Leaky Truck

I'm currently sat in a factory in Oregon waiting to unload in the morning, listening to the constant drops of water coming out of the roof of my truck into a strategically placed bucket. I hope the rain stops before I have to go to sleep, because the drip, drip, drip is already driving me potty. Here's hoping they bin this truck soon and give me another....

The morning after....the big break...

Happy face and stern face.. All the emotins in 3 quick photo's...

Jake's 9th and Lauren's fall.....

Today was a really long day. It started at about 0730, with Jake getting up and us all singing "Happy Birthday" to him and ended at 0030 with Lauren coming back from hospital with arm in a pot..

Jake received some nice presents off of everybody. He opened a couple of hockey sticks (one so Dad can play), a new net to score in, a SOCCER ball as he calls it, a new controller for his Xbox and a new game for it as well. Quite a good haul I think. He also had a couple of his mates around for a sleep over, and they brought a couple of gift cards, for the local game shop with them. (Both with a very generous $20 on each card.) His plan is to spend them on Saturday when, everybody comes to pick me up from work..

Jake and Lauren walked to school and I started to build the net, ready for when they got home. At about 1400 we received a phone call from school, asking us to come and get Lauren as she had fell and split her head open. Sarah went and got her and we all went to the Doctors for the first time in Canada. After a few lengthy minutes of filling in our details to the computer, she went inside and had her head glued together. When we got back we picked Jake up from school, went home and prepared the food for the BBQ we were going to have; and the kids went out to play.

After a couple of hours the kids were back inside and the steak was sizzling. Sarah asked Lauren what was wrong with her arm. She said she had hurt it, but didn't elaborate. She could move her fingers and had minimal movement at the wrist, so doctor Tom put it down to a bad sprain.. Sarah didn't believe my assessment and took her to the hospital where it turned out she had fractured both the Radius and the Ulna bones.. (This was done after we had had our dinner and Sarah got in trouble off the doctor, as she had let her have something to eat, when there was a possibility she would need to be put to sleep. So Sarah added that she had also let her have some sweets for being a good girl a couple of minutes earlier, which was met with more disapproval. What a bad mother she is!!!!) She was put to sleep, the bones were set and the cast was put on. (Seems I was not cut out for a Career in Medicine)

She is sat now, on the settee, enjoying her day off school and is fine. She just looks a bit beat up.

Coolies..

After a heavy night on the pop, we went for an investigative trek down into the coolies.. The plan was just to go down to the river, but we found a couple of parks for the kids to play in as well. It was a really good day out. It's great to have time off at the weekend, so that we can do stuff as a family. Days off in the week just involve sitting around normally as the kids are at school. Role on the summer, as it won't matter what day I get home as the kids are off for 12 weeks..

We parked the car just of the side of the Crowsnest trail and walked off towards the giant railway bridge that spans the coolies. On the way we came across a nature building which we are going to go back to, once we get rid of the dog. It looks like it will be good for the kids to learn about the local habitat. We walked along side the river, went under the bridge, to a spot were I could teach the kids the art of skimming stones.. They lost interest pretty quick and taught themselves the art of dropping boulders through the rapidly thawing river ice. The dog went ankle deep in the river, but soon got out once she felt the temperature.

We walked across to the park and the kids went up the climbing wall and played on the slide. After a good hour we walked back to the car and went off to find a restaurant for our dinner. This was courtesy of Grandad Wall and we gave the choice of venue to Jake. He chose Boston Pizza. He has been bobbing on about going there for the entire 6 months we have been here. It was nice and we stuffed ourselves silly.

I think the summer will be great, if today was anything to go by.. Especially with both sets of Grandparents coming.. Goodbye the snow and role on the heat.....