Happy Birthday Sam!

Purple Mama

What's new? Tonnes of stuff. We've been living life to the fullest with lots of outdoor and family stuff. Roman hasn't had his surgery yet, so he's still got a huge hernia on the bottom of his little tummy. He is getting lots of teeth, so he's looking more and more grown up. I smell his breath deeply whenever I remember. Babies have the most wonderful, sweet breath. That's why they named a flower after it I guess. But when they get teeth it goes away forever.

Angelina is amazing as usual. She invented this game called "purple mama" and has been playing it all summer. She makes up a whole imaginary world and we have to ask her questions about it and she tells us who is there and what they are wearing and doing and stuff. She hums now, which is so cute! She has been having so much fun at the pool, and she actually jumps in and we have to catch her.

We are all going to Oshawa in the next couple of weeks (depending on when Roman's surgery happens) and Matt will meet the partner who he hasn't met yet at J&M. I'll talk more about that later.

Chew chew chew, what else is new
We went camping in Salmon Arm, and we didn't forget the beer
Just like daddy
Did I say camping? Actually we stayed in a hotel. The kids loved it! Angelina slept in a grown-up bed and Roman slept in Angelina's travel bed
This is the picture of Matt that I took for OUC. They're going to use his picture and story on their promotional material. Like, "Come to OUC, you can be successful and handsome like this guy".

Pictures

Sleeping with Merry and Pippin. When she first saw Merry (the doll that looks like a ladybug) in the store, she fell in love. The following week I would ask her in the morning, "what do you want to do today?" and she would say, "Go to the store and buy the ladybug doll!" How could I refuse?
My handsome, smiley guy.
We were at the beach and it got cold, so I put Matt's shirt on Angelina for the walk home. She loved it. She made us call her "little daddy" and wore it the rest of the evening.
Little daddy again
My guys having fun at cousin Andrea's wedding.

Great Summer

Hello Everyone,

I love the pictures of the family...Gina and Roman are such beautiful children. I was shocked to hear Roman has to have surgery; keep us updated on his surgery dates. Poor little man.

I quit Reitmans at the beginning of August and plan to help Dad build a fence in the front of the property. I am also cleaning out the loads of crap collected through the years of moving. It's taking a lot longer than I had planned, since I have to go through the stuff and decide if the item is recyclable, garbage, garage sale, or a keeper item. I have many rooms to go through, so I have now given myself a couple of weeks to go through the house. Ang and I are having a garage sale Saturday, Sept 6th at my place (8045 Old Kamloops Road) from 8:00am until 4:00pm. Shameless Plug!

My neighbour had a Stanley Cup party for Chris Osgood a couple of weeks ago. Here are some pictures of that night. The event was catered by Richardo's...Richardo was actually there. Very nice guy.

Chris Osgood and I with the Stanley Cup

Dad and Chris with the Cup

Cam, Dave & I
(Cam & Dave crashed the Stanley Cup party with my help)

Brent Gilchrist's Stanley Cup Ring and I
(Soooo many diamonds and rubys)

I also went to a wedding in Vancouver. The wedding was designed around the celebration of light since Randy and Pam met four years ago at the fireworks. Here are a couple pictures...

My friend Sarah and I at the wedding of our highschool friend

This picture shows the people in English Bay waiting for the fireworks to start.

Sam - Your summer sounds busy. I wish I could have seen you while you were at the family cabin. I was working a crazy week and then headed to Sugar Lake for a night of camping.

Does anyone know how Kristen's 'bun in the oven' is going?

Everyone else, enjoy the rest of the summer...I know I will. I would love to see the family; I'm pretty much open for anything at anytime.
- Sammi

Poor Baby

Roman has to get surgery. I can't believe it; hasn't my poor baby been through enough? I have to meet with a surgeon soon and then he will have hernia surgery. My poor baby.

Yawning with my cousin Krista
This is what Roman looks like next to other babies his age. Way bigger but way thinner. Other mamas are amazed by his giant hands too.
I love that squishy little baby face.
A family gathering a few weeks ago
This is the beach right next door. I'm going to miss this place. I haven't told you about Matt's new job yet becuase it's only like 95% for sure and I don't want to look like an a-hole by saying "we're moving, we're moving" and then we don't. It's taken a rediculously long time, but it will be finalized for sure next Thursday.

Hello Everyone

Brunch sounds great, wish I could be there but I will be in Kamloops for the weekend. I will try to make it to the next one.
Take care, hope to see everyone soon.

Brunch

Let's do Turtle Bay at 10:00 out on the patio; I think Angelina would like it out there. Lindsay said she'll be out of town.

This sat.

Hey Keira..

We still up for brunch this sat?? have you decided where and when you want to get together?? k well just let me know.... Lindsay wants to come too... Sammi is off to the coast this weekend. :( Have you taken Angelina to the turtle bay yet to see if she is okay with it? the food there is so good.... We are up for anywhere you want to go though and that is easy for the kids.... if you are going out to the cabin that day...( I saw Sam was coming up) then we could always meet in Vernon too. Just let me know...
Can't wait to see you guys!

Coming up to the Okanagan!!

Hey Key - wow sounds like the kids are doing absolutely awesome!! So happy for you.

To All:
Lee and I are coming up to Vernon/Kelowna and if possible would like to see you guys!! We arrive at the Keough family cabin (vernon) early Saturday morning (July 26) and leave be leaving a week later on Sunday Aug 3 morning. We'll be in Kelowna for day not exactly sure when, will be in Vernon on Aug 2 for a family thing etc etc. Hope to see all or some of you!!

