Celebrating Great-Grandpa's 85th Birthday!

September 3-5, 2010

We took a quick trip up to the Okanagan over the Labour Day weekend to celebrate Great-Grandpa C's birthday.  On the way there, we decided to stop at Dinotown in Bridal Falls one last time.  Sad to say, Dinotown, formerly Flinstone's, is closed forever.  We only had the chance to go last year and this year and the kids had so much fun.  It was the perfect little amusement park for toddlers and preschoolers.

We arrived at Grandma and Grandpa's quite late on Friday night (the kids were all fast asleep).  On Saturday, we headed out to Great-Grandma and Grandpa R's house to play on the beach and swim in the lake.  The lake was COLD!  Sarah and Daniel had a fun time swimming in the water with Daddy, but Adam was much more content to stay on the beach and dig with Great-Grandpa.

GG prepared a yummy barbecue lunch for us, the boys roasted some marshmallows over the barbecue, they helped pick some vegetables from GG's garden and discovered all the cool old toys in the basement that Daddy (and Grandpa before him) played with when they were kids!

On Sunday, we drove out to Kelowna to Uncle Gary and Auntie Rhonda's house to celebrate Great-Grandpa C's birthday with the other side of the family.  It was so nice to see everyone because we hadn't visited that side of the family in over a year.  The rain held off (although it was iffy for a while) and we had a delicious barbecue and lots of good visiting with aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents.  Great-Grandpa was very surprised with the TV he received from everyone.

Grandparents with (most of) their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The whole clan.

Sarah with Auntie Lauren and cousins Erin and Jenna.

She's starting to walk!

Uncle Kelvin, Grandma Sharleen, Auntie Linda and Uncle Gary.

Mmmmm...birthday cake!

It was a short and sweet visit but it was so nice to see everyone.  We'll be up again soon for Thanksgiving!