August Westbank Trip

So for the BC long weekend we headed back up to Westbank, this time we went up with our Noise friends. We went up a day early and took their boys with us. So we had 4 boys for a day and a half. Good thing they get along pretty well these days.

As in most trips we take lots of pictures, but here are a few from our trip.

On Friday they swam in the pool and we took them to a playground.

On Friday evening Jason and Elizabeth and Keira joined us for 3 nights.
We had a great time together. We swam in the pool, went to the lake, found some geocaches, had great food, went to the waterpark in Kelowna and took a trip up to Mission Hill.

On Sunday I picked up my South African friend Glen who is currently studying in Toronto. He's been stuck in Toronto for 5 months so needed a break to come to the west coast. Arron and Kyle quite like Glen, so we may hire him as our nanny when he is done school.

We had a change in the house on Monday as our Noise friends left and auntie and unc unc joined us a for a few days. The kids are glad they are back in town and quite enjoy their company as well, good times as Sara would say.

After 8 days of fun, rest and relaxation we headed home. On the way home we stopped at the Othello tunnels, so Glen could see them. Aaron also enjoyed running through the tunnels.

Glen stayed with us for another 6 days, but I'll have to write about that in another post, stay tuned...

Bubble Fun

Shelby and the boys were playing with the bubble wand this afternoon and daddy took some pictures.

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Berry Picking

Last Saturday we went to Driediger Farms to get some berries.

Shelby wanted strawberries and I wanted raspberries. Since strawberries are ending their season soon, the only way you could get them was u-pick, so we went out to the strawberriy patch. Things were pretty hopeless with Kyle where the strawberries were, he didn't want to walk and the stroller could not go between the rows. So Aaron and Shelby picked their bucket of strawberries and Kyle and I went to pick raspberries. In the middle of picking strawberries Aaron had to go to the bathroom, so Shelby treks to the other side of the field to find the outhouse. After some complaining by Aaron, as it was quite warm out, they finally got their bucket of strawberries.









Meanwhile over at the raspberries I mostly pushed Kyle around in the umbrella stroller and he helped by pointing out where the raspberries were. I think where we were, most of the raspberries were picked over. It didn't take long for me to realize that it was going to take a while to pick a bucket of raspberries, especially with having to push Kyle around as well. So I thought I should at least pick some raspberries and not come back to the to weigh in an empty bucket. After a while Kyle was getting antsy and walked around for a bit(cue in photo-op) and 'helped' a bit. Eventually I figured we should be head back as I thought Shelby would be be waiting for us. Little did I know she would be waiting a half hour for us and we only came back with a pound and a half of raspberries while she had picked 5 pounds of strawberries.







I ended up buying 3 more pounds of raspberries, but we did have the berry picking experience! So I am not sure if I would recommend this experience if you have young children or not.

Later that day Shelby made her strawberry jam and the next day I made my raspberry jam. They both taste yummy and we will ignore the mount of sugar we put in it and that makes the experience worth it!

Canada Day Looong weekend

We were up in Westbank for the Canada long weekend with our friends Ray and Ginny and their children. We added a few days to our long weekend to make it even longer.

We arrived on Thursday, the kids ended up not napping that day which suited Aaron fine, but when there was a bit of down time Kyle conked out.




On Friday we were able to have a swim in the morning and went to a park with the kids.





Lexi had an interesting moment as she ran down the slide instead of sliding down, gave her parents a bit of a scare...crazy kid!



With Kyle's lack of fear, running into the creek nearby seemed like a good idea, so Shelby helped him out.


In the afternoon there was a torrential downpour. Around 8pm the clouds started to break and the sun started to come out again. Ray and I headed up to Mission Hill to take some pictures.



Saturday the sun came out and it stayed out for the rest of our trip getting warmer each day. Swimming in the pool was very common and also was a relief from the heat.











For Canada Day the kids each got a Canada tattoos and Canada hats.







Shelby made us special drinks that were very yummy.





Here is Madi pretending to be a cat, watching her eat as a cat was pretty funny.




Bubbles were a big thing with the little kids...






and the big kids too!





On the last day Ray and I took Madi and Aaron to the lake which they really enjoyed.
Some people were coming in with their kayaks to the shore, so they let the kids sit in the kayaks for some photo ops.







The kids enjoyed blowing dandylions on our way back to the car






Here is us at our Canada Day dinner.



All in all another great trip had to come to an end...till next next time!

Our trip sans enfants

I am trying to do a bit of catch up on this blog.

Last month we took a trip to Vegas and then rented a car and went to see the National Parks of Utah and the Grand canyon. It was our first trip without kids since we had kids, so we took advantage of that and tried to see as much as we could in a week. Here is a brief summary and a few pictures from our adventure.


These are a few nights shots from Vegas. It reached 110F during the day so walking around at night was a bit more bearable.









This is Bryce Canyon, we enjoyed walking into the canyon. We did it first thing in the morning, so it wasn't too hot.








Then we were in Moab, UT which is close to Arches National park and Canyonlands National Park, which are both great.












We also made a trip to the Grand Canyon which was nice as well.



We really enjoyed our holiday, maybe next year we will be able to something like that again.

Music-related videos

Here are some recent music-related videos of the kids.

Earlier this month we were visiting some friends and on the way home Ballroom Blitz came on the radio...



Have you seen Sammy Stevens and his Flea Market Montgomery video?
Basically all of us have been singing this lately especially the 'it's just like, it's just a mini...mall!' part.

Here are Aaron and Kyle singing it, the first take didn't go so well....

Love my Belly: Part Deux

A few weeks ago Shelby blogged Love My Belly, here is the continuation of that post.

I drew a happy face on their bellies and they were very happy to show it off.

Shelby is responsible for these pictures....