Halloween

Yesterday was a LONG Day!

Mikayla was beyond hyper and couldn't wait to trick-or-treat. Mikayla spent her day listening to thriller over and over and over again. She then decided to put on white socks and dress shoes and copy all of Michael Jackson's moves.

After a couple hours of that, Mikayla took my camera and insisted everyone make halloween faces.

Nick's face was really convincing!

Mikayla calls this scary face "egg head"

My scary face, well this is it! I don't know how I managed to look like a fat old man, but I did.

After the scary faces got boring, Nick and Mikayla did their usual wrestling for a while. This is how it ended:

After wasting enough time with pointless activities, we were finally able to dress up and get ready for trick or treating! This year was we all dressed up. The theme was Mikayla's idea and we didn't want to let her down.

He all had a great time and scored LOTS of candy!

Fun Friday Night

On Wednesday Mikayla turned 5! One of her gifts was a very much wanted Nerf gun. She has wanted one for years, but her hands were always to small to pull the trigger. The packaging does say 7+ on it but I don't think she could have waited that long...so my mom decided to pick one up for her this year. It's just a tiny little pistol and she has no problem handling it. She's had a great time shooting us for the past few days, but tonight Mommy and Daddy decided to get in on the action. Nick came home from school with a Nerf revolver ready to ambush Mikayla when she walked through the door. After the 2 of them exchanged some shots back and forth, the quickly ganged up on me. So after a nice dinner at East Side Mario's, I insisted we head to Wal-Mart so I could pick my weapon of choice. We walked out of Wal-Mart with 3 guns in hand and a battle on our minds.
We had a total of 5 guns in the fight (Nick and I each sporting 2)

Nick- Double barrel shot gun & Nerf revolver

Lisa- Mikayla's birthday pistol & Nerf ball blaster buzzsaw

Mikayla- Nerf ball bazooka

Here are some pictures before and during our Nerf war.

The weapons

Loading up the darts

Game Face!

One Fierce Team

Mikayla took this one (look at the wimp with the pillow)

He plays dirty!

She did start on my team..traitor!

We had a great time and I'm sure there will be more fights in the near future:)

Mikayla Had a Little Lamb...

Mikayla's favourite pass time is colouring and drawing. She considers herself quite the artist. Well not long ago Mikayla came home from school with a stack full of pictures that she had accumulated over a couple weeks time. As I was going through the stack and placing some pictures on the fridge, this cute little lamb jumped out at me. Why you ask....because Mikayla took it upon herself to add a final touch to the picture. No, not flowers or a smiling sun...but a nice piece of poop coming from the lamb's behind. We all know Mikayla is not your ordinary little 4 year old, but after doing some research, I can now say with confidence that it is strictly Nick's doing! When I showed Nick Mikayla's masterpiece....he laughed and then explained that he did that same thing in grade 1 to a bunny picture. Like father, like daughter...

Gary

Meet Gary...one of Mikayla's latest pets. Hes a strange little guy but a perfect pet for Mikayla. Mikayla is known bug animals until they have had enough leaving her with very few animal friends. But Gary can tuck back in his shell if he's had enough...or give her a good pinch to teach her a lesson lol. Gary is a strawberry hermit crab. He isn't timid or aggressive. Hes easy to take care of and makes a perfect pet...hes an ugly little fella, but hes part of the clan now:)

Double Trouble

With Nick's foot now in a cast, my 2 devils are having plenty of time to hang out...which scares me just alittle. They have been known to gang up on me from time to time. Here are somepictures from their "ice cream party" last night.

Can't forget to "cheers" with the spoons

I'll have to monitor the time they spend together...to make sure it doesn't get out of hand lol. Nick has the tendancy to rub of on her..and it doesn't take long to pick up those bad habits. As you can see from this picture taken about a month ago of Mikayla sleeping...

Happy Halloween!!!

This year we bought Mikayla an Ariel princess dress to wear for Halloween. Ariel is her absolute favourite princess and as soon as she saw the dress it was an easy choice for her. Mikayla really scored this year and had 3 parties to go to along with a halloween dance a thon as a fundraiser at her school.. She had a party with the kids in my moms co-op, 1 at her daycare and 1 with her JK class. She wore her Ariel dress to all of these parties and brought her little Flounder stuffed animal along for the ride. Tonight right before we headed out to trick or treat she had a change of heart. She decided to wear her monkey costume from last year's halloween and thankfully it still fit! She said she just wanted to show all her school friends that she was a real princess but her monkey costume was still her favourite. She got lots of compliments on the monkey costume. It is really cute:) She had a great time tonight as she chanted at every door " Trick or treat, smell my feet give me something good to eat"

Messed Up Family Secrets!!!

So last night I had the "pleasure" of finding out a deep dark family secret. I still have a hard time wrapping my head around it. Nick has heard my many thoughts and comments on the issue...and suggested I blog about it. So here it goes. Pay attention closely because I am going to try and make this as unconfusing as possible...if it is possible. lol
So while talking to my Mom last night and about wedding plans...we got on the topic of me walking down the aisle. Now most of you know that my Dad passed almost 2 years ago and as much as I wish he was here to do so, its just not the case. I was debating with the idea of walking down alone, or having my Grandad (my Dad's dad) walk me down the aisle. Well it was at this time that my mom said..."there's something I have to tell you before you go on any further" I told her to continue...and it was then that she let me know that the man I have always known as Grandad...is not technically my Grandfather. So let me try and break this down for you. My Grandad(well who I know as Grandad), his name is Larry Oliver. He met my Grandmother Muriel (my Dad's mom) during World War II and they were married shortly after. They had a mutual friend from the war name Walt Donkin who was going through a rough patch in his life, so they offered to have him stay at their house. Now my Dad has 2 brothers(both older) and 2 sisters (1 older, and 1 younger) who all grew up knowing this man as Uncle Walt because he was such a close family friend. Once my grandparents divorced...my Grandmother remarried "Uncle Walt" and Uncle Walt now because my dad and his sibling's step father. And to us grandkids he was known as Grandpa Waltie, but he never took the place of our Grandad. Now Grandpa Waltie passed away when I was 2...and my loving Grandad is still kicking at 89. Ok so theres some background info for ya. But back to the story. Well the beans were spilled to my Dad about who his father was well he was also discussing wedding information with his family. While discussing invitations and how it would read "son of Larry Oliver" good old Auntie Jean piped up and said..."well you can't have that on the invitations...Larry isn't your father, Walt is". After my Dad had punched a few holes in the wall the news settled with him and he got the full scoop. Larry Oliver who I know as Grandad and my dad grew up knowing (and thinking) was his dad is the father of my uncle Iain and aunt Carolyn. And "uncle Walt" or who we knew as Grandpa Waltie is the father of my Uncle Brian, Auntie Sandy and my Dad. Which leaves Grandpa Waltie as my biological Grandfather....talk about messed up! This post sounds like one big Maury episode. My Dad never acknowledge Walt as his dad...and Larry remained his father figure and who he referred to as Dad. My Dad never wanted to share any of this with us kids...so we were the last to find out in the family. Some of the questions that I have drew up in my head are:
1) My family isnt really as big as I think it is
2) My last name really shouldn't be Oliver---and were fooling everyone at the big reunions lol
3) I lied on all my family history reports--and my family medical history
4) Thank god my las name isnt Donkin! LOL
I like to think I have a good attitude with all this drama I just found out. Because either way...Grandad IS my Grandad, My Uncle is STILL my uncle, My Aunt is STILL my Aunt and my cousins will ALWAYS be my cousins...and I love them all dearly!Regardless!!