Coffee Break

Most military communities in Canada are located in larger cities, which makes the military community seem very far away from each other at times. I'm very lucky that where we live now, we have an amazing Military Family Resource Centre aka MFRC. They have a ton of different programming for families. One of the big things they do every month is have a Coffee Break on the first Thursday of the month.

This past month, Coffee Break fell on July 3rd, right in between Canada Day and the 4th of July - so we made it a Canada United States theme :)

We had festive fruit!

Veggies with dip in cups - thanks to Pinterest lol. 

My mom made a yellow ribbon cake. 

I made the American stars and the Canadian maple leafs. 

More of our yummy food. 

We also had cheese and crackers. 

Blueberry French toast casserole. 

Mini quiche. 

Fruit. 

All in all the morning was a success. It's one of the things I looked forward to the most when we moved back here. 

Canada Day!

We have had such a busy June and and July so far. I'm going to do my best to play catch up and post about all the grand things we have done lately. :)

Canada Day was pretty crummy here this year. The day started off cold and rainy so we actually canceled our plans to go to the park for all the festivities. Instead we headed over to our good friends house for an indoor BBQ lunch complete with blanket forts and family pictures (since Paul's sister and her boyfriend were in town - and long convoluted story - her boyfriend is my good friends brother  so it was a real family get together lol). 

The Epic Blanket Fort

Two little munchkins trying to hide from us.

These two are going to be troublemakers when they get older lol. 

Paul, his sister Melissa and our two girls. Unfortuantely, this is the best picture we got of them - in most of them Nora and Annika are all over the place lol.

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Having some sparkler fun with Daddy

More sparkler fun!

The weather cleared up so we took a bike ride through the park to the ice cream store - this is Nora's Happy Birthday Canada face lol. 

Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends out there!!!