Monday, August 23, 2010

tennis anyone?

We went to Montreal to take in the Rogers cup and see some world class tennis.
It was awesome. We went along with Tim and Meg and had such a fantastic time.


Here is William in his happy and content phase at the beginning of the match.
The only thing that we forgot was that a tennis match is a quiet place where people don't like crying babies.

At one point William was really upset and I was running up the stairs with him while Safina was serving. You're not supposed to do that in tennis.

After that we got to sit in some box seats that weren't being used that were close to the exit so we could dart out if needed. They were fantastic seats and I got to watch the whole match. We were watching Petrova and Safina.


Safina is in the red, Petrova in white. We totally got our money's worth as it went to three sets. We went to the Jean-Talon market after for some lunch where Chris took this awesome picture of William and Megan. I think its my favourite of William so far.



On Saturday we went for a walk up in Gatineau Park with Chris' cousin Darren who is in town for training and with Jen and Brendan. We had a fantastic picnic lunch at Keogan shelter, which we forgot to take pictures of. Here are some pictures at the Champlain lookout.


On our hike, we saw a doe. A deer. A female deer.

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

like a weed

William is growing like a weed, that is.
We've had a wonderful first two months with him.
We have been lucky enough to have lots of visits with family. My parents came shortly after William was born and were here for a few weeks. Then Chris' mom came for a little over a week and then my parents returned for another week before driving back to Alberta. Here's the morning before they departed.
Notice Chris' shirt in this photo. I got that from the Repeat Boutique in Whitecourt when I was 16. Actually, I believe that Kristy got it for me from there and brought it for me when I was working at the IGA. I've had it all these years and have passed it onto Chris.


Chris and I had our five year anniversary this past month. To celebrate we went out for dinner at Banc Sushi while my parents babysat. I really missed going for sushi during my pregnancy. We've gone twice since having William. He came home with these for me. I love flowers. I never thought I would, but it turns out I'm a total sucker for them.


And now for a photo montage of William.



This is an homage to his Alberta cowboy roots.


A hat from Auntie Kirstie. His nickname when he wears this is chunky monkey. Do you think that will scar him?