Welcome to summer!

Well, it's that time of year again; high humidity, afternoon thunderstorms and festivals upon festival ... welcome to summer in Edmonton!

We don't have a lot to report, which is probably a good thing. Cait is working at the University of Alberta as editor and loving it; Adrian is working at Telus in whatever capacity they deem necessary on any given day (and not loving it) ... but he's also working on a summer pilot project at the U of A as a bike mechanic! Tres cool. ECOS, the environmental coordination office of students, runs the "bike library," where students, faculty and staff can "borrow" a bike for $40 per term. In order to make this service viable ... sustainable, if you will ... they've hired a bike mechanic (80) for the summer to see if they can find the funding to make this a permanent, year-round option. While bike riding 365 days a year in Edmonton is an option for few, the need for a bike mechanic, or even someone to run the entire program, appears to be needed on a permanent basis. So, fingers crossed, this could turn into a great opportunity. In the meantime, Adrian is clearly busy with two jobs.

Grayson played soccer again this season but, because of diminished interest amongst his peers in the neighbourhood, he and a few other boys were seconded to another local team. It made for some serious challenges logistically, but they came through again, winning bronze in their group at the year-end tournament. All in all, a good season. Now, he's half-way through Math 10 Applied, which is a step between Math 9 (not a very good experience this year) and Math 10, which he's hoping to be able to take in September. Fingers crossed, the next week--which is the last of summer school--will show to be productive and useful.
The other incident that Grayson got to experience for the first time was a vehicle vs. pedestrian collision. Grayson ... well, his bike ... lost. G was hit (in the crosswalk, on walk signal) by a driver turning right, and clearly not paying attention. He's fine (Grayson; the driver was understandably shook up) but his bike--the one Adrian assembled recently--is at Redbike for repair.

Good thing G was wearing his helmet, huh?

So, as summer goes along we'll keep you posted. As it stands, we've got a day trip to Red Deer planned. But that's it. G goes to B.C. on the 29th at noon, and Gramma arrives at 246pm. So, that'll be fun!

Take care, remember your sunscreen and hopefully we'll see you soon. The backyard is prime for beers and BBQ!

PS-Check out Sevvie's photography abilities below. Nice.

PPS-This is Sevvie's blog and nothing about him in the above missive. He's good. Rockin'.

Pictures by Sevryn

You read that right: the kid's got mad skilz.

Cellphone pics

I upgraded to a new phone recently and found a bunch of cool/weird images on the old one as I was clearing it out. Unfortunately, the new phone doesn't have nearly as good a camera as the old one, so probably no more 'good' pics like these;



The first is in the car going up to Grimshaw, the second I really have no idea, and the third he climbed into the pushchair himself and pretty much demanded a picture be taken.

Oh yeah, almost forgot partyboy;


Good times. I swear he has not been drinking...

Sports IV

Put a spell on it...

Wind up....

Follow through!

Sports III

Soccer!


Kick it!


Throw it!


Throw it with style....

Coach it!

Sports II

I'm not sure what we call this - Jumping/Diving??



Pete Townshend!!!




And no action going on here, but I thnk you can consider this his 'Almost three and a half Portrait.'

We're through with jumping - time for soccer!

Sports!

We started the day with hockey...






And as you can see, we had a big turn out today - kitty...

But we needed a break.



Cow Goalie is really good - would have made the AHL at least if he hadn't blew out his knee.

Anyway, time for something different.

fixed!

alrighty, i finally fixed the pics in the easter posts. that what happens when you post the pics via picasa, and then try to take the pics from all four posts, and put them in one post.

not this time, i'm doing it myself...


here's a pic left over from christmas - i like the lighting in this one.


must be friday...


hockey shirts! good photo, apart from me being in it.



two pics from my cell phone - puppy and sevvie in the car.

Easter

You probably thought there was a bunny that did this.
Nope.
All me.

This is really hard work you know.
Why do I let that freakin' rabbit take all the credit for this??


Just how am I supposed to get this thing up there?
And why would a bird want an easter egg?
That's just gross...

I put a spell on you!

My bidding.
You does it.

I said 'park.'
As in 'the park.'
Down the road. That way.
Why aren't we there yet?

Rock.

Cake number three. Enjoy it.

I know I did!

This is Maggie ... no, Daisy ... no, .... CRAP.

This is what happens when twins come to visit.

(I'm almost positive this is

Maggie Daisy. Definitely.)

Sevvie's birthday party

Tessa James. Like Jesse, but with less attitude. Kinda.

Having some racing fun.

Holy $@#!*& did this turn into a project! Those stupid cars where practically sewn into the packaging. Stupid Little Tykes.

This does what, exactly?!

It's my birthday!!!!

Gimme presents!!

Yup, the Sevmeister is three. And he seems to have shot right out of the terrible twos ...

yah, right.

Anyway, he had a great year, a great birthday and has promptly moved right on to asking when his Christmas presents arrive. *sigh*