Traci's Birthday...

For *MY* 12th birthday I was finally allowed to get my ears pierced... but then, so were Trish and Mom! Claire has been asking for awhile to have her ears pierced, how appropriate is that to let her do it on *MY* birthday!





Boo, Julie, Hope and Charlotte stopped over and surprised me with a fancy "fruit-cake" :-) It was so delicious and too bad we devoured it so quickly :-)





I opened my birthday gift from Donna early (at Kyle's birthday party) and have this new beautiful purse to strut around town with :-)



I received a card where the mouse ate my birthday cake and a card where the pig talked to me in a scottish accent! :-)

With lunch out with my coworkers, all this excitement, and being one year older it was no wonder that I went off to bed before the kids and slept through until the morning :-)

To go with my new birthday bike we got a Trail-A-Bike which Kyle will use on our Sunday family bike rides. We'll be able to go *much* faster now :-)



Big thanks to everyone!

Happy 4th Birthday Kyle!

We had Kyle's birthday yesterday and it was suppose to be a Hockey Camp. Claire and Nathan worked on the posters. Claire's was "Welcome to Hockey Camp" and Nathan's was "Register" for the camp registration table :-)



Unfortunately it was so hot that all the athletes were not interested in playing hockey and simply hit the pool instead.



Then it was time for supper, cake and presents!







Everyone had lots of fun. Kyle says Thank-you for all the wonderful gifts he received!

Happy Canada Day!

We have had a great long weekend! We enjoyed a family bike ride on Sunday (along the parkway, which is closed off to traffic on Sunday mornings) where we made it as far as the Bank Street bridge this time. Nathan and Kyle both commented on how much fun they were having. Until the way back that is... then we almost had mutiny as Claire refused to continue biking and Kyle kept saying he was tired. Regardless of the whining we still made it home and in a week we'll try again! Maybe by the end of the summer we'll make it all the way downtown :-)

We spent Canada Day at the HBC Run in support of our canadian athletes. We met up with the Coffin/Corning clan and their neighbours. All the kids (accompanied by the parents) ran the 1K Fun Run and then we all did the 3K Family Walk. Everyone earned a medal :-)



We partook in some of the festivities and then went home to spend time in the pool.

Happy 141st birthday Canada!

School is out for summer!

The kids are done school now for the summer. They are very excited. Claire asked me today if we have to go to work during the summer. Yes Claire, we do. :-)


Nathan's class had a "graduation" ceremony where Nathan received a certificate for completion of senior kindergarten. Only about a dozen more years to go! Haha!







We went out for our end-of-year ice cream celebration tonight after Claire's soccer game. Yum Yum! Thank goodness the rain held off!

Pool is open!

The pool boy worked hard and completed the pool set-up two weekends ago. It was just in time for some very hot weather! The kids had completed a 5K walk in support of Juvenile Diabetes that same day and really enjoyed coming home to splash in the refreshing pool. :-)

Next season the pool will be replaced by a larger oval pool (rigid sides with side supports). Much better for the adults as they can congregate in one end of the pool while the kids are in the other :-) Right now the parts are sitting idle and will be placed aside for winter storage.

Welcome!

First post telling nothing about what's going on :-)