Week of Parties...

Once again I start off with my weather report. It has been outrageous for this time of year - for 3 days last week we have had rain and high winds - it is supposed to be really hot and sunny for the middle of June. Needless to say the prairie is yet again mud and the mosquito's are going to love it. The local news channels have been reporting on the floods within 'the Hat' including parts of the Trans Can highway that has been closed due to the floods, this is all very unusal for Medicine Hat. Luckily Fraser woke up on his birthday (Tue) to glorious sunshine.

Wednesday morning Noo and myself (kindly at Noo's house) hosted a breakfast as six of the girls are due to leave Ralston in the next couple of months, so we thought we would combine them all. Everyone kindly brought different bits and once it was all popped on the table there was a great feast for us all to tuck into, a good start to the day.

Friday morning was Fraser's Graduation from Little Gophers. Within the Canadian school system as students move up a grade they have a graduation, hence Little Gophers did the same. Fraser is not usually known to be shy however recently if the attention is directed at him and everyone is looking in his direction he becomes very shy - hence on Friday he was not going to do any of the singing or bow infront of all the parents. All the children did really well and it was quite touching seeing them all in their mortar and gown. Luckily Little Gophers took photos of the children earlier in the week as there was not a chance for a photo of Fraser on the day. He will start kindergarden at the end of August which is in the same school as Tegan and will be full time by the end of October.

Friday night came a BIG surprise. Sam & Andy invited Chris and I round for a Mexican dinner along with some other friends, Sam did throw in that we had to dress up as it was Mexican. I didn't suspect anything as Sam is a crazy fun lady. So with Chris wearing his rug bought from the high end shop called 'The Post' in Medicine Hat (this is a renowned charity shop that we all go to buy our fancy dress from) any myself sporting a large pair of hoop earings from Dollar store, off we went. Sam met us outside the house and then told me I had to close my eyes - when I opened them her house had been transformed into a Mexican festival with about 30 friends from the Village all shouting surprise happy 40th birthday. Everyone looked fantastic and we had a brilliant night dancing, drinking and eating - I think I got home about 2am! Although my birthday is still 4 weeks away this was the only weekend that everyone was free - so I get to have more celebrations to come. Ralston isn't such a bad place to be for a party.

So after a lazy weekend with a trip to the cinema with Tegan & Fraser to see Toy Story 3 I then had to give some thought to Fraser's 4th birthday on Tuesday. He decided that he wanted to go bowling & softplay along with a Spiderman cake. The morning started early with Fraser announcing at 6am that it was his birthday (he doesn't usually wake up until 7am). Chris was able to see Fraser open some of his presents before leaving for the prairie. Fraser then announced to everyone that walked pass our house that 'it's my birthday'. So with a friend Zoe helping out with wheels we collected 6 children from Little Gophers plus Tegan and Holly (the older helpers!) and transported them all into Medicine Hat for an afternoon of fun. Luckily we had the 5 pin bowling lanes virtually to ourselves followed by the softplay area. So after 21/2 hrs of play I think most of the children were worned out. So another birthday over for a
year - however Tegan is now on countdown for hers.