Thank you for families

This is Chase singing a song he made up. I have never heard him do this before, but this morning he kept walking around singing this song. Adorable! We are definitely thankful for our family. :)

A little of this, a little of that.

When we were in Calgary Michelle let us visit her at work (she's a paramedic). Chase got a personalized tour of the firetruck, complete with pushing the buttons to turn on the siren and flash the lights and everything! He also got to check out the ambulance and the fire hall. Talk about HEAVEN for a 2 year old boy!

I love how Chase is looking at Saryn in this picture!

Grampa made a name badge for Chase. Chase probably spent an hour playing with it and sticking it on and off his forehead. Where are Grampa's great ideas when I'm trying to exercise or get the dishes done?!?!?!

Wayne took me out for dinner at the Calgary Tower on my birthday. Not the best picture, but our waiter wasn't very patient with taking pictures. It was really cool, the restaurant overlooks the city and it rotates slowly while you eat so you can see everything while you're there. It makes one rotation every 45 minutes. Pretty cool!

Taylor and Sar-Bear. Love them!

Grama Elbert participated in her first EVER Senior Games earlier this week.
Her first event was bocce ball, which she had never played before. She looked up the directions and studied them prior to the game, then went and totally rocked it. She won the GOLD!!! Woo-hoo! Go Grama! She made the newspaper as well. :)

Chase had his first McDonald's Playplace experience the other day. We never take him there because nursing school RUINED me and the thought of all the nasty germs in there totally grosses me out. But, I finally relented the other day and we went to play there with cousins. What happened exactly 48 hours later? Chase had a 101.5 degree temperature. Go figure. We probably won't ever go back. Sorry, Saryn, you'll never get to experience the joy of the Playplace. It's just not worth it.

Who needs the Playplace to have a happy childhood? Look at that smile! :)

Holly and her kiddos watching Grama at the bocce ball games. They were the best little cheerleaders!

And here's the Chaser-Man watching Grama play. The sponsors of the Senior Games provided Chex mix to the participants, and one of the gramas there took a liking to Chase and donated her Chex mix to him. He's a hit wherever he goes!

Harvest Time!!!

Wayne planted our first garden this year. When we lived in California, we grew a few things on the balcony of our apartment, but this is our first REAL garden. Turns out it's a lot of work...no problem for me since Wayne did it all. And it turned out GREAT!!! Unfortunately for Wayne, he had to go back to work in Barrow before it was time to harvest. He did all the work, and now the kids and I are enjoying the fruit of his labors. Thanks, Honey!

This is less than half of the garden. It was pretty big for a first attempt!

Cheesy face. It never gets old. :)

Chase and his cousins were so excited to hold the vegetables! They recognized what each vegetable was and were practically dancing in their pants waiting for me to cut them off the plant and hand them over to their eager little hands. So cute! We had a FABULOUS dinner that night with all our fresh veggies.

"We love our VEGGIES!!!!"
I will remind them of this when they are teenage boys living on pizza and Cheetos.