Muskrat Pond

On Sunday, we took the kids for a walk after supper to a nearby park.  The park is actually called Guinevere Park but before we knew its real name, we decided to call it Muskrat Pond since we've seen muskrats swimming there.

The pond was full of noisy geese and a few ducks as well.  We also saw robins and could hear all sorts of other birds in the trees.

We saw interesting stuff like frog eggs.

I think Maira's favourite part about visiting Muskrat Pond is riding on the deer statues.

Connor was pretty excited when Jess let him borrow one of the cameras to take some pictures of his own.

He took this picture of us relaxing while the kids explored for a bit.

Before long, Connor discovered that if he took an old cattail and rubbed it on the sidewalk and then waved it around, it made a lot of fun fluff.  And Jess liked how it looked in the light so he kept encouraging them to "make more fluff!"

Swimming at the Waterpark

A couple of weeks ago, I took the kids to the waterpark at West Edmonton Mall.  Shae insisted on bringing along the waterproof camera and I'm glad she did because we had a lot of fun taking pictures in the wave pool.

Playing Around

This post is just a random collection of the kids playing over the last few months.

 One day, I poured piles of baking soda onto cookie sheets and gave the kids coloured vinegar and eye droppers.  It was so fun, even Shae wanted to join in.

 

 

 

...And a Winter Post

Oops, I was jumping ahead of myself in my last post, talking all about spring, I forgot about a few winter photos I wanted to post!

First, my birthday.  I turned 35 and had a lovely celebration with my family.

A month later, Jess had his birthday.  For some reason, I don't have any pictures of him (probably because he had the camera, as usual).  But this is a slice of the pie I baked for him, and a picture of his presents from the kids.

They each made a pinata for him. and then Maira made some presents for him that she wrapped up in blankets and fastened with pretty much every hairbow she owns.

We barely got any snow this winter but right when spring was around the corner, we got one last snow storm.  The fun thing about spring snow storms is that the snow is usually pretty sticky so the kids could go out and build snowmen.