Braden is the Account Director at his job and his client is McDonald's Europe. This means that he is going overseas usually once a month for a few days. This is a photo of June in Paris.
The kids love baseball so Braden took them to an Ottawa Fat Cat's game and they LOVED it - I have a feeling more will happen next week.
Our anniversary wknd - kids to "The Landing", first time eating calamari for the kids (Emma didn't like it - hehehe!) then to a Medieval Festival to see sword fights, try stilts, catapults and so much more. Oh, and the kids locked Daddy and Kaleb up and threw water sponges at them - so much fun!!!
The kids love it when Brade reads to them. He had a trip to Russia so this was his last night before he left for the week.
While he was gone Gramma McGifford came to look after all of us - seeing that I wasn't up for looking after the kids by myself yet. We had a lot of fun and she kept the kids soooooo busy - camping in the backyard, picking raspberries, feeding ducks and more. (oh and weedings - hours and hours of weeding!!!)
(i had to put this one in - sorry mom, but it was just hilarious when a boat's waves started knocking the little dock around mom tried to get the ground fast, but i think the rocking dock helped her there faster than she anticipated - and i laughed - yep - laughed and laughed and laughed!!! hmmmm..... i guess i'm not that sorry for putting the picture in!!!)
Here are a few pictures that Braden took while in St. Petersburg, Russia for the week.
When he came home we got to still have Gramma for a few more days - which meant family pictures :)
The kids were stuck outside in the rain and put a tarp over the playhouse so that they wouldn't get wet - creative children!!!
They also decided to have a lemonade stand outside our house - selling freshly squeezed lemonade and homemade chocolate cookies. The neighbor kids came over to help too and they actually made a bit of money - they even had a car stop to purchase - so funny! Their advertising . . . signs on the little brother and sister - hmmmmm.
Our neighbours were moving so let us have the pool for a weekend, in-between them leaving and the new neighbours moving in - the kids loved it!
Hockey season starting in September and we have weekend passes for the Ottawa 67's (OHL). The kids are loving it and have so far been to 5 games with many more to come!
First day of school came after Labour Day weekend in September. Emma is in Grade 5, Kaleb in Grade 3 and Navia in Senior Kindergarten.
Great Gramma McGifford came up for the weekend so we got to hang out with her and had a lot of fun. Even took her to 'The Landing' for ice cream - yummy!
Emma was in Cross Country again this year - but this time had to run 2.2 kms. She did well and is wearing the blue tank top number 3 with maroon t-shirt under it. She came in 47 out of approx 140 grade 5 girls.
October started with Navia's first field trip of the year - to Valleyview Little Animal Farm with all her friends!
Grampa Bailey came up for a week in October and Emma was really excited because she'd finally have someone besides us cheering her on. Emma made the Jr. Girls Soccer team and had an all-day tournament that they came in 3rd. She played hard and they only lost after an extra inning, regular shoot out and then a final to-the-death shoot out. She loved that Braden took the day off work to see her play, along with Grampa and even Kaleb got the afternoon off of school!
Grampa spent a couple of days at Braden's work, just seeing what he was doing and checking out the local record shops - which I guess are pretty good around his work.
We did McDonald's breakfast - as the tradition has been set - and then went to find the perfect pumpkins!
The kids had a hard time with him leaving, but are glad that we're going to Saskatchewan for Christmas! Yay!!!
Emma's class did a haunted house and Emma's spooky short story was the idea behind the entire event. She had a lot of fun reading the story to each class as they came to see it - 900 students in all!!!
Then it was Halloween time - the kids carved pumpkins (and Braden dremelled them as the designs were a bit intricate.) We had a cowgirl, black ninja and Princess Belle.
And now I am officially caught up - and you are officially tired of looking at waaaaaay toooooo many pictures - hehehe! Hopefully I'll be going back to regular posts now!
