Ty's Class Family Picnic

One of the end of the year things that Ty's class did was a family picnic. The last Friday of the year most of the parents and the kids met for lunch at 2nd Beach park. The kids had so much fun playing on the play ground, playing soccer, and playing with the parachute.

Ty and Jeff playing soccer.

Ryder, Maribod, and Ty eating lunch.

Ty swinging with Paul and another friend.

The Parachute!!

Ms. Jardine, her assisstant Mr. Davis and Zoe, Ryder, Milan, Sasha, Jaden, Selma, Nabil, Maribod, Luna, Frieda, Lily, Ty, Paul, Mau, and Philip. We were missing Faith and Ahmed.

Talent Show

A few weeks ago Emma told us she wanted to try out for the Talent Show at her school. Jeff and I were nervous for her, but we knew we needed to let her audition. Jeff made a cd off of itunes for her of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and she had to audition in front of the grade 7 teacher (and all of the other kids who came to listen or audition). Emma did great at the audition and all of her friends applauded her. The teacher told her to practice taking a breath before one of the words, and so our little determined girl practiced at home, and her teacher had her practice in front of her class everyday. Then, the big day came, and after much prayer and practice Emma was not nervous at all and did AWESOME. Jeff and I kept trying to get her to take her words up with her, in case she forgot, but she wouldn't. She kept saying she knew the words. Finally, I realized I need to trust God that He would help her do her best. We were so proud of her for getting up there, by herself, and doing the best she could. She's way braver than me!!!

Before the show began.

About to sing.

Singing.

I need to add, Emma told me she wanted to wear her blue and white polka dotted dress and do her hair in braids. She also wanted to carry a basket with a ToTo look-a-like. She was so funny, she said, " I want it to look like Dorothy, but say Emma too" Too CUTE!!!

End of Baseball

Ty had a great time playing baseball this year and it was a wonderful way for us to meet people. One of the families wanted to have a team cookout to end the year so we had a party at their house. Then a few days later we went to a Canadians game (Single A Team in Vancouver). The boys, and Emma with the girls on the team, had a great time at both events!!

Ty, Emma, Fredrico, and Sabrina with the Canadians mascot.
I have to say it wasn't really that warm out, but it was sunny, so the kids played in the little pool and with water guns.

Ty eating.

Ty being goalie!!

This was what was played for the majority of the time by the majority of the boys--HOCKEY!!

Relaxing Weekend!!

Like I said a few posts back, one of the benefits of living in Vancouver is that we are so close to the Corbins!!! Tim asked Jeff to speak to their church two weekends ago, so we decided to go for the whole weekend. We left right after lunch and were able to do some grocery shopping in the U.S. This is probably not a big deal for anyone inside of the U.S. HOWEVER, for us it is huge. The prices here in Vancouver are at leat 2 times more than the prices just over the border :( So I hit the local Winco--which is a fabulous place with very low prices!!! I got things like Velveeta for $4 instead of $12!!! It was great. The groceries were only the beginning to a wonderful weekend. We went to the Corbins after that, the kids played and had a great time together. Amy and I went to Target (another store Canada doesn't have) and the outlet shops (WITHOUT KIDS!!!). The pics are from a place called Kayak point that we went to on Saturday evening. It is a campground/park and recreational area that has a great playground and it was right by a bay. We had such a relaxing time. Thanks Corbins for letting us spend a weekend with you. :)

Madison, she and Ty are the same age.

Taitlyn being pushed by Amy.

Ty

Emma and Rylie, same age.

Toy Story 3!!! 4 HOURS LONG!!!!

Not everyone who goes to see Toy Story 3 will have the 4 hour experience like we did :) Jeff and I decided to suprise the kids by going one Friday after school. We went to the 4:40 showing and everything was going great!! Then, about 3/4 of the way through the whole block that the movie theatre was on lost power. We sat for about 20 min. and then they came in and told us that we could get rainchecks for the movie stopping and go see any other movie we wanted. So we went to stand in line to see what other movies we might be able to see, but there were no other kid friendly ones. As we were standing there, they made an announcement that if we wanted to see the 6:20 showing of Toy Story 3 we could go with them. It was 6:10, so we decided to go ahead and join them. So in all, we got to see Toy Story 3 1 3/4 times, got 4 free theatre tickets, and got a refund!!!! The icing on the cake was that it was such a great movie!!

Father's Day

Our Father's Day Celebration was pretty low key. We went to a church service that morning, had roast for lunch and then went to a street festival with some friends from Emma and Ty's school for the afternoon. After some good time with our friends we left so Jeff could see the end of the major golf event that was going on (I can't remember what it was now :) It was a good and relaxing day!!

The sign that Ashra (our friend) Emma and Ty made at the street festival.
More chalk art!!

In front of the ten thousand villages store ( a fair trade store) were African dancers and drummers. They were great!!

Sports Day!!

Well after postponing Sports Day 2 times b/c of rain, on the 3rd try we finally got to do it!!! It started out with each grade doing tug of war and then the 50 yard dash. After that they had a break and then divided into teams. Their were kids from each grade on every team and they would do an event like, egg in the spoon relay, or 3 legged race. After each event whichever place their team got, they would get a ribbon to put on a big safety pin that they wore around all day. I am proud to say that both Emma and Ty got 3rd place in the 50 yd dash!!!! Most importantly they both had a blast all day!!!

Emma helping her team pull for the tug of war.

Ty pulling with all of his might :)

Emma running the 50 yd dash!!

Ty running the 50 yd dash!!

Ty playing a pirate toss game.

Emma and Lim running the 3 legged race.