Tornado (of '07?)

We had a tornado come through town at 3:30 am the night before Graye's big birthday party! We almost had to move venues, but a lot of work and some very quick power and phone people let the party go on! Our 2 gigantic trees in the back took a lot of damage, one is still up and ok, but the other is mostly down and the rest of it will have to follow sometime soon. Luckily they fell away from the house and we still have everything else intact! Most of the town just had a lot of trees taken out, one house lost part of its roof and there were various forms and colours of siding caught in power lines as well. The first picture is near the road that goes to our place, the rest are our yard and trees. Lindsay is actually standing in our alley, which is usually a road with a big field on the other side. Instead the road is covered in our trees! Makes me a bit sad, they were beautiful big trees, but again we are VERY lucky they were all the damage we took and they didn't do any damage to the house. Scary night, but the most excitement this town has seen in a while! Sure got everyone out of the house in the morning! Haha!

Happy First Birthday Graye!!!

Graye turns 1 on July 12, but we had his party last weekend. It was a ton of fun, lots of people came, we had hotdogs and a big car cake, and some dips in the "pool" as well! Thanks everyone for coming, we almost had to move venues due to the tornado! Thanks especially to Ryan's family who came and helped us get it all straightened out and made some salads as my macaroni salad would have been a little crunchy with no power to boil the water for cooking! I forgot to post those pictures before all this birthday stuff so they will be above this post I guess.

Anyways HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRAYE!! Hope you had as much fun as we all did!

Lots of Friends and Family!

We had a big turnout for the party too, lots of Graye's friends and family made it out including...

...the NEWEST friend, Nalani, Jacinta's new baby sister;

Dida got lots playtime in;

Uncle Mike, Aunty Jeanette, Ella and Maizie all came down from Regina to party;

best neighbor Paige, who needs lots of playtime with Graye as she won't be able to visit all the time for much longer! =( She is moving all the way to Nunavit... but she'll be back for lots of visits (right???)

Presents!!

Graye was of course spoiled on his birthday. Some of the gifts included a whack of fancy clothes from Baba and Dida, as well as the McKeague's (mom's favourite gifts!), a growth chart that Nana made, a big box of mega blocks and tools from Farfar, and tons of other (NOISY!) toys from everyone! Graye says thank you SOOOO much! He also had lots of help opening everything, so thanks for that too!! =)

Hoot!

SORRY!! I have been very very lame at updating this blog lately! Mainly Graye doesn't let us do anything else but the necessities and that's done quite grudgingly. I have decided that I NEED to get some of these photos up though, as the threats if I don't have become more and more insistent.

As some of you may know Dionne is a super fan of Harry Potter (yes, she's 27 years old!) So for the big book release she is having a Harry Potter party (or Pooper Party or Pot Party depending on who you speak to) and for the big day she bought Graye a Hedwig costume. This is the result:

Oops

Lame. Forgot to turn the last 2 pics below.... sorry!

Meeting the cousins!

Well not EXACTLY cousins... Ryan's cousins' kids... Mike?? =)

Sara

TJ

Jaimie

Matt

Soooo sorry if I got the spellings wrong! I feel like there is a "y" in Jaimie's name (Jayme?) but couldn't quite figure it out. =)

Edmonton Trip

A couple of photos taken by Aunty Laurette:


We had burgers for lunch AND dessert! This is the "Father's Day" cake that Ryan's cousin Danny made for the big day - she's amazing hey?

Graye also had his first ice cream cone (Graye sized) with Aunty Carlene.

Anglin Lake

The Andersen family went to Anglin Lake last weekend for Dad Andersen's 60th birthday. There were more mosquitoes there than I'd like to ever see again, but other that that it was a fantastic weekend, with weather to match.

Hmmmmm... what to write, what to write...

Milo leading the boats:

Mom and Spongebob =)

Ryan (not) catching fish. That changed a little later in the day, although there are no pictures to prove it!

One of the cabins we stayed in:

Beach Babes

Need I say more? =)