I have been very delinquent with this blog. Here's a great video of Amber and I having fun in the Tree house that Grandpa Steve built.
This is an amazing tree house. The stump is about 6 feet high. It was built on the ground and lifted onto the stump with one of Steve's excavators. It was actually quite an operation of precision chain saw work from Uncle Hugh to get it level too.
Amber is the only immediate grand kid of Grandpa Steve (Papa) who's got to play in it but Georgia and Oakley also loved it. Actually Amber always needed help getting into it until Oakley showed her how it was done.
If you notice the air mattress inside I will have to admit I slept in it about 4 glorious summer nights in a row.
It was a lush but cool day in West Sechelt. As per usual the trails were empty with tacky traction galore. Amir took some iphone photos which turned out surprisingly well.
I never know which gps data to believe but it was around 37 kms, with 1300 meters of climbing over about 6 hours with some breaks along the way. Over the 9 years of riding in this area it was my turn to guide a couple of guys and we hit almost every trail in this little area in one day. It's good to go with people more fit than yourself at the risk of making them wait too much, but anyways they pushed me to go way further in a day than I normally do and that made it a ride that stands out.
There was a big old Alberta "yeeeeeeaaaaah!!!!" being screamed during this high-effort 29er uphill wheelie.
It's a classic maneuver for me these days. I'm becoming a pro at doing almost everything with just one hand. Even though Riley has become a great sleeper at night (fingers crossed that he keeps this up), he doesn't really let me put him down very often for daytime naps. His sister might have something to do with that as well - every time I place him in his bassinet for a nap she will inevitably go into the room to say hi. I guess I should just be happy that she loves him so much :)
One of our many park picnics to escape the heat of our house
Since it is taking a painfully long time to compose this blog with one hand, I'll let the photos do most of the talking.
She fell in the lake here, but thought it was hilarious
She adopted Riley's towel. She's saying "Roarrrr!!" here :)
It's quite common to see me lugging both kids around
The boys
Riley enjoying the park picnic
Here's a collection of memorable moments captured by "Papa McCourt"
Amber also got a new race car toy and had to make sure we played it properly......start your engines!
And to end on a musical note....Amber likes to sing a lot lately, here is a two part sequence of her singing a favorite song from Toopy & Binoo (Hiccup Hunters):
