Madison Turns 10

Well its official, I am now the mother of another child who is in double digits.
I can't believe that Madison Turned 10! October 1st was a excellent day for her. She woke to a nice surprise of gifts on the couch for her. I webkinz bat (he is so adorable) and her first training bras (yes I said that word..BRA!) It is all she really really wanted. Girls grow up so fast now a days.
After school, we had cupcakes with green icing on them with our wonderful neighbour Sue and her band of children that she watches afterschool. Bobby who is one of Sue's charges shares his birthday with Madison. The kids LOVED eating the cupcakes.
On Saturday October 4th, we took Madison, Bekah and 4 other girls to the Spa for a mini manicure, Pedicure and makeup. They girls had an absolute blast!

As soon as I get photos edited I will post some up from both Parties :)

First Days of School

It has been a very long time since I have updated this website and I appologize for anyone who has been coming back and looking.

We have managed to survive the first days of school and are now into October. Everyone is well adjusted and doing great!

Everyone but Bekah started school on Tuesday Sept 2. It was a chilly but sunny morning.

Quinlan, Angus, Wyatt and Madison were ready to get moving for school as they waited on the side walk for us slow parents to get moving.

Bekahs first official full day at school was on September 1oth. She was so very excited to start school. She made her first ever lunch (as did Quinn for his first day) and off she ran to school. This is the picture I managed to capture before to toddled off to class without even a hug or kiss goodbye. I can't believe how fast they grow up and leave the nest.

Lightfoot Family reunion

It was a blast.
On Saturday August 2, Eric and Loaded the kids in the truck and set off to Picton Ontario for a family reunion with Family we didn't even know existed until a couple months ago.
We had a wonderful time mingling with the new found family members. Norm and Liam were there as well. BOY is there ever a family resemblence with Norm and his first cousins.
We learn so much valuable information while there and took some wonderful shots.
I will update more as I get the photos all sorted out and labled and edited.

Bekah's Graduation Video.

We video tapped Bekah's graduation! Her little class as well as the other class joined together on this day as one BIG class. They sang 2 songs and did a poem. It was a wonderful day.

In came the water....

....and off came the shingles!








With the recent storms mum's roof started to leak badly. When I was up cleaning the eaves out I commented on how soft the roof was and how bad the shingles were. Not 2 days later we had water in the house.
Eric and went up on the roof, measured and went with mum to pick our her new shingles.
Saturday afternoon we started to peak at the damage. We had one side of the roof stripped of shingles when the torrential down pours hit us again. After some fast acting with tarps and shower curtains we managed (rather Eric managed) to get the roof covered.








The next couple of days were spent with us on the roof clearing it, fixing the rotten sheeting (one spot the shovel fell through). Alexander came up to help once he got home from the cottage. Dad even got up on the roof and helped! (did hell freeze over and I missed the news report) JOKING!!!








Poor Eric hauled all 40 bundles of Shingles up on that roof himself. He really worked his butt off on this roof. I was busy snapping pictures and helping lay out shingles as did Liz. I even got to use the nail gun. At one point Eric told me to stop taking pictures and get back to work. Can you tell which photo that is ? :) :)

Anyway the roof is now done, it looks great for a bunch of amateurs but I know it won't leak and its good for another 20 plus years.

Fun at the Park

With Eric on nights and 3 extra kids, I decided to walk with the kids to Forbes Park. Pulling the wagon and hauling everyones towels and snacks, Quinn, Madison, Bekah, Megan (daycare child)Christopher, Samantha and I made it to the park. The trip there took us 45 minutes! The little girls jumped right in on the splash pad. While they were chicken to get right into the sprinklers they did have fun running around the outside edges.

The boys had more fun playing on the creatives and just hanging out.

Madison and Megan did the same, hung out, chatted, goofed off. It was a great day for it and the kids had a blast.

The walk home however was a different story. I bribed them with Icecream from Indulge and the walk took an hour. The kids slept well that night!

Graduations

This year we had 3 kids "graduate" various grades of school. The first graduation was Bekah graduating her preschool program and moving on to Junior Kindergarten. The class sang some really cute songs and each got a special award. Bekah recieved the Lovely locks award. We are so pleased with her accomplishments in 6 months of preschool.

Alexander graduated grade 8 on Wednesday June 25th. It was the same ceremony that Eric and I had from Hespeler public. We are happy to say Alexander will be attending Jacob Hespeler in September that start of Highschool is upon us. The pictures from Xanders grad are the greatest as my external flash wasn't working the greatest...and the lighting absouletly sucked!

Quinlan graduated senior kindergarten and will be in grade 1 in September. They recieved little caps and cupcakes from Christopher's family. Ms. Dobler did a little ceremony in class on the last day of school. Mum, Bekah and I were there to cheer him on.

Madison passed into grade 5 and while they don't do "graduation" at this level we are still very very proud of her.