The summer just keeps moving, I can't believe how busy we've been! There's been a lot of downtime, but you just don't feel it when you're hustling so much to all these places. It's been amazing. :-D

Yesterday it was off with Lolo to Beacon Hill Petting Zoo to see the new baby piglets.

( Oink Oink! )

It was the 2008 trip to Fort Rodd Hill today. I got a little snap happy and ended up taking almost 300 pictures, which I was only able to weed down to 230 pictures. Needless to say, I've picked about 40 from the Fort and 15 or so from Fisgard Lighthouse, which I'll break up into two entries.

Since we did go last year, you can view most of the "regular" pictures in that entry. I've mostly only included some of the stuff that was new. I managed to get lots of sign pictures so I can actually write up stuff this time!

( Onward Tour Ho!!! )

Off to Chemainus with Jason and Damon today to see Uncle Gerald & Aunt Val (And Deeogee). Quite a fun trek! Had dinner then headed up to Nanaimo for a short drop-in at a family gathering with Cousin Wendy. Then back home with a 1.5 hour delay on the Malahat due to an accident. Hunter was quite an angel during the whole trek, what a trooper.



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We took Hunter to Western Speedway for the first time today. It was amazing!!! I think I had more fun but he still enjoyed it a lot. ;-) We arrived at 6ish for the time trials and stayed until almost 10 and the event was only half over when we left. Lots of fun. Mini Van Figure 8s, car jump, mini figure 8s and the main event of a 20 lap bump to pass which had lots of destruction. He was happy once we got him the earmuffs, but got restless (fair enough so) after about 2-2.5 hours. What a time!



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Since it seems we're not moving in the near future, I'm finally "doing" Hunter's room. I've always wanted to fix it up but never really bothered since it always seemed like we might be moving, never had the money or time, etc. It's bugging me being so boring and generic.

( I'm quite pleased with how things are coming together )

We took Hunt to Beckwith park last night again. It was a lot busier but we still had a lot of fun.

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I decided to take it upon myself to make Hunt a large reusable wall-schedule. It turned out to be a far more ambitious and messy project than I originally thought. Still not finished but I'm having a lot of fun making it!

Humble beginning


( Progress! )

A crafts update. Hunter and I have been doing a lot of craft-ing lately. We've finished off a few shoeboxes and some random stuff. Much fun!



( And so it starts )

It was the year-ender at Hunter's daycare. He'll be staying on for another month but most of his friends (Shayden, Mykayla) have gone on to other daycares now. We got two CDs, one with an awesome movie and one with all the daycare pictures, so here's a few to share.

With Cathy, his caregiver


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Uncle Dan and Jenn had a jewelery show so we stopped by to visit.


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Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there! We headed back to Saanich Historical Museum for a second time. I think he enjoys it even more every time we go.



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A couple randoms of a very nice snail we found on our way home.

Just a random cute one, waiting for the bus this morning

It was the 2008 Oak Bay Tea Party and we had a blast. It happens once a year and the parade goes right by our house, so we just have to drag our chairs out front and watch from the lawn. Then there's a midway amusement park that runs for two days down at the beach a few blocks away. It's a pretty fun time and I've been waiting for Hunter to be old enough to really enjoy it all and he definitely was this year.

He even tried a couple of the games. One is a simple Duck-Grab, where you grab bobbing ducks and on the bottom is "S" "M" "L" for the size of your prize. And the other was a fishing one where you use your magnet pole to grab alligators with magnets on them and also the size of the prize on the bottom. He also tried the hammer strength one but since I had to help him with it, no pictures. But here's the spoils, he wanted the pink Princess hammer lol.

Eagerly waiting


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It was the GAP Reunion today. For those that don't know GAP was the education program that I was in during my pregnancy, which serves pregnant and parenting teen girls. It's a wonderful amazing program and there was no way we were missing the reunion!



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A busy day again. We headed out to the store, then off to Beacon Hill Petting Zoo and then off to Uncle Damon's for a BBQ! Tiring!



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