Cake Decorating Class

This month I have been going to a cake decorating class, it has been SO fun. Unfortunately my hard drive crashed and I no longer have a picture of my first cake which was a rainbow cake. I found the hardest part in the course was getting the right consistency with the iciing, even a couple drops of water could change the whole consistency.

This is someone else's rainbow cake, but mine looked very similar.

My finale cake, I torted the cake before all the iciing and put some pudding inside the middle of the cake as well.

Elbow Falls

We went to elbow falls this morning for fathers day, we have missed being so close to the mountains while living in Edmonton. I forgot my camera but here are some we took with Lee's cellphone.

The kid's brought up some belgium waffles that they made (with some help from me of course) to daddy in bed to start his day. He then got two presents, quad scriptures and some shamWOW's (he's been asking for them for awhile..).

Lee and I walked across this little stream, it took alot of effort for me to last this long to get the picture taken, it was freezing.

I LOVE to look at waterfalls

kid's playing in the rocks, Zoë brings home "special" rocks every day.

After Dreyton had his nap we went over to my parent's house for a turkey dinner and a couple of games.

300th Post

wow, I can't believe I have written 300 posts since I started this blog. We went to prince's island park the other day to go feed some ducks as we had some stale bread to use up. We found some really cute ducks with there babies but the evil canadian geese kept attacking them every time they'd come close to us. We fed some geese but they kept coming closer and one of them would come so close it would start hissing at us, I made sure they didn't come near my babies.

We had a surprise anniversary party yesterday for Lee's parents at our house. They thought we were having a graduation party for Lee and were quite surprised walking into the room. We had a ham dinner, funeral potatoes, caesar salad, buns, lots of fruit and vegetables, beans and a few jello salads. I thought it turned out really good and seemed like everybody had fun. 

Dreyton was having fun going in circles at the kitchen island showing off his goggles The fun we had at midnight after the party.

Splash Park

You will probably get tired of seeing pictures of the splash park by the end of the summer as i'm sure we'll spend most of our days there. It is just across the street from us and the kids love it, there's a big splash area and the kids use the beach volleyball area as a giant sandbox.

Lee had a 1/2 an hour off today so he came for a little bit.

Arizona House

Here's the pictures some of you have been wanting to see of the Arizona house that my parents took when they were there. My parents and Uncle Doug and Aunt Blanche just bought it close to Florence, it's in an adult complex backing onto a golf course.

The front of the house

The outdoor pool

Kitchen area and computer area

Living room

The back deck, they actually had to put fans up on the outside since it gets so hot.

Master Bedroom

Master Ensuite




Front entrance

Dad lounging

Indoor pool

Workout Room

backyard/golf course

Calgary Zoo

We took the kids to the Calgary Zoo today, they had so much fun looking at all the different animals.

a bat

I love this playground at the zoo. It has different sections for different ages and only one exit which makes it easy to monitor where the kids are.

It hit me today how big Zoë is getting already when we were at the playground. We saw her once in awhile as she ran past and said hi while running around with different kids, she doesn't need her parents help as much anymore to get around.

Only place Dreyton will stay still on is his daddy's shoulders.

The red panda
a cownose stingray
the pink flamingos

These gorillas were so funny, putting on a good show. There is a very cute baby gorilla there too.

It took awhile to find the tiger but we finally did, he actually came up to us and jumped on his two feet, unfortunately we didn't have the camera ready.