jack and I

A glimpse

At this moment Courtney is reading while Sydney and Samantha are singing "let it go" in the mirror in the bathroom! 

This summer I have a chore chart and it's worth a dollar a day. They can only get that dollar if they do everything on the chart which consists of 20 minutes of reading, a grade level workbook, room clean and outside toys picked up. They have a rotating weekly chore of duties also. One week is garbage and floors, dogs-feed and pick up poop or dishes/kitchen. They can loose money by not putting their shoes away, crying, screaming, hitting, talking back etc... They get a warning but so far it seems to be working. They all lost their dollar the first day because they didn't read but they definitely are getting it. Sydney lost hers for throwing a huge fit and she didn't read. I have a jar for each of then with their money in it in top of the fridge and when they lose it they see me taking the money away so it becomes real to them. Hopefully this will make summer a little more bearable since we 69 more days left of summer! 

Mother's day 2014

Today we had a Super fun day at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park just north of Vancouver. They keep talking about it on the radio and it look really fun. It was a blast. So much to do. We will definitely do it again! 

Silver lakehike

A family photo from yesterdays hike at silver lake...took 3 tries with the 10 second timer!

Sydney

Photo Book

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A New Year

I have been a slacker with the blog this past year. My goal for 2014 is to get at least one blog in a week. When I started this blog when the twinks were born it was mainly for the grandparents but then Jon's mom passed away, my mom passed away  then we were living with my dad it just became hard to keep up. But looking over the old posts I know my kids are really going to appreciate this when they are older...I know I will! At some point in time I would like to put it in book form but that takes so much time!

My big goal for this year is to walk 500 miles. It was going to be a mile every day for 365 days but I am taking it up a notch. So expect a lot of hiking pictures to come.



Our first family photo of 2014 taken at 12:15am January 1st.