T-Ball

We signed Graye up for T-ball this fall, with his buddy Ethan. Out of 5 classes, we only made it to the first and last one. Guess we didn't plan that out very well. He had a lot of fun at those 2 classes though! We need to practice running in the correct direction, and possibly to each base in order... but otherwise he did great, haha!

Warming up:


He's got his pitching form down!

New Layout!

Hi all - I decided to update the blog's "look"... what do you think? Too busy now? I can never decide whether the background in these ones is super distracting or if it's fun. I really liked the pattern, so I thought I'd give it a try. Let me know if it makes you cringe... :)

Here's a few things we did this summer that I missed, just so this post isn't super boring.

We went to the airshow, which was alright. The actual airshow was pretty good, except we didn't dress appropriately and it got really cold, and eventually started pouring rain (right when the best part - the Snowbirds - started) so we and the kids kinda froze. They still did great though!


Not sure how I feel about all this:


I feel like the whole thing was glamourizing war and showing off all the "cool" weaponry you can "play" with if you join the army. Maybe it's just because Graye was a little too interested! Ah, well. I think we'll just watch from a hill next time, haha!


On an entirely unrelated note, we also took the kids gambling!! No problems with that, haha!! We went to the horse races - and won! I guess maybe I have no problems as long as they are winning???



They even had a cheerleading section!




"Is anyone else having problems with their binoculars?? Mine won't focus..."


And, as always, we did some geocaching. Tegan made a new friend in a one-eyed cat. I tried not to let the kids get too friendly with it, but he just decided to take his own pets from them anyways!

We found some pretty good treasure too.

Tegan's First Day

Tegan also had her first day of school last week. She'll be in preschool for 2 years, same as Graye. She was a little more hesitant than Graye was, but as soon as she sat down and started talking to the other girls she was fine!




No looking back now!! ;)

Graye's First Day of Kindergarten

Graye had his first day of Kindergarten last week, and so far so good! He was exhausted by the end of the day, but still wanted to go back that evening, haha!

This is what Graye looked like when I told him there was still an hour to wait until the school opened, so we couldn't leave yet:

FINALLY we got there, and found the right door...

...and the right hook...

...and the right spot at the table.

Totally acing this school thing!


Finished the assignment and immediately found the dinosaurs. That kid could find a dinosaur hidden in the middle of a 5 acre field!!

Hopefully the rest of the year goes just as well! I won't post the post-school/daycare picture of both of them laying across me crying their eyes out from exhaustion. Don't want to scare any of you who's kids haven't started yet, haha!

Guess where we are now?? ...yep! The lake.

Some friends of ours just finished building a cabin and invited us out to see it. We were just there one night, but managed to fit in games, beach, quad rides, fireworks and sparklers. The cabin is beautiful, we'll definitely be inviting ourselves back! ;)

Visiting Old Friends

We had a BBQ get together with a bunch of friends that we know from high school and from when both Ryan and I worked at Pacific Cinemas *ages* ago - long before it was torn down and replaced with a hotel! Everyone now has a significant other and many had at least a couple kids hanging around now too! Pretty crazy!

It was great seeing everyone though, and all the kids got along amazingly well.


Feeding the ducks:

Kathy, testing out a group photo site... perfect! ;) (... look, is that a fish?)

Back to the lake!

We spent an extended weekend at the lake, Ryan had to work (9 - 5 jobs ruin everything!) so I took the kids and went with my family. We got there in time to set up camp and check out the lake at sunset. *Just as a side note, slightly crooked photos make me crazy, but I do not have any type of photo editing program on here at the moment... I vow I will get one installed soon though!*





Just hanging out in our camping clothes... waiting for some hot dogs... We actually had a memorial service to attend that weekend as well, for my great aunt, hence the unconventional camping wear. ;)

SQUIRREL!!!

My nephew, Cam's, chic camping style!

Lake day!


Best ice cream in the province...


We had amazing weather pretty much the whole time!