Grandpa Ashby and Grandma Joan came through on their way to Vernon where they will start their 3 week vacation to Winnipeg. They were anxious to see all of Juliette's new tricks.

August long weekend

Oma and Grandpa Mark came to camp for the long weekend in Merritt. We had a nice visit and even got to pick a few apricots at aunt Deana's across the street. Mom and Mark brought their dog Tala, Juliette just loved him thinking he was a giant puppet.







Poor Tala was such a good sport and let her pull his ears and ride on his back. thanks for the visit guys.

The boys are back in town

we were so lucky to have my nephews Justin and Dawson come stay with us for the week. They were a great help with entertaining Juliette, watering the garden and Dawson grating all the cheese. thanks guys.

We had alot of fun off roading to get to a secret beach by the river, hot tubing & berry picking. Darren took them 4 wheeling and to shoot off 1000 paintballs. I won't tell everyone about the singalong and dance routines to "Dora". Juliette loved it!

Here are the boys posing with their tubes at our secret spot by the river. That bridge in the back ground was missing a few beams on the deck so needless to say we had to put it in 4 wheel drive to make it across.

This was taken at a viewpoint overlooking Merritt. Juliette thought she was flying so she wore her pilot hat and glasses. Our house is in the tree area about an inch to the right of the top of Justin's orange hat.
Mel and Dave came up to Merritt to pick-up the boys and brought me a beautiful bouquet of pink long- stem roses for having the boys. it was our pleasure.

7 months old

Auntie Nadia and Uncle Andrej came up for a visit on Juliette's 7th month Birthday weekend.We all had a great time, Juliette especially had fun snowboarding on the rocking stool with Auntie and Uncle. Andrej and I took shifts pitting the 20lbs of cherries i bought while Nadia entertained Juliette.




















We enjoyed a barbecue at the lake with Haika and Dave. Including a delicious dessert made by Andrej (A Slovakian family recipe). It was a very nice evening.



















On July 19th we went to
the river with a bunch of people for a picnic and tubing. Juliette dipped her feet in the cold water briefly. She is recovering from the shock in Auntie Angie's arms.

Well Iam excited to announce that her first word is mom,mom. She also has 2 more teeth up top. She is developing quite the little personality, we are enjoying every minute of it.

Vancouver

Juliette and I took a quick trip to Vancouver to visit and do a bit of shopping. We went for lunch with Grandpa and Grandma Joan along with Mel and the boys for fish and chips. we spent the afternoon with cousins Justin and Dawson.

We lucked out and were able to join Rob along with his family and friends for his birthday dinner.

here is Christina showing her motherly instincts as she is a new expected mother. Congratulations Carlos and Christina.

the Auntie's come to Merritt

Juliette's youngest Aunt, Jamie.

Darren's Dad and sisters Jesse and Jamie came to Merritt for the weekend to visit. This was the girls first time in Merritt so they played tourist and did the walk of stars downtown, went to the farmers market, Monk park for the Aboriginal day festivities and got reacquainted with their cousins and niece.

Hanging out with the big kids. Auntie's Jamie and Jesse with cousins Indy and Keneesha who live next door to us and come to play with Juliette almost everyday.

6 month Milestone

As the 6 month mark approaches there have been some new and exciting discovery's. The first being on Mothers Day. It was an extra special day as Juliette's first tooth poked through. We spent the day with family first going out for breakfast then dinner at cousins Rona and Donny's.

This was the first time she had real food, rice cereal. It was very funny to see the faces she made and the way her tongue kept pushing the food out trying to figure out what to do with it. We captured it on video.

Her new favorite toy is her feet, she also likes to see how they taste every now and again when she thinks no one is looking. She has also learned to roll over, and over and over again.

She is quite the social butterfly. Here she is making new friends with her cousin Sophie attending her 2nd birthday party. Juliette loves her cousin Indy he is the first person to make her laugh.

Darren's first Fathers Day. We spent the day having a barbecue at Monk park. (20 min. from Merritt). All of his relatives from town were there to help celebrate. The kids went swimming in the lake, played badminton and even found a baby snake to terrorize.

June 19th was her 6 month birthday. She hung out with her cousin Indy and we went for a stroll in the park. The rest of the day she put on her party dress, played with her toys and babbled away.