Dan & Leah's Wedding

My brother and his now wife Leah, held their wedding in their backyard. It was a beautiful day and the Hawaiian theme was great! They had both the ceremony and the reception in their backyard.

Elyse and Auntie Leah (the Bride) waiting to get their hair done

Elyse with her hair finished

Leah and Elyse with their hair all done up

Dan & Leah asked me to take their wedding photos. I had a lot of help from Uncle Eric (he did our wedding photos). These are a few of the "official wedding" photos I took before the ceremony.

Elyse is waiting with the rest of the wedding party, waiting for the ceremony to start

Elyse coming down the aisle 

Leah and Dan signing the paper work

Mom, Dad, Dan & Leah

Mom, Dad, Carrie Me, Dan & Leah

All the family who made it to the wedding. Aloha!!

Scott, Elyse, Brynn and I

My sister Carrie, her husband Ken and Laura

Brynn and I having fun!

Brynn peaking out at the reception

The girls dancing with Leah

Brynn doing "Cheers" with everyone at the reception

Backyard BBQ

We had everyone over for a BBQ, the day before my brother's wedding. In total we had 18 adults and 3 kids in attendance for the BBQ; Family from British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario. It was a great too see everyone before the wedding craziness happened. 

Lots of good food and good company!

Relaxing before Dinner

Ken and Grandma

Elyse and Uncle Eric

The Bride - Leah and Uncle Ken watching the girls

Cousins!

More Backyard Fun

Grumpy Faces... but they really were having lots of fun together

Tina and my dad relaxing

Uncle Ken is really fun!

Grandma and the Groom - Dan

Leah and Dan received this home made stain glass piece from Uncle Eric & Auntie Wendy. Absolutely Beautiful!

A great way to end the day, a backyard campfire!

Cousins! and Wedding Rehearsal

My sister Carrie and her husband and daughter arrived. And wow the girls love having their cousin Laura visiting, and Uncle Ken is fun too!

mmmm... lunch time!

Brynn, Auntie Carrie and Laura working on some sticker art projects

Elyse is going to be the flower girl in my brother's upcoming wedding. The rehearsal was this evening; looks like all the planning is coming together.

Elyse enjoying pizza dinner at the rehearsal 

My dad and brother setting up all the planters for decoration for the wedding

Tomatoes, Peaches, Playing in the Backyard with Grandma, Grandpa and Tina

When we came home from Sorrento we brought back 2 cases of tomatoes and 2 cases of peaches.

We arrived home on Sunday evening and my mom and dad with a good family friend Tina arrived on Monday evening. 

Tina was a huge help getting the tomatoes and peaches dealt with. We froze some tomatoes, ate some fresh and all the rest got canned as crushed tomatoes. The peaches most were made into peach jam, some into canned quarters. some we froze and some we ate fresh. It feels like we are ready for winter, squirreling away produce to enjoy when the snow flies.

Crushed tomatoes ready to go into the pantry

We left the cases of peaches stacked in the corner of the kitchen ready to be used. Brynn was under the supervision of my dad.... Grandpa wasn't watching too closely and she stuck one finger into every peach she could reach! She would poke her finger in and then pull it out, lick it off and then on to the next peach. Most of the holes went all the way to the pit in the middle; I am sure she would have pushed all the way through but was only stopped my the pit.

A perfect Brynn sized finger hole

Look at all those holes, this is why we made so much jam! 

We had beautiful weather when we got back home. The girls love to play in the back yard.

We were planning on having people over for a BBQ so we were cleaning up the patio table with the hose. Brynn loves water! and she got soaked while we were cleaning the table.

Here she comes to play in the water...

She is so excited for the wave of water coming off the patio table

Grandpa, supervising the water mess

Tina a Brynn having some fun before bed

A Visit to Sorrento August 16-24, 2014

We spent just over a week at Scott's mom and dad's in Sorrento BC. The girls had so much fun and both and Scott and I were so relaxed; a great vacation! Scott's sister and her family came to join in for the first half of our visit. Elyse and Brynn loved spending time with their cousins Zoe and Hailey and their Uncle Jim and Auntie Sarah.

We brought our 3 person tube with us and spent quite a few days on the water/beach. Scott's mom and dad had their boat ready to go for all of us to use.

Elyse and her big cousin Zoe having a blast on the swings

Brynn sliding, and sliding and sliding and sliding... she did a lot of sliding

Grandma and Brynn taking a break from sliding

Elyse and her little cousin Hailey having fun on the swings

Brynn trying out Bailey's agility ramp/teeter-totter

Super cute Hailey

More swinging

Brynn is a little monkey, she loves to hang off of everything

Grandma and Grandpa have a mini car for the girls to drive around the yard.

Look Out!! Elyse is behind the wheel

Zoe and Hailey going for a ride

We had to disconnect the battery when the car was parked, as Brynn could reach the pedal and shift it forward and reverse

Zoe, Scott and Elyse ready to go for a tube ride

Brynn enjoying snack time on the beach

Grandma and Elyse on the tube

All the cousins playing in the sand

Brynn and I enjoying the nice weather

Grandma got the girls all matching butterfly pants - So Cute!!

Good luck getting a good photo of all of them together, but we got a few

Grandma and her girls!

The kids table... waiting for the food

Dinner is served. Great food along with Amazing veiws

Play time at the park

The big girls got to go with Grandma and Grandpa to the park and splash park while the little girls were napping

It wasn't super warm and the water was a bit cold... brrrrr!

Brynn and Zoe studying the snails in Grandma's garden

The snails were a huge hit!

Grandma, Grandpa, Scott and Elyse went for a hike on Copper Island while Brynn had a nap

The "hikers"

I got a text from Scott when they were here, saying they could see the house... I think I spotted them using the spotting scope from the house

Elyse practicing her back float. Cooling off after the hike around Copper Island

Warm snuggles with Grandma on the way back

Trying to get a "nice" family photo.... most of our photos seem to turn out like this, Brynn trying to escape!

A nice photo of me and the girls in the "sitting tree"

Let's try and get a family photo... nope Brynn won't have anything to do with it!

Trying again and we did it! (I think?)

And the girls are off and running again....