We enjoyed a weekend up at Whistler with Eric, Carmen, Ryan and Cheryl. We rented a place with three bedrooms and enjoyed a day snowshoeing and the next day cross-country skiing. It was a beautiful weekend with perfect blue skies and sunny weather. The week after that was our spring break. We didn't do too much. Went down to Seattle for a day, shopped at the outlets, had supper at the Cheesecake Factory downtown. At the very end of our spring break we went flying with our friend Steve who is collecting his hours to become a pilot. We flew around the Fraser Valley, went right up to the Cheam mountain range and then made our way over to Whistler and toured around the mountains over there. On the way back we flew over Vancouver. It was really cool to see some the mountains so close up and be above them, would definitely do that again. We went back to school for 4 days and then it was Easter long weekend. The weather was great this weekend so we got some yard work done, I made paska buns, we went for a canoe at Cultus Lake and enjoyed supper on the deck of Original Joe's sunday night.
This was a busy month for school. I had the book fair in the middle of April so a lot of prep and organization for that was happening. Chris and I also took a canoeing course with Wendy and Jason to prepare for the Bowron Lakes (which we're doing in 4 days!). Part of the canoeing course was to do a t-rescue so we had to flip the canoe and rescue someone doing a t-rescue. Let's just say it was pretty cold. Although, I think Chris was colder than I was after we got out of the lake. Another event we participated in was my friend Jen's run for adoption. She put together a fundraiser for this organization called ABBA Canada which gives grants to people adopting. It ended up being a little bit rainy but lots of people showed up and she raised over $6000! At the end of April we went to a info session about adoption. We had taken a break from all things baby for a couple of months and decided to check out this option. We got some great information and it started being confirmed that this is the direction we should take.
Chris was very busy this month because they were doing canoeing for outdoor ed. That meant packing up, unloading and loading canoes every other day. We had some extremely great days of weather this month and so we took advantage of one of those days and scouted out a hike in the Fraser Canyon that Chris would be doing with his kids. It was my first big hike of the season so I was pretty exhausted by the end. Ice cream at Dairy Queen helped though. We set up a phone session with the adoption agency in Kelowna, just to compare with Vancouver and after talking to them decided that we would be going with them for adoption. At the end of this month we had a lot a fun events. The first was a Mumford and Sons outdoor concert in Surrey. We staked out a good spot to stand and watched as the crowds starting flowing in. The concert was amazing, it was a perfect summer feeling night and the music was great. I could have stood there all night listening to them. The day after the concert we drove out to Kelowna to meet up with Chris' parents and Ryan and Randi before their cousin's wedding on Sunday. We met up with the extended family at a winery and joined in on the end of their wine tour. Then we hung out at the hotel for a bit before going up to Chris' aunt's and uncle's place for supper. The day of the wedding was one of those days where it looked like it could rain at any moment. We enjoyed some brunch by the lake before getting all dressed up (I wore a dress, history in the making) and ready to go. The ceremony was on the beach in Rachel's parent's backyard. It was a beautiful setting. Other than a few raindrops here and there the rain held off the rest of the day. Between the ceremony and reception we enjoyed some Starbucks and hung out at the hotel with the rest of the extended family. The reception was up at a fancy golf course which had another amazing view. After eating delicious burgers, listening to speeches and taking pictures in the photo booth for their guestbook we left with Ryan and Randi for our place. Ryan and Randi stayed with us until Tuesday when we took them to the Vancouver airport so they could fly to Mozambique to do training with a organization called Iris. Before the left though we went out Monday night in the rain and canoed around Cultus. We had the lake to ourselves and went really fast with 4 paddlers. At the end of that week Chris' mom and aunt came out to have a sister weekend and that takes us into June.
The night Chris' mom and aunt came we drove to pick up his other aunt and then headed up to Whistler. We walked around the village for a bit and headed to bed early. The next day Chris ran the Whistler half marathon in 1 hour and 42 minutes and 27 seconds. He came 83rd out of 790 people and 9th in his age group. Pretty good I'd say. After checking out the race results and Chris showering all of us packed into the car and headed back home. Chris' mom and aunts spent the next couple of days doing their own thing and having sister time. The day we dropped them off at the airport was our 7th anniversary. So after a quick Costco run we went up to the Cactus Club and enjoyed a delicious supper on a beautiful night on the deck with a view of Mt. Baker. The following weekend we had our mid-season baseball tournament. We played our regular schedule games on Friday and Saturday and had a mini-tournament on Sunday against some of the best teams in our league. We thought we would lose the first game and be done for the day but we didn't. Then we thought we would lose our second and we didn't. We ended up winning every game, making us officially in the A division. We seem to think we are worse than we actually are I guess. This month we started our adoption home study process. We meet with a social worker in Abbotsford at her house where she asks us about ourselves, our backgrounds, family upbringings, hobbies/interests, personalities, etc which she will use to make a portfolio about us for moms to look at in the end. So far we have met with her once together and each with her on our own. It has been good, lots of things you would never really think about if you were just having your own kid but good things to consider. She will meet at our house next and then we have a few more meetings before she will write her final report. So we will be "active" for moms to consider definitely by the end of summer. Then depending on which mom wants us it could be a very short wait before we have a baby! This month has been a very busy but good one. I have been madly doing inventory in the library which I got finished today with only a few minor delays during the process. Things are up in the air if I will be going back to that position in fall. The person I am covering for will definitely not be coming back until after December (if she does come back at all) so I'm hoping that the emails my principal and I sent to the person who deals with contracts will help influence that decision. In the meantime I'm not going to worry too much about it and just enjoy our summer. Chris has also been busy wrapping up outdoor ed and getting ready for next year. They had to cancel their big final campout because of thunderstorm warnings in the area so looks like I will be going on an extra adventure this summer because they're inviting whoever can to come with them in the middle of July to do that same trip. Now we have a few days to pack up gear and food for our big 7 day canoeing trip with a bunch of Chris' co-workers and their kids up to the Bowron Lakes. We're supposed to be getting some great weather so it should be a fun trip. We're really looking forward to it, hopefully we don't flip our canoe!
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How fun that you got to go flying with Steve. Trev went with him before we moved. It was an experience all right (when he realized the door wasn't fully shut :0)) But had a ton of fun. So neat!
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