Its been WAAAAAY too long!

Kayla after her face painting in Disneyland Nov/08

Kyler swimming at the pool in Merrit.

Brittany having a great game in Net her last
Tournament of the year in 100 mile house!

Were all still alive :) Just busy with the happenings of everyday life, and hockey. But now that hockey season is over there is MUCH more time to do some other things, YEAH! Brittany is off at a babysitting corse at the colledge today, man where did the time go. Kayla is sick the last of us be thrown onto the "sick wagon" its been a couple months since we've all been "healthy". Im sure alot of you are with us on that, I know its really going around. Kyler, well hes just being typical Kyler, always busy doing one of his latest obsessions. Robs been off work all week, the economy finally got to west fraser, and has a manditory week shut down, then once UI and the union come to an agreement, they'll be on 3 day work weeks. So things have been a little stressfull here. But he's keeping busy, he hates to be bored, hes in the process of building a bedroom in the basement, Brittany is praying with all her might that it will be hers, and also closing off the watertanks and softner, and make a acutal "TV" room for the kids down their, with carpet and everything :) Ive been working a fair bit, and doing all the house and "mom" things. Brittany got braces a couple months ago, so were making trips for ortho into the city every 6ish weeks. Did I say we NEED to win the lottery?!?! Braces are NOT cheap, even with both of our dental coverage we still have a huge bill. And for the best news of all, ITS SUNNY outside and the snow is MELTING!!! I am SOOOO tired of winter, and cold, and snow... ick!

Well Since im at it... Here are some of the rest of us this summer!

Kyler after his football practice, trying to run from the camera!

The girls and I on a camping trip this summer.

Rosie just bathing in the daisies at Aunties.

Rob on our Mtn. Bike trip down Burns lake park.

FINALLY a update....

SOME PICTURES FROM OUR TRIP TO KITIMAT AUG/08

Trish and Wyatt

Trish the "ocean cowgirl" :)

Trish and I with my shark

Dad getting ready to brave the weather

and Finally... Wyatt and Dad's Haibut!!
Ok Jen, I know its been awhile, now dont bug me for awhile ;) As you all know I started working more "full time" earlier than expected for my friend who went on Maternity leave. So thats been keeping me busy. Instead of 35-40 hrs every two weeks, im working no less than 60+ hrs every two wks. I just got back from a fishing trip to the ocean with my Dad, Sister and nephew yesterday. We were gone 6 days, and we had a really good time. Had some problems with the weather that cut out quite a bit of our "fishing" time, but we lived to see another day, and enjoyed the time we did have fishing. Yesterday also marked 12 yrs of marriage for Rob and I. :) Were planning on maybe having a special dinner or something this coming weekend, I have only seen Rob for about 2 hrs in 2 weeks. Between his bike trip and my ocean trip, plus working - Robs on graveyards and stays up with the kids during the day, then I come home and he goes to bed.... we dont get much time together. But once school is in things will go back to more of a "normal" for us. The kids are growing up DAILY, time really does need to slow down a bit. Before I know it they'll be married and gone :( Well off to make some dinnner. Homemade fish and chips with fresh Halibut from the ocean :)

Some "new camera" pictures!

I've waited so long for this camera, I just love it. Brittany wasnt home much this weekend, so I dont have a really good one of her, but I have one of Kyler and Kayla eating watermelon on the deck yesterday. Kaylas picture I used a neat feature of the camera where you can select one color you want to show up, and the rest is black and white. Here are two my "beauties" :) And I cant forget the "BUG", LOL, here she is in super close up!

Water balloon fight!

We had a great time today. After we got back from MIL's for lunch, it was hot outside so Rob and I filled a ton of balloons with water, brought out the squirt guns, and the kids and us had a huge water fight. Of corse I never got one single picture. Kinda hard to do with water flying everywhere, LOL. Speaking of pictures I got my new camera!! I got a Canon 870SD. Its awsome, great pictures and cool features. ahhhh, I love summer :)

The time has come...

I made an appoitment today to have patches put to rest, on Wednesday May 28th. His weight is dwindling away, hes loosing control of his bodily functions, puking all the time, and such horrible labored breathing constantly. I had warned the kids this was coming and today after school told them the news, explained what would happen. Kayla and Kyler want to be there, Brittany is still thinking about it. We have left the decision up to them completely. Im sure Patchie will be getting alot of cuddles in the next two days. :(

Sad news about our beloved Patches...

Patches has Lung Cancer. He has been sick for quite some time, and after vet visits and alot of tests, its the only conclusion we can come up with. Its seems hes getting worse quicker and the poor guy is trying so hard to be so happy. We got patches from a pet store when he was only about 8 wks old. He will be 7 years old this November. Here is a recent picture of our little buddy.