What Does the Fox Say? 6.14.15

We drove all the way to Smithers and camped.  And then we drove through some beautiful country (seriously amazingly beautiful) and down some back roads to a trail.  But before we got to the trail head, we came upon some foxes.

I believe there were 4 foxes.  Super cute!

And then we found the Silver King Trail and hiked/walked for a bit.  Here's the start of the trail.

We ate a picnic lunch and the kids were being cute (like they can help it, right?).

They had places to go, apparently.  Ha!

This is one of those true moments of being in the woods...when you gotta go, you gotta go.  Jeralyn is going to love this when she's older.  Ha!  She's such a good sport!

All done with our hike.  Let the adventure continue!

Prince Rupert 6.12.15

On Friday, June 12th, we hopped on the ferry to Prince Rupert.  It's about a 6 hour ferry ride.  We got a berth (room) on the ferry, put the kids to bed, and tried to sleep ourselves.  We arrived in Prince Rupert, British Columbia in the wee hours of the morning with just a few hours of sleep under our belt.  After driving off the ferry, we waited about 1-1/2 hours in line to get through the Canadian customs.  That was interesting because the kids were awake about 2 hours before we got to our hotel and could put them to bed once again--but they did awesome!  In those 2 hours, we were scolded by another ferry passenger (who Quent thinks was joking, but I do not) and then we had to give our apples to the border control officer.  Apples can be pretty dangerous, I suppose.  Haha!

We did all manage to fall back asleep once we arrived at our hotel.  It would be the last time we would sleep on a real bed in 11 days.

And so began our 2015 British Columbia family vacation:

Quent enjoyed the last of the evening light on the ferry while I stayed with the kids in the berth.  At one point the ferry was rockin' and rollin'; I was just thankful to be laying down.

More to come soon!

Knitted Blanket 6.6.15

Many months ago, I started knitting a blanket.  It was a gift for a friend.  It's the softest blanket.  I think I'm going to have to find a pattern (or the same one) that uses the same yarn because it's so soft and cozy.  In fact, I pretty much refuse to knit anything that's scratchy.

The color was hard to capture on camera.  So if you can sort of combine the photo above and the photo below, that's the color.

Jeralyn was my model for these photos.  Silly girl!

Little Listeners 6.4.15

Both of the kids love being read to.  Jeralyn is really into Fancy Nancy books right now (just think princess, glitter, glam, colorful) and Josh likes books that make farm animal sounds, or truck sounds, or has a song tied in with the book.  In fact, if we try reading a Fancy Nancy book to both kids, Josh wants OUT OF THERE!  Ha!  Not his thing.  Haha!  We love that they love books!

Big Boy 6.1.15

We've had a few requests to update the blog.  Cough.  Yeah...we are a little slow these days.  We went on a vacation in Canada in June and I'm waiting for Quent to edit those photos.  Summer is busy.  So hopefully he will edit those photos soon (I don't like editing scenery photos).  But I did manage to find a few photos I haven't posted yet.  So in the meantime:

I think Josh is playing with a canning lid in this photo.  He likes anything made of tin (not that it's made of tin, but it has that similar sound).  At the library, there's a tin can that holds these princess and knights the kids can play with and he finds that tin can every time and wants to make a bunch of noise with it.  And since it's a library, I take the tin can away (yeah...mean mom moment).  Well, unless it's story time and then there's so much noise that it doesn't matter.

Josh had his well-child exam a couple weeks after this photo was taken and he is a big boy.  90-something percentile for weight/height.  He towers over some 2 year olds at 15 months (he's now 16 months).  He LOVES music and to dance.  If there's music playing, he's right there listening to it and bopping away (videos to come soon).

Dude Mountain 5.30.15

We hiked up Dude Mountain as a family.  Josh was in the pack and the rest of us on our own two feet.  Jeralyn was pretty tired going down, but she did great!

Taking a break about halfway up.

Jeralyn had no idea I was posing like a ballerina.  It was fun!

This ridge is so beautiful because it has all of these different wildflowers all over it.

Jeralyn in the snow.

Yeah, it's pretty up here!

The last part of the climb up.

Eating lunch at the top.  Pretty amazing!  Anyone want to come visit us?

Jeralyn sitting among the beautiful lupine.  She knows these are my favorite.

And then we headed down.  A great day for a hike!

2nd Haircut & Silly Sister 5.28.15

Quent gave Josh his first and second haircut.  Here he is for his second cut.  He was wiggly, but not too bad.  He was given lots of things to keep him occupied.

And his funny sister asked me to take some pictures of her, too.

Cuteness Overload 5.26.15

So we attempted a photo shoot session with the kids.  And this is quite embarrassing, *cough*, but these were also done with the intention of them being for Josh's first birthday, which was in March.  *blush*  What can I say, we are quite busy!  And I can't even use the weather as an excuse because the month of May was AMAZING here while the rest of the country was drowning in wetness.  Seriously though, in a whole month we had only ONE cloudy day and a 2 hour thunderstorm.  Now, both of those things are HIGHLY unusual here (remember, we get 14 FEET of precipitation a year!).  And a thunderstorm...so very rare!  So what a great month!

Anyway, I'm getting off track here.

Joshua is 14 months during this photo shoot.  He started walking at 13 months.  So imagine how "fun" this photo shoot was.  I think we wished we could clone ourselves and grow an extra arm each just to keep Josh sitting still. Getting a photo of the two of them together was CRAZY!  So we did our best.  (Some of these photos have been printed for family--keep an eye on your mailbox).

He actually sat still for a few seconds for both of the last two photos, but then he was DONE with that.

I'm trying to rearrange them here.  Probably had to tackle Josh to the ground a few times.

"Ahhh, she's touching me!"

This one isn't too bad.

Love this picture!

And this one!

"Let's try taking a picture of them together when Josh is in the car."  Haha...oh man!

Down he goes.  Poor little guy!

Running and dancing.

Then we took them over to our neighbor's trampoline with hopes of getting more photos, which we did...

We did our best.  Right?  :)

S'mores 5.25.15

On Memorial Day we had some friends over for a BBQ.  And then afterwards we made s'mores in our fire pit in our yard.  All of the kids loved it (and the adults too).

Her little "I love s'mores" dance.  Not really, but she likes to pose for the camera like this these days.

Josh being cute!

Mmmm...