CANADA DAY

Well, here is the family waiting for the Canada Day parade. The kids are all decked out with their tattoos. This has become an annual event for us for the past 5 years. After the parade we head over to Rotary Stadium for the family fun day, which the kids love!

Wyatt waiting patiently for the parade to start, doesn't he look thrilled?




Another thrilled child waiting patienly for the parade to start. You have to get there at least 1/2 hour early if you want to get a decent seat, so then you have kids asking when is the parade starting? But when they see the first sign of the parade they are happy.













Here are a few highlights from the parade. I don't take as many pics as I did the first couple years because it is usually the same stuff every year and how many pics do I need? right? We have the fire trucks, the horses, the cheerful clown (I think this lady comes every year) and of course the kids favorite float...MCDONALD'S.














Moving right along, here are some highlights from the family fun day at the stadium. There are bouncy castles, mini golf, slip and slides, arts and crafts and story time to keep the kids occupied. It really is great entertainment for the day and it is free. During the day there is also entertainment at the main stage and at the end of the day is the much anticipated fireworks display. Good fun had by all and what a long day!

Trampoline Tricks

Madison in mid-air doing her flip.
Wyatt doing his flip, he only learnt how to do this in the last wekk or two and is so proud.
Joe has even got in on the action, he taught Madison how to flip last summer.
Here they are taking a bit of a break.
The kids absolutely love it when Joe gets on the trampoline with them.
As soon as he is home from work they harass him to get on their with them.

Sportsday for Madison and Wyatt

Madison waiting with her team to go to the next station.
Madison in the pink hat helping her team with the tug of war. Her team won both times they were up at the tug of war, Yay!! go blue go!!

This was the first station for Wyatt, freezies and painting.
In the gym being pushed down and around the cone.
Here's Madison mid-air doing her flips.
Relay race time. You know Wyatt's Lightning McQueen shirt helps him run faster than ever! :)

The traditional sack race, Wyatt was really good at this one it must be all the time he spends on the trampoline.

Wyatt's Preschool Graduation

Here is Wyatt having some playtime before the kids did there little performance. I thought this was a funny shot of him through the magnifying glass.




Here are Wyatt and some of his classmates singing one of their songs for the parents. They were all so cute singing for us.

Here Wyatt is getting his little certificate from his teachers Mrs. Jackie and Miss Amy in the background. I can't believe my little guy will be going into Kindergarten in September. He has grown up so quickly, but he is totally ready for school. He has learned so much being in daycare and preschool, not to mention having Madison teaching him things. His big thing now is trying to spell different words with the fridge magnets. He is pretty good at it sounding out the words and when you ask him how he spelt the word he gives you the individual sounds of each letter instead of telling you the letter.

Yay!!! its treat time. One of the moms made these really cool pinwheel cookies. They were a big hit with all of the children.

Long Weekend

What do you do to avoid the crowds of the first long weekend? Go camping in your own backyard! That's what we did on the May long weekend. There was no way we would get a spot up at Cultus for the weekend, see we don't plan ahead for this stuff we just do it at the last minute.

Joe is putting the final cover on the tent so we can try and get the kids to bed, but it was still awhile before they would settle in for the night.

Wyatt shhhing us because his stuffed puppy was trying to sleep in the tent already.








Madison in and out of the tent.



We even had our own little campfire for roasting marshmallows and keeping warm.

It wasn't quite a full moon that night but it looked pretty amazing. We were able to do some star gazing as well and I was able to find the big dipper I think. I'm not very good at finding all the consellations up there. It was a nice night to lay out on the trampoline gazing at the stars though.

Fun times...

The pictures above are from the Community Preschool event that was held at Rotary Stadium last Saturday, May 10. The forecasted rain held out on us, but it was pretty cool. The kids enjoyed some mini golf (there first time and they both managed at least one hole in one) and some face painting. There were crafts, bouncy castles, balloon animals and free lunch among other things there. Apparently this is the 5th year they have done this event.

They say it was 29 here in Abbotsford today and will be the same tomorrow. Quite amazing considering it is the long weekend. Usually the first long weekend is rainy but not this year. So I figured I better get some kind of water toy to keep them cool. It wasn't long before the kids across the fence came over to enjoy the slip and slide too. The kids had tons of fun playing around. I guess tomorrow will be the same type of activity unless we venture out to one of the nearby lakes.

It's a....

GIRL!!!!!!! this is what they are telling us but of course there is the precautionary it's not 100% accurate so don't go all pink or all blue. They were accurate with Wyatt's gender so I will go with what they have said this time as well. Of course I had to buy a few pink things when I found out. A couple of sleepers, onesies and some little hats. It's like I don't know to buy 3 month or 6 month stuff. Both kids were 1-2 ounces shy of 10 lbs and they were 22 and 23 inches long, so needless to say they never fit the newborn stuff and barely fit the 3 months.