It's Devon Days

It's the most exciting weekend of the year in our little town, Devon Days! The fire works are set of at the end of our block so we have a great view of them from our own backyard.












This morning was the parade. For the first time ever, Devon Minor Baseball had a float in the parade and all of my boys were in it.

Here comes the DMB float!



There's my little guy right in the middle looking my direction and waving:



There is my big guy, giving out candy to all the kids. We bought over $90 in candy and ran out half way down the street.



Here is the president (my husband) and vice president (his buddy) on the back of the float. When the vice prez spotting me, he yelled out "PICTURES!!" and was smiling and waving to me just like a little kid spotting his mommy at the parade. Too funny!



This is our neighbour and the boys Taekwon Do instructor breaking a board. I think he was showing off for the camera. Ha!



Today was Sunday in the Park down at the Lion's Campground. Just a few shots from there:





The clown was there making balloons for the kids. This is a monkey in a palm tree with a bunch of bananas!



Pirate sword.

This is May in Alberta

It was coming down in big, fat flakes today. Alberta... grrrrr!

Zander's little gapper

Our 6 year old lost his two bottom teeth within two days of each other this past weekend. He's got the cutest little lisp now, but he tries so hard not too! It's just so darn cute! Couple pictures of the sweet face:




He will hold out for about 2 pictures and then the goofball faces begin. That or the pouting.




Nut job!

Day at the Nursery

Both kids were in school today and I had the day off work. We've had a typical Alberta May with regards to weather... 1 good day and then cold, snowy, rainy, more cold and generally, crap. I'm sick of this weather and want it to just be warm already! Today was not too bad. After a brisk morning (-2C), it started to warm up and I wanted to go flower shop. I'm in the planning stages of what is going in the garden this year so was just going to be window shopping today. Besides, it's too cold to plant anything yet.
Anyway, here a re a couple pictures I took at the nursery. At least these pictures can tied me over until I can plant the real deal.


These guys all have their backs to me. Camera shy?







These geraniums did a strange number to my camera. The majority of the pictures with a sea of red came out looked way over saturated and fuzzy looking. Strange! Too much overload for the sensor perhaps?







More camera-shy guys.







Just for fun, I desaturated one of the yellow ones. My kid thinks they look dead. Then he said, "cool".


The second nursery I went to today has this little pond in the back. I saw the Canada Geese as soon as I pulled up and wanted to get a picture of them. Here is the male posing.


This is the mom and dad. The dad is squawking at some ducks for getting too close to the mama's nest.


This is the troublemaker mallard that got the geese all upset.

Don't see that everyday...

I was outside enjoying the glorious weather today when I look up and see this:







What the heck?? That is such a strange sight to see. At first the kids thought they were meteors! They were coming from the south west and heading north east. So strange!

Here is an extreme close crop of the first shot. You can see there is a plane in front of the trail, but what kind of plane is it??

Diamondbacks first game of the season (mosquito, that is)

Rayden had his first game of the season on Monday against Beaumont (they used to stomp us bad every game last year). It was soooo exciting! The kids were so great. Last year was the first year they started pitching to each other and what a gong show that was! Of course that is to be expected. And with our very short season (8 weeks), they just seem to get the hang of it when all of a sudden, it's over.
This year our mosquito team is mostly all second year mosquitos. The pitching is fantastic!! I couldn't believe how well both teams were pitching.
At 8:14 our team was up 9-8. The umpire cannot allow another inning to start after 8:15 and because they were behind, the other team wanted to continue. We ended up tied 12-12! Which is amazing because last year we got slaughtered by this town every game. Our kids were ecstatic! Mark was ecstatic! What a great start to the season!
Here are a few of Rayden. I have posted all the pictures on my Smugmug site under a password protected gallery for the parents of the players to see. I have emailed the parents the link but if you are one of the Mosquito parents and did not get it, email me and I will send it to you.

On deck:



First at bat:





Second baseman:

DMB signs, underage driving and a porcupine!

It's been a great weekend! We got the signs for Devon Minor Baseball and tested them out on the fence at the Field of Dreams. The look so nice!





After we spent the afternoon playing baseball with some friend, we let my 10 year old drive the truck around the field, something his father lets him do on occasion. He had so much fun and wants his drivers license NOW!





This big guy has been living in a tree on the walking trail behind out house for the last week or so. I came home last night early enough to finally see him, he's so cute! How can he possibly be comfortable living and sleeping in that tree?? So strange.