Winnipeg

 
 
 
 
THe first week of July we headed to friendly Manitoba to go visit the fam and friends. we had a busy week and I could not wait to sleep and recoupe from the late party nights. A big thank you to the McDonalds for the bbq and Diane for my girl talk till 1am and of course to my parents for the use of thier house,car,and good times. Next year we will have to stay longer then a week but we live and we learn......

My poor ice maker.........may you rest in peace.

 
 
We love our ice machine but it went to ice making heaven so sad that brand new stuff didn't even last for three months. The good news is that they brought me a new one but now want to replace the panel in the fridge so hopefully in one more we we can walk over to my friend and pousha button and get yummy cold ice to put in our drinks to keep us cool.

Summer is here.

Well here we are in the second week of summer holidays, we have had a couple of highlights. The Courts invited us to go camping in the beauty of waterton,It was so much fun to watch the kids play in rivers, climb the red rock canyon roast marshmallows watch the fire and make the kids do a dinner time jiggle. They didn't sound the fond of it at the first meal but everyone after they asked if it was time to jiggle. They would laugh sing a song or two shake their grove all for the entertainment of the moms. the biggest party pooper was James, who neither jiggled or shook his grove. I had my knee injected and my middle finger, so I was the hiker pooper and never went out with them I got hold down the fort and read a book. Now we are off to Winnipeg for a week so we will see what is in store for us there.

JELLY IS 4

 

 

 

 

Last Sunday was Janelle's 4th birthday. She was so excited to have a Hannah birthday, it is quite fun to watch them develop in to little people and not babies anymore. She is my afternoon buddy everyday we get to play at the park or in the yard, or we go in and bug daddy on really special days. She is a burst of energy that never stops. She has a mind of her own but is my doll. I just love the time I've had to get to know her without daycare kids around. She love to give the love to mom and dad she loves to cuddle with me and loves to play spa giving karate chop massages brush my hair, but mostly like all the above done to her nicely. I did manage to find a pre school for next year it is only twice a week though. She just needs to go out and make friends in a social setting. What else can I say I LOVE YOU JELLY mommy can't think what life would have been with out you.

Dirty Dog

 

 

Do I need to say anything at all? This is why no one should buy a dog who doesn't have a yard. I had rained and Jewels got out..........

The kids marathon

 

 

 

 

Here we are for Alina's Marathon. She sign up for running club at school, and loved it and wanted to run the kids marathon. Now yes they do run the whole marathon but not all at once. They run every day at school to train for the race and get to count all their milage towards the big day. so today she only ran 2.4km but she did do in in just under 10 min. They didn't time them but James and I did. It was a proud parent moment for both of us. I was surprise at how well they all did. There was about three hundred kids out there, they staggered the runners and Alina's age group was the last to go 7 and under. But she did manage to come in before even some of the 11-12 year olds. Like I said a proud mommmy moment. Next year Greg wants to run he didn't like the glory all going to Alina. To bad!!!!!

DIRT DIRT did I mention we have DIRT

 

 

 

 

I know everyone has hear me complain about the dirt, well here is is the dirt hill out the back and the house being built beside us. I hate having the windows opened beacuse the dirt takes that as an invitation to come in to my house cleaning up after my kids have played in the dirt. Dirt Dirt go away don't bother coming back any day!!!! But if you look at the one picture you can see the dirt hill that Nolan and Greg made a ramp to ride on. Yes our house has grown by two, thank goodness they are not babies Nolan and Jarm provide fun and fill my home with laughter Greg and Spencer are thrilled to have them all the time. Everyday should be a Court day in their opinion and with no school on friday afternoons they always have a thousand things that need to be done together. I love boys. My girls do try to get in the action and love having the extra brothers around.