Summer 2018
As we were heading into summer I realised that this may be our last summer without having Nathan working. We had plans of doing more schoolwork this summer, but I soon dumped most of the school work in favour of having a last hurrah of fun. I made lists of things that I wanted to do with the kids this summer. We managed to hit some of them. I think we had a great summer of fun.
We started by having 2 Japanese students stay with us only for 4 days. We took them on a slow food bike tour of Agassiz. We got to eat lots of food while biking around, thankfully Agassiz is pretty flat. I think it was a bit much for our exchange students, but they still enjoyed it. We then headed to Hope for dinner and a visit to Othello tunnels. The next day Genevieve was doing a cheer demo at Aldergrove fair. She loved spending time at the fair. We then took off to go to White Rock for a few hours, we learnt that white rock is not dog friendly at all!
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| Genevieve basing on right |
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| Jade and Genevieve and a dog from a movie! |
Nathan
Nathan enjoyed some down hill mountain biking and we set him up with some proper gear to hopefully protect him as he barrels down mountains, in an adrenalin rush. Lots of street hockey happening this summer. Nathan has discovered video editing and has been having fun creating movies of his summer. He has spent hours learning how to do this. I am glad that we have MacBooks as it is just so much easier to do this.
Nathan also started writing quotes, here are a few of them that I enjoyed.
Genevieve
Genevieve has continued cheer about 3 days a week but decreased her hours, in the gym. She had the last 2-3 weeks of summer completely off cheer, I think this little break has been great for her body. This summer she has had the opportunity to fly on her level 1 cheer team and she has enjoyed learning these new skills. Genevieve landed her back tuck by herself! Yeah such hard work she has done this year to get here! She has also continued to be very artistic. She wrote and composed her own song in a few days this summer and it was a totally different method. Typically she writes lyrics first and then she is able to play the piano to match. This time she wrote the piano music first, she then said I like the piano part, but I dont think I can sing to this. Over the next few days, she had lyrics written for then song. I will try and get her to record this song soon, so I can post it. I think it is her best song yet!
Happy Birthday GIGI
Genevieve turned 12! We celebrated by going to Giggle Ridge for the day with our good friends and had grandma and grandpa and dad join us for a BBQ in the evening.
August Long Weekend
We had another Japanese student arrive for the August long weekend. We have gone to the lantern festival at Manning Park for the last 4 summers. The kids were not as excited about the lanterns this year, so we may not go next year. The end of an era, fun while it lasted. Maybe we will be back one day and they will want to build some crazy lanterns
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| family picture |
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| the lanterns |
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| a small hike in the sub-alpine meadows |
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| lightning lake, it was the first year, I let the kids jump off of rainbow bridge. |
Weaver Lake
We went up to Weaver lake with Tyler and Cody, and Simonne and had a blast! We brought our kayaks and BBQ, the day started out with rain and all of us telling Nathan it was not a good idea to start the day off with the rope swing, as he didn't have a change of clothing. Ended with Nathan swimming 1/2 way across a lake fully clothed, and us gathering a flotilla of kayaks together to pull him back on to his kayak, and apparently everyone learnt a new word... flotilla.
boys will be umm crazy!
thank-fully we convinced Nathan to wait until on the way back
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| the pack |
PNE
We have always lived here and yet we have never taken the kids to the PNE before! Well I was brave this year and decided to take the kids. Of course to the kids the PNE is play land... I was thoroughly bored, kids had a good time, I left them while I went and wandered around. I thought kids would want to stay right to the bitter end, but the gravatron ride ended their fun and they both wanted to leave after that ride! I took a bunch of video's of them riding the rides, I have to get Nathan to make a video from our time there.
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| the hellavator |
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| Nathan's just a little bit taller then me now! |
There were so many other trips and events that happened over the summer, I think we had some pretty good adventures even if we just stayed close to home most of the time. I wonder what next year will bring!
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