Smooth Grooves: Catching up....

Well, I guess it HAS been quite a while since I blogged. I figured it was about time for me to catch up. The blogs seem few and far between lately.

Lets back track.....a little.

FATHERS DAY

We started fathers day the Friday night before. The kids and I (well mostly me), made Daddy some comfy shorts for the summer. Kael was SO proud of them. He jumped at the chance to announce to Daddy when he got home that "I made a present for you!!!". When he showed them to him he confidently spelt out the letters "D-A-D, see it says DAD!!!". Later on we went out for Daddy's favorite, Chinese Food!!!

Later that night the kids colored pictures for the insides of some mugs so they would have something to give to Papa and 'Big' Papa.

Playing outside on Fathers Day

MAKE A BAD DAY A HAPPY DAY!

I remember this day being pretty dreadful. How do you suppose I could turn a day like that around? Go get ice cream and cones, make some up and go play in the back yard. Good call Mommy *pat on back*

Miss Naveah here showing off her most gorgeous ice cream smile!

My Handsome Kael

Our Happy Moment!!!

Thank Goodness for Bubble Gum Ice cream and Pink Ice Cream Cones! haha

WATER PARK!!!

I promised Kael one day that we could go to 'Tractor Beach" (what Kael calls any place with sand and water). We got a call one morning for a viewing on the house so we cleaned the house and packed our bags and headed down to Sikome Lake. Every other year at this time it was OPEN!!! I drove up only to see that it was CLOSED! Kael was very understanding. His response? "The man over there is fixing it? Tractor Beach is broken?". With a glimmer of hope that this may not end in Tantrum I say "Thats right! Those men over there are fixing the Lake cause it's broken. Im sorry we can't go today Hunny." I then got the reply "It's okay Mommy". We did however sit in the parking lot for another 20 minutes till I could figure out something else to do. We ended up heading to South Glenmore Park where they have a water park that WAS open.

Taking a break and enjoying some fruit.

A couple days later we went back. Here is Kael showing off his new swimming suit, matching sandles and sunglasses.

WHO NEEDS EXPENSIVE TOYS!?

Well, its true what they say, you can buy your kids the most expensive toys and eventually they just sit in the back of the cupboard and get dusty under the couch. BUT! Hand the kids a recycling box and its a whole new world full of endless fun!!! Here they are making their 'space suits' getting ready to go to the moon!

CANADA DAY

The day turned out to be less exciting than anticipated but still fun none the less! Here they are enjoying their Eggo breakfast and then showing off their Canada Day outfits!!!

Kisses for Sister

It would have been so much fun to take them to the Parade. But Evan was working out of town that day and I wasnt going to dare tackle that task by myself. So instead our friend Rodger and his 3 littles came and met us at Fort Calgary. Too bad it turned out to be stupid busy and COLD!!! So we decided to take them to Chinook Centre for lunch and wander around. At least they got to see the Lego Exibit!

Later on when we got home, then sun finally decided to show itself so we just hung out in the back yard, ate freezies, looked for bugs, and waited for Daddy to get home!

Enjoying some freezies in their fort.

Kael found a BUG!

TRACTOR BEACH!....FINALLY!

Well its been open for a while now but this is the first chance we've had to make it back there. Looking for some fun we headed down to the lake to play in the sand and splash in some water...though it was the kids doing the splashing. Mommy just enjoyed sitting back and 'observing'.

Kael and Naveah acting like Crabs.