MAY LONG WEEKEND!!!

You got to love when the long weekend starts with 22 degrees in the sunshine and it's the first day the waterpark gets turned on! The best thing was that nobody knew about it so Kenzie almost had the whole thing to herself!!

My ray of sunshine!!

Kenzie loves to fashion pose these days!

 Monday the girls and I went to Vancouver to meet with Shan and go to Stanley Park. Before we went, we walked to Dollarama to get some beach toys. Kenzie ran ahead of us and ducked into the front of this store to pretend she was a mannequin! She thinks she's so hip!!

 She looks more like a rapper here!!! LOL

 Lunch was in the plans before we got to the park too!! We found this awesome burger joint right in the heart of restaurant street heaven!!! It's called Vera's Burger Shack and it was well worth the stop!!!

 The Canuck Burger!!! Seriously, one of the best burgers I've ever had!!!

We finally made it to the beach!!!

Sydney the little sand crab!!!

Getting use to the water.

Hot beach babe!!

She sells seashells by the seashore!!!

NO RAIN!!!!!

 When it's not raining you get the heck outside and play your guts out because it could rain again for the next few days. Fortunately it's been great all week and we've been able to get lots of playtime in!! Justin just got Kenzie a soccer ball and she is a natural!! She can't wait to play on a team in the fall.

 Playing or modelling??

 Twins??



PHOTOS I FORGOT!!!

 In April the girls and I flew to Castlegar to spend a week with grandma and papa. It also worked out that Jessa was able to be there with us. These are some photos that I forgot I had!

 On Mother's Day, we went into Vancouver to meet up with Shan and Jer. It's so fun just to walk around and admire a huge city. So much to see and you gotta love the number of authentic restaurants there are! After living in smaller cities for so long, I didn't think I could get use to living in a big one again. Well I was wrong! I love it here!!!

Even chasing pigeons is fun!!

AN ADVENTURE WITH SHAN!!

 So what do you do when daddy is doing the night shift and it looks like rain is coming...go to Vancouver and hang with Shan!!! We walked from Shan's apartment to the sea bus which took us over to Granville Island where we shopped, had some lunch and indulged on gelato. The atmosphere is so awesome there! Mackenzie waddled around with pigeons and seagulls as we ate lunch and listened to the local musicians. The scenery is gorgeous and people are soooo freindly!! On the way back we took a different route which gave us a longer boat ride. Mackenzie had seen a lovely park while we were on our way to Granville and it was promised that we would stop on our way back. As soon as we got there it started to rain which didn't stop us from having even more fun. We finally headed back to Shan's and had a rest for a bit before heading out again to Home Sense, where I found two awesome treasures and then to White Spot for dinner! Thanks for spending an amazing day with us Shan and like Kenzie always says "best day ever"!!!!



 We had fish and chips fresh calamari and greek salad!!! So yummy!!!

 Riding on the sea bus.

 Gelato!!

 You can do anything in Vancouver as long as you have an umbrella!!

REALLY GREAT HAIR DAY!!

 I've always thought that the only thing I had going for myself was my hair. After having children it has never been the same. Instead of the dreaded gray hair, which would be easier to color seeing as I've been blonde all my life, my roots are coming in BLACK!! I finally found a colorist, thanks to my mom, that helped me figure it out and give me back some self love!!

SYDNEY AT 10 MONTHS

 I keep saying as the months go on, this is my favorite age, but this really is my absolute favorite! Sydney is a gem!! Her smile gives me an instant high and her shinning personality makes me giddy. Even at her young age she loves her big sister to pieces and adores her daddy! Today while Justin was kissing her goodbye he went to give her back to me and she wouldn't even look at me. He would say "go see mommy" and she would keep turning her head and kept a real grip on him. She loves being in his arms! Sydney is getting around just fine these days. She's not up to a full crawl yet, but can move just as fast pulling herself with both arms and lundging her body forward. As you can see she loves to stand!! In these pictures she is watching Kenzie playing outside with a new little friend she met in the complex.