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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Holiday Monday

Monday was a holiday so we decided to head out of the house for a family day.  We drove to Surrey to a place called A Rocha - a Christian conservation organization.  They had a family day with activities for the kids and animals to see.  It was just a beautiful place to spend the afternoon!
Here Kendra and Owen are checking out a few tadpoles and other fish and looking for the answers to questions in their 'passports'.  They had information tables set up around the property.
 Kendra got to hold a very new little chick.  Owen was content to just look.
Jocelyn loved getting out of her stroller and exploring the trees!

 There was one fabulous cherry tree that was perfect for climing.  Kendra and Owen thought this was the best part of the day!


 Finally a snack on the grass before heading back home.  We stopped for supper at Red Robin's to celebrate Kevin's birthday (one day early).  A great way to spend a holiday!

A little of everything . . .

Sometimes I find that even though I think not much is going on in our little home, there always seems to be something happening.  So, here are a few shots of life in our home over the last little while.
Of course, life right now pretty much just revolves around the Canucks and when they play next.  Fourtunately, we are all quite excited about the Canucks and look forward to watching the games.  Here Kendra and Owen are trying out the Canuck quiz that I gave to the ladies in my women's group at church.  Don't tell the ladies, but Kendra did much better than most of of them did!!!
 Here is a shot of Kendra and the zoo that she drew for "Z" week in Kindergarten.  She got a "How to draw animals" book from Grandma's thrift store and decided she wanted to try drawing them all so she made it into a zoo with different habitat sections, a park, benches, garbage cans and a parking lot!  It turned into quite the project but looks great! 
 Kendra is also playing t-ball again in the Church league.  She loves it that her team is made up of mostly kids from her church and she loves her coaches!  Here she is, ready to catch the next ball!
 In the very few nice days that we've had in the past while, the kids have been loving the trampoline.  Even Jocelyn is getting in on the action!  (I've discovered that the trampoline is also a great play pen for Jocelyn when I need to get a few things done in the yard and I don't want her to escape to the front!)
 Finally, just a few shots of what our 18-month old loves to do!!  What is the fascination with toilets and toilet paper?!
 Her other favourite thing to do is sit and 'read' her books!  So cute!!
Just a little glimpse into life at the deWolde household!

Monday, May 2, 2011

Finally, a sunny afternoon!

I know we don't live in Alberta where they still have snow, but it has been unseasonably cold here.  Usually by now we are planting our flowers outside, breaking out the flip-flops and enjoying time on the deck.  Not so this year yet.  Yesterday, however, the sun decided to come out and give us a beautiful day.  So, we figured we better take advantage and get outside to 'go exploring'!  So, we headed up to Rolley Lake, just north of Mission.  Kevin is training the kids young to have a love for exploring new places.  It really is fun to see them so excited about walking down a path and marvelling at the fallen trees with new growth coming out of them, to see how the trees look 'spooky' with the moss growing on them.  They are excited to find a new little path off the main one to go down and discover what lies at the end of it.  We had a wonderful afternoon!  Bring on the summer!
 Kendra taking pictures with her camera. 
Owen looking for something to discover under the bridge.
 Off to find something else!
 There were so many cool stumps to look at.  This one was completely hollow inside.


 Jocelyn had had enough exploring for one day - time for a nap!
 However, once she discovered the beach, it was a whole new world again! 


We forgot to take buckets and shovels but that didn't seem to bother the kids too much.  It is amazing what you can do with your hands in the sand!