Other than that just busy working and enjoying this awesome summer weather! Rainy Vancouver is far from rainy lately, I love it!! Went to playland yesterday for a work event so much fun! I even went on the old rollercoaster which I hate, but it wasn't as bad as I remember plus if I went on the coaster, Lee would go on a ride he hates, called Hells Gate. So in the end it all worked out.
Lee and I are going to Mexico for my birthday, going to a town called Puerto Morelos it's abut 20 minutes from Cancun at the beginning of the Mayan Riveria. We're very excited!! It'll be lee's first time to Mexico and it'll my first time to this part. We're going for 7 days and will spend 5 of those relaxing at the resort, 1 day in the village shopping and observing and 1 day on a 2.5 tour of the Mayn ruins. We're going to the Chichen Itza ruins and can't wait we're both very interested in the history and artifacts.

Anywho I should get offline we're going to attempt to see Batman, The Dark Knight tonight...wish us luck that it's not all sold out!!

Baby Stuff

Roman started crawling on the weekend. Now he travels all around, climbing up on stuff and finding all kinds of shit to put in his mouth... he's such a boy!

He is very perceptive. He likes to feel everything and see everything. I have to take him into a quiet dark room to feed him because otherwise he is too distracted to eat!

Angelina is reading actual books now, so I took her to the library and got her a stack of those grade one readers. Stuff like, "Dad says it is bedtime. Goodnight little cow, it's time to sleep." She motors through those things all on her own. At first it was so weird, but now I'm pretty used to it.

She has started acting more like me and even saying the same phrases. One thing she says all the time is 'oh my goodness', only what she really says is "oh my gooeys!"

Oh my gooeys, all of these pictures are from back in June.

Yay, braids!

Roman found a blue marker on the ground

Ready for the pool

My little summer beauty

Outside with their friend Issac

Coolio

Thanks Dave. What a great picture of you and Jeffrey! My legs are always covered in bruises from wrestling around with the babies anyway, so a few scratches fit right in. Hey, did we leave Mr Shark at your house?

Angelina is naming all of her dolls and toys now. Some of them are pretty funny, like Perpetua and Mr. Tickles. She also pretends she is different animals. Also she is so funny! She likes to walk all funny and say, "are you walking funny?" It's funnier than it sounds, I think.

Roman with Bill and her boyfriend Joe.

I was trying to get them to practice sitting together so I can go and get their picture taken.

I love this one!

This was in her prize bag at Kal Tire Family Day at Predator Ridge. We had lots of fun there. Angelina even fed the goats all on her own. One bit her and she didn't get upset; she just said, "why?"

Angelina can do a whole puzzle. When she got this one for her birthday, I said, "look, Angelina, it's a puzzle with a little girl on it", and Angelina said "Mommy, she's called Dora!" She has never seen the show, but we see Dora stuff all the time.

Yay!

Sounds good... I think we should book it in.... does the 19th still sound good? Brunch is always nice. Is 11 am good for you? I will let Sammi know too.

Great to see you guys!

Jeffery says he's sorry for scratching your legs. He was just so excited to meet you!

Sunday

Wow, the kids are doing so much stuff. Angelina can now really read. She reads whole sentences whether they are typed or written. It's amazing. She also can do a whole kid-size puzzle by herself and talks more like a little grown-up than ever, with words like "probably" and "actually".

The other side of her genious is extreme sensitivity. A traumatic event involving her aunty made her afraid of babies for awhile. We've been working on it, and yesterday Angelina finally had a blast the whole time at baby group. I am so proud of her! Raising a gifted child is hard, but extra rewarding.

Ang, the first weekend in July we are busy, and you're busy on the 12th, but the following three weekends are free. We could do brunch again or go swimming in the pool or lake.

The babies' room is almost done, so I'll have pictures of that soon. I also have news about Matt's job but I'll have to get back to that. Here are the last of our vacation pictures.

Playing with Daddy's Father's Day presents

Roman and the giraffes

I didn't post this one before but so many people like it that now I will.

Oops

So sorry Keira... I missed that post about getting together havn't been online too much been so busy... how does your first weekend in July look?? As of July I have every Fri night, Sat, Sat night off... we should do something... let me know what works... I will check on here :) I have a wedding to do the weekend of the 12th though.

Lovin the pics of the kids... do you have the new room set up yet??

Friday, Saturday

On Friday we went to Ikea. We spent hours there, and bought all new stuff for the kids' room. We're still setting it up and then I'll have pictures! The kids loved Ikea. Angelina had such a blast playing in the kids' room section. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera!

Roman with one of his new dolls

My sweet little muffin

Check out this studly duo in their matching shirts

Aunty Sam and Uncle Lee!

I took this picture because Roman started out sitting in the curvey part at the front of the picture, then scooted on his bum all the way to where he is.

Thursday

We had the same incredible lunch as last year at this great little restaurant in the park
Although we saw lots of our friends, we never thought to get them to take a picture of all of us
Aww, look at my little baby in the big boy highchair
The kids loved the aquarium! Well, Roman loves everything.
Cruisin' with Kermit

Wednesday

What an awesome vacation, our first one as a whole family. It didn't rain, we didn't overschedule, and the kids were enthralled by all the new people and stuff to do and see. These pictures are from the first day, when we went to Stanley Park.

This is how Angelina slept the first night, in the spare room.

Hey guys

"Those goats like to lick the blue ball!"

Yay, petting zoo!

A fun train ride around Stanley Park