Growing Together

Saturday, April 08, 2006

amanda's birthday party

we went to the pool with the kids and then back to shawn and joanna's for hanging out.

diedre giving me a card

and gift

david & diedre

my very cute nephew

wagon ride

classic shot

diedre giving pebbles to uncle andrew

cute partier

danielle (over due by 3 days here) and kristin (8 weeks to go!)

expectant father (danielle experienced contractions/early labour all night but it did not progress!)

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

climbing in the backyard

derek on his *new* climbing wall (the bottom panels and the sides will also be covered with plywood and holds for climbing later).

rick on the climbing wall. rick and danielle came over and rick helped derek get the last panel up on the wall.

photo shoot

i love this one

watching the other kids

standing tall

checking out the wood chips

carefully dissecting

checking out the colour

Monday, April 03, 2006

Sunday, April 02, 2006

Friday, March 31, 2006

diedre enjoying all the clapping at maria's wedding reception (she had to come as all our babysitters, and back up babysitters, came down with severe illnesses. diedre did really well at this very kid-friendly wedding and lasted until 2pm when we had to leave. it was a 9.30am wedding and noon reception.

me & maria

back of her dress

Friday, March 24, 2006

Diedre's First Steps

Diedre walked her first 3 steps on Wednesday. we didnt get it on video, but we did get her trying to walk again.

Watch the Video

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

turkey lurky

we had a big day planned: go to Langley, shop, bake a turkey with danielle & help her sew a duvet cover. we didn't get around to the duvet cover mostly because the oven died, so we moved the party and the turkey, to the mellenger's.

practicing stepping on a book

at the mellenger's

and FREEZE!

my poor nephew was sick for a week and he is looking so skinny...what a cutie pie

the diapered duo hamming it up in the kitchen

Sunday, March 19, 2006

sunday morning fun

enjoying the rocking cow

she's very good at throwing the ball

just taking a moment to look really cute

very excited about the sippy cup

Saturday, March 18, 2006

animals on board

ready for a carride

Monday, March 13, 2006

Happy 30th Derek!

first, i'd like to say Happy Birthday sweetie. i think you are such an awesome husband, father and friend! i hope you have a terrific day today (monday, march 13). xoxo wife

on saturday i threw derek's 30th birthday party. it was a "work" party. the task: construct an outdoor bouldering wall. the guys did a great job and worked late into the evening.

diedre excited to have guests

nice david

diedre, david, miles and gabriel

several party guests. derek held his hand up like that for a very long time while he was describing either the height or angle of the climbing wall.

the project: outdoor bouldering wall

miles, david and sparky (poor miles had no shoes, so he is wearing ziploc bags, with paper towel bottoms (inside), secure with elastics).

derek opening gifts. he got lots of rockclimbing holds, some climbing chalk, a cool hydration pack, and a ball from diedre (she thought it would be fun for him to play ball with her). he also got early birthday gifts of half a bbq (the other half is for me) from his parents and a corded drill from my parents, and a sweater from marsha.

the cake: derek's favorite, angel food cake, a big moat cut out of it, filled with butterscotch pudding, and covered with cool whip. yum! yesterday, he asked if i could make this for him everyday for lunch! ha ha