Kelsey

Saturday morning found us up and out the door as we got in to the van I said, “Wait a minute, we forgot to have breakfast!”  Both kids had not even noticed.  I thought it would be fun to make  a quick stop at Tim Hortons on the way out of town but the kids thought I had really forgotten breakfast.  Hee Hee.

It was Kelsey’s confirmation and Ed’s mom and dad were in Calgary so it was nice to see everyone together.  I can’t believe how much both Mark and Kelsey are growing.  Here are a few pictures of us looking our best!

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Adam’s birthday is tomorrow so while we were in Calgary we did a little celebrating that as well.  Isn’t he looking especially handsome!  We had to help him blow out the candles it was so funny!

 

The Terrible Christian Store

It was a pirate theme day at Adam’s school today.  Doesn’t he look cute!  He got his picture taken for having one of the best costumes and he was tickled pink.  I think that it was the stubble.

This weekend we are having two church celebrations, our niece Kelsey is being confirmed on Saturday so we are off to Calgary to see Ed’s family.  His mom and dad will be there and it will be great to spend the day with them all.  Then on Sunday our nephew Matthew is taking first communions so we will spend Sunday in Leduc with my family. 

With all of these celebrations we needed to do some gift shopping.  Last Sunday we had gone out for ice cream to the little Ice Cream Shoppe and as we were leaving I said to Ed, “We should go out to Scott’s Parable Christian Store to get some gifts.”  Adam pipes up from the back of the van,”Did you say the Terrible Christian Store?”  Well Ed and I burst out laughing and I don’t think that we have stopped since.  It ended up being closed and we finally made it out there on Wednesday, and of course we all laughed about going to the Terrible Christian Store the whole way there.  So much so that I gave the kids a stern warning that I did not want to hear anything about the Terrible Christians when we were in the store.  I was very thankful that they listened to me (this time!).

Sprinkler

So the temperature rose to about 20 degrees today and the kids were intent on a water gun fight and going through the sprinkler.  So what the heck!

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Then they decided to run through the sprinkler.  Here is a little video of that.

Did you hear what Isla said at the end.  “Can you turn on the Hot?”  They were frozen when they finally quit.  But they sure had a good time.

My dancing darling.

It is the big weekend of dance recitals.  One last night and a second show this afternoon.  Isla has such a great time.  She was in the second half so her and I watched the first half and then went for a little snack.

 

 

Here we are together before we get dressed and ready to go.

And here are a couple in her costume.  I think she looks so beautiful!  She did such a fantastic job up there on stage.  I was really proud of her, she is the youngest in the class by a year and you could never tell!  Part of it is that she is so tall but the other is that she knew her dance and did it really well.  She was a beautiful ballerina.

 

And here she is waiting for her turn to come.

Dress Rehearsal

This week is all about dance.  Isla has her recital this weekend and she has had a few rehearsals.  Last night was the dress rehearsal and I was able to video her tonight.  Here she is!  She is the one on the left hand side of the three on the left side of the stage. 

Monkey Bars

Look at her go.  I missed the one that she made it all the way across and then she couldn’t do it again.  This is such a big thing!

Hummingbird!

I love this site. You really should go check it out quickly.  The little baby hummingbird is expected to fledge very soon.  It is so exciting to watch.  It was a little too exciting last week when a crow got one of the babies!

http://www.ustream.tv/hummingbirdnestcam