Meeting Miss Lucy

The Pumpkin, The Auntie, The Proud Papa, BP2 & Miss Lucy...


No jealousy here! Luke couldn't kiss the baby enough!

The delicious and delicate Miss Lucy (on her due date, at 7 days old)






As soon as Lucy was lifted from the spotlight, Luke jumped right in and started hamming it up!

Yet to become a fashion Diva...Auntie may have over estimated her size just a tad...this outfit may fit her by next summer...but seriously, this is the size Bennett wore at three months, I kid you not...

Looking fantastic! Mama & Babe...

I love this picture!

Miss Shayanna (4 yrs, 8 mos)

Oh Baby! (July Edition)

Knowing how very, very long my step-brother has anticipated fatherhood, my heart overflows with joy for him and his wife on this day!

Congratulations to Dean & Alissa on the birth of their daughter!

Lucy Elizabeth Mae

6 pounds, 12 ounces

Midgets at the Neighbourhood Coffee Joint

4

Priceless: Soccer

"Once Upon a Dream...

Happy Birthday Nana!

Happy Birthday to my Wonderful, Beautiful Mom!

The Hawaiian Vegan, Heza, Nana (2006)
Canning Peaches, 2004Nana, going for a walk with Bennett & Heidi the Dog, who is carrying her own leash in her mouth! 2004Mandy, Nana, Bennett, Floating in Okanagan Lake. Wildfire Smoke is filling he sky behind them. 2003Bennett & Nana, Halloween 2007Nana & Shayanna


Nana & Lukey, St. Patrick's Day 2008


Nana & The Niece! 2006

Nana & Bennett making "Flap Jacks," Christmas Day 2005...


Watching the Train go by on the other side of the river...

Nana & Bennett, Halloween 2006


Hawaiian Get-up in February in Canada! Nana, Bennett, The Niece!


They look alike in this picture, me thinks...

Nana & Bennett

Cherry Pickin'

Baking with Nana...

Bennett, Nana, Sunshine (M) in November 2005

The Niece, Bennett, Nana in December 2005...

Mowing with Bennett, 2004

Playing in the Rain with Bennett, 2004

Nana's Paternal Grandmother used to play with her in the rain when she was a little girl in Arkansas...passing on the traditions!

Bennett, Nana & Swans, at Terrace Heights, Washington, 2004

At Great Grandma Wolfe's House, Washington, 2004
Bennett & Nana swimming at Lac Le Jeune, British Columbia, Canada, 2004

Irreverence

Guilty as charged.

Making Fun of My Roots...

Reading Test

Beach Snappage (Canada Day Long Weekend)

Hello Mud! Hello Lake!
The hat did not last very long...

First order of business...burying her own feet!

One Planted Child

Surprise.

Story Telling Pumpkin...

No need to worry about her drowning in the sand with that life jacket on...

Gleefully laughing after throwing mud at his sister...
(don't worry, she too, dishes it out quite well)

My Boy. My Heart.

He kept putting his face in the surf and "tasting the lake"...the more I told him not to drink the lake, the more he tried to do so and the funnier he thought it was! He has a similar routine in the bathtub...

Clad in dirt goatee from lake tasting: one small boy with big blue shovel...
(that is a pirate tattoo band-aid on his forehead...not a slug...it is covering up a scrape from the day before: being new to the world of WALKING, he is still working on a little thing called BALANCE)

Pumpkin.

Princess. (don't tell her I said that)

Three in a row: BP2, Bennett, BP1

Buckets ready...

Attack!

Water Fight!

On his never ending quest to find Ogopogo...

Bennett wore this life jacket from the age of 24 mos to 4 yrs...she just now fits it at 4.5!

Someone shrunk his blue shovel...

Brothers: tall and small

Cave baby finds himself a stick!

They were elated when I told them they could destroy the sand castle that had been so carefully constructed by the beach goers who had just left! Like Christmas in June!

Baby. In lake. With stick.

Lake tasting without dirtying the belly!

Lake tasting from red bucket that is bigger than his head...

All that lake tasting makes for a hungry baby!

Mmmm...Watermelon!

He found himself a bigger stick!

BP1 & Heza:

Slowly getting to know BP1 & BP2's other older brother: DC kept to himself most of the afternoon...ten-year-olds are not as easily entertained as are younger, mud slinging siblings. Here he is poking his head up from under water and waving hello...he was doing laps the length of the swim area...quite the fish, he is.

He and Luke have the same smile...it is their most obvious shared trait...

Sun Tanning, post Swimming...

Electric Smile...

End of the day: DC teaches Bennett how to play on the X-box. Check out the seat of the kiddie chair he is sitting in...he busted out the bottom of it!