A day out at Crescent Beach, White Rock

One of our favorite places. We are so blessed to live by such beauty. Chelsea wants to be a marine biologist, so her favorite thing to do is look at all the marine life. Here Natalie is just exploring if she likes the water.

Reunited

Chelsea had a dear friend growing up (T). They met in kindergarten, and were fast buddies. They got to be in the same class all through elementary school. At the end of grade 5, these two had to part ways because T's family moved all the way out to Ontario. This was a sad parting for both of the girls. They were not successful at keeping in touch as we lost their contact info, but while spring cleaning we found T's number. Chelsea was nervous to call her up, as they haven't chatted in two years, but as soon as they started talking, it was as if no time passed. They chatted for two hours.

There was the potential of these two meeting up in Manitoba this summer, as T's family was planning to be in Morris while Chelsea was in Grunthal/Steinbach (not even 30 minutes apart). Circumstances had it that T's family was unable to come out, but T was going to fly to grandparents in Kelowna on the same that we were flying out to Winnipeg.

Well, I truly think that God had his hand on this one, because as we were about to board our plane, T walks up to us and says hi. We were so surprised. Unfortunately we were rushing to get to the plane, so Chelsea couldn't sit and chat, but seeing her dear friend once again was so special.

family photo

I just finished playing with this photo. Hopefully they'll make good Christmas cards for my parents. Its the first family photo since my brothers and I have had kids. Enjoy!

I missed June altogether...

...and my camera nearly did too. For some reason, June did not produce a lot of photo memories for our family this year. Some fun things to share...

Chelsea was asked to attend the regional track meet. She was so nervous before her run, but I think she enjoyed hanging out with friends for the day (and a friend from elementary school she hasn't seen in a long time).

I took a look at Chelsea's camera and found a beautiful self portrait she took. More evidence that she's growing way too fast, she looks like a young lady, no longer my little girl.

And our Natalie, forever taking pictures of her because she's so different every day, here's a beauty of her too.

Class fieldtrip

I know its well into the summer holidays, but I wanted to post this so long ago. I really enjoyed going on Chelsea's class fieldtrip to Hayward Lake, near Mission. The class took a 5 km hike (part was a hike, the majority was a walk) and then enjoyed their lunch on the beach before heading back to the school. Nat and I both got to go along.

I wasn't sure what the terrain would be like on the hike. I tried to search any possible sites indicating if strollers or backpacks would be best, but found nothing. So, I took Nat in a backpack. My, it was a long 5 km with an extra 30 lbs on your back. A stroller would have sufficed, but we had fun none the less.

I enjoyed watching Chelsea and her friends goofing around at the beach, getting wet, having fun. The kids depend on you less more and more, but I'm glad that I got to spend this time in her element.

I also got a few great photo's of the girls at the beach. We had fun (with the exception of the bus ride back to our van - bus driver was not impressed with a baby on the bus - not allowed for insurance purposes or something, but she was pretty nasty about it).