Learning to show proof early

I get out of the shower and see Dreyton has make-up in his hand and I look to Zoë next to him and ask if she put make-up on her brother, she said she didn't and showed me the pictures she took to prove it.

Zoë taking a picture of herself proving she's taking the pictures

A continuous battle with me and Dreyton trying to get my phone back

Daily Surprise

Zoë and Dreyton love to play with the video/camera option on my iphone. I love looking through them daily and seeing the pictures/videos they took that day. Here are a few they have taken

Zoë sneaking away with my iphone in the basement, busted....

Dreyton blowing kisses

Dreyton took this while I was napping, definitely a RARE occurrence.

It looks like I was smiling for the camera, but I never knew that he was taking pictures

I took this picture while we were playing at the park just before picking up Zoë from preschool. Dreyton refuses to sit on the swing, this is the only way he will go on it. He has a huge fear of rides and apparently a swing is close enough to one for him.

Lee has been doing corporate challenge competitions this week. Saturday was family day where they had face painting, inflatable slides, balloon making etc.


While we were there Lee competed in tug-of-war pulling a semi-truck, his team won gold. It's kinda hard to see, but Lee is in the very front with his orange hat on.

Zoë's first day of preschool

Zoë loved her first day of preschool, she has been waiting for this day for many months. She is used to going to different kinds of classes so this wasn't hard to get used too.
It is only a few blocks away from my house which I LOVE, compared to any of her other classes which have been about 10 minutes away.

Zoë staying afloat

Zoë has been doing such a good job of doggy paddling around the deep pool. I was able to get a little bit of her doing it before they told me I wasn't allowed to video tape at that pool.

Zoë turns four

My baby girl is now four, she had a super fun birthday this year which lasted for 3 days. Her birthday was Sunday so we went to the Stanfords for family dinner and Zoë got spoiled with gifts and it was decorated for a princess. She picked out her dinner which was hot dogs and fruit, she loved it.

My VERY rushed job on her birthday cake. It tasted better then it looked.


Day 2 we went to my parents place and had family dinner with them with pumpkin pie for dessert. She got to open even more presents there. I forgot to take pictures when i was there.

Day 3 Zoë said she wanted to have a sleepover for her birthday so I let her have 2 friends spend the night. They had a tonne of fun having pizza, opening presents, playing games, and watching a movie. She wanted a fairy themed birthday so I got tinkerbell the movie and bedding/nighties for them.

Zoë got to pick out a new outfit for her bunny Flopsy for her birthday, she picked a very colourful dress


Needless to say i'm ready for a NAP

Cabin

We had lots of fun at the cabin even if it wasn't great weather for most of the time. We would go on the paddleboat quite often and when we did the first time I had the kids swim back to the dock. Each time after that they would go in the water, even when I didn't want them too as they didn't have there swimsuits on.

My kids are obsessed with dogs, no fear at all. They LOVED having Toozik around at the cabin, and I got to admit it was VERY nice when it came to bedtime, they were so exhausted you never heard a word from them.



It was bathtime one evening so I decided to make a sign for Lee and have the kids go see him while he was playing xbox. I should do it more often, worked like a charm.

Montana/Southern Alberta

Lee's grandma passed away in her sleep last week so we went to the cabin a little earlier so my parents could watch the kids while we went to her funeral.

This was Zoë with her last year when we went to visit on our way to the Sefcik reunion.

It was nice seeing the Stanford relatives as we don't get to see them very often, even if it was under not great circumstances. I believe these are all the Stanford cousins and aunts/uncles minus one cousin.










Uncle Mark Stanford invited us on his pontoon boat one day while we were in Montana on Flathead Lake. it was a nice trip but we were thinking it was only going to be an hour so we definetely weren't prepared when we were on there for 5 1/2 hours! That is a HUGE lake as we didn't even come close to going to the end.

The Comedy Club

Zoë and Jayden are HILARIOUS to listen too. They were playing playdough for awhile and just listening to there conversations had me laughing the whole time.

Jayden was telling Zoë that when she goes "nanananannana" it's not nice and it's because she doesn't love herself. Then they proceed to go in a deep conversation about loving themselves.

(Zoë goes in time out for lying)
She starts counting 1, 2, 3 and says she has done 3 minutes in time out. I tell her it's only been 3 seconds so she counts again 1, 2, 3, minutes, i'm done!

When Zoë is done timeout she goes to Jayden and tells her why she was in timeout for lying, and that she always lies. Jayden asked if its cause Dreyton tells her to lie because Drew always tells her to lie.

Calaway Park

Lee and I, my mom and Dayna and the kids went to Calaway Park today. Zoë and Jayden had a blast on the rides, the boys on the other hand had fun NOT going on rides.

They have lots of cute rides that the girls can go on by themselves.



Dreyton had fun playing in the balls and the play structures they had around the park

Zoë and Jayden could have lastest alot longer then we did at Calaway, they would go on the same rides over and over again.

I was shocked they had bumper cars they could go on at 3 years of age, even Dreyton would have been able to go on them if he wanted too.

Camping

We just got back from camping in Fort Macleod this weekend. We wanted a campsite around Southern Alberta to go visit Lee's Grandma (who passed away in her sleep on July 30th) and Aunt in the Lethbridge hospital and my Granny in Magrath on Saturday.

It was a nice campground with a pool, games room, free mini golfing and a few other things. Unfortunately the campsite we were at was on the lower level of the campground where it was mosquito infested (100's of them). It was a huge campsite but mosquito's just swarmed the area, especially at dinner time. Next time we go we'd go to the upper campground as we didn't see any mosquito's around there.

It's funny how when you go camping the simplest things will entertain them for the longest time.

Can't go camping without s'mores.


They slept so well in the tent, I was impressed.