It Happens So Fast
August 20, 2006The summer is over and what a great summer it was. It’s funny but this summer we did the least in terms of travel and visiting and somehow managed to have the best time in a long time. We rested and spent time just hanging as a family (immediate and extended). How can your days not be great when you are hardly out of pyjamas by 10 AM and there is always hot coffee in the pot?
We enjoyed simple things like
- McDonald’s breakfasts with the kids playing in the most awesome playroom this side of the Pacific.
- Running, jumping, swinging, chasing in LeBourdais Park after dinner
- Blizzards at the downtown DQ
- 10 Mile Lake
- WalMart kids/baby section
- Dad’s F250 Diesel Truck which Carter refers to as ‘Ampa’s Truck’
- Carter pretending to drive the aforementioned truck
- DaLong’s 20 year reunion. “Joy .. pump it up, pump it up and PAIN”
- Carter making his grandparents laugh and laugh and laugh
- Nathan letting out his first pseudo-laugh
- Spending more time with my brother
- Marshall and Dalong’s hockey challenges
- Carter’s very belated birthday party tonight
And this is just a sample but I wanted to leave this post with some of my favourite photos from the last couple of days.
Well .. it was a long one but there you have it. To our Canadian friends .. see you next year and to our Chinese friends .. see you soon.
Wow, Nathan looks so much like Lao Lao (his Chinese Grandma) in the first photo. Unbelievable.
Comment by adrian — August 21, 2006 @ 6:11 am
Great Pictures - I see why they are some of you fav’s. Your summer sounds so nice. Have a great trip back and another awesome year in China. We’ll be seeing you next summer for sure!
Comment by carole — August 21, 2006 @ 11:47 pm
Sounds like some great days to me. Coffee, Walmart and PJ’s till 10:00 yahoo!!
Comment by Susan — September 2, 2006 @ 7:11 am