Easter Fun

Coloring Easter Eggs is always fun. This year the girls tried painting them.

We made carrot cookies for the Easter Bunny

Jigs relaxing on Easter Sunday

The last Easter egg hunt in this house

It was so nice outside that the Easter Bunny even hid eggs outside this year. I think he is getting the girls used to the idea for the new house.

Our annual Easter Egg Hunt at our friends in Maple Ridge. 7 years running now. The camera started to act up so some of the pictures are blurry.

Loving sisters...

Brownie Badge

Heather decided to work on her cooking badge for Brownies. She made coleslaw, Kraft dinner and chocolate strawberry shortcake. She invited a couple of the neighbor kids over to eat.

It was yummy!

Spring Break 2011

For Spring Break we used the last of our time share points for Whistler. We stopped at the Britannia Mines on the way up. They have done a lot to the museum in the last little while and it was great to learn all about the mine and the community that developed there at the time. Britannia mine was mostly a copper mine. The community that was built as a result had many community events including the crowning of the Copper Queen. This is the original throne.
My other Copper Queen

Inside the processing and grinding part of the mine.

Waiting for our ride into the tunnels

Here we go

You can see all the oxidized copper on the walls of the tunnel

Oh my!

Had to use air compressed drills to avoid explosions

Can anyone guess what the "honey pot" was used for?

That is one big truck!

At Whistler, we decided to take a sleigh ride

Fun in the snow

Hot chocolate, a play in the snow and a warm fire at the half way point.

We ended the night with a fondue dinner

Vanessa enjoying chocolate fondue

Heather not wanting to get out of the hot tub at the resort

We stopped at the train museum in Squamish on the way home. royal Hudson is being preserved inside a newly built round house. Very impressive.

Lots of trains and cars to explore

Round-a-bout

Here is a video of our sleigh ride including the jingle bells.

Vanessa's Preschool Special Day #2

Vanessa was so excited to show us what she has been learning at preschool. Warm up Exercises

Songs

Numbers with sticks

Letters with ropes and working with a classmate

Here is a video of one of her presentations