Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Funtastic Weekend!
Hello Everyone,
I will be volunteering at Funtastic weekend starting on Thursday or Friday. I have my Statistics final on Friday morning, and I will be done my summer course. The pictures are beautiful; I love the view of the lake.
I informed everyone that Keira was updating the blog, so I expect some great updates from everyone. I do see alot of updates on Facebook.
Anyway, until next time.
Sammi
I will be volunteering at Funtastic weekend starting on Thursday or Friday. I have my Statistics final on Friday morning, and I will be done my summer course. The pictures are beautiful; I love the view of the lake.
I informed everyone that Keira was updating the blog, so I expect some great updates from everyone. I do see alot of updates on Facebook.
Anyway, until next time.
Sammi
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Super, Natural...Ontario!
Here are some pictures of beautiful, beautiful Ontario and a few of the things we've been doing. The first one is a road into the city (5 mins) from our house. Oshawa is very very green and treed; even the main roads. The next two pictures are in wooded groves that start at the end of our road (a few houses down); they're full of hiking and biking trails. The next picture is in one of the waterfront parks near our house. It's on Lake Ontario and it looks exactly like being on the Stanly Park waterfront trail except that you can see the CN Tower. That's where we recently did a walk/run for allergy awareness. Then there's a picture of Angelina riding an "elephant" at the Oshawa zoo right near our house. She can ride a real elephant at one of the other zoos, 20 minutes from our house. All of this stuff is within minutes of our house and we haven't even scratched the surface. Needless to say, we are having a great time! The weather so far is perfect; it is warm and sunny but there's always a breeze so you don't feel hot and gross. Hope everyone is well and having as much fun as we are.
See you in two months!
See you in two months!
Friday, June 19, 2009
Blogging is back!
Hello Everyone,
I love the picture of Angelina with the tie...she looks so beautiful. I can't believe she is learning biology. I'm glad to here everything is working out for the family. It's the same old same old here in Vernon. I have one more year left in my degree! I have to keep this short, but I will keep checking in.
It's great to hear from you and see pictures of the kids,
Sammi
I love the picture of Angelina with the tie...she looks so beautiful. I can't believe she is learning biology. I'm glad to here everything is working out for the family. It's the same old same old here in Vernon. I have one more year left in my degree! I have to keep this short, but I will keep checking in.
It's great to hear from you and see pictures of the kids,
Sammi
Pictures from our last month in BC
Roman found the flour
Grandpa's tie.JPG)
My little wild animal.JPG)
Angry Snow White
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Long Time, Long Blog
We have been in Ontario for three months now, and wow, what a great time we're having.
Living over here in the East is very, very different. I have started to stop feeling different now, so it's hard to remember all the little things that are not like BC. At first it was so noticeable that milk came in bags, for instance, and that you never have to pay for a grocery cart. As I've mentioned before, people over here are much, much friendlier. It also seems much more family-oriented, which I suppose is because there is a higher proportion of young families whereas the Okanagan was so full of retirees. It really does make a difference. People over here are also less shallow, although they all drive nice cars and live in nice houses (because everything is so much more affordable). A noticeable difference from BC is that even in the less-nice, downtown area, I never see any bums or druggies. And I still cannot believe the astounding amount of stuff to do there is here.
The kids love it here. Angelina is enjoying her gymnastics and is starting ballet at the end of the month. She's so excited and likes to dress up like a ballerina every day, what a girl! She turned three a couple weeks ago, and is just so grown up it's weird. Like, she calls me mom now, and I wasn't expecting that for years to come. Of course, she has always done everything early. She reads as well as many adults, and knows more about world geography than most people, I think. She knows more about human anatomy now than Matt (not quite me, I took physiology in college) and at the end of each day teaches him what she learned, like cells and the circulatory and nervous systems and stuff.
I never knew whether Roman was going to be a genius too, since he never had Angelina's nervous system issues (she overprocesses noise and motion and stuff, that's why she was the world's most miserable baby and is normal for geniuses). Turns out he definately is a genius too. He is one and a half as of this month, and has known his phonics for quite some time. He is almost obsessive-compulsive about letters. He finds them in odd places, like the jungle gym bars from a certain angle or shadows along the wall. He even bites his food into letters or circles letters on paper.
Living over here in the East is very, very different. I have started to stop feeling different now, so it's hard to remember all the little things that are not like BC. At first it was so noticeable that milk came in bags, for instance, and that you never have to pay for a grocery cart. As I've mentioned before, people over here are much, much friendlier. It also seems much more family-oriented, which I suppose is because there is a higher proportion of young families whereas the Okanagan was so full of retirees. It really does make a difference. People over here are also less shallow, although they all drive nice cars and live in nice houses (because everything is so much more affordable). A noticeable difference from BC is that even in the less-nice, downtown area, I never see any bums or druggies. And I still cannot believe the astounding amount of stuff to do there is here.
The kids love it here. Angelina is enjoying her gymnastics and is starting ballet at the end of the month. She's so excited and likes to dress up like a ballerina every day, what a girl! She turned three a couple weeks ago, and is just so grown up it's weird. Like, she calls me mom now, and I wasn't expecting that for years to come. Of course, she has always done everything early. She reads as well as many adults, and knows more about world geography than most people, I think. She knows more about human anatomy now than Matt (not quite me, I took physiology in college) and at the end of each day teaches him what she learned, like cells and the circulatory and nervous systems and stuff.
I never knew whether Roman was going to be a genius too, since he never had Angelina's nervous system issues (she overprocesses noise and motion and stuff, that's why she was the world's most miserable baby and is normal for geniuses). Turns out he definately is a genius too. He is one and a half as of this month, and has known his phonics for quite some time. He is almost obsessive-compulsive about letters. He finds them in odd places, like the jungle gym bars from a certain angle or shadows along the wall. He even bites his food into letters or circles letters on paper.
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