Christmas Tea Party

For the past two years, my mom, sister, daughters and I all head to Tracey Cakes for a Christmas Tea Party. The girls love tea parties! This year was different again, the girls had more patience waiting for the lunch and their cupcake. I am sure every year will get better and I look forward to watching them grow up and enjoy the tradition more and more.

Here are the girls with my mom, also known as grammy. Looking fabulous for our tea party!

Here are the girls sitting outside of a fabulous store in Abbotsford, where the got the cutest jackets. Grammy loves spoiling them.

Enjoying the cupcake, they were so excited as I am sure you can tell.

Addysen checking out her lunch. Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, Apple Juice and Veggies. Yummy!

Madeline and Mommy having another great time at our Christmas Tea Party. Oh how I enjoy having a little girl. Thanks Grammy for taking us on a Christmas Tea Party to Tracey Cakes in Abbotsford. Another great Christmas Tradition!

Gingerbread House

Every year, we enjoy making a Gingerbread house. This is the first year that Madeline got invovled in the Christmas Tradion and she loved it. I have to admit I am a wee bit Particular about how it is decorated, but this year I decided to just let Madeline go for it and put my ideas to the wayside.

Here she is enjoying decorating the house. She put a lot of the candy on the house, but also ate her fair share of candy. We are on a little bit of a sugar detox since Christmas is over.

I have to admit she is very particular in her own way as well. It is so neat to see how much she is like Ed and myself. I just thank God daily for the wonderful gift that she is to us.

This is definitley another Christmas Tradition that we will keep for the upcoming years.

Santa Claus Parade

We decided that the weekend we visit the Stanley Park Christmas Train, we would also go to the Rogers Santa Claus Parade. So we packed up our suitcase and headed to my parents condo in Vancouver. It was a full house there, my sister and her family came and also my parents. We had a wonderful time together.
Now being the first Santa Claus parade we had ever attended as a family, we had heard that people line up hours in advance to get a good seat. So we decided to join in the crowds and wait a couple of hours for the parade to start. It was a really chilly day in Vancouver, so we bundled up, expecially Madeline as you will see in one of the pictures below and wait with the many crowds.

Here are Madeline and Ed enjoying the parade. In fact, they were so cute, that they made it in the Province for one of there pictures of the Santa Claus Parade. We were thrilled when we found out!
Here is Madeline all bundled up, waiting for Santa Claus to come. We had another great day adding to our many Christmas Traditions. Thanks Mom and Dad for having a great condo for us to use when we come to Vancouver.

Stanley Park Christmas Train

We headed out to the Stanley Park Christmas Train. It was a wonderful evening with my sister and family & my mom and dad, eventhough it was extremely cold. The girls absolutley loved everything, it's funny what a difference a year makes.

Here Madeline and I are waiting for our turn on the Christmas Train. I just can't believe that she is mine, she is so cute!

Our little family getting a picture, a little far away, but we tried!

My sister and her family posing for a picture.

My dad or otherwise known as Papa, getting a picture with his girlies. I love this picture, you can see how much he enjoys these little ladies!

Madeline giving a donation to the firefighter and in return she got a candy cane, she was so excited. For the rest of the weekend she talked about firefighters, it was so cute!

We finally made it onto the train, and the girls were thrilled.

Here is Madeline checking some of the scences during the train ride. She didn't stop looking all around.

Here is everyone, except me and Ed, waiting for the train to go. As you can see it was super cold, we are so glad we brought a few blankets with us.

My niece Addysen and her daddy Dave. Another great year at the Stanley Park Christmas Train, we will definitley be making this a family tradion. After we were done at the train we headed to the nearest White Spot too warm up and have a great family meal. Thanks to my mom and dad and sister's family for joining us in a fantastic weekend of Christmas memories.

Family Portraits!

A few weekends ago we headed to Old Clayburn Village in Abbotsford for some Family Photos. Carly from Pink Plum Photography took our pictures and we are absolutley thrilled with them.

I love this one of Madeline looking up too me.

Looking through the window of the Old Clayburn Tea house. It is such a beautiful location.

One of the many family photos Carly took, I love this one!

Sitting on the window sill of the old School in the village.

My two cuties! I love you both so much!

Christmas Open House for Lavish

Open House to introduce the new 2009/2010 Lavish line!!! Come start your Christmas Shopping, you won't be disappointed!

LAVISH Boutique Glam Party!

At my house: 4772 207A Street, Langley, B.C.
Friday November 6th from 7:00-10:00pm
Or Saturday, November 7th from 1:00-4:00pm

Prizes: Someone's name will be pulled out of the purse to be the host for either Friday or Saturday! That means a FREE purse!!!!

Optional Donation:
Gently used handbags to be donated to
Vancouver’s “Dress for Success” Program.
(Please visit their website at www.dressforsuccess.org).

This fun evening/ day will introduce the 2009/2010 gorgeous Lavish Fashion Line. This is a drop in casual party, so you are welcome to come anytime too see the line! There is no formal party!

Plus: All my remaining Lavish Demos from the 2008/2009 line will be on sale for 50% OFF, and you can walk away with it that night!

Please RSVP for yourself and your friends!
Phone 604.532-1987 or email etcooper@telus.net

If you are unable to come and see the new line, you are welcome to visit the online site at www.lavishonline.com. If you want to order anything just let me know.
I am looking forward to seeing you at my Lavish open house!