Friday, January 29, 2016

What have we been up to in January ??

We sorta had snow...for a few hours lol hahaha I love living in a place where snow melts in half a day :-) 

An afternoon stroll with the hubs while the kids were at stagecoach.

Eli is super excited to be learning to play hockey this year!

We have a Korean student staying with us for a month. She is only 10 and super sweet.
We took her for a two hour hike up to a waterfall...it rained sooooooo much, we were totally drowned lol. Not sure what she made of it all but she was smiling!








We also took her to the aquarium

Our little dolphin friend Chester taken by Immy


Eli has been doing a history class where they have learned all about the Aboriginal groups of early Canada. Him and the 2 other boys in his group were assigned the 'Plateau' people group and made this diorama (over 2 months) of a typical dwelling. The greener side is how they lived in summer and the white side is how they lived in winter. It's a little hard to see but he will be presenting to the class next week so we will do a video of it. They have worked soon hard on it.

His little guy on a canoe that he made (the guy is actually a 3d print of Eli dressed in native costume)



Friday, January 22, 2016

Christmas!!

It's Christmas day!! i didn't take many opening presents pics this year but here are a couple - Immy opening Pikachu who she desperately wanted and Eli opening his Anki Overdrive!



Eli got a selfie stick!

Clearly we are not experienced in the selfie stick photo taking...giant light in the middle of Dan and Leah!

Present opening time!!

I think this is the point where Helen got a little overwhelmed lol






 Intense game of hockey at Helen and Buu's

Boxing day walk









Christmas 2015...will he be taller than Nana next Christmas?!!





View from our house one afternoon as the sun was setting and the sky was red!

We up to Seymour one day to do tube town. Most amazing view of Vancouver. I only had my phone to take pics with but so wish I had the camera with me. It was stunning. My pics don't do it anywhere near justice!





Sing star night!


Tears because we were taking the tree down :-(

We went to the Canucks family day...the kids were SO excited to get a pic with Finn the mascot!



It's almost Christmas 2

I know, I know, you are blown away by the originality of my post titles! Little pet peeve I have - I HATE thinking of titles for things - especially subject lines on emails!

Anyways that aside ;-) here is a glimpse of what we did the few days leading up to Christmas.

We dressed up and went to see 'The Force Awakens'. I was so surprised that Immy sat through the whole 2 and a half hour movie and loved every second of it!


We decorated our Christmas tree!


We did ALOT of skating before Christmas. This was at the Pitt Meadows winter wonderland skate. So much fun!

We braved the rain and went to the Stanley Park Bright nights.



We got new Christmas Pj's and went for a pyjama party at the Lammies house :-)





We had a little Christmas carol sing a long!

and finished off the evening with Eli reading 'The Night Before Christmas'