Saturday

There was a race and look who won!!



This was my attempt at a sweet guy pic.



Oh ya! That's ice cream.



I love these trees. They rain flower petals on us.





A little wrestling in the park.

M....always near the water.

Their father's sons.



Coins

The boys have been working on a couple of coin collections. One is of the state quarters and the other is a group of Canadian coins they started with GrndmDrdre. I knew that M had a jar upstairs he had been collecting coins in for a lo-o-ong time so we dumped it out and mined it for needed coins.

It was a big job. First they had to separate the different from the regular. Then compare the different with what they needed for their collections.

But it paid off. They found 5 more state quarters and several that they needed for their Canadian collection.

I was just about to tell them they had to clean up their toys when I found them playing chess together. They're lucky.

And this week starts our next unit for school. Poetry. I just finished reading a great idea book for teaching poetry so even though it's Saturday morning we got a jump start. The boys and I co-wrote this poem. E mentioned that we needed the 'and' at the beginning of the last sentence because 'it sounded better'.

582miles/937kilometres

Baby Step through the blowing snow.

Baby steps over the bridge and across the border.

Baby step to lunch (this was an easy one).

Baby step through NY.

Baby step through MD.

Home.

Hello Again

The boys have been fascinated with K's instrument. She let them have a try. This guy blew so hard his toes curled up!

We went for the house inspection yesterday. Here's a couple of pics to give you an idea of what it looks like.

We couldn't go to O-town without going to Denny's.

And we stayed up late to go see K in her end of night ceremony at Cadets.

Rescue Me

This is the last of my 'ME' posts. The boys arrived back late last night. I've already started snapping pics so their smiling faces will soon return. O.k....back to me.


I have the best family. We had made a plan for how these last two weeks were supposed to go. Lots of flights, lots of fun.


However, eight days in...I put an offer on a house. (With M's consultation and agreement of course). And true to form, my family stepped up. Setting aside their own schedules. Writing cheques for deposits until my bank...I mean husband...arrived with a cheque. Escorting my boys back on the plane so I could take time to do paperwork. Taking time off work to drive up from VA. (Guess who that was?) Never suggesting/mentioning that this might be a crazy thing to do.


And this isn't a one-off kind of an event. This has happened before. Many times. Anyway, thanks family. You're the best.


And now.....back to the good stuff.




The boy's flight was supposed to arrive at 10:00p.m. but they didn't get in until 11:45p.m. Long day.

And Day Two

After attending Mass this a.m. we hurried home for breakfast. Lucky for us Grandpa's truck arrived today. It's not ready for pick-up yet but we snuck a peek. Looking good Grandpa. Last night kitty cuddled up with E's animals so tonight he put them in her bed for her.

And Now the First Day Here

Even though we had to wake up at 4:50a.m. to get to our flight the kids were in good humour. Now this wasn't our first stop.....but it was close to our first stop. This is the best known symbol of Winnipeg. The Golden Boy. It can be found on top of the Legislative Building. More pics of the Legislative Building. GrndmDrdre took the kids in to see this place. I was sleeping in the truck......zzzzzzzzz. E took this pic. Then we visited The Forks. It's the time of year when the thaw begins in this area. The combination of melting snow/ice, Spring rains, and water from the two rivers merging at this point creates a situation ripe for flooding. You can see a triangle shape in the water in the background? That is handrail to the walking path that is normally accessible. But the waters have started to rise. You can see here how the ice from the river can create bit of a jam before it thaws. This exacerbates the flooding problem. Here's a shot of the boys with one of the kitties here. And I'm hoping that's it for today because I am TIRED!!!

One Day Here

On our way up to Ottwa we stopped at CrckrBarrel for lunch. This is A sampling some delicious rootbeer in a frsted mug.

This morning the boys were busy with some nature shenanigans. Check it out further at my mom's blog. www.dknallen.blogspot.com

Then we went over to K's school to see where she spends her days.

It's also the day that Granny does her milk-lady job.

I had to take a pic of K in front of her clean locker.

Then we zipped over to BP for lunch with L.

Her girl K and my A were having a great time playing tic-tac-toe.

And here's her other sweetie......M.




E has a serious look on his face as he tries to cross the monkey bars.



This one didn't need to concentrate to hard....monkey-boy.



They found a creek to splash in.



The other grown ups were taking pics of these beautiful flowering trees.





But who could look at trees with all this fun going on.

 

They did fit but we needed the space for toys so out they went.



The boys wanted to see if they fit into their suitcases.