An Ad for Honda Fit

How many dogs can you fit in the back of your small car? In the back of my Honda Fit yesterday was: Toby, Tyler, Ryan and Abby! Poor Abby, not one but three bad boys to have to keep in line! I should send this photo to Honda :) That car is amazing - I have packed so much stuff in it and there is always room left over.

Toby is *not* impressed

Can we go for our hike yet?!?

Baby in a Backpack

We have been doing a lot of hiking in Golden Ears Provincial Park, which is just lovely. Yesterday Jody and I took the four dogs down to the nicest swimming spot and all had a great time. Tyler's brain fell out after we finished swimming (as usual) but other than that we had a great hike. Hiking with your baby in a backpack is a great workout! We saw a wildlife tree that had been marked recently by a bear, much to Jody's horror, so we might have to start hiking with some bear spray. Although, having four crazy dogs with us should be enough of a bear deterrent! I wouldn't usually worry but that hike is out of cell range and I have a baby strapped to my back now; wouldn't want to have to defend myself, the baby and my wimpy dogs all at the same time...

Erin, will post more Lolo pics this week!

E

Regionals - to go or not to go

For the past two years, I have taken the dogs to Regionals - the AAC BC/Yukon qualifying event for Nationals. This year, it happens to fall on the weekend that we need to be out of our MR house. I am thinking that me taking the dogs and baby out of the house for the weekend will be a bigger help to Rob than if we all stayed here and "helped". Thoughts? Jody this means that you will have to help me Loic-sit at Regionals!! I am undecided about running Toby - we haven't really practiced a lot since last year and I have been really focusing my energy on Tyler. Will have to think about it.

E

Drumroll please...

We found our house! Our offer was accepted, and baring a catastrophic home inspection, we are moving in July 1st!

Those of you who know the dates, this means that we are going to be living my Mom and Dad for a few weeks (thanks guys!). Since our house has a lovely two bedroom suite, we are going to move down there for July while we fix a few small things in our part of the house. Our goal is to be moved upstairs by August 1st and to have the basement suite rented out then too. I should clarify, we will have the whole upstairs and a part of the downstairs too! We are going to be doubling the size of our house, which will be great.

Will post more after home inspection!

E

Portrait with Goat

Cute baby & Cute Goat

I love how "into everything" Loic is getting! He loved the goats and bunnies at the farm. Today we went to Bunzen Lake for a dog walk and while Tyler was a bad dog, Loic had a blast in his backback. Duncan and Toby had a great time too! Three dogs and a baby means I can't take a camera, you will have to take my word for it that it was a nice lake.

E

Maplewood Farm visit

Yesterday Rob, Loic and I met my friend Michelle (I worked with her at Enkon) and her family at Maplewood farm for a visit. We had a great visit! Loic really enjoyed the bunnies and the goats this visit.

Checking out the cows with his Dad

Happy boy petting a bunny

Nice goat!

His hood is a bit big but he figured out how to hold it up so that he could still see in the rain, smart baby that he is

In house news, we didn't get the house we put in an offer on yesterday so it is back the ol' drawing board. Everything happens for a reason, so I guess it just wasn't our home. We are off to check out two open houses this afternoon - wish us luck (again!).

In sad family news, my Grandma passed away yesterday at the age of 102. We are off to her memorial in Powell River at the end of this week. I am going to cook a big Ukrainian dinner next week in memory of her and of her fabulous wood stove. I will dedicate a post to her life next week.

E

SOLD!

Subjects were lifted off of our house in MR yesterday and it is now officially sold! We didn't even have to have an open house! :)

We put in an offer on a house in NV yesterday and today we are playing the "counter offer" game. Wish us luck!

E (and R and L and the dogs)

A salad variation

So, after gorging myself on a huge Tuna salad for dinner last week, I decided to show a little restraint in making the same salad yesterday for lunch. I made it exactly the same way but I only have so much Tuna, so I made it using half a can of Tuna and half a can of chick peas. The result: delicious. Now I can eat twice as many Tuna salads! Auntie Christine, is this salad good using the canned salmon too? Will try that next.

We put in an offer on a "handyman's special" house and will find out tonight (hopefully) whether or not we got it. It is a daunting task to say the least, but in the end Rob will fix it up beautifully. There are a lot of pros to this house: it is two blocks away from my office, it has a sunny back yard with a quiet lane, it is big and we are going to put in a nice one bedroom suite which we hope to have done and rented out for September. The cons: the basement. Oh the basement. It hasn't been lived in in years and comes complete with red shag carpet and fake log cabin walls....I am not doing it justice, you really have to see it to believe it! But, it will be a great house to fix up and sell down the road, when we need no longer want/need to rent out the suite. Oh and the deck is something to be seen too. A new deck is in the cards for next spring, if we buy this house.

Wish us luck!!

In baby news, Loic is "commando crawling" like a pro. Man can he move! In the blink of an eye he is across the office and grabbing books off of the shelf!! He is still teething, poor bug.

E