We Met KAT VON D!!!

We bought her new book - she signed it and also signed Avalon's sock monkey and Trinity's cast.  She was just as beautiful in person. 

Too Many Kartwheels!

At Cheerleading practice, Trinity broke her ankle. She is hobbling all over - but at least she blinged out her cast!

Cheerleading Competitions

The girls belong to a local competitive Cheerleading troupe.  They have competitions all over - some will be in the U.S. - so we are looking forward to those.  The girls' did well at their first competitions - their teams placed 1st and second.

Our little Avalon is third one standing from the right.

Trinity is the first one standing on the left hand side.

Our Baby is a Teenager!

Our bootiful baby recently officially became a teenager, although because of her love of fashion, hair, & makeup it feels like she's been one for a while.  Trinity is a joy to have as a daughter and we love her with all our heart! She practically grew up in a salon, with Daddy giving her highlights starting at age 7 - so she has had years to develop this quirky lollygoth cutesy style of hers.  She is a leader and not a follower with old-fashioned values like her mama - so I hope that sustains her through the "teen years"!

 

Trinity wanted only one small thing for her birthday - an iPhone 4.  Ya, just a small little thing.  I broke down, against all my years of telling her she was too young for a cell phone, when I decided that the "face time" feature would be great for her and her Daddy to use, since Skype didn't seem to work so well for us!

Trinity's Aunty baked her a wonderful cake (this is Trinity's #1 favourite cake).  As her Aunty GB was driving it over to our place, her daughter had the very tall cake (about 5 levels) on her lap.  Everything was fine until they went over a bump and the cake "slipped" out of her daughter's hands, did a complete flip, and landed upside down on the dashboard! She managed to salvage some of it - it still tasted divine - but she had to drive home with chocolate frosting all over the dashboard and window! ha ha

We celebrated Trinity's birthday as well with her friends and went to Canada Wonderland's "Halloween Haunt".  It was in the evening from 7pm-midnight. It was chilly, especially whipping through the cold air on rides, but a great time was had by all.

Historic House Event

We went to an event at an Historic house built in the mid 1800's in Burlington.  We usually go there at least once a year.  It's a nice modest farm house, usually with ladies downstairs baking apple pies and such from scratch. We went for a tour of the house one weekend and had a blast making floral arrangements for $3.00.

The well in the kitchen is covered with glass for us to see it clearly, but it is a bit freaky to walk over it.

The kids had a blast getting airbrush tattoos.

Good Fun!

One Less Brick in the Wall

Well, it only took the RCMP a little over 6 months to process his fingerprints (she says sarcastically).  Apparently, if his fingertips were here in Canada, they could have done this in 24 hrs, but because said fingertips are down in El Salvador, and because the Immigration officer that processed his removal was an ignoramous who did not inform us that he should do the prints while his fingertips were still in Canada, we had to submit the fingerprints by ink the old fashioned way. 

So, finally after numerous emails, calls from our MP to their offices, phone mail messages never returned by the RCMP,  the day has finally come that we have received the documentation from the RCMP.  I think I should have a party.  Now the next couple of steps will take the next department anywhere from 6-12 months to process.

Then and ONLY then can we even submit all this to the Immigration department in Guatemala City - so right now, the Immigration person handling our file is sitting in limbo waiting for the LONG DELAYS of the various CANADIAN departments that take sooooooo long to process!  I mean, really, I don't understand why it takes so long to process this paperwork.

Oh, this is soooooo draining.