Father's Day/Mother's Day

If you remember, Bryon gave me a wonderful Mother's Day gift of a weekend away to Canada.  Ironically, he booked our trip for Father's Day weekend!  It certainly made my job of planning a Father's Day celebration easy.  All I had to do was make sure we took along lots of good food for our weekend away and Bryon was happy. :)  Despite all three of us being sick, we had a wonderful and relaxing weekend in New Denver.

Our lovely cabin.

Happy Father's Day!

A morning canoe ride.  Kai hadn't been in a canoe since last summer, and he found it so exciting that he had a very hard time sitting on his bottom.  He much preferred running around the boat, trying to pick up sticks from the lake, and splashing away.  Sadly this was rather dangerous, so we made him sit down which resulted in sobs that I'm sure the whole lakeside community could hear. :(

Crepes and chai for lunch.

A nice 3 hour nap followed by a hike along the lake.

And, a lovely dinner of BBQed steaks with roasted potatoes and asparagus.  Yummy!

Kai had his own personal swimming pool which he loved.

First raspberries of the year for a bedtime snack.

A bedtime story with daddy.

This is what Bryon and I did each evening....sitting outside by a fire, reading and snacking with a lovely view of the lake.  It doesn't get much better.

On our way home we stopped in Sandon, a ghost town between New Denver and Kaslo.

We stopped in Kaslo for lunch and a fun break from the car seat.  Kai loves "quack quacks" or underducks. (Bryon calls these "underdogs".  Is this a Canadian/American difference??)

Kai's first sour key.  I'm slowly introducing him to all of my favourite Canadian things.  He also had a Nanaimo Bar on this trip and loved it of course :)

Sidenote:  Candy works wonders at keeping children awake in the car when you don't want them to fall asleep.  For example, when you're about to arrive at your destination, and you'd rather your child took a 3 hour nap there than take a 10 minute nap in the car, just feed them candy.  I'm sorry Kai for my very bad parenting skills.  I'm merely a desperate mother who loves naptime :)