Family

It's been a great week here in the Sfikas house. We had a surprise visit from Grandma Dawna and Pete who stayed for three nights. It was a blast having them here and we learned some interesting things about our family. They stayed just long enough to be part of the BBQ/Birthday Party I threw for myself (is that a little crazy?). We were missing a few people but still had a pretty good time. Grandma Dawna spent a lot of time trying to see if Ted was worthy to be called grandson or not. He lost ground when the BBQ caught on fire one night with flames that were eight feet high charring our chicken because he got caught up doing something in the house instead of watching the grill, he won points for helping clean up the kitchen, he lost points for letting Grandma bake a cake (from cold stone creamery, yum) after telling another woman attending our party to bring a cake, and he won points for being pretty good lookin'. At least he didn't end up in the negatives.
We are so excited to be having a lot of company over the next month. Ted's sister and kids come next week, and my friend Rachel is coming on the 28th. Along with the fact we are going puppy crazy! I have already set up a trainer for the puppies and started buying them a few toys, only one more month and we are counting every, single day!
I look forward to sharing a ton of pictures during the next month and will see you back here soon!

Tons of Love,
Charmaine and Family

PS. I posted pictures of Grandma, the kids and Pete. The silly one of Isi was taken a while ago, my friend brought back a hula outfit from Hawaii for her and she loves to swish the skirt and laughs like crazy to see herself sticking out her tongue.

Happy Birthday To Me

Happy Birthday to Me!! Yup, my birthday was yesterday. I am very proud to be 31. Have any of you ever checked out a website called Realage.com? I am also proud to say according to healthy habits my real age is 25. Whoohoo! I plan to keep it that way a long time.





















This week has been much more of our usual pace. Ted has been traveling every week lately so we thought putting Isi into daycare two days a week might be a good idea since I am having a bit of a hard time here without a lot of help. Isi's first day going to Kindercare was Wednesday and she loves it. To the right is a picture of her as we are heading out the door to 'school'. She will be attending every Wednesday and Friday and I am so excited for her, she really needs to be around kids her own age more. I also need a little time to breath and get things done that I can't do with her home.
The girls and I attended a very humorous play at the school on Friday put on by the teachers. To the right is a photo of Mr. Yorke (Athena's teacher) as the Fairy Godmother with Hera and one of her friends. I knew it would be funny but I couldn't stop giggling for ten minutes after seeing him dressed like this!


Saturday the girls took part in another chess competition. Hera one two games out of five qualifying her to compete in the State Championship and Athena won four out of her five games winning a fifth place trophy and also qualifying for the State Championship. Between Chess and Tennis these girls minds and bodies should stay in top shape. Now if I could only play chess with them and actually beat them.
Ted is actually flying up to Toronto this week. He has never been before and should be an interesting trip. He must think it can't be much colder up there because I caught him trying to pack only a blazer to keep warm and had to fight with him to at least bring a light sweater. Fingers crossed he stays warm.

Thank you for all your phone calls and thoughts this week, I look forward to having you check in next week!

Love Charmaine and Family