Colourful Days

July Fun!

We are only 2 days into the kids summer vacation and it's totally been filled with funny things and belly laughs already! The first one is our little miracle, Maya seemed to grow teeth over night! (Yes, this is gross that she is wearing her father's teeth, but it's hilarious - NO?)

Number 2 is Wyatt loving his new shoes...

Number 3 is Maya picking out her own clothes for the first day of camp... Drama Camp - Stars of the Stage!

Number 4 is Jax and Wy just having fun in the car in the Dairy Queen Drive Thru.

We don't do too much exciting, we just have fun doing whatever we are doing!

THE PHONE

Poor John always get flack for his cell phone. It's old, huge and very dependable. Hence he just won't get rid of  it. He does want to get a new one but now he wants an iPhone and it's not quite yet in Canada. So for now this is what he has... just for reference I took a picture of it right beside our home phone. Can you figure out which one is which?

How many people can sleep into a hotel room?

Well officially, there are supposed to be 4 adults. But with our family it was always the "pack them in approach". Mainly because it was expensive for more rooms but honestly we had, and have, so much fun in small confined spaces!  When we used to go to places, as a kid we never ever ever saw a mattress... and if you were lucky you might have gotten the bathtub as your very own sleeping sanctuary. So on those special family get aways to Kings Island we would get adjoining rooms (that sleep 4 in each room) and pack 20+ of us in there. We would pack microwaves, rice cookers, all kinds of things for our one night stay because there was just no extra $$ to go out for breakfast, lunch and dinner - but honestly, I didn't know that most people didn't pack 50% of their kitchen when they went away. It was just normal to me and I'm sure for the rest of my cousins.

This picture is from one of our first visits to an amusement park with the extended family. I remember going to Sea World and setting up in the picnic area. We would unload coolers full of food that was made a home. Back then, there was no going to a kiosk - they just cost too much. But I swear that we had the best food at our picnic area. Who can beat Adobo and Rice and Mangoes as dessert?

BUT things have changed and hotels do have rules. As our little vacation in our vacation we booked 2 Village Suites at the Kalahari Resort for 1 night. Yes that 2 rooms. Each suite sleeps 12 people! Translation: everyone gets a bed, and that included the babies and kids. They are counted as people too! At Kalahari all guests have to be registered to be able to go into the waterpark area. (go take a look at www.kalahariresort.com) You gotta see the place. In each Suite there are 3 bathrooms... there will be no waiting. And if someone wants to sleep in a bathtub for nostalgia sake, they can take their pick from 6 of them... and 2 of those are jacuzzi tubs! Talk about moving on up!

Date Night 2008

I can't even remember the last time that it was just the 2 of us at a movie. It was definitely before we had Wyatt and maybe even before we had Maya. Yes it's been that long that I can't recall. But last night we did it. I had movie passes (yes the movie was free - and yes I'm that cheap) so it cost us babysitters, coffee money and of course a large tube of popcorn. We even watched an R rated movie (not that kind of R rated) - WANTED. It was fun to go out just to two of us, the movie was entertaining too! When we were buying the tickets, we even had a thought of going to see KungFu Panda just to piss off the kids ;-) but we came to our senses.

Old School!

   

Campout for Life (Oops - that's Relay for Life)

Earlier this year, I came up with a plan to do something that would help the cause to fight the big C and to get my friends together. In past years we had done the Weekend to End Breast Cancer and I just couldn't stomach the thought of walking 60kms and trying to raise so much money. Don't get me wrong I had a great time doing the walk both times I did it, but it's exhausting and nerve racking asking for donations. So this time it was supposed to be easy, $10 and you're in! So I donated $100 to my efforts and along with my other team princess team members proceeded to the park where we planned on doing the relay for life for 12 hours. It was super relaxing, maybe too relaxing for me. I stayed up all night, drank lots and lots of coffee, talked a lot and everyone once in a while I'd walk around the lap. But honestly I don't think I walked very much. I think the biggest workout I had was laughing at some of the stories that were told in the wee hours of the morning.

BMX Buddies

Last Sunday started super early because it was race day for both Dad and Jax. It was a fun day, new track and we got to spend the day with some friends too! At the end of racing John was first and exhausted (it's hard being a old guy racing kids 1/2 your age) and Jackson came home with a silver medal (for all of his races he came in 6th place but it turns out there were kids from a different age group in his heats).

 

 

Ball Boy

You could buy Wyatt the most expensive toy and he will always go for the ball from the dollar store. He loves anything that he can bounce, throw and roll around. He screams for all the little ones that roll under the couch, he yells for the ones just outside the window, and he cries when he sees the ball roll down the stairs. Good thing his brother and sister are good at fetching all the balls that he throws inside and outside.

Maya's New Smile

After almost a month of not being able to eat apples, that dangling front tooth finally came out this morning after eating some GoldFish crackers. This is Maya's new smile. She can wait to finally eat everything again. She loves her new smile.

Happy Father's Day!

To all the great dad's that we know and this special shout out our very own Johnny B!  He always makes us smile. He always has a joke to tell us. He has the best dance moves. He always tells us how much he loves us and our life. He makes the best pancakes and french toast. He is always up for a cup of coffee with me! We love you more than you know!

Also big Happy Father's Day Hugs and Kisses to Grandpa, Lolo, Uncle James and Grandpa All too!