Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Happy Birthday Vincent!

Vincent turned 3 on Oct. 15th.  It was fun to see how he understood it was his special day - even though he wasn't always thrilled with the attention he got.  After it was all over anyone who got a present or something special he would be upset with because "it's Vincent's happy birthday".  It's hard being a kid...  Here's some photos of gift opening and his little party with some friends.










The Pumpkin Patch!!

October was beautiful - so we made sure we enjoyed the outdoors as much as possible.  On a sunny Friday we set off to Stoney Ridge Farms to enjoy the animals, the pumpkins, apples and the corn maze with a group of friends.  It was super busy there - but we decided to stay for lunch and by that time all the pre-schools seemed to have left and things were a little less crazy.  The kids just loved it - especially the hay ride to the corn maze!!







Monday, October 14, 2013

Grouse Grind

This past weekend we had a fall break for our school kids and it was beautiful weather - cool and sunny.  I've wanted to climb Grouse Mountain for the past few years - it's kind of a "bucket list" sort of thing.  Google it - it's a very steep incline and you climb for 1.3 miles or so.  I went with Alec and his friend Stefan - they had no trouble bounding up like it was nothing.  I told them to just go ahead - it would make me feel bad to hold them back.  Every now and then they'd be sitting somewhere waiting for me to encourage me and then they'd be off.  They thought I did quite well for an old lady :)  The great thing about this mountain is that it's illegal to climb back down - you have to take the gondola - that I was very thankful for when I got to the top!