Halloween Fun

For Halloween this year, we made cupcakes for school again and went trick or treating around the neighbourhood.  We didn't have much time to decorate the house so we just kinda threw on whatever we had in the box from last year.  We did buy a bunch of skeleton lights for the pathway and yard so it looked kinda cool.

Although we only walked for 1.5 hours, the 3 kids brought home so much candy, that the handle of the bucket that Julia was holding, broke!

After we put the kiddies to bed, we stopped by at Lisa's party which was totally awesome.  Everyone had a blast.

Josh from 6-12 Months (video)

Oops, totally forgot to upload this video!  It was all made already so I thought I'd share it anyways.  Will change the date of this to Aug 30, 2014 shortly.  This is a video with several short clips of Josh.

Whistler Weekend and Mining Museum (video)

We drove up to Whistler for a last minute weekend trip.  Thanks to Uncle Jack who invited us over to his cabin, we stayed overnight in a 4-bedroom cabin.  Because of the short trip, we decided not to take Josh with us.  It's only for 1 night and it'll allow us to spend some quality time with the girls.

On the drive up, we stopped at McDs for a bite to eat.  Everything was great until poor Jules fell from the play area and hit her head.

While at Whistler, we visited the pool at the community center, the kids play area in the Village and the mining museum.  We tried to time it so that we'd make it onto the last mining train, but when we arrived, we were told that they are closing early that day.  We couldn't go onto the train ride but were allowed to see the rest of the exhibits.  In the mining area, Jas actually mined 2 flakes of REAL gold!

Aberdeen Mall

Each month, there is a Pro D day and the girls don't have school.  I took a day off today to have a girl's day out.  We went out for sushi lunch, and then headed out to Ikea to look for a duvet cover.  For some reason, we've got gazillions of sheets and pillow cases but not enough duvet covers.  Anyways, I dropped off the kids at the kiddieland area so they can run around in the ball pit while I did some shopping.  (I've got my eye on this new leather dining chairs...)

When it was time to get them (45 minutes later), poor Julia had hurt her foot and was limping.  The original plan was to go ice skating after but with an injured foot, that wasn't an option.  So we ended up at Aberdeen Mall, checked out the Halloween decorations and enjoyed the musical water show.

Meika's Bday - Baby #4?

We went to Meika's house today to celebrate her bday.  There was lots of food, balloon twisting, face painting, pumping music and blinking lights.  Coolz.  We even met a new baby cousin cousin who dressed as Superman.  Babies are so funny.  Whenever he was out, he would fall asleep and whenever he was in the room, he'd wake up to come out.  I guess he just didn't want to miss out on the fun.

The kids had a fabulous time.  Muimui wanted her face painted as a cat and sat in line for 30 minutes!  She's got such patience.  PS - this is what I'd look like with baby #4...haha, yeah right.

Victoria Thanksgiving

Is it Thanksgiving already?  For some reason, it feels like we were in Victoria just a few weeks ago.  We celebrated this long weekend in Victoria, at the Lin's household.  Thanks for hosting W and Y!  We reserved the ferry coming home already but didn't reserve going to Victoria and it was all fine.  Wasn't busy at all.  The kiddies had fun playing in the playground area and eating their buns in the cafeteria area.  

We stayed 2 nights this time since we arrived late at night, we basically put the kids to bed right away.  Yay!  The joys of parenthood; we are happy when the kids are in bed.  The next morning, we went out for dimsum with PoPo, Gong Gong, Lin Family and Yee Yee and Go Go.  We also visited Great Po Po to say hello.

Thanksgiving dinner was awesome.  Because of food allergies, we decided to make foods that were free of dairy, egg, soy, gluten and nuts.  So everything was made from scratch!  So healthy.  And everything tasted fantastic.  Since we were cooking in the kitchen starting at 3pm, we started filling up the beer mugs and wine glasses then too.  By dinner time, we were all having ALOT of fun.  Hee Hee.  

We caught the 12pm ferry home on Monday.  Thank goodness we have a reservation.  By 11:30am, there was already a 2-sailing wait.  I guess the weekend tired everyone out because the 2 younger kiddies fell asleep during the car ride home.  What a fabulous weekend.  Can't wait to get together again.

Inspiration Pass - Space Center, UBC Anthropology and Ice Skating (video)

We are very fortunate that the Vancouver Public library offers the Inspiration pass.  This pass lets you visit several local attractions over a 2-week period, for free!  The last time we got this pass, was about 1.5 years ago.  

This time, we decided to visit the UBC Museum of Anthropology, HR MacMillan Space Centre, swimming and ice skating.  The girls couldn't get into ice skating lessons this term (full) so they were so happy when they got to go skating again.  Look at them go (above video)!

We really couldn't spend too much time at the Museum of Anthropology with the 3 kids hanging around.  They weren't allowed to touch anything so that made it especially difficult.  Too bad.  There was actually really interesting stuff to see.   The Space center was interesting too and there were some hands on activities that the kids could play with.  Daidai spent most of his time at the lego table.