George is now driving...

Well here we are. Mom and Dad thought it was time George earned his licence therefore they "dragged" out Scott and Jack's ole motorized car.

Now...Sam and I had talked about bringing it out and wondered if he was ready but hadn't actually got it out to see considering he's just turned two! And while I suppose he didn't do too badly, he really does need practice as driving requires steering as well as putting your foot on the petal!

And if you know George then you know he LOVES cars so needless to say this was a big hit! He had SO much fun he could hardly contain himself. He'd drive for a minute, jump out, run and hug someone and then drive again, jump out, run and hug someone. Too funny!

Here's some pictures...

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Here are a few pictures from our camping trip...because despite having the link to our photo album on the side, I realize that the blog looks boring with just typing!

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Here's another one...

We went camping last weekend. All weekend, Thursday-Sunday. And didn't have trouble finding a spot to camp in Cultas Lake at all. Know why? IT WAS RAINING...THE WHOLE ENTIRE TIME (ok well, except for a few hours the first and second day)! LOL! The sun actually came out for a few hrs when we first arrived which gave us such high hopes that the weather would remain good. But that was shortlived as about 2 hrs after we were finished setting up, the rain started.

We did manage to have fun anyways though. We allowed the boys to take their Nintendo DS Lites and portable DVD player. We also brought up a generator so that powered the DVD player when needed. We have an awesome tent which stayed completely dry inside. YAY! We also put up a tarp so we had a sitting area and we had our easy up tent that went over the picnic table. So despite the horrible rain, we all stayed fairly dry when outside, except George. But that was his own doing, lol!

George was so well behaved during this trip. He never wandered off and if he did it was because somebody was leaving and he wanted to go too. But he was good when told to come back. He also kept busy playing around our site. We brought cars and trucks for him. As well, he discovered the last night we were there, that a bucket is great for playing with in steady streams of water flowing off the tarp! He got soaked that day but happily played for an easy 1.5 hrs!

This was such a great family trip that we've decided we want to go back next year in hopes that it doesn't rain. We originally planned to go to Golden Ears and camp with some friends of ours but at the last minute changed that to just being by ourselves. And in the end, we're pretty glad this time that we did that. Maybe next year...or next year we'll maybe go twice. :O)

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Two posts in one month? Yay for me. ;O)

The last time I wrote, I mentioned that the boys were taking swimming lessons. Well, a few lessons in, they had a request. If they passed and moved onto the next level could they each get a "prize". Uh...sure, I suppose. So, come report card day we found ourselves going to Krispy Kreme donuts (Jack) and EBGames for a Pokemon game for Scott's Nintendo DSLite.

Not too bad, however I signed them up for another two weeks (which ended on Friday) and they had requests again! And although I was sure Jack was going to pass, I hadn't much faith Scott would because this was Scott's first time in Level 6 and he has not usually (if ever!) passed on the first go. As well, starting in Level 6, they swim for 45min, not the usual 30.

So, on the last morning, I was trying to prepare Scott in case he didn't pass. I told him that maybe he should think less about his passing reward and more about a reward he'd like for trying so hard. He was like "ummmm...nope...I don't want anything else." So I was thinking oh great...we're going to be fighting about this one later, lol. Well, that'll teach me...we got their report cards and Jack passed into Level 2 and Scott PASSED into Level 7!! I almost fainted! I am so proud of them both!

So, off we went later that day to get Transformers-Autobots and Transformers-Decepticons for their DSLites.

And here we go again. They trying to negotiate another deal as they're taking a two week break and then they're back for their last set of the summer. Not sure I want to make any more deals after spending $300 on lessons (total for both )and around $100 for prizes. LOL!

An update...

Hey Everyone!

The past two months have been so incredibly hectic!

Scott was in Tadpole and Jack was in T-Ball. So, we were at the ball field for 4 nights a week. And on Tuesday's Sam and I would have to split up...Sam would take Jack to T-ball and I'd take Scott to soccer practice. George thankfully went to Mom and Dad's for most of those nights as he's a handful and hated going to the games and practice. Then on Sundays, Scott would have a soccer game. And yes, soccer was supposed to end back in March, however the select soccer team Scott was playing on, decided to go until the end of June.

The boys are now out of school. So, in September, Jack will be starting Grade 2 and Scott will be starting Grade 4. And for Scott, it will mean another change as they introduce the letter grades in Grade 4. This should be interesting...time to buckle down on him a little more I think as he's gotten a little lazy with how well he does is work.

George is now finished music class and will be starting again in September. Puddlejumpers again although the songs and dances will be different this time around.

We also had Sports Day last month and although the RED team won (we're Red house)in overall scoring points for the year and Sports Day's total, they gave first place to Blue house. Only because Red house won last year and the year before...and they can't let the same color house win for 3 years in a row. Too bad. ;) The boys were happy with second place though and the ribbons of all colors are Red.

Last month we also celebrated George's 2nd birthday. We really did try to trim down the party numbers however we still had 35 (or more!) people come. It was a great day though and he had alot of fun. And the weather was absolutely crazy! 4 hrs before the party, we had one of the worst rain storms we have ever seen! I'll be sure to post some video (I can't figure out how to add it in here). Then just before his party, the sun came out...it was cloudy for the party then just after everyone had finished their cake, it started to rain! Then if that weren't crazy enough, 5 min after (most) people left, the sun came out again.

After the party Scott had his baseball windup to go to so we went to that. The kids vs parents was a fun game...we got 2 innings done and were praying none of the kids would get struck by lightening as we then started having thunder and lightening. We all decided to quit the game early and the base run was done in the pouring rain. Pizza for the kids was done with thunder, lightening, POURING rain and hail. NICE! Told you the weather was crazy that day!

The boys started swimming lessons today. (and by today I mean Tues...in case your wondering why the date might be wrong...it's taken me a few days to get back here!) They're swimming at an outdoor pool and will be swimming every morning for 2 weeks now.

Later in the month we're hoping to go camping at Cultas Lake. Not much luck in getting a space since most are taken by reservations already but we'll see. Then after that for the BC long weekend, we're going to go and see Papa Chuck. The boys are really excited and it's especially cute to see how excited George gets around my dad. He was in town recently and also came to George's party and that was the first time we had all seen him in almost a year. So to someone who's only two years old, that's especially long!

I really will try and want to update more often. However it really isn't easy when you've got 2 very busy children and a toddler who gets quite "jealous", "curious" or "in need of a hug and won't let go" everytime your even near the computer!

So, on that note...that's it for now, while 2 are at Grandma's and 1 is napping, I'm going to try to head on over to update our photo album which is also in need of updating. Please excuse the mess with that too! Seriously working on it and hope to have it completely updated by week's end.