CHRISTMAS 2011 MEMORIES

Christmas Horse Drawn Carriage ride at Williams Parks

A nice visit with Santa

The Wandzuras are cheering on our school's volleyball team

as they won provincials!!

We stopped for a victory picture on our way out.

Our annual Christmas tree hunt at Oh! Christmas Tree Farm

Amazia and Javen dressed up for their Christmas performance

AMAZIA turns 5 on December 6th, 2011!!

Amazia has been a blessing to our family for 5 years now!

She has been agonizing over the fact

that she is the last one to turn 5 out of her friends.

Mazy really wanted a "Hello Kitty" Party,

so we had a blast decorating and playing Hello Kitty.


Here's Amazia's friends
- even little Javen is in there!

November 2011 Memories

Kids just love leaves

- even if they are soggy from all the BC rain.

Javen's little hiding spot at Stanley Park

The Wandzura girls

Visiting Auntie Joan in White Rock

Costume Party at our church

- Amazia and her good friend, Elli,

did not even plan coordinating outfits!

October 2011 Fave Memories

Family hike at Tea Pot Mountain

4 Generations of Ladies

Amazia with her teacher, Mrs. McLeod

The kids each got to choose their own pumpkin

at Alder Acres

Cousin sleepover at the Wandzuras

September 2011 Memories

Our family fall picture

September meant that Amazia was off to Kindergarten.
Mom put her in the M, W, F class instead of the every day class,
just so we could spend more time together!!

Having fun with cousin Addia in the leaves

Javen wanted to be part of the school drop-off,

but he still has to wait another year.

Mazy and Javen are really best friends!!

"Mazy, you are my sweetie."

(Dad's famous line to his daughter)

"Dad, you are a park!"

(Kids favourite line to Dad!)

Our last beach day in September took us to Cultus Lake.

August Rush 2011

Off the Wandzuras go for the August Rush Adventure!

We did not actually rush, but we did go from event

to event to event for the entire month!

Across Western Canada and then across North America...

First stop: Bridal Falls Waterslides
Second stop: Calgary, AB
Amazia is enjoying her first home-made tree swing in AB

Calgary Zoo

Calgary Cousins!!

(Left to Right: Hannah, Sarah (Chris' sister's kids) & Amazia,

Ena, Toryn, Lauren (Our bonus brother's kids) & Javen

Next big event: Great Grampa's 90th Birthday Reunion

Family came to Saskatoon from Victoria, Abbotsford, Langley,

Calgary, Lethbridge, Saskatoon, & Regina
What an amazing time to reunite and celebrate GG!

Next visit: Daigle Casa

Auntie Care keeps Javen warm after some serious slip 'n sliding!

A ride on KODI with Uncle Rick...

he kept taking the kids down to the ravine, through the bog

and then through the forrest.

Never a dull moment with the Daigles!

Next Stop: Visit Chris' fam in Saskatoon

Auntie Leah gave the kids some good looking hair cuts and

we spent some fine time playing at their place.

Amazia has a special friendship with cousin "Luksie"

He takes very good care of Mazy and Javen.

Next stop: Grampa's Farm...we checked out the wheat

and it is an amazing crop this year!!

The kids got to ride in the HUGE John Deer tractor! Wow!

JV at the farm

Mazy with her mouth full of hottie dog

Grama keeping Amazia warm in the evening Grampa and Grama just love their grandkids

- it is special to spend time together as they rarely get to see each other.

Fun family rides on the atv

Next stop: Saskatoon

We got to try some of the fun events for kids - like Kinsmen Park.

Next stop: Visit Baba (Chris' Ukrainian Grama)

Next stop: Marean Lake, SK

Grampa has a cabin by a lake

and it is so special to spend time there!!

Fishing in the boat

Javen is watching movies in the cabin

with cousins Andrew and Lucas

Amazia is so brave! She started by going in the tube with Mom,

then she went on the tube by herself and then she tried knee boarding!

She got up her first time and we were sooo proud of her!

JV climbing around

Amazia has become so much more expressive

and joyful in the past year!!

August 18th, 2011 marked a very special 10 year anniversary for

Chris and Jody. Chris planned an amazing trip to Jamaica to celebrate!!

Gpa and Nana blessed us by keeping our kids.

Wow! It was our best trip together!! Soooooo special for us!!

First, we went to Kingston and worked at an orphange for 5 days.

We had been at this place in 2003 and 2004 with our school's outreach

program, so it was VERY SPECIAL to return and see the kids again.

We spent a whole morning repairing chairs for the children's eating area.

We covered the old material with duct tape

before recovering it with the new material.

These chair covers will hopefully last forever!

Here is Chris putting on the new covers.

We had so many kids wanting to help,

we spent half the time trying to find our tools!! Ha, ha!

We spent the next 5 days in Negril at a hotel.

It was so relaxing to play volleyball, go snorkeling,

kayaking, sailing, wind surfing, and boating all day long!!

I think we laid back in chairs for less than 30 min all week...

Now that is the kind of holiday that we love!