{mökkisaunan keinussa}

{eilinen u-p-e-a auringonlasku}

{canada day}

our Canada Day started with a pancake + strawberries + whipping cream breakfast



then i painted sienna's face



we went downtown for a bit

(siis miten joku voikin nauttia metroajelusta niin paljon. sitä kun tulee tehtyä niin harvoin täällä.)



there was a petting zoo for the kids



we listened to a piano performance at the city hall



then we walked to the legislature grounds (sienna got a wagon ride). watched a dog show for a bit. went to the wading pools (there's a whole row of them).



we finished the day by eating at Montana's restaurant.

we were all too tired to even consider fireworks. 



{art therapy}

:( turned into :) by making art

this posting is part of:



{canada day garland & cupcake toppers}

i love Canada Day. 

i've been in Canada for 20 years now and it feels like home. i absolutely love the Canadian National Anthem. i can hardly ever sing it without getting all emotional.

please feel free to use these graphics i made. if you do, i'd really appreciate it if you came back and left a link here so that i could see what you made with them. please link to this blog posting if you want to share the graphics with others. thanks! :)

 



garland:

i made 3" columns in a Microsoft Word document (so that i could punch the circles with my 3" circle punch).

i printed mine on photopaper but cardstock would work too.

cake toppers:

same thing except that i used 2" columns & circle punch. i glued a maple leaf & we love canada ones together with a cake tester in the middle.

ps. if you'd like my microsoft word documents for all of the above, please leave me a comment with your e-mail address.

{lately}

another quick trip to calgary. the guys went to a comic & entertainment expo. us girls had fun in an indoor play/party place (it was raining).



i haven't killed them yet.

miracles happen.



edmonton's art gallery



the city hall.

wading in the pool is on our summer to-do list.

this time we went to an art festival and came home with this masterpiece:



who knew... dinosaurs aren't extinct after all. we saw many of them at jurassic forest while on a fieldtrip with sienna's class. they moved and made lots of noise. they look so mean but those short little arms make them look kind of cute. :)



school's over. let the fun begin.

{forgiveness & bruno mars}

two totally unrelated things today. a quote that i like and a song i've been listening to over and over again this week. crazy lyrics if you take them literally but the melody... love it!