School

Kael was more than excited to get to start preschool AND a nature program this past school year.
He started the nature program not long after we moved here at the Kerry Wood Nature center. He loves it and hes grown so much since he started. He gets to do a little bit of everything there. Arts and crafts, games, playing with toys, learning about animals and nature. They spend the last half of the class outside.
Not long after he started there we got a call from the preschool I was trying to get him into saying that they had a spot for him open up. So we decided to try it. It was another thing he very much enjoyed.
He finished up his classes this past June and asks me all the time if its time to go back to school yet! I had him and Naveah registered to start classes at the preschool this coming September but have recently decided that Kerry Wood is more beneficial for my kids. So I will be putting them back into the Nature program in November.
Kael misses the cut off for Kindergarden here by only 16 days so thats why he'll still be in 'preschooling' next year as well. Making him one of the oldest in his classes.

Here are some pics of his school end performance. He was SO happy that Evan was able to stop by for it. He was glowing when he saw him standing there. Once it was over and all the kids were told to sit down, Kael, remained standing. When his teacher Mrs. Bones asked him to please sit down he happily announced "THATS MY DAD!" and pointed in his direction. Im sure Evan loved his moment of fame!

For his semester end at the Kerry Wood they had a picnic lunch at Fort Normandeau. (a local heritage site). As an added bonus for Kael, his Grama and Grampa Powell were able to come along!

Kael is getting older and older by the minute. He blows me away sometimes with the things he knows. I look at him now and still have a hard time believing that just 4 years ago he was brand new to this world! I hope he hangs onto his eagerness to learn throughout all his school years.

BEACH!

We finally got a nice enough day to hit the beach! and man were the kids ever excited!!!! The couldnt wait to get there and play with all their tractors and beach toys and splash around in the water. I loved that I got to just sit back and watch, for the most part anyways. The rest of that part was spend chasing Jacek around and scooping sand out of his mouth. This was Jaceks first real experience with the beach. it was awesome watching him crawl around on the sand. He totally loved it. He looked like a little crab scootin around everywhere.



Hey Kael, Boats work better in the WATER.



His first experience with Sand.

Yup, he likes it!





this is where the scooping out the sand part came in...

Sand Angels

Naveah checkin out someones sandcastle.

Time together.

Evans been working so much that when he gets a day off we take advantage of every minute. The kids were so happy to have him home one weekend and we checked out another park in Red Deer. Kin Kanyon. Its gorgeous! It has some awesome walking trails. Kael had loads of fun running along the path and checking out all the nature stuff. He told us about all the things he saw that he new about. I even learned some stuff I didnt know!

There were some girls at the park who brought their Hamster and it was running
around the playground. Naveah and Kael spotted it and thought it was a
WONDER PET! haha

headed to the trails

Kael enjoyed pointing out everything he saw
that he new the name to. Look theres Moss!
Look, a ground squirrel hole!
It was so fun.

Kings of the Hill

I love this pic. Just checkin out the creek below.

Takin a break to dump out all the sand in his shoes.

Completely tuckered out but refused to lay BACK in the stroller. So he fell
asleep sitting up. Cute.

 When we got home just finished off the day with a yummy BBQ. Evan made us Steaks, Corn on the Cob and Grilled Pineapple. It was so yummy!  What a great Day. :)

hm, dont mind if I do!

A Decade

I celebrated 6 years of Marriage with Evan. May 28, 2011. Making the grand total --a Decade! 10 years we've been together. It was neat to reflect on some of the things we've gone through together. Good times and Bad. And we were happy to say, we're still here.

Our Wedding Song couldnt be more on when it came to finding the right words to describe the kind of person I often feel like, to the person he makes me feel like. Im so Lucky to Have married a Man who loves me to no end. A man who will work through any problem (though at times needs a good elbow to the rib to remind him) and A man that would do anything for his family. I am proud to call Evan, My Husband.

I Love You.

I can be an nightmare of the grandest kind

I can withhold like it's going out of style

I can be the moodiest baby and you've never met anyone

Who is as negative as I am sometimes

I am the wisest woman you've ever met.

I am the kindest soul with whom you've connected.

I have the bravest heart that you've ever seen

And you've never met anyone

Who's as positive as I am sometimes.

You see everything, you see every part

You see all my light and you love my dark

You dig everything of which I'm ashamed

There's not anything to which you can't relate

And you're still here

I blame everyone else, not my own partaking

My passive-aggressiveness can be devastating

I'm terrified and mistrusting

And you've never met anyone as,

As closed down as I am sometimes.

You see everything, you see every part

You see all my light and you love my dark

You dig everything of which I'm ashamed

There's not anything to which you can't relate

And you're still here

I resist, persists, and speaks louder than I know

And I resist, your love, no matter how low or high I go

I'm the funniest woman that you've ever known

I'm the dullest woman that you've ever known

I'm the most gorgeous woman that you've ever known

And you've never met anyone

Who is as everything as I am sometimes

You see everything, you see every part

You see all my light and you love my dark

You dig everything of which I'm ashamed

There's not anything to which you can't relate

And you're still here

*Alanis Morisette- Everything.