Girls being girls!

The remainder of the March break did not slow things down around here either! After Brittany's friends left for home, Casi had a bunch of hers over!
The house was filled with giggles and silliness of this bunch!


They are a great group of girls! They covered the rec room floor with mattresses and blankets and had a pile of disney movies about 3 ' high and and they set themselves up for a disney movie marathon!
They rocked on to Band Hero and Guitar Hero and by the end of 2 days the rec room looked like a cyclone had gone through it!
Not complaining though...I love these girls! They can come and watch movies and hang out and be silly any time....(there are far worse things girls of 15-16 could be doing) so they are welcome any time!

They even brought their own food! How amazing is that! Toaster Strudel, bread, chips, pop, juice, cookies, candy, 3 lbs of bacon and they ate it all!

Their silliness is infectious and I found myself laughing with them and just all around enjoying their being here!
I sincerely hope they keep some of that innocent fun within them for a very long time! All too soon they will grow up and that will be lost!
I am very proud of Casi and the friends that she had chosen and think I had as much fun watching them as much as they fun being girls!

Brittany turns 14!!!!!

We woke the morning of March 15th to these pink hearts taped around house and kitchen saying Happy Birthday! Casi had spent hours writing on paper and sticking them up around the house in honour of Britt's 14th birthday!
What a sweet gesture!
I made Brittany's favourite breakfast of waffles, whip cream and strawberries and served it to her in bed.
Here she was 10 years ago on her 4th birthday!

Here is the birthday girl today!!!!
Wow! They really say blink and it goes by so quickly and YES it does! It really seems like only yesterday.....*sniff, sniff*.....

We spent the day shopping for her birthday, I bought her some new clothes for summer. We had a great day poking around the mall, what better thing to do with girls!
She invited a few girls over for the night with tonnes of junk food and movies. Ice cream cake for dessert!

The gang...l to r...Brittany, Madison, Emillie,Georgia, Amanda and Shayden...

The cake was a little frozen!


They spent the night staying up, talking, watching movies, eating junk food, hanging out, playing Wii, being silly and just being girls.
The next morning they were super tired but happy and had a great time! It was a great start to their March break!
My baby is growing up so fast! I am very proud of you Britt and know with your determination you will achieve all your hopes and dreams! I know you can do it! Luv you baby!

Flying!!

A couple of weeks ago we had the amazing opportunity to go flying!
This is a sponsored program for young girls to learn about aviation, flying, what is involved in getting their pilots licence and/or becoming a pilot as a career choice!

We met our pilot Leslie at the Oshawa Municipal Airport and she gave us the tour of the plane, its features and how it is controlled.

The controls..the girls had decided ahead of time that Brittany would fly. Casi and I sat in the back.

Don't we all look official with our head sets on!



After take off I got to take some pictures. I was a little nervous, not being a fan of heights and this plane was really really little!
I did manage to over come my panic to get some pictures of the ground below! Here are some of the aerial shots...this is a neighborhood of Oshawa.

Over Lake Scugog, we did some circling and then Brittany took over the plane! EEEEEKKKSS!
No kidding aside, she did really well and held the plane steady and did some turns.

It was a little foggy but we did see the CN tower in the distance.


The gang of the flight! It was incredible!

Our co-pilot! We did find out some interesting facts about getting your pilots licence. One fact that Brittany loved was that she at this age now could get her pilots licence! No drivers licence until 16 but yes she could fly a plane on her on at her age! Also it takes about 100 hrs of in flight training and about $10,000!
Just as we were leaving 2 rescue helicopters landed so we were able to get some close up shots. No rescue happening but we were told they were doing some training.

Very cool day! It meant a day out of school for the girls but really what better education than hands on experience!

Finally!!!

I am sorry, yes I know its been a month since we arrived back from our trip! I have posted pictures from each day that we were away. These posts were quite long in process as my pictures were so large!
I hope you enjoy seeing our pictures!
Sorry for the delay in getting them up but it is just life and anyone that has a JOB, FAMILY and mulitple other aspects to their lives will understand why it took so long!