The Monette's

Expecting a September 1st Miracle!

I must apologize for not keeping this up to date for such a ridiculously long time! Things have been pretty busy and facebook seems much quicker and easier to update. But with the expected arrival of our little one in September I figured we better start updating on Blogger as well for the family and friends who are not quite Facebook enabled :)

I am glad to be back on blogger and to share our exciting news and preggo updates with you all.

Here are our ultrasound pictures from 12 Weeks:

And Baby's 1st close-up:

Here is the Belly to go with the Baby (3months):

More pictures to come soon...

Labels: Baby Monette

Our Trip to Ottawa!

This is getting to be quite a traditon, celebrating our Anniversary in Ottawa with friends and family! But to tell the truth we couldn't ask for a better way to celebrate. This year we headed back down in the Monette van for Kelly & Peter's wedding reception on Saturday, May 5th. It was a wonderful evening and Kelly looked absolutely beautiful in her wedding dress (Pete looked pretty good too!) and everything was decorated beautifully.We had a wonderful trip getting to spend time with family that we miss so much. Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Sightseeing in downtown Ottawa at the Parliment buildings

The beautiful table arrangements Kelly designed!

Congratulations Kelly & Pete!

Family Brunch at Broadways (Table 1)

Family Brunch at Broadways (Table 2)

Beavertails!!- Connell, Victoria (she had never had one so of course it was our duty to introduce her to the most delicious dessert ever created), & Mark

The Tulip festival was just begining when we arrived.

We had a wonderful lunch with Dana & Olivia out at their gorgeous new home (which they have built themselves!)

I just love this dog!! So well behaved too!!

Thanks for having us over for lunch Dana & Olivia- we really enjoyed spending time with you!

Labels: vacation

Christine & Baby Sarah's Baby Shower

Sunday, April 29th was Christine and Sarah's Baby shower at Glen and Shar's house. It was a fun time to celebrate both Christine becoming a Mom of three and Sarah's recent arrival. What could be better than 30 woman ooohing and ahhhhing over a beautiful baby- not to mention tons of gifts and excellent food :) Below are some pictures from the shower:

Goldie and I set up a little "Advice Station" where guests could write down some advice, experienced wisdom, prayers and wishes for Christine as she raises a girl, and also for Sarah as she grows up.

All the beautifully wrapped presents

A Very proud Rachel holding baby Sarah

An equally proud Rebecca during her turn for holding Sarah

Starting her off early as the princess she is- The Cinderella Chair!

A beautiful baby quilt handmade by Goldie

The "Bumbo" Chair- these are the neatest things and I just love the name!

A very special quilt made by Aunt Daphne just like the one she made for Christine when she was a baby.

What a great turnout!

Mmmm the food was wonderful-especially the trifle definitely my favorite (I think Shar made it!)

CONGRATULATION'S again to Christine on her beautiful baby girl we will love every minute of seeing her grow up to be the woman God has planned.

Labels: Baby

The Wildlife Saga: The Conclusion (Hopefully!)

Another trap does it's job :) This time we skipped the wimpy marshmallows and went straight for the real bait- Sardines! One night later and it was caught- so now we know what works. We are now finally able to relax a little, hopefully the wildlife community hotel has been vacated permanently. We are planning to put some mesh up over the soffet tomorrow so hopefully that will deter any further animal guests. Hope you enjoy the pictures :) I think it looks quite cute (despite all the trouble it has caused)!

Ricky Raccoon:The Wildlife Saga Continues...

So after the surprise that we had a pheasant living on our property we were even more surprised to learn that we had another creature living on our property...well I should say IN our property really. About three weeks ago when my parents were visiting we noticed that a piece of "soffet" (-piece of siding like plastic under the roof overhang) had come loose. We figure that the wing had just gotten to it and so just popped it back into place, this happened a few time until one night as Mark was walking past the back door and saw two beady little eyes staring back at him from the soffett- We had a Raccoon living in our soffet/attic!! You would really think we live in the stick with all this wildlife.
So we called for help and along came a professional trapper to set up a trap with Marshmallows for bait. Well to make a long story short the Raccoon managed to steal the marshmallows from the trap miraculously without getting caught for about two weeks but then he succumbed to the Chicken wings and Chicken & Rice casserole we put in there on Tuesday night and he was trapped! So here are some pictures of poor Ricky Raccoon (sorry about the poor picture quality- we didn’t want to terrify him with camera flashes!) Enjoy.

Some of you may be wondering why we titled this bog “The Wildlife Saga continues…” Well when we got up this morning we noticed that the soffet had come loose AGAIN! Can you believe it, we have ANOTHER Raccoon living up there! Word must have gotten out that the spot was vacant! So we are back to the trapping stage…I guess I will be making Chicken & Rice casserole again for supper and bait. If anyone has any other tips for Raccoon extraction please let us know!

A Figment of Dad's Imagination?

What would you think if someone told you they saw a red and blue bird that was bigger than a cat walking through the trees in your backyard early in the morning? Well...our first thoughts were...uh huh...were you wearing your glasses?...was it a dog wearing one of those coats?.... it was probably just a blue jay....Or Dad, you must have been seeing things!

Well imagine Mark's and my surprise when we saw this walking through the trees a few days ago!! We are eating our words! Who would have thought we would have a resident pheasant living in/around our backyard :)

Baby Sarah's BIRTHday Party

Today on the way to church Mark and I put up some pink ballons on the lampost outside Mark's parents house to Mark the special occasion of Baby Sarah's arrival. When Elijah came home from church he asked me: "Why did you put the ballons up?" So I explained to him that it was to celebrate and let everyone know that they had a new baby girl. I also happened to mention it was to celebrate her birthday- and of course Elijah caught right on and said- "So we are going to have a birthday cake and decorations and a party!!" After that enthusiasm how could we say no- so off Grampa, Greg, Elijah and Jospeh went to pick out the perfect cake for their baby sister, while Mum and I got cracking searching the house for decorations. Below are some pictures of Sarah's 0.0027 year old BIRTHday party. Enjoy!

The BIRTHday Girl!

I think Elijah likes his little sister very much :)

Labels: Baby

CONGRATULATIONS MATT, CHRISTINE, ELIJAH & JOSEPH ON THE NEW ARRIVAL OF SARAH CHRISTINE!!

We are so proud to Congratulate the new family of five on the birth of their beautiful new baby girl- Sarah Christine. She was born April 14th at 3:02am weighing a very healthy 8lbs. 11oz. Not to say 'I told you so' but we knew it was a girl (beautiful girls always take time to prepare- and of course are fashionably late!)

We got to meet the new little one this morning with Mom & Dad Monette, Elijah and Joseph, and we are in love with her completely. Below are some pictures from today and don't forget to check out Matt & Christine's Blog for the first announcement and pictures!