Holidays...

Gil and I dropped the girls off at the Wiens grandparents house and promptly headed for Vancouver, on our own. We stayed at Ryan and Naomi's place and they toured us around Vancouver. We spent a few days burning ourselves at the beach, well I did without fail.

We toured around Grandville Island and did a little shopping.
From Vancouver we headed to Fairmont, where we met up with our girls and my whole family. Some tented, RVed, or stayed in the condo. It was a really good time to be together. However, the weather wasn't very cooperative but we still found ways to entertain ourselves and our children.

Happy Birthday!

As many of you know, both of our girls have birthdays in early July so we thought we'd show some pictures from their recent parties.

This is a joint party for Gil and Lana that we had at my parents' new house near Airdrie. Lana made short work of the ice cream cake and was none too happy when it was taken away. If she only knew that her parents were about to leave her to go and party in Vancouver for a week!

Below is a picture of Julie with her butterfly birthday cake (my own creation). We had her party on our neighbour Andrew's deck and a bunch of Julie's friends came over to celebrate. Below that is the highlight of Julie's birthday experience: a new bike complete with pink tassles on the end. Oh the fun we'll have.