Happy Birthday James!

Our little guy turned 3 last week! How did I get a three year old?! Time flies and wow, he's changed so much in this last year! We had two celebrations - one of the day of, which just so happened to fall on game 7 of the Stanley Cup (we all know what happens, but in case James is checking this out in years to come...Canucks lost and there was a terrible riot that ensued). Happily for us, James was oblivious and went to sleep after a great pizza party still chanting "we want the cup!" and singing "Oh Canada"! A few days later, we celebrated with friends and family at our place. Rain tried to dampen the day, but we managed to get outside once it stopped and had a great afternoon playing, eating and playing some more!

Here are a few pics from the parties!

Cheese!

Stanley Cup Pizza Birthday Party!

Grammy made a delicious and adorable dinosaur cake!

Sharing Cake!

There are so many great pics of the day but my computer is slow to upload them, so I've just posted a few!

Happy Birthday Bud...we love you!

James first Strider Ride Date!

James' friend DJ came over for a ride date, as he was a little unsure about riding it! They had matching bikes and helmets, so we had to get DJ the matching bell and lookout bike-world, here comes DJ! He was a natural and went over James' jumps and down our neighbours driveway (gliding!) It was so cute to see the boys together riding and James did a great job encouraging DJ! Come back again DJ!

James showed him how to poppa wheelie!

Time for crackers!

Annual Vernon visit to Noelle and Everett's

We just returned from our annual summer trip to the Okanagan! We combined our friends wedding in Kelowna, a visit to Vernon to see our friends and a trip to Mable Lake to spend some days (relaxing?!) with Geoff's Mom (Grammy). We were away 6 days and it was lots of driving for the boys and we made it unscathed although Mason was a bit of a screamer at times (it didn't help that on the way home we were stuck in a traffic accident for an hour which made our trip 8 hours for the day...never so happy to be home!)

Geoff was the best man in the wedding so I had the boys for a few days by myself and of course forgot to bring the camera to the wedding. I did bring everything else though and it was a lovely wedding!

Here we are at Noelle and Everett's house! Noey loved Mason and wanted to help in any way she could!

Down at Roxy's dog agility field - James love watching the dogs go over the teeter totter and ramps!

Still not smiling together...one day!

I'll take you for a ride!

Watching Mason jump

A dip in the hot tub - Mason loved it!

So did James!

James' favorite parts of the trip were their new bouncy castle in the basement, the hot tub, his own room with a big boy bed and the biggest teddy bear you've ever seen! We can't wait to go back - James is already asking!

A picking we will go!

On Thursday, we (ambitiously) went strawberry picking with some friends! It was a slight challenge for me to have both boys out there, but with the help of a personal photographer and a personal berry picker (Moira) - we did manage to bring home a few and 2 full bellies! James was stained red from nose to finger tips!

Their baskets weren't that full but the bellies were!

Sleepy Mason in the patch!

The sign said no sampling. James cannot read.

Beautiful rosy lips!

Rocks are way more exciting!