Showing posts with label pets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pets. Show all posts

Thursday, March 23, 2017

A Slimy Evening ...

February 25, 2017

After our delicious Greek dinner ... we headed back to the house with all the craft supplies ...
Ella really wanted to make homemade slim ... yuk ... !!!
Nathan and Alana ... helped out with this craft ...
A generous amount of pink and blue Elmer's Glue with sparkles ... was poured into a tubs ... 
Then a small amount of Borax was dissolved in a cup of water ...
 small amounts of the water was mixed in with the glue ...
 mixing it until it started to smooth gel ... it sure was sticky ...
 The kids mixed up some other colours of slim ... 
using  food colouring and mixing in sparkles ... they continued to knead and stretch the slim ...
 Craig was busy ... in his room ... working on his R/C truck ... 
He could here all of us out in the kitchen laughing and making weird sounds with 
handling the slim ...
Grandpa and Nathan checked in on Craig ... to see how things were going ...
Alana was having a fun time ... playing with the slim ...
she found some straws and started to blow into the slim blob ...
The kids were laughing so hard ... they wanted to try it ... 
Craig even came out of his room ... to see what all the commotion was about ...
James had blown the largest bubble ... it was massive ... !!!
They were having so much fun ...
The table was cleared of all the slim ingredients ... for Nathan to work on his (old) R/C car ...
He has had that car for years ... and since the boys were working on theirs ... 
he wanted to get his car up and running ...
It wasn't long before Nathan's car was working ... "it lives again" ...
the guys decided to go outside and race ...
It was getting late and dark out ... but that didn't matter ... the race was on ...
Nathan was surprised at how well his old car drove ...
against Craig's new R/C truck ...
While the guys were working and playing ...
Alana and Ella sat on the couch ... (with "Holly" the cat nearby) ... 
colouring in their Zen Colouring books ...
together ... sharing all the colouring pencils ...
I think Holly was feeling left out ... and decided to join them ... 
right in the middle of the pencil packages ...
Alana was playing with her ... and Ella laughing as Holly was clawing at the pencil ...

It defiantly was a full day of activities ... 
It was nice to spend the weekend with them ...
before we left for our holidays ... to Arizona and Houston ...

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Meatball ...

"Meatball" ...
Ian ... Kendall ... Daigen and Nixon's precious dog ...
passed away on January 12, 2017
She was a sweet companion for the family ... and for her buddy "Brutus" ...
May she rest in peace ... she will be missed ...

 

 

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Hockey Begins ...

September 17, 2016

And so hockey season begins ...
Made my way to be with the grandchildren for the weekend ...
as Nathan was in northern Alberta in his own hockey tournament ...
 
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We went into town ... to do some shopping at Costco ...
then afterwards we went to the movies ...
to see "The Wild Life" ...
It was a really cute movie ...
 
The kids talked me into going to the pet shop ...
that was next door to the movie theatre ...
We spent quite a bit of time in there ... looking and holding the puppies ... kittens and bunnies ...
It's nice that the pet shop allows you to give them a little loving ...
The kids loved it and I'm certain the animals did as well ... !!!

We made our way back to the house ... for a quiet evening of playing games ...
then early to bed ...
as James had to be at the arena again for more hockey ...
 
Ella spending some time with the little ones ...
They will be seeing each other a lot ...
during the hockey season ...
Craig had spent the night at his friends's house ...
and had the opportunity to go to Calaway Amusement Park in Calgary ...
with the family ... on this day ...


After James had finished with hockey ...
James ... Ella and Ava decided to go swimming ...
at the pool in the same complex as the arena ...
It was public swim time ... so I figured they might as well have fun ...

Once the kids were done with swimming ...
we went back to the house ...
to find Nathan and Craig had both returned home ...
We had dinner ... played a few card games ... did homework and watched a little TV ...
before heading to bed ...
We were all ready to get a goodnight's sleep ...
It sure was busy ... !!!

I would be traveling back home in the morning ...