Happy September!

also known as "what happened to the summer?"!!  OK, seriously, I don't know how it is that it's time for thinking about school again, but here we are.  And I haven't blogged all summer!

It's been a fun summer and one full of change and we're going to see more of that this month with Nathan starting Kindergarten and Kyle going into Grade 3!  Of course, I'm no longer looking after Matthew and Sophia (my niece and nephew) what with Sophia going to K as well at a school near their place.

Things that happened recently...
- Kyle had a wek of camp - sports and art
- trip to Oregon with 14 of us family (great time had by all!)
- had someone hit our truck and had it written off
- stopped watching Matthew and Sophia Aug 19th
- lots of visits with friends and trips to the park for the kids
- Kyle to the dentist and to ortho, but all's good thankfully for now anyway
- Nathan had an infection on his nose that didn't look great for a bit, but it's all gone
- a couple of birthday parties to go to as well as our annual family picnic
- we had all of George's family here for an end of summer bbq
- I went with friends to see another friend play (drums) at the Cobalt in Vancouver!
- the boys had a weekend sleepover at Nana and Grandpa's

And that was only this month!  So much fun and so many pictures!  Will try and post some soon along with some creative stuff as well!
Cheers,

PS I'm taking Shimelle's Learn Something New Every Day and I'm going to try blogging it too, so we'll see how that goes!

Summer 2008

Wow, how quickly this summer came and went! And we're back to rain on the west coast again here that really is making it feel like fall and that it's time for back to school!

Here's a quick glimpse at our summer:
*our anniversary
*preschool graduation
*Kindergarten drop-in
*dinner at mum and dad's with a very pregnant Tracy, Brian and Sophia
*a trip to Science World
*2 weeks off for George
*Kyle's 5th birthday
*Canada Day celebrations including a night out for a concert and the fireworks for just George and I
*a day trip for the 2 of us to Victoria to see Butchart Gardens
*a visit to my Grandma on the island
*lunch with a couple of friends (2 of my old bosses)
*appt with the Ear, Nose and Throat specialist for Kyle and finding out he needed to have his adenoids and tonsils out
*lunch with Tracy, Sophia, my cousin Renee, and her little guy Mitchel
*big family picnic at the local park planned by mum and dad to get a chance to be together before Tracy had the baby
*Matthew's birth - welcome to the world Matthew! We'd been waiting for you!
*Kyle's surgery - followed by a couple of very looooong weeks of recovery!
*a night out on the deck doing S'mores
*Kyle getting a back to school haircut and Nathan going to the barber for the first time
*our first real "back to school" shopping

It's funny because when I thought about it, our summer hadn't seemed that busy, but when I look at that list, we did pretty well! We were hoping to go camping though and that just didn't seem to happen I'm afraid. We did have lots of fun out in the sprinkler and hanging out outside on nice days too and we had a stretch of about 3 weeks of nice weather at one point and a couple of hot spells, so not a bad summer at all!

Cheers,