed to her house for a pre drink before going to Cowboys, our favourite country bar, where a few of us rode the bull!

On Saturday we had promised Katelyn that we would babysit Hails and Brianna while she cleaned and got ready for the baptism the next day. Babysitting may have turned into playing then all of us taking a nap, but we then went to the mall with Hailey in tow to meet Erica and Denis.

Check back for more pictures and an exciting story from our weekend away from school!

Wordless Wednesday – Whos who

Kate — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:44:32 +0000