Happy 1st Birthday Eden

Happy Birthday to Eden Grace.....Happy birthday to you!

My yummy flower cake mommy made.......
See how much I loved it...........sooooo yummy!!
Yippee I love wrapping paper....it is soo much fun!

Some catching up to do

Bad blogger I know, but time just seems to fly by these days. Let's see what has been happening lately. Thalia ran in the Family Fun run 1.5k last weekend, we battled the crowds of people downtown and she ran with a few members of her grade four class. I think she enjoyed the cookies at the end the best! Eden has turned one, and with that has her third and fourth teeth arriving. She has attempted to walk a few steps on her own, with lots of encouragement from her sisters. My husband took me for a wonderful birthday picnic last weekend, which turned out to be a beautiful sunny day!
Enjoy the photos

more adventures....

Samantha made a true friend while at Esquimalt Lagoon, with much dismay she had to leave her precious Felicia behind to fend for herself. Just maybe in the future they may meet up again. Best Friends Forever......


On a Saturday afternoon adventure, along the logging roads in Shawnigan area, Heath took us up to Wild Deer Lake. With the frozen lake behind you still can see how much both Alyssa and Eden are enjoying themselves.



Look it must be Felicia's friend that Eden has in her hand........ fortunately for the crab it tasted salty as Eden took it directly to her little choppers for a tasting.

Family time....

The one thing we all enjoy doing is having family time. What better way to spend time with everyone than go for a hike.



East Sooke Park.......coastal trail (Metchosin side)



East Sook Park again, but this time we went to the Pike Road Trail (East Sooke side)
Great photo of Heath and Eden at Esquimalt Lagoon, an after dinner walk

Long time....no blog!

So I realize that it has been a very long time since we have blogged and while not blogging some crazy stuff has happened. First as you can see by the picture below, little Eden has some medical issues. In the matter of a week, she had two episodes which altered us, and by the end of the week we were at BC Childrens hospital. In a nut shell our little girl was diagnosed with a brain tumour, it was diagnosed on a Saturday and removed the following Monday. It has taken almost one month for us to receive pathology results, which have named the tumour and have given us a little piece of mind. The giant medical name is desmoplastic infantile glanglioglioma, grade 1 begien (which is a favourable diagnosis).


EEG at Victoria General



"Really Daddy, the other guy looks much worse", Eden 5 days post op.

And hey look at me "I'm home, put on your seat belts we're going for a ride". Two weeks post op.
She looks wonderful!

We also have celebrated 3 birthdays. Thalia's double digit, she is now 10 years old on Feb 24th, it was most unfortunate we were in Vancouver but I know she had a great time at her party with friends at the gymnastics club. We arrived home in time for Samantha's jump into the teenage years on the 4th of March she is now 13 years old, and just recently we celebrated my dads big 50th on the 25th. Throw in Easter and well we have been just a little busy.

Art at the university

Last night the family was treated to an art exhibition at the University of Victoria. What made this extra special was that Alyssa had a piece of her artwork there. The exhibition featured pieces from the grade nine art students at Alyssa's school. The theme for the night was conflict, each piece represented a conflict ranging from "Beauty being painful" to "Nature verse humans" and the Alyssa's piece was about "Propellers causing danger for our marine life". In her piece she depicted this by drawing a shark that had been cut by a propeller. The medium she used was soft oil pastel. Hope you enjoy a peek at her work.

Happy New Year everyone!!!




Just a couple photos to round off 2007. What a year it has been, especially with the addition of our little Miss Eden Grace. We hope that 2008 brings much joy, love, and laughter to all our friends and family.

Love to all,

The Armstrong Gang

Heath, Erin, Alyssa, Samantha, Thalia and Eden.

Chinagin

Have you ever wondered what your family gets up to after you've gone to bed? Well here is a clip of Heath and the girls on night after I hit the hay early. See if you can figure out which on of the girls it is....

sillies with sister

Just a little snipid of Samantha and Eden playing. Often I see this as the girls are always trying to make Eden laugh or should I say squeal.
Enjoy

Bring out the decorations.....

Deck the halls, with boughs of holly........ that is not exactly what we did this Saturday night but rather flock the tree with millions of decorations. All the girls had turns putting their all time favorite decorations on the tree, as well as some new ones too. Each of the sisters had a turn showing Eden how the whole process worked. The outcome a beautiful, festive, glowing Christmas tree we all can enjoy.

Eden

Lets see if this works

Video troubles...now solved!!

After I don't even know how many attempts I STILL can't seem to get the blogger video to work, so I'm attempting another avenue.

Santa Baby

Christmas is coming, and what else does one with a little one do, but go see Santa. Here is how our Santa visit happened... Alyssa was on the way to the bookstore when she ended up sidetracked. She was a little curious how Eden would react to Santa, so she pulled her out of her buggy and showed Eden Santa. Cover your ears because the baby squeals were being sung! Heath and I decided to try a picture with the famous man, it was only seconds after putting Eden on his lap that she pulled the frightened baby act. Thank goodness the photographer snap the photo quickly, otherwise it might have been nothing but a wide open mouth and streaming tears.
I think that the photo is perfect just the way it is, she may not be smiling but it's a cute photo.

Trick or Treat...........

Three little spookies and one little bee.....

Lazy afternoons and jack'o'laterns

This past weekend we enjoy at day at the farm. We made a small bonfire, drank hot chocolate, roasted hot dogs and marshmallows and carved our pumpkins. What a great way to spend a lazy Saturday afternoon and evening.






The girls enjoying carving the pumpkins by the bonfire...


Our creations a glow...
Alyssa- the bird with the moon
Samantha- a little witch flying
Thalia- a little ghost saying "Boo"
Eden- The BOO
Erin- the spooky face
Heath- uncarved
and the poca dots just for fun!

Eden discovering fallen leaves...

Pumpkin picking......

On a drizzly Sunday afternoon, packed up all the kiddies and headed out to the pumpkin patch. Each of us searched for the perfect pumpkin for caving next weekend.



Samantha searching intently for her perfect pumpkin!!



Thalia and Alyssa showing their enormous strength!!


Eden and Mommy having a good time!

Look at me now!

Hi everybody, look at me sitting up all by myself! It's great, because I can sit in my little rocking chair and read all my favorite books before mommy puts me to bed. Enjoy and snuggles from me to you....
Love Eden

Nothing better

Just this past weekend we were at my parents place, where all the girls enjoyed a fresh apple off of the tree.....oh how sweet!

New adventures....

So we fixed up our canoe and got it on the water. Heath spent some time cleaning it up and then we gave it a coat of paint. We all look forward to spending some time paddling around the local lakes.



Heath and the girls putting the canoe in for its first venture!

Daddy and the littlest Armstrong all ready to go.....

"Hey isn't this the life"!

"See you all later",,,,,

Bippity boppity booo......

Today the girls got all dolled up for their mom's wedding. I spent the morning flat ironing, curling and hairspraying the heck out of their hair. Add a little shadow and lip gloss and a little bippity boppity booo....

Future pianist .......?

What do you think, Possible pianist in our future?

I'm four months old now.....

Hi everybody....I'm four months old now.....Look how my sisters made me pose while camping. You would never know this picture was taken in a tent! I loved camping!!!

Oh how much do I enjoy finally having a bath in a real bath tub! While camping mommy did her best to give me a bath in everything from a laundry sink to just sponge bathing, but I'm a real girl at heart I LOVE my baths!