Armed Forces Day

Today was Armed Forces Day at 15 Wing Air Force Base here in Moose Jaw. There were lots of static displays - air and army & navy. There was lots to see and the air demonstration in the afternoon was great.

This is the kids sitting in one of the Snowbird's planes. Andrew told me later in the day while we were watching the Snowbirds perform that he wants to be a Snowbirds pilot when he grows up. Who knows? Maybe he will!

Here's the kids checking out the heavy artillery.

Here's one of our illustrious Canadian helecopters letting some guys out for a bit of fun on the ground.


This was the coolest take off I've ever seen, of a CF-18 Hornet!


And our "own" Moose Jaw Snowbirds taking off!

A fun day!!

The last picture before the cast comes off, she's pretty excited, and so are we!



The cast coming off! Just before it was Laura's turn Andrew looked around with several other people in the room and said "where's the chain saw?" Everyone laughed.



Ahhh, getting used to the freedom and the possibility of torture!




The mirror thingie at the Saskatchewan Science Centre, it's a cool hands on place.

Blowing bubbles!

Girlfriends

This is Laura and her friend Aysia goofing off during a recent sleepover.

Canada Day 2007

We arrived about 2 hours early to get a good seat for the fireworks. We passed the time by playing baseball, soccer, visiting, eating DQ and drinking Tim Horton's coffee - what more could you ask for?

Mike, baby Marcus, Andrew on Ashley's broken chair and Paul.

Julie, Mike & baby Marcus, Ashley after he broke his chair and Paul.

Some of the gang visiting & watching the sunset.

Lisa & Leanne

Laura & Jessica in the back of our van. Our back seats flip over so they were quite comfortable back there.

Baby Marcus at 3 1/2 weeks old enjoying his first fireworks. Actually, by the time they started, he had fallen asleep and slept through the whole thing.

Nolan

Mike showing off his talents - did I mention that we arrived early and had time to kill?!


Ashley in his broken chair.

A few pictures of a prairie sunset.

Sigh, our kids have learned how to use the camera...

Laura and Andrew

Here's some old pictures of the kids, from before we started this blog, enjoy!

Paco in the wind

Just wanted to show you a quick video to let you see some mild prairie wind (gusts to 70km/h) and how it affects our baby Paco!

Mancana Ash

Two blocks down the road from us is a popular nursery and we decided we just couldn't stand having nothing to look at out our windows anymore! So we bought a Mancana Ash, which our city here uses to line the downtown streets as they are low maintenance trees and provide wonderful shade. here's Andrew as we prepare to do the dirty work!

First we have to dig into our wonderful lawn, that was a very hard thing to do, I think we have good grass and our water bill confirms this for us.

After pulling up the grass we made a good hole to put the tree into.

Putting the soil, peat moss, mulch mixture in and filling in the hole.

All done putting the soil back in, we're getting really excited looking at it now, just a few more things to go.

The stakes go up to give the tree some good support for a year or so.

Andrew giving it the final water, soaking it and giving those roots a great chance to establish themselves in our lawn.

When we retire this is what we hope the tree will look like, you never know!

Oh, and by the way, the lady at the nursery kept calling our tree "him", so we decided to give him a name, and as the type of tree sounds kind of Mexican we're calling him Paco, Paco the Mancana!

Little League

Tonight was Andrew's last game of baseball for the season. It was really hot night and unfortunately, they only had about 7 players tonight. I was "dugout parent" tonight which meant I had to keep the team from getting into trouble, keep them in their batting order and in their fielding positions - easy task with a bunch of 7 & 8 year old boys! NOT!

Striking his batter's stance pose.

Andrew and his coach, TonyHe was very proud to get this medal - it doesn't really mean anything - all the kids get one ;)

Listen carefully to the cheer after Andrew's last baseball game of the year.

Random Photos

I don't know what Laura was trying to do, but she doesn't look very comfortable!

This is where our tree is going to go! All we have to do now is come to an agreement on which one we're going to buy!

Ashley and the kids relaxing in front of the TV.

Video Game pro

Andrew showing his friend Rayna from church and school the "ropes" of playing Nintendo Game Cube.

Old School

An old school video for Gramma

A hit!

After two weeks and four games of rainouts for Andrew we finally got a ball game in last night. Everyone was a little rusty at the plate though the fielding was good. This is Andrew's fourth at bat where he finally got a hit.

Be careful

Here's the good picture of Laura and I.

Here's me not on top of my game, she got me!

Laura's good friend Aysia brought over a couple of gifts and a Get Well Card from her class, so that really brightened her day.

Last summer I bought some foil tape to tape up our duct work in the basement. Most of you will likely raise your eyebrows at this but I'm sure Grampa will enjoy the picture!