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2 More days!  I can't believe it's almost here...I'm still not feeling ready -ha!  But regardless of what I have left to do Santa will surely be on his way very soon, old traditions will carry on and new memoires will be made -and everything else will hopefully fall into place. Tonight all the festivities begin at my mother's house and I can hardly wait to just sit back and take it all in.  There's really nothing better than having my entire family together enjoying the Holidays.  This year my grandfather will be celebrating is 100th Christmas alongside baby Irelynn who will be celebrating her 1st.  It's things like this that make the Holidays so special. From our family to yours, we wish you a safe and joyous Christmas...eat lots, dance lots, focus on what you do have and laugh always.  Here are a few last minute ideas and some photos of what we've been up to... My brother and his girlfriend...

    I can't believe Christmas is officially one week away!  And I'm not even close to ready...I have this crazy long list of things I still want to accomplish but the reality is my days are getting numbered.  To make matters worse almost everyone in my family came down with a stomach virus last week which unfortunately put a lot of things on hold.  But fingers crossed we're almost in the clear.  I wasn't feeling myself last night and baby Irelynn has been sick all day.  We were the last two to get it so hopefully by mid-week we'll all be feeling better!   With exactly 7 nights before the big day I thought it would be appropriate to share 7 Elf on the Shelf ideas.  I love the whole tradition of Elf on Shelf but I'll be honest, some nights I have absolutely zero motivation, let alone any creative ideas.  Because I'm always the last one up, the responsibility falls on my shoulder to get inspired, get moving and make sur...

    It's that time of year again for our annual family Christmas photoshoot.  A few years ago we were introduced through my hubby's grandparents to Drysdale Tree Farm .  It is located just south of Barrie which made it the ideal location to do our Christmas photos.  Our family photographer Tim Smith owns his own photography company in Barrie, so we often make the trip up his way in order to avoid having to pay mileage in addition to his fees.  Our photos turned out so great the first year that we've continued to return to the farm every year since...and we've never been let down.  http://www.shutterhead.ca/ https://www.drysdales.ca/ This year in particular I was so excited about our photos.  Not only did we get a beautiful dusting of snow just hours before the shoot but for the first time ever we had our photos taken as a family of 6.  Unfortunately we opted to not bring our 90 pound golde...

At Halloween our family took part in the Bolton Rotary Haunted Hill Run.  This event has become an annual tradition for our family and this year marked the first year my entire family was able to participate - even baby Irelynn got in on the action.  For a complete race review you can check out my blog from last year: http://creativelyk.blogspot.ca/2016/11/haunted-hill-run-race-review.html   The first event of the day was the kids 1 miler.  So originally I envisioned us all finishing the race together (one big happy family)...but that's not exactly how it happened -ha!  We stood together at the start line but when the gun signaled the start of the race Hudson took off before I could even wish him good luck.  He finished the run in record time and took pride in knowing he had beat every single member of our family.  Georgia finished strong not far behind.  Even Irelynn received her first race medal as I pushed her across th...