Pretty sunset

Stunning view from the deck of the cabin tonight

Golfin' with G-Pa

We are so lucky that the boys are so good on the golf course. We didn't get as many rounds in this year as we would have liked but whenever we did we had a 3 and 4 year old in tow. I am certain now that Graidan is going to turn into Pa's little golfing buddy in not too many years.....

Pa giving Graidan a little help

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Nice form Grai!

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Out comes the 'hockey' swing again

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Hudson posing witht he gorgeous flowers on the course.

Costco

I love, love, love Costco and so wish that we could open one closer to home.

These beauties are abundant there. You can always find the nicest bouquets!

Surgery Day

Today is the day that Graidan gets his tubes in his ears. Here's hoping it is the end of our many trips to the dr and numerous prescriptions and antibiotics for this little guy. It was an early morning to the hospital having nto get up at 6am and check in at the hospital by 7am.

Graidan in his hospital jammies, his sweet wheels that he drove to the operating room, not too happy to have woken up in recovery without mom but the popsicle was sure helping ;), and just being a goof waiting to go into surgery.

He was such a trooper and I am happy to report no incidents since the surgery. Hope our good luck sticks and her will be infection free from no on.

CARS2

Our little Hudson started on June 1st and counted down the sleeps until Cars2 opened in theatres JUNE 24th! Unfortunately we were not in the city any sooner so had to wait until today to see the long awaited show. They both sat very well. Hudson was completely engrossed with all that was happening on the big screen while Graidan was stuffing his face with every fun, new treat that we got to get at the theatre!

Graidan thought he was pretty cool in his 3D shades!

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We came out of the theatre at 3pm to find this temperature on our Yukon! Should've been at the lake on this scorching, hot day!

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Tonight we met up with the Anderson's and Skiba's for supper. It was so good to see you all! Can't wait to meet up again.....sooner than later.

Cheezie-fingers

This made me smile...... and cleanup was a breeze since we were at the beach. I just sent him into the water to clean himself :)

A new form of "skiing"

Graidan is absolutely obsessed with these skis! He calls them his "boards" and likes to pretend he is wake boarding like his dad or cousin Dylan. The minute we get down to the boathouse and unlock it hs is grabbing his skis and will be in the water for every minute we are there. Reeling them out and then back in again.

Then he gets on the back of the boat and wants us to pull him into shore so he can "ski", however, when we put him behind the boat the little monster freaks out and will not try it ;)

Something old, becomes new again

Just had to take a picture of Hudson in this today. This was a wetsuit that Ariana wore when she was about 6 (she is now 20). I will have to dig out the old photo of us all sporting wet suits back in 1997.

Too funny!

I passed Mom!!!

Lessons are done for another year and boy Hudson and Graidan successfully completed their levels.

So proud of you boys!!

That's how we roll.....

Hudson and Graidan were pretty pumped and thought they were pretty cool to be able to drive themselves to lessons today.

Have to tell you we got a couple of odd looks on our way to the pool ;)

FINALLY!!!

This little guy was a little gun-shy when it came to jumping off the diving board, but, by golly he finally got up the courage to take the plunge!

Keep up the good work Buddy!

Week 2 of Swimming Lessons

Here we begin week 2 of lessons. The boys have come so far over the last week. I am excited to see what this week has in store for us.

Kick Hudson kick!!

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So lucky to have Erica as a teacher. She is fabulous with the kids!

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Graidan and Karsyn in the deep end!

I Have CDO

I knew calling myself OCD didn't feel right...... It was because I had misdiagnosed myself!

Have a great day!

Pizza buns

Yum yum yum! This was what I made for lunch after lessons today. I am normally the one that makes hockey pucks that are supposed to pass as buns but these have yet to fail me so the recipe sticks around. This dough is a french bread dough that you can mamke into pizza dough, cinnamon buns, pizza buns or even french bread! Go figure! So delicious!

Beautiful Rainy Night

On the walk home after our evening swim tonight we got a little downpour. It only lasted a few minutes and then the sun popped out again along with this beautiful rainbow just to the south of our house. I will take rain anytime if it is short and sweet like this!

New Neighbors

Today was the day that they finally broke ground on our friends house right across the road from us. It will be so fun to add some more kiddos to our little cul-de-sac!

Welcome to the neighborhood friend :)

Swimming Lessons time again

Hudson getting to go down the slide at the end of his lesson

Graidan having his turn in the water

Kabob

Our kids are terrible at eating meat. Recently we had little kabobs with chicken and pineapple on them and they started calling them "Chicken Joe on a stick". (Chicken Joe from the movie Surf's Up) Now we are constantly trying to disguise their meat for them so that they can get their protein in.

Not sure who this concoction looks good to but they ate it all up. Cucumber, chicken, grapes, cheese and pickles.

MmmmmMMmm!

Our little Wave Jumper

Happy Canada Day!!!

We had such a fun Canada Day weekend!!!

We had friends and family with us out at the lake the whole time. The Gervais and Benjamins joined us for the Friday festivities as we boated, beached it, tubed, campfired and took in the fireworks. It was such a great day and the kids (and parents) were exhausted!

My boys

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The Fab Four ready for the beach

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Karsyn and Zadie

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Tenley and Nicole

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Hudson and Grandma

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Zadie and Nicole around the campfire

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Ryan, Danielle and the boys

Have a great weekend!!!