Sneak Peek at our Christmas photos

We went and had our photos taken today. We had the best photographer. She knew exactly what to do to get Tessa to smile and even giggle alittle which gave us such a great turn out. I was super excited that these turned out. I was a little worried because Tessa was a little cranky on the way there, due to no NAP. Oh I figured it was going to be a disaster...but here is a sample of some of the pictures.

November

I haven’t been neglecting our blog just been busy…

This month Tessa turned 4! I can hardly believe it. It feels like yesterday when we got the phone call that our birthmother was in labor. She had a great birthday despite me having terrible toothache. I will get to that in a moment. She received TONS of gifts from our parents(clothes, games, stuffed animal she has now names Betsy, barbies, and movies). I think she thinks this is her birthday month! It takes so long to get mail here that we were recieving a package everyother day for a week! We bought her the Leapfrog computer. It is WONDERFUL, I can’t believe how fast she caught on. She loves playing the memory games on it. Thanks to everyone for all the gifts and birthday wishes. She enjoyed her birthday!

My tooth. OMG I don’t think I have ever had this bad of a toothache in my life. It is terrible. It took 2 weeks to get into the dentist but I went and found out the reason why I am in so much pain is that my wisdom teeth are coming in sideways and is cutting into the nearves of my molars!! It feels like I am being electrocuted, seriously it feels like shocks going thru my body!! No joke. WHAT!?! Is what I thought, I mean come on I am 33 years old! I swear I never had any problems with anything growing up and within the past few years I had to have my tonsils removed and now my wisdom teeth. JJJJJJJEEEEZZZZZ Hopefully when I get them removed in December I will not have any more adolescent problems. ;)

On to the funny things Tessa has said & done lately:

Last night Chris was in the shower and the conversation went like this:

Tessa ask me “Is daddy in shower?”

I said “Yes”

She then marched off opened up the door and yelled “Daddy you’re not supposed to take a shower in the dark, your suppose to take one in the morning when it’s light out”
Where that came from I have no clue!!

Tessa told me that because her and I are girls we will be getting Dora toys from Santa, and daddy will be getting Diego toys because he’s a boy.

I don’t know why I am sharing this because it’s quite embarrassing…but here it goes. We went to pick up Tessa from daycare and Tammy our babysitter was laughing as she tells us that Tessa informed her today that my mommy and daddy have big bums and I have a small one! Tammy thought it was quite humorous, Chris and I just looked at each other with embarrassment!!

Usually at the grocery store Tessa wants to still ride in the cart. But last night she wanted to walk, totally fine with me. So she is walking down the aisle and singing & dancing and some Christmas song came on over the loud speaker. Tessa yells in front of a TON of people “Come on mommy shake your booty with me!!” OMG I think I turned every shade of RED!!

I will post some pics soon....

Pumpkin Carving

Dracula and Smiley Face

Tessa being silly

Instead of Tessa carving a pumpkin with a knife she gets to color with markers, glue & glitter.

Random things that have happen lately...

• We were driving down the road and I had a little road rage and Tessa says "Mom, don't be so angry"
• We have tried to teach Tessa manners such as please, thank you, no thank you and so forth. She will say excuse me when she has something to say and when you are not listening to her, when she finally gets our attention she will say "Your not listening to my words".
• This is bad....I was giving Tessa a bath the other night and she was splashing and having a good ol' time. I accidentally got a few bubbles on the bathroom floor and Tessa says "Mom don't do that dad will get pissed!!" You know we are usually really careful with what we say around her but it was so funny I couldn't help but laugh because she said it exactly the way Chris always does.
• Tessa still carries a blanket, matter of fact I believe it's the blanket that co-worker(Lissa Drummond) bought for her shower gift. This thing looks like it has been ran over a hundred times. It was such a soft pretty pink color, and it just doesn't keep the lovely downy smell anymore!! I guess one day Tessa told Tammy(daycare provider) that she loves her blanket because it smells just like my mommy. I was kinda embarrassed at first, because if I smell that bad OMG!!! Then of course Chris reminded me that I carry it every morning right after I put my perfume on. ;)
• Tessa has several imaginary friends...something like 4. She plays with them, reads them stories, tells them that Harley(our dog) is an alligator and if they don't hurry to the couch they will get eaten. I don't ever remember having imaginary friends, could be I had little brothers that I would dress up in girls' clothing!! Ha Ha they will kill me for telling people that. Remember boys, I have pictures in my possession!! Blackmail someday;)
• Tessa has it made up in her mind that my mom is Uncle Casey's mom. If I say grandma is on the phone, she will go "Uncle Casey's mom?" Back in May my mom came to visit us in Austin before we moved to Canada and Casey kept telling her that was his mom...I guess it has stuck!
• We have a conceded child she will say "I am as pretty as a princess"

Well hopefully I gave you a little chuckle about what everyday life is like in the Prilipp house.

Jasper...

Great time had by all!! Friday night we checked into our cabin, ate dinner, hung out with Jason, Ally and Quinn. Saturday we got up and headed to Columbia Icefields. It was so windy...on the way we passed several falls and lots of great scenery. Then stopped in the city Jasper, to do some shopping and eat dinner at the famous Jasper Brewery Company. Sunday we headed home...sad to return to the real world. Here are some of our favorite pictures.

Athabasca Mountains:



Cheers to a GREAT DAY!!!


Chris finished his sampler beers...

The view from our cabin:

Columbia Icefields:

FUN with FLOUR...

Tessa LOVES playing with flour, this is what it looks like ;) Am I CRAZY?

Thanksgiving weekend...

Well it's Thanksgiving here in Canada on Monday. Strange to have Thanksgiving before Halloween but that is the part we deal with living in a different country...even though it's STILL North America ;) Yesterday we took the day and headed to Praire Garden's What fun we had. It was the Haunted Pumpkin Festival. Lot's of great things to do with the kids and we had some awesome Banana Garlic Potatoes. They were so good. Here are some fun photos... Of course Chris being silly Tessa making pumpkin art ;) Tessa, Quinn and Ally in the petting zoo. Jason, Ally, & Quinn just moved here from San Antonio. Thanks to Jen Hopkins for intruducing us we are having fun together exploring Canada. Our families are heading to Jasper Mountains this coming weekend together to maybe check out the glaciers or even the hot springs. FUN - FUN!!

Tessa is also really enjoying gymnastics and of course the trampoline is her FAVORITE. She is actually getting pretty good ;) Here is a little video for you all: