holidays

i love holidays...time with your family, chillin, walking, eating, loving...who doesn't love that.

we have two weeks of holidays in the summer and one at christmas time. this week we decided to stay home and venture to places around us, as there is so much here. we decided that our hotel has the best bed and sophie gets her own room...can't go wrong there.

and just in case you were wondering what it was we needed holidays from, this is what scott works so hard at! this boy and his toys, i have given up on the idea that one day he may outgrow it, and have settled with him having this little action figures as long as i don't have to find a spot for them in our dorm apartment. and ps, this is only two of the many pictures that could show just how many he has...he is my special.

so, we started and ended the week with our new philosophy, that is, if it is sunny, we will be outside...i guess that means that church is out during the summer. so the first sunday found us back at white rock beach for some diggin good times.

scott started making a sand castle and was soon joined by his little sophie who was very excited to help him...not too sure if he was excited about the help, but he received it anyway.

sophie stealing her dads bucket used for the sand castle...getting caught!

the end productnew activity...seaweed...this all to protect the precious sand castleit didn't last long as that castle was just too tempting...thus destruction startedup on the grass for lunch and warm up timea daddys tummy is just too good to resistand so are a mummys shoes.

we were so excited to see our friends brian and hellen for their yearly visit from new zeland. their daughter is only three months younger than sophie and good times were had by all. they came for dinner on the thursday night and then on friday brian and our family headed down for a little shopping in the states.

you are wondering what she is looking at/touchingit is not only her belly button that she finds interestingsophie kissing the hulk...a new toy for scott from brian and hellen...please may she not grow up to be like her dad.heading out...see our hallways could pass as a hotel hallway...imagine.

found a new little park by our house, williams park.

learning to throw rocks into the stream...and loving it.she found the only patch of dirt and sat in that instead of the nice grass"all done"rocks are so much cooler than sliding

what can i say...i love my little family and i so enjoyed every moment of our little holidays together. we may not have traveled to the coolest places or done the most exciting things, but walking with your hands full (that would be one full with an ice cream cone, and the other with your families hands) is pretty sweet if you ask me.

fathers day

this year we spent fathers day with the zalinkos...a rather good move if i do say so myself. scott and paul have been friends for...who knows, but probably too long by the number of stories we hear, and not long enough for the number of repeat stories we hear! so i thought to myself, who better to spend a day with then friends.
rachel and i planned and were ready to go by 11:30 this morning for a day of good times to celebrate our husbands, who are turning out to be truly wonderful dads. mind you they have lots to learn...but they are on the right track!

so after telling scott this morning that we were waiting for his great auntie hilda to show up (i don't know where i come up with these things), he pretty much just looked at me and said, "so we are waiting for the zalinkos then?" what was i supposed to do, lie...i said, no, and of course made up some big story that scott just smiled at. i think he must get tired of me and my little ways...and yet i continue. anyway, today was about scott and so...the idea was to feed him his favorites. for his gift sophie gave him a box of cap'n crunch cereal, animal crackers and dark m&m's, three of his favorites...but we couldn't leave out the most important, so, when our friends arrived we made our way to the beach in white rock for a picnic and a bucket of goodness in tow.


good day spent, eating, playing, getting wet, walking, ice cream and sunshine. all with the company of friends and family...what can i say, it was a great day to celebrate these men who have grown up together and who continue to challenge one another and look out for each other. something that is missed in a lot of so called friendships.

rachel and the boys looking for crabswater timei guess i wasn't really paying much attention to her and what was happening with the hat

why is it that you can never get a nice picture when you want to capture a great moment? it is pretty great to be apart of these boys lives, to watch them interact and mature, to grow as men who love the Lord their God and honor their families.

so to them both i say, happy fathers day, blessings on you as you grown in the truth and knowledge of Jesus. thank you for loving your families and being teachable and willing to take on the role of father, you both do it well.