Family Pictures

These are some family pictures that my sister-in-law Tarena took for us, and she did a wonderful job. She gave us a cd of over two hundred pictures, so I picked out my favorites to show you...

Try This?

We usually have some pretty rough nights with Isaac. He does not sleep very well and usually gets up, at the very least, three times a night. Maybe we should try this Dad's trick! We saw this clip on America's Funniest Home Videos a while back and just loved it. I couldn't find the clip all by itself, so this video has other clips attached to it. If you fast forward to 1:31 (1 minute, 31 seconds into the video), you will see what I'm talking about. It's great!

Fun in the Sun

This is the only picture I have from Brad's sister Rebekah's wedding, which happened the day after we arrived for the summer. It's rough not having a camera!

Yee-haw! We're at our church's Stampede Breakfast, which happened right at the beginning of the Calgary Stampede. This is my sister-in-law Erin with my neice Cayleigh, my good friend Justyne, and me.

Sweet Isaac had too much Stampede excitement. We actually did go to the Stampede and had fun (and got drenched from a torrential downpour), but, again, since we didn't have our new camera at the time, I couldn't get any pictures of it!

December and her cousin Caden (in the white shirt) playing in the sand that the church had for the kids.

The church always holds the Stampede Breakfast on the Saturday after the Vacation Bible School week. Brad and I were both really involved in that -- Brad ran the Games center, and I was the leader for the 1st & 2nd grade combined class. What fun! I had about 20 kids each day, and they are at my absolute favorite age. They're so sweet and loving, and I received many little drawings and art projects as presents from them. They're so cute!

December was in the pre-school class, and Isaac was in the nursery. Here the kids are, performing the songs they learned during the week. December is up there, too, but she's hard to see. I'll try to describe where she is. If you look at the man with his hand on his head in the foreground, look right above his wrist area, and you'll see a purple balloon. December's holding that balloon, and you can see her blonde pigtail out the back of the white-shirted girl.

Brad put his hat on Isaac. He wears it well, don't you think?

Me cutting up December's pancake (one of her favorite things to eat)

Isaac with his cousin Cayleigh, who is almost two months older than him

Little cutie-pies

Since this pictures was taken, they have both learned how to crawl. I've noticed that Isaac likes to follow Cayleigh around as she crawls to different things

Caden and December playing together

Isaac just loves the grass...

This pictures makes me laugh. There's something so sweet and cute about it.

Caden giving December a kiss :o)

Digging a hole in the ground with a stick.

Way Back in May...

The pictures from this post happened way back in May -- so you know how far behind I am in the blog! I'm trying to catch up. Anyway, this is to show you more about Mom's trip to see us. It was alot of fun! When she arrived, we picked her up from the airport and took her to the beach and to see the beautiful hotel on the beach.

We had a picnic on the beach...

And then went to walk around the hotel! They have Dr. Seuss statues all around one area, and December LOVED it! This is the Green Eggs & Ham statue. December has this book, and so she loved this statue.

Holding Sam-I-Am's hand

The Cat in the Hat. December's actually never read this book -- am I a bad mother or what?! :o)

On the hotel grounds, looking at the flowers

December falling alseep in her carseat on the way home from one of our outings, with the pink bunny she got from Grammie, which is named Kelli (after her Auntie Kelli). December also named one of her goldfish Kelli -- so we have alot of Kelli's around here!

Happy Isaac in his bouncy seat, which he has now pretty much outgrown

Mom playing a game with Isaac, which he loved!

Nap time for Isaac -- you gotta be quick to catch a picture of Isaac during his morning nap, since he only sleeps for 20-30 min!!

The kids playing at the mall, on the ride of December's choice...got to love a pink motorcycle!

At the pet store in the mall. Mom and Isaac are examining the tortoises.

December trying to pet the kittens. December LOVES cats, and if I'd get her any pet (besides the 3 goldfish she has for the summer), I'd get her a kitten -- except that we don't really want a long-term pet right now, and you'd really want the right sort of cat to be a pet with small children and babies around. So maybe she'll get one when she gets older.

We babysat Samuel one day, and Mom read him stories (one of his most favorite things to do). They became fast friends!

Isaac playing in his carseat -- don't be fooled by his little smile! He's actually not the best traveller and gets sick of car rides quite quickly. But I've learned a trick now to keep him happy! I'm thankful he's eating finger food now, because as soon as he starts fussing, I just pop a Cheerio or something in his mouth, and he settles down. :o)

A family picture at our church

Isaac playing on the floor

Us making a shopping trip to Walmart, and Isaac got sleepy in the deoderant aisle.