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Tour of the Mint

The Week Candace Left (to go Back to Work)

Grandma's 91st Birthday Party!

July 6 was my Mom and Grandma's birthday. I won't divulge my Mom's age cause she would kill me! My Grandma, on the other hand, turned 91! Neither of them look their age at all! I must have some great anti-aging genes! To celebrate, we ate Chinese food and cake in my Grandma's back yard.

Canada Day at the Lake

Shawn, Parker and I spent my last few days of mat leave at the lake. The weather was perfect! To avoid Parker baking in the sun, we placed his baby pool in the veranda.

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Parker's First Birthday - Party #2

What a difference a week makes. The weather for Parker's second birthday party on June 28, couldn't have been any different from the week before. It was windy, cloudy and downright cool.

Parker looked especially cute (if I don't say so myself :) ) in his bright red, long sleeved, cowboy shirt, jeans, plastic brown cowboy hat and belt with a huge, shiny, belt buckle made out of cardboard and covered with tin foil (thanks Jackie for the added belt buckle touch). He was dressed like this for his farm themed party.

The highlight of the party was that my sister, Cristen brought her minature horse, yes horse, so that Parker could "ride" him around my parent's backyard. The horse was named Frank, after its bright, blue eyes. Parker was skepical of the entire horse thing from the very start. In fact, Parker to this day is aprehensive about his own rocking horse we have in our basement that wiggles its nose and shakes its tail when you push a button the horses ear. Parker rode Frank for about one millisecond - and that was it. We also noticed that the horse wasn't too fond of Parker's red cowboy shirt. After we did a quick outfit change, Frank warmed up to Parker.

All in all it was an awesome day, my family who where in town for Vanessa's wedding on the Friday all came to Parker's party. Even my Grandma (who turned 91 on July 6) wearing Parker's cowboy hat, took Frank for a walk - too cute!