Ontario Family Reunion

In July, Leif had to stay home to work but I took a week off to go visit my dad's family in Ontario for a family reunion, a milestone wedding anniversary, and to visit my far away sister.

My grandparent's ginormous garden!

The delicious reunion cake. It was carrot cake and I may have cheated on the no sugar thing!

The whole gang.

We went out for a special lunch to celebrate my grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary! Big congrats to a lovely couple!

Just missing one cousin!

We went to the lake quite a few times to jump off the bridge. This is my fearless brother doing flips.

And us girls just decided to jump.

This kid is so strong. He decided to pull himself up onto the bridge instead of using the shore to go jump again.

Me trying to be like my "little" brother. I eventually did get up the same way he did but it took about 500 tries!

The three musketeers.

Playing cards with the cousins.

I went into the city to stay with my sister for a few nights. One evening, we went out for supper and then to visit the parliament buildings.

We walked around until it got dark so we could watch the light show. Pretty neat!

I had to leave before her actual birthday, but we celebrated a little early. Ya, that was a really good sugar cheat cake too!

Gorgeous sky on the last night.

4th Anniversary Pictures

We got our 4th wedding anniversary pictures taken by a very talented photographer that I went to high school with. She took us to a beautiful hidden park on the way to Cochrane. You should go check out her website: http://www.hmariephoto.com/

Here are some of our favourites!

July Long Weekend

Well here we are at the next long weekend and I still haven't posted about the last one! We celebrated Canada Day with Leif's family, including these cuties.

Canada Day cake!

Leif's dad, Leif, and I played a round of mini golf on real grass!

My handsome hubby with his newest nephew.

Half-size croquet course in the backyard.

Making car noises at the mall.

Ordering from the ice cream truck.

Pottery Gals Strike Again

My work friends and I have gone to paint pottery only a couple times over the past few months but we've come up with some pretty neat things.

Darth Vader mug for a brother with two beauties in the background!

Super cute vase.

Stove top spoon rest.

Funky cup.

 I liked that cup so much that I had to make one of my own!

June

June doesn't have any long weekends so we don't typically travel to Salmon Arm until the July long weekend, but sadly Leif's grandpa passed away so we made a long weekend and headed out to BC. The only pictures I got were Saturday afternoon playing croquet in the backyard.

Grandma showing him how its done.

Little guy's many attempts.

Just looking cool.

The difference between a boy and girl whacking the ball!

Beautiful flower!

Two pregnant beauties.

Then it was the big boys' turn. These three had an absolute hoot knocking each other all over the lawn!

3rd Anniversary Part 2

Yes, I know we just celebrated our 4th anniversary so that means these pictures are really old but I was waiting for the photographers to put our session on their blog so we could just send you there to look at all the goodies! Unfortunately, they didn't put it up and now they're entering wedding season again so you'll just have to be satisfied with our little blog. Better late than never! :)

hi ho hi ho, It's off to Work I go!

In the past couple months, I've been spending more time on site for work and I've got to see some pretty cool things.

Back in March I drove to Medicine Hat for an inspection and on the way there I passed this building that was being moved.

I've also had quite a few meetings and inspections downtown and sometimes I take the c-train to avoid having to park my car. I get to see this amazing tower on the way and wave hello to my brother-in-law who works there.

One of the types of inspections I do is checking the reinforcement in concrete members before the concrete is poured.  This is a grade beam that will eventually support the edge of a slab on grade and a new masonry wall for an apartment that is being converted into a hotel.

One of the coolest site visits I've done recently is at the new air traffic control tower for the airport. It is designated as a post-disaster building meaning that it needs to have its mechanical equipment seismically restrained. 

After the formal inspection, the contractor took us up to the observation deck and it has the most amazing 360 degree view!

The airport...

Outlying communities...

And downtown...