Another beautiful wedding weekend!

This Friday July 18th Rene's (my husband) cousin Tessa, married her sweetheart of eight years, Mike Pascoe. The wedding and reception took place at the Bay of Quinte Counrty club, here in Belleville. This is very fitting as Mike is a BIG TIME golfer and I have heard, a very good one at that! Their colours were chocolate brown and green, great combination! The bridesmaid dressed in adorable lace overlay brown dresses and the groomsmen adorned green button down shirts with light brown dress pants. Tessa's flowers were green spider mumms which is a little funny because Tessa is unbelievably afraid of spiders! It was an evening ceremony and cocktail reception. Tessa is a junk food fanatic so she had a Ben and Jerry's ice cream buffet and a candy bar. Great choice in my books! I think the highlight of the night, other than the wedding itself, was the first dance. Mike and Tess started out with a traditional dance then they broke into a "Rock the Reception"dance. This is when the music switches to some more hip tones and the bride and groom do a choreographed dance routine including the famous "sprinkler", shopping cart, and kung fo fighting to name a few. It was priceless! They did a fantastic job! Did I mention that Tess was a drama teacher! Very fitting for her!

It was a very anjoyable evening!

All the best guys!

I love weddings!

This past weekend, my cousin Michelle and her boyfriend Jeff of nine years got married. I love weddings and what a beautiful wedding it was! It took place at west Zwicks Island, here in Belleville and the sun was shinning! Michelle was a gorgous bride and always had a huge smile on her face. I could tell she was so happy to be marrying the love of her life. Michelle arrived in a horse drawn carrage very Cinderella like. Her colours were chocolate brown and almost a teal blue. The bridesmaid looked wonderful and the groomsman were corodinating perfectly in their brown tuxes. This was the second wedding Shelyn and Carson attended with us. Theor first wedding was Michelle's sister Tara's , three years ago and they were both in it. They really enjoyed getting new outfits and watching Michelle walk down the isle. They only stayed for the ceremony because we told them the party afterwards was only for adults. They didn't mind because their friend Danielle was watching them for the evening and they have a blast with her.

Next weekend is wedding number two of the season. Tessa and Mike and I can't wait. It will be another beauty!

summer time

Wow, it is July 9th already! It seems that summer takes so long to arrive but once it is here, time flys. We have had a busy summer already. Camping with friends, summer BBQ's in our backyard, play dates, birthday parties and beautiful weddings. What a wonderful season! The July long weekend we had the pleasure of camping with our good friends , Shawn, Corrie, Tyler and Caylie Closs. This is an annual adventure for us. Usually we camp at one of Ontario's beautiful provincal parks but we were a little late organizing and didn't get into the parks on our list so we decided to try a private park a little closer to home. We found a FANTASTIC park called Cobourg East Campgrounds located 5mins from the town of Cobourg. A very clean, well maintained park with lots of activities to do. The kids enjoyed swimming in the pool, going for bike rides, playing in the park, walking through the river and taking part in their WONDERFUL Canada Day festivites. I would highly recommend this park. A very enjoyable stay!

On Canada Day, we usually spend the afternoon with "Silly Papa"(Rene's dad) to celebrate his birthday. Yes he is a Canada Day baby who was born in the USA. But this year Nana and Papa were in Chicago at a friends wedding so we missed our afternoon together but were able to wish him a Happy Birthday when he returned.

feel'n HOT HOT HOT!

What a hot one!
I really hope we have a beautiful summer but I really do not wish for this heat! I'm not one to enjoy a lot of heat . I tend to gravitate to the shade and save my fare skin from the sun.

Today was Carson's class trip and mini Kindergarden graduation celebration. I must explain now why I do not have any pictures to post at the moment of this "special"day. I truly thought that just the Senior Kindergarden class was having a ceremony and the remainder of the day would be a fun class trip. so... I decided to keep my camera at home because it was really hot and I didn't want to be lugging it around the park. So there it sat.. at home on the kitchen counter! To my surprise, Carson was recieveing a certificate for graduating from Jr.K to Sr.K and my good friend's Angela and Erin were very kind to take some pictures of my little man getting is diploma. Thanks ladies! I really do appreciate your kindness and my scrapbook thank's you as well! :) Once I receive the pics I will post them to show you how proud Carson was today!

A little side note!
Spelling has always been a struggle for me. With modern technology I still make the odd mistake when writting. This is why I appoligize to you in advance. I know some of my "teacher"friends are reading my blog right now thinking, man, her spelling is TERRIBLE! Sorry guys! I will try my best to do spell-check at every chance I get! :)

Enjoy your weekend!

catch up!

I just got home from teaching a watercolour card class at my store(Sweet Sentiments scrapbooking and more!) I lover teaching classes! it's so much fun to share a hobby I enjoy so much. I must say... I think I create better scrapbook pages then cards but I have just as much fun doing both. (I will post my card pics in my next blog post.)

This past Sunday was wonderful! I got to enjoy the entire day with my two beautiful children and my husband. Life is really crazy busy in the Aubertin house so spending an entire day doing whatever we want whenever we want to do it was GREAT! We worked outside a bit in the morning then asked the kids what they wanted to do. Carson's first request was Chucky Cheese and Shelyn's was the indoor playground in Kingston. I suggested that maybe we choose an activity to do close to home. So they both said"the beach". it was really overcast and the ground was very wet from our little rain storm the night before so I suggested we do a tour of "the county"(Prince Edward County) and see where we end up.

Everyone was game. We headed across the bay bridge and down Rednersville road. Rene and i love to admire all of the beautiful homes along the water. We stopped at Campbells Orchard. This is one of our favorite places to go in the fall around apple picking time and Thanksgiving weekend. Shelyn and Carson enjoyed some icecream while Rene and I did very well not to have soem for ourselves. After that we head to Wellington and stopped at the Wellington park. This is a great park located right on the shore of Lake Ontario. A great place for the kids to play and a great place to have a picninc, too bad the weather wasn't a little warmer. We all enjoyed a few games of hide and seek and skipping rocks in the water. Then we headed to Bloomfield for dinner then returning to home. We had a great day! I really wish we could have days like this more often.
I am having difficulty posting pics so I will do my best to post when I can figure things out!

We took a mini family vacation to Niagara Falls, Canada a few weeks ago.The kids love Niagara. All of the lights, people and not to mention the beautiful falls. At the end of our mini vacation, we met up with my parents and my mother and father in-law at Great Wolf Lodge for the night. We had a BLAST! It was great in many ways. First, to be able to spend sometime with both our mother and father and our in-laws( i have wonderful in-laws, who are actually friends with my parents. I know, I'm very blessed!)and we loved how catered to families this place really is. We took lots of pictures in the water park...why... I don't really know because they really are not pics that I would care to show the world but it all about the memories! We also love the fact that we could stay in our wonderful country and enjoy Canadian tourisim. We can't untl the next chance we have to go.

My very own blog!

Well... I have finally got my own blog. I am such a blog addict, checking my fav's every time I have the chance. I just love everything about a blog. Sharing stories, pictures and special happenings in your life. It's great! I was reading one of my fav's the other day kerrimacdonalds.dots of life and was thinking how I love the way she captures the everyday pleasures and then asked myself why wasn't I blogging? So I decided to go for it!

Here I am!

I am very excited to share my "Life's little treasures" with you.



Let the journey begin!