Today was The Boy’s last day of school. They had “Sportnik” day where the 8th graders put on a fun day outside for the elementary school. It was lots of fun. Thinks like throwing the water balloon back and forth without breaking it, carrying the sponge soaked with water and squeezing it out into a bucket relay race style, tug of war, parachute games, etc. It was the perfect day too, sunny, but a nice breeze to keep you cool. We have all had way more sun that we are used to though, The Baby is still sleeping!
Since I’ve last put pictures in my blog, wordpress has changed the way you put pictures in now, so hopefully I can figure out how to make it work, and make it a nice sized photo, not a thumbnail or a giant huge one either. I’m kind of computer dumb.
Usually this time of year we are making our annual trip to the Okanagan for Canada Day. I’m really feeling the void of not being there this year! We have got on 3 years in a row now…. it will be a little strange to be home on Canada Day. Hopefully we’ll find some festivities to partake in around home. We are usually at the Osoyoos parade, I think I will miss that most of all. Although, not the heat. The last 2 years it’s been 40 degrees on July 1st! My friend from Westbank messaged me the other day asking if/when we’re coming. I guess a lot of people are feeling the financial crunch this year and not making trips. I’m going to miss seeing them most of all. We used to rent a condo from some people we know when we went to Kelowna. It’s on a beautiful golf course and has an awesome unheated pool (soooo nice when it’s 36 above!). They’ve sold it now, and bought property in Pheonix instead. I’m really going to miss staying there, too. Sitting by the pool… ahh! I’m getting choked up. Our friends in Westbank offered that we could stay with them, but it’s a loooooong drive for 3 kids under 6, and we’re already going to Prince George in August for a family reunion. (Another looooong drive) I’m really excited for the reunion though. It will be fun to get together with the family, I haven’t seen lots of them in quite a while!
We got news the other day that our good friend from Scotland is coming to visit again! He came when The Boy was a baby (almost 6 years ago!) and wasn’t able to come again until this past November. We had such a blast! He is going to a wedding in Toronto in August, and said he wouldn’t come to Canada without coming to visit us! So he’s making the extra trip to come out west and stay for a while. I think we might take him to Drumheller this time, check out some Dino’s. We went there last year… there’s these dino’s all over the city, so we went to everyone we could find and took a picture next to them. It was a fun adventure. (I tried to add pictures after this paragraph, but they want to group in the “gallery” with the other pictures above. I can’t figure this thing out!)
Oooh!! MyKidsGrandmaM just dropped by with freshly baked cookies! Must go eat them!
