Get better Ryan!

We love you and are thinking very healthy thoughts.

John rolled over!

Blue can't help herself. She's got to groove!

Hello everyone!

Happy Birthday Nana!!!

Our day at the Aquarium

Blue might want to rethink her wording

We went to a restaurant with Grandma where she finally got Blue to use a straw. Blue has desperately wanted to do this forever. Anyways, so Blue was so excited about what she was doing that she started shouting, "Grandma, I suck! I suck!" Very funny. Baby J thought it was funny too.

Baby J is 4 months!

At the doctor, baby J weighed in at 14 lb 5 oz., and was 25 in. long with a head circumference of 16.5 in. His weight is in the 38th percentile. He toughed his way through the shots. Its hard when he is so trusting and then they stick him with it. He did great!

My sweet babies

Gramma Video Montage

http://www.carrfamily.ca/Samantha/gramma.mov

Its been one year

Gramma passed away one year ago. I will miss her all the time. To commemorate Gramma, Blue was taught the words to "You Are My Sunshine"

This is me when i was little. I'm the flower. I believe my recital song was " Won't You Be My Baby Bumble Bee."

She was fun and smart She had a great sense of humor.

Gramma and Blue. She was lucky enough to have met her multiple times. Gramma's memory will live on in Blue through her feistyness and her love of dancing. She was so cute when she held Blue. She would go, "Oh, who's a cute baby? Muah. Look at that baby."

I look at baby J and know that she sent him to me. He is the most special gift I ever got from her. I became pregnant right around when she passed away. I told D. by putting Gramma singing into a teddy bear AND baby J was born right around her birthday. She would have loved him.

Here is the video from when Blue was born. It is also the song put in the teddy bear.

What a life she leads

It was quite an eventful weekend for miss Blue. She got too dig into her first container of chalk. Mommy felt a little artistic too. =)

The sprinklers accidentally got onto her hopscotch board but she didn't care.

She's very hammy.

Blue went to her first movie! You can faintly see Nana in the back round. The movie was Horton Hears a Who. It was very cute. With the exception of playing musical laps, Blue was very well behaved. She loved the movie and pretty much the if you put food in front of her she's good for the long stretch. =)

Yesterday we went to a place called the Jungle for Blue's cousin Patrick's birthday. It is huge! Three stories of nets and ball pits and ropes with ramps. Very fun for children. I didn't know that there was a little kids area so Blue went in with the other kids who were around 5-8. I also didn't know that once you get in you have to go a long way before there is a way out or you have to go out the way you came. Blue tried her hardest to swim through the ball pits but she was just too little to get up the rope ramps. I was also having a small heart attack every time a little 8 yr old boy yelled a war call and jumped into the ball pit without looking or caring what got jumped on. I had to go in there to get her out. She was happy, but she was stuck.

I want you to picture what it feels like climbing through a tube into a giant pit to get your child. Not so bad right? NOT if you have a line of little children behind you saying" get out of the way" in their little Minnie Mouse voices. Not only that but bringing her back out the same way. The children were ticked to say the least. Happily we found the children's area and had a great time.

Blue refueling on her pizza then my pizza, then cake, and then my cake for good measure. She collapsed tired but happy at the end of this very fun weekend.

Blue wants to know if baby Ryan can come over?

More Easter pics

Shortly after baby J was flung carelessly to the side as Curious George was on tv. =) The grand winner of the hunt.

A quick snuggle with Papa

Baby J and Finnian. Finn is less than a month younger than Baby J. I see very tall trouble in their future.

All of the west coast cousins. Clockwise from left. Patrick (in the blue), Brenna, Blue, Baby J,

Finnian, and Carrick.

Easter: The Aftermath

Here comes Peter Cottontail......

Happy Easter everyone!! It has been a really great day so far. We went to church with Nana and Papa and then had an Easter egg hint. This morning Blue had the first Easter where she knew what was going on. The videos are out of order sorry. The true order of them is 3,4,2,1 in how time wise they happened. Have a great holiday!

My two bunnies

Blue got chalk and candy galore

Baby's J got diapers!

Blue on the hunt



Finally waking up. She is not a morning person. She is like Mommy



Just waking up to find her basket



Her first look at what the Easter Bunny brought her.

Game on! .....car!

The tiger stalks its prey. I must get that pink ball in the goal. Fake left. Fake right

Keep my eye on the goal. Must concentrate.

Wait.....what's that?

Mommy, is that a camera?

Oh! It is a camera!

Quick model pose!

Ok back to work. Must concentrate this time!

My Daddy and me

Bonding time for the two of them.

Congratulations Gen and Tom

Congrats guys! What a cutie he is! Little Edward (Eddy) Thomas Joseph Turpel was born on St.. Patties Day. Gen went through a few days of very hard work, but is doing fine. Hopefully more pictures to come. Welcome to the world little Eddy. I panicked that he had no diaper on. I have learned since having a boy what the potential for artwork is. =)

This is the first grandbaby in the Turpel family, so I thought that this is a really cool shot of Tom's father catching his first look at his son with his new grandson. A very sweet moment.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Well Rosie-O-Day came by this morning to greet us with some green to celebrate. Notice to the smile with teeth. Happy St. Patty's Day!