To all the dads out there,
Happy Father's Day.
May your day be filled with phone calls, photos from the kids in your life...
your own or others.
May you be spoiled by the ones that love you.
Claire enjoying playing outside!
Alexander arrived with his parents from Calgary via Australia.
The beach was a wonderful way to spend
the entire afternoon.
Going with Grandad on the golf cart was almost as much fun.
Today I will be spending an hour
or so with him while Jim takes
Shane and Laurie on a tour to Mission Hill Winery.
Here are a few photos Alexander
helped me make on my IPad.
Alexander arrived in Calgary after
24 hours since he left
his home in Canberra, Austrailia.
He did amazing well on the trip and as you can see,
he is seriously catching up on his sleep and jet lag.
They will be here with us in West Kelowna on the 8th of July for a couple of weeks.
We have lots of fun things planned.
Time to get out our calendars and plan the summer.
Making sure we leave
lots of empty days for impromptu country drives
and lakeside picnics.
Alexander is coming for a one month visit from Austrailia
with his Mom and Dad.
We will have them here in West Kelowna for about 4 days,
then on a road trip to
Vancouver, Victoria as well
as traveling by ferry thru the San Juan Islands.
We will get to know him again in the 10days they
spend with us.
It has been nearly 4 1/2 years since we saw him in Sri Lanka.
We checked out our local lakeside park
on our walk to send Alexander a photo
of the playground.
We are sure he will want to spend lots
of time down here.
Claire on holidays in Hawaii.
Alexander at a fair in Australia.
Iguana sunning himself by the flowers.
Random photos of our time here.
We really have had time on our hands
over these past 3 weeks.
Without a craft room to play in, or a project to work on,
we have had time to check out some
interesting off road ATV's, or UTV's
Look at some of these cool toys.
Jim was in his element.
Alexander at the Australian Federal Police Open House
on a very cool boy toy!
He would of loved being with
his Grandad checking
out
these off road vehicles.
Claire loves getting mail.
I send her stickers, pretty papers,
little things that make her know I am thinking about
her while we are away.
Jeremy is great about taking photos and send them on
to us.
Later in the day we got to speak to Alexander.
He had a busy afternoon helping
decorate their home in Australia for
Christmas.
We love these photos that Shane sent.
Even a few minutes on Skype keeps us
to keep in touch.
Happy birthday to my brother Harry.
He is celebrating his 60th
birthday today!
This school term,
our little grandson
Alexander will be going into all day kindergarten in
Canberra, Austraila.
He will be 5 in Janauary.
We got a copy of his report card,
he is a handsome, bright, curious, kind and a helpful
little guy.
We get to see him on Skype most weekends
and his Aussie accent is
adorable.
Special birthday wishes go out today to my sweet sister
Evelyne in Cabo,
as well as my good friend Shannon celebrating her special day in
NYC
with her daughter, Andrea
Many, many happy days ahead.
I have spent a bit of time taking off some of
my photos from my IPad
to a different site to free up some room.
I had a lot of fun remembering where they were taken and the
joy these pictures gave me.
Lovely memories of just
ordinary and special moments in time.
From sunny Victoria where Claire spent Easter,
to a cool Easter for Alexander in Australia,
our two grandchildren each had
a very good weekend.
Who can predict where the
future
leads our children and grandchildren?
Our wish is that they lead lives that are happy ones,
filled with love, joy, personal work satisfaction as well
good health and the
ability to travel and see the world.
Then our work as parents will be done and
rewarded in so many ways.
Alexnader in Australia,
Claire in Vancouver.
Christmas to us is all about seeing how much
fun the grand children had at
Christmas time.
As you can see, they had a wonderful
time.
Dagmar