Archive for the ‘Page’ Category

Cris & Shirley

Thursday, September 1st, 2016

Sienna and Page were honoured to be flower girls at Cris and Shirley’s wedding which took place on a beautiful farm 30 minutes north of Milwaukee.

I don’t have too many pictures. There was a professional film crew following Cris and Shirley around on the day, and they are sure to have many more shots and video.

Cole and Cris had plenty of time and space to finish off their speeches in an old barn.

Wio 2016

Thursday, August 25th, 2016

Page is 6.

To celebrate, we had an Olympics themed party in Wisconsin, at Grandpa Jim’s house.

We are in Wisconsin because Uncle Cris is getting married here on Saturday.

For the Olympics party we did a craft morning where the girls made medals, an Olympic torch, athlete numbers, and decorated the outside of the house with the Olympic Rings and Olympic-coloured balloons.

Like the Olympics we had running races. We even re-ran on of them when someone complained about not winning –

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Page chose a Bindi carrot cake.

Mermaid tails!

Rhythmic Gymnastics were an athlete favourite.

And Taekwondo gave other athletes a shot at gold.

Lake Alpine is nice

Friday, August 5th, 2016

Thanks Teschers for use of the cabin!

Arroyo Seco

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

The girls and I headed south to the east side of Big Sur, through the Salinas Valley to Arroyo Seco (Dry dry riverbed).

 

I have been wanting to explore the area for a while as it is not too far away (2hrs) but is pretty rugged.  As usual with campsites in this area, they are reserved a year in advance on weekends, so we took out chances on a car-camping spot with Plan B being a backpack up the canyon.

As you can see, we were able to get a spot in the primitive camping area with some no-shows.

Sienna and Page were very excited to help me setup the tent.

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We then walked down to the day use area of the river for a swim. The day use area is so popular that cars line up from 6am on weekend mornings, and they close the gates by 9am when the area gets full. Most families setup for the day with grills, shades, and tables. The attraction is some nice pools with rocks to jump off. Both the girls swam with me over the pool to a rock and jumped in.

After we walked back to the campsite, we were able to make a fire (for once!) and cooked up a simple pasta dish, followed by toasted marshmallows.

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Half the fun of camping is sleeping bags.

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On Sunday morning, I decided to try some other places to swim, down the gorge.

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It was a 3km walk down a trail, then a technical (ropes) descent down to our own set of rockpools. Page named them Pool 1, Pool 2, Pool 3, and Pool 4. We spent most time in Pool 2.

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On the way down, we found some discarded noodles which helped us swim around the deep pools. The girls had fun at the “resort”, playing with their Pet Shops, rolling in the sand, losing Pet Shops, rescuing Pet Shops.

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We had the pools to ourselves for a little while and then were joined by some other hikers including our neighbours from the campsite.

Page was very brave, jumping off a high rock into the pool. She even saw a crayfish.

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“You are officially a first-grader”

Saturday, June 4th, 2016

Page is officially a first-grader, after graduating from Kindergarten on Thursday.

She doesn’t really want to be. She was a bit sad after the ceremony. She had a great time in her first year at school. She will miss her new friends over the Summer. And she will miss her teacher, Mrs Valouch.

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We got front-row seats at the graduation ceremony with Grandma and Grandpa, and watched with pride as Page received her certificate from Mrs Honda, Mrs Valouch, and the other Kindy teacher, Mrs Kovac.

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Parley’s Park City

Thursday, March 24th, 2016

This year’s winter holiday was back to Park City. With the dog and all our stuff, we thought it easiest to drive. We stopped in Reno at the Hotel Siena for our first night, and then on to Salt Lake City to meet Grandma Sam and Katya.

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To make the shuttle easier up to Park City, Brendan and Bindi went skiing on Mount Timpanogas.

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A long video exclusively of Page skiing at Park City and Sundance –

A big storm came in over Sunday and Monday, so we stayed inside at the Park City Ice Arena

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Sienna loved the ice. Not sure she knew how skating was supposed to be done –

We stayed close to Main Street and Bindi took up where Haley had left off. Except Bindi was Park City’s favourite dog who was always willing to roll onto her back for scratch by anyone who wanted it.

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Brendan got to ski again with St. Andrew McLean, his guide from Antarctica and SuperMom took the girls out skiing.

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Brendan and Alex got back to their first date –

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and, after seven years, Alex gets to ski powder with her Bindi –

They did it again up Mill Creek Canyon

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Sometimes the girls just wanted to sled and build snowmen –

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We drove down the Wasatch Back to the Sundance ski resort. It was uncrowded and beautiful.

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Kat boarding, Grandma Sam in the background –

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Sienna busted Page out of Jail and escaped by skiing away from the Sheriff’s Posse, down Getaway Falls –

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We drove home via Elko and a couple of hours skiing with the Naylors in Truckee.

Cañada

Monday, February 22nd, 2016

We met Nick and Hannah in the valley beneath their new house for a ride on Cañada Road, which is closed to motorised vehicles on Sunday afternoons.

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Sienna’s First Ski

Monday, January 11th, 2016

Winter called us up to the mountains. To South Lake Tahoe this time, where we stayed in a place on the lake, across the street from a sledding beach!

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But we didn’t come to sled. We came to ski. We drove up into the mountains to Kirkwood Ski Resort.

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Aprés Ski, fourfive-year old style.

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Bindi also had a go in the snow. Up Trimmer Peak to ski down the 11.

 

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Santa

Wednesday, December 9th, 2015

A visit to see Santa at the firehouse. Sienna needed a little extra confidence from Dad.

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Page’s Halloween

Wednesday, November 4th, 2015

Of all days to get the stomach flu, poor Page was not well on Halloween. She did get to dress up a few days earlier for her school’s Halloween Carnival. Love the bags Grandma Anne!!!!!! Although I think they ended up trading which one was supposed to be theirs. Classic Pagie style.

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