Our 1st Geocaching Adventure

Today Aidan, Ed and I went out and had a look for some Geocaching sites while visiting in Gibsons. Geocaching is a outdoor scavenger hunt using a portable GPS. Geocaches are hidden everywhere and has become a world wide phenomenon.

For our first attempt we located two Geos which contained little toys, trinkets and log book. The idea is to find the cache and put an entry in included log book for others to read. If you take a gift you must leave one behind. We decided to not take anything but left two of Ed's business cards inside maybe it will stir up some business.

Here are a few photos while we were out hunting today enjoy.

Summer Photos

We have been living out of a suitcase now for over a month. With all the chaos Summer has still been great. We managed to get some camping in and spent a week up in Okanagan Falls. We spent some time in Penticton and watched the annual parade which the kids loved. Our new house is almost done and soon we will be busy with school, moving and getting settled in. Just a few photos from the past month enjoy.

Having a bath home away from home

Clara in Penticton

Starwars invaded the Penticton Parade

Swimming at Skaha Lake

Clownin around

Hanging out at the Penticton Fair

Yummy
Post parade photos I was in the parade this year with the VPD

Jackie & Clara at one of the many wineries we visisted

View from our condo in Okanagan Falls it was a nice week hanging out with the Family, Ed, Tracy, Liam & Deb

It will be all ours as of Sept 16th!!!!

Wow, 7 months later....

Wow, it has been too long....

Here are a few photos from the last month :)

Trip out to Ruby Lake on the coast with Auntie Tracy, Uncle Ed and Liam, the water was super nice and warm!

All smiles waiting for the Sea Cavalcade parade to begin. If you can believe it the bag in their hand was almost completely full by the end of the parade!

Our 2nd annual trip camping to Deception Pass Park on Whidbey Island in Washington. It was a lot cooler than last year as you can see by the fleece jackets but we still had a good time.

We left the campsite one morning to find the sunshine and went 30 minutes south on the island to the small town of Coupeville, it was very quaint and beautiful, they also had a sailing race on in the harbour which was neat to watch.

We also stopped at another state park called Fort Stevens, Aidan had a wonderful time exploring the old bunker built before the 2nd world war.

Must include the smores pictures :) Always my favourite!

I forgot to pack Uno but the kids had fun playing Go Fish.

We spent a nice Sunday morning at White Rock beach while Dad worked. It was great to see the sunshine after a cool June.

2009 continues....

I am picking up where Carter left off..... of course they are in reverse order as usual :) We are all doing well, still cant believe that January is coming to a close and that my little girl is now 3! Where has the time gone?

Aidan was a shepherd in the preschool production of his christmas play

Meera, Ethan and Clara leaving our baby group's Christmas get together

Clara all dressed up for the Christmas get together

Thumbs up all around for the arrival of our new nephew and cousin, Liam Jack Aiken born Dec 6, it was an amazing experience to be there for his birth, thanks for letting me be a part of it Tracy and Ed!

Hanging out in the snow up at Mount Seymour

Love the self timer on the camera!

What a cutie!

Another big thumbs up for the puppet theatre that Carter built for Aidan and Clara, they have had hours of fun with it!

The Past Few Months In Review

Wow it's now 2010 and we have fallen behind here with our Blog updates. Now that it is 2010, the 00's are behind us we are now moving forward hopefully with a better grasp on this Blog site. I will try to keep it more up to date.

The past months have been busy with Halloween, Christmas, Jackie's sisters new baby Liam. and of course Steven now officially becoming a RCMP officer.

Halloween this year was great. I had the evening off to go out with the kids. They had a great time collecting their treats. Aidan went a Spider and Clara went as Little Red Riding Hood.

Halloween Night with my neighbour Steve

The Loot

Of course there was lots of time to spend outside with the kids. Here are two of my favourite photos from the fall of 2009. I can't take credit for these shots.

Camo Aidan

I have so much more to add. I will put in a second entry for the November & December updates in the next few days.