Halloween 2014

This year for Halloween, the kids all had different characters for costumes. Megan went as Rapunzel from Tangled, Ethan and Casey were their favourite video game characters - Mario and Luigi, and Hannah-Rose got to be Elmo. Elmo definitely got the most comments from the other trick or treaters and their parents! Megan occasionally got mistaken for Princess Peach from the Mario Bros. video games.

Here they all are on our front step just before leaving to go trick or treating!

Spring Break 2014

This year for Spring Break, we went with Grandpa and Grandma Olfert down to California. We flew into the beautiful San Diego Airport and stayed at the equally beautiful Lawrence Welk Resort. We had a few cloudy days along with several hot, sunny days. One unfortunate incident that happened was that our stroller - which we gate checked- had the front wheels broken off which meant that we had to buy a new stroller for the week. While in sunny California, we visited Legoland, Disneyland and the San Diego Zoo along with a trip to the Carlsbad Premium Outlet Mall and Huntington Beach. Our resort had several swimming pools but we really only visited the one which had a waterslide which Megan went down 25 times one day. Here are some photo albums I created on Facebook with pictures from our trip. There are so many pictures, I thought it would just be easier to share the links to the albums. Enjoy!

General California Pictures

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152361089585645.1073741832.605405644&type=1&l=3db0a86452

San Diego Zoo

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152361067005645.1073741831.605405644&type=1&l=b1a20216f2

Disneyland

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152360657880645.1073741830.605405644&type=1&l=790df4b1a1

Legoland

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152360631850645.1073741829.605405644&type=1&l=111ae1a2f9

Happy Birthday Megan!

8 years ago, we were blessed with a baby girl who has made our lives richer for her birth! Now, 8 years later, she has grown into an amazing girl who loves school, makes friends easily and has shown an enjoyment in multiple sports. She is a helper with her younger siblings and loves them very much! Here is a slideshow I put together with a snapshot of the past 8 years! We love you very much Megan!

Christmas 2013 Part 2

As I previously mentioned, we did Christmas twice this year. Here are pictures from Christmas Day in Drumheller with all the Olferts.

 Megan's gift from Grandpa and Grandma - skates (Grandma oopsed and put Ethan's skates in Megan's gift bag) and a Crayola projector

 Hannah-Rose's gift - a musical activity table

 Casey's gift from Grandpa & Grandma - a helicopter and John Deere toys.

Ethan's gift from Grandma and Grandpa - Disney Junior Guess Who?

 

Megan's gift from Katie - Scribblenauts for Nintendo 3DS

Christmas 2013 Part 1

For Christmas this year, we did it twice for the kids - once at our house where the kids opened their gifts from us, their aunts in Ontario and each other and once in Drumheller where they opened gifts from their Olfert cousins and Grandpa and Grandma Olfert. Here are some pictures from Christmas Eve at our house and then Christmas Day in Drumheller I will put in the next post.

Christmas Eve

 The girls in their dresses from KPea.

 Casey and his helicopter Hector Vector from Planes (the movie)

 Ethan and his plane Echo (also from Planes)

 Megan and her Anna doll from the movie Frozen

 Ethan and two more Planes characters - Chug and Skipper

Hannah-Rose and her Cabbage Patch Kid Liam "Leanne" Marina

 

 Megan and her Ariel toddler doll

Megan and her Easy Bake Oven

Ethan got Hot Wheels Wall Tracks and Casey got a Playmobile Fire Station