Trinity's 15th Birthday

Well this year, my teenager (wahhhh) wanted to have her OWN party with her friends WITHOUT her Mummy, Daddy and sister on the day of her actual birthday - which happened to fall on a Friday! I am having a huge problem with having a teenager - I still want to have her completely under my thumb but my daughter is quite the social butterfly.  We allowed her to have a party with adult supervision - she had about nine girls over for a sleepover party. 

There were a "few" boys that arrived to visit (arrrgghhh).  We also had an incident around 11pm where three older boys from a different high school that absolutely nobody knew, rang  the front doorbell and were very upset when told they couldn't join the party. We thought perhaps through Facebook they had learned - but found it very odd.  They destroyed some things on the front lawn and made a bit of a mess, swearing as they left, but Trinity handled it well being firm and telling them that they were not welcome at her party.  (We learned later that there was a party down the road with kids from their high school, so perhaps it was just a coincidence.) 

We also took Trinity out to Montana's for her birthday dinner - which was so awesome because there was a magician that walked around all the tables and put on a show that really entertained us! 

Canada's Wonderland

We had seasons passes to the amusement park Canada's Wonderland located above Toronto, about 70 minutes from our house.  They have a great big water park that Avalon especially enjoyed.  The above picture is of her in the wave pool.

My sisters' youngest child, Freya, also enjoyed the edges of the wave pool.

When I think of Avalon, this is how I think of her - she is always giggling and silly! Trinity didn't want to get her hair wet, so she spent a bit of time on a lounger.  We then went off to the rides and dried of quickly because it was such a hot day!

My niece and nephew having pure fun on one of the rides (in above picture) on one of our trips toward the end of the season in October, actually this was the last trip this season to the Park.  It was a bit chilly - we needed gloves and scarves but didn't bring any - we soldiered on.  There were no waiting lines - the kids were able to walk right on the rides and go on them over and over.  For Halloween Haunt they had the kids "trick or treat" throughout various stations set up throughout the park (I helped them eat the candy!)

They also have "Dinosaurs Alive" - robotic true to life sized dino park! Freya (who is four) was pretty terrified of them - she spent the whole time in the park cowering behind my legs - I managed to coax her to run over to her brother for a picture - but she didn't make it over to him before a loud "roar" could be heard and she ducked from the dino and ran back to me! ha ha Always a good time at Canada's Wonderland!  The only thing that spoils it is that they don't allow outside food or drinks - they used to allow it - but they then decided to ban all food and drink and put their food/drink prices through the roof.  Example: about $10.00 for a sub.  So, a day at a park costs about a hundred dollars for the day!