Double the Kaiser fun.....

The Kaiser Brothers

Last week we had double the Kaiser's in our house......for those who know the Kaiser men can sympathize with what a handful that is haha of course I'm kidding. Darcy and Amanda came to visit for a whole week and it was a total blast. There are two big Kaiser weddings this summer, poor Mamma Kais. It was a tonne of fun having Amanda here so we could have lots and lots of wedding talk.

Over the weekend we made a trip to St. Augustine which is the oldest city in the US.....Canada still gets credit for the oldest city (Quebec City) in North America:)

 The sights in St. Augustine are a must see if ever travelling to North Florida. The amount of history is incredible not to mention all the great candy shops, bakeries and restaurants. All in all it was a great week to catch up and get re-aquainted to my future brother and sister-in-law:)

falling into the moat

 As you can see life in the sunshine state is still a blast and there is never a dull moment......until the next adventure, stay tuned.

A much needed facelift.......

Between my constant ramble about my sewing ideas and  how I want to redecorate/improve our apartment I might drive Chris nuts. We have been thinking about throwing out this old dingey storage ottoman for a while because, well, its old and dingey. That was until my dear friend Melissa Hare's blog  inspired me to re-surface it.  Here is the link to her blog entry:

http://melissahare.blogspot.com/2010/08/adding-pattern-and-pizzazz-to-fabric.html

and the final product

a great improvement if I do say so myself:)

The breakfast club.....

Happy Halloween!!! This weekend we had a blast with halloween. Some may think we are a little over the top with our puppies around here but we decided to celebrate halloween by taking the pups to a costume contest:)

The theme of the puppies costumes was the breakfast club. Our inspiration for this idea was of course, Moose and his best friend Shenzi "Z". These two are absolutely inseperable and totally in love with one another. They walk together and play daily following eachother around like little shadows. So a natural nickname for them would be "peas and carrots".

For example:



We decided to try and be clever and dress them up like bacon and eggs. We also had to invite their little friend Bear to join so the obvious choice for him was toast. Here are a few pictures of the final product on the big day.

Z was a total trooper to even wear an egg hat!



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All in all this was a very fun sewing project for me and relatively simple. We were all very happy with the final product. It was extra exciting becuase the bacon, eggs and toast actually won the costume contest for having the best themed costumes:) Not a bad pay off for a few hours worth of sewing and some really cute puppies

Family shot