What a full day!

This was taken two days ago. I had a really cute outfit on Elisabeth and wanted a picture. She didn't want to cooperate, but davey was in full out posing mode.

but here she is...
she's a bit of a poser herself ;)

Andy had today off to make up for being away for so long (or something). And the weather was gorgeous. So we headed out to Rosedale to take a stroll through Minter Gardens. I love how shell shocked Elisabeth looks...

And again. With it enough to have a fist ful of rocks, but not quite sure where she is, who that is staring at her or why we're making her sit on the bench...

(you may have noticed the pink pearls. She's quite the girlie girl. Can't go somewhere like Minter Gardens without the right accessories...)


Davey insisted on sitting in here...and that I took a picture of him doing so.


More fun with the outhouse. Notice Andrew taking pictures from the other side??

I had to get in on the action from that side too...



Doesn't he have the sweetest little face ever? Doesn't he look like he could never, ever do anything naughty? Don't be fooled...


He is my child after all...
And his mischievious little sister...also my child...

More rock gathering.

I wish I could have gotten the moment in between these two photos...when the water hit him in his eye and he was frantically trying to extricate his head from between the posts. Alas...

By this time it was about 1. Tink was starting to fade from hunger and exhaustion. Time to hit the Trillium/Envision cafe for lunch.

She loved having this pansy behind her ear. Took it out, looked at it and made me put it back.

I have a couple more pictures - just of the flowers and colours - over here.

Well, it was so gorgeous out we kept driving (okay, so I planned this wonderful, awesome day. But tomorrow it's back to rain. We had to make the most of this weather...)

Davey at Harrison. I think he was excited to get there.

And Libby with her bucket. Also excited.




It was so incredibly hot at Minter Gardens. Here it's always a little cooler right at the water. On the beach walk it was hot too, but I guess the breeze off the water makes a big difference.

The kids didn't seem to mind though.

As you can tell from my little water baby. She loves the water sooooo much.


She was pretty much drenched by the time we left. And had moved most of the driftwood that was in the lake out, and vice versa.

Andrew also commented that she seemed to be draining the lake what with all the buckets of water she carried out and emptied on the beach (and herself). What other possible explanation could there be for how his sand castle seemed to be getting further and further from the beach?




This absolutely perfect day was capped off with ice cream at the dairy on the edge of Rosedale/Chilliwack and a bbq on our patio. *sigh*

I swear he only did it to avoid having a bath...

I just walked into the den to get the kids for dinner. Tonight it's Davey who was snoring on the couch.

I really did try to wake him up...in fact his eyes opened twice and again when I put him in his bed. But he seems VERY out of it.

What on earth has shifted my kids' sleep cycle so drastically and how can I get them back to normal hours? This getting up between 4 - 530 every morning stinks!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :)

After the gorgeous and WARM weather of yesterday I decided to check on the weather forecast for today. Well...it wasn't promising anything near as nice as yesterday, but it did say it would be DRY (though cloudy) with a high of 18. Well that was good enough for me. The kids woke me up at 545 am so we were raring to get out and about.

After grabbing some snacks at Superstore, we headed EAST to Harrison Hot Springs. There was a TON of construction happening in Agassiz, but that turned out to be okay because it gave tinker some extra time to nap in the car (guess these early mornings are getting to her too!)

Anyway, it was very pleasant in HHS. Breezy, but not cold. And there were two other families there for about the first 10 minutes and after that we had the WHOLE beach to ourselves. Ahhhhhh...

Here Tink shows me her dirty hands. Hmn yes Tink...you did that to yourself; don't pretend you don't like it!!

Eating her snack and sitting on some driftwood. At first I thought this was the house we built in March, but of course that's already gone. This is someone else's wind break.


Of course the kids had to climb a little.
I've learned the key to keeping Tink's hair up is persistence. After about the 100th time putting the elastics back in she finally gives up and leaves them.

Once we got home we had lunch on the balcony. I'm LOVING our new patio furniture. I finally go outside (upstairs) now. Nothing like a nice cup of coffee and a good view (plus mostly, peace. Yesterday afternoon I got home and sat out there and had to hear the neighbors talking, but luckily I'm good at tuning out...practice from the old complex!!)

Kat, is this the shirt I bought Ashlie all those years ago? I LOVE it!! And I can't believe it fits her. Ash seemed so old when she wore it. We used to steal her away to come to the beach or the park with us and I swear we'd have full and complete conversations with her. Something we can't do with Tink yet, though it is getting close I guess.

She's only pretending she doesn't like the cold!!

Well, since Tink can climb onto that table and I don't want to encourage climbing on the balcony, we took the water table downstairs...and set up the pool too. It's not that warm (my computer says 14 right now), but they were going to get wet so I decided to put them in appropriate gear and just make sure I brought them in to warm up...





So...day 3 on my own has gone very well so far. In half an hour I can feed the kids dinner. Then it's bath time (I think they'll both get a bath today, so wish me luck!!) and then, if they're anything like they have been the past few days) they'll be in bed very early. And tomorrow night Andrew comes home. YAY :)

It's 6:15 and both my kids are asleep.

Found tink like this at 5:24. Decided to put Davey in his jammies and jokingly suggested it was bed time. I really did expect some protests. It was very quiet upstairs so I just checked and sure enough, he's asleep too. Well, he did get up at 4 this morning and Tink isn't napping anymore. I just hope that they sleep till at least 6 tomorrow!!