Finally!

Someone knows where I'm coming from.

Kaden has the job of unloading the dishwasher every morning. He strongly dislikes this job but has come to the reality for the most part that it has to be done and he's the man. Step back to this summer, I was tired of the kids using 3 and 4 cups or glasses a day to get a drink of water. So I went and bought a water jug to keep full and wrote names on some cups we got from 4-H. It didn't work and I kinda gave up. Fast forward to about 2 weeks ago and Kaden unloading the dish washer one morning he says to me: "That's it! I've had it with every one using all of these glasses and I have to unload them. I'm tired of this." I wanted to give the child a extra hug since someone finally understands just one of my frustrations. We made of this sign that morning and posted it on the cupboard, it has made quite a difference.

Where in the Olympics is JR Celsk?

The girls searched all day...no luck.

Vancouver Day Trip

Since we couldn't afford or get tickets to any of the Olympic events we decided we could at least make a trip into Vancouver to see the sight and try and go to the free stuff. The sights were great despite the rain but the free stuff took way too long to stand in line for. Over all it was a fun day.

Sorry

Blogger was misbehaving and posted my pictures 3 times... not sure how to fix it.

Olympic Torch

We found out that the Olympic Torch was going to come pretty close to our house and just across the boarder. Not really knowing what to expect since it said it was at a park and it had been raining a good part of the day, we gathered blankets, umbrellas and our chairs and headed up to Abbotsford Canada.

When we got to the park it turn out to be a small stadium, no chairs needed. Thankfully we brought our blankets because the seats were wet. The 3 older kids and I went down on the field to see what was going on. We found that we could stand right by the track and wait for the runner to go right by us. I got Craig and Kaden and we went back to our spot. We ended up with a pretty good view. The kids were able to get their picture taken with a former Canadian Hockey player that carried that torch at some point. We have no idea what his name his but I'm sure all the little 8 to 12 year old Canadian boys that wouldn't move so others could take a picture did know his name.

Over all it was a fun experience and we were glad that we went! Too bad we can't afford tickets to go to the events....I guess we'll have to be happy with some free stuff and maybe we'll go the the Para-Olympics instead.