play time

these past few days have been rather enjoyable, full of friends and family time, which pretty much means...full of goodtimes.

since the last post i have had the chance to visit with an old friend and i find it unbelievable that at one point in our lives, the two of us roomed together, went to africa together and have been friends for about ten years. since our singleness, she married my cousin and therefore became apart of my family (crazy girl), and has had two kids of her own, with her youngest being only three weeks younger than sophie. i have so enjoyed her friendship and look forward to watching our kids grow up together.

addi and sophie in February of 07

addi, zeph and sophie 08

scott was proud of the fact she was playing with a light saber thingbeside playing with friends, we have had some great moments together just the three of us...i love the three of us times. be it before dinner or in the morning it is so nice to watch my family grow and interact. these first two pictures are of sophie and her "hat" playing with her dad while i made dinner. the next couple are of her babies...who go almost everywhere with her. the cabbage patch kid was at one point my own (i have three more where it came from too!) pretty sweet to be able to give it to her and watch her love it and rock it...except the fact that she will not leave the shirt on her.

these last few are of sophie in her new pool...kinda beats using the bathtub as a pool...she loves it and if you notice in one picture she is blowing her bubbles (how proud am i as an ex swimming teacher?!) i love the second to last picture...she gets so cold but will not come out.

so this is my family, learning, and loving well together. i feel honored to be apart of them and am so very thankful for the blessing they are in my life.

weekend

who doesn't love a good long weekend. this post will be a quick look into what our days held, but for the most part all i can say is that i love being able to spend time with my family. for those of you who don't know me well, my love language is quality time...spend a little time with me, you tell me that you love me...my little love tank is full tonight.

lets start off with saturday.
saturday i had been planning for two months for a surprise half birthday party for scott as his birthday falls on december 31 and many people would rather celebrate new years than a birthday. so i thought that the boy has never had a summer birthday, and this being the year he turns 30 perhaps it would be fun to give one. so i planned a surprise costume/bbq party for his 29 1/2 birthday...good times.

for his birthday present i had asked scotts mom if she would make family capes for us all. so we went together and i picked out the fabric and what they were to look like and she imagined the rest. they were great and those of you who know scott well, know that this was a gift he was excited about. i should have gotten all three of us standing together with them on, but unfortunately i only have sophie here...scotts was two toned blue, and mine two toned purple. very sweet.

sunday was a family day which included nap times for scott and sophie and bathtub pool parties for sophie and i. we spent the day just chillin and hanging around campus.

monday we were off to the aquarium with brian and hellen. should have known that being a long weekend everyone and then some others would be there. however, it was a great time together. we watched the dolphin show and saw a shark being dissected...all very cool. then we headed to the water park and played a little, very cool too but mostly just cold.

which brings us to tuesday (today)...happy canada day. today we had another bbq, this one for all the old qwanoes people to say their hellos to brian and hellen. again, a great day with family and friends.

sophie had purple lips for most of the day due to her excitement about water. for the first half of the day she would not get out of this water slide/pool inflatable and for the second half she swam with her daddy and auntie chelsea in the big pool.

we have so enjoyed the friendship of brian and hellen (and sophie loves maya) and are so thankful for their yearly visits. although i have to say that i am looking forward to thursday when they leave as that will be that day that i can see scott in the evenings!

so last year when they were out, this is the picture we got of maya and sophie. we took the same picture this year. what a big difference a year makes.
sophie and her grandma.

brian read my blog a few weeks ago and created two t-shirts for our girls...they were perfect, almost like the real deal.

so, with sophie in bed and scott off playing with the boys, i am nearly ready for bed myself, just need to drink a little more water to wash down all the sweets i have eaten over the past few days...who am i kidding, i eat sweets everyday. i hate being pregos! but i guess it is all worth it when they end up like this...

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.