HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELSEY!! - September 30th

Kelsey turned 11 today...I can hardly believe it! Every birthday of every child, I re-live the day they were born and incredibly, it all seems so vivid. Kels was born with a mop of black hair and big blue eyes and now as you can see she has turned into a beautiful pre-teen!! Slow down time!!

Connor, Kelsey, Alisha, Steph and Chloe ready to eat the ice cream cake (Lauren was on her way but absent from the pic). After supper Connor headed out with Wade to play video games and catch the new movie "Open Season." The girls had a blast, an evening filled with games, crafts, mud masks, make-up, foot facials, movies and food.

Mags and Nicole testing out the foot fixer.

Making our "SPA slippers", relaxing and trying out some mud masks...

Lauren modelling her slippers, freshly painted nails and pj's, aren't the slippers adorable??

Trent showing off his (and Mags) slippers!

Time for some shut eye!

Hip Hip Hooray Connor!

Connor all ready to run at his first official Cross Country Meet. It was a beautiful day and loads of people came out to run and spectate...(10 schools?)

Connor in action, sprinting the last leg of the race and passing the runner in red to come in 4th overall in his age group! Woot! Woot! You made us proud Con!

His cheering section surrounding him; Bri, Mags, Trent, Aunt Nicole and Wade (and me taking the pic) . Now onto the regionals next week...i'll keep you posted.

Maggie, Maggie

Our little nature nut, holding her pet toads. At present she has 4 toads and a caterpillar in captivity. Nothing seems to freak her out, worms, centipedes, crickets, you name it, she'll pick it up and become it's friend.

On another note, we went to see my mom at the nursing home the other day and Mags (of course) had to use the bathroom; instead of trekking down the hall to the public washroom, we used mom's semi-private washroom. Maggie was sitting there taking in everything around her, the raised toilet seat, the bars to aid in getting up etc. After she was done and we were washing her hands she said "I want to try those on!" I looked around and saw nothing to try on and gave her an odd look and she pointed to a container housing a pair of someone's DENTURES!! "THOSE!" she said. I laughed so hard! Just had to share it!

FIrst Day of School - September 5th

Looking good on the first day of school. Hard to believe that Kels is now in grade 6 and Connor in grade 3!

The Last Hurrah...

Some clips from our last week at the trailer...the Labour Day weekend ended with a family reunion, baby sister Nic returned from the west and came up to the camp with Kevin, Carole, Ashleigh and Baby Jaden on Sunday and Mom and Dad toured up on the same Sunday afternoon. I hope that your legs weren't/aren' t too cramped up from sleeping in the back of your Tribute K & C!!! Hopefully it was worth it??

POINT EDWARD

Trent couldn't take his eyes off the "pirate ship" and as you can see, Mags was more interested in getting her picture taken. (lol!)

Our annual fries under the bridge and boat watching...

Here we were watching a Tugboat pull out a barge. It never ceases to amaze me how blue the water is under that bridge, hence the name eh? BLUEwater Bridge...

A DAY AT THE BEACH

The Fishing Derby 2006 - Colleen, Kels and Marla. Congrats to Colleen (& Steve) for confirming her pregnancy to us all and to Kelsey for winning 3rd prize for an 11 inch bass in the derby! Booby prize went to Connor for the smallest fish...5 inches!!

Good old-fashioned fun. An afternoon of sackraces, wheelbarrow races, 3 legged races, balloon toss, egg toss etc.

Sarah, Marla and Kelsey (and all the others) await the prizes!

Our family did well, especially Brian and Steve who won the horseshoe tourney! Brian even managed to get a double ringer (yup I know Steve, you did it last year!)

Labour Day 2006 - closing up the trailer, Connor was quite proud to be covering the A/C. Both Dad and Grand Dad giving instructions...

Bye Lakewood and Lakewood friends, hope to see you next spring D.V. Above all we thank God for the wonderful summer we had with family and friends and for the safety given to us on the countless trips back and forth the past 3 months. God bless!