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Summer Vacation Part One--- Canada Day

O CANADA...
Here we are in Ottawa for Canada Day. One of the highlights for the girls was the trip to Parliment Hill by "sippy bus" as Heidi said. (city bus)Heidi really liked a clown we saw and asked to go closer to see him. He made her a balloon dog. Unfortunately the dog didn't make it through the whole day and really startled a policeman (and us) when he popped.


Changing the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
We spent the day with Grampa & Gramma Easton and Aunt Bee.

It was a hot sunny day and there were thousands of people around but we still had fun. I'd do it again :)

Wesley Walk-a-thon

Bruce likes to play with the colours of pictures to see the different effects he can make.
Here's one example.Here's Honey having her lunch after the walk.
And Jam intent on a bag of chips. She'd been looking just a second before. Ah well, still cute :)

Here are the registration tables at the first of the day. I'm talking to Jam's teacher Mrs. Wu.

Halfway through our first lap...

Here's another one where Bruce is playing with the colours. The girls were not sure what to make of the blue "O Canada Flag" I think they prefer red.
Honey rode like this a lot of the second lap but RAN for at least half a km too. Jam spent a lot of the second lap in the stroller, but had her run too as you'll see in the video.

It was a gorgeous day. Nice and sunny but a great breeze in the shade. Our goal was to complete 2 full laps (5 of the 10 km) and we did it. The school raised about $27000 this year.

Mother's Day Weekend

Well, even though I have not yet learned how to post pictures on here in the correct order, I hope you enjoy them. :)
Last weekend was a busy one... Grampa's birthday was one of the special events.

The girls and Mommy on Mother's Day.
Mom, Bee & I on our special days...Mother's Day & Bee's birthday :)

Saturday we played outside lots and lots.

Honey on the swing.

One of my favourite sounds is singing frogs so Bruce made this video of what it sounded like when we arrrived Friday night.

Here's Grampa playing with Jam on the swing.

Happy Birthday to Jam

The big day started about 6:45 with some presents :) then we all went off to school.
Jam loves M&Ms so we decided on an M cake for this year.
:) Think she liked it? Both girls thought we shouldn't cut it... it might hurt it :)
5 Years old!!! What a big kid :)
Talking to one of her many well wishers :)

Take a look at JAM's school work today :)

This was her homework this afternoon. She did it all by herself!! Great job, Girlie!!

Wow it's April already!?! Time for a couple more pics

Here's Honey enjoying some dress up clothes and playing food.

A lady at church gave the girls teddy bears on Easter Sunday. Here's Jam with her new yellow bear. She now sleeps with him every night. That makes 6 stuffed guys in the bed... good thing they're not all this size :)