Ice Show - End of Season

Legends & Laces - ICE SHOW

So as the end of the Canadian Winter comes upon us.... its time to hang up the skates and skis for the summer!! (whoo hoo)

to end the season in style... the Guelph Figure Skating Club produce their annual Ice show! this year being Legends & Laces... and my babies were part of it :) :)

the twins became jungle babies... and Saoirse found another excuse to put a leotard on!!!

Once again i was doing the 'proud mammy with tears in my eyes routine' as i watched my monkies, who crawled onto the ice a couple of months ago looking at me as if i had lost the plot expecting them to actually be able to stand up, skate as if they had been born with skates on their feet!!

unfazed by the huge hockey rink, all the people and the lights... they just plottered on and did their routines!

It was simply magic!!

Best Sunsets in the World!

There is no where more beautiful in the world than the sun setting in Co. Clare......... well in particular from the beach in Lahinch or over the Cliffs of Moher :)

Its my one true happy place... no matter how far i travel in the world..... nothing beats the sun setting on the atlantic ocean

me vs making stuff again :)

Match 2!!!

Me vs A 14' Trampoline!!

So as i have just about recovered from the fridge saga... it was time to make stuff again!

now the snow has melted, i have discovered i have a back garden... couldn't see it before now!! (its kinda mad when you discover you have a deck in your back garden a month after moving in, as i couldn't see it before now under the snow :) :) )

so long weekend .... 26 degrees sunshine..... 3 kids to entertain.............= NEW TRAMPOLINE time!!

i need to stop moving around this is the 3rd trampoline i have bought in the last 6 years! that or i must stop setting them into concrete and building them into decks!

so Saturday morning... first thing i tear up to Canadian Tire - the mission to find a trampoline!

so i stroll around the store... potting picking up pieces as i go (aka a garden hose for the water slide) however the more i potter the quicker my heart starts to beat... there are NO damn trampolines anywhere (visions of kids bouncing off walls for the rest of the weekend nearly causing an immediate nervous breakdown!)

eventually seeing the panic in my eyes, a poor young lad approached me apprehensively and asked could he help (i though bout asking him if he fancied babysitting for the rest of the weekend) however settled on the trampoline request!! The silly people had them hidden in the back store room!! Are they mad.... stressing out already stressed mums :) :) :) we can be dangerous you know!

so trampoline loaded and in car! mission accomplished!! then we hit the usual wall :)

No one else in the house being over 4ft and two humongous boxes in the car (with the lovely 2 man lift signs on the side) Health and Safety all the way :)

so the thighs took it again :) :) am soooo lucky i don't bruise easy!!!

this time though i had options.... once boxes were out i could unload in pieces

ROUND 1 to me!!!!

right back garden looking like a scrap yard of metal, tired before i started (it was 26 degrees out at that stage!) and looking like a grease monkey (all the parts were greased up!)

so step one - legs together.. frame together... all good so far

mmmmmmmm 14 foot trampoline.... my less than 2 foot arms... (needed the g0-g0 gadget arms ha ha )

ROUND 2 to the trampoline!!

Eventually (after a good hour of trying the balance pieces all over the place, from my years of being a Twister master! ) i used child labour!! strategically placing children at all sides.. including a few strays from the neighbour hood! We got the frame up!!

ROUND 3 to me :) (and the kids)

now just the jumpy part to get on!! with a gzillion springs! easy peasy..... until each one pulls the tarp tighter and tighter and tighter

leaving the last few springs a good ft from their desired area!
It was the workout of the century!!!!!!!

the child labour proved useful once again for the net posts... its actually amazing how useful a 3ft something person can be!!!

But TA DA :) we now have a trampoline.... i now have lots of neighbourhood strays in the back garden! the kids haven't looked for the TV on once in the last few days!

and there is the most fantastic background noise......... children laughing :)

BOUNCE BOUNCE TIME!

(and this one only cost me, a couple of bruises on my knees, one on my arse and some very very sore arms and shoulders the follow day!!!! )