Oh...What do U do in the Summertime?.....

Cross your fingers that I'm just days away from delivery. The weather has been stifling hot, thanks to Spencer for buying me an A/C for our bedroom, so at least we can sleep at night. Sorry kids...they come frequently to our room to enjoy the cool temperature, but must sleep with their fans on; which they do pretty good at. I've heard many times over that we live in Canada so we don't need A/C in our homes....since it doesn't get that hot....I don't like those people and fully disagree with that statement.

Here are a few highlights that we have done so far this summer. We weren't planning on doing too much, since we are waiting for the arrival of our new family member. We have spent our time so far close to home and having a slower summer. We have enjoyed playing at various parks, the kids favorite has a wading pool and playground, I love to just sit a watch for the most part. We have also joined the Library summer reading program and Megan has already won a prize....a shirt, book and bag. We have also gone to the movies....Evan can't quite sit still for the whole movie, it doesn't matter which one we go to....but he enjoys the popcorn and climbing around....thank goodness for the dollar theatre and children's movies that hardly anyone goes to see anymore....so he can goof off and not bother too many people.

Feeding the geese, seagulls and ducks at Rundle Park.

Attending the street performers festival downtown Edmonton. The kids got their faces painted, Megan with a butterfly(which lasted for 2 days) and of course Evan with Thomas the Tank Engine. They also got balloon animals, Megan a parrot and Evan and monkey in a tree.


We actually saw some street performers too, these guys were called the Chair Men, and they basically stacked all those lovely plastic lawn chairs that everyone has in their backyard. They played musical chairs with some kids from the audience and launched various food objects with a sling shot, and they juggled fire.

Megan went to a week long science camp at the University of Alberta. It was an all girls class called Elle Jr. , they made all sorts of things, the bath bomb was probably her favorite.

We stay cool in the pool....swimming at the ACT pool is a favorite family activity.



Enjoying the comforts of A/C by going bowling. We had the whole place to ourselves!



Having a wiener roast at Rundle Park. Evan this time loved to play with the marshmallow and not so much eating it. This from a boy who can't stand to have his hands dirty when we are sitting at the table at home and eating?!....go figure. I also learned that I'm never quite prepared as I ought to be...I forgot the wet wipes, but we made do with water and a napkin.

Happy Birthdays!

Happy Birthday to Evan who turned 3 and Megan who turned 7! It was a busy week with 2 birthdays....make that 3 with Canada Day thrown in there and enjoying time spent with family.

Evan had a Thomas the Tank Engine themed cake. I found some chip board characters at Michaels and decided to use those to stick in his cake. He helped me make the cake, by holding the blender, cracking the eggs and dumping in the cake mix. His birthday and my parents 44th Wedding Anniversary fall on the same day and my folks were up so we had a big party at my brothers house.....it turned out to be a bit too long of a day for Evan....and he starting loosing it around 8pm....we definately left the party after a fabulous dinner, cake and presents by 10pm. We all slept good that night.

That is Megan with one of her school friends. We took her and 5 friends (the best turn out yet) to Chuck E. Cheese. That was the best party ever.....We bought some food, gave the kids some tokens to play games with, opened presents, ate birthday cookies (Megan didn't want a cake, so we made birthday cookies; sugar cookies with enamel icing and megan decorated them (edible markers)
with pictures of her webkins, some pokemon characters, and I suggested a birthday cake picture. I didn't have to worry about the kids leaving or wandering away, and no mess and little preparation.

Happy Canada Day. We spent the day at Borden Park with 2 of my nephews and Grandma and Grandpa Burt. There was free entertainment, hot dogs, face painting, balloon animals, cotton candy and beautiful weather. Due to all the free items the lines were a bit long....so we atleast got a hot dog, and our faces painted. Due to my condition (my last month of pregnancy), we didn't stay up late an go watch the fireworks at the legislative grounds, that and Canada Day fell right in the middle of the work week, so Spener had to be at work the next day. I let the kids have a couple of sparklers in our backyard at the end of our night.

Surprise!

Well this will be a surprise to everyone, but mostly to me. This is one of my goals this year; to finally get back into the technology era again. I use to have many great skills on the computer, but since being at home and having kids that has gone-the-way of my past hobbies and interests that are put on hold for awhile. Other people with busy lives know what I'm talking about.



My next goal is to actually get a digital camera. I've never had the desire or need for one. Our other camera works just lovely, but the time will come when buying film will be a thing of the past. So having a blog and baby number 3 would constitute a good reason to get a digital camera.