Canada Day

We went to heritage Park this year with our friends Matt, Dagmara and their beautiful girls Misha and Shahara for Canada Day celebrating. Despite the cold wind we had a great time and felt very patriotic.

Cousins Cousins Cousins

Some shots of the fun we have been having so far this summer.

Great grandparents Salmon came to Medicine Hat for a few days to enjoy the adventures of great grandchildren.
Uncle Travis was husband and father to all while Cheri and I were husbandless. Thanks Trav!

See they do love each other despite the biting.

Explorations of the yard with a little plumber bum for your viewing pleasure.

Hair and Babies

With 6 kids 3 and under in the house things can always get a bit crazy. With 6 kids 3 and under in the house a grad date to prepare for everything is crazy. Jodie was Brodie Hill’s grad date this year and the morning of pictures Leanne, Jodie and I were left with all the kids and some very pretty hair to make. This is a shot of the prep and a shot Leanne took of the cute couple on the big day.

The Summer Begins

We finally finished our renovations and as soon as the last of the cleaning and staging was done I packed up the kidlets and headed for Medicine Hat. I was not too excited to show our home while living in it so we took sad days away from Bryce to be with cousins and Grandparents. It worked out great since Cheri and her cute kiddies were also around for two weeks. We did sell our house in 4 days and returned to Calgary to spend Canada Day with Bryce, but when the sale fell though we returned to MH, and sold it again 2 days later. Bryce did a great job of keeping the condo sparkling while we were gone and we love him for that. We are currently homeless and still in the process of finding the perfect place for our family.

Sam and Tony enjoy some Grandpa love.

Sam loved playing on the floor and grandmas because he had a front row seat to all the action and he learned how to roll from back to front (then he acts like a beached whale)

Daily Popsicle fix.

I think this shot pretty much sums up summer life a grandma's dancing, nakedness and lots of diaper wipes.

The Work Continues

We have been continuing to work toward listing our house and it has been consuming our time and thoughts all month. Tomorrow we have a interior designer coming over with our real estate agent to give us some staging tips which should be one of the final steps before listing. I can't wait to have our precious condo on the market and thankfully we have family close that will take us in while we have showing, but I am dreading having to keep the place immaculate all the time. Just trying to clean the place up to get us this far has been enough of an adventure...for example last night while I was making dinner Eloise dropped a glass bottle of vinegar on the newly tiled kitchen floor which didn't seem like a big deal except for the shards of glass everywhere. Until this morning when the vinegar had left our grout a darker color in the spots that it touched! While I was trying to redeem the discolored grout Eloise found a felt pen and started drawing on the tiles behind me...two steps forward one step back. Needless to stay while our condo is up for sale we are planning to be out of town as much as possible.

Here are some photos of the kiddies playing while my mom, sister and I got some of the very much needed deep cleaning done. Thank you Leanne and mom it was so wonderful to have your help!

Now if we could only find a house to buy...

Dinner Time Blues

This is what dinner time looks like at our house. Who knew chicken pot pie could be so devastating. Maybe someday Eloise will learn the love of food but for now it is pasta and bread for her.

Renovations

We have been tiling and painting our kitchen and bathroom in preparation for the possible sale of our house in the near future. Bryce stayed home from work Monday to work and as soon as Eloise saw an opportunity she found a scrapper in the other room and came to 'help'.

This morning I stared cleaning and taping the walls and again Eloise was very willing to lend a 'helping' hand. It is so nice to have such a good helper around.