This year we headed to the Ship to Shore festival in Steveston for Canada Day and enjoyed the annual parade and fireworks in Point Roberts for July 4th!
Garry Point, Steveston
This year there was a bit of a "show-down" between the firefighters and the kids on the road! Water balloons, water guns and hoses!
Hope you are enjoying your summer so far!
So nice to have some days off to spend with family, to enjoy spring and do a little garden and spring cleaning too. So happy that the weather was clearer than forecasted!
Daytrip to Pt. Roberts on Good Friday, and then our traditional Easter Egg hunt (the kids never get tired of it) and Easter dinner on Sunday. Hope you had a Happy Easter too!
I admit, I haven't had time lately to post here, with the business of work, kids' activities etc, still enjoy it when I have a moment. Our annual Snowflake Ball was a pleasure to help organize, and it was fun being part of the planning commitee this year. We brainstormed some new ideas for decorations, including tulle, LED lights and "poofs", which are easlily made, following these directions. Thanks to a friend of mine that prepared the poofs and had the vision for them:
This year we had an ice cream bar!
Many moms donated amazing cake pops and cupcakes for the event.
The table centerpieces: bowls filled with lights, ornaments and plastic snowflakes.
A magical evening for dads and daughters.
"Point living" just doesn't have the same ring to it as "island living", but both are so similar.
It was so nice to get back to the ocean, to see old friends and family,
and to have that small town,
laid back,
slow way of life experience again.
We don't worry so much about what the kids are up to, they are often gallivanting with friends, biking, playing on the swing,
eating cherries, or
finding something interesting to see.
The fourth is a big day on the Point with the parade and a huge "fireworks" party at the Reef, including live bands and beer garden.
A bit of a soak!
Hope you are relaxing, celebrating and enjoying your summer so far!
I have had the fortune of going on some hiking adventures in the past few days.
The first one was with my daughter's grade 4/5 class to the Coquitlam Watershed, which is a protected water reservoir.
We were able to view the dam, the reservoir and the 100 year old observation tower. We also explored the surrounding woods.
The leaders played many nature games with the children and were trying to instill in them
a love and appreciation for the natural surroundings.
It was raining lightly that day, but the clouds created a pleasant kind of heavy mist that hung high up in the trees and on the edges of the nearby mountains.
On Father's Day we decided to do the one hour hike to Crystal Falls, which I haven't done since before we had kids. It was a warm day, just the temperature for a shady hike. The girls were brave enough to go for a dip!
I'm so thankful for sunny weekends and the opportunity to see so much beauty right through our back door. Happy Father's day to all the dads!
Just wanted to share a few snaps from another sunny and even warm weekend, which happened to be Easter already!
We experimented with colouring, egg blowing and dying, learning as we went. Helpful tip: break the yolk with a pin when blowing out the inside of an egg.
Birds' nests are a favourite. We make ours with cornflakes. Delicious.
Our annual visit from the Easter Bunny, responded to with a bit of eye-rolling, but also a lot of excitement and laughs!!
Every year he seems to leave some kind of a note...
Easter Hunt and then Easter dinner with the family.
We relaxed in the sun on Monday at Dundarave. So much to be thankful for!
We know John 3:16, but do we know John 3:17?
"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."
That was our Sunday message, and the message that I'm going to carry into my week! Happy Easter!
I have posted about this every year, something so near and dear to my heart. Fathers and daughters enjoying an evening together, and this is the last dance that both of my daughters will attend, as my oldest is heading off to middle school next year.
I felt honored to take part in the decorations,
with a wonderful team of moms. As one girl put it, "it's a dance for the girls and the dads, but the moms do most of the work."
These are the ice candle holders that line the entrance.
All the latest hits are played,
and there's lots of "frolicking" with friends.
A magical night indeed.
It's been such a wonderful December: decorating,
lights at Lafarge Lake,
plenty of baking,
Carol Ship festival,
Christmas cards, freshly printed and cut by a local printer,
snow days,
concerts,
Bright Lights, Stanley Park,
and now that special Christmas Eve night, with best of all family and good friends.
I hope you and yours have an espcially joyful and Merry Christmas 2012
I was so disappointed to run out of time for autumn leaf prints this year, that I had the idea to do a winter version.
We have been studying coniferous trees, so we practised using a cedar branch to make beautiful prints on white paper.
After the print was finished, we added pinches of glitter on top of the paint.
The children added silver and blue borders to bring out the colours in the sparkles.
They attached the tags to their gifts, and now the gifts are waiting proudly
to be taken home in the next day or two.
Hope you are enjoying your Christmas crafting!!
Munching on pumpkin seeds and looking through our photos is a great way to end a wonderful Halloween.
This year we borrowed an idea we saw in a magazine
and we decided to make a pumpkin graveyard in our front yard for the trick-or-treaters.
Mark cut and painted the boards,
and we added in our jack-o-lanterns with a few other store-bought decorations.
Hope you had a very Happy Halloween!
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