Little Man turned 1!

The morning after playing with his toys!

My Dad made him this truck! He loves it!

Digging in!

I love this face!

What a lucky boy to have 2 sisters always watching out for him!

My Son Carthew!

My first post about Carthew! He is adorable! Seriously! I love it when he gets mad! Never too mad! Just enough to let us know! I love that when you bring a camera out and say Cheese he can't help but give us his cheesiest grin!

A 2 year Hiatus!

Ok, I'm sure no one follows me anymore but I'm going to do this again. Looking back at the 100+ post I did I'm so glad that I blogged them. Now, I'm about to convert them into a book. My goal this year is to take and blog a photo day. I realize how priceless these memories are!

Happy 3rd Birthday Ella!

Playing with her new train set!
Opening her birthday card with Dad!

Yes, I know there are 4 candles on the cake! She INSISTED! They came in a pack of 4 and she was mad the blue one wasn't on. So we put it on!

On her new big girl bed with grandma!

Random Pictures

My hottie!
The girls babysitting their cousin David!

Ella taking care of herself. I came upstairs and found her with a block of cheese and butter knife...

Nali snowboarding! She's doing GREAT! Really proud of her!

Sam and Nali riding the lift!

NEW ADDRESSES!

If anyone has a different address then last Christmas please let me know!!!

Love 'em!

Little Ella being silly as usual!

The girls heading to dance class...Nali is starting her 5 the year of dance and ella is starting her first year!

Ballerina Nali Disco Ella1

Nali's First Day of Grade One

Nali singing O'Canada on her first morning of Grade one. She is in French Immersion school. She started French Immersion in Kindergarten and did really well with it!
Sitting at her desk!

Visiting with someof her kindergarten friends!

Me and my sweetie!

Sam with the girls.

some SUmmer Pics!

One of the nicer days this summer...The girls enjoyed the sun in the backyard!
One of 3 Triathlons I did this summer...The man on the right was Sam's and my Bishop when we were engaged.

What happens on a rainy day...Nali insisted that Ella asked her to write her name on her forehead!

A few pictures from Utah.

This was the girls on the way home...they were exhausted to say the least. We had a great time in Canyonlands, Arches, Moab and Orem!
My nephew leaving on his mission.

Family picture under delicate arch.

Nali's First Triathlon

So last year after I did one of my triathlons Nali told me that she wanted to do one. I told her sure...she needs to work on her swimming and learn how to ride a two wheeler...she accepted the challenge. We registered her for the Vulcan Tinman Triathlon in the Tinbit category. She had to swim 25 metres, bike 800 metre's and run 200 metre's.

The day of the Triathlon was NASTY...it was about 1-3 degrees celsius...32 degrees Farenheit. A mix of snow/hail/sleet/sunshine...keep in mind it was June 6th...

Here's Nali at the start of the swim! She was SO excited...most of the kids in her heat wore life jackets. They started them out in the deep end.

She started off really strong...

And was SO excited!

But about 3 metre's from the end she started to struggle...BAD! Her head bobbed under a few times...Sam and I were worried and both comtemplated jumping in...the life guard threw her a flutter board...she reached for it but reach it... she kind of got it together and finished the last few feet. I pulled her out and just kept telling how great she did...she was quite shaken up.

We quickly dried her off and got her dressed and off she went on the bike ride!

Her bike ride was uneventful thank goodness.

She quickly jumped off and dashed to the finish! She was running so fast I wasn't able to catch up with her to get a good picture!
All the kids got a medal at the end of the race! Nali was SO happy...Here she is running into Sam at the finish! We were so proud of her! Sam was crying!

My little Triathlete!

MY FIRST Mountain Bike Race (and Maybe Last)

So first off, I've always wanted to do a mountian bike race...lets just say it's on the bucket list. Well there was one in town that I signed up for. I thought "Hey, I'm in pretty good shape and I love Mountain Biking....I can do this." So here we are at the start. I was in the first line to go with the novice/sport women catergory...lets just say one of these things is not like the other. These women were machines. They were Super nice and supportive and said that I was "Brave" for doing it...like that's not intimidating. These people wear spandex not to be fast....but because they ARE fast. All in all it was a great learning experience...would I do it again...maybe...

Climbing...

more climbing....

Spent at the finish...

The one injury. I wiped out in a bunch of cactus's. I had about a 100 needles in my leg. 4 hours in the ER room and a tetanus shot later.....4 days later I'm still digging needles out!