Vacation Time!

Ok it's my turn for a well-overdue vacation. I'm goin' back home people! Alberta bound and so pumped to seem my awesome family! I come from a pretty good sized group - I'm one of 9 grandchildren on my mom's side alone. Almost all of us are married with young children. We grew up in the same small town and lived each weekend swimming in grandma and grandpa's pool on the farm or in general lived in each other's pockets because there was always a party going on. We grew up very close-knit...I always say they're all more like brothers (and one female cousin) to me. Next weekend one of my cousins is getting married and I'm so excited for him. No one has met Sam yet, except for my mother and step father when Sam was 6 months old. She has no idea how many little cousins she'll be able to play with when she's there. She is going to have so much fun, I cannot wait! I even get a chance to hook up with some old school friends I haven't seen in nearly 20 years (eeesh did I just say 20). I have these people in all of my birthday party pictures and we carry tons of memories growing up. We've been emailing one another for the past month arranging this little reunion. I have a feeling this will be the best trip back home I've ever had! Countdown begins: 3 more sleeps everyone!

Happy 6th Anniversary Hon!

It all happened in Vegas baby! At the MGM Grand we got married in the beautiful chapel on July 17th, 2000- while family and friends back home had no idea except for our best friend and my mother.

I didn't want Elvis anywhere near the hotel, as I still wanted everything to be as traditional as possible. We had our rehearsal dinner (see above) and rented traditional wedding attire. We even dined at the Hollywood Brown Derby for our 'reception'. It was the nicest and most memorable trip we'll ever have. PLUS Vegas is just way too much fun anyhow!

Tonight we went to our fave restaurant Red Lobster. Before we left he gave me the present he's been working on all week. Every year we give each other the traditional and modern gifts. This year his gift was wood, so he made me a weather station out of hard maple, purple heart and black walnut. It is absolutely beautiful - I'm so impressed by his woodworking skills! It looks like something you'd buy in a store. Thank you my love, it's so special to me! not to mention so perfectly fitting, as I'm ALWAYS talking about the daily weather forecasts. He calls me the weather girl. Maybe I should have become a meteorologist - and you'd see me on TV every evening reporting the next cold front coming in, causing our severe thunder storms after a day of brutal humidity and smog advisory. As for my gift to him, I had to come up with something iron, but it will be delayed a couple of days until I get paid...lol. Bad I know, especially after the amazing gift I received! Stay tuned tho...

Sammy Says....

Today Sam said 'banana'! Instead it sounded 'baBAba' but close enough...we both know what she meant. She was looking at her board book of words with pictures we go through all the time. She brought it over to me and climbed up to my lap. I asked her to point to the banana and she said 'baBAba' and she grabbed my finger to point to the picture (she's always done that - it's kinda funny). I couldn't believe it after all the words we go over with her everyday and today one finally came out! I ran to the garage where Wayne's working on my anniversary gift (yes it's 6 years people! will post tomorrow) and Sam said it for him too. We were so happy and praising her - and usually she'd be all proud of herself but this didn't seem to phase her...like...ok, so what...lol
So now she says: dadda, mama, baw (ball), tee-tee (kitty), baBAba....5 words at 17 months old - not including her words she signs...not bad!

Scuba Girl

Daddy bought Sam her first shortie from his scuba store. It's a bit big yet but we couldn't wait, it looked so cute. Gran bought a purple pool for her to play in at Long Island too and she had a great time splashing around!

Canada Day - 139 Years

Happy Canada Day everyone! I made a special Canada Day cake for our day at Long Island (not to be mistaken for New York... it's a private RCMP camp site for members along the Rideau river).

Wayne's mom bought a red wagon to pull Sam around the camp. Sam absolutely loves it and didn't want to get out! We took her around to see the events going on and she wouldn't stop running towards the competitors to join in on the fun. Honestly, it's hard to stop her at anything - she is bound and determined!

She also had a soccer ball to kick around with daddy and a gigantic bubble blower to chase around. Daddy is very tired tonight, as he's not used to all this exercise. He decided to take her for another walk and she discovered a swing! She signed the word 'swing' to us, so we walked her to where she sat on daddy's lap and relaxed by the water.


Back at the trailer Sam met a little french girl down the road whose family joined us for dinner. She enjoyed sharing her wagon rides with her.


Canada Day of course ended with the usual celebration of fireworks, but Sam was fast asleep by then and we headed back home. We really had a blast today and I'm definitely ready to join Sammy for a deep sleep! Hope everyone has a great long weekend!

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*for some reason Blogger is not allowing me to post my pictures....stay tuned for the remaining when issues are taken care of.