Sam ties his shoes

Darcy and I were talking about Sam's shoes for grade 1 and figured laces could be OK if he could learn to tie his shoes by Thursday.  Who knows how long it takes to tie shoes?  Apparently only a few minutes if the time is right!  Note the length of his pyjamas - we're in need of a lot of new clothes for Sam this fall as he grows like a weed...

Screen door

Cute shot of Katy through the door...

Karns are back in town

Matt and Ali returned from Hawaii tonight, so we had dinner over at their place.  Katy looked super cute waiting at the car, and I love the picture of Max with the sky behind him, and Katy and Henry drinking from the fountain at South Glenmore Park!

Darcy's birthday

Darcy opening her presents along with some dinosaur bone excavation by the kids !

Sammy is six !!!

For a little something different we took Sam and 12 of his closest buds out to Big Hill Springs Provincial Park.  It was a little crazy herding all the kids through the trails, but we made it and had a delicious dinosaur cake prepared by Darcy!  Brad was able to get half a day off so it was nice to have the whole family there on a Tuesday...

Grandma C takes five

Grandma C and Calla took five of the kids over to Heritage Park today for some fun.  Great to have the grandparents in town around birthdays!

Flippin' cute!

Seroiusly, can babies get any cuter than these two ?

Heritage Park Hootenanny!

We aren't totally sure what it means, but Heritage Park had a Hootenanny today! (according to Wikipedia it meant a bunch of things, including 'party')  There was mini-golf, a petting zoo, face painting, a colouring contest and more...  Grandma and I took the four kids over for the morning, ate lunch in a nice treed spot overlooking the reservoir, and then returned home.  Ali and Matt left Ro and Lily as they headed out to Hawaii, and I took the four older kids to Riley Park.  Claire and Eric and the gang showed up for dinner, so it was an all Wickett Saturday!