Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to a few of my favorite mom's, in no particular order. There are some mom's missing, I'll get you next year! Hope every one has a fantastic day.

Our Finale Day in Ontario

Well, I must say when I originally planned this trip for Kevin's graduation/birthday, it was not with ON in mind. Originally I has planned to go to D.C. then head back west and take in the Grand Old Opery, and go on over to Graceland, as not only does Kevin love Disney he also loves his music. One day while talking to my daughter, Nicole, she said why not go to ON instead of Tennessee? I thought well, why not? After all it had been awhile since we'd been there and family is always a good thing to visit with so change of direction it was! We are all happy that things were changed. It was great to reconnect with everyone. They are all fantastic people and we probably won't wait as long to get back there again. Everyone needs to remember we live in a pretty fun town also! Not to mention our winters are much better than yours so plan your trips soon. Lil, my dear I hope you are paying attention. I know you want to head this way!

Michael, Carols husband, Ken, Lil's husband and Calvin.
The Randal clan, Kathy, Ken and Lil.Everyone that could make the lunch altogether.

Loretta, Bob's wife, Flo's sister, Kathy, Calvin, Lil, Ken and Carol.

Lil, I must say she is just as I remembered her. Happy-go-lucky, always has a joke to tell, ready for a good time.

Loretta.
Calvin having a chat with Ken and Lil.

Michael and Michael enjoying their lunches, well poor Michael B. is still waiting for his to come.

Cal with Carol and Michael, Kevin and Michael, next time Laurie will need to be there so we can get a picture of all three siblings together.

Fun shots of the two girl cousins together. Doesn't it look like they are having the best time? Sharing secrets from the past maybe?

After lunch we made our getaway to the border, we thought we might have some problems as we were traveling in separate cars. My van had been across the boarder a couple of times already that week, when Nicole went to pick up Mark they didn't like the fact that we'd already been across once that day and were going back already. Everything went fine, Carol was nice enough to drive down to Detroit with Calvin and Kevin so we didn't have to make two trips, we couldn't get everyone in our van. Laurie was on top of things and reserved us a room in Detroit so we didn't have to worry about that we just had to get there.

We arrived about three and that gave us plenty of time to do laundry and let the kids swim.

We are really thankful to everyone who made this a great visit for us. We truly hope to do it again sometime.

A Day in the Park

One of the days we were in Sarnia we ended up at this very family fun park. It was so nice that everyone had something they enjoyed doing here. For starters this is Tyler, he likes to do the biking hopefully not getting hurt type. I remember when Trevor used to do this, always coming home broken and bloody. Here's hoping Tyler is much less daring (I don't think so but for his mama's sake I hope so).

Here are the ones not interested in busting up themselves by falling from bikes (they prefer falling off bars and such). Isa and Kevin loved the sliding bar swing. Michael and Kai liked the cars.

See my girl down there, the one we always seemed to be putting band aides on her knees.

The adults hanging out posing for pictures and watching little ones.

Calvin, Jim and Carol in the bigger picture.

Jim, Carrie , Tyler in the

back and Jessica in front of

her dad.Jim and Carrie
Nicole and Mark.

Off to the splash park. You can see Kai liked it alright.

Kevin, Kai and Jessica.

You should be able to click on the pictures to enlarge them.

Tomorrow I'm going to try to finish up the day with pictures from the end of our day with Kathy and Ross and the next day should be of our day with Laurie and Fred. So keep checking back. One day I hope to have all the trip documented.