Birthdays and More!

After the wedding the next big event was Elly and Charlie's joint birthday party!  Elly turned one on September 2 and we celebrated Charlie's birthday early (his is on September 25).  We also tried to do a bunch of fun things we had wanted to before the wedding, but found no time for and tried to spend lots of time with friends and family before we headed back to Australia!

Cristin brought her camera to the party and took some really great shots!  We love being home with family and friends.

Happy Birthday to the cutest boy ever!  

First birthday cake smash with this adorable chunk! 

Finally got into it with her feet! 

I made this piñata in Spanish class in high school and it had been sitting in my closet for 12 years!  My mom was glad to finally get it out of the house! Too bad he lost an eye before he even got smacked... 

I had to add this picture for Daniel and Andrew in the background! 

I'm sad we took the group picture after half the people had left!

Amy roped us into going to the garden

Charlie and Aunt Amy in the garden

One of my favourite things to do is go for walks in the ravine by my parents house.  Charlie was always asking to go to "the forest"  Up top there was a field of baled hay - perfect for pictures! 

Spent a few hours at the Legislature with their cousins, and for some reason this is the only picture I have!  It is impressive Elly got in there! But of course she needed help out...

We took the tram across the river to the Leg - Charlie was in heaven!

We roped Shano and Grayden and Amy into going with us too

Around the Leg at lunchtime there were a bunch of food trucks so we had a little picnic

On the tram - it had such neat lightbulbs!

Every time we found money this summer we put it in Charlie's piggy bank!  Then a few weeks before we headed home  I took Charlie to Toys r Us and he got to spend it!  Luckily the Thomas Trains we on half off this week!

Under 3's get free rides for them and a chaperone at Galaxyland so we had to go one last time while Charlie was still free!

I LOVE THESE CUTE TEETH!

Elly found herself a little cave in Simons!

Cahoon family canoeing at Islet Lake

 A few shots from my camera from the birthday party:

It's impressive I know...

It was my sisters YSA ward party after Elly and Charlie's party at the same place!  They rented these cool zorb balls to run around and bash into each other with - so we obviously took advantage!

Aunt Shano put pigtails in Elly's hair!  It worked for a minute before she pulled them out!

Grayden making a move already!

We're going to miss all the attention Grandma and Grandpa give us!

Dang this girl is cute!! 12 months old, how the time had flown. Walking everywhere and getting into all sorts of trouble!  She loves dancing and playing with her brother and opening every drawer!

Goodbye Canada!