We had Visitors!

We had an amazing, fun and busy summer. As I have chances I'll try to post pictures.

One of our favorite things was having Tyler and Meghan come visit for a week. We had a blast!

The day they came my parents still had our boys at "Papa and Nana Camp" so we got to hang out just adults. We met Cory after his work at Red Fish Blue Fish. Mmmmmmm, yum.

We also got to walk around downtown.. This is Fan Tan Alley.

After dinner we went for a walk on the breakwater.

We checked out Cory's new office.

One day we went to Botanical Beach. We had never been there before and it was just stunning!

Thanks for visiting us Ty and Meg. We are so blessed to have you in our lives!!!

Sawyer wants to show you something

I have many more pictures from the last couple of months that I should share with you but he really wanted you to see him on his skuut bike. (and that's all I have time for right now)

He also wanted you to see his favorite playground.

Fun at the Park

Now that it is summer the boys and I have made a few goals for ourselves .... we've set out to conquer a few challenges in July and August ....

challenge #1 -
Tyler & Riley learn the list of 100 words to be able to read in Grade 1 (I know, I know, Tyler is only going into grade 1 and Riley is only going into kindergarten but I have faith ... they will conquer :) )

challenge #2 -
find all the books in the 100 books for first graders and READ THEM! ..... we have great libraries and should have no problem with this challenge

challenge #3 -
this is perhaps are toughest challenge of all .... find 50 DIFFERENT playground and PLAY ON THEM .... we've so far made it to 7 different playgrounds, we're on our way! (good thing we will be in at least three different cities this summer)

Last Weekend

Every year the second weekend in June is Operation Trackshoes. I look forward to this all year, it is so fun! It is a little bit like an "escape" from my normal life as I get to help out at this sports festival for people who have different disabilities. My friend Rob took photos at the event. These are a few of my favorites.


A couple of amazing facts about Trackshoes this year ..... we had about 540 competitors and around 600 volunteers ..... a huge event! .... yet there were almost 100 people that we had to say couldn't come because we didn't have enough counselors to support them, so if you think you'd enjoy something like this please volunteer next year. It will be the 40th year.










Oh, we always need more volunteers so if you want to know how you can have this much fun just ask me and I'll tell you more than you ever wanted to know :)

Birthday Week

In a week my second born is 5! Crazy how time flies!

Riley is almost 5 and seems to know when you're taking a picture and then smiles beautifully.

He loves to laugh which often ends up being at Sawyer's expense, afterall Sawyer gives wonderful reactions to Riley's antics. He is also learning how to read and can read basic books quite well now. He is enjoying playing on a t-ball team and doing gymnastics once a week too.

Riley is my handful. My fiesty boy who loves to bother people and is quit skilled at that ;) But he's also a boy who needs his mom and lots of cuddles and affirmation.......we love him very much.

Brothers

These are from a walk we went on in March.

Blessed

I LOVE living where we live. The main reason that I love it so much is the incredible community of people that has formed into our Victoria family..... really, they are incredible and we are so so so blessed to have them in our lives. I don't have pictures of them to post on here but here are some more reasons why Victoria grew so quickly into being home for us.....the first three pictures were taken March 2 and the last two were taken on Tuesday.

Mountains, ocean and beaches everywhere and flowers that start to sprout in March ...... amazing!

2

Sawyer is 2 (27 months to be more exact). He's SO fun. "Sasr dude it" (Sawyer do it) is and extreeemly common phrase coming out of his mouth. He likes to try to dress himself, which, while being a great skill to master is much quicker when mommy helps. Other things we hear a lot of is the song "O Canada". He loves to play with playdough and do anything that the big boys are doing. He is soooo close to being completely toilet trained :) .... it's mostly nights and napping that we have to work on but we've had a great past few days. He really loves "pottys" and trying to use each and everyone that he can find. Tall or short, big whole or with a potty seat, inside or outside....yup, that's right, he even liked the outhouse at the beach we went to the other day. Silly boy.

He also is learning to "read" like his big brothers. He knows a few letters and will point them out all over the place ... "Look Mom. S for Sasr." "Look Mom. S for Tylr." (when he has spotted a T) "M for Mom. Look Mom, look Mom quick."

He also really enjoys doing anything in the kitchen. The other day I left some ingredients to make bran muffins on the counter but then went to do some laundry....I came back to the kitchen to find Sawyer with all the butter unwrapped and brown sugar scooped very neatly on top of them ;)

Anyways, here are some pictures that I've taken during the last few days. I think he's cute.