our day!!

So today we had over our pastors two children Allysa (7) and Zachary (3)!!

We had a lot of fun!! :)

So I thought i'd post some pictures of what they did and also some pictures I TOTALLY forgot to post a while ago!! :)

enjoy!! :)

Allysa and DeAtra went to her room after we:

colored

played some games

colored some more

played some more

played with the boys

painted our nails

and played another game.

Having a fun time!!!

Zachary!!

You'd be AMAZED at how fast Zachary got the cars out of the little boys room and have them all in the basement!!!

Oh yes, and then he had other cars all around the house!

And I do mean "ALL AROUND THE HOUSE!!"

I can't remember if they were supposed to be talking, arguing, or planning!!!! :P

And then they had some supper here with us and then they went home (which Zach was NOT happy about!!!!)

Now here are the pix that I forgot to post a little while ago!! (my bad!)

Luke dressed Daniel in all (well almost ALL of it) of his hockey stuff!! He was such a cutie!!!

Isn't he a cutie??

And since i'm posting something that has to do with Calgary I thought that i'd post this as well!

Right now Calgary is beating Edmonton Oilers 5-1!!!!!! YAYYY!!!!

GO CALGARY!!!!!!!

C~

Joke of the week!!

Q: If a blonde and a brunette are tossed off a building, who hits the ground first?

A: The brunette. The blonde has to stop to ask for directions.

Moses Aaron Shonwise

A while ago we put down our 10 year old Chesapeake male retriever Moses!!!

I haven't posted about it because its still something that we have to get over!!

here are some pictures of Moses!!

Josiah, and Moses!!!

Moses, and I!!

DeAtra and Moses

Ethan and Moses

We gave Moses tim bits that day!!

He loved em!!

MORE???

C~

the Shonwise Christmas!!

Sorry this is really late guy's but I was really busy with life! :) Anyways here's the post about our Christmas!! :D

We all got big surprises on Christmas morning!! Like mom's and the rest of the family's gift was a big 46 flat inch screen tv (which we later exchanged for a 52inch one) and Grandma's big present was Melia!!

Let me explain:

A few days before Christmas mom and I were cleaning the bonus room when Luke walked in with a "surprise"! He had a big Pamper box with something inside of it! So we took off the blanket and there was Melia! After laughing we told Luke he should do that to Grandma at Christmas, and that's just what he did!! Here are some pix of Grandma's reaction!!!

we told her that the gift was something that she'd least expect!!

They thought that it was a microwave!! :P

and then finally Melia just popped out of the box and that gave Grandma quite a laugh!!!

Ben being umm......Ben!!

uhhh, yeah. No comment!!

Chericce and I!!

Jared with his new nerf gun!!

Josiah with the "family's" new wii steering wheel!!

Josiah showing everybody the new steering wheel's!!

my three little angels!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!

C~

Happy 11th Birthday Ethan!!!!

Ethan turned 11 on January 5!!

here are some pictures of his birthday party!!!

we had some of mom's "home made" pizza for supper!!!!! :)

Ethan and mom!!

"YES!! a pocket knife!!"

most of his gifts!!

After presents Daniel got really wild and starting wrestling with Luke and Ben!!

the cake!!

(I put a pink candle in the middle of the cake just to bug Ethan! :P)

Jared having a hard time eating his cake because he had his ice cream first! :P

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ETHAN!!

C~

December update!!

December is DEFINITELY the busy month!! :) lol

And so i've being so busy I haven't really taken pictures of anything! So i'm just gonna do a quick update! :)

December 21: Grandma, and Grandpa arrived from Likely for Christmas!!

December 22: Chericce arrived from Calgary @ 7:45 December 22 for Christmas!

December 23: Luke, Grandpa, and I went shopping for grocery's! I don't think I want to do that again! Every 10-15 minutes we'd get a phone call: "We need you to get some more stuff" So finally after getting all the "stuff", we left the store and dropped off the grocery's and did our own shopping!! :D

December 24: last minute shopping was done that day, and Chericce and I went shopping for a skirt for me when we found out that the outfit I was going to wear to our Christmas concert that night was to small!! (The concert went great!) After that we came home and we opened one gift! (its a tradition!)

December 25: Chericce, Ethan, DeAtra, and I woke up ( some of us always sleep in the living room Christmas Eve! Its a tradition!) by Josiah saying! "Ethan why do you have felt on your face?" And then he turned to me and said "Chavonne, you have felt on your legs!" And then Ethan stood up saying "Who did this?" Josiah stood there smiling "Anita and Luke!" Ethan and I went in the kitchen and found dad making breakfast (Egg Benedict)! I walked in and said "Dad, can Anita and Luke do dished this morning? They colored on Ethan and I!" He smiled and said "we'll see! Go tell them its time to get up now!!" I walked into Luke's room smiling and said "Thank-you so much for the art work! Dad said its time to get up!" I knocked on Anita's door and said "Dad said its time to get up! And you guys might do dishes because of the art work!" She replied "wait a second!! I didn't do it myself though!!" I said "I know! Luke will help you if you guy's do get to do dishes!!!" At the table we found out that they colored on Chericce's feet as well! They were going to start on Josiah and DeAtra when they both woke up! That's how Josiah found out who colored on us!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

December 26: Chericce's left that day to go back to Calgary!

December 27: went to church and later that night

December 28: Grandpa and Grandma left for Langely for a few days to visit my Auntie Cindy who's dying from Cancer! :(

December 29: Josh and Rachelle arrived @ 11:45!!

December 30: and here we are today! I took Peter out for a little while this morning while mom, and Rachelle made some soap!!

hope you have a wonderful day!!

C~

the clock Knex project!!

After counting how many pieces we used for the BIG Knex project (btw we used 3,354 pieces for that projected) we wanted to make something else (but a lot smaller :P) and so after looking through a bunch of pages, we decided on making a clock!!!

the big hand is the seconds and the little hand is the minutes!!

It actually worked!! It was exactly 1 minute!!!!

a view of it all!!

C~

setting up the Christmas tree and a Saturday cleanup!!

Saturday morning Dad, Josiah, Ethan, DeAtra, and I went out to a tree farm to get our Christmas tree!! :D So finally after getting a tree that most of us agreed on, we brought it home and let dad and Luke set it up, and then after that we started the afternoon cleaning the whole house!! Here are some snapshots of the day!!! :D

bringing out the tree stand!!

DeAtra and Melia!!

cutting the tree before bringing it into the house!!

bringing it into the house!!

getting the tree straight was definitely something that wasn't an easy job!!!

almost there!!!

Isn't Daniel ADORABLE!!!!!!!!

Excited that the tree was up!!!

I was organizing the school area and Jared was my partner!!!

Here it shows Jared organizing the dominoes!!

My wonderful, and amazing mother!!!

Melia didn't find organizing school books very interesting so when I found her colouring book she took it to the little kids table and started colouring!! :)

After I took this picture I asked Jared if he had a smile, and this is what he had:

LOL

I love my little brothers!!! <3

If anyone of you has being to our house before you would have probably seen that this area was pretty much all the time cluttered with stuff!! So dad did an AMAZING job and cleaned it all up!! :)

Melia not wanting the little boys to clean more then she did started dusting anything that she could reach!!

And to make DeAtra and Melia's day dad set up there bed boards!!

C~