The Summer life

Oh summer is good for us. We are glad that summer has finally come and brought daddy back to us. It has been busy so far too. For those who are not aware of the drama that is going on Alberta on. On June 21 the Bow River in Calgary, and in many places around Calgary, Canmore, High River and other places flooded beyond anyone's imagination. Homes that were in the on-flood areas found themselves flooded. High River (the entire city) has been flooded out. 

Well the clean up on this catastrophe has been something else. I have had the opportunity to be apart of the "Mormon Helping Hand". I've been out to High River gutting basements and shoveling people once precious things, now turned garbage, into piles lining the roads. I've also been out to the Siksika Nation (first nations reserve) just past Strathmore. Many homes were washed away, and many more under water. Tomorrow I will be headed out again to gut another house. It has been a really gross, worth while cause, and I've been proud to help out.

Getting organized out in Siksika

Ok onto the fun parts of summer so far.We went to Edmonton for a few days to hang out with Chelsea and her family. It was sure hectic with the 2 families in such small quarters, but it was fun. For my birthday, we had some good friends come over for cake ice cream and some epic "Things in a box". Then the next night, Chelsea, Daniel and I headed out to see Les Miserables. It was fun. And I talked briefly with tthe girl who played the Innkeepers wife as we waited for our train. She was fantastic.

We are gearing up for some more fun this summer too. We will be heading down to Magrath for Magrath days soon, and then Aric and I will be leaving the kids and heading for a little vacation in Las Vegas without the kidlets . We are looking forward to that very much. Then after that we will be heading out to a family camping trip in B.C. with most of my family. Should prove to be a fun and interesting time.

Alright time for some photos

We got the kids some camping chairs for the trip we will be going on. Sylas st in his in the kitchen for like 45 minutes one day. He just loved it.

Our 1 year  old photos. What a handsome little man

 Naina-BAA! (peek-a-boo in Japanese)

Naomi needed to have some photos too after Sylas' photo shoot

 

We have had sooo much fun in our new little swimming pool. Seriously we have a couple of water babies on our hands.

On Canada Day we put the kids to bed at their normal time, then woke them up for the fireworks. Here we are heading out to see them.

Naomi fell in love with fireworks. She is so excited to see some more at Magrath days

We went to the splash park the other day and it took Sylas a little bit of time to get in there

Just watching all the fun

Naomi got surprised when this sprinkler turned on

Finally in the water, and frozen... he wouldn't move

Naomi got bored at the splash park pretty quickly so we headed over the pond next door to throw some rocks in it. A new favorite past time I think

Joyously choosing our rocks to throw

And one more of the boy enjoying the pool

   
Well there you have it folks. We are enjoying our summer and looking forward to seeing many of you

 in the next few weeks.

It's starting to feel like summer

Full house in the Wutzke house hold!  We had another International student move in with us. So the 2 kids are sharing a room again. Katie (her English name) is from Hong Kong, she is 20 and trying to get out of high school this year. She is... different. We will make it through.

Well we have a big 1 year old boy!!! I can't believe that the year has gone so fast. We had as much family over as were able to come. It ended up being just my side that could come, we missed everyone else, but fun was had by all... except maybe the birthday boy. Turns out he had the measles for his birthday. He was kind of a sad little boy, but he was a trooper. Since we call Sylas Mr. B. 

I decided to to make a Bee cake. It turned out ok.

Here is the big boy not looking so good, and not interested in eating cake at all!!!

Summer is finally and we are loving it!! We are enjoying the backyard in our new house. It is nice to have a nice big enclosed area for the kids to play. The following will be a run of photos of our fun times in the backyard.

Naomi with her very first sparkler. She loved it!

Playing with bubbles

Just looking so handsome.

Just as cute as can be.

We also love to go out to the park. We don't do that anymore without daddy since I was helping Naomi and Sylas toppled over and down the stairs. But we enjoy it anyway (when daddy comes).

 

 

Sometimes I have a hard time NOT taking pictures of the kids.  Here are some photos to remind you what Sylas looked like before his haircut. I like his haircut, he looks so cute, but I kinda miss his mop on top, and the curls on top.

 Playing with his "boombox" musicbox

 
The other week we went on an excursion to the Zoo with some friends. We always love going and looking at the animals. We stopped for some snacks at the park in the Zoo, and we all know how much Naomi loves the park. I was impressed with how well I kept her in one area. But alas I got talking and then realized, "Where is Naomi?" I run around looking all over for her, and finally find her up top in this jungle gym. I was scarred, but she was having a ball.

Showing me how much she loves me.

I came home the other day after shopping alone (what a wonderful treat) to find Naomi asleep on the couch like this.

She was breathing pretty deeply, with the low oxygen.

More pictures of the cutie-man

He can walk, he just won't unless we force him too

Finally an updated photo of our  little family. We took this picture to send to my mom for mothers day.

We took some for Chiho to send to her mom as well.

She is pretty much family now.

Just for fun

 Sorry it's pretty much photos. But I love to take photos of the kids. Believe it or not, this is just a small sampling of the photos taken.