Double Birthday BBQ

Today we celebrated two birthdays at my place.  June 9th will be my Oma's birthday and June 7th is Kea's birthday.  We decided to have a BBQ at my place to celebrate both.  The weather seemed to be cooperating all day as we got ready for it, in spite of the 60% chance of rain/thundershowers being predicted but then just as the guests arrived so did some thunder and a bit of rain.  I was quite worried that the festivities would have to be moved inside but within 10 minutes the rain passed, the sun came out and the rest of the evening was absolutely beautiful, sunny and actually a bit hot.  Here are some pictures from the evening.

All of us enjoying my new deck.

Kea's Cookie Cake

Oma's Cake... Tuxedo Cake from Costco, my favourite!

The birthday boy and girl

The outfits were NOT planned!

Olena and Buddy

Kea on his new lamb pillow

Spring has Sprung

Spring has arrived early in Winnipeg.  This little guy has been hanging out a lot in my backyard.  He's been around all winter but I can tell he too is enjoying the warmer than usual spring.  

With spring comes Olena and Steve's birthdays.  I was able to celebrate Olena's birthday with her on her birthday weekend but Steve was unfortunately out of town for it.  He is also out of town next weekend for his birthday.  This past weekend ended up being the perfect time to celebrate both birthdays, right in between both of them.  Here are some pictures from our family celebration.


 My mom and I saw this cute cupcake holder a couple weeks ago and just had to get it.  It is super cute and I am sure we will get a lot of use out of it.

Every year my mom builds us a birthday present tower out of our gifts.  She tried to make sure both towers were the same height this year.  I think she did a pretty good job. The small stack of gifts off to each side were from me.

Buddy was really interested in opening the presents this year.  Or maybe he just liked how the boxes tasted.  He's never sat and chewed through the boxes before but take a look at some of the damage he did on the boxes below.

Olena, as usual, is quite the dog whisperer.  Both dogs love to cuddle with her.  Buddy was a bit jealous that evening and kept jumping up on Olena's lap every time Kea went over to say hi to her.  

Both dogs wore themselves out by the end of the night.

The Two Guys in my Life...

So I am currently spending a lazy evening at home, curled up on the couch watching TV and I thought I should add a new entry to my blog.  A lot has been happening this past week but nothing I feel I want to post about on here.  So instead I dedicate this post to Kea and Buddy.  Kea has been having some health issues over the past few months and it has gotten worse lately.  He was in pretty rough shape last week.  He was in a lot of pain and looking pretty bad.  Luckily our vet, Lyle, has been really good to Kea and has been helping us find some medications to help him out.  I am happy to say Kea has improved over the last couple days.  He is still sick but at least the symptoms are not as severe and he seems to be more comfortable again.  I am glad he is doing better and hope he continues to improve.  It has been hard leaving him at my parents place and not having him around.  I miss having a dog in the house.  I have been lucky enough to babysit Buddy twice in the last couple weeks but on nights like tonight I wish I had my own dog to curl up by my feet.  

Here are some pictures of both Kea and Buddy that were taken over the holidays.

Spending some time at my brother and sister-in-laws before Christmas.

 Christmas Eve at Oma and Opa's:

 Later on Christmas Eve at my parents:

Buddy and Kea got matching
Killer vests for Christmas.

Can you spot the puppy?

Babysitting Buddy:

Kea not feeling so well:

Buddy preparing for the cold weather: