Friday - Our Week In Fabulous Photos

Full of smiles in the morning. This is what I get to come home to after a night shift!

Mmmm, Mitch made lasagna!

After work snuggles

Sleeping cutie!

Who needs toys when you have a remote?

Helping with laundry

Mitch also made beef barley soup. So yummy!

Hey, Mom! Bust me outta here!!!

The DVD's before Palmer started crawling and the DVD's after Palmer started crawling....

Napping with Daddy

Mmmm, cheese and muffins

Leaf waiting patiently for any falling crumbs from the high chair...

Yogurt chip disaster

At the park with Daddy

getting scanning done for helmet

5 on Friday

Another week of linking up with Darci and the girls for 5 on Friday...

We got the scans of Palmer's head for her Starband Helmet done this week. We will get the helmet back to us from Florida in a couple weeks, then we will start the road to fixing her head shape. You can read about her Positional Plagiocephaly and the journey here.

I picked up these EOS Chapsticks at Costco the other day and I love them! They are great flavours, feel nice on your lips, and just look plain cool!

We are heading out to Saskatchewan this weekend to visit some family and go camping. There will be several firsts for Palmer this weekend, so stay tuned to hear all about it!! :)

Our little Palmer is going to be turning 8 months next week. I can hardly believe it! Where has the time gone?  I am already getting my blog post ready for her 8 month update next Saturday.

I can't believe these pictures of our once crooked-nosed, tiny little baby girl were taken nearly 8 months ago!

With fall just around the corner, I am wanting to do some Fall-inspired decorating around the house and outside. What are your favourite fall decorating ideas?? I'd love to get more inspiration!!!

Making Memories: Kid Tested Mom Approved

The 4th installment of the Kid Tested, Mom Approved blog link-up is all about making memories.




I knew when I started this blog that it was a great way to keep memories written in words. I love that I am able to write our memories down and easily look back at them over and over again.

I also knew I wanted to make a photo book of Palmer's story. We made one for our wedding and it turned out really well, so I am confident that Palmer's book of her first year will turn out equally well.

I am already loving how this is turning out. I have chosen to use Shutterfly.

I have a lot more work to do yet though. I am still reminiscing over her newborn pictures. I still have 8 more months to look at, plus all the memories yet to come until her 1st birthday!

Another idea I came across were these beautiful Memory Boxes from a fellow blogger via the link-up. I think this is such a cute idea to be able to store keepsakes that don't fit inside a book. 

What We Did Wednesday & Positional Plagiocephaly: Part IV

Its funny how Wednesdays always happen to be the day we get to spend some time as a family and I actually have something to write about for What We Did Wednesdays!

For breakfast, I tried giving Palmer some frozen yogurt chips I made last night that I came across on this site.

look delicious, right???

 Here I thought, this is a great way for Palmer to be able to eat her yogurt all by herself.
It was working.

Until they melted.

This morning, we made a family trip to the park. Palmer has started to really enjoy the swings at the park so we like to take her now while the weather is still nice out!

Palmer and Daddy also took some rides down the slides!

We brought Leaf with us to the park. There was another dog there who was swimming in the little lake, so of course, Leaf was jealous and kept barking until we left him off the leash to swim too.

Hard to tell from this picture, but there is a toy in his mouth.

This isn't his toy.

We had a very hard time getting it out of his mouth. In fact, I had to run home to get the same exact toy so we could throw it in the water so Leaf would fetch that one instead and give the other one back to the other dog.

After the park, we went to get Palmer a library card so while I'm at work, Mitchell is able to get books for Palmer at the library.

Then we headed to the mall. We have been looking for curtains for the windows in our house. Its a good thing we aren't nudists because for 9 months now, our neighbours have been able to see right into our living room. Finding nice, inexpensive curtains has been proving more difficult than we thought. We came across some at Winners that we liked, but of course, there was only one set. We need 3 for the living room.

Then, we headed off to our appointment for Palmer's head. We had to get the 3D scans done for her head so the Orthotics Tech can send them off to Florida to get the helmet made.

Palmer had to wear this little bonnet and have stickers put on her face so the scanner was able to read the reflections. One of us had to hold Palmer while the other one tried to distract her from looking at the red light from the scanner. She actually did very well and was very cooperative! The scanner then sent an image back to the computer. It was pretty cool how it was an exact replica of Palmer's head and face.

We will go back in 2 weeks or so to get the helmet and get started!

Read about positional Plagiocephaly
Part I | Part 1.5 | Part II | Part III

Slow Cooker Chili

Now that fall is near, and cool weather is creeping up on us, I decided to make some chili!

To make this chili, you will need the following:

ground beef and/or turkey (this half of a Costco sized beef) browned

1 can brown beans

1 can diced tomatoes

1 can kidney beans or other beans of choice

1 onion diced

banana peppers to taste

celery chopped

garlic to taste (optional)

chili powder to taste

Now, I know this is not the best recipe ever in regards to measurements, but usually when I make chili, I just put stuff in until I think it's enough or until the crockpot is full...

But, put all the above ingredients in your crockpot, set to low for 8 hours, and walk away!