Welcome Kochs

Livia, Iris, Nico, and Alex just moved to Kelowna and are slowly settling in.

Garfield

Nemy's class produced a Garfield christmas play (en francais) for the parents. The students wrote the whole thing on their own. They were great. Nemy was the narrator.

Wine party

A little wine, a little dance, a little more wine... opa!

Fozzy

The boy has more than doubled in size over the past month.He still has lots of growing to do though.

Hart sisters

Get the three sisters together, and this is what you get. Comedy.

Welcome Juliet

Juliet, our live-in Au Pair arrived from England just over a week ago. She's doing really well in this freezer weather of ours.

starting up again

Ok, I just realized that I could link my posts from blogger to facebook, so I'll start this up again. Back soon.

continued on facebook

Hi folks, I'm posting all new pics on facebook.

Cozy

Crazy Train

Grade 2

Anemone ready for her first day at school (Ecole L'Anse-au-Sable) last monday. She was nervous on that day, but has apparently made several new friends, including a BFF (best friend forever). Artemisia starts preschool this week.

good bye Guelphites

I know they left a week ago, but a couple more pics.

Maggie is the one hanging from the trapeze.

Kalamalka lake

Fun at Kalamalka Lake today. But very smokey. A bunch of fires in the Okanagan and the smoke has settled in Kelowna.

Visitors from Guelph

Jen, Maggie, and Evan arrived for a visit. Off to the Gyro beach we go.

jungle gym

Ok done. Now just waiting for the pea gravel to arrive. It took 3 days to build, not 8 hours as was advertized on the box. 8 hours? maybe with a crew of 4 construction workers...

Nelson

Our trip to Nelson, one of the best places in the world to live.

Spent lots of time on Joop's boat. Best part of the trip.

Theresa and Kyran enjoying the scenery on Kooteney lake

Joop teaching Nemy to fish

Miranda and Kyran while Joop was driving

Artemis just before taking a dip in the water

The girls in Theresa's back yard

Auntie and Nemy performing karaoke: what else but Abba!

Kyran and Nemy playing monopoly

Tired girls on the way back home

sister hug

Back yard adventures

So, our backyard needs some work. There are no trees or plants (except for the lawn). We'll have to plant some. But first, the plan is to build a play set for the kids. Before we can do that though, we need to level and flatten a large section, since it's on a slope. But how? The soil is pure clay and rock. Impossible to dig. 

Wait, I have an idea. Going to the store. Back soon.   

Hey, look what I found. This should help.

Oh ya baby!

Nice to have some teenagers around eager to work 

Ok, now level and flat, and the retaining wall is in. All that work, and haven't even begun building the play set....   

Happy Birthday Nemy

2002

2009

Big Cousin Visiting

Kyran is visiting and looking after the girls for a couple of weeks. Which reminds me, I have a couple of old pics from when I first met Kyran...

Bubble gum ice cream

Paul's Tomb

What to do on a 38C, hot and smokey day? Walk the path down the hill from our house, to Paul's Tomb, a nice quiet beach, for a refreshing dip. It was great.  But the hike back up, while carrying the little ones, wow, that was harder than I ever imagined.

 

Sister summer fun

Ogopogo - the snake-like monster that's supposed to live in Lake Okanagan. Several sightings. It's possible. It's a big lake. 135 km long and 230 m deep.

Relaxing at the beach

Bed story time